- The idea of the "al Ġhūl" part of Ra's al Ghul being used as an ethnic surname is relatively recent concept, starting with the New 52 reboot in 2010. Shortly before the reboot in 2007, Peter Milligan retconned Ra's al Ghul's original origin from Birth of the Demon. In Milligan's Resurrection Shuffle story, Ra's al Ghul is implied to be his birth name for reasons unknown and he weds his wife, Sora with that name. In Birth of the Demon the whole reason he starts calling himself Head of the Demon was to signify starting a new way of life after Sora was tortured to death. In the Denny O'Neil continuity his true birth name was never revealed. The first time the name "Talia al Ghul" appeared in print was in the Justice League: Mortal script, which seemed to have a trickle down effect on the comics and video games followed. It seems to be based the difficulty of trademarking a character with singular, common name like Talia. No versions of these characters before the turn of the millennium can be categorized this way, as it would be historically misleading. The best example of this being normalized is the Injustice video game continuity.
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