History Characters / Nightwing

* GadgeteerGenius: It's not dawned on much, but she was able to make working rocket boots out of ''paint cans''.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: When she first appeared, readers had no reason to suspect her of being anything other than a Z-List Batman foe with a humorous gimmick. Come the Suicide Squad crossover, and "Beatrice Butler" (assuming that is her true name) claims to the living embodiment of entropy dedicated to defiling all of mankind's works.

* GoodParents: To her children Justin and Emma.
* HappilyMarried: To her husband Jim.

!!!'''Team Affiliations:''' ComicBook/TeenTitans, ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica, [[ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders Outsiders]], [[ComicBook/{{Grayson}} Spyral]], Batman Incorporated

!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/TheNewTeenTitans'' (Vol 1) #2 (December 1980)

!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/TheNewTeenTitans'' (Vol 1) #23 (September 1982)

[[folder:Flamebird/Hawkfire]]

* HeroesWantRedHeads: The start of Dick's long list of redheaded love interests.

* HeroesWantRedHeads: Dick certainly does.

[[Characters/BatmanBane Bane]] | Characters/{{Catwoman}} ([[Characters/CatwomanSelinaKyle Selina Kyle]]) | [[Characters/BatmanClayface Clayface]] | Characters/HarleyQuinn ([[Characters/HarleyQuinnTheCharacter Harleen Quinzel]]) | [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]] | [[Characters/BatmanLadyShiva Lady Shiva]] | [[Characters/BatmanLeagueOfAssassins League of Assassins]] ([[Characters/BatmanRasAlGhul Ra's Al Ghul]] | [[Characters/BatmanTaliaAlGhul Talia Al Ghul]]) | [[Characters/BatmanMrFreeze Mr. Freeze]] | [[Characters/BatmanThePenguin The Penguin]] | [[Characters/BatmanPoisonIvy Poison Ivy]] | [[Characters/BatmanTheRiddler The Riddler]] | [[Characters/BatmanTheScarecrow The Scarecrow]] | [[Characters/BatmanTwoFace Two Face]] | [[Characters/BatmanRoguesGalleryPart1 A-H]] | [[Characters/BatmanRoguesGalleryPart2 J-R]] | [[Characters/BatmanRoguesGalleryPart3 S-Z]]\\

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See [[Characters/{{RobinDamianWayne Damian Wayne]]

!!Tropes associated with Dick:
->See Characters/NightwingDickGrayson.

See Characters/{{Batgirl}}, ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'' or ''ComicBook/{{Oracle}}''

See Characters/BatmanSupportingCast or ''ComicBook/{{Huntress}}''

See Characters/BatmanTheCharacter

See Characters/BatmanSupportingCast or ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}''

See Characters/BatmanBatFamily

See ''ComicBook/RedHood''

See Characters/{{Robin}} or ''[[Characters/{{Robin}} Robin (Series)]]''

See Characters/{{Batgirl}} or ''ComicBook/Batgirl2000''

See Characters/{{Robin}} or ''ComicBook/RobinSonOfBatman''

[[folder: Bea Bennett]]

One of the few honest cops in Bludhaven and Dick's partner while he was on the force.

->''"I want this city to feel hope. Then I want to take that all away. I want to tear out its heart and watch it's people writhe. I want to see an entire city grieve for what was lost."''

One of Dick Grayson's most hated enemies, Tony Zucco is a mobster who extorted Haly's Circus for protection money during Bruce Wayne's third year fighting crime as Batman. When the circus owner refused to pay, Zucco had Dick's parents killed. And the rest, as they say, is history...

* BigBadWannabe: Like Carmine Falcone and Sal Maroni, Zucco is one of the old-school gangsters who dominated Gotham's criminal underworld before more freakish criminal warlords like Two-Face and Black Mask rose to prominence. But while Falcone and Maroni were [[TheDon Dons]] who controlled their own Syndicates at the height of their power, Zucco was only a racket boss, running a few protection rackets and smuggling operations.

See ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}}

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Pre-''Flashpoint'' he was an overweight, balding man who was so out of shape that when Batman and a young Dick Grayson cornered him, he suffered a heart attack while attempting to escape capture. From New 52 onwards he is - much like his [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE33RobinsReckoningPart2 animated counterpart]] - younger and healthier when kills Dick's parents, and lives to see Dick become an adult.

->''"I was hoping we'd meet, Nightwing. Bludhaven's Guardian Angel. You must have quite the heart."''

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: His butler, Gerard, has taken care of Shelton ever since he was a child, and Shelton tearfully admits that he considers Gerard a father to him in all but name. In an interesting twist on this trope, however, their familial bond actually helped make Heartless ''more'' evil, since Gerard is just as much of a sociopath as his ward.

