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| 6 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[LegacyCharacter The whole flock]].[[labelnote:Clockwise from top left]]Dick Grayson, Tim Drake, Jason Todd, Carrie Kelley, Damian Wayne, and Stephanie Brown. Not pictured: the hundreds of Robins that exist as of ''We Are Robin''.[[/labelnote]]]] |
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| 8 | ->''[[MadLibsCatchphrase "Holy Tropes, Batman!"]]'' |
| 9 | |
| 10 | [[RedBaron The Boy Wonder]]. TheHeart of the Bat Family. One half of [[BashBrothers The Dynamic Duo]]. |
| 11 | |
| 12 | '''''{{T|ropeCodifier}}he''''' KidSidekick. |
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| 14 | Robin is a Creator/DCComics character created as ComicBook/{{Batman}}'s sidekick in 1940 and best known as the TropeMaker and TropeCodifier of the KidSidekick archetype. There have been many, ''many'' [[LegacyCharacter different Robins]] throughout the character's publication, but most of them have common elements. With only a few exceptions, they are usually orphaned teenage males with some sort of acrobatic or martial arts prowess and wear a brightly-colored costume (typically red, green and yellow). |
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| 16 | Robin was originally conceived as a [[KidAppealCharacter vehicle to draw younger readers]] -- [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools and it worked]], doubling Batman's sales figures from his first appearance onwards. Afterward, Robin became a staple of the Batman franchise's humor, as well as being a {{Foil}} against his mentor and providing the Dark Knight a character to whom he could [[TheWatson exposit his many heroic feats]]. Unfortunately, this also had the side-effect of making Robin into a DistressedDude who barely contained a tenth of the skills or competence of his partner. |
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| 18 | As time went along, the implications regarding a [[HoYay rich adult who lived alone with a traumatized teenage orphan boy]] (Alfred the Butler would not become part of the Batman home until sometime later) garnered [[MoralGuardians negative media attention at the time]]. Comic books were unreasonably (and nonsensically) blamed for everything from juvenile delinquency to homosexuality, and the "indecent" relationship between Batman and Robin is often cited as one of the major reasons for the creation of MediaNotes/TheComicsCode that spelled the end of MediaNotes/TheInterregnum and the dawn of MediaNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks. Robin's reputation as a character suffered its greatest blow in this period, and the repercussions are still (somewhat) felt to this day (such as in parodies like the [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Ambiguously Gay Duo]]). Outside of comics, new media involving the two has tended to split them apart. Batman has remained consistently popular and has been subject to [[Film/Batman1989 many]] [[ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns darker]] [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy reimaginings]], but Robin has found [[ComicBook/{{Robin}} more]] [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} success]] [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003 away]] [[WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010 from]] [[OvershadowedByAwesome his/her mentor's shadow]]. |
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| 20 | Despite their usual role as a supporting character, the Robins are well-known for several events which helped modern comics to their current form--all of which will be noted below, in the description of the Robin they pertain to. It's also notable that the individual Robins often become popular in their own right. All five Robin characters are currently in print, with two headlining their own books, two co-starring alongside other sidekicks, and the newly-reintroduced Stephanie Brown making the rounds of guest appearances. All are featured in the weekly series ''ComicBook/BatmanAndRobinEternal'', although Stephanie has never been Robin in this version of events. |
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| 22 | Compare and contrast ComicBook/BuckyBarnes, Creator/{{Marvel}}'s take on the classic KidSidekick later updated for modern readers. |
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| 24 | For Tim Drake's solo Robin title, see ''ComicBook/Robin1993'' and ''ComicBook/TimDrakeRobin''. For Damian Wayne's, see ''ComicBook/RobinSonOfBatman'' and ''ComicBook/Robin2021''. |
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| 26 | ---- |
| 27 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 28 | |
| 29 | !Robin in Media: |
| 30 | |
| 31 | [[folder:Dick Grayson - Robin I / '''Nightwing''' / Batman III / Agent 37]] |
| 32 | !!!#1) [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Richard John Grayson]] |
| 33 | %%[[quoteright:217:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dick_9.jpg]] |
| 34 | %% [[caption-width-right:217:Nightwing in ComicBook/DCRebirth]] |
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| 36 | The most famous Robin is the original, Dick Grayson, who held the identity from 1940 to 1984. Grayson, however, gave up the name to forge a new career as the hero ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}. Since then, the mantle has been passed several times, although [[LiveActionAdaptation other]] [[AnimatedAdaptation media]] usually use Dick Grayson in the role.\ |
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| 38 | Dick Grayson had his own solo feature in ''Star-Spangled Comics'' from 1947 to 1952, and an additional feature billed as "Robin, the Teen Wonder" throughout most of the 1970s, usually as a backup in ''Batman'' or ''Detective Comics''. The latter stories typically featured Grayson as a college student at Hudson University. He has also been a staple member of the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' since the group's inception in 1965, typically acting as [[TheLeader team leader]] and TheSmartGuy. It was in this series that the character really grew into his own, especially when the book was retooled as ''The New Teen Titans'' with the inclusion of four new [[KidHero teen heroes]] who were not conceived as sidekicks to adult heroes (although Beast Boy was a {{Transplant}} from [[ComicBook/DoomPatrol another series]]). It was in the pages of ''The New Teen Titans'' that Nightwing was originally born.\ |
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| 40 | It's worth noting that Dick Grayson was Robin from 1940 to 1983-- 43 years, by far the longest tenure. Jason was Robin from 1983 to 1988 (5 years, with a reboot in the middle), Tim from 1989 to 2009 (20 years), Stephanie for one story arc (around 3 months), and Damian from 2009 to 2013 and from 2015 onwards (five years). The Golden Age Robin of Earth-2, who stuck to that identity long after he passed into adulthood and middle age, died alongside his partner the ComicBook/{{Huntress}} at the end of the ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' event which rebooted the DC universe. |
| 41 | |
| 42 | !!!Dick Grayson's Media Appearances |
| 43 | ->[[AC:Comic Books]] |
| 44 | -> '''ComicBook/PostCrisis:''' ''ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}'' | ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' | ''ComicBook/Batgirl2000'' | ''ComicBook/Batgirl2009'' | ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' | ''ComicBook/Outsiders2003'' | ''ComicBook/BatmanAndRobin2009'' | ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'' | ''ComicBook/DetectiveComics'' | ''ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison'' | ''ComicBook/RedRobin'' | ''ComicBook/Robin1993'' | ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' [[labelnote:(guest)]]''multiple Issues''[[/labelnote]] | ''[[ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica All -Star Comics]]'' [[labelnote:(guest)]]''Issues #58 - #59'', ''#66 - #70'', & ''#74'' [[/labelnote]] | ''[[ComicBook/{{Bloodlines|DCComics}} Anima]]'' | ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'' | ''ComicBook/{{Azrael}}'' [[labelnote:(guest)]]''Issues #1'', ''#4'', & ''#14 - #15''[[/labelnote]] | ''[[ComicBook/{{Azrael}} Azrael: Agent of the Bat]]'' [[labelnote:(guest)]]''Issues #56'', ''#60'', ''#88 - #91'', ''#93 - #94'', & ''#100'' [[/labelnote]] | ''ComicBook/{{Batwing}}'' | ''ComicBook/{{Batwoman}}'' | ''[[ComicBook/DoomPatrol Beast Boy]]'' | ''ComicBook/BlueBeetle'' | ''ComicBook/BlackCanary'' | ''ComicBook/BoosterGold'' [[labelnote:(guest)]]''Issues #1 - #2, #7, #11 - #12'', & ''#21 - #26'' [[/labelnote]] | ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}'' [[labelnote:(guest)]]''Issues #12 - #13, #31 - #32, #36, & #90''[[/labelnote]] | ''ComicBook/{{Checkmate}}'' | ''[[ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} Deathstroke the Terminator]]'' | ''ComicBook/TheFlash'' | ''ComicBook/GothamCitySirens'' | ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'' | ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' | ''ComicBook/HarleyQuinn'' | ''ComicBook/{{Impulse}}'' | ''ComicBook/InfinityInc'' [[labelnote:(guest)]]Issues #22 & #25 (1986) | ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' | ''[[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Karate Kid]]'' [[labelnote:(guest)]]''Karate Kid #14 - Diamondeth Is Forever'' & ''#5 - Bring Back My Future To Me!'' (1978)[[/labelnote]] | ''[[ComicBook/AnimalMan The Last Days of Animal Man]]'' [[superscript:''Issues #2 - #6'']] | ''ComicBook/{{Manhunter}}'' | ''ComicBook/MetalMen'' [[labelnote:(guest)]]Issues ''#20 - Birthday Cake for a Cannibal Robot'' & ''#21 - The Metal Men Vs. the Plastic Perils'' (1966)[[/labelnote]] | ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity'' | ''ComicBook/OmegaMen'' [[labelnote:(guest)]]Issues ''#34 - #35'' (1986)[[/labelnote]] | ''ComicBook/PowerGirl2009'' [[superscript:''(guest)'']] | ''Richard Dragon'' | ''ComicBook/SecretSix'' [[labelnote:(guest)]]Issues ''#8 - #9'', ''#36'', & ''Villains United #1 - And Empires In Their Purpose'' [[/labelnote]] | ''ComicBook/StarsAndSTRIPE'' | ''Super-Team Family'' | ''ComicBook/Superboy1949'' [[superscript:(guest)]] | ''ComicBook/Supergirl1972'' [[superscript:(guest)]] | ''ComicBook/Supergirl2005'' [[superscript:(guest)]] | ''ComicBook/Superman1939'' [[superscript:(guest)]] | ''ComicBook/SupermanBatman'' | ''ComicBook/SupermansGirlFriendLoisLane'' | ''ComicBook/SupermansPalJimmyOlsen'' | ''Tempest'' | ''ComicBook/{{Vigilante}}'' [[labelnote:(guest)]]''Issues #3'' & ''#20 - #21''[[/labelnote]] | ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[labelnote:(guest)]]''Issues #25'', ''#49'', ''#126'', ''#136'', ''#161'', ''#165 - #167'', ''#175'', ''#180'', ''#188'', ''#287'', & more[[/labelnote]] | ''ComicBook/WorldsFinest1941'' | ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'' | ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' [[labelnote:(guest)]]''Issues #1 - #4'', ''#8'', ''#10 - #11'', ''#30 - #31'', ''#33'', ''#41'', ''#47 - #48'', & ''#52''[[/labelnote]]\ |
| 45 | ''A Lonely Place of Dying'' | ''ComicBook/{{Knightfall}}'' | ''ComicBook/BatmanContagion'' | ''ComicBook/BatmanCataclysm'' | ''ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand'' | ''ComicBook/BruceWayneFugitive'' | ''ComicBook/BatmanHush'' | ''ComicBook/BatmanWarGames'' | ''Face The Face'' | ''ComicBook/BatmanTheBlackMirror'' | ''ComicBook/JokersLastLaugh'' | ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis2004'' | ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'' | ''ComicBook/BlackestNight: ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' | ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' |
| 46 | ->'''ComicBook/New52:''' ''ComicBook/{{Grayson}}'' | ''ComicBook/NightOfTheOwls'' | ''ComicBook/IVampire'' |
| 47 | -> '''ComicBook/DCYou:''' ''ComicBook/BatmanAndRobinEternal'' | ''ComicBook/TitansHunt2015'' | ''ComicBook/{{Starfire}}'' [[superscript:(guest appearance)]] |
| 48 | ->'''ComicBook/DCRebirth:''' ''ComicBook/NightwingRebirth'' | ''ComicBook/DetectiveComicsRebirth'' | ''ComicBook/NightOfTheMonsterMen'' | ''ComicBook/TitansRebirth'' | ''ComicBook/TeenTitansRebirth'' [[labelnote:(guest)]]'' Teen Titans: Rebirth #1''[[/labelnote]] | ''Trinity'' [[labelnote:(guest)]]'' Trinity #1 - Better Together: Part One Family Dinner''[[/labelnote]] | ''Deathstroke (Rebirth)'' [[labelnote:(guest)]]'' Deathstroke #4 - The Professional Part 4: American Gothic''[[/labelnote]] | ''ComicBook/BatgirlRebirth'' | ''ComicBook/BatgirlAndTheBirdsOfPrey'' [[labelnote:(guest)]]''Batgirl & the Birds of Prey: Rebirth #1 - Who Is Oracle?''[[/labelnote]] | ''[[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League (Rebirth)]]'' [[labelnote:(guest)]]'' Justice League #6 - State of Fear Part One''[[/labelnote]] |
| 49 | -> '''ComicBook/DCInfiniteFrontier:''' ''ComicBook/NightwingInfiniteFrontier'' |
| 50 | -> '''[[Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse DCAU]]:''' ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures'' |
| 51 | -> '''Elseworlds:''' ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'' | ''ComicBook/{{The Kingdom|DCComics}}'' | ''ComicBook/DCTheNewFrontier'' | ''Webcomic/LilGotham'' | ''ComicBook/TinyTitans'' | ''Thrillkiller'' | ''ComicBook/SupermanFamilyAdventures'' | ''Series/Batman1966'' | ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' | ''ComicBook/DCChallenge'' | ''ComicBook/JoeTheBarbarian'' [[superscript:cameo]] | ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'' | ''ComicBook/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' | ''ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder'' |
