Stephanie Brown, Cassandra Cain, and Duke Thomas are still growing into their own as heroes under Batman's tutelage, while Damian Wayne has renounced his father's legacy, choosing to go it alone after witnessing Alfred's murder. Bruce has helped many young people find their way from trauma to heroism, but Nightwing was the first, one of the most personal, and has flown the highest in his life after Gotham, helping Batman to keep fighting even when confronted by failure.
While the Dark Knight isn't much for expressing his feelings, fans should be in no doubt that he considers Dick Grayson his greatest triumph. In Infinite Crisis , Batman was confronted by a version of Superman from another reality who claimed his world was better, and the Dark Knight's first argument back was that Dick Grayson couldn't possibly be a better man in any alternate world - a point the rival Superman conceded.
Batman has done a lot of things as Gotham's protector, but it's clear that he's fully aware his most important accomplishment was helping Nightwing to reach his full potential. By Robert Wood Published Aug 28, Share Share Tweet Email 0. This event ended with the public outing of Dick as Nightwing and later his apparent death at the hands of the Crime Syndicate. His secret identity revealed, Dick allowed the rest of the world, even his closest friends and family, to believe he was deceased.
When disaster struck Gotham City, Dick gave up his mission and returned to Gotham. Ethical quandaries aside, he made use of the device after deciding he could do more good for the world as a superhero than as a spy. Though he survived the attack, his memory of his past did not. Freeze: SubZero as Robin. Much as in the comics, after tragically losing his family to organized crime and being taken in by Bruce Wayne , Robin operates as the junior partner to Batman.
Together with Young Justice, he reveals the culprit as the Superman villain Parasite. But more importantly, after letting his teammates into his previously secret personal life, Dick begins to think of Young Justice as his own family. This clone is revealed as an unwitting mole for The Light, a mysterious cabal of super-villains. Simultaneously, the Justice League uncovers a covert alien invasion, and its members are labeled intergalactic criminals, thanks to their manipulation by The Light five years prior.
While the League clears their names, they leave the responsibility of investigating the alien invasion to Young Justice — and by extension, Nightwing. Once Young Justice successfully sabotages this partnership, Artemis returns to the fold, and Dick welcomes Aqualad back as team leader with open arms. But as his friends return, another is lost. While processing his grief, Nightwing resigns from Young Justice, assigning his duties to Batgirl.
When a mission takes him to Markovia, Nightwing recruits his former teammates Superboy and Artemis -- now Tigress -- to accompany him. He also brings along Black Lightning, himself having recently resigned from the Justice League over a traumatic incident. Over the next several missions, Nightwing finds himself mentoring a set of young stray heroes with nowhere else to go: Halo, a Quraci refugee bonded to the spirit of a Mother Box; Brion Markov, an exiled metahuman prince of Markovia; Forager, a disgraced former citizen of New Genesis; and Victor Stone, a once promising high school football player bonded to a Father Box.
Submitted by BWMorris. Dick Grayson was one of three people in the world who could perform a quadruple somersault. In fact, this signature move was how a young Tim Drake, the eventual third Robin, was able to identify Dick as the original Robin. Submitted by mightyblackdragon. Submitted by c02goddess.
Powers and Abilities. Essential Storylines and History. The Dynamic Duo 2. Team Affiliations. Meanwhile, in Gotham, Bruce Wayne was nearly killed by the villain Bane who had crippled him by breaking his back.
Unwilling to force Dick to come back and believing that Dick deserved to be his own man, Bruce opted to give the mantle of Batman to the unstable Jean Paul Valley , with Tim Drake, the new Robin to guide him.
Unfortunately, Jean Paul proved too much for Tim to handle, and Dick returned to help. Dick intervened with Tim Drake, and when Bruce returned to Gotham healed and ready to become Batman again, the three of them along with Catwoman brought Valley down and Bruce re-assumed the mantle of Batman. When Dick returned to the Titans, he found the government had interceded, placing Arsenal the former Speedy as leader of the team.
