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Sometimes all it takes is a few words to change your life. For me it took seven. Seven words, spoken in the dark.
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~ Harper Row
Bluebird (real name Harper Row) is a fictional character, and a comic book superheroine appearing in publications by DC Comics.
She is a teenage vigilante and ally of Batman who is a skilled at ccreating crime-fighting gadgets.
Harper's father had a habit of breaking things, then would disappear for stretches of time. During this time Harper would fix the things her father broke. Harper claims that her earliest memories are of watching the building super strip and graft wires, and fix things that seemed beyond repair. Harper soon developed a talent for fixing things herself. Her relationship with her father is stated to have been abusive, as she lists herself and her brother among the things he would break. Eventually Harper applied for emancipation. After achieving this, she moved out, taking her brother Cullen with her, and applied for a job with the city electrical engineer, and gets a job doing maintenance on the city's electrical grid.
Harper and Cullen moved into the narrows, and broke contact with their father. After an encounter with Batman, in which he saves her and Cullen from a gang, it inspires her to find ways to help him. She begins looking up videos of Batman online, and soon discovers that he's been sabotaging city security cameras, to avoid any clear footage being found of him. Knowing due to her job, that he can't access the cameras from remote, she becomes curious as to how he achieves this.
She soon discovers Batman's private enhancements to Gotham's electric grid and uses it to track her new hero. She also begins working on a way to improve the boxes, hoping to repay the Batman. Later she sees part of the grid go offline, assuming something is wrong, she investigates and finds herself in a position to assist him in capturing Tiger Shark. Batman subsequently visits her at work shortly after, and tells her to not to get herself involved in his activities again.
And yet, eventually, she takes up the identity of Bluebird and is seen working with Batman essentially as his sidekick, using the name Bluebird, with a costume seemingly inspired by Nightwing's blue outfit. After discovering her origins and the role of Batman and Cassandra Cain in her life, she hung up the mask and now volunteers around Gotham, while still maintaining a friendship with Stephanie Brown, Tim Drake and Cassandra Cain. However, with Gotham recovering from the Joker War, Dr. Leslie Thompkins has asked her to redon the mask to watch over the captured Punchline.
Powers and Abilities[]
Genius Level Intellect: Harper is one of the most intelligent people in the multiverse, reading from electrical wiring to improving gadgets.
Electrical Engineering: As an engineer, Harriet has the ability to understand the design of an electrical equipment. Bluebird was able to study and improve most of Barman's technology and weapons such as the Batbox.
Gadgetry: For her genius level intellect, Harper can create gadgets, which is what she mainly uses to fight crime. She designed her own ascension boots, which have grappling hooks.
Computer Operation
Firearms
Hand-to-Hand Combat
Kickboxing
In Other Media[]
Television[]
Harper Row appears in Young Justice, voiced by Zehra Fazal.
Harper Row appears in Gotham Knights, portrayed by Fallon Smythe.
