History ComicBook / Nightwing

* ''WesternAnimation/SonOfBatman'' (As Nightwing)

* ''Series/{{Titans|2018}}'' (2018), portrayed by Creator/BrentonThwaites. Unlike most interpretations, here he's a brooding, cynical adult in his mid-to-late twenies still operating as Robin. [[spoiler:He only adopts the nightwing identity on the Season 2 finale "Nightwing"]].

* ''Series/{{Titans|2018}}'' (2018), portrayed by Creator/BrentonThwaites. Unlike most interpretations, here he's a brooding, cynical adult in his mid-to-late twenies still operating as Robin.

* ''Star-Spangled Comics'' (As Robin, during TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks, was the main feature of the book for quite come time and continued as a backup feature until the series ended)

* ''ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder''

* ''ComicBook/TheDarkKnightStrikesAgain''

* ''Nightwing'' Vol 1
* ''Nightwing'' Vol 2

* ''Comicbook/NightwingTheNewOrder''

* MrFanservice: Both in-verse and in the fandom.

*** Jason Todd is a couple years younger, but still old enough to plausibly pass as someone Nightwing's age, [[ShapedLikeItself given he's impersonated Nightwing.]] Tim Drake is a couple years younger still (remembering the Flying Graysons and noticing Batman's slow slide into decay following Todd's death]], and Damian Wayne still younger, but old enough to place Bruce's relationship with Talia at over ten years old.

* ''Series/{{Titans|2018}}'' (2018), portrayed by Creator/BrentonThwaites.

* PoserHating: Tad didn’t even know there was a crimefighter called Nightwing when he took up the "Nite-Wing" identity. This does not prevent Dick from being really upset that there is someone claiming to be a hero named Nite-Wing going around Blüdhaven murdering people.

** [[ComicBook/TeenTitans Starfire, Raven]], [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} Barbara Gordon, Bette Kane]], [[ComicBook/{{Huntress}} Helena Bertinelli]], and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} are just a few of the many that are drawn to Nightwing. ComicBook/PowerGirl and ComicBook/BlackCanary seem to prefer him even over Batman, and the latter comments that he could "raise a pulse in a department store mannequin". And that doesn't include the seemingly endless parade of civilians who are attracted to him.

* BigBrotherInstinct: Used to provide the page pic. He is very protective of the other Robins, and of some other young heroes, such as Stephanie Brown/[[IHaveManyNames Spoiler/Robin/Batgirl]]. Even though he and Steph don't particularly hang out much, he was upset deeply by [[DeathIsCheap her death]] and gave Bruce a WhatTheHellHero rant because of it, and another to Barbara when she [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl 2009}} allowed her to go out into the field by herself]] and he was worried about her in a big brother kind of way.

** Towards Tim, and many generations of Titans.

* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: In ''Nightwing'' Vol 2 #45 Blockbuster’s brother sister torture team strap Nightwing down and inject him with drugs while laying out their more terrifying tools to question him on Oracle’s whereabouts.

!!The character exhibits the following tropes:[[note]]See his subsection in ComicBook/{{Robin}} for tropes specific to his time in the green-red-and-yellows, or his folder in Characters/BatmanAndBatFamily for a comprehensive trope list in general.[[/note]]

* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Nightwing is a [[IdealHero compassionate idealist]] to the degree that even ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' admires him. During ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', Earth-Two's Kal-L claims that New Earth is a corruption of his world and that none of its heroes is worth protecting. But when Batman asks if that's true of [[Comicbook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]], Kal-L says no. Even the person wanting to merge the worlds together has to admit that Dick Grayson is just as wonderful in the "corrupted world".

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* ''Nightwing'' (TBA). The hero is set to make his live-action movie debut headlining his own movie in the ''Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse''. Other than being helmed by Chris [=McKay=] (of ''Film/TheLEGOBatmanMovie'' fame), nothing else is currently known about the movie.