| 52 | -> '''Crossovers:''' ''Batman '66 Meets the [[Radio/TheGreenHornet Green Hornet]]'' | ''Batman '66 Meets [[Series/TheManFromUNCLE The Man From U.N.C.L.E.]]'' | ''Batman '66 Meets [[Series/TheAvengers1960s Steed and Mrs Peel]]'' | ''Batman '66 Meets Wonder Woman '77'' | ''[[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Scooby-Doo]] Team-Up'' | Batman/Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Adventure. |
| 53 | ->[[AC:Animated Films]] |
| 54 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood'': As Nightwing and explicitly stated to have been the first Robin. |
| 55 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOBatmanMovie'': Dick with aspects of his appearance based on Carrie. |
| 56 | * ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheNewFrontier'': A quick cameo as Robin in this adaptation of Darwyn Cooke's ''ComicBook/DCTheNewFrontier''. |
| 57 | * '''WesternAnimation/DCAnimatedMovieUniverse:''' ''WesternAnimation/SonOfBatman'' | ''WesternAnimation/BatmanVsRobin'' | ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBadBlood'' | ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueVsTeenTitans'' (guest) | ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansTheJudasContract'' | ''WesternAnimation/BatmanHush'' | ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDarkApokolipsWar''. |
| 58 | * ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGoToTheMovies'' |
| 59 | ->[[AC:Live Action Films]] |
| 60 | * ''Film/BatmanForever'' |
| 61 | * ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' |
| 62 | ->[[AC:Tv Series]] |
| 63 | * ''Series/{{Batman|1966}}'' |
| 64 | * ''Series/{{Titans|2018}}'' |
| 65 | ->[[AC:Video Games]] |
| 66 | * ''VideoGame/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobin'' |
| 67 | * ''VideoGame/BatmanRiseOfSinTzu'': as Nightwing |
| 68 | * ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' (Playable character in Challenge Mode as Nightwing) | ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'' | ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'' (As Robin in the multiplayer mode) |
| 69 | * ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' (As Nightwing) |
| 70 | * ''VideoGame/YoungJusticeLegacy'' (As Nightwing) |
| 71 | * ''VideoGame/LegoBatman'': as Nightwing, unlockable |
| 72 | ->[[AC:Western Animation]] |
| 73 | * ''The Adventures Of Batman'' |
| 74 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' |
| 75 | * '''[[Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse DCAU]]:''' |
| 76 | ** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' (as Robin) |
| 77 | ** ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries The New Batman Adventures]]'' (as Nightwing) |
| 78 | * ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' (He's never referred as Dick but it's implied to be him) |
| 79 | * ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' |
| 80 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' (First appears as a young adult Robin and later becomes Nightwing) |
| 81 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' |
| 82 | * ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' (An original series inspired by the ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'' comicbook series with Dick as Robin in season one and Nightwing in season two) |
| 83 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Mad}}'' |
| 84 | * ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' |
| 85 | ---- |
| 86 | More information can be found on the ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} and ComicBook/NightwingRebirth pages. |
| 87 | [[/folder]] |
| 88 | |
| 89 | [[folder:Jason Todd - Robin II, Red Robin II, '''Red Hood II''']] |
| 90 | !!!#2) [[ComicBook/RedHood Jason Peter Todd]] |
| 91 | %%[[quoteright:217:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jasonrobin.jpg]] |
| 92 | %% [[caption-width-right:217:Jason as Robin]] |
| 93 | After Dick Grayson, a new character named Jason Todd was introduced as a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute (right down to origins as an orphaned circus acrobat). He acted nigh-indistinguishable in such stories as "ComicBook/ForTheManWhoHasEverything", where he's instrumental in saving the day and ComicBook/{{Superman}}, Batman and ComicBook/WonderWoman's lives. In the AlternateContinuity series ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' where an aged Batman comes out of retirement, he's long since died. When Batman decides to keep Carrie Kelley (see below) as Robin, Alfred objects because of [[NoodleIncident what happened to Jason]]. Batman says that Jason was a "good soldier", but the war continues.\ |
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| 95 | After ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', Jason was {{Retcon}}ned to be a [[DarkerAndEdgier former teen delinquent]] to distinguish him from Dick Grayson. This version was [[ReplacementScrappy unpopular]] with those who had grown up with Dick Grayson (including his writers-- when editorial wanted suggestions for a character that could be killed in an [=AIDS=] storyline, Jim Starlin put his name in), so he was KilledOffForReal by the Joker in the infamous ''ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily'' storyline in 1988. This death was significant in a number of ways: first, whether he would live or die was put to a readership vote (via a hotline number: 5,271 votes for him to live, 5,343 votes for him to die). Second, just like ''ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied'', this was a tragic event which codified MediaNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks. Third, this would top the Clown Prince of Crime's list of most heinous acts (following the shooting of ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} by only a couple of months) and cement his status as one of the most despicable villains in comics' history. (And as a bonus, [[AlasPoorScrappy some people thought his death was... a bit TOO mean.]])\ |
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| 97 | For a time, the most famous thing about Jason Todd was that he (like his ComicBook/CaptainAmerica counterpart ComicBook/BuckyBarnes), had [[DeathIsCheap remained dead]]. For years, Batman kept a poignant memorial with his [[TragicKeepsake empty costume]] in the Batcave ([[MythologyGag directly lifted from]] ''The Dark Knight Returns''). Since then, however, he has come BackFromTheDead and has re-adopted several identities which were once used by other characters: the Red Hood (originally used by the Joker), Red Robin and Nightwing (both originally used by Dick Grayson). Since his return, Jason Todd has become even more of an AntiHero than ever and is even sometimes cast as a villain for both Batman and Nightwing, standing in opposition to their ThouShaltNotKill ideology.\ |
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| 99 | He's gained a new fanbase since his resurrection, both for being the one who will do what Batman won't and for being a general bad boy.\ |
| 100 | |
| 101 | In the ''ComicBook/New52'' reboot, he was [[AdaptationalHeroism restablished]] as a snarky and pragmatic AntiHero and an aloof ally of the Bat-Family and would often team up with Roy Harper a.k.a ''Red Arrow''.\ |
| 102 | |
| 103 | Jason's also notable for his part in what is considered a monumental achievement of [=DC=] animation: ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood''. Written by Creator/JuddWinick, who originally pitched and wrote Jason's resurrection in the comics, he took the movie as an opportunity to revise and vastly improve on the original story, tightening up the plot and, most notably, changing the method of Jason's resurrection from a gimmicky tie-in to an event crossover to the Lazarus Pit, a well-established element of the Batman mythos. Even those who want their hotline money back would rather consider it canon. |
| 104 | |
| 105 | !!!Jason Todd's Media Appearances |
| 106 | ->[[AC:ComicBooks]] |
| 107 | ->'''ComicBook/PostCrisis:''' ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' | ''ComicBook/BatmanAndRobin2009'' | ''Red Hood: The Lost Days'' | ''ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison'' | ''ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}'' | ''ComicBook/RedRobin'' | ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' | ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' | ''[[ComicBook/TheAtom The All New Atom]]'' | ''ComicBook/Batgirl2009'' | ''[[ComicBook/DeadMan Deadman: Dead Again]]'' | ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'' | ''ComicBook/Outsiders2003'' | ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo''\ |
| 108 | ''ComicBook/ForTheManWhoHasEverything'' | ''ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily'' | ''A Lonely Place of Dying'' (flashbacks) | ''ComicBook/BatmanHush'' | ''ComicBook/RedHoodTheLostDays'' | ''ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis'' | ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' |
| 109 | ->'''ComicBook/New52:''' ''ComicBook/RedHoodAndTheOutlaws'' | ''ComicBook/NightOfTheOwls'' | ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' | ''ComicBook/{{Grayson}}'' |
| 110 | -> '''ComicBook/DCYou:''' ''ComicBook/RedHoodArsenal'' | ''ComicBook/BatmanAndRobinEternal'' |
| 111 | ->'''ComicBook/DCRebirth:''' ''[[ComicBook/RedHoodAndTheOutlaws Red Hood and the Outlaws Rebirth]]'' | ''ComicBook/NightwingRebirth'' |
| 112 | ->'''[[Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse DCAU]]:''' ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures'' |
| 113 | ->'''Elseworlds:''' ''Webcomic/LilGotham'' | ''ComicBook/TinyTitans'' | ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' | ''ComicBook/Injustice2'' | ''ComicBook/DCChallenge'' |
| 114 | ->[[AC:Animated Films]] |
| 115 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood'' |
| 116 | ->[[AC:Video Games]] |
| 117 | * ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'' | ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamVR'' |
| 118 | * ''VideoGame/Injustice2'' |
| 119 | |
| 120 | ->[[AC:Western Animation]] |
| 121 | * ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' (shown in memorial) |
| 122 | [[/folder]] |
| 123 | |
| 124 | [[folder:Tim Drake - '''Robin III, Red Robin III''', Drake II]] |
| 125 | !!!#3) [[ComicBook/Robin1993 Timothy Jackson Drake-Wayne]] |
| 126 | %%[[quoteright:217:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/timfirstcostume.jpg]] |
| 127 | %% [[caption-width-right:217:Tim in his 1[[superscript:st]] Robin costume]] |
| 128 | |
| 129 | The third Robin was Tim Drake, who broke the mold of the previous two in several ways; he was not an orphan (his father was still alive when he took the mantle); he was not as light-hearted or whimsical as either of his predecessors; being Robin was [[WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld only a part-time thing]] and he only saw it as a temporary necessity, planning to go back to his normal life after he put in his service. He was also the first Robin to maintain a long-lasting solo series (lasting from 1993 to 2009) and, after Dick Grayson, is the second-most famous person to hold the role. Tim was also a founding member of ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'', along with Superboy and Impulse, where he played a similar role that Dick Grayson had played within the Titans.\ |
| 130 | |
| 131 | Tim's status quo was changed forever in 2004, after the death of his father, whereupon Batman adopted Tim as he had done with his predecessors. The tragedy continued with the seeming death of his girlfriend Stephanie Brown (on this very list as Robin IV), the death of his best friends [[ComicBook/{{Superboy}} Conner Kent]] and [[ComicBook/TheFlash Bart Allen]], the institutionalization (and THEN death) of his stepmother, and ultimately the death of ComicBook/{{Batman}} himself. Following this TraumaCongaLine, Tim was forcibly retired as Robin and became the third Red Robin.\ |
| 132 | |
| 133 | Following the New 52 reboot, Tim still leads the Titans and was still Jason's successor as Batman's ward, but he never actually used the Robin name, having used the Red Robin name for his entire career. On top of that, his parents are still alive and he's no longer actually called "Tim Drake" either, as Batman gave him this name after his parents were placed into Witness Protection following Tim stealing a large sum of money from the Penguin.\ |
| 134 | |
| 135 | In the ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' relaunch, Tim Drake's original backstory was restored including his time as Robin before becoming Red Robin and began dating Stephanie Brown a.k.a ''Spoiler'' until he apparently was killed in the line of duty. However, he returns and becomes a more active member of the Bat-Family. He then starred in ''ComicBook/YoungJustice2019'', where he was using the Robin moniker again, before changing his superhero identity to Drake, inspired by an EvilCounterpart from Earth-3, in issue 10 of the series. After it ended, he would return to using Robin and Red Robin, with the specific name employed alternating randomly. In 2021, Tim was revealed to be bisexual, and began dating his old school friend Bernard. In 2022 the ongoing ''ComicBook/TimDrakeRobin'' staring Tim started publishing. |
| 136 | |
| 137 | !!!Media Appearances |
| 138 | ->[[AC:ComicBooks]] |
