History ComicBook / AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: An odd example occurs with Green Arrow, since although the story takes place ''before'' ''The Dark Knight Returns'', it features several notable characters from said story (Superman, Catwoman, the Joker, Bruno), yet Oliver Queen himself is nowhere to be seen[[note]]unless the random patron from Black Canary's bar that resembles him is supposed to be him...although that's unlikely, considering it's never established if she can use her [[MakeMeWannaShout Canary Cry]], and Oliver is a relatively good unarmed fighter, yet she lays the patron out like it's nothing[[/note]]. This is strange, especially when one considers that characters who didn't appear until ''The Dark Knight Strikes Again'' (Wonder Woman, Plastic Man) get rather prominent roles in this story.

* ClusterFBomb / SirSwearsALot: Almost every character talks like this, even the 15-year-old Batgirl. ''Especially'' the 15-year-old fucking Batgirl.

** Dick initially wants to be an archery-themed superhero called The Hood, a nod to his father's love of the old ''RobinHood'' movies. In real life, the 1938 film ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRobinHood'' was one of the inspirations behind the creation of Robin.

--> -- '''The Goddamn Batman'''

!!This goddamn comic provides goddamn examples of:

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Batman fantasizes about what he could do with Green Lantern's ring - force everyone to think ''his'' way. God help us.

->''"What, are you '''dense'''? Are you '''retarded''' or something? Who the hell do you '''think''' I am? [[MemeticMutation I'm the Goddamn]] '''[[MemeticBadass Batman]]'''."''
--> -- '''[[SelfDemonstratingArticle The Goddamn Batman]]'''

!!This goddamn comic provides examples of:

* UnusualEuphemism and InherentlyFunnyWords: Black Canary is called ''lovechunks.''

* HaveAGayOldTime: "Queer" ''did'' originally mean strange, as the word is used in this comic, and in the original comics, Batman taking in Robin ''did'' occur in TheForties (which is when that story was written). However, there's no sign that this comic is supposed to take place so long ago, so that's really no excuse.

* MsFanservice: Vicki Vale. To make that point even more blunt, her first ever appearance in the story has her standing in her apartment talking about Batman... wearing nothing but pink lingerie.

* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:12-year old Dick Grayson]]'s evil in ''The Dark Knight Strikes Again'' is so understandable now.

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--->'''Vicki Vale:''' [[HarmfulToMinors Someone murdered his parents. Right before his eyes.]] [[RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic Brutally. Brutally. It was brutal.]]

* StrawFeminist: Wonder Woman, who is introduced shoving a guy out of her way while growling "Out of my way, sperm bank." [[AllAmazonsWantHercules It seems she's mostly unsatisfied by men's failure to live up to her expectations, rather than actually claiming superiority or even equality as a woman]]: men are overhyped, weaker than they are supposed to be, than they should be. Superman proves to be a subversion: his boy-scout, simple morals clash with her pragmatism and warrior ethos, but he has the power, strength, and intimidation to enforce his law, and that ''really turns her on''.

* BelatedBackstory: For Dick Grayson in ''The Dark Knight Strikes Again''

* SelfPlagiarism: Batman kicks a police officer through through the windshield of a police car, a feat previously pulled off by Marv in Miller's ''ComicBook/SinCity''.

The series was infamous for, among other things, [[ScheduleSlip having an erratic release schedule]]. After the run came to an end[[note]]As in no new issues were published, not that [[CutShort the story itself had been completed]][[/note]], it was announced in 2010 that Frank Miller would write a ContinuityReboot called ''Dark Knight: Boy Wonder'' that would go on for 6 issues and [[AuthorsSavingThrow compile the story that he wanted to tell originally]]. More than a decade later, there's still no word on [[DevelopmentHell when exactly this series will arrive.]]

* TheAdjectivalSuperhero: DC finally gets its own one of these: The Goddamn Batman!

* AmbiguousDisorder: It is clear through the story that this Batman is mentally sick, as he tends to overreact to nearly everything with extreme violence, even the smallest sign of provocation.

* NeverMyFault: Several moments in the story have Goddamned Batman repeatedly blame Dick Grayson for coming into his life and becoming his sidekick, [[SelfServingMemory completely ignoring the fact]] that he's the one who abducted the boy against his will in the first place.

* SceneryPorn: One of the few good, not SoBadItsGood, things about the series. Though he can't do anything about the terrible writing, Jim Lee [[TookTheBadFilmSeriously took the bad comic seriously]] and turned in some truly amazing work.

