History ComicBook / Nightwing

* HeroesPreferRedheads: And how! He admits it himself. Between Barbara Gordon, Cheyenne Freemont, ComicBook/{{Starfire}}, and Raya Vestri, he definitely HasAType. It's even lampshaded in the third issue of his 2011 series when Barbara turns up after he's hooked up with Raya. And you can bet [[YaoiFangirl the fandom]] never forgets who [[ComicBook/TheFlash his best friend]] is...

** He is almost lobotomised by le Bossu and Scorpiana in [[Comicbook/BatmanGrantMorrison Batman RIP.]]

* ''ComicBook/WorldsFinest'' Vol 1 (1941 - 1981) [-as Robin-]

* ''Adventure Comics'' Vol 1 (1943 - 1979) [-as Robin-]
* ''FranComicBookchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' Vol 1 (1967 - 1981) [-as Robin-]
* ''All-Star Comics'' Vol 1 (1976 - 1978) [-as Robin-]

** ''ComicBook/BatmanGothamKnights'' (2000 - 2006)

* ''ComicBook/{{Outsiders}}'' Vol 3 (2004 - 2007)

** ''ComicBook/BatmanGatesOfGotham'' (2011) [-as Batman III-]

'''[[TropeCodifier The]]''' [[SidekickGraduationsStick Sidekick Graduations Stick Character]].

Nightwing is the solo codename of Richard "Dick" Grayson, the first ComicBook/{{Robin}}. After years of training under ComicBook/{{Batman}} the Then-a-Teen Boy Wonder decided that, as the image quote says, [[KidHeroAllGrownUp "A man's got to go his own way"]]. Thanks to the nature of [[DependingOnTheWriter comic book continuity]], this was either after a long-overdue fight with Batman or a mutually respectful parting of ways. In any case, Dick decided on the name Nightwing after ComicBook/{{Superman}} told him the tale of a Batman & Robin-esque vigilante duo from Krypton, named Nightwing and Flamebird. He made his debut under the new identity in ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' during ComicBook/TheJudasContract story-line (specifically, ''Tales of the Teen Titans'' #44, released July, 1984).

* HeavyMetalUmlaut: The city of Blüdhaven.

** He is almost lobotomised by le Bossu and Scorpiana in [[BatmanGrantMorrison Batman RIP.]]

* SexyPackaging: Nightwing has been in a number of suggestive poses on covers, given Dick Grayson's status as Mr. Fanservice. The cover of the very first issue of ''Nightwing Vol 2'' depicts Nightwing doing the splits in mid-air, with the focus on his crotch.

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' Vol 1 (1953 - 1985) [-as Robin-]

* HeroesPreferRedheads: And how! He admits it himself. Between Barbara Gordon, Cheyenne Freemont, ComicBook/{{Starfire}}, and Raya Vestri, he definitely HasAType. It's even lampshaded in the third issue of his 2011 series when Barbara turns up after he's hooked up with Raya. And you can bet [[YaoiFangirl the fandom]] never forgets who [[ComicBook/WallyWest his best friend]] is...
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With ComicBook/WallyWest since their childhood. Both are seen as the pre-eminent {{Legacy Character}}s of DC.

Nightwing is the solo codename of Richard "Dick" Grayson, the first ComicBook/{{Robin}}. After years of training under Franchise/{{Batman}} the Then-a-Teen Boy Wonder decided that, as the image quote says, [[KidHeroAllGrownUp "A man's got to go his own way"]]. Thanks to the nature of [[DependingOnTheWriter comic book continuity]], this was either after a long-overdue fight with Batman or a mutually respectful parting of ways. In any case, Dick decided on the name Nightwing after Franchise/{{Superman}} told him the tale of a Batman & Robin-esque vigilante duo from Krypton, named Nightwing and Flamebird. He made his debut under the new identity in ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' during ComicBook/TheJudasContract story-line (specifically, ''Tales of the Teen Titans'' #44, released July, 1984).

Dick Grayson has appeared in several media, usually ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' related:

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' Vol 1 (1940 - 1975) [-as Robin-]

* ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' Vol 1 (1967 - 1981) [-as Robin-]

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' Vol 1 (1984 - 2011)

* ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' Vol 2 (2006 - 2011) [-as Nightwing and Batman III-]

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* ''Comicbook/NightwingRebirth''

* CombatPragmatist: Have fun finding a member of the Bat-Family who isn't this. His isn't dirty fighting so much as it is [[IShallTauntYou constant taunts and insults]], kind of like a [[Franchise/SpiderMan certain Marvel hero]].

* {{Foil}}: To ComicBook/{{Red Hood|TheLostDays}}. Dick adopted a Franchise/{{Batman}}-expy identity formerly held by ComicBook/{{Superman}}, while Jason co-opted the former identity of ComicBook/TheJoker.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Blockbuster loved his. [[spoiler: And he makes Nightwing pay dearly for it when he indirectly causes her to have a fatal heart attack.]]

* GeniusBruiser: As befits somebody trained by Franchise/{{Batman}}, he's both a highly trained intellectual ''and'' a lethally skilled fighter.

