History Comicbook / RobinSeries

Tim is the sole protector home in Gotham when the Joker breaks out again during a winter storm. As Joker hasn't seen nor heard of Robin since he killed the last one Tim is rather anxious about facing him, but quickly realizes Joker's latest plot in more in his own wheelhouse since Joker has been researching hackers.

-->''You... I killed you.. [[SuddenlyShouting I KILLED YOU!]] '''[[SuddenlyShouting I KILLED YOU!]]''' You're dead! DEAD! DEAD! [[ThinkingOutLoud Well, just have to kill him again, that's all. Kill the little birdie. Yes, yes]].''

* {{Diary}}: Stephanie keeps a diary of her adventures as Spoiler and briefly Robin. When she is the focus of an issue purple cursive excerpts from it are used in place of the green (later red) InnerMonologue boxes Tim gets allowing her time to reflect on the events and describe them after the fact instead of reacting in the moment like him.

* TheAlternet: ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'' makes brief mention of a supervillain-created Unternet, which exists alongside the normal Internet. The heroes use it to communicate after Darkseid takes control of all Earth's media and uses it to broadcast [[BrownNote Anti-Life]]. It also made an appearance in ''Comicbook/RedRobin'' where Tim gained a new costume while inside it.

* DeathSeeker: Despite Tim's introduction into the Bat mythos as helping Bruce out of this by the time Tim has switched ids to ComicBook/RedRobin he is being accused of falling to self destructive tendencies himself, and his responses are telling non-answers. [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Cassie]] and [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick]] are given two different flavors of misdirection, but it's the way he brushes off [[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 Steph]] rather than answer her that seals the deal, since she's on the short list of people he wouldn't feed that type of misdirection to. He starts getting better by the end of the series after Kon-El, Bart and Bruce return but even the last issue had overtones of Tim skirting around NotAfraidToDie.

* DepravedKidsShowHost: Crocky, a ''[[Series/BarneyAndFriends Barney]]'' parody and cereal mascot. It's zig-zagged in the one issue centered around him, actually: [[spoiler:ONE of the guys who played him used the suit as a disguise to knock over convenience stores, and later took a kid hostage, but the original actor was a wrongly-accused good egg who ultimately helped catch that guy]].

After a brief hiatus, the ''Robin'' series was [[SequelSeries succeeded by]] ''ComicBook/RedRobin'', written by Chris Yost and depicting Tim Drake's search around the world to find evidence that Bruce Wayne was still alive after cutting himself off from the rest of the Bat Family. He was approached by Ra's al Ghul's assassins, who were also interested in finding out what happened to Batman. After the resolution of this story, Fabian Nicieza took over as writer with issue 13. The series lasted for 2 years, being truncated by the ComicBook/New52 reboot in 2011. With the reboot, Tim's backstory and personality were drastically altered, before ComicBook/DCRebirth brought them back in the pages of ''ComicBook/YoungJustice2019''. In the same series, he spent a brief period adopting a new identity as Drake before he found himself becoming Robin again in the wake of ''ComicBook/TeenTitansRebirth Annual #2''.

In 1993, after the success of three separate miniseries chronicling Tim Drake's tribulations as the third ComicBook/{{Robin}}, (succeeding [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]] and Jason Todd), Tim was given his own monthly ongoing series that began in 1993 and ran for more than 15 years, until it ended in early 2009. The series is notable for depicting Tim's personal life with his family and friends, and him balancing a delicate act between his superhero and civilian identities. The first 100 issues of the Robin series were written by Creator/ChuckDixon, which was acclaimed at the time for a high-profile TeenPregnancy arc involving Tim's girlfriend, [[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 Stephanie Brown]] (Spoiler). In 1998, Wizard magazine ranked the series as the best ongoing comic book of the year.

After a brief hiatus, the ''Robin'' series was [[SequelSeries succeeded by]] ''Red Robin'', written by Chris Yost and depicting Tim Drake's search around the world to find evidence that Bruce Wayne was still alive after cutting himself off from the rest of the Bat Family. He was approached by Ra's al Ghul's assassins, who were also interested in finding out what happened to Batman. After the resolution of this story, Fabian Nicieza took over as writer with issue 13. The series lasted for 2 years, being truncated by the ComicBook/New52 reboot in 2011. With the reboot, Tim's backstory and personality were drastically altered, before ComicBook/DCRebirth brought them back in the pages of ''ComicBook/YoungJustice2019''.