| 139 | -> '''ComicBook/PostCrisis:''' ''ComicBook/Robin1993'' | ''ComicBook/Robin1993 [[ComicBook/{{Impulse}} Plus]]'' | ''Robin/Spoiler Special'' | ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'' | ''ComicBook/RedRobin'' | ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' | ''ComicBook/Batgirl2000'' | ''ComicBook/Batgirl2009'' | ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' | ''ComicBook/BatmanAndRobin2009'' | ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'' | ''Bruce Wayne: The Road Home'' | ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}''| ''ComicBook/DetectiveComics'' | ''Detention Comics'' | ''ComicBook/GothamCentral'' | ''ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison'' | ''ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}'' | ''The Psyba-Rats'' | ''ComicBook/{{Superboy}}/ComicBook/Robin1993: World's Finest Three'' | ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' [[superscript:(guest)]] | ''ComicBook/{{Anarky}}'' [[superscript:(guest)]] | ''ComicBook/BlueBeetle'' | ''ComicBook/GothamCitySirens'' | ''ComicBook/{{Impulse}}'' | ''ComicBook/{{The Outsiders|DCComics}}'' [[superscript:(guest)]] | ''ComicBook/ResurrectionMan'' [[superscript:(guest)]] | ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiers'' | ''ComicBook/{{Shadowpact}}'' [[superscript:(guest)]] | ''ComicBook/StarsAndSTRIPE'' | ''ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'' | ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' | ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' [[superscript:(guest)]] | ''ComicBook/SupermanBatman'' | ''ComicBook/WonderGirl'' | ''ComicBook/{{Wonder Woman|1987}}'' Vol 2 [[superscript:(guest)]] | ''ComicBook/{{Wonder Woman|2006}}'' Vol 3 [[superscript:(guest)]] | ''World's Finest'' [[superscript:(guest)]] | ''World's Finest (2010)'' |
| 140 | -->'''Story Arcs''': ''A Lonely Place of Dying'' | ''ComicBook/{{Knightfall}}'' | ''ComicBook/BatmanContagion'' | ''ComicBook/BatmanCataclysm'' | ''ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand'' | ''ComicBook/BruceWayneFugitive'' | ''ComicBook/BatmanHush'' | ''ComicBook/BatmanWarGames'' | ''Face The Face'' | ''ComicBook/BatmanTheBlackMirror'' | ''ComicBook/JokersLastLaugh'' | ''ComicBook/BlackestNight: Batman'' | ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil2013'' | ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' |
| 141 | ->'''ComicBook/New52:''' ''ComicBook/BatmanBeyond'' | ''ComicBook/TheNew52FuturesEnd'' | ''ComicBook/GothamAcademy'' [[superscript:(cameo)]] | ''ComicBook/{{Grayson}}'' [[superscript:(guest)]] | ''ComicBook/RedHoodAndTheOutlaws'' [[superscript:(guest)]] | ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' | ''ComicBook/NightOfTheOwls'' |
| 142 | -> '''ComicBook/DCYou:''' ''ComicBook/BatmanAndRobinEternal'' |
| 143 | ->'''ComicBook/DCRebirth:''' ''ComicBook/DetectiveComicsRebirth'' | ''ComicBook/NightwingRebirth'' [[labelnote:(guest appearance)]]'' Nightwing #9 - Fighting Destiny''[[/labelnote]] | ''[[ComicBook/RedHoodAndTheOutlaws Red Hood and the Outlaws (Rebirth)]]'' [[labelnote:(cameo)]]''Red Hood And The Outlaws: Rebirth #1''[[/labelnote]] | ''ComicBook/BatwomanRebirth'' [[labelnote:(guest)]]''Batwoman: Rebirth #1 - The Many Arms of Death Prologue''[[/labelnote]] | ''ComicBook/YoungJustice2019'' | ''ComicBook/DCPride2022'' | ''ComicBook/TimDrakeRobin'' |
| 144 | ->'''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse:''' ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures'' | ''WebAnimation/GothamGirls'' [[superscript:(guest)]] |
| 145 | ->'''Elseworlds:''' ''Webcomic/LilGotham'' | ''ComicBook/TinyTitans'' | ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' | ''ComicBook/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' | ''ComicBook/DCComicsBombshells'' |
| 146 | -> '''Crossovers:''' ''Batman Versus Franchise/{{Predator}} III'' | ''DC/Marvel: All Access'' | ''ComicBook/SpyBoy[=/=]ComicBook/YoungJustice'' | ''Batman[=/=]Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Adventure'' |
| 147 | ->[[AC:Animated Films]] |
| 148 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' |
| 149 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnlimitedAnimalInstincts'' |
| 150 | ->[[AC:Video Games]] |
| 151 | * ''VideoGame/BatmanRiseOfSinTzu'': as Robin |
| 152 | * ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' | ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'' | ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamVR'' |
| 153 | * ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' |
| 154 | * ''Young Justice: Legacy'' |
| 155 | * ''[[http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/games/youngjustice/shadow-mission/ Young Justice: Shadow-Mission]]'': A ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' version of ''VideoGame/ArmedWithWings Culmination'' with Tim Drake's Robin as the player character. |
| 156 | * ''VideoGame/LegoBatman'' (I, II, & III) |
| 157 | ->[[AC:Western Animations]] |
| 158 | * '''[[Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse DCAU]]:''' |
| 159 | ** ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries The New Batman Adventures]]'' |
| 160 | ** ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' (guest) |
| 161 | ** ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' (guest) |
| 162 | * ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' |
| 163 | * ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'': Robin in Season 2 onward |
| 164 | ---- |
| 165 | More information can be found on the ''ComicBook/Robin1993'' and ''ComicBook/RedRobin'' pages. |
| 166 | [[/folder]] |
| 167 | |
| 168 | [[folder:Stephanie Brown - Robin IV, Spoiler, '''Batgirl III''']] |
| 169 | !!!#4) [[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 Stephanie Brown]] |
| 170 | %%[[quoteright:217:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stephanierobin.jpg]] |
| 171 | %% [[caption-width-right:217:Stephanie as Robin]] |
| 172 | |
| 173 | In 2003, Tim Drake retired as Robin to pursue an ordinary life. Batman picked Tim's supporting character and LoveInterest Stephanie Brown, the daughter of the minor villain Cluemaster who had adopted the heroic identity of Spoiler, to become the new Robin. Stephanie's tenure as Robin was rife with controversy. She only appeared as Robin in seven issues over three different ongoings, and it was insinuated that her promotion was a failed BatmanGambit (by the TropeNamer himself no less) to anger Tim Drake into returning as Robin.\ |
| 174 | |
| 175 | Stephanie was fired from the role for disobeying Batman's orders (a move that saved his life) and then was [[DroppedABridgeOnHim unceremoniously killed off]] in 2004 during a BatFamilyCrossover. It was later revealed through WordOfGod that Stephanie was only given the role of Robin to make her death more shocking. This has since been cited as a textbook case of StuffedIntoTheFridge, especially considering her ForgottenFallenFriend status among the Bat-family afterwards (unlike Jason Todd, she did not even receive a Batcave memorial). Her death also housed the even more controversial implication that Batman both [[SuperDickery failed to get her the medical attention needed to save her life]][[note]]Later retconned as Leslie Thompkins fault, then re-retconned again as part of the AuthorsSavingThrow mentioned below[[/note]] and [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic did not give her the same training and information he gave other Robins]].\ |
| 176 | |
| 177 | As part of an AuthorsSavingThrow, in 2009 Stephanie was retconned to have faked her death and gone [[HesJustHiding into hiding]]. She then returned to Gotham and took the role of ComicBook/{{Batgirl|2009}}. Following the ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'' storyline in 2011 and DC's relaunch, Stephanie's time as Batgirl was wrapped up with ''Batman: Leviathan Strikes'' and a two issue ComicBook/{{Convergence}} tie-in.\ |
| 178 | |
| 179 | Following the New 52, [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome Stephanie's status was unclear]], with numerous writers requesting and being denied even ''mentioning'' her. Eventually, Scott Snyder was allowed to use her in one of his ''Batman'' issues, which served as a preview of his ''Batman Eternal'' series, in which Steph plays a key role in the story. Still the daughter of Cluemaster, she accidentally stumbles in on a supervillain meeting, led by her father, which leads to him trying to kill her. She eventually takes the mantle of Spoiler, joins the Bat-family and starts a relationship with Tim. She next appeared as a main character in the initial arcs of ComicBook/DetectiveComicsRebirth. Her previous status as Batgirl and Robin is revealed to her during the finale of said series, and a later cameo in ComicBook/HeroesInCrisis implies that she has embraced this past and considers herself a Robin [[note]]Although the fact that the mini-series' writer, Creator/TomKing, is not known for following continuity and that she has only otherwise been acknowledged as a Robin in a one-shot deliberately written to only loosely follow continuity makes this an AmbiguousSituation[[/note]]. Following DC's [[ComicBook/DCInfiniteFrontier Infinite Frontier relaunch]], Stephanie is set up to once again be Batgirl - this time, as part of a team alongside Cassandra Caine and Barbara Gordon. She also briefly takes on the role of Robin to Damian Wayne's Batman in a tie-in to the AlternateContinuity ComicBook/DCeased.\ |
| 180 | |
| 181 | Steph is unique among the Robins in several ways, being the one with the shortest term, the only (canonical) female, the only one to begin as a co-star in another book series, the only blonde, and the only Robin to never be adopted into the Wayne family. All of these traits, along with her later FunPersonified characterisation and [[CreatorsPest the perceived editorial slights against her]], have made Stephanie something of [[EnsembleDarkhorse a "cult" Robin]]. On the other hand, some -- even if they enjoy her character -- consider her run as Robin too short and too obviously a publicity stunt to really count her for the role. Overall, Steph can count herself as one of the more controversial Robins, both in-universe and out. |
| 182 | |
| 183 | !!!Media Appearances |
| 184 | ->[[AC:Comic Books]] |
| 185 | -> ''ComicBook/Robin1993'' | ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' | ''ComicBook/Batgirl2000'' | ''ComicBook/Batgirl2009'' | ''Robin/Spoiler Special'' | ''Batman: Huntress/Spoiler: Blunt Trauma'' | ''ComicBook/BatmanAndRobin2009'' | ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'' | ''Bruce Wayne: The Road Home'' | ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}'' | ''ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison'' | ''ComicBook/{{Impulse}}'' | ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'' | ''ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}'' | ''ComicBook/RedRobin'' | ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' | ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' | ''World's Finest (2010)''\ |
| 186 | ''ComicBook/BruceWayneFugitive'' | ''ComicBook/JokersLastLaugh'' | ''ComicBook/BatmanWarGames'' | ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' |
| 187 | ->'''ComicBook/New52:''' ''ComicBook/TheNew52FuturesEnd'' |
| 188 | -> '''ComicBook/DCYou:''' ''ComicBook/BatmanEternal'' | ''ComicBook/BatmanAndRobinEternal'' |
| 189 | ->'''ComicBook/DCRebirth:''' ''ComicBook/DetectiveComicsRebirth'' | ''ComicBook/BatwomanRebirth'' | ''ComicBook/YoungJustice2019'' |
| 190 | ->'''Elseworlds:''' ''Webcomic/LilGotham'' | ''ComicBook/TinyTitans'' | ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' |
| 191 | ->[[AC:Animated Films]] |
| 192 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'': Cameo as Tim's wife and the mother of their children. |
| 193 | ->[[AC:Western Animation]] |
| 194 | * ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'': As an unnamed cameo during Season 2 and as ''Spoiler'' in Season 3 onward |
| 195 | ---- |
| 196 | More information can be found on the ''ComicBook/Batgirl2009'' and Characters/{{Batgirl}} pages. |
| 197 | [[/folder]] |
| 198 | |
| 199 | [[folder:Damian Wayne - '''Robin V''']] |
| 200 | !!!#5)Damian Wayne |
| 201 | %%[[quoteright:217:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/damianrobin.jpg]] |
| 202 | %% [[caption-width-right:217:Damian as Robin]] |
| 203 | |
| 204 | The 1987 story ''Batman: Son of the Demon'' concluded with the birth of a boy to Bruce Wayne and Talia Al Ghul ([[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter daughter of Batman foe Ra's Al Ghul]]). The canonicity of the tale was questionable. In 2006, the existence of the son was confirmed. He was named Damian and had grown up to late childhood. Whether he is a result of mutual intercourse, a ChildByRape, or a DesignerBaby created from Batman's genes depends on the continuity. Damian was raised by his mother in the League of Assassins, and was put through an initiation pilgrimage known as the "Year of Blood" that involved 365 days of desecration, robbery, and slaughter. After Bruce Wayne "died" and Tim Drake permanently retired as Robin in 2009, Dick Grayson and Damian served as the new Batman and Robin respectively, maintaining the partnership even after Bruce's return to life and the Batman role.\ |
| 205 | |
| 206 | In the New 52, Damian went on to serve as Robin beside his father, which followed the duo's adventures as they learned what it was to be father and son, as well as partners. Damian was killed in early 2013 while doing battle with The Heretic, an accelerated growth clone of himself. However, in due time, Damian was resurrected and returned to his role as Robin (gaining superpowers for a brief time). . He then went off to atone for the Year of Blood independently in his own series ''ComicBook/RobinSonOfBatman''.\ |
| 207 | |
| 208 | As part of DC Rebirth, after Tim Drake's "death", Damian started his own team of Teen Titans. While he insisted that he was fit for the role like Dick and Tim before him, he found it difficult to lead the team. He often butted heads with teammates and had to learn to become an actual friend to the team, rather than just their field leader. Not too long after, Damian would meet Jonathan Samuel Kent, the son of Superman and Lois Lane. Despite their intense differences, the two formed a superhero team -- the ComicBook/SuperSons. Damian would come to consider Jon his best friend, even fighting with his fellow Titans in order to protect Jon.\ |
