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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Bernard was this to Tim. Tim's first impression upon meeting him is "luckily I don't share too many classes with Bernard. on first impressions he seems like the type I'll prefer in small doses". While a later event had Tim saying he "thinks he's going to end up liking" him, starting with Bernard perving on Dana (Tim's stepmom), their interactions had Tim express considerable annoyance to him. It got to the point where Tim's final mention of him behind is back is referring to Bernard's conspiracy theories as "vintage Bernard idiocy" and using that as a reason to dismiss them outright.
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* BestedByTheInexperienced: Edmund Dorrance, a Blind Weaponmaster who is skilled enough to give Lady Shiva a fun fight, is defeated in a fight by Tim while he's still in training due to Tim's meticulous planning. Tim was also careful not to run in, only approaching Dorrance after he had already fought and beat to death a more impulsive attacker.
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Adam Beechen took over the series at issue #148 for the "One Year Later" relaunch, and had Tim now officially adopted as Bruce's son and once again working in Gotham as Batman's partner. Chuck Dixon briefly returned the series for issues #170-174 to resurrect Stephanie Brown, but was promptly fired and replaced with Fabian Nicieza, who wrote the last arc in the series before it was cancelled in the wake of [[ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison Batman R.I.P.]] at issue #183.
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Adam Beechen took over the series at issue #148 for the "One Year Later" relaunch, and had Tim now officially adopted as Bruce's son and once again working in Gotham as Batman's partner. Chuck Dixon briefly returned to the series for issues #170-174 to resurrect Stephanie Brown, but Brown. Dixon was then promptly fired and replaced with Fabian Nicieza, who wrote the last arc in the series before it was cancelled in the wake of [[ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison Batman R.I.P.]] at issue #183.
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The next writer was Creator/BillWillingham, who forcibly retired Tim from being Robin after his dad found out his secret. Stephanie briefly replaced him as the new Robin, before being fired by Batman and then killed off in the War Games crossover. Afterwards, Tim left Gotham for a while and temporarily stayed in Blüdhaven with [[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 Cassandra Cain]].
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The next writer was Creator/BillWillingham, who forcibly retired Tim from being Robin after his dad found out his secret. Stephanie briefly replaced him as the new Robin, before being fired by Batman and then killed off in the War Games crossover.crossover ComicBook/BatmanWarGames (2004). Afterwards, Tim left Gotham for a while and temporarily stayed in Blüdhaven with [[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 Cassandra Cain]].
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Chuck Dixon left the book in 2002 and was first replaced by Jon Lewis, whose run as writer began with Tim moving from the suburbs into Gotham City itself after his family lost most of their savings. Lewis had fondness for writing slightly sci-fi plots, which was jarring in a Bat-book that had focused more on street-level crime; his run also built a stable relationship between [[OfficialCouple Tim and Stephanie]].
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Chuck Dixon left the book in 2002 and was first replaced by Jon Lewis, whose run as writer began with Tim moving from the suburbs into Gotham City itself after his family lost most of their savings. Lewis had a fondness for writing slightly sci-fi plots, which was jarring in a Bat-book that had focused more on street-level crime; his run also built a stable relationship between [[OfficialCouple Tim and Stephanie]].
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* AlliterationAndAdventurers: Tim plays a tabletop RPG called ''Wizards & Warriors'' with his Gotham Heights pals.
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* MagicAmpersand: Tim plays a tabletop RPG called ''Wizards & Warriors'' with his Gotham Heights pals.
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* ColorCodedCharacters: Tim's initial costume was primarily green and Steph's was eggplant purple. Tim's narration boxes were given a green drop-shadow or green filled while Stephanie's were purple cursive on light lavender paper making them clearly green and purple coded respectively. Tim's green association became less consistent after his costume lost its green to make it better match his red and black Franchise/{{DCAU}} costume but by this time Steph was "dead" and he was the sole narrator and protagonist of the book.
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* ColorCodedCharacters: Tim's initial costume was primarily green and Steph's was eggplant purple. Tim's narration boxes were given a green drop-shadow or green filled while Stephanie's were purple cursive on light lavender paper making them clearly green and purple coded respectively. Tim's green association became less consistent after his costume lost its green to make it better match his red and black Franchise/{{DCAU}} Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse costume but by this time Steph was "dead" and he was the sole narrator and protagonist of the book.
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* WatchThePaintJob: JerkJock Karl Ranck has a nice sports car from his father he's quite proud of, so of course, it gets stolen and damaged during a school dance.
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* WaterTowerDown: When Monsoon nearly drowns Tim the water tower isn't shown but implied when she somehow gets a massive amount of water from above to flood the alley he's in with.
* WatchThePaintJob: JerkJock Karl Ranck has a nice sports car from his father that he's quite proud of, so of course, it gets stolen and damaged during a school dance.
* WatchThePaintJob: JerkJock Karl Ranck has a nice sports car from his father that he's quite proud of, so of course, it gets stolen and damaged during a school dance.
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The series was almost immediately followed by ''ComicBook/RedRobin'', starring Tim Drake in his new superhero identity.
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The series was almost immediately followed by ''ComicBook/RedRobin'', starring Tim Drake in his new superhero identity.
identity. Following ''Red Robin'' Tim's next solo series is ''ComicBook/TimDrakeRobin''.