Dick stepped aside and left the Titans, concentrating on problems in Gotham City. Still recovering from his broken back, Bruce asked Dick to substitute for him as Batman for a time. Dick accepted. During this time, Dick was able to confront Two-Face and lay some demons to rest. He also established a wonderful partnership with Tim which allowed for their brotherly bond to flourish. Bruce eventually returned to Gotham to reclaim his role as Batman before taking back the mantel.
However, Bruce admitted to Dick the reason he had not selected him for the role of Batman originally and for the first time in a long time, Bruce and Dick began to heal their strained relationship. Bruce's respect for Dick was at last obvious. As of the current events surrounding the Infinite Crisis storyline, Nightwing has refused to join his recently resurrected friend Donna Troy as she journeys to New Cronus with several heroes. He has instead adopted a new villainous costume and persona in order to infiltrate Lex Luthor's Secret Society of Supervillains and seemingly attempt to trouble it from the inside.
Under Deathstroke's employ, he trained Slade's daughter Rose, the newest Ravager. The Society drops the super-villain Chemo on the city, killing , people. Dick tries to rescue survivors but is overcome by radiation poisoning, only to be rescued by Batman. Nightwing confides that he let the villain Blockbuster die and asks Batman to forgive him.
Batman tells him that his forgiveness doesn't matter; Dick has to move beyond Blockbuster's death. Inspired by his mentor, he proposes to Barbara Gordon , who tearfully accepts his proposal with a kiss. Batman then entrusts Nightwing to alert other heroes about the danger that the Crisis poses. Together, they locate and attack Alexander Luthor's tower, the center of the Crisis, only to be repelled by Superboy-Prime.
Prime is ready to kill Nightwing when Conner intervenes, sacrificing himself to destroy the tower, ending the destruction of the Universe. Saved by the Justice Society, Nightwing recovers with Barbara at his side. As soon as he's able to walk again, Batman asks him to join him and Robin in retracing Bruce's original journey in becoming the Dark Knight.
While Nightwing is hesitant, due to his engagement with Barbara, she encourages him to go and returns his engagement ring so he can make an honest decision for himself. While Barbara feels that it is important he re-discover himself, and until he does they're not yet ready to be married. They part on good terms, though before he departs Dick leaves her an envelope containing a photograph of them as Robin and Batgirl, along with the engagement ring on a chain and a note promising he'll come back to her one day.
Soon after his journey with Batman and Robin begins, Nightwing returns to Gotham, following Intergang's trail. He works with the new Batwoman and Renee Montoya to stop Intergang from destroying Gotham, shutting off dozens of fire spewing devices spread across the city.
One year later, Dick returned to New York City his previous home base with the Teen Titans in order to find out who had been masquerading as Nightwing. The murderous impostor turned out to be the former Robin, Jason Todd. Grayson lead the Outsiders once again, operating undercover and globally.
Nightwing followed an armored thief named Raptor, who he suspected was responsible for a series of murders. Later, Raptor himself was murdered in a manner similar to the other victims by an unseen contract killer, who proceeded to bury Grayson alive.
Nightwing freed himself, but wondered about the relationship between his experience and a mysterious voice who told him that he was "supposed to be dead". Nightwing was having trouble finding things to keep him busy during the day due to the cast on his right arm. Incapacitated from his injuries, he tried without luck to find jobs and continued to research into the mysterious assassin.
At one point Dick agreed to attend a party for Bruce Wayne and their relationship seemed to flourish. Bruce praised Dick for his success on the Raptor case, and also mentioned to look into the Landman Building which hosted ex-Lexcorp scientists; most likely those who worked on the Raptor project.