| 209 | |
| 210 | Damian eventually began showing his darker side as he imprisoned villains without trial and without his teammates' knowledge. Around this time, Dick would be shot in the head and become amnesiac, forgetting his time as a superhero and thus his bond with Damian. Damian would also witness the death of Alfred Pennyworth in Bane's attempts to break his father. Finally, after his actions with the Teen Titans came to light and his father demanded he return home, Damian quit his team and his partnership role with Batman. He returned to his mother, learning of the League of Lazarus Tournament, and began his own investigation into it, separate from the legacies he'd been a part of for so long. |
| 211 | |
| 212 | !!!Media Appearances |
| 213 | ->[[AC:Comic Books]] |
| 214 | -> ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' | ''ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison'' | ''ComicBook/BatmanAndRobin2009'' | ''ComicBook/GothamCitySirens'' | ''ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}'' | ''ComicBook/Robin1993'' | ''ComicBook/Batgirl2009'' | ''ComicBook/RedRobin'' | ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' | ''World's Finest (2010)'' |
| 215 | ->'''ComicBook/New52:''' ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' | ''ComicBook/GothamAcademy'' | ''ComicBook/{{Grayson}}'' [[superscript:(guest appearance)]] | ''ComicBook/RedHoodAndTheOutlaws'' [[superscript:(guest appearance)]] | ''ComicBook/IVampire''| ''ComicBook/HawkAndDove'' | ''ComicBook/{{Batwing}}'' | ''Worlds' Finest'' |
| 216 | -> '''ComicBook/DCYou:''' ''ComicBook/RobinSonOfBatman'' | ''ComicBook/BatmanAndRobinEternal'' |
| 217 | ->'''ComicBook/DCRebirth:''' ''ComicBook/TeenTitansRebirth'' | ''ComicBook/SuperSons'' | ''ComicBook/BatmanTomKing'' | ''ComicBook/TitansRebirth'' [[labelnote:(guest)]]'' Titans #6 - The Return of Wally West Part Six: Out of Time, Out of Mind''[[/labelnote]] | ''ComicBook/NightwingRebirth'' |
| 218 | -> '''ComicBook/DCInfiniteFrontier:''' ''ComicBook/Robin2021'' |
| 219 | ->'''Elseworlds:''' ''ComicBook/{{The Kingdom|DCComics}}'' | ''Webcomic/LilGotham'' | ''ComicBook/TinyTitans'' | ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' | ''ComicBook/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' | ''ComicBook/Injustice2'' |
| 220 | -> '''Crossovers:''' ''ComicBook/BatmanTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' |
| 221 | ->[[AC:Animated Films]] |
| 222 | -> '''WesternAnimation/DCAnimatedMovieUniverse:''' ''WesternAnimation/SonOfBatman'' | ''WesternAnimation/BatmanVsRobin'' | ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBadBlood'' | ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueVsTeenTitans'' | ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansTheJudasContract'' |
| 223 | ->[[AC:Western Animation]] |
| 224 | -> ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'': (guest appearance) | ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn'' |
| 225 | -> ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' (as a baby, season 3 onward) |
| 226 | ->[[AC:Video Games]] |
| 227 | -> ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' | ''VideoGame/Injustice2'' |
| 228 | ---- |
| 229 | More information can be found on the ''ComicBook/RobinSonOfBatman'' and ''ComicBook/SuperSons'' pages. |
| 230 | [[/folder]] |
| 231 | |
| 232 | [[folder:Alternate Versions of Robin]] |
| 233 | !!Carrie Kelley |
| 234 | !!!Caroline Keene Kelley |
| 235 | |
| 236 | The Robin that appears in Creator/FrankMiller's ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns''. Technically, the first female Robin (arguably second if Roberta The Girl Wonder is counted), although she is not considered canonical. She later becomes "Catgirl" in ''ComicBook/TheDarkKnightStrikesAgain''. She is also featured in ''Toys/AmeComiGirls'' as the Robin of that AlternateUniverse. |
| 237 | |
| 238 | She also exists in the New 52, but not as Robin. However, she did appear at a Halloween party dressed in her Robin outfit. |
| 239 | |
| 240 | !!!Media Appearances |
| 241 | ->[[AC:Comic Books]] |
| 242 | ->'''ComicBook/New52:''' ''Batman and Robin'' |
| 243 | ->'''Elseworlds:''' ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' | ''Toys/AmeComiGirls'' | ''ComicBook/TinyTitans'' | ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' |
| 244 | ->[[AC:Animated Films]] |
| 245 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' |
| 246 | ->[[AC:Western Animation]] |
| 247 | * '''[[Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse DCAU]]:''' |
| 248 | ** ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries The New Batman Adventures]]'' (cameo) |
| 249 | * ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' (guest appearance) |
| 250 | |
| 251 | !!Duke Thomas |
| 252 | During Creator/ScottSnyder's {{Flashback}} arc ''ComicBook/BatmanZeroYear'', Bruce encountered an intelligent youngster by the name of Duke Thomas. In the present, Duke returned in the ''ComicBook/BatmanEndgame'', and was the lead of the ''ComicBook/WeAreRobin'' series. In ComicBook/DCRebirth, Batman tells Duke that he has no intention of training Duke to become a Robin but something new. Duke is later dubbed "the Signal" and wears a bright yellow costume. |
| 253 | |
| 254 | !!!Media Appearances |
| 255 | ->[[AC:Comic Books]] |
| 256 | ->''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' | ''ComicBook/WeAreRobin'' |
| 257 | ->'''ComicBook/DCRebirth:''' ''ComicBook/BatmanTomKing'' |
| 258 | |
| 259 | !!Richard M. Grayson (Robin of Earth-Two and/or Earth-2) |
| 260 | |
| 261 | The Dick Grayson from the the [[MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] Earth-Two and Pre-[[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths Crisis]] Earth-2 who died during the crisis at the age of 57. Distinguished from the mainstream Dick Grayson in that he never stopped being Robin, even after becoming an adult with his own superhero career, and the fact that his middle initial is "M" rather than "J". Years after his death ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' came along and retconed it by pulling him and ComicBook/{{Huntress}} into the event, and had him accept the Batman mantle after prompting from Helena Wayne. |
| 262 | |
| 263 | !!!Media Appearances |
| 264 | ->[[AC:Comic Books]] |
| 265 | ->''ComicBook/DetectiveComics'' | ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' | ''World's Finest'' | ''Star-Spangled Comics'' | ''ComicBook/AllStarComics'' | ''ComicBook/InfinityInc'' | ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' | ''ComicBook/{{Wonder Woman|1942}}'' | ''ComicBook/AmericaVsTheJusticeSociety'' | ''ComicBook/AllStarSquadron'' | ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' | ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'' | ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}: Detective Comics'' |
| 266 | |
| 267 | !!Helena Wayne (Robin of Earth 2) |
| 268 | |
| 269 | The ComicBook/New52 Robin of Earth 2, currently operating as the ComicBook/{{Huntress}}. The circumstances of her tenure will be expanded on in ''ComicBook/WorldsFinest2012''. |
| 270 | |
| 271 | !!!Media Appearances |
| 272 | ->[[AC:Comic Books]] |
| 273 | ->'''ComicBook/New52:''' ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' | ''Worlds' Finest'' |
| 274 | |
| 275 | !!Mary Wills (Roberta The Girl Wonder of Earth 2) |
| 276 | |
| 277 | Robin’s very first DistaffCounterpart from the Golden Age, having debuted even earlier than Bette Kane/Bat-Girl. While her crimefighting career didn’t last long, Robin and Roberta always made a good team whenever they worked together, especially with Mary’s talents for [[MasterOfDisguise acting and disguise]]. If she is taken into account, then this would arguably make her the very first female Robin. Since she’s from the Golden Age, she lived on Earth 2. Unfortunately, she has fallen into obscurity and she hasn’t made any appearances since the 1950’s, in either the Post-Crisis or New 52 continuities. |
| 278 | |
| 279 | !!!Media Appearances |
| 280 | |
| 281 | ->[[AC:Comic Books]] |
| 282 | ->'''Star-Spangled Comics (Vol. 1) #103''' (first and only appearance) |
| 283 | |
| 284 | [[/folder]] |
| 285 | |
| 286 | ---- |
| 287 | |
| 288 | [[folder:Ongoing Series]] |
| 289 | * ''ComicBook/Robin1993'' was the the first Robin ongoing, starring Tim Drake. It focused on Tim's adventures away from Batman, including him managing his life as Robin as well as being a regular high schooler. The series ended when Dick made Damian his Robin, forcing Tim to adopt the moniker of Red Robin, with a series being launched under that name as well. |
| 290 | * ''[[ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison Batman and Robin (2009)]]'' was the first original comic to bear the name despite the dynamic duo's enduring place in pop culture. It starred Dick Grayson taking on the mantle of Batman, with Damian Wayne as his Robin. |
| 291 | * ''ComicBook/RedRobin'' (2009), starring Tim Drake. |
| 292 | * ''Batman and Robin (2011)'', launched as part of the ComicBook/New52. This series focused on Bruce Wayne as Batman with Damian as Robin, exploring Bruce and Damian's relationship as Bruce learned to be a father to a son more interested in being Batman's son than Bruce Wayne's. |
| 293 | * ''ComicBook/RobinSonOfBatman'', launched as part of the ComicBook/DCYou initiative. The series stars Damian Wayne, returnd from the dead and intent on atoning for the "Year of Blood", a violent pilgrimage he went on when being raised by his mother. |
| 294 | * ''ComicBook/WeAreRobin'' was similarly launched as part of DC YOU, but did not focus on a Robin proper. Instead, it featured a group of teenage vigilantes who formed a movement that used the Robin iconography. |
| 295 | * ''ComicBook/Robin2021'', which began as part of the ComicBook/DCInfiniteFrontier relaunch. After being disillusioned with his father and splitting himself from his family and allies, Damian Wayne investigates a tournament run by the resurgent League of Lazarus. |
| 296 | [[/folder]] |
| 297 | |
| 298 | [[folder:Comic Storylines]] |
| 299 | * ''ComicBook/RobinTheBoyWonder''- The first appearance of Robin I (Dick Grayson) and his first adventure with Batman, serving justice against the mob boss who murdered his flying trapeze parents. |
| 300 | * ''ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily'' - Batman and Robin II (Jason Todd) go to the Middle East, to track down Jason's birth mother and stop Joker from stealing relief aid from the Red Cross for cash. In the process, Joker kills Jason Todd and his mom and ultimately finds immunity waiting for him in Iran, who offer to make him their ambassador in exchange for him poisoning the entire UN with Joker gas. Famous for the fact that Jason's fate was decided by a "1-900" call-in phone poll. |
| 301 | * ''A Lonely Place of Dying'' - When Batman grows increasingly violent in the wake of Jason Todd's death, a young teen named Tim Drake deduces Batman and Nightwing's identities and seeks out Dick to get him to be Robin again. When Dick refuses, it's up to Tim to take up the dominoed mask and save the two from Two-Face, setting up the stage for Tim to become the third Robin. |
| 302 | * ''ComicBook/{{Knightfall}}/Knightquest/Knightsend'' - Introduces Bane, who after forcing Batman to run a gauntlet of his worst enemies, breaks Batman's back. In response Bruce promotes his latest sidekick ComicBook/Azrael to Batman status. Due to Azrael having not shaken the effects of being brainwashed into an assassin Robin III (Tim Drake) is forced to try and hold Gotham together while clashing with the new Batman after being kicked out of the Batcave in Bruce's absence. |
| 303 | * ''ComicBook/BatmanContagion'' and ''ComicBook/BatmanLegacy'' - Two arcs which pretty much go together back-to-back. In the former, Gotham has to deal with an outbreak of Ebola-A, which Robin III (Tim Drake) contracts, and chronicles Batman's attempts to help contain and cure the virus. After which, in the latter, Ra's Al Ghul makes his return to the Batman books as he unleashes a massive plague upon Gotham City, as a test run to unleashing the virus upon humanity. Batman is forced to call in all of his allies (Catwoman, Azrael, Nightwing, and Robin III) to help stop Ra's Al Ghul. |
| 304 | * ''ComicBook/BatmanCataclysm'' and ''ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand'' - An earthquake hits Gotham and rather than rebuild the U.S. Government orders the city sealed off. As Batman and his allies struggle to keep the peace, it becomes apparent that [[spoiler: Lex Luthor is behind the government turning its back on Gotham City. With no government in the city, Luthor plans to destroy all records of land ownership to claim the city as his own, but fails when Batman stops him (though he is unable to prove to the world what Lex did)]]. Mainly known for introducing the third Batgirl (Cassandra Cain) and reintroducing Black Mask into the Batman books. |
| 305 | * ''[[ComicBook/BruceWayneFugitive Bruce Wayne: Murderer?/Fugitive]]'' - Following the events of No Man's Land, ComicBook/LexLuthor became President and Bruce Wayne, in retaliation, severed all business ties with the U.S. Government in protest. In revenge, Lex orders Bruce Wayne's girlfriend murdered and Bruce framed for the deed. Tim and Dick clash over how to proceed with the investigation into the murder after Bruce goes on the run. |