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Adam Beechen took over the series at issue #148 for the "One Year Later" relaunch, and had Tim now officially adopted as Bruce's son and once again working in Gotham as Batman's partner. Chuck Dixon briefly returned the series for issues #170-174 to resurrect Stephanie Brown, but was promptly fired and replaced with Fabian Nicieza, who wrote the last arc in the series before it was cancelled in the wake of [[ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman Batman R.I.P.]] at issue #183.
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Adam Beechen took over the series at issue #148 for the "One Year Later" relaunch, and had Tim now officially adopted as Bruce's son and once again working in Gotham as Batman's partner. Chuck Dixon briefly returned the series for issues #170-174 to resurrect Stephanie Brown, but was promptly fired and replaced with Fabian Nicieza, who wrote the last arc in the series before it was cancelled in the wake of [[ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman [[ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison Batman R.I.P.]] at issue #183.
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* PickOnSomeoneYourOwnSize: There was a period in [[TheNineties The ‘90s]], mostly but not entirely in comics by Creator/ChuckDixon, where Two-Face decided he hated Robin more than Franchise/{{Batman}}. While this mostly meant Comicbook/{{Nightwing}}, he wasn't averse to taking shots at Tim Drake.
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* PickOnSomeoneYourOwnSize: There was a period in [[TheNineties The ‘90s]], mostly but not entirely in comics by Creator/ChuckDixon, where Two-Face decided he hated Robin more than Franchise/{{Batman}}. While this mostly meant Comicbook/{{Nightwing}}, ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}, he wasn't averse to taking shots at Tim Drake.
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*NeverTheObviousSuspect: Defied. In one case, the obvious culprit says he didn't do it, and Tim spends several issues following a chain of evidence, only to find out the obvious culprit did do it and was just lying to avoid judgement.
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* WatchThePaintJob: JerkJock Karl Ranck has a nice sports car from his father he's quite proud of, so of course it gets stolen and damaged during a school dance.
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* WatchThePaintJob: JerkJock Karl Ranck has a nice sports car from his father he's quite proud of, so of course course, it gets stolen and damaged during a school dance.dance.
* WeakBossStrongUnderlings: While the General does eventually bulk up, he starts out as very YoungAndInCharge. He's an eleven-year-old bossing around gangsters and other criminals and for a short time, the army of a small foreign country, who are willing to listen to him because his brutal plans and strategies tend to work.
* WeakBossStrongUnderlings: While the General does eventually bulk up, he starts out as very YoungAndInCharge. He's an eleven-year-old bossing around gangsters and other criminals and for a short time, the army of a small foreign country, who are willing to listen to him because his brutal plans and strategies tend to work.
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* HoldingHands: Tim and Steph hold hands while chatting on rooftops during their first date.
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* HerBoyfriendsJacket: Tim and Steph are both seen wearing the same green utility jacket on separate occasions after they start dating, with it appearing to have started out as Stephanie's jacket.
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* AccidentalAthlete: Tim is usually careful to under perform in PE at Brentwood he races a fellow student he's curious about in class which makes the school's soccer coach hound him to join the team after seeing his speed and stamina. Tim refused to join.
* AccidentalKiss: Tim Drake was so grateful to be saved from being buried alive that in a moment of exhilaration he kisses Stephanie on the lips. Then he snaps out of his funk moments later and realizes he's just accidentally cheated on his girlfriend Ariana in a moment of celebrating his continued living.
* AchillesHeel: The Dark Rider can only fly if he's on his shadow steed, and once he's unhorsed, the thing dissipates and he can't call it up again until the next night.
* AdoptiveNameChange: After Tim accepts Bruce's offer to adopt him he hyphenates his last name as Drake-Wayne.
* AccidentalKiss: Tim Drake was so grateful to be saved from being buried alive that in a moment of exhilaration he kisses Stephanie on the lips. Then he snaps out of his funk moments later and realizes he's just accidentally cheated on his girlfriend Ariana in a moment of celebrating his continued living.
* AchillesHeel: The Dark Rider can only fly if he's on his shadow steed, and once he's unhorsed, the thing dissipates and he can't call it up again until the next night.
* AdoptiveNameChange: After Tim accepts Bruce's offer to adopt him he hyphenates his last name as Drake-Wayne.
* AfterActionPatchup:
** Tim tends to his girlfriend Stephanie's wounds as she talks about her villainous father.
** A platonic variation occurs when Tim [[LikeBrotherAndSister and]] [[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 Cass (Batgirl III)]] help patch each other up after a battle in Bludhaven while ''she'' explains a bit about her villainous father:
---> '''Tim:''' How can you take a bullet and not bat an eye?\\
'''Cass:''' You know that... kid game "two for flinching"?\\
'''Tim:''' Yeah. Oh no, don't tell me -\\
'''Cass:''' My... Dad and I played something like that.