* MsFanservice: Vicki Vale. To make that point even more blunt, her first ever appearance in the story has her standing in her apartment talking about Batman... wearing nothing but pink lingerie.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: An odd example occurs with Green Arrow, since although the story takes place ''before'' ''The Dark Knight Returns'', it features several notable characters from said story (Superman, Catwoman, the Joker, Bruno), yet Oliver Queen himself is nowhere to be seen[[note]]unless the random patron from Black Canary's bar that resembles him is supposed to be him...although that's unlikely, considering it's never established if she can use her [[MakeMeWannaShout Canary Cry]], and Oliver is a relatively good unarmed fighter, yet she lays the patron out like it's nothing[[/note]]. This is strange, especially when one considers that characters who didn't appear until ''The Dark Knight Strikes Again'' (Wonder Woman, Plastic Man) get rather prominent roles in this story.

** Even at his most pumped up, no holds barred, extreme moment in ''The Dark Knight Returns'', Batman couldn't bring himself to kill the Joker. In ''ASBAR'' he killed crooked cops without hesitation (sometimes plowing through and utterly destroying police cars with ''no way to know'' they were all crooked. He's also quite pleased with crooks killing each other in crossfires, and finishes off the rest by setting them ON FIRE.) This is a guy who places ZERO value on human life.
** Batman rants to Robin about how he can call his "Batmobile" whatever he wants. In ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' Batman muses that it was Robin who came up with the term.

* InsistentTerminology: The series makes ''sure'' you know Dick Grayson is age twelve.

* MoodWhiplash

* ButtMonkey: Franchise/GreenLantern exists pretty much to be humiliated and insulted by Batman, then gets his neck injured by Robin so Batman gets to save his life.

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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:
** [[SignatureStyle Very often throughout the text. Again and again. There is repetition. Statements are made. Repeated. Hammered. Insistent. Again and again. Relentless. Tireless. Repeatedly. Again and again.]]
** Dick Grayson. Age 12.

* LargeHam: This Batman is a far cry from [[TheStoic the Batman we usually know]]. This Batman's dialogue is incredibly bombastic (case in point: [[MemeticMutation "I'm the Goddamn Batman!"]]), frequently shown [[SlasherSmile grinning in maniacal glee]], throws one-liners like there's no tomorrow whenever he's in a fight and even [[CallingYourAttacks announces himself]] by [[EvilLaugh cackling like a lunatic]].

* WhoAreYou: The second issue included this [[MemeticMutation memetic]] exchange (which effectively set the tone for the series as a whole):

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Batman fantasizes about what he could do with Green Lantern's ring - force everyone to think ''his'' way. God help us.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Poor Superman and Green Lantern are oblivious to the fact that they're in a [[CreatorBreakdown post-9/11 Frank Miller]] comic. Because of this, [[HeroicComedicSociopath Batman]] can easily manipulate them both.

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* BigBad: The Joker is ultimately responsible for the murder of Robin's parents.

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** [[SignatureStyle Very often throughout the text. Again and again. There is repetition. Statements are made. Repeated. Hammered. Insistent. Again and again. Relentless. Tireless. Repeatedly. Again and again.]][[note]][[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] compares the dialogue to [[Film/ManosTheHandsofFate Torgo's]] VerbalTic.[[/note]]

** As Website/IMockery put it, [[http://www.i-mockery.com/comics/longbox7/default.php The Goddamn Batmobile is also a Goddamn Delorean]].
--->'''Protoclown:''' "[[WritersCannotDoMath Fifteen hours ago]]". That means one of two things. Clark Kent either drank this carton of milk fifteen hours before Dick Grayson was kidnapped by Batman, and thus it is a magical prescient carton of milk, OR it's actually been a long enough ride in the Batmobile for Dick to have been reported missing, for his name to get to the missing persons groups, for them to submit his information to the milk company, for the milk company to print the cartons, distribute the cartons, and then for Clark Kent to go to the grocery store and buy the carton of milk. Let's see, by my rough estimate, that means that Batman and Dick have been on the way to the Batcave for, oh, about FIVE WEEKS now.

--->'''[[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]]:''' WHAT TIME IS IT?!

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: In addition to calling Dick retarded, Batman dismissively refers to Wonder Woman as "the Wicked Witch of the Island of Lesbos".