(DCU Holiday Bash #3) - Stephanie and her mom spent Christmas Eve together, and she was unaware that Robin was outside her window, thinking of asking to join them, but failing in his resolve.

(Green Arrow III #5) - Spoiler watched Batman perform a series of medical scans on Green Arrow, who'd returned from the dead, to make sure he was the genuine article. Spoiler told Batman he should just be grateful his friend was alive, but Batman told her it paid to be cautious.

(Batgirl I #53) - Batgirl broke up an arms deal, but when the crooks broke out a hi-tech gun she called Batman for backup. Batman sent his new Robin Stephanie Brown her way, and they brought the hi-tech gun to Oracle. Oracle told them the gun was a Masami NK-4, commissioned by the British government and manufactured in an arms lab in Kyoto. Only five were made, and they were all promptly stolen. Penguin was behind the arms deal and had already gotten his hands on the other four. Batgirl and Robin went to confront him, and Robin was overjoyed that Batman had chosen her to be his new partner, saying it was a dream come true. Batgirl and spoiler leaned heavily on Penguin’s men, learning that he was using his underlings with children to have their kids courier the remaining guns. Melanie, the daughter of Penguin henchman Roy brought a backpack to a bar, delivering the gun to a crook named the Gouger. Gouger decided not to pay and Melanie said she’d call the cops because she wouldn’t let him rip off her dad so gouger ordered his men to kill her. Batgirl and Robin showed up in time to protect Melanie and subdue Gouger and his men. After the rest of the NK-4s were recovered Batgirl and Robin confronted Penguin, who was irritated that they’d foiled his business operation but assured them his underlings would serve jail time but he wouldn’t because he had the best lawyers in Gotham. Robin attacked him but Batgirl pulled her off. Robin said she remembered when her father the Cluemaster was arrested for the first time, and she didn’t know who to hate more, her father, the police or the world for letting it happen. Robin wished she knew what it would take to remove people like Penguin from the lives of children.

(Batgirl I #54) - Spoiler approached Batgirl, telling her that Batman had fired her as Robin because she couldn’t cut it. Spoiler thanked Batgirl for her friendship and said she wasn’t giving up on crimefighting and would prove to the whole Bat-Family that she was worthy.

(Batgirl I #55) - During Gotham’s gang war Oracle and Batgirl did their best to contain the situation. Batgirl stopped the Odessa Mob from killing a four year old boy who’s family was in the mafia, and Oracle realized things were escalating beyond control. Oracle received a report that after a botched hit there was a major gun battle at Louis Grieve Memorial High, Tim Drake’s school, and phoned in Batman. Batgirl was distressed that no one knew where Stephanie Brown was and found her trying to quell the gang war as Spoiler. Spoiler said she was only trying to help and Batgirl begged her to go home and stay out of it. Spoiler agreed, but Batgirl sensed she was lying to her. Oracle coordinated while Batman and Batgirl slipped into Louis Grieve when shots suddenly rang out.

(Robin II #174 (fb, BTS) - Leslie Thompkins feared that the life of crimefighting was having too great a toll on Stephanie, and helped her fake her death, and took her away to Africa to start a new life. Stephanie felt she was running away from her problems, and wanted to resumed her career, so she returned to Gotham and started shadowing Robin.

(Robin II #170, 171, 173, 174) - Tim Drake thought he saw Stephanie at his high school, but convinced himself it was only because he was thinking about Spoiler, and how Batman refused to discuss here, aside from that she knew the risks and that they had to move on. Robin investigated Violet, a vigilante targeting sports bookies and robbing from them, and Spoiler tracked his moves, but stayed far enough away to keep him from noticing her. Penguin was upset that Violet was taking his money, and laid a trap for Robin and her at Sea-Fine Seafoods. Spoiler finally revealed her presence, knocking out Violet, and trying to warn Robin. Robin assumed she was someone who’d taken up the Spoiler mantle, and told her she had no right to impersonate a woman who’d earned his respect and love. He lashed out at her, but their fight was interrupted by Penguin’s agent Sin Fang of the North Korean mafia. They were evenly matchesd but Robin managed to pull a gataway, although Spoiler refused to accompany him. Batman helped Robin track down Spoiler, and he was overjoyed to elarn that she was Stephanie, and that Leslie had helped her fake her death. Batman strongly suspected she was alive, and told Robin that was why he never made a memorial for her. He twirled her around and kissed her, but she told him to slow down. He encouraged her to visit her mother, and explain what happened.