** Tim tends to his girlfriend Stephanie's wounds as she talks about her villainous father.
** A platonic variation occurs when Tim [[LikeBrotherAndSister and]] [[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 Cass (Batgirl III)]] help patch each other up after a battle in Bludhaven while ''she'' explains a bit about her villainous father:
---> '''Tim:''' How can you take a bullet and not bat an eye?\\
'''Cass:''' You know that... kid game "two for flinching"?\\
'''Tim:''' Yeah. Oh no, don't tell me -\\
'''Cass:''' My... Dad and I played something like that.
* AirVentPassageway: Damian worked his way to the heart of the Batcave using the air vents when he was trying to escape from his grandfather. He wasn't able to enter the vents until he'd already made it into the cave and past layers of security, and it wasn't sneaky at all as Tim was well aware of his location and waiting for him when he exited.
* AloneAmongFamilies: Prior to Tim Drake's eventual adoption by Bruce Wayne, the fact that Jack Drake was incredibly neglectful was highlighted by Tim's wistfulness about his friends' families on several occasions. This most often occurred in relation to Ives' large family.
* AloneInACrowd: Tim Drake finds himself feeling alone in the crowd during the massive gang war that started after he retired from the role of Robin. He ends up putting on a mask again before the gang war is over out of guilt after a classmate involved with the mob died, even though he'd stolen a car and provided first aid trying to save her.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Two of Sebastian Ives' many cousins are a pair of identical twin girls. Since their parents give them matching outfits and keep their hair cut the same way, the easiest way to tell them apart is seeing which one tries to keep her clothes clean and tidy and which one has ribbons untied and doesn't seem to care much how nice her clothes look.
* AloneAmongFamilies: Prior to Tim Drake's eventual adoption by Bruce Wayne, the fact that Jack Drake was incredibly neglectful was highlighted by Tim's wistfulness about his friends' families on several occasions. This most often occurred in relation to Ives' large family.
* AloneInACrowd: Tim Drake finds himself feeling alone in the crowd during the massive gang war that started after he retired from the role of Robin. He ends up putting on a mask again before the gang war is over out of guilt after a classmate involved with the mob died, even though he'd stolen a car and provided first aid trying to save her.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Two of Sebastian Ives' many cousins are a pair of identical twin girls. Since their parents give them matching outfits and keep their hair cut the same way, the easiest way to tell them apart is seeing which one tries to keep her clothes clean and tidy and which one has ribbons untied and doesn't seem to care much how nice her clothes look.
* AnimalsNotToScale: Tim quickly figures out that there is something off about [[ExtraDimensionalShortcut Stephen's forest]] due to the odd behavior, sizes and location of the flora and fauna within, some of which does not belong in the Western Hemisphere let alone Appalachia.
* AnnoyingArrows: Robin gets back up and keeps fighting, and then easily roofhops home after being shot full of arrows by the Rising Sun Archer. He notes in his internal monologue that he can only do so because most of the arrows didn't actually make it past the armor in his suit, though one of them did get lodged in his arm.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling:
** Ives' twin cousins are not his actual siblings but the extended family is close enough, and they rambunctious enough, that he treats them as annoying little sisters.
** Tim comes to see Damian this way since Damian is cruel and rude even after he (mostly) stops trying actually to kill Tim. At one point when he tries to keep Damian out of a computer file the password he sets is CousinOliver.
* AnOddPlaceToSleep: Tim is shown sleeping sitting on the floor against his bed in issue 162, and it is implied that at some point in his time as Robin he started sleeping against his bed rather than in it. He also falls asleep in class fairly often. He gets away with falling asleep in class because Ives is usually able to give him enough hints to answer whatever question the teacher woke him up with to see if he was paying attention.
* ApatheticCitizens: Tim gets jumped outside a fairly busy theater while on a date with Ariana. Not only does everyone other than Ariana ignore what's going on, his school councilor tries to pin the blame for the injuries on Bruce, even though Tim had just started living with father for the first time since he started attending school and there were easy to contact witnesses.
* AnnoyingArrows: Robin gets back up and keeps fighting, and then easily roofhops home after being shot full of arrows by the Rising Sun Archer. He notes in his internal monologue that he can only do so because most of the arrows didn't actually make it past the armor in his suit, though one of them did get lodged in his arm.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling:
** Ives' twin cousins are not his actual siblings but the extended family is close enough, and they rambunctious enough, that he treats them as annoying little sisters.
** Tim comes to see Damian this way since Damian is cruel and rude even after he (mostly) stops trying actually to kill Tim. At one point when he tries to keep Damian out of a computer file the password he sets is CousinOliver.
* AnOddPlaceToSleep: Tim is shown sleeping sitting on the floor against his bed in issue 162, and it is implied that at some point in his time as Robin he started sleeping against his bed rather than in it. He also falls asleep in class fairly often. He gets away with falling asleep in class because Ives is usually able to give him enough hints to answer whatever question the teacher woke him up with to see if he was paying attention.
* ApatheticCitizens: Tim gets jumped outside a fairly busy theater while on a date with Ariana. Not only does everyone other than Ariana ignore what's going on, his school councilor tries to pin the blame for the injuries on Bruce, even though Tim had just started living with father for the first time since he started attending school and there were easy to contact witnesses.