Dick had also continued to keep a close brotherly relationship with Tim Drake, and helped him deal with his many losses during the past year. Nightwing begins pursuit of these two after some grisly murders, including that of the Lorens family close friends of his after the Raptor incident. Dick grew obsessed with finding them, not knowing how far he was willing to go to take them down. Eventually, he formed a makeshift team with some "villains" to find them. They located them, and after killing some of his "team" Nightwing chased them to a cave, where Bride began a cave-in and the two were trapped there.
Some time later, Nightwing disassociated himself from the Outsiders, turning the responsibility of leadership over to his old mentor Batman. Trigon had apparently had other children aside from Raven, who each symbolized the seven deadly sins.
Together the Titans managed to defeat the sons of Trigon and again rescue Raven from being turned evil. Afterwars, they agreed to reform their group of Titans. Soon after, Batman became targeted by a group calling themselves the Black Glove. Their attacks became so intense, that they apparently drove Batman insane, and he disappeared, leaving Robin alone to defend the city. Unwilling to allow Tim to deal with everything alone, Dick gave up his life in New York to return to the city and help locate their mentor and keep control.
Unfortunately, Nightwing was ambushed by the International Club of Villains. He is later seen in Arkham Asylum , frothing at the mouth and presumably drugged, believed by the staff to be Pierrot Lunaire , a member of the Club. Scheduled for an experimental lobotomy by Arkham himself, he was spared by the ICoV taking hold of the Asylum, eager to use him and Jezebel Jet , Bruce's girlfriend at the time, as bait.
Jezebel's capture was revealed to be a red herring, due to her being a part of the Black Glove; as such, Nightwing's lobotomy was still pending, but he managed to escape due to the fact that his capture and Batman's 'insanity' were both parts of an elaborate plan created by Batman to expose the Black Glove.
Things built up to a final battle between Batman and Doctor Hurt , who battled on a helicopter that exploded, much to the horror of Nightwing and the others.
While everyone fears that Batman has died in the explosion, however, Batman survived the crash, and later joined the Justice League during the events of the Final Crisis.
Unfortunately Batman was seemingly killed during his final confrontation with the new God, Darkseid , thus leaving Dick, Cassandra Cain , Jason Todd , and Tim Drake once again orphaned. Alfred soon discovered a chamber left by Batman, which contained a holographic projection of his Last Will and Testament and a message for each of his children. In the message left for Dick, Bruce pleads that Dick not take up the mantle of the Batman, due to his belief that Nightwing and Robin can protect the city as they are.
Following the events of Batman's apparent death during the Crisis, Nightwing has closed down shop in New York so as to return to Gotham. He has opted to give up on having a normal job, and instead intends to put all his effort into protecting the city. Furthermore, he resigns his position as leader of the Titans, due to his duties in Gotham, along with Tim who resigns his leadership of the Teen Titans.
In the months that follow the Bat-Family along with a network of other heroes including the Outsiders, Birds of Prey and others is trying desperately to bring order to Gotham. Dick leads the effort but refuses to become Batman despite Tim Drake's urging due to Batman's last message to him. Due to Dick's refusal to step up, Tim begins a search to stop the impostor and dresses as Batman in order to demonstrate how the real Batman would have acted.
Dick meanwhile continues in his efforts to protect the city and both he and Batman's biological son, Damian Wayne are attacked by men working on behalf of a supposedly resurrected Black Mask. Dick and Damian are then 'rescued' by the gun-toting Batman, whom Dick quickly realizes is Jason Todd.
Together Damian and Dick attempt to apprehend Jason, but Damian is nearly killed by a gun shot to the chest, and it is only by the arrival of the Birds of Prey that Damian is able to get proper medical help. Jason manages to escape, and nearly kills Tim Drake with a batarang to the chest. After questioning himself, following Damian's near death, Nightwing goes forth to battle Jason, intending to take down his brother once and for all.
The pair battle, all the while with Jason claiming that Tim is dead, unaware that Tim survived and was saved by Damian and the Squire. Dick takes note that Jason has finally gone completely insane, due possibly to the last will statement that Batman left for him. The battle accumulates to Nightwing kicking Jason off a speeding train. When Dick attempts to help Jason, the other man refused and falls to his supposed death, though claiming they would see each other again soon.
