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* BigBad: The Court of Owls, of course. [[spoiler:Lead by Lincoln March]]

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* BigBad: The [[spoiler:The Court of Owls, of course. [[spoiler:Lead led by Lincoln March]]March,]] is responsible for setting up and escalating the war between the Robin movement and the Gotham City Police Department.



* DrillSergeantNasty: Damian. Full stop. He's not particularly please at the We Are Robin movement, and doesn't hold back beating and berating them to show them strength.
* TheFace: Dick, for the real Robins. Somewhat ironic, given that his Hypnos obscures his face from strangers. Jason and Tim also called him into Gotham because he's the only person that Damian will take orders from.
* FireForgedFriends: Duke and Damian, by the end.
* GodzillaThreshold: One of the street Robins kills a cop, leading to GCPD finally tiring of teenaged vigilantes & trying to take them all off the streets by sending their Batman after the kids.
* HijackedByGanon: [[spoiler: The BigBad is Lincoln March, who has seized control of the Court of Owls since the ending of Comicbook/BatmanEternal.]]
* JerkAssHasAPoint: Done intentionally, probably. While Damian lashing out and attack the street Robins is a bit uncalled for, he does make good points, as they are untrained and have caused a lot of trouble.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: Heavily invoked by both Damian and the Court of Owls - Damian wants to be the only Robin. The Court of Owls is still seeking the latest Talon and are dragging in ''every'' Robin they can.
** Dick and Batman have a moment before realizing things just aren't adding up.
* ShoutOut: At one point in the second issue, one of the robins asks, [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall "Should we do something? We should do something."]]
* ThereCanOnlyBeOne: This is essentially Damian's drive for the war: He's Robin, not these kids.

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* DrillSergeantNasty: Damian. Full stop. He's Damian is not particularly please pleased at the We Are Robin movement, and doesn't hold back beating and berating them to show them strength.
* TheFace: Dick, for the real Robins. Somewhat ironic, given that his Hypnos obscures his face from strangers. Jason and Tim also called him into Gotham because he's the only person that Damian will take orders from.
* FireForgedFriends: Duke and Damian, by Damian get off to a rocky start, since the end.
latter has nothing but contempt for the We Are Robin movement. By the end of the story, the two have grown to respect each other and go watch a movie together.
* GodzillaThreshold: One When one of the street Robins accidentally kills a cop, leading to the GCPD finally tiring of teenaged vigilantes & trying loses all tolerance towards the group and tries to take them all off the streets by sending their Batman after the kids.
* HijackedByGanon: [[spoiler: The BigBad is Lincoln March, who has seized control of the Court of Owls since the ending of Comicbook/BatmanEternal.]]
*
JerkAssHasAPoint: Done intentionally, probably. While Damian lashing out and attack attacking the street Robins is a bit uncalled for, he does make good points, as they are untrained and have caused a lot of trouble.
trouble. He and his allies agree to join forces and mold the kids into proper vigilantes.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: Heavily invoked Invoked by both Damian and the Court of Owls - Damian wants to be the only Robin. The Court of Owls is still seeking the latest Talon and are dragging in ''every'' Robin they can.
** %%Lacks context** Dick and Batman have a moment before realizing things just aren't adding up.
* %%Lacks context* ShoutOut: At one point in the second issue, one of the robins asks, [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall "Should we do something? We should do something."]]
* ThereCanOnlyBeOne: This is essentially Damian's drive for the war: He's Robin, not these kids.war is that he is the only Robin and feels offended that a bunch of kids are trying and failing to live up to his name.



* WhamLine: From the Court of Owls.

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* WhamLine: From The story starts out as a fairly basic conflict between a group of amateur vigilantes and the Gotham Police, until the Court of Owls.Owls is revealed to be involved and setting up a much bigger conspiracy: Their goal was to [[spoiler:lure Grayson to Gotham and trick him into joining their organization]].



* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Damian's reaction to the new Batman. A reaction that's shared by quite a few readers.

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* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Damian's reaction to Damian utters this stock phrase because he is incredulous that Jim Gordon is wearing a mechanical suit and calling himself the new Batman. A reaction that's shared by quite a few readers.Batman.
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