* ApologeticAttacker: When Tim is helping round up Arkham escapees in issue 167 he utters an insincere apology to Riot Act as he smashes in the windshield of the truck the man stole and knocks a couple teeth out with his staff;
-->'''Tim Drake:''' ''"Sorry about this, but I'm in a really bad mood, and you ''did'' just try to shoot me in the face!"''
-->'''Tim Drake:''' ''"Sorry about this, but I'm in a really bad mood, and you ''did'' just try to shoot me in the face!"''
* AreaOfEffect: While fighting Dodge's crew Tim uses a "wide burst attack" that sends an electrical charge out of his suit into the area around him to deal with Macro and Micro. The attack seems tailored to Micro and is able to knock him out without killing him, for the others it mostly hurt their eyes and stung a little.
* ArmoredVillainsUnarmoredHeroes: While Tim Drake always has body-armor in his suits they are generally flexible and cloth-like overall while his recurring villain "Scarab" wears high-tech full body encasing PoweredArmor.
* ArmsDealer: When Tim Drake tries tracing an influx of illegal guns in Bristol (just north of Gotham) he ends up discovering his skateboarding pal Star's boyfriend is selling guns out of the back of a van and Star and her boyfriend both end up shot during a deal gone bad.
* ArmsFair: Ulysses Armstrong, otherwise known as "the General", first meets Ali Ben Khadir, the young leader of a country bordering Qurac, at an arms fair. The two become friends and Ali gives Armstrong some influence on his military, until he realizes just how violent and blood thirsty his new friend is.
* ArtificialGill: The limitations of a rebreather are displayed when Tim gives his to a gangster who was pinned underwater by falling debris. Tim struggles to try and pull the large structural beam off of him while he slowly drowns.
* ArmoredVillainsUnarmoredHeroes: While Tim Drake always has body-armor in his suits they are generally flexible and cloth-like overall while his recurring villain "Scarab" wears high-tech full body encasing PoweredArmor.
* ArmsDealer: When Tim Drake tries tracing an influx of illegal guns in Bristol (just north of Gotham) he ends up discovering his skateboarding pal Star's boyfriend is selling guns out of the back of a van and Star and her boyfriend both end up shot during a deal gone bad.
* ArmsFair: Ulysses Armstrong, otherwise known as "the General", first meets Ali Ben Khadir, the young leader of a country bordering Qurac, at an arms fair. The two become friends and Ali gives Armstrong some influence on his military, until he realizes just how violent and blood thirsty his new friend is.
* ArtificialGill: The limitations of a rebreather are displayed when Tim gives his to a gangster who was pinned underwater by falling debris. Tim struggles to try and pull the large structural beam off of him while he slowly drowns.
* AssassinationAttempt: A political rival of the young head of state Tim's roommates with at Brentwood summons the demon Arrakhat to assassinate him. The attempt fails when the boy realizes the charm around his neck that he received from his father allows him to control the demon, and he leaves school to take up ruling his country instead of leaving it to advisors in the wake of the attack.
* AssKickingPose: If Tim Drake wants to intimidate someone before attacking he generally to finds somewhere with a [[DramaticHighPerching height advantage to menacingly perch]] with his staff in hand before drawing their attention, usually paired it with an audacious grin.
* AttackTheMouth: When Robin and Spoiler find themselves fighting a group of mooks lead by a man who is incredibly proud of his bizarre dental work Robin immediately kicks him in the mouth when he's close enough, causing him to loose a tooth.
* AssKickingPose: If Tim Drake wants to intimidate someone before attacking he generally to finds somewhere with a [[DramaticHighPerching height advantage to menacingly perch]] with his staff in hand before drawing their attention, usually paired it with an audacious grin.
* AttackTheMouth: When Robin and Spoiler find themselves fighting a group of mooks lead by a man who is incredibly proud of his bizarre dental work Robin immediately kicks him in the mouth when he's close enough, causing him to loose a tooth.
* AtTheOperaTonight: Janet and Jack used to like to attend the opera when they were in Gotham. Tim himself ends up at the Opera House after it's been heavily damaged by the quakes that triggered ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand, attending a vaudeville style production since the abandoned house has been taken over by artsy types who give out free food and let almost anyone perform, from poetry readings, to short plays, piano recitals, and comedy acts.
* AutomatedAutomobiles: The Redbird can drive itself to Tim's location. He's never seen using this when the car is very far away so it's not seen how well it would deal with traffic, which is probably a good thing since it doesn't balk at driving on sidewalks and crashing through glass doors to get to him.
* AutomatedAutomobiles: The Redbird can drive itself to Tim's location. He's never seen using this when the car is very far away so it's not seen how well it would deal with traffic, which is probably a good thing since it doesn't balk at driving on sidewalks and crashing through glass doors to get to him.
* AwkwardFatherSonBondingActivity: Jack makes a plan to go fishing with Tim to spend some time with his son for once upon waking from his months long coma and discovering his wife is dead and his health is such that he can't go gallivanting off to the other side of the globe easily. Jack ends up going on a date with his physical therapist instead and never tries to make any further plans with his son despite bringing it up on occasion so it's averted in the end.
* BackToBackBadasses: Robin and Spoiler often face off against goons back to back before taking them all down and into custody.
