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I just saved your life. You owe me. Bruce Wayne : You were totally out of control, you're gonna get yourself killed. Dick Grayson : You're looking at a new partner. Bruce Wayne : [Aggravated] No! Dick Grayson : Bruce. whenever you go out at night, I'll be watching. And wherever Batman goes, I'm gonna be right beside him.
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- Happy birthday, Boy Wonder.
- Robin: The Early Years
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- Becoming Nightwing
- Dick Grayson: Movie Star and More
By Sara Century
Updated: Apr 11, 2020 5:02 pm
Posted: Apr 7, 2020 3:35 pm
Bruce Wayne goes out to enjoy a night at the circus. He, along with much of Gotham, is there to see the Magnificent Flying Graysons, a husband and wife team, famous for performing death-defying acrobatics with their young son, Dick. Halfway through their performance, tragedy strikes. The young couple fall to their deaths as the result of criminals tampering with their ropes. Dick is angry, and seeks justice for his parents. Bruce sees his own tragedy in the eyes of this child, and reaches out to him. He can’t take the pain away, but he can teach the boy how to focus his rage into measured, intentional justice.
Created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, with a costume design by artist Jerry Robinson (based on the Robin Hood designs by N.C. Wyeth), Robin was the first member of what would evolve into one of the most complex supporting casts in all of comics. He was the first superhero sidekick, who would ultimately go on to define the role only to redefine what that concept could mean as he eventually learned to go his own way. For decades after his debut, he and Batman would often appear without one another (though his popularity did warrant a long-running solo back-up presence in the post-WWII era of Star Spangled Comics).
One of the most beloved Robin stories is “Robin Dies At Dawn!” in Batman #156, from 1963. In this, we discover that losing Robin is Batman’s greatest fear - he retires after enduring psychedelic nightmares of Robin’s death during a voluntary experimental psychological test. When Batman does come out of retirement once more, it is because of his responsibility to protect Robin. Batman#156The impact this one story had on creators is impossible to fully measure - many Batman writers have cited it as one of the most influential comics of all time. For current Nightwing writer Dan Jurgens, it was the first comic he ever read. “I was walking through the neighborhood on a warm spring or summer night and there were some older kids sitting on the stoop with comics,” Jurgens told IGN. “One of them had an old, wrinkled copy of Batman#156, with the classic ‘Robin Dies At Dawn’ cover. Robin? DEAD?! How is that POSSIBLE? I read it right on the spot and was pulled right in. The seductive power of comics did its thing.”
Meanwhile, the debut of the Batman TV series in 1966 rocketed Robin to multimedia stardom. In the mid-’60s, the sheer zaniness of the dynamic duo was given a boost by this new concept starring Adam West as a charming, campy Batman. Burt Ward was cast as Robin after the showrunners met him and felt his real-life persona encapsulated the wholesome charm of Dick Grayson so perfectly that no further auditions would be needed. It’s hard to argue with their decision - Ward’s is still one of the most iconic takes on the character.
In the words of Burt Ward, “What Robin means to me is the pureness and innocence of life. We’re all born innocent… not all of us turn out well, but we all start in basically the same place. We all have an opportunity to do something wonderful in life.”
When the Titans returned in 1979 under the creative team of George Perez and Marv Wolfman, Robin once again took leadership of the team, but he had changed from a plucky sidekick to a no-nonsense detective. He began his first serious long-term relationship with teammate Starfire, whose comparative moral flexibility forced him to confront Batman’s rigid ideologies. By the time the infamous The Judas Contract storyline hit the stands in the ‘80s, which included moral event horizons for several members of the team as they reeled from the betrayal of one of their own, Dick had shed his Robin persona forever to become Nightwing.
According to writer Marv Wolfman, “It was fairly simple, actually. I got a call that [DC] really would like Robin back in Batman, and they wanted Robin to be younger. Again, because Batman really needed a partner. The nice thing was that Teen Titans -- which I was still on at the time -- was way outselling Batman and I really wanted Dick Grayson and I really loved the character. We had aged him, we had made him a real leader, we had done a whole bunch of things with him, and I didn’t want to give up Dick Grayson. And it suddenly struck me -- I don’t even know what happened because it was unprecedented in comics -- I said, ‘Why don’t I keep Dick Grayson and you create a new Robin and make that a big to-do in Batman … while we have Nightwing.’”
That new Robin was Jason Todd, who unfortunately didn’t have much of a fair shake in comics. He was initially given an origin almost identical to Dick Grayson’s, and his character contained much of the upbeat, infallible optimism of the early days of Robin. After the company-wide reboot of Crisis on Infinite Earths in 1985, Jason became a brassy young rebel who met Batman when trying to steal hubcaps off the Batmobile. Though Batman took him in, Jason didn’t have much time to click before DC dropped one of the most bizarre marketing campaigns of all time - readers could vote on whether Robin lived or died. Losing by a small margin, Jason was killed by the Joker, and eventually replaced by the level-headed Tim Drake, who was given more space to establish his character outside of either Dick or Bruce. Other Robins followed, from the highly overlooked Stephanie Brown to Batman’s biological son with Talia al Ghul, Damien. The We Are Robin book brought a wider legacy to the character by establishing a larger group of Robins.