| 306 | * ''ComicBook/BatmanHush'' and ''Under the Hood'' - "Hush" was a warmly received and massively hyped story written by Creator/JephLoeb and illustrated by Jim Lee. The story deals with an alliance with new Bat-foe Hush and [[spoiler:the Riddler]] after the latter figures out Batman's identity. While Hush had Batman run the gauntlet with much of his RoguesGallery, a figure appearing to be [[spoiler:a resurrected Jason Todd]] appears to confuse Batman. In the end, Hush's identity is revealed to be [[spoiler:Bruce Wayne's childhood friend, Thomas Elliot, who has decided to harbor a deep hatred over Bruce's "gifted childhood" (AKA the dead parents)]]. The buzz over the appearance of the supposed [[spoiler:Jason Todd]] lead to "Under The Hood" where Creator/JuddWinick detailed the rise of a new Red Hood, which was originally held by the man who would become the Joker. Upon the discovery that the Red Hood was indeed [[spoiler:Jason returned from the dead]], angry that [[spoiler:Batman replaced him and didn't kill his "killer"]], Batman has to stop [[spoiler:his adopted son and former ward]]'s RoaringRampageOfRevenge. ''Hush'' also saw Harvey Dent's face repaired and cured of his Two-Face persona until ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis''. |
| 307 | * ''ComicBook/BatmanWarGames'' and ''War Crimes'' - Spoiler decided to prove to Batman she was worthy of being the newest Robin by taking one of his plans and engaging in a massive BatmanGambit against all of Gotham's gangs that goes horribly wrong. The result? Black Mask becoming the top crime boss in Gotham and Stephanie Brown (Robin IV) dying because Batman waited too long to get her medical treatment. The story was almost immediately followed up with ''War Crimes'', which tried to retcon the story by saying it was longtime Batman ally Leslie Thompkins who withheld medical treatment from Stephanie, and then ''Infinite Crisis'' warped reality within months of the publication of ''War Crimes''. [[spoiler:''War Crimes'' was erased from canon and replaced with a scenario where Thompkins, with Batman's permission, faked Stephanie's death to protect her from further reprisals from Black Mask.]] |
| 308 | * ''Face The Face'': [[/index]]Set during the One Year Later TimeSkip after ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', Batman and the Robin (Tim Drake) return to action just in time to deal with someone killing off several of Batman's rogues gallery, with evidence pointing to Harvey Dent, who Batman left in charge of protecting Gotham while he was away after being cured. Notable for making the Great White Shark (introduced in ''ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumLivingHell'') Gotham's top crime boss and the aforementioned returns of Commissioner Gordon, Detective Bullock, and Harvey Dent's Two-Face persona (including rescarring). Batman also adopts Tim Drake, who takes up a costume similar to his ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries The New Batman Adventures]]'' incarnation. |
| 309 | * ''ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison'': A group of {{Story Arc}}s all written during Creator/GrantMorrison's run on ''Batman''. All titles are connected by a large overarching storyline, and Morrison himself says that he intends for this group of titles to be [[WritingForTheTrade part of a series]]. |
| 310 | ** ''Batman and Son'': Batman discovers that his one-time sexual encounter with Talia Al Ghul left her pregnant. And now, several years later, she's dropping off her son on Batman's doorsteps so that he can teach the kid how to be a great man, as she prepares to take over the world with her army of Manbat Ninjas. Introduces Damian Wayne to the Batman universe. |
| 311 | ** ''The Black Glove'': Batman's weekend vacation with a cadre of international superheroes he inspired takes a turn for the worst when the mysterious "Black Glove" destroys their transportation off an island so that they can be killed off one by one. |
| 312 | ** ''The Three Ghosts of Batman'': Bruce faces off against three psychotic Batman impersonators (a marksman, a steroid-fueled behemoth, and a raving Satanic killer) with ties to a cadre of corrupt police officers and a mysterious military experiment that Bruce himself took part in years ago. A prelude to ''Batman: R.I.P'' that introduces Dr. Simon Hurt, the leader of the Black Glove organization. Notable for giving us a glimpse of a possible future where Damian has become the new Batman. |
| 313 | ** ''Batman R.I.P.'' - The Black Glove makes its assault against Batman, and attempts to destroy his personality with long dormant mental triggers which were placed in Batman's mind years ago. Upon the activation of a mental safeguard in the case of such a scenario, the personality of "the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh" keeps Batman functioning until his mind repairs the damage and stops the Black Glove from killing him and invading Gotham City. Upon confronting the leader in an escaping helicopter, Batman becomes "cursed" to die the next time he wears the cape and cowl. After escaping the helicopter crash, Batman is summoned by Superman to investigate [[ComicBook/FinalCrisis the death of a God...]] |
| 314 | *** ''Battle For The Cowl'' (not written by Morrison, but fits into the overarching story) - [[spoiler:Bruce Wayne is dead, and a great void has been created in Gotham City. A war on two fronts has started that the Bat-Family must deal with: the recently escaped RoguesGallery from Arkham, along with the various gangs and factions trying to claim Gotham as their own; and the appearance of a mysterious masked "Batman", who holds no qualms for murder (eventually revealed to be Jason Todd). After attempting to kill both Tim Drake and Damian Wayne, Jason fights Nightwing, and is defeated. Dick takes over the mantle of the Bat, and]] Damian becomes the new Robin as [[spoiler:Dick is worried Tim's claims that Bruce is alive are proof of SanitySlippage from his TraumaCongaLine]]. |
| 315 | ** ''Batman: Reborn'' - Umbrella title for the various Batbooks dealing with Dick Grayson as the new Batman and Damian as the new Robin. Threats facing them are Jason Todd and a new Black Mask, along with new villains such as Professor Pyg and his army of circus freak show villains and the assassin known as "The Flamingo". |
| 316 | ** ''The Return of Bruce Wayne'': [[spoiler:[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Tim wasn't so crazy after all.]] Until it happens, we're treated to Bruce Wayne's displaced adventures in time, where he suits up in period-specific Bat-costumes and fights pirates and cavemen and stuff, due to [[UnstuckInTime continually being shunted around the timestream]]. Oh, and Superman says his return will bring about [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the end of the world]]...]] |
| 317 | *** ''Bruce Wayne: The Road Home'': [[spoiler:The culmination of the ''Batman: Reborn'' storyline. Vicki Vale seeks to reveal the identities of the Bat-Family to the world, but Ra's ah Ghul refuses to let her do so and seeks to kill her. The Bat-Family, the GCPD and the returned Bruce Wayne must protect her and convince her that what she's doing is wrong.]] |
| 318 | * ''ComicBook/BatmanTheBlackMirror:'' While Bruce is busy with Batman, Inc, Dick stays on as Gotham's Batman. He, Oracle, Jim Gordon, and Tim Drake continue the good fight against evil auctioneers, nefarious car salesmen, pirates, and baby formula truck drivers. |
| 319 | * ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' |
| 320 | * ''ComicBook/NightOfTheOwls:'' Batman as of the New 52. Bruce is Batman again, though Damian is still Robin, and Dick still operates as Nightwing. A shadowy organization known as The Court of Owls, basically Gotham City's Illuminati, are trying to take back Gotham City, using pseudo-immortal assassins as their footsoldiers. |
| 321 | * ''ComicBook/DeathOfTheFamily:'' After a year-long absence, ComicBook/TheJoker returns to Gotham with a torn-off face and gunning for Batman's allies. |
| 322 | * ''ComicBook/BatmanEternal'': A MilestoneCelebration of the 75th anniversary of Batman's first appearance, as a weekly series that incorporates many elements of his supporting cast and rogues gallery back into the ComicBook/New52. |
| 323 | * ''ComicBook/RobinWar'': A storyline that pits Damian Wayne against a group of teens who proclaims themselves Robin, dragging in the previous Robin title-bearers and the brand new Batman in the process. |
| 324 | [[/folder]] |
| 325 | |
| 326 | [[folder:Animated Series]] |
| 327 | [[index]] |
| 328 | * Robin's (Dick Grayson) first animated apparition is in ''The Adventures Of Batman'' and, afterwards, in ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}''. This version wore the standard Robin costume, much like the film serial versions of the 1940s. |
| 329 | * In the original ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', a college-aged Dick Grayson was Robin, and generally true to his roots. However, when the show was revived and revamped as ''The New Batman Adventures,'' they decided to shake up the status quo, graduating Dick to Nightwing and introducing a young Tim Drake as Robin. They skipped Jason Todd due to the character having some baggage that isn't exactly family friendly, but given that Jason Todd had an excellent origin story, the decision was made to combine the two into one. In this universe, Dick Grayson never quite reconciled with Bruce after their initial falling out. They could get along and work together, but were permanently estranged at some point. Meanwhile, Tim Drake had his career as Robin cut short after being brutalized by and [[spoiler:accidentally killing The Joker]]. He grows up into a successful engineer with a wife (who, according to DVD extras, is meant to be an older Stephanie Brown) and kids, as seen in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''. Robin does not appear in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' and ''Justice League Unlimited'' due to an embargo on the Batman TAS supporting cast. Dick is voiced by Joey Simmrin in his youth and Creator/LorenLester in his teenage years onwards, while Tim is voiced by Matthew Valencia. |
| 330 | * ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003''. The Robin appearing here is a mix of the first and third Robins. Leader of the Titans team, this is the first version of Robin that act independent from Batman (who is never mentioned in the show with just some hidden reference). It's intentionally left ambiguous which Robin he is as has never been directly referred to by full name. The style of this version's costume is still closely modeled on Tim Drake's first costume. Most people assume that he's Dick Grayson, since most of the clues point to it—the biggest of which being an AlternateUniverse counterpart with the name Nosyarg Kcid (Dick Grayson spelled backwards). He is voiced by Creator/ScottMenville. |
| 331 | ** ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' has a parody version of the character like the rest of the cast. |
| 332 | * Robin appears in ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'', introduced in Season 4. Based on the Dick Grayson version, in this instead of being a teenager to adult, he is 12. He borrows elements from the Tim Drake version, such as costume design and computer aptitude. His origin in "A Matter of Family" follows Grayson's from the comic books with the exception of his being Batman's second sidekick (Batgirl in introduced in Season 3), but his first official sidekick. |
| 333 | * ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' set on Earth-16. In this universe, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, and Tim Drake are all known to be or have been Robin, while Stephanie Brown became Spoiler and an infant Damian Wayne appeared in season three. The show has been praised for returning the relationship between Dick and Batman to its roots-- in other words, they get along. Dick becoming Nightwing here is not because he and Bruce can't see eye to eye, but simply because he's grown up. Jason Todd was revealed to have died in between seasons one and two and is implied to have been resurrected in season three, while Tim was a supporting character in seasons two and three. Another notable thing the show did was give all three Robins unique costumes that are easy to tell apart. This is the first [=TV=] series to acknowledge the existence of all five canonical Robins. Dick is voiced by Music/JesseMcCartney, Tim is voiced by Cameron Bowen, Stephanie is voiced by Creator/MaeWhitman, and Jason by Creator/JoshKeaton. |
| 334 | [[/folder]] |
| 335 | |
| 336 | [[folder:Live-Action Series]] |
| 337 | [[index]] |
| 338 | * Dick Grayson / Robin is one of the main characters of the '60s series ''Series/{{Batman|1966}}'', played by Creator/BurtWard. He is noted for his [[CatchPhrase recurring interjections]] in the form of "Holy ''[insert word]'', Batman!". The series avoided referencing Robin's origins as Bruce Wayne's fellow "crime orphan", as whose legal guardian the courts appoint Bruce. |
| 339 | * Both Dick and Jason are featured on ''Series/{{Titans 2018}}'', with the former being the main protagonist. In this continuity, Dick and Bruce are already estranged, though he still dons his Robin suit. Jason, on the other hand, is at the beginning of his career as Robin. Dick is played by Creator/BrentonThwaites as an adult and Tomaso Sanelli as a child, while Jason is played by Curran Walters. |
| 340 | [[/index]] |
| 341 | [[/folder]] |
| 342 | |
| 343 | [[folder:Movies]] |
| 344 | [[index]] |
| 345 | * Robin (Dick Grayson) appears in the ''Film/BatmanForever'' and ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' films directed by Creator/JoelSchumacher, played by Creator/ChrisODonnell. This version of Robin merged together his younger, more carefree days with his older incarnation (before he became Nightwing). His origin is actually a composite of two comic-book Robins; in the comics, Two-Face killed Jason Todd's parents, and that element (along with Jason's desire for revenge) were imported into O'Donnell's Dick Grayson character. |
