The Team was introduced to Zatanna , who Robin showed immediate interest in. They went on an unauthorized mission to find Red Tornado. They discovered the robot had not betrayed them and, together with Red Inferno and Red Torpedo, they were able to destroy Red Volcano and prevent the Yellowstone supervolcano from devastating the planet. Robin and the rest of the Team took part in a telepathic training simulation run by Martian Manhunter.
It went wrong when Artemis's "death" caused Miss Martian to take control, causing them to forget it was not real. Robin took over as leader after Aqualad sacrificed his "life", sending himself and his remaining teammates on a suicide mission. When the simulation was ended, Robin, like the others, was left devastated, and stated that he was traumatized.
Robin realized he wasn't capable of sacrificing everything for the mission the way Batman can. After all the adults in the world disappeared, Robin and the Team worked with Zatanna to find the cause. With help from Captain Marvel they were able to communicate with the adults in their own separate dimension and coordinate an attack on Klarion and his group of sorcerers, merging the dimensions back into one. Later, Robin attended Kid Flash's "surprise" birthday party at the Cave. He then joined the joint League-Team mission to disable the ice fortresses freezing North America.
Robin lead a mission to Qurac to discover why the nation's leader decided to allow Bialya to absorb Qurac. They saved Marie Logan and her son from Bialyan tanks, though Gar was injured during a reprisal attack. The Team went on to the capital, where they successfully defeated Psimon , who was controlling Harjavti.
Robin celebrated his fourteenth birthday on the first of the month. He received a kiss from Zatanna in the afternoon, [3] and held a civilian party at Wayne Manor in the evening. A few weeks later, Robin took several Team members on a personal undercover mission to investigate tech robberies linked to Haly's Circus , though he claimed Batman gave them the mission. They were able to capture Parasite and prevent him using the stolen tech to create a black hole.
Robin and the rest of the Team, now including Rocket , responded to an alert that Cheshire had been spotted. They found they had been lured into a trap, but were nonetheless successful in defeating their enemies and capturing the case that had eluded them previously. Realizing the trap meant there must really be a mole, Superboy, Artemis and Miss Martian revealed their secret links to their enemies to the rest of the Team, and found acceptance.
Robin and the others returned to the Cave triumphant, but were shocked to find Batman waiting to tell them the mole was Red Arrow. Upon reactivating Tornado and handling an attack from Black Canary, they abandoned the Cave to rendezvous with the others to compare notes. The team infiltrated the Watchtower and freed the League from the Light 's control. He later joined the round table discussion about the location of the real Roy Harper , and the mystery of the six leaguers who were unaccounted for sixteen hours.
Some time after October 26, , [49] Dick adopted the name Nightwing. The title of Robin passed to Jason Todd. Jason, unfortunately, died under unknown circumstances, and was in turn succeeded by a third Robin, Tim Drake. Batman briefed the Team on the disappearance of archeologist Helena Sandsmark.
Sandsmark's dig site. Nightwing stayed on the computer, making 3D scans of the artifacts, studying mission footage for additional clues [52] and repairing a corrupted audio message from Dr. When the trail led them to Gotham City , Nightwing led the mission. The most likely location for Dr. Sandsmark to be smuggled into the country was the docks. They were swarming with Riddler 's goons and LexCorp robots, and Nightwing and Alpha Squad had to fight their way through them in a maze of shipping containers.
By the time they got through, Dr. Sandsmark had already been moved, using Haly's Circus. Their last hurdle before freeing Dr. Sandsmark was Psimon , but as he was still in a coma and controlled by Riddler, he wasn't as much of a threat as usual. Riddler goaded Nightwing into following him into the circus' fun house, which was loaded with traps.
They got through those as well, finally confronting Riddler and taking the fragment from him. During the debriefing, the Team learned that the fragment they got from Riddler was a fake. Nightwing knew it had been too easy. They now had to find the last fragment and Aquagirl , who had been kidnapped by Klarion. The Light's activity, caused by attempts to free Tiamat , had caused earth quakes across the globe, but there were too many to locate the epicenter.
Nightwing asked Zatanna to locate Klarion, as she had before. Klarion was holed up in Marduk's Temple , ready to revive Tiamat. Aqualad had gone in to scour the temple grounds, but had come across a labyrinth.
Nightwing joined them with Beta Squad, taking the northwest passage. The halls were crowded with undead warriors and LexCorp robots and feature some ancient machines as well. They make it to Tiamat's well before Alpha, and have to fight Tiamat—first as a water spout, then as a giant dragon and finally as a smaller, winged dragon with minions. Aquagirl sacrificed herself to lock Tiamat back in her prison.
Nightwing had to witness her death and support Tempest and Kaldur. The Team was debriefed, but they were still in mourning. Nightwing tried to boost