* BackseatDriver: Tim has to grab the wheel and shove Ives' foot off the gas pedal after Drury Walker tries to carjack Ives and Ives goes into shock and floors it. Ives only comes back to himself sometime after Tim has the car parked.
* BadGuysPlayPool: Gotham's Willow Street Card Room, a Mafia operated hangout, contains several pool tables.
* BaldnessAngst: Ives is embarrassed when he loses his hair due to his follicular lymphoma and its treatments and does all he can to hide it from his classmates.
* BallisticDiscount: Some criminals selling guns out of a van have one of their customers turn some of their wares on them when he doesn't like the price tag. In this case, the attempted thief ends up dead and one of the "clerks" and a bystander end up injured since the people he pulled the gun on were all armed themselves.
* BathroomStallGraffiti: Every time Tim visits the bathroom at high school, except while he as at Brentwood, the stalls within are written on, and usually the mirrors too.
* BarbaricBully: The brutal bullies Mark Meachum and Josh Stanzland get transferred to Tim's high school along with a bunch of other students due to school shutdowns in the wake of devastating earthquakes. The campus and staff are not equipped to deal with the influx of students, and after getting away with repeated cruel acts in public they drag their favorite victim to the wooded area behind the football field and beat him to death.
* BatmanColdOpen: Issue 167 starts with five pages of Tim apprehending an Arkham escapee who had stolen a semi and gotten on the interstate before being called away to the main plot of the issue; tracking down and recapturing Lock Up.
* BackToBackBadasses: Robin and Spoiler often face off against goons back to back before taking them all down and into custody.
* BackseatDriver: Tim has to grab the wheel and shove Ives' foot off the gas pedal after Drury Walker tries to carjack Ives and Ives goes into shock and floors it. Ives only comes back to himself sometime after Tim has the car parked.
* BadGuysPlayPool: Gotham's Willow Street Card Room, a Mafia operated hangout, contains several pool tables.
* BaldnessAngst: Ives is embarrassed when he loses his hair due to his follicular lymphoma and its treatments and does all he can to hide it from his classmates.
* BallisticDiscount: Some criminals selling guns out of a van have one of their customers turn some of their wares on them when he doesn't like the price tag. In this case, the attempted thief ends up dead and one of the "clerks" and a bystander end up injured since the people he pulled the gun on were all armed themselves.
* BathroomStallGraffiti: Every time Tim visits the bathroom at high school, except while he as at Brentwood, the stalls within are written on, and usually the mirrors too.
* BarbaricBully: The brutal bullies Mark Meachum and Josh Stanzland get transferred to Tim's high school along with a bunch of other students due to school shutdowns in the wake of devastating earthquakes. The campus and staff are not equipped to deal with the influx of students, and after getting away with repeated cruel acts in public they drag their favorite victim to the wooded area behind the football field and beat him to death.
* BatmanColdOpen: Issue 167 starts with five pages of Tim apprehending an Arkham escapee who had stolen a semi and gotten on the interstate before being called away to the main plot of the issue; tracking down and recapturing Lock Up.
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* BattleInTheRain: Shortly after his father's murder Tim helps track down a bunch of Arkham escapees in the rain and ends up having a fight with Lock-up that nearly leads to them both drowning.
* BeachEpisode: Tim and his classmates from Brentwood Academy take a trip to the beach. [[BusmansHoliday Of course]] that night the hotel is attacked by Kobra ninjas.
* BedsheetGhost: One of the villains who attacked Robin, Ragman and Blue Devil after escaping from O.M.A.C. looks like an ethereal glowing take on this, with unsettling jagged dark holes for eyes and a mouth.
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: The Joker is actually in tears as he tells the psychiatrist of his abusive childhood, only for the psychiatrist to coldly point out that it's the [[MultipleChoicePast seventh story]] he's told them. The implication is that he sometimes gets a little too caught up in a good story and believes it for a bit.
* BattleInTheRain: Shortly after his father's murder Tim helps track down a bunch of Arkham escapees in the rain and ends up having a fight with Lock-up that nearly leads to them both drowning.
* BeachEpisode: Tim and his classmates from Brentwood Academy take a trip to the beach. [[BusmansHoliday Of course]] that night the hotel is attacked by Kobra ninjas.
* BedsheetGhost: One of the villains who attacked Robin, Ragman and Blue Devil after escaping from O.M.A.C. looks like an ethereal glowing take on this, with unsettling jagged dark holes for eyes and a mouth.
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: The Joker is actually in tears as he tells the psychiatrist of his abusive childhood, only for the psychiatrist to coldly point out that it's the [[MultipleChoicePast seventh story]] he's told them. The implication is that he sometimes gets a little too caught up in a good story and believes it for a bit.
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* BigManOnCampus: At the fifth high school Tim Drake attended, one of the tennis players was incredibly kind, attractive, talented, and got decent grades and was quite popular as a result.
* BinocularShot: Right before Lloyd Waite is shot a couple of panels are from the sight of the shooters' sniper scope, and make it unclear for a page if the shooter is going to aim at Lloyd or Robin.
* BizarreTasteInFood: While Tim Drake's favorite pizza—artichoke hearts, Canadian bacon and pineapple—is presented as more odd than gross his father is disgusted by the combination and only allows Tim to have it while he's around after being badgered into it by his wife for Tim's sixteenth birthday.