| 346 | * Appears in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' as "John Blake", played by Creator/JosephGordonLevitt. This is the Robin of ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'', though rather than becoming Batman's sidekick, [[spoiler:he's implied to have become the new Batman after Bruce Wayne's supposed HeroicSacrifice]]. In fact, [[spoiler:Robin is the character's legal first name]]. |
| 347 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood'' is considered a monumental achievement of DC animation. Written by Judd Winick, who originally pitched and wrote Jason's resurrection in the comics, he took the movie as an opportunity to revise and vastly improve on the original story, tightening up the plot and, most notably, changing the method of Jason's resurrection from a gimmicky tie-in to an event crossover to the Lazarus Pit, a well-established element of the Batman mythos. In the film, Jason was voiced by Alexander and Vincent Martella in his child and teenage years respectively, and Creator/JensenAckles as an adult. Dick also appeared as Nightwing, voiced by Creator/NeilPatrickHarris. |
| 348 | * While the movie does not much resemble the comic ''WesternAnimation/SonOfBatman'' and its sequels do feature Damian and Dick. Damien and Dick are respectively voiced by Stuart Allen and Creator/SeanMaher. |
| 349 | [[/index]] |
| 350 | [[/folder]] |
| 351 | |
| 352 | !!Tropes associated with Robin in general |
| 353 | |
| 354 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 355 | * AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Although they are not exactly "super". |
| 356 | * BadassNormal: Like their mentor, none of the Robins have superpowers. [[EmpoweredBadassNormal Damian is the first to break this mold.]] |
| 357 | * CatchPhrase: "Holy (fill in the blank)!" Now used mostly as SelfDeprecation and {{Mythology Gag}}s. Mostly just Dick's. Jason tried it once, and Batman just asked him to never do it again. |
| 358 | * ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: All Robins are different from their predecessors. |
| 359 | ** Dick is a friendly CheerfulChild with natural athleticism and leadership skills since he is created in mind to contrast Batman's IWorkAlone and brooding personality. |
| 360 | ** Jason is brash, headstrong and prefers to rely on his street smarts and [[GeniusBruiser strength]] to fight. He's also DarkerAndEdgier compared to Dick, which he kept even after resurrecting as Red Hood. |
| 361 | ** Tim is the AudienceSurrogate that while not as physically talented as Dick and Jason, surpasses them with his wits and intelligence to earn his place as Robin. |
| 362 | ** Aside from Stephanie's [[DistaffCounterpart gender]], she is an [[ThePollyanna upbeat rookie]] compared to Tim's brooding ExperiencedProtagonist later on. |
| 363 | ** While Damian is genetically enhanced to be a perfect ChildSoldier and has no qualms for killing, he also believes that his status the blood son makes him superior to the former three's adopted status. |
| 364 | * ContinuitySnarl: One of the policies of DC's ComicBook/New52 timeline is that the timeline goes back no further than five years. However, Batman (and ComicBook/GreenLantern) were so successful at the time of the reboot that DC left its continuity--mostly--as-is - meaning that in the span of five years, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, and Tim Drake all managed to become ComicBook/{{Robin}} and then graduate to their "adult" identities as Nightwing, Red Hood, and Red Robin. This later prompted DC to explain that Batman's history goes back ten years instead of five. The new continuity cut out Stephanie altogether and radically altered Tim in an attempt to fit the new timeline. |
| 365 | * DamselInDistress: For Stephanie and Carrie. |
| 366 | * DeathIsCheap: Dick, Jason, Tim, Steph, and Damian have all been killed at one point but all got better or had their deaths revealed to have been faked eventually. Lampshaded in ''ComicBook/BatmanTomKing'' #16 |
| 367 | -->'''Jason''': First, Damian You're Dead. Again.\ |
| 368 | '''Damian''': No. First, Jason you're dead. Again.\ |
| 369 | '''Dick''': I like that in all of it, at least I'm not dead. Again.\ |
| 370 | '''Duke''': Wait, ''all'' of you have been dead? Am I going to be dead? |
| 371 | *** The conversation happens at meeting Batman holds after [[spoiler:Tim was "killed" in ''ComicBook/DetectiveComicsRebirth'']] and is thought dead by them. |
| 372 | * DistaffCounterpart: The Batgirls could arguably count as this to the Robins, to a degree. In fact, the original Bat-girl (spelled with a “-“), Bette Kane, was specifically created to be the sidekick of the original Batwoman, who was in turn created as a DistaffCounterpart to Batman. So, without Robin, there would be no Batgirl. |
| 373 | ** Even earlier than that, in the 1950’s, Robin got a one-time female counterpart: Mary Wills, AKA “Roberta The Girl Wonder”. Her costume looked a lot like Robin’s, but with red hair and a swapped color palette. While her crime fighting career didn’t last long, Robin and Roberta made a pretty good team whenever they worked together, especially with Roberta’s [[MasterOfDisguise excellent acting and disguising skills]]. |
| 374 | * DistressedDude / BadassInDistress: Can't forget your roots now, can we? |
| 375 | * {{Foil}}: To Batman, in various ways. Dick's upbeat attitude made him a far more beloved and respected crimefighter than his mentor; Jason was a criminal before becoming Robin, and took the darkest aspects of Batman's goals while ignoring its benevolent spirit; Tim took a more pragmatic and functional approach to crimefighting, detaching it from his personal life instead of BecomingTheMask; Finally, Damian was raised to fight crime ruthlessly and without any tragedy to guide his conscience. |
| 376 | ** The Robins also represent specific aspects of Batman. Dick is the acrobat and leader, Jason is the fighter, Tim is the detective, and Damian is the ninja. Each Robin is also hinted to surpass Batman in the future. |
| 377 | ** With respect to their upbringing, Dick adjusted to life without his parents far better than Bruce; Jason never knew his parents [[spoiler: and finding out his mother was alive led to his death]]; Tim's father was alive when he decided to become Robin; and Damian was raised in privilege like Bruce, but trained to be an assassin and killer. |
| 378 | ** Tim acted as the foil to Dick during Dick's first run as Batman, being the new kid who nonetheless is serious and well trained but not really a natural fighter rather being more cerebral to Dick's experience and frequent lightheartedness and natural physical talent. In this case, they're both good fighters, planners and detectives, their strengths are just in different areas. |
| 379 | ** Stephanie was designed as a foil to Tim in ''ComicBook/Robin1993'' where she was the deuteragonist to Tim's protagonist. She was impulsive and hot-headed, setting out as a hero with a single quickly reached goal but never planning on retiring to civilian life where he was more calculating, cautious and rule-abiding and set out with a long term goal but considered his role as Robin a temporary thing he'd retire from. |
| 380 | ** Also of note, Damian was a foil to Dick Grayson's run as Batman, being the serious sidekick to his light-hearted superhero. |
| 381 | ** As of Rebirth, Damian is also the foil to Jon Kent's Superboy. Both are the sons of the two greatest superheroes, but, much like their fathers, are polar opposites. One is a brooding, misanthropic, suspicious pain in the backside with too much training and not enough friends, and the other is a cheerful, optimistic, polite little ray of sunshine still getting used to his powers. |
| 382 | * HappilyAdopted: Dick and Tim, at the very least. Jason is very {{Tsundere}}ish about it, and Damian is blood-related to Bruce. Stephanie was never adopted. |
| 383 | * HeroesFightBarehanded: Notable exceptions include Tim Drake and Dick Grayson, both former Robins who now fight crime as ComicBook/RedRobin and ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} respectively. Tim uses a Bo staff and Dick a pair of Escrima sticks, presumably because their focus on agility over strength compared to other bare fist DC fighters means the weapons give them the 'kick' they need. Damian favors katanas, though given their decidedly lethal nature they can be a hindrance rather than a multiplier for him in uniform. |
| 384 | * KidAppealCharacter: What Robin started as, and continues to be. |
| 385 | * KidHero: One of the earliest superhero examples, although ComicBook/SpiderMan would become the TropeCodifier for comics. |
| 386 | * KidSidekick: The TropeMaker and TropeCodifier and is retained in almost every incarnation of Batman, no matter how Darker and Edgier, simply because of [[GrandfatherClause tradition]]. |
| 387 | * LegacyCharacter: ''All'' of the Robins (save Damian) later graduated into ''another'' LegacyCharacter. |
| 388 | ** Dick Grayson became the ''second'' Nightwing,[[note]]ComicBook/{{Superman}}, in a temporary identity, was the first[[/note]] and upon Bruce's "death" became the third Batman.[[note]]The second being Jean-Paul Valley in ''ComicBook/{{Knightfall}}''[[/note]] Dick was also [[{{Retcon}} belatedly revealed]] to not even have been the first Robin, as Bruce Wayne himself assumed the role for a brief time in his own youth. |
| 389 | ** Jason Todd became the Red Hood II,[[note]]Originally, members of a criminal gang rotated through the identity, most notably The Joker before he adopted his best-known identity.[[/note]] Red Robin II,[[note]]An adult Dick Grayson from ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'' was the first[[/note]] and even became Nightwing V for a while.[[note]]Nightwing III is the villain "Nite-Wing", and Nightwing IV was ComicBook/PowerGirl in a temporary identity.[[/note]] |
| 390 | ** Tim Drake eventually became Red Robin III. |
| 391 | ** And Stephanie Brown became Batgirl IV.[[note]][[ComicBook/Batgirl2011 Barbara Gordon]], The Huntress, and [[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 Cassandra Cain]] were the first three, although all of them were after Betty (later Bette) Kane as "Bat-Girl"[[/note]] |
| 392 | ** Even Damian Wayne was revealed to have become the sixth Batman in a BadFuture. |
| 393 | ** According to Marv Wolfman, around the time Jason Todd was introduced, one of the Batman writers wanted to de-age Dick Grayson and return him to being Batman's sidekick. As writer on ''[[ComicBook/TeenTitans The New Teen Titans]]'', DC's hottest property at the time, Wolfman wielded a lot of power, and, not wanting to have Dick's CharacterDevelopment undone, suggested that instead, Dick Grayson could move on to a new identity and a new Robin could be introduced as a publicity stunt (since that sort of thing had never really happened before). |
| 394 | * MoralityChain: All of them is this, as they keep Batman from going over the edge and turning into an Anti-Hero. It's to the point it reaches LivingEmotionalCrutch levels DependingOnTheWriter, as it's shown he almost crosses the line whenever one of them dies. [[note]]Excpet for Steph, who Batman knew was [[FakingTheDead faking her death.]][[/note]] |
| 395 | * RainbowMotif: The colors tied to each of them combined with ComicBook/{{Batman}}'s indigo creates a subdued rainbow motif. '''[[ComicBook/RedHood Jason]]''' is '''Red''', '''[[ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns Carrie]]''' is '''Orange''', '''[[ComicBook/RobinSonOfBatman Damian]]''' is '''Yellow'''[[note]]Exemplified by his costume having much more yellow than any Robin before, even adding yellow trim.[[/note]], '''[[ComicBook/Robin1993 Tim]]''' was '''Green'''[[note]]Exemplified having more green on his first costume than any other Robin, trading most of the yellow for black, and his text boxes being green in his early years.[[/note]], '''[[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 Stephanie]]''' is '''Violet'''[[note]]Exemplified by her dedication wearing to purple, especially eggplant purple, across all her identities.[[/note]] and '''[[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick]]''' is '''Blue'''. Things got muddled by bringing Timmy Todd's uniform from the DCAU in for Tim and tying him to red and Batman's costumes less and less frequently including blue so the motif has been lost over the years. |
| 396 | * RedIsHeroic: Red is the most dominant color of the Robin costumes, except in Tim's first costume where green was dominant but even then his tunic remained red. |
| 397 | * RudeHeroNiceSidekick: DependingOnTheWriter again, but Robin is more lighthearted compared to the dark and grim Batman no matter the incarnation. Reversed when Damian is Robin and Dick took up the Cowl. |
| 398 | * SharedIdentity: Both Damian and Tim use the hero name Robin after Tim's return from being Ozymandias' prisoner. Tim also continues using the identity Red Robin depending on the occasion. |
| 399 | * SiblingRivalry: Pick any two. Chances are that they fought each other at least once, even if they are on good terms. But Tim and Damian have this relationship down to a tee. |
| 400 | ** Stephanie is the exception. Never having been adopted by Bruce, she has no relationship with Jason or Dick and a primarily [[OfficialCouple romantic one]] with Tim. She did have this trope with Damian while he was Robin and she was Batgirl, but it was erased (along with her history) by Flashpoint. |
| 401 | * SiblingYinYang: |
| 402 | ** There's Dick Grayson and Jason Todd for starters. Dick is a hero, acrobatic, one of the most cheerful people in the DCU, and independent from Batman. Whereas Jason is a villain, relies more on weaponry and brute strength, is dark and wrathful, and is almost pitifully obsessed with being seen as Batman's son and true heir, if not replacing the Dark Knight himself. Both also have very different relationships with Batman: Dick is the [[ParentalFavoritism favorite]] (and always has been, even when he didn't know it) and there is mutual respect between the two, while Jason is TheUnfavourite at the best of times and he and Bruce have a very rocky relationship. |
