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“Father figure” was the last of Batman’s essential elements to manifest, and it is the first aspect to be jettisoned by writers, filmmakers, and television showrunners whenever they wish to tell Batman’s tale anew. In a bid to keep the storytelling simple, they strip him of his familial context and take him back to the dark, brooding loner of this very first year.
But Robin always comes back, eventually, in some form, because he must: Robin is half the story.
Despite what many fans believe so fervently, the Batman of that very first year isn’t truly Batman—not yet. Robin serves to define and delineate Batman, as do Batgirl, Nightwing, Huntress, and the others. Batman’s status as the ultimate mentor is a base principle, inasmuch as it speaks directly to who he is: he saves others because, on one terrible night long ago, there was no one to save him.
The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon
#fucking!!! say!!!! that!!!!#the whole goddamn POINT of batman is that he lost his family when he lost his parents as a child#and he rebuilt his family by becoming a father to another child who lost HIS family#thereby also saving his own inner child#(well. one of the whole points. u know what u mean)#you cannot have batman without robin you cannot have the moon without the sun etc etc etc etc#bruce wayne#dick grayson#meta#dc
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Nightwing #113 - "00:01" (2024)
written by Michael W. Conrad
art by Howard Porter & Hi-Fi
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I don’t agree with bullfighting morally, but I’ve been looking at certain pictures of matadors and their poses for a couple of months…
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I did it!!
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I’ve always taken it for granted that I’m fighting the good fight, I guess mostly due to my faith in Batman. But I have to admit, up here on the urban highwire, I take a lot of liberties. I tell myself they’re all justified, but isn’t that what everybody tells themselves? Does anybody wake up thinking, ‘Today, I’m going to cross the line’?
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Dad coded
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old stuff. i just love this little sketch sm ((
#dick is so. Tiny. i adore him#also bruce looks so fucking old and grumpy it’s hilarious#dick grayson#bruce wayne#dc
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hug( old sketch
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the trees witness everything, victoria chang // batman: dark victory (1999) #13 // robin: year one (2000) #1 // light, sleeping at last // jla (1997) #69 // batman (2016) #130 // light, sleeping at last // batman (2016) #54 // moony moonless sky, fatima aamer bilal // jla (1997) #73 // batman (1940) #416 // robin (1993) #13 // checkmate (2006) #14 // the two times i loved you the most in a car, dorothea grossman // batman: gotham knights (2000) #21 // outsiders (2003) #49 // robin 80th anniversary 100-page super spectacular (2020) // robin in a cage, george ralston wyllie // poetry, richard siken
bruce & dick + (mis)communication
#all of this is just incredible#but that one line from bruce#“…was enough to make you doubt my loyalty?’’#“no. it was enough to make me doubt my right to it’’#GODDDDDDDD#BRUCE’S UNFLINCHING UNFAILING BELIEF IN HIS RIGHT TO DICK’S LOYALTY#and the fact that his fears? ENTIRELY unfounded#no matter what the fuck happens dick will always always have a nearly doglike loyalty to bruce. nothing will change that#i just. MCNSJCJSNXNAMXJCHSJZJ#dick grayson#bruce wayne#dc
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SOMEONE HELP DICK HE IS HAVING A GODDAMNED ORDEAL OF A DAY
#someone get dick some painkillers his shoulders must be aching from CARRYING the world’s finest#robin!dick’s level of competence compared to everyone around him never fails to amuse me#esp since he’s yammering on like a 12 year old on a kool aid high the entire time#dick grayson#dc
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#a lovely addition#so now we’ve got bruce we’ve got clark and we’ve got a bike plus a henchman#what 👏 cant 👏 he 👏 do 👏#dick grayson#dc
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reading this page:
and immediately thinking about this:
and legit having to pause briefly because !!!!!
only to slide to the next page and get hit with THIS:
omg i’m unwell. i’m UNWELL. and bruce is just like “i’m leaving” EXCUSE ME. OH. OH.
i was not prepared for this. i’m having the time of my life rn. everything hurts.
#dick’s out here fighting a one man war to keep the bat mantle from overtaking his father#someone give him a BREAK he deserves ir#*it#this sequence of panels never fails to just make me 😭😭😭😭😭😭#dick grayson#bruce wayne#dc
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"I'd die for you, Bruce."
Robin & Batman #3
Batman/Nightwing: Bloodborne
Infinite Crisis #7
Batman: Beyond the White Knight #6
#just love when the question of “what happens when you raise a child to be a weapon but love it every step of the way’’#‘‘how do you grapple with the fact that your son will die to ensure you outlive him’’#when all that good shit pops up <33 fascinating#dick grayson#bruce wayne#dc
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#he just threw a man with his thighs and swinging momentum#how fucking strong ARE they??#dc#dick grayson#bruce wayne#clark kent
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im not a fan of reverse robin stuff for a lot of reasons but i will admit the idea of an older bruce getting damian as his first child and somehow still being emotionally available enough to collect 5+ more children afterwards has. comedic potential
#hdchajxjsj i lovvvveee thinking about reverse robins and how fascinating all the changed character dynamics would be#but like. realistically. the batman mythos we know and love would not exist without dick as the first robin#simply wouldn’t work hes that fucking pivotal#tho i will say: i’ve seen a reverse robin au where after a joker attack tim became oracle and that had never left my mind#and every now and then my brain likes to be like. hey. reverse BATS. bruce is damian’s son try imagining that clusterfuck#and i just bluescreen for several seconds#dc#reverse robins
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Detective Comics #41 (1940) by Bill Finger & Bob Kane
#how many times do u think bby dick has done this#to where if a gotham goon hears the words “tag you’re it’’ they immediately duck and look upward#akin to the yj universe with dick turns of phrase and like. phineas and ferb#i wanna know how many common sayings in the dc universe that dick has just HIJACKED even just for gotham#dick grayson#dc
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