* BinocularShot: Right before Lloyd Waite is shot a couple of panels are from the sight of the shooters' sniper scope, and make it unclear for a page if the shooter is going to aim at Lloyd or Robin.
* BizarreTasteInFood: While Tim Drake's favorite pizza—artichoke hearts, Canadian bacon and pineapple—is presented as more odd than gross his father is disgusted by the combination and only allows Tim to have it while he's around after being badgered into it by his wife for Tim's sixteenth birthday.
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* BlindedByTheLight:
** Tim Drake carries a few little bright flashing type weapons he can toss in a fight to force an opponent to protect their eyes. He uses one to escape a fight with Brutus once, as the giant of a man is cannot be harmed by being punched or kicked.
** In Annual #6, Robin and his allies are forced into a showdown with a gang of bikers, with them facing the rising sun so it is in their eyes. They manage to turn the tables on their attackers by hiding mirrors under their ponchos. At the crucial moment, they throw back their ponchos and reflect the sunlight back in the eyes of their attackers, allowing them to regain the initiative.
* BlindMistake: When Tim goes to ask questions of a temporarily blind Jason Bard, the P.I. pulls his gun on the door and warns whoever has entered his office that he knows they are there. Tim, who had snuck in through the window ''behind'' Bard, mentions that it's probably not a great idea for Jason to be using a gun while blind.
** Tim Drake carries a few little bright flashing type weapons he can toss in a fight to force an opponent to protect their eyes. He uses one to escape a fight with Brutus once, as the giant of a man is cannot be harmed by being punched or kicked.
** In Annual #6, Robin and his allies are forced into a showdown with a gang of bikers, with them facing the rising sun so it is in their eyes. They manage to turn the tables on their attackers by hiding mirrors under their ponchos. At the crucial moment, they throw back their ponchos and reflect the sunlight back in the eyes of their attackers, allowing them to regain the initiative.
* BlindMistake: When Tim goes to ask questions of a temporarily blind Jason Bard, the P.I. pulls his gun on the door and warns whoever has entered his office that he knows they are there. Tim, who had snuck in through the window ''behind'' Bard, mentions that it's probably not a great idea for Jason to be using a gun while blind.
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* BooksVsScreens: One of the characterizations given to Tim to differentiate him from Jason is that Tim likes movies, especially sci-fi movies, that literature is his least favorite subject while and that he doesn't care for school much. Jason loved reading and school. Even when Jason was homeless he maintained a small book collection, while the few books Tim keeps in his room tend to be instruction manuals.
* BootCampEpisode: When the Veteran tries to recruit Tim Drake into his secret Army division Tim undergoes training with the Veteran's troops. While Tim does accompany the Veteran on a couple of occasions he ultimately turns him down and was mostly playing along because he wanted to investigate and make sure the Veteran was on the up and up.
* BornInTheWrongCentury: Edmund Dorrance dislikes the era he was born into. He thinks Hong Kong had only been made into a great city thanks to its British influence and plans to lay waste to the city rather than have it fall into the hands of the Chinese using an experimental Nazi super-plague. Fortunately for the city, Robin was able to thwart his plans, only for Dorrance to head straight to Gotham and wrest control of the Chinatown district away from the Triads and continue his racist crimlord ways.
* BouquetToss: The ''80 Page Giant'' special, which covers Tim's father remarrying, ends with Dana's bouquet toss after the ceremony is finally able to safely take place.
* BoyMeetsGhoul: Darla Aquista, who was already a StalkerWithACrush with heavy shades of EntitledToHaveYou for Tim before her death, is brought back as a superpowered undead magic using assassin who ''thinks'' she's dating Tim because she refuses to take no for an answer when he makes it clear that he still has no interest in dating her.
* BrightIsNotGood: The Speedboyz are a gang of murderous car thieves who wear bright near neon shirts in teal, orange, purple and red with white masks that have orange lenses.
* BrilliantButLazy: Tim has a reputation as a brilliant slacker because he does really well on tests but often doesn't complete his homework, sleeps in class and ditches often. This is because he is incredibly busy as Robin, and it doesn't help that he doesn't care for school and ends up dropping out rather than get his high school diploma.
* BringIt: When Ra's goons hesitate to attack I Ching and some look like they're going to follow Robin instead he calmly says, ''"Ah. Servants of Ra's al Ghul—here I am, a humble monk. '''Yours''' for the taking."'', to goad the lot of them into attacking.
* BootCampEpisode: When the Veteran tries to recruit Tim Drake into his secret Army division Tim undergoes training with the Veteran's troops. While Tim does accompany the Veteran on a couple of occasions he ultimately turns him down and was mostly playing along because he wanted to investigate and make sure the Veteran was on the up and up.
* BornInTheWrongCentury: Edmund Dorrance dislikes the era he was born into. He thinks Hong Kong had only been made into a great city thanks to its British influence and plans to lay waste to the city rather than have it fall into the hands of the Chinese using an experimental Nazi super-plague. Fortunately for the city, Robin was able to thwart his plans, only for Dorrance to head straight to Gotham and wrest control of the Chinatown district away from the Triads and continue his racist crimlord ways.