* NotHisSled: The post-Flashpoint incarnation of Maroni had nothing to do with the creation of Two-Face. Moreover, he ''survived'' the New 52 version of the Freak/Mob war and fled to Bludhaven after losing his primacy in Gotham's underworld.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Pre-Flashpoint he was an overweight, balding man who was so out of shape that when Batman and a young Dick Grayson cornered him, he suffered a heart attack while attempting to escape capture. From New 52 onwards he is - much like his [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE33RobinsReckoningPart2 animated counterpart]], younger and healthier, and lives to see Dick become an adult.

* MythologyGag: One of his aliases is Billy Lester. This is a nod to both his animated counterpart's alias upon returning to Gotham (Billy Marin) and Dick Grayson's TAS voice actor, Loren Lester.

* NormalFishInATinyPond: Desmond is mutated into a gargantuan humanoid form of muscle and is the most dangerous man around...in Bludhaven. Bludhaven has very little costumed crime and the few costumed criminals around are at best C-list of the BadassNormal variety. Outside of Bludhaven, Desmond is a C-lister himself that barely rates as a threat to the Hero or Villain community. This point is beautifully illustrated when Superman visits Nightwing and they both threaten Desmond to keep him from evicting tenants from one of the properties he owns. [[EpicFail Desmond takes a swing as Superman who promptly stops the punch like it's being thrown from a 5-year-old while Blockbuster looks like he broke his hand]]. Supes then tells him not to start fights he can't finish. Interestingly, Desmond [[PragmaticVillainy fully acknowledges his place in the pecking order]] and is content to be the the king of a small hill rather than shoot for the top of the mountain.

[[folder:Boss Zucco]]
!!Boss Zucco
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!!!'''Real Name:''' Anthony Zucco

!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Detective Comics'' #38 (April 1940)
->''"So that's your star attraction, huh? [[ShameIfSomethingHappened Be a shame if something happened to them]], ya know. I mean, with them bein' way up there, and the ground bein' way down here."''
One of Dick Grayson's most hated enemies, Tony Zucco is a mobster who extorted Haly's Circus for protection money during Bruce Wayne's third year fighting crime as Batman. When the circus owner refused to pay, Zucco had Dick's parents killed. And the rest, as they say, is history...

One of Dick Grayson's most hated enemies, Tony Zucco is a mobster who extorted Haly's Circus for protection money. When the circus owner refused to pay, Zucco had Dick's parents killed. And the rest, as they say, is history...

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Pre-Flashpoint he was an overweight, balding man who was so out of shape that he had a fatal heart attack when Batman and a young Dick Grayson cornered him. From New 52 onwards he is - much like his [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE33RobinsReckoningPart2 animated counterpart]], younger and healthier, and lives to see Dick become an adult.

* MythologyGag: One of his aliases is Billy Lester. This is a nod to both his animated counterpart's latter-day alias (Billy Marin) and Dick Grayson's TAS voice actor, Loren Lester.
* RedemptionFailure: In the ComicBook/New52 universe he actually does try to turn his life around to be a good role model for his son Brian......then he learns that his wife and son left him and he decides to embrace being evil.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: As indicated above, prior to ''Flashpoint'' he tended to die relatively early in Batman and Robin I's careers. From New 52 on, he's lived long enough to see Dick become Nightwing.

[[folder:Anthony Zucco]]

The man who killed Dick Grayson's parents, and his arch-nemesis.
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* DomesticAbuse: Treated his first wife Mei Lin like crap
* EvilIsPetty: He didn't actually kill the Flying Graysons to punish the circus; in reality, he was furious that John Grayson not only helped his abused wife escape his clutches for a time, but was also the actual father of his child.
* ItsPersonal: In Tom Taylor's run it's revealed that his real reason for killing the Graysons was because John Grayson was the actual father of his daughter Melinda.
* RedemptionFailure: In the ComicBook/New52 universe he actually does try to turn his life around to be a good role model for his son Brian......then he learns that his wife and son left him and he decides to embrace being evil.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Has this reaction when he learns his wife and son left him.
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Deathwing was a youth from the 90s, recruited by Time Trapper to serve as a sleeper agent against Extant. He was sent to the future of Lord Chaos with implanted memories that he was Dick Grayson/Nightwing. He supervised and helped train several teams of superpowered teens, the Team Titans, and had a relationship with Mirage. He eventually came back in time and briefly joined the Team Titans, before he was ambushed by a dark version of Raven. She corrupted him, and he became her helper under the name Deathwing.

* BaldOfEvil: Deathwing remained in Raven's thrall, and adopted a new look: shaved head, body paint and leather attire. During this conflict, Mirage was captured by Deathwing.

!!Flamebird/Hawkfire

Was a love interest for Dick as "Bat-Girl" Pre-Crisis and when reintroduced retained a seemingly permanent crush on Dick which he did not reciprocate.

See Characters/BatmanBatFamily

[[folder:Batgirl I/Oracle]]

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[[folder: Bea Bennett

!!!'''Created By:''' Creator/BenjaminPercy · Creator/TravisMoore