| 403 | ** Tim Drake and ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} (Dick Grayson). Nightwing can be logical, but he's more emotional and his creation of 'Nightwing' directly extended from him rebelling against Batman. While Tim is more logical, doesn't have Dick's natural athleticism and depends on his brains to get out of a sticky situation. Tim and Dick act like actual brothers though, unlike Damian. |
| 404 | ** [[ComicBook/Robin1993 Tim Drake]] (adopted) and Damian Wayne (biological). Tim is logical, cool-headed, and always follows Batman's example by never killing, while Damian is rash, violent, and thinks nothing of killing his enemies, until some CharacterDevelopment, where he'll still resort to it if he has to. They slug it out every time they meet. |
| 405 | * SidekickGraduationsStick: |
| 406 | ** Dick Grayson became Nightwing, and has never returned to being Robin; unlike many characters with successors, he's never referred to as the "real" Robin, just the first. (Although his counterpart in the original Earth-2 never gave up the Robin identity.) |
| 407 | *** And then he became Batman a more permanent basis with Bruce Wayne's 'inconveniencing' in the event Final Crisis. Fans guessed this would be reverted as soon as Bruce got back, but it actually stuck around for a little while with both men operating as Batman - in fact, Bruce started franchising and appointing even more Batmen worldwide. Dick's promotion was eventually reversed by the New 52 relaunch, where he went back to being Nightwing. |
| 408 | ** The second Robin, Jason Todd, graduated once he came back from the dead. Except instead of becoming his own hero he became a villain. Or a really dark Anti-Hero or something; it's complicated. He's tried to hijack the Batman and Nightwing names a couple of times, but for the most part, he's taken over the pre-existing name the Red Hood. Also, in an Alternate Universe where he didn't die, he becomes the second Batman. |
| 409 | ** Tim Drake, the third Robin, altered his identity into Red Robin. And yes, this counts as full graduation, as Damian Wayne has taken over being original-style Robin. |
| 410 | * TakingUpTheMantle: All male Robins took up the mantle of Batman one way or another, whether it's the main continuity or Elseworlds. Hell, ''Battle for the Cowl'' was about them trying to become the new Batman. |
| 411 | ** After Batman's [[NotQuiteDead "death"]] during ComicBook/FinalCrisis, Dick Grayson is forced to become Batman because Bruce Wayne never appointed a successor, and Gotham City was descending into chaos without Batman's presence to strike genuine terror into the hearts of criminals. |
| 412 | ** Jason became the next Batman in an alternate world shown in ''ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis'' [[note]] Earth-15[[/note]] after it's revealed that Batman died in his place. Also, gun-toting Batman in ''Battle for the Cowl''. |
| 413 | ** Damian became a gun-toting Batman in a BadFuture in ''Batman'' #666, where it's shown that he booby-trapped the whole of Gotham to compensate for his skills. And also apparently sold his soul to the Devil. |
| 414 | ** In ''ComicBook/DetectiveComicsRebirth'', Tim is revealed to have become a gun-toting KnightTemplar Batman in another BadFuture (or possibly the same one), being the last Robin to take up the mantle: Dick retired and left Gotham, Jason was crippled, and Damian [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope Jumped Off The Slippery Slope]] and killed millions before Tim [[DeadlyEuphemism "did what was necessary"]]. |
| 415 | [[/folder]] |
| 416 | |
| 417 | !!Tropes associated with the various Robin series |
| 418 | |
| 419 | [[folder:''Robin'' volume 1 (1991)]] |
| 420 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/robin1_5.png]] |
| 421 | %% [[caption-width-right:350:Tim's first solo outing]] |
| 422 | ->''"Do you ever get tired? Do you ever wonder if what we do makes a difference?"'' |
| 423 | -->--'''Tim Drake''' |
| 424 | |
| 425 | This five issue mini-series marks the first time any iteration of Robin has headlined in his own title, and was very successful spawning two more mini-series focused on Tim and an eventual ongoing title.\ |
| 426 | \ |
| 427 | Tim sets out for Paris to train under the Rahul Lama, the last master of an ancient holistic Tibetan martial art that incorporates healing with self defense. While there he runs into a defected DEA on a personal mission of revenge and gets distracted from his training by a plot by the disgraced British nobleman and ganglord Edmund Dorrance, who goes by King Snake and is looking to unleash a biological weapon on Hong Kong. ComicBook/LadyShiva throws herself into the mix when Tim joins forces with the former DEA agent, Clyde Rawlins, and inserts herself into Tim's time in France as Tim's new trainer once Tim is forced to help Clyde escape King Snake's Ghost Dragons. |
| 428 | ---- |
| 429 | * BlackDudeDiesFirst: African American Clyde Rawlins is the first and only member of the main cast of the story to die. |
| 430 | * DeathSeeker: Clyde Rawlins is being intentionally reckless and doesn't feel he has anything left to live for though he'd like to take out King Snake on his way out. Clyde does find death at Snake's hands but fails to do any real damage to his opponent. |
| 431 | * DestinationDefenestration: Tim kicks King Snake out the window during their final fight. |
| 432 | * EiffelTowerEffect: As seen on the cover of issue one the Eiffel tower is used as shorthand to let the reader know the story is set in Paris. |
| 433 | * EvilBrit: Dorrance hates that he lives past the golden age of British colonialism. It's not so much that he's seem particularly proud to be British, he's just incredibly racist and misogynistic, thinks himself above everyone else and hates that foreign (and his own) governments take issue with his trying to subjugate, torture and kill people. |
| 434 | * EvilMentor: ComicBook/LadyShiva interrupts Tim's training and ends up his new mentor. |
| 435 | * ExecutiveSuiteFight: Ends with two fights in King Snake's executive suite fifty floors above the streets of Hong Kong. In the first Snake pummels Clyde Rawlins to death, and when Tim arrives and sees his ally dead he's able to use a bit of misdirection and kick Snake out the window, where he then leaves him clinging to the ledge with ComicBook/LadyShiva standing over him who is implied to have made him fall to his death, though of course he shows up again later. |
| 436 | * GayParee: Tim travels to Paris to train with the Rahul Lama, and gets to take in some of the sights before being pulled into trying to prevent an international incident. |
| 437 | * IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn: Darkly hilariously depicted between Tim and Lady Shiva. Lady Shiva wakes him up at night for their martial arts training, telling him that she'll bring him to a ''"[[ImaginedInnuendo whole new world]]"''. Tim's response? ''"[[HilarityEnsues Um... I don't think I'm ready for this]]"''. Lady Shiva then nonchalantly replied that they can do that later, after the training. |
| 438 | * MartialArtsStaff: After Shiva hijacks Tim's training and asks him to chose a weapon he picks a staff out of the selection of bladed and piercing weapons weapons she offers him due to its potential non-lethal applications. He's also implied to have a little previous martial arts training with a staff. |
| 439 | * OldMaster: Tim's trains under the Rahul Lama, a very old Tibetan refugee living in Paris who was the last living master of an ancient fighting style and whom Tim noticed never seemed to run out of stamina. |
| 440 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: King Snake is a sexist, racist, fascist ganglord. |
| 441 | * PacifistDojo: The Raul Lama's school teaches that violence should only be used when necessary and be balanced with the healing arts and meditation which are also an aspect of the holistic discipline he teaches. The school itself does not have a ThouShaltNotKill aspect but Tim Drake, its most well known student, certainly does even if he's flexible about whether or not his allies stick to that rule. |
| 442 | * ReminiscingAboutYourVictims: Dorrance starts describing in loving detail the way he killed Clyde Rawlins' wife and children while beating him to death, and the last words Rawlins hears in life are Dorrance saying the only thing he regrets about the whole affair is that his blindness means he won't be able to actually watch Rawlins himself die. |
| 443 | * SportsDad: Jack Drake wants Tim to play football. Tim ''hates'' football, to the point that he doesn't even like watching it. At one point Tim got out of his dad asking him why he was getting in late by saying he stayed late because of football tryouts, though he never said he tried out ''and'' if his dad knew the first thing about his son he might have though he was taking photos or something. Instead when Jack learns the football coach doesn't remember Tim trying out Jack tears apart Tim's room, destroying Tim's possessions and trying to hack into his computer until he wrecks the back wall of Tim's closet, discovers it was a false wall hiding the Robin suit and summarily goes to Wayne manor to threaten Bruce with a gun. |
| 444 | * StupidJetpackHitler: King Snake has his Ghost Dragons in France to transport a biological plague spreading weapon developed but never deployed by the Nazis to Hong Kong. Interesting choice given that UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan was committing horrific experiments with biological weapons and the best ways to spread disease through a civilian population during the UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar[=/=]WWII and their experiments occurred ''much'' closer to Dorrance's power base. |
| 445 | * SufferTheSlings: When the Rahul Lama instructs Tim to chose a weapon to study Tim selects the sling, and later uses one to great effect when coming in to a fight with the Ghost Dragons. |
| 446 | * TrainingFromHell: Deconstructed. Tim got more out of training under the Rahul Lama than under Shiva's brutal tutelage, most of what she taught him was just how to try to think out of the box during a fight to try and avoid getting pulverized. |
| 447 | [[/folder]] |
| 448 | |
| 449 | [[folder:''Robin II: The Joker's Wild!'' (1991-1992)]] |
| 450 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jokerswild.png]] |
| 451 | |
| 452 | The second of the Tim Drake focused mini-series preceding his ongoing title.\ |
| 453 | \ |
| 454 | 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 is more in his own wheelhouse since Joker has been researching hackers. |
| 455 | ---- |
| 456 | * AmoralAttorney: The Joker's lawyer is presented as more naive than amoral, but the Arkham director feels like his requests are all incredibly dangerous and are all potential escape attempts on the Joker's part and the director is ''right''. |
| 457 | * AsleepInClass: Tim falls asleep in history class and his irritated teach wakes him with a question about the lecture. Ives manages to mime the answer to him behind the teacher's back. |
| 458 | * BadBoss: Joker of course. He gives his henchmen some leeway, for Joker anyway, but is happy to attack them for intterupting him or stepping out of line too many times even if that line is somewhat arbitrary. |
| 459 | * BookSafe: Joker's "grandmother" brings along a hollowed out Bible designed to eject Joker gas and containing a breathing mask for his boss. |
| 460 | * {{Brainwashed}}: Joker drugs Dr. Pellinger into a stupor that makes him easy to control, thereby getting himself his own hacker. |
| 461 | * CardboardPrison: Arkham security once more proves to be a joke, with the Joker being freed by his visiting "mother", a man is a shoddy disguise, who poisons the facility with Joker Gas. It's especially amusing since the director was trying so hard to finally avert this: |
| 462 | -->''The Joker is the most dangerous inmate we have in here. The list of directors who have lost this office because of his escapes is '''legion'''.'' |
| 463 | * CharacterTiers: Discussed InUniverse briefly by Ives, Hudson and Hudman before the conversation gets derailed by Tim bailing on their plans to play ''Wizards and Warriors'' that evening. |
| 464 | * ColorCodedSecretIdentity: |
| 465 | ** Tim wears an open red button-up shirt one day, and a red sweater the next at school reflecting the red upper torso portion of his Robin suit. |
| 466 | ** Tim is seen wrapped in a plush green robe once he's out of costume and warming up in the manor, to reflect the green pants, undershirt, mask and gloves of his costume. |
| 467 | * ConvenientComa: Tim visits his father and talks to him, but notes he's never been able to be candid with his father before Jack ended up in a coma and he doesn't expect he'll ever be able to again if his father wakes up. He also notes his father is a lot easier to visit since he's in the city in a hospital room instead of flitting all over the planet and avoiding Gotham, and his son, like the plague. Despite these things Tim really does hope Jack recovers. |
| 468 | * CutTheJuice: When Tim realizes Pellinger is trying to hack into the Batcomputer while Tim was trying to hack Joker's system Tim cuts the power without hesitation, even if he isn't happy about it. |
| 469 | * DepravedDentist: Issue 2 takes full advantage of the imagery, with the cover depicting Joker as a crazed grinning dentist with Dr. Pellinger strapped into the chair, the theme has a basis in the story itself but the dental tools are cover only. |