Nightwing immediately established himself as a different kind of hero than Batman. While Batman is gruff and standoffish, Dick is friendly and warm. He speaks to people with respect and kindness, but his temper flares more brightly than Bruce’s. While Batman hides in the shadows, Dick loves the spotlight, and delights in the showmanship of his youth. Bruce is often burdened by the memory of his parents while Dick is invigorated by the legacy his folks left him. In many ways, Bruce always saw that Dick had a greater capacity for unconditional kindness than he himself could ever have. You could say that Batman needs Nightwing as much as he ever needed Robin. Some of the many looks of Dick Grayson over the years.Dick and Batman ultimately mended their rocky relationship in the times of hardship that Bruce endured in the ’90s when he was forced to rely on Dick yet again due to injuries he had suffered at the hands of Bane. But it wouldn’t be until years later that Dick fully took on the role of the Batman himself for a time in Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s Batman & Robin series. Throughout the ’90s, Dick distanced himself from the Titans, and became the protector of Gotham’s sister city, Bludhaven. Defining himself as a solo hero without the group dynamics that fans had come to know him for was yet another monumental change for everybody’s favorite boy wonder. It was in the series Gotham Knights that Dick was revealed to be of Romani heritage, and though he has yet to be played by a Romani actor onscreen, it has become an important part of his comic book story.
Today, Dick Grayson is suffering from amnesia and is going by the name Ric Grayson. The current Nightwing series, written by Dan Jurgens, focuses on a Dick Grayson who has none of his memories, attempting to work with a group of Nightwings who stepped up to take his place when he temporarily vanished from the role. “The things that Dick cares about… the notion of right and wrong… of how to treat fellow humans… all of that is in place,” says Jurgens. “In fact, without some of the tragic memories of the past, he’s a bit more settled.”
As to why this was an important next step in Dick Grayson’s evolution, the writer says, “I do think there’s something interesting about the idea of a character who was Batman’s partner, yet has no memory of that. It pulls more of the focus to character TRAITS, as opposed to character alone. Plus, it becomes something else over which he must triumph.” Nightwing #60 by Dan Jurgens and Chris Mooneyham, featuring the Nightwings.As far as the other Nightwings, he says, “I think it’s safe to say that what we’re presenting is the idea that even those four don’t equal one, true Nightwing. That’s part of what makes Dick Grayson so unique. No one can do what he does. Can four people, all together, [learn to] equal what he does? We’ll find out.”
Dick Grayson has gone through a lot of changes throughout his 80 years with DC, but there’s no question that in popular media he remains the most well-known of Batman’s partners. Voiced by Loren Lester on the iconic Batman: The Animated Series, Dick Grayson was introduced to a new generation through that show as a sometimes temperamental but always quick to smile friend to the Batman.
With the release of Batman Forever (1995) and Batman & Robin (1997), Chris O’Donnell became a new international face for Robin. O’Donnell’s Grayson was a handsome hothead, marrying some of the personality traits of Dick Grayson and Robin #2 Jason Todd into a new, ’90s era take on the character. By this time, actors playing Dick Grayson were people who had grown up on the character. Said O’Donnell, “I’ve been watching Batman & Robin since I was a kid. I watched the TV show all the time. I had the comics, I had the toys… I was a big fan.” Chris O’Donnell as Robin in publicity shots for Batman Forever (1995) and Batman and Robin (1997).Now, Dick Grayson is finding new audiences through his appearances in Teen Titans Go!, voiced by Scott David Menville, and the live-action Titans TV series on DC Universe, where he’s played by Brenton Thwaites. Veering from the uptight leader on a children’s cartoon to the edgy, moody main character of Titans (with a fairly intense Batman hang-up), Dick Grayson continues to surprise fans with his versatility.
In the words of Menville regarding Teen Titans Go!’s unique take on the character, “I think Robin, of course, is a leader, and often finds himself perturbed that as the leader, he’s finding himself in very pedestrian, mundane situations such as sitting in a grocery store, taking a number, and waiting to get bread for a sandwich. That’s something that I’m sure he’s just baffled, that with all of his skills and powers and knowledge, why he would be the one to be sitting there doing that.”
Meanwhile, Brenton Thwaites, playing a very different take on the character, has said, “I wanted to feel like when you saw him there [were] inner problems going on that’s going to take a long time to fix. There’s a darkness and a sadness that’s deeper than just getting a full night of sleep. It’s going to take a long time to iron out these deep, grounded, emotional issues that we do see in flashbacks throughout the series.”
Where our guy will go from here, it’s hard to say. There is no way fans could have predicted who he is today from those humble early appearances, bouncing in and delivering quips alongside Batman. One thing is for sure and that is that Dick Grayson remains one of the most well-liked superheroes across several generations, but he’s also one of the most important - to Batman, to the fans, and to the course of superhero history. He has meant many things to so many people, and his legacy only continues to grow.
“Batman was a loner at first, of course. Robin’s addition, even 80 years ago, made Batman more human,” says Jurgens of Dick Grayson’s lasting impact. “However, he grew far beyond that. Dick’s progression as leader of the Teen Titans and then on to Nightwing is epic because it’s all about the growth and maturation of a hero who managed to keep his humanity. In the world of Batman, that makes him somewhat unique and that’s what I love about him.”
Chris O'Donnell is an American actor who portrayed Dick Grayson/Robin in Batman Forever and Batman & Robin. Bob Kane didn't like or understand that Joel Schumacher wanted O'Donnell to wear an earring. Kane also disliked the nipples on the costumes.[1] O'Donnell reportedly was part of a field of candidates for Robin that included Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jude Law, Ewan McGregor, Corey ...
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