* SixStudentClique: Tim's high school buddies at Gotham Heights fit:
** The Head: Ives, who gets [[JewishAndNerdy high scores on tests]], helps mediate problems between the rest of his friends and introduced most of them to each other
** The Muscle: Callie Evans, a jittery outspoken {{tomboy}} who loves basketball
** The Quirk: Tim, a weird rich kid who is secretly Robin and gives out random strange excuses for leaving
** The Pretty One: Ariana, an attractive girly girl and Tim's girlfriend
** The Smart One: Kevin Hudman, a BlackAndNerdy roleplayer who unknowingly solves a case Robin is working on
** The Wild One: Hudson, who has a number of random interests including computers and movies and at one point surprised his friends by deciding to bring a gun to school [[note]]though he got caught with it before making it out of the house[[/note]] and another time decided he, Ives and Callie should investigate and catch on camera an apparent monster in an abandoned building.

* TheAlternet : ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'' makes brief mention of a supervillain-created Unternet, which exists alongside the normal Internet. The heroes use it to communicate after Darkseid takes control of all Earth's media and uses it to broadcast [[BrownNote Anti-Life]]. It also made an appearance in ''Comicbook/RedRobin'' where Tim gained a new costume while inside it.

* TheConfidant: Alfred remains the person Tim trusts the most and Tim tells him quite a bit that Bruce remains blissfully unaware of. Tim and Steph served as confidants for each other for a time, but then she faked her death and left him thinking her dead for years while his life fell apart and betrayed him on Bruce's orders "to make him a better Robin" when she returned.

* OfficialCoupleOrdealSyndrome: Tim & Steph's relationship's first snags are due to Bruce refusing to allow Tim to tell Stephanie his secret identity. Then Bruce nonchalantly tells Steph Tim's ID without first discussing it with Tim, but only after Steph has given her child up for adoption, Tim is forcefully kissed by a classmate in front of her, and Bruce hires her as Tim's replacement Robin without either of them talking to Tim. The largest blow to their relationship though was when Stephanie's death was faked with Tim left thinking her dead for years. It takes him a long time to trust her again.

After a brief hiatus, the ''Robin'' series was [[SequelSeries succeeded by]] ''Red Robin'', written by Chris Yost and depicting Tim Drake's search around the world to find evidence that Bruce Wayne was still alive after cutting himself off from the rest of the Bat Family. He was approached by Ra's al Ghul's assassins, who were also interested in finding out what happened to Batman. After the resolution of this story, Fabian Nicieza took over as writer with issue 13. The series lasted for 2 years, being truncated by the ComicBook/New52 reboot in 2011. With the reboot, Tim became a main character in the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' series.

* ConservationOfNinjitsu: A group of spider themed villains attack Red Robin. One nearly kills him. When they attack him en masse, he kicks their butts.

* VillainEpisode: Issue #85 focuses entirely on SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker, who gives a warped-but-mostly-accurate rundown of his history with all three Robins so far.

* AlliterativeTitle: '''R'''ed '''R'''obin.

* KnifeNut: The Widower.

** Tim accidentally creates a 60's Series/{{Batman}} Riddler with his subconsciousness in the Ünternet. He's not fond of the implications when it becomes clear the Riddler is acting as a representation of his subconscious.

* PutOnABus: Ariana Dzerchenko, Tim's FirstLove. Although she starred in the first 50 issues of the series, she was quickly dropped in favour of the [[FanPreferredCouple more popular Stephanie]]. After her breakup with Tim, she only appeared once and was never mentioned again. Heck, barely [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome no one remembers Ariana nowadays]].

* AloneAmongFamilies: Prior to Tim's eventual adoption by Bruce Wayne, the fact that Jack Drake was incredibly neglectful was highlighted by Tim's wistfulness about his friends' families on several occasions.

* UsefulNotes/HongKong: King Snake is a racist British scumbag whose been running his organized crime ring from British Hong Kong and is so pissed off that the colony is being handed over to China that he decides to set off a weapon of mass destruction as he leaves to kill off the natives who he feels don't deserve a chance to do anything with the place without European oversight. Tim, Shiva and Clyde race to Hong Kong and fight King Snake to stop him.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: King Snake is sexist, racist, fascist ganglord.

[[folder: ''Robin'' Volume 1 (1991)]]

* GayParee: Tim travels to Paris to train with the Rahul Lama.

While at Ives' birthday dinner Tim meets a girl his age named Ariana Dzerchenko whose father is threatened by the White Wolves, a gang that's made up of criminals from the old Soviet Block. After his father forbids Tim from leaving the house and Bruce tells him to take a break as Robin to allay suspicions that have arisen due to bruising Tim instead disobeys them both because he has a hunch the Wolves are going to give the Dzerchenkos more trouble. Not only is Tim proven right but Mr. Dzerchenko is murdered and Ariana kidnapped by the Wolves later that very night despite Tim's attempts to save them. \\

While following the kidnappers Tim meets Huntress and the two agree to team up to prevent the Wolves current plot without involving Batman who is unaware of the scope of what's been brewing across Little Odessa and Old Town and Tim and Huntresses actions.