* GondorCallsForAid: Nightwing has led the ComicBook/TeenTitans, the Outsiders, and the Franchise/{{Justice League|of America}}. If he has a problem that's too big for him, he can call help from anywhere from [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Metropolis]] to [[Franchise/GreenLantern Oa]] to ''Heaven or Hell''.

* 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/{{Robin}} 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 [[Franchise/TheFlash Wally]] to talk with Dick after he unplugs his computer to keep her from talking to him.

* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Dick 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 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".

* TheLeader: He has proven to be ''the'' most effective leader in the whole DCU, having led the Comicbook/TeenTitans and the [[ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders Outsiders]]. Even Franchise/{{Superman}} has stepped aside to let him lead the ''Franchise/{{Justice League|of America}}''.

** He was the second Nightwing. The rest, in order are: Franchise/{{Superman}}, Tad Ryerstad ("Nite-Wing"), ComicBook/PowerGirl, Jason Todd, Chris Kent

* PlatonicLifePartners: With Donna Troy. Considering his status as MrFanservice and that she's the twin sister of Franchise/WonderWoman, this is pretty surprising.

* EvilCostumeSwitch:
** As "Renegade", the identity Dick created in an attempt to infiltrate a group of villains.
** Not evil actually, but in the New 52, his black and blue changed to black and red, reflecting his more anti-heroic nature. Which, ironically enough, looks kind of like the Robin costume from ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', albeit without the cape.

* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: Issue #30 of the New 52 series is very clearly meant to serve as one to the ''Grayson'' ongoing, giving the context for the series. That, and it in no way relates to the previous arcs, and it's the ''last issue''.
* TheUnmasking: In ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil2013'' #1, Nightwing is promptly beaten to a pulp and publicly unmasked as Dick Grayson in a show of force by the Crime Syndicate. For some reason this does not cause the rest of the Batfamily's identities to be revealed despite their close connections in and out of costume.

* AcceptableTargets: In-universe, the neo-Nazis that Dick beats up in one chapter. It was good exercise.

* PeekABangs: Is often portrayed with these when he doesn't have long hair.

* ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' Vol 1 (1954 - 1984) [-as Robin, intermittent appearances-]
* ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' Vol 1 (1960 - 1983) [-as Robin, intermittent appearances-]

* ''ComicBook/KarateKid'' Vol 1 (1978) [-as Robin-]

* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'' Vol 2 (1988 - 2009) [-intermittent appearances-]
* ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' Vol 1 (1985 - 1993) [-intermittent appearances-]
* ''ComicBook/{{Wonder Woman|1987}}'' Vol 2 (1990 - 2003) [-intermittent appearances-]
* ''[[{{ComicBook/Deathstroke}} Deathstroke the Terminator]]'' (1991 - 1993) [-intermittent appearances-]
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' Vol 1 (1992 - 2011) [-intermittent appearances-]

* ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}'' Vol 2 (1994 - 2001) [-intermittent appearances-]

* ''ComicBook/JLA1997'' Vol 1 (1997 - 2006) [-intermittent appearances-]

* ''ComicBook/HarleyQuinn'' Vol 1 (2000 - 2004) [-intermittent appearances-]
* ''ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'' [[ComicBook/Superboy1994 Vol 4]] (2000 - 2002) [-intermittent appearances-]

* ''ComicBook/RichardDragon'' Vol 1 (2004 - 2005) [-intermittent appearances-]

* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' [[Comicbook/Supergirl2005 Vol 5]] (2005 - 2011) [-intermittent appearances-]

* ''ComicBook/{{Azrael}}'' Vol 2 (2009 - 2011) [-intermittent appearances as Batman III-]
* ''ComicBook/PowerGirl'' Vol 2 (2010 - 2011) [-intermittent appearances as Batman III-]

* ''ComicBook/TheFlash''

* TheGhost: One commonly-mentioned figure during the Chuck Dixon run was Eddie (later {{Retcon}}ned to Freddy) Minh, TheDon of Bludhaven's Vietnamese mob. Eventually, it turns out [[spoiler:this trope is almost literal: he [[PosthumousCharacter actually died long ago]] (possibly before Nightwing even moved into town) and [[TheQueenpin his wife]] has been secretly running the mob under his name]].

* ''Comicbook/{{Robin|1993}}'' Vol 2 (1993 - 2009) [-As Nightwing, Batman, and during the TimeCrash of ComicBook/ZeroHourCrisisInTime briefly Robin-]

* ''Comicbook/NightwingTheNewOrder''

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' as Robin (Appears as Nightwing in a BadFuture), voiced by Creator/ScottMenville.

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' (As Robin in Season 1; As Nightwing in Season 2 and onward) voiced by Music/{{Jesse McCartney}}.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGoVsTeenTitans'', featuring his incarnations as Robin from ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' and ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'', and his incarnation as Nightwing from the ''WesternAnimation/DCAnimatedMovieUniverse''.

* BelligerentSexualTension: With [[ComicBook/{{Huntress}} Helena Bertinelli]], after they had already slept together. And in ComicBook/New52, with [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl2011}} Barbara Gordon]], sometimes.