Soon after, Dick at last agrees to take on the mantle of the Batman, knowing that it was always his destiny. Unfortunately, much to Tim Drake's shock, Dick does not continue to take him on as Robin. Feeling betrayed and infuriated, Tim leaves. Whether due to his refusal to let go of another father, or something else, Tim comes to the belief that Bruce is still alive somewhere in the world.
As such, he leaves Gotham behind in order to begin his search. But rather than continue wearing the costume of Robin the Boy Wonder, he instead takes on the mantle previously worn by Jason Todd: Red Robin. Although he has agreed to take on Bruce's mantle, Dick continues to feel unworthy of the role, due to the constant reminders of Bruce that surround him in the cave.
Feeling it is time to make the mantle of the Bat his own, Dick moves the operation out of the Manor and into the Penthouse Bunker of Wayne Towers.
During his first official week as Batman, Dick and Damian find themselves investigating a new criminal by the name of Professor Pyg and his associate Mister Toad. Unlike Dick's own relationship with Batman, during his years as Robin, Damian proves to be as cruel and argumentative as possible, even suggesting that if Dick is unable to be Batman, that he should step aside and let Damian himself take the job.
Later, while the new Dynamic Duo are on patrol, they decide it is time to test their new "para-capes. Suddenly, jumping from the Batmobile, the new Batman and Robin fly through the clouds and the Bat-Signal toward police headquarters.
Quickly after Dick takes up the mantle of the Dark Knight, he goes out on his first adventures as the Batman, defeating the Scarecrow in Gotham City. Dick also allows himself to be caught on security film simply to let the world know that the Caped Crusader has returned, forever destroying Batman's mystique as an urban legend.
Due to the mass jailbreaks engineered at Arkham Asylum by Black Mask, Dick also oversees the construction of holding cells at the Wayne Enterprises building to house recaptured villains. Dick has recently discovered he has more trouble than anticipated adjusting from the light body armour of his Nightwing suit to the heavy cape and restricting mask of the Batsuit.
Dick also notes that the cape is too heavy for close combat. The butler then sets to work on adjusting the weight of Batman's costume, using a lighter and more durable form of Kevlar to modify into a new costume for Dick's use. Dick has discarded Bruce Wayne's Batman costumes and has adopted several pairs of lighter, suits to fit himself in his new role. He also plans to abandon the Batcave completely.
He discards most of the Batcave's trophies or places them in secluded storage to gather dust, including the memorial to Jason Todd, which Dick removes, remarking that it was Bruce's cross to carry, not his. Dick and Damian move out of the Batcave, saving only Bruce Wayne's original cowl as a keepsake of the original Batman.
In the first few weeks of becoming the Dark Knight, Dick attempts to stop a ring of kidnappers and their leader, Professor Pyg. When Damian tries to rescue a young girl, Sasha, she seemingly falls to her death. In reality, she has survived, but upon discovering her father had been turned into a drone by Professor Pyg, she goes insane and is taken in by a maddened Jason Todd. After Pyg has been apprehended, he is mysteriously murdered, with a single domino found in his hand the only clue to the killer.
A few weeks later, the new Batman and Robin begin hunting down the last of the Black Glove organization. When Dick later confronts the Red Hood and Sasha, Jason is shot twice in the head by a lobotomized hitman named Flamingo. Jason managed to survive the gunfire due to his domed helmet. When Flamingo attacked Sasha, Jason bravely went to her rescue claiming that the hitman's business was only with himself, not Sasha.
Dick and Jason defeat Flamingo, and the new Batman takes Jason into custody. Before being arrested, Jason observes to Dick that if a Lazarus Pit can resurrect him, it can do the same for Bruce Wayne. Shortly afterward, a liberated Firefly attempts to torch Gotham City, allowing Batman's old enemy Hush to escape.
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