* BouquetToss: The ''80 Page Giant'' special, which covers Tim's father remarrying, ends with Dana's bouquet toss after the ceremony is finally able to safely take place.
* BoyMeetsGhoul: Darla Aquista, who was already a StalkerWithACrush with heavy shades of EntitledToHaveYou for Tim before her death, is brought back as a superpowered undead magic using assassin who ''thinks'' she's dating Tim because she refuses to take no for an answer when he makes it clear that he still has no interest in dating her.
* BrightIsNotGood: The Speedboyz are a gang of murderous car thieves who wear bright near neon shirts in teal, orange, purple and red with white masks that have orange lenses.
* BrilliantButLazy: Tim has a reputation as a brilliant slacker because he does really well on tests but often doesn't complete his homework, sleeps in class and ditches often. This is because he is incredibly busy as Robin, and it doesn't help that he doesn't care for school and ends up dropping out rather than get his high school diploma.
* BringIt: When Ra's goons hesitate to attack I Ching and some look like they're going to follow Robin instead he calmly says, ''"Ah. Servants of Ra's al Ghul—here I am, a humble monk. '''Yours''' for the taking."'', to goad the lot of them into attacking.
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* BrownBagMask: Discussed when Stephanie Brown asks Tim Drake to take her to lamaze class and since he still doesn't have permission to tell her his secret identity and can't show up as Robin he uses the sleazy fake ID of Alvin Draper which Steph thinks is hilarious:
-->''What was I supposed to do? Wear a bag on my head?''
* BubblegumPopping: Callie Evans starts lounging back and blowing bubbles with her chewing gum when Ives and Ariana start arguing about Shakespeare and freedom of speech. When Ari tries to get Callie to give her opinion on the matter she smirks and blows a bubble in response.
* BullfightBoss: The Teen Titans defeat Brutus, a minotaur, by having Dodge teleport out of the way of a charging attack at the last minute leading Brutus to set off an explosion one of his own allies had hidden.
* BullyBrutality: A pair of bullies at Gotham Heights High School beat a kid to death.
* BuriedAlive: Tim Drake gets buried alive alongside Cluemaster by Cluemaster's accomplices purely by accident when their fight leaves them both in the back of an armored truck that is buried in concrete as part of Cluemaster's plan to get away with stealing its contents. Luckily Spoiler was expecting to meet with Robin and manages to rescue them after shadowing Cluemaster's accomplices for a day.
* BusmansHoliday: Tim takes a weekend off from crimefighting to go to the beach with his classmates. Their hotel is then attacked by a swarm of ninjas who kidnap one of said classmates.
-->''What was I supposed to do? Wear a bag on my head?''
* BubblegumPopping: Callie Evans starts lounging back and blowing bubbles with her chewing gum when Ives and Ariana start arguing about Shakespeare and freedom of speech. When Ari tries to get Callie to give her opinion on the matter she smirks and blows a bubble in response.
* BullfightBoss: The Teen Titans defeat Brutus, a minotaur, by having Dodge teleport out of the way of a charging attack at the last minute leading Brutus to set off an explosion one of his own allies had hidden.
* BullyBrutality: A pair of bullies at Gotham Heights High School beat a kid to death.
* BuriedAlive: Tim Drake gets buried alive alongside Cluemaster by Cluemaster's accomplices purely by accident when their fight leaves them both in the back of an armored truck that is buried in concrete as part of Cluemaster's plan to get away with stealing its contents. Luckily Spoiler was expecting to meet with Robin and manages to rescue them after shadowing Cluemaster's accomplices for a day.
* BusmansHoliday: Tim takes a weekend off from crimefighting to go to the beach with his classmates. Their hotel is then attacked by a swarm of ninjas who kidnap one of said classmates.
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* ByTheHair: While Ra's is yelling at Talia for not handing over Damian so that Ra's can kill the boy and use his body for himself he grabs her by the hair and yanks her head back to shut her up when she spitefully tells him that she will protect her son from him.
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* SportsDad: Jack wants Tim to play football. Tim ''hates'' football, to the point that he doesn't even like watching it. At one point Tim responded to his dad asking him why he got home late by saying he stayed late because of football tryouts, never saying he tried out. If his dad knew the first thing about his son he might have thought he was taking photos, instead when Jack learns the football coach doesn't remember Tim trying out Jack tears apart Tim's room, destroying Tim's possessions, tearing open the walls and forcing Dana to go through Tim's computer for him.
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* RantInducingSlight: Jack is prone to explosive rants at his son for innocuous comments or actions. A standout example being when Jack flipped his lid about Tim "dissing" him when Tim was watching a live hostage situation and didn't imediatly turn it off when Jack came in and started talking. Jack charged forward while screaming at him so that Tim had to scramble backwards or get run into, and then he took his anger out on the TV after nearly backhanding Tim. For bonus points Tim was already grounded over a misunderstanding caused by Jack refusing to listen to him after Vari tried to kill Tim and then called Jack to complain about Tim before Tim made it home.
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* EnchantedForest: Stephan's woods are something of a pocket dimension, filled with plants and animals that no longer exist on Earth and which never existed together or in such large sizes. Anyone who enters without Stephan's protection will be lost in them forever.