** During the infamous "Born Again" Arc Nightwing is so enraged he [[CurbStompBattle Curb Stomps]] all of Blockbuster's hired help when most of them had given him a hard time before. It was even worse in ''One Year Later'' when they tried to make Nightwing into DC's ''Spider-Man'' (!?).

* 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 [[ComicBook/{{Oracle}} 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.

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

* GoodIsNotDumb: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in [[ComicBook/{{BatmanTheBlackMirror}} Batman: The Black Mirror]]. "I ''am'' a softy. And I do try to see the best in people... but that doesn't mean I'm ''stupid''."

* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Dick 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".

* MoralityPet: Half of the [=DCU=] sees him as this. During a team-up, Comicbook/{{Catwoman}} (a villain/anti-hero) remarked that because he's been in the superhero biz since he was a child, most of the community sees him as a little bro/surrogate son. If you ever do anything to hurt Nightwing, you will call down the wrath of the entire DC Universe. Hell, Batman's first instinct was to ''[[BatmanGrabsAGun GRAB A GUN]]'' when he heard a villain had killed Nightwing.[[note]]See the page pic for AntiHero? Yeah, that's what happens when you mess with Nightwing.[[/note]] See ThePowerOfFriendship below, there are even some ''villains'' will come after you if you hurt him, granted some of it is because of TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou, but still.

* HaveAGayOldTime: When he was introduced in the 40s, "Dick" was a common and accepted shortening of the name "Richard". Nowadays, however, it has fallen out of style in favor of shortenings like "Rick" or "Richie", not helped by the fact that "dick" is a very common slang term for "penis". Despite this, Dick Grayson's name is [[GrandfatherClause too iconic to change at this point]], and when they did attempt to change it to "Ric", it resulted in a serious DorkAge for the character, though largely because of ''how'' they went about it.

* DualWielding: Escrima sticks are Nightwing's WeaponOfChoice.

* WeaponOfChoice: The Eskrima Sticks. Simple metal poles which may or my not contain various gadgets built in, which he's capable with of similar skill to Batman with his Batarangs.

* ''VideoGame/GothamKnights'' (Playable character as Nightwing), voiced by Christopher Sean

* AwesomeMcCoolName: Nightwing. Just say it. Dick Grayson is a pretty cool name by itself.
** Although some would consider "Dick" to be a case of EmbarrassingNickname.

[[folder: Tropes from the New 52 series]]

[[folder:Tropes ubiquitous across the various ''Nightwing'' series:]]
* EvilCostumeSwitch:
** As "Renegade", the identity Dick created in an attempt to infiltrate a group of villains.
** Not evil actually, but in the New 52, his black and blue changed to black and red, reflecting his more anti-heroic nature. Which, ironically enough, looks kind of like the Robin costume from ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', albeit without the cape.
* HeavyMetalUmlaut: The city of Blüdhaven.
* SexyPackaging: Nightwing has been in a number of suggestive poses on covers, given Dick Grayson's status as Mr. Fanservice. The cover of the very first issue of ''Nightwing Vol 2'' depicts Nightwing doing the splits in mid-air, with the focus on his crotch.
* WeaponOfChoice: The Eskrima Sticks. Simple metal poles which may or my not contain various gadgets built in, which he's capable with of similar skill to Batman with his Batarangs.
[[/folder]]

Nightwing is the solo codename of Richard "Dick" Grayson, the first ComicBook/{{Robin}}. After years of training under Franchise/{{Batman}} the Then-a-Teen Boy Wonder decided that, as the image quote says, [[KidHeroAllGrownUp "A man's got to go his own way"]]. Thanks to the nature of Comic Book Continuity, this was either after a long-overdue fight with Batman, or a mutually-respectful parting of ways. In any case, Dick decided on the name Nightwing after Franchise/{{Superman}} told him the tale of a Batman & Robin-esque vigilante duo from Krypton, named Nightwing and Flamebird. He made his debut under the new identity in ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' during ComicBook/TheJudasContract story-line (specifically, ''Tales of the Teen Titans'' #44, released July, 1984).

* ''ComicBook/NightwingNew52''

* ''ComicBook/{{Grayson}}''

* ''[[ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsJLA JLA]]'' Vol 1 (1997 - 2006) [-intermittent appearances-]

* ''ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman'' (2006 - 2011) [-Initially as Nightwing, before becoming Batman III following [[ComicBook/FinalCrisis Bruce Wayne's "death"]]-]

With the company wide ComicBook/New52 relaunch in 2011, Dick returned to being ComicBook/{{Nightwing|New52}} and had another solo title, and moved to Chicago following ''ComicBook/DeathOfTheFamily''. Following ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil2013'', his solo series ended. A new series titled ''ComicBook/{{Grayson}}'' began in July, which with the character as a SecretAgent of [[ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman Spyral]] alongside another famous FakingTheDead character: [[ComicBook/{{Huntress}} Helena Bertinelli]]. ComicBook/DCRebirth returned him to the ''ComicBook/{{Nightwing|Rebirth}}'' title.