Barbara Gordon's Batgirl – which, let's be honest, is THE Batgirl – made her million-dollar debut 50 years ago in Detective Comics #359 (cover date January 1967). Yes, we know that technically means she hit the street in late 1966, but we're going by DC's marking of the anniversary (BTW – we’ve already ordered this).

Batgirl is, and always will be, my favorite superhero. In a medium where characterization often exists in only one of two extremes, she's a jumble of complexity and contradications -- fierce and strategic while maintaining an endearing joie de vivre; wise beyond her years yet innocently naive. Batgirl is, quite honestly, the best: she's arguably more intelligent than Batman. And where Batman had billions to help him become the world's greatest detective/fighting machine, she did it all herself. Plus, she made library science cool.

And she's always looked really, really great. Thus, our ranking of all of Barbara Gordon's Batgirl outfits across various mediums.

Rules: Other realities/timelines count, but only ones where Barbara Gordon was a costumed Batgirl (i.e. not a Green Lantern, etc.). If she shared a look in a cartoon that basically matched another medium (example: The Filmation cartoon of the early '70s basically matched her '70s look, one LEGO Batman Batgirl matches her Burnside look, etc.), we didn't count it.

Note: I think I got everything, but please let me know any misses in the comments.