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* {{Diary}}: Stephanie keeps a diary of her adventures as Spoiler and briefly Robin. When she is the focus of an issue purple cursive excerpts from it are used in place of the green InnerMonologue boxes Tim gets allowing her time to reflect on the events and describe them after the fact instead of reacting in the moment like him.
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* SecretKeeper: Thanks to his spot as the resident SmartGuy, he knew who both Huntress and Spoiler were well before they knew who he was. This annoyed them both, naturally.
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* SecretKeeper: Thanks to his spot as the resident SmartGuy, TheSmartGuy, he knew who both Huntress and Spoiler were well before they knew who he was. This annoyed them both, naturally.
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* ApatheticStudent: While Tim started out trying to keep his grades up he skipped school quite often and used extra credit to manage his grades. After his father's interference forced him to switch schools several times he became even less invested and after his father's death dropped out rather than complete high school despite his intelligence. He mostly viewed school as a requirement, and once it wasn't one anymore he quit.
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* MistakenForBetrayal: Damian sneaks into the batcave and claims to need his father's help to protect him from Ra's. Since Bruce isn't home and Damian is talking to Tim, who he tried to kill with a grenade during their last meeting and who knows Ra's recently died, Tim thinks Damian is trying to kill or impair Batman. Damian does not help his case when his reaction to Tim's skepticism is to shoot a grapple gun at Tim, which would have killed him if he hadn't dodged, and run into the manor. Tim thinks he's going to kill Alfred and is entirely unwilling to listen after this.
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* LamePunReaction: The Jury is a murderous VigilanteMilitia that covers their faces and uses numbers to avoid being identified. While their leader, the foreman, starts lecturing Tim about why Tim's methods of crimefighting are wrong after the group blows up a purse snatcher #4 starts mumbling that ''he'' should be the foreman as its "only natural", to which #5 whispers shut up, while his gun is aimed at 4.
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* CrashIntoHello: Tim and Zoe bump into each other while doing father's day shopping, but they had already gone on dates and their realationship was already on rocky ground. The conversation they have after colliding was one of the final nails in the coffin for their budding relationship.
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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The Jury not only goes around murdering people for all kinds of petty theft and other suspected criminal behavior, they like to do so by shooting at them with automatic riffles and bazookas. Apparently in their minds its a public service to blow up a purse snatcher (and purse) on a busy public street, collateral be dammed.
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* VigilanteMilitia: The Jury is a group of murderers who target petty criminals and those who have escaped extrajudicial imprisonment, claiming to be doing a public service and be heroes.
* VigilanteExecution: The Jury is an entire group of armed murderers enforcing vigilante justice by doing things like blowing up a purse snatcher on a busy street, and going out on a shooting spree when a bunch of people escaped extrajudicial imprisonment in Bludhaven.
* VigilanteExecution: The Jury is an entire group of armed murderers enforcing vigilante justice by doing things like blowing up a purse snatcher on a busy street, and going out on a shooting spree when a bunch of people escaped extrajudicial imprisonment in Bludhaven.
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* HeroStoleMyBike: While retired from the role of Robin Tim stole a Mini Cooper and drove it into a truck that contained a bunch of mafia hitmen trying to drive straight into his school guns blazing. He has to work with what little is available to him since he doesn't have any of his old gadgets or armor.
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* LeaveNoWitnesses: In their efforts to cover up their illegal human experimentation Strader Pharmaceuticals keeps expanding the list of people they're hiring mercenaries to kill. It starts out as just trying to dispose of their victims, but expands to include the drug dealers they'd used, the investigative journalist looking into the mess and anyone else who ended up involved with their victims.
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* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Strader Pharmaceuticals hires a group of unethical Private Military Contractors to clean up the evidence of their fatal and incredibly dangerous unethical testing of a new Psycho Serum by tracking down and killing the already dying victims.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: When Strader Pharmaceuticals is having everyone that can implicate them in their illegal human experimentation killed the targets include low level employees and former employees who helped them find and target the lower class Gothamites the initial experimentation was meant to kill. These people ''knew'' they were targeting people for painful deaths, which makes it seem they shouldn't be too surprised by their own executions.
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* {{Gaslighting}}: When Bruce decides to test Tim by giving him a fake message from the future about a teammate turning evil he responds to Tim bringing it to his attention by acting like Time Travel is impossible and ridiculous. Bruce is on a team with a time traveler and has traveled in time himself, making Tim immediately realize the message is from Bruce. Amusingly Tim had actually suspected one of his villains of leaving the message to try and unsettle him, so he was furious when he realized it was Bruce trying to test his commitment to Bruce's ideals.
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* OminousMessageFromTheFuture: On his sixteenth birthday Tim receives a message claiming to be from the future saying one of his allies is going to turn into a murderer. He becomes skeptical of it right away due to Bruce trying to act like Time Travel is impossible despite being on a team with a time traveler and the whole thing turns out to be a test from Bruce to supposedly check if Tim would do the right thing and not blindly stand by him if he turned villain. Considering Tim did not blindly stand by him when he was previously accused of murder and that he decided to gaslight Tim for a birthday present Tim gets understandably pissed and quits as Robin.
