The Spoiler appeared almost exclusively in the Batman universe and for a short time even acted as as the 4th official Robin in place of Tim Drake. The Spoiler's purple hooded exploits usually took second place to Stephanie's troubles with school, her personal life and her father. She died at the hands of Black Mask in Batman #633.

Origin

Stephanie Brown is the little daughter of the known Batman villain, The Cluemaster, who spent most of Stephanie’s early childhood in and out of jail away from Gotham City. On return to the city she finds her father back to his old tricks. In an attempt to try and stop her father she creates a costume of her own and begins calling herself “Spoiler.” She had discovered her father’s plans and locations and decided to leave clues (a practice her father had stopped) in an attempt to have him caught by Batman and Robin. Despite being new to the caped crusader game she is able to get by mostly on tenacity and toughness. When Robin eventually finds the Cluemaster, The Spoiler joins in to capture him. Although The Cluemaster would be able to escape from Batman and figure up a new plan. Every time her father escaped, Stephanie would don on her costume and go out to stop him.

Eventually Stephanie would enjoy being a superhero so much she continued on a regular basis. Despite her help, both Robin and Batman try to dissuade her from future pursuits, though that doesn't stop her from patrolling the streets at night, mostly with Robin. She began to regularly patrol the city with Robin (Tim Drake), and began to develop a crush on him. The two of them would continue working together and they would eventually fall in love. The two form a love-hate relationship and eventually become romantically involved despite Stephanie being pregnant with her old boyfriend's child who had ran away from Gotham after the earthquake. However, Robin was always there for Stephanie. She still did not know his true identity because Batman forbid Tim from revealing his identity to Stephanie. Tim would take Stephanie to Lamaze classes but under a different false identity.

Later Robin would leave for awhile but he would eventually return when Stephanie gave birth. Robin would be able to convince her to let her baby go to an orphanage; she eventually gives up for adoption. Tim’s father would send him to boarding school, but Tim and Stephanie continued their relationship. However, it put more strain on their relationship because it was long distance and Stephanie still did not know his true identity.

After Robin returned and followed someone in costume, he ran into Spoiler and she tagged along with him. Robin saves this girl from gunfire and Spoiler thinks Robin was cheating on her and did not speak to him afterwards. Later, while Robin went on a mission in Tibet, Spoiler begins to miss Tim and decided that she still wanted to be with him. Batman offers to train Spoiler and tells Robin’s real name to her. Spoiler also received training from Batgirl and the Birds of Prey. When Tim returned, the couple reconciled and continued their relationship. Later Batman had decided that she was not cut out for his hero business and told her to hang up her costume. He also told the Birds of Prey to stop training her, but Stephanie continued to patrol the city with Robin. Later the government would inform Stephanie and her mother that her father Cluemaster had died for his country. She decided to stop talking to Tim and obsessed over crime fighting, tracking down any villains that had connections with her father. Eventually she would reconcile with Tim.

Stephanie as Robin

During one of Robin’s battle with a hitman, Stephanie was badly injured in the process and Tim took full responsibility for letting that happen to Stephanie. She became depressed and questioned himself, eventually Stephanie would snap Tim out of his condition. After Tim’s father found out he was Robin, Tim quit. Stephanie then created her own Robin suit and snuck into the Batcave. She asked Batman to let her be the new Robin, which Batman accepts, and puts her trough intense and rigorous training. Once she finished her training, she began patrolling with Batman.

Stephanie would disobey one of Batman’s orders and he stripped her of the Robin title and costume. War Games was the next story arc in which Stephanie decides to steal one of Batman’s plans that would deal with the entire Gotham criminal underworld at once in order to prove that she is a hero. Since the plan also involved

Stephanie's Death Detective Comics #809

Stephanie was able to escape and barely make it to a hospital. She eventually dies because of too many serious wounds, Batman stayed by her side until her death. Later it was revealed that Dr. Leslie Thompkins had the ability to save Stephanie’s life but refused to do so, she did this to send a warning to all of Gotham’s youth that vigilantism will lead to death.

Spoiler's Back

In Gotham Underground Series their is a girl who is spying on Robin who is dressed up as Spoiler. She later confronts Robin and teams up with him alongside a new Vigilante named Violet. After a few team ups in Robin 174 he tells her she can't dress up as the Spoiler anymore but she takes off her mask to reveal that shes actually Stephanie Brown. She Tells him that she never died and Leslie Thompkins Faked her death switching the body with a woman who overdosed. She was in Africa the whole time with Leslie doing volunteer work until an attack from a local witch hunting tribe on the camp led her decide to return to Gotham. She later went to the Hospital where her mom worked, with Robin and Batman and told her Mom that she was really alive the whole time. Stephanie attends high school with Tim she is currently his partner in crime.