* {{Foil}}: To [[ComicBook/RedHoodAndTheOutlaws Red Hood]]. Dick became a Franchise/{{Batman}}-expy identity formerly held by ComicBook/{{Superman}}, while Jason became the former identity of ComicBook/TheJoker.

*** Jason Todd is a couple years younger, but still old enough to plausibly pass as someone Nightwing's age, [[ShapedLikeItself given he's impersonated Nightwing.]] Tim Drake is a couple years younger still (remembering the Flying Graysons and noticing Batman's slow slide into decay following Todd's death]], and Damien Wayne still younger, but old enough to place Bruce's relationship with Talia at over ten years old.

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* TheBadGuysAreCops: The cops in Blüdhaven were worse than the mob, and gained a share of profits made by the actual mob. (Criminals who didn't were killed. Chief Redhorn was a dangerous villain who had ordered Nightwing's death; [[TheInfiltration Nightwing joined the force in his civilian identity in an attempt to take it down]].)
* BattleInTheRain: Blüdhaven is a port town very near Gotham and with similar often rainy weather. Dick’s first fight with the Double Dare sisters takes place in a downpour.

* DoomedHometown: Blüdhaven was destroyed in ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis''. And again in Battle for Blüdhaven
* DoppelgangerAttack: Dick gets attacked by a Jokerized Riot but he’s able to spot the original and knock him out almost immediately causing the clones to disappear.
-->Only one of you had the riot gun, ''Riot''. [--Moron--].

* HeavyMetalUmlaut: The city of Blüdhaven.
* HeroicBSOD: After Dick beat the Joker to death (he was immediately resuscitated) he felt he was no longer worthy and spent an issue [[TheseHandsHaveKilled staring at his worn knuckles]] and torn costume while [[Comicbook/RobinSeries Tim]] and [[ComicBook/BlueBeetle Ted]] fought Jokerized criminals in Blüdhaven while Tim fanboyed over working with a hero he’d been reading about since he was little making Ted feel old. It was long enough for Dick to get a scruffy start on a BeardOfSorrow. Babs sends [[ComicBook/TheFlash Wally]] to talk with Dick after he unplugs his computer to keep her from talking to him.

'''Dick:''' Through Blüdhaven?\\

--->1. Save the world.
--->2. Kick supervillain butt.
--->3. Go over to best friend's apartment and pretend to hurl.
--->4. Save the world again.

* PoserHating: Tad didn’t even know there was a crimefighter called Nightwing when he took up the "Nite-Wing" identity. This does not prevent Dick from being really upset that there is someone claiming to be a hero named Nite-Wing going around Blüdhaven murdering people.

** Black Mask tried to have Reynard killed after he failed to get Mask a hold in Blüdhaven's drug trade as quickly as he wanted but Reynard killed the man sent to take him out and earned another chance. Nightwing's continued interference meant that he failed again.
** After his hired guns fail to kill Nightwing Blockbuster uses a variation on this theme by having them all take on his new pet assassin, he even tells Stallion he’ll give him a bonus if he can decapitate the new guy. In the end the existing criminals, save Lady Vic who gets some good shots in and Mouse and Giz who are not fighters anyway and take a pass, just end up getting in each other’s way which makes it easier for Shrike.

* ''Nightwing'' (TBA). The hero is set to make his live-action movie debut headlining his own movie in the ''Film/DCExtendedUniverse''. Other than being helmed by Chris [=McKay=] (of ''Film/TheLEGOBatmanMovie'' fame), nothing else is currently known about the movie.

*** Before the ComicBook/New52, Dick is one of the founding members of the TeenTitans, which means each of the other five founding members (Aqualad/Tempest, Kid Flash/Flash/Wally West I, Speedy/Arsenal/Red Arrow/Roy Harper, and Donna Troy/Wonder Girl/Troia) are around his age. This is especially problematic, as Donna Troy's ongoing ContinuitySnarl also means she and Wonder Woman debuted far more recently in the storyline than this would allow. Retconned by ComicBook/New52, however.