| 470 | * ElectricJoybuzzer: Joker takes down Mr. Freeze, who had tried to take over Joker's henchmen while Joker was locked up, with a handheld buzzer to the palm. |
| 471 | * TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: The guards let through the Joker's "mother" after being tasked with making sure she's not smuggling anything but do little more than run "her" through a metal detector and don't check the Bible she's got nor notice that she's a man in IncrediblyConspicuousDrag. |
| 472 | * IncrediblyConspicuousDrag: One of the Joker's henchmen in fairly poor disguise as his grandmother is able to get into Arkham to visit "her grandson". |
| 473 | * TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: Discussed since Hudson feels like Tim never hangs out with them and is pissed that he's left their gathering early. Ives defends Tim strongly, and Hudman acts as mediator for the group but he also sides with Tim. |
| 474 | * JerkJock: Karl, who thinks Tim should hang out with a "better" crowd and makes fun of Ives. |
| 475 | * TheNicknamer: Ives usually just uses last names but he also likes to use "Hudster", seemingly because of it's vague meaning and the possibility that he could be talking about either Hudman or Hudson, or both. Good luck getting him to clarify especially since the two in question seem to always know who he's talking to or about and don't ask him to stop. He also calls Tim "Master Tim" on occasion, referring to Tim's much more affluent background than that of the other kids at Gotham Heights. |
| 476 | * NotEvilJustMisunderstood: Joker's current physiologist feels this way about the criminal, which infuriates the director who knows better. |
| 477 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The Joker stops smiling and telling jokes when he first sees Tim. He's ''furious'' that there's a Robin running about when he went to all the trouble to beat the last one half to death and then blow him up for good measure, even though it wasn't something he planned in advance and was just "lucky" happenstance. |
| 478 | -->''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]].'' |
| 479 | * OhCrap: Robin assures Commissioner Gordon he can handle whatever situation there is, without Batman. Then Gordon reveals that the Joker is on the loose. Oooooooohhhh... yikes. |
| 480 | * OutsideRide: Tim leaps atop the truck Joker's just used to kidnap computer whiz Osgood Pellinger, he only stays on for a couple of blocks since Joker has his henchmen start shooting at him and then has a freakout and knocks Tim to the curb and speeds away when he sees it's Robin. |
| 481 | * ProducePelting: Fans at the Gotham Giants football game start throwing their drinks and food at the Jumbotron when Joker has Pellinger hack in so he can disrupt the game while delivering his demands to the city via the thing. |
| 482 | * ReplacementGoldfish: Defied with prejudice. Also serves as a CallBack to some encouragement Bruce gave Tim at the start of ''Robin Volume I''. |
| 483 | -->'''Gordon:''' If Batman were here...\ |
| 484 | '''Robin:''' He's not here. You know, he didn't pick my name out of a HAT for this job! |
| 485 | * SpeakOfTheDevil: Bruce has been out of town for the whole storyline and just as Alfred reassures Tim that he dealt with everything well and B will be proud of him Bruce slips in through the door as though summoned by his name, startling them both. |
| 486 | * SurroundedByIdiots: The director at Arkham is only too aware that most people working there and the lawyers he has to put up with are all hazards to keeping his prisoners in the asylum. It probably doesn't help that competent people are ''not'' lining up to work at Arkham given its track record. |
| 487 | * SoccerHatingAmericans: Alfred gives the inverse, Gridiron Hating Brits, some lip service when Tim walks into the kitchen and notices Alfred is watching American Football while he works. In a moment of sarcasm blindness Tim goes to change the channel since Tim's personally not fond of football but Alfred stops him since he does actually like watching the game. |
| 488 | * ToiletHumour: Joker ends up falling into a sewage treatment tank when Tim defeats him, but Tim's too tired to do more than think his predecessors probably would have been able to come up with a quip. Later at Arkham Riddler takes up the slack and makes a joke about how much Joker stinks that pisses Joker off and gets a laugh out of Two-Face to end the series with. |
| 489 | * TokenRichStudent: Tim's family is much better off than his friends and classmates and had previously only attended boarding schools at his father's insistence. Ives points out how odd it is for him to be attending a public school in Gotham after seeing what Tim has for lunch, though he's grinning the whole time because he knows Tim is only getting to go to public school because he's under the care of Bruce Wayne at the moment. |
| 490 | -->''"What the heck are you doing at Gotham Heights High, Master Tim? Your butler sends you to school with a bag lunch that ain't exactly a PB and J sandwich. The clothes you have on cost more than my whole closet. So why aren't you packed away to one of those fancy boarding schools like the rest of the rich brats."'' |
| 491 | [[/folder]] |
| 492 | |
| 493 | [[folder:''Robin III: Cry of the Huntress'' (1992-1993)]] |
| 494 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/robiniii.png]] |
| 495 | ->''"I've gotten myself in deeper with every lie I've told. I know having a secret identity is kind of a lie in itself, but I didn't expect it to get this complicated."'' |
| 496 | -->--'''Tim Drake''' |
| 497 | |
| 498 | While at Ives' birthday dinner Tim meets a girl his age named Ariana Dzerchenko whose father is threatened by the Hammer, a gang that's made up of criminals from the old Soviet Bloc. 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 Hammer are going to give the Dzerchenkos more trouble. Not only is Tim proven right but Mr. Dzerchenko is murdered and Ariana kidnapped by the Hammer later that very night despite Tim's attempts to save them. \ |
| 499 | \ |
| 500 | While following the kidnappers Tim meets Huntress and the two agree to team up to prevent the Hammer's current plot. They both choose not to involve Batman who is unaware of the scope of what's been brewing across Little Odessa and Old Town and would disapprove of their actions since Batman doesn't care for Huntress' brutal methods and lack of compassion and Tim is only involved because he's disobeying Bruce's orders since Bruce brushed off Tim's concerns. |
| 501 | ---- |
| 502 | * AbuseMistake: School councilor Earlene Hollingsworth thinks Bruce is abusing Tim due to the bruises Tim has been showing up to school with. It's interesting that the timing doesn't make her suspect Jack since Jack just got stuck at home to the point of having to actually buy a house in Gotham and stuck in a wheelchair when he used to avoid Gotham (and his son) like the plague but she seems to like Jack. |
| 503 | * AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Two of Sebastian Ives' many cousins are a pair of identical twin girls. Since they're both jovial with similar personalities and their parents give them matching outfits and keep their hair cut the same way they're exceptionally difficult to tell apart. |
| 504 | * AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Ives is mortified that his parents force him to wear a party hat and pose for pictures at his birthday party, which they also insisted be at a restaurant in Little Odessa. Tim thinks most of Ives grumpiness is a front though and Ives is mostly good natured about the whole things outside of his frequent complaints about how loud his family is. |
| 505 | * AsleepInClass: Tim falls asleep during study hour in the library and gets a lecture from the librarian for misusing his time there. |
| 506 | * BadLiar: While Tim would eventually train himself out of it he's still a terrible liar at this point which works against him when trying to convince Ms. Hollingsworth that Bruce has never and would never hurt him and tries to pin his injuries on a vague upperclassman. His natural strength was always keeping secrets and keeping quiet, he ends up suspiciously looking to the side and gnawing on his lip when he tells her his fib. |
| 507 | * BladeBelowTheShoulder: [=KGBeast=]'s wrist mounted weapon has a retractable blade and a gun in it. |
| 508 | * BloodFromTheMouth: After his one man fight against the Ghost Dragons starts going downhill once Lynx kicks him in the face Tim has blood dribbling from his mouth. |
| 509 | * BringingRunningShoesToACarChase: Robin chases after Hammer on foot when they abduct Ariana. He manages to keep up through use of rooftop hopping, traffic and clinging to the outside of vehicles until he gets waylaid in Chinatown by Lynx. |
| 510 | * CallBack: [=KGBeast=] recognizes Robin and has an existing beef with him even though Tim's never met him. Tim realizes immediately that the Robin [=KGBeast=] is so eager to kill is actually Jason Todd, and considering Tim is outclassed and disobeying Batman's orders and very likely to get himself killed at the time he finds it extra unsettling. |
| 511 | * ChaseFight: Tim fights the members of Hammer and the Ghost Dragons while chasing Hammer to try and prevent their abduction of Ariana. In the end the Ghost Dragons joining in on the fight ensures Hammer gets away. |
| 512 | * CoordinatedClothes: Ives' twin cousins are wearing matching outfits at the dinner Ives' family has celebrating his birthday. |
| 513 | * DamselInDistress: Ariana Dzerchenko gets kidnapped and Tim works with Huntress to save her. |
| 514 | * DysfunctionalFamily: Ives complains about his large and embarrassingly loud family as if they're a mess but Tim thinks they're nice and also thinks Ives is mostly exaggerating for storytelling purposes. |
| 515 | * ExposedToTheElements: Huntress spends the story running about in the ice and snow in a sleeveless leotard with a punging neckline. |
| 516 | * FriendlyLocalChinatown: Tim manages to follow [=KGBeast=] to Gate Street when trying to prevent the Russians from kidnapping Ariana. As the local gang is run by one of Tim's first recurring villains they're of course happy to greet him and try to put him six feet under. |
| 517 | * ForgottenBirthday: When Ives rather forcibly invites Tim along for his family birthday dinner Tim asks whose birthday it's for, starting Tim's long tradition of not keeping track of anyone's birthday including his own. Ives implies this is not the first time Tim has done this to him so apparently Tim has always sucked at birthdays. |
| 518 | * LeotardOfPower: Poor ComicBook/{{Huntress}} is in her leotard with a plunging cleavage cutout phase, which really sticks out since it's snowy and windy for a large chunk of the tale. |
| 519 | * TheMafiya: The main villains of the piece. Mr. Dzerchenko was mixed up with them before moving to the US and their attempts to get him to come back as a forger are what set the plot in motion. |
| 520 | * OutsideRide: Tim leaps on top of the Hammers' car and splatters the windshield with paint to force them to stop when they're abducting Ariana. |
| 521 | * ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Ariana is claimed to have been murdered, which makes Tim go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge since he feels he should have prevented her from being kidnapped in the first place. During said rampage he discovers and saves the still living and captive Ariana. |
| 522 | * SecretKeeper: Tim ends up a secret keeper for Huntress's secret id after he effortlessly figures out she's Helena Bertinelli to her consternation. |
| 523 | * SelectiveGravity: Whatever on earth is happening with ComicBook/{{Huntress}}'s cape the top three feet or so of it are not subject to the laws of gravity, instead rising dramatically from her shoulders to sort of hover behind her head. |
| 524 | * ShameIfSomethingHappened: The Hammer sends a group to threaten Ariana to force her dad to comply, but things go sideways and they end up murdering Mr. Dzerchenko instead. |
| 525 | * SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Huntress assumes Tim is trying to save his girlfriend despite his protests. Tim's not lying, he only met Ariana because he wanted to try and help after seeing her father get shaken down by The Hammer, which happened earlier on in the same night she ended up abducted. He barely knows her name. |
| 526 | * SuperWindowJump: Batman and Robin swing through a window to take down the White Wolves, a Neo-Nazi biker gang, on page three. |
| 527 | * TemptingFate: Tim thinks to himself that things can't get any worse and is immediately set upon by the Ghost Dragons. He realizes that he shouldn't have even let the thought cross his mind as soon as Lynx makes her presence known since he already knows things can ''always'' get worse. |
| 528 | * TermsOfEndangerment: Lynx calls Tim "Bird Boy". |
| 529 | * ThoughtCaption: Tim narrates the piece through teal green tinted thought captions. |
| 530 | * TrickArrow: Huntress has listening devices modified into trick arrows so she can shoot them to attach to buildings where meetings she wants to listen in on are taking place. |
| 531 | * VehicularAssault: After Robin forces him to ditch the car he arrived in [=KGBeast=] hijacks a passing city bus and tries to drive over Tim with it. While Tim doges the criminals do get away with their hostage. |
| 532 | * VillainByDefault: Just to make it clear in a very short timespan that the White Wolves are jerks the narration states they're Neo-Nazis within the few pages the gang exists on before they get killed to the last man by a rival faction. |
| 533 | * WreckedWeapon: [=KGBeast=] breaks Tim's staff in half with a wrist mounted blade pretty early on in the story. |
| 534 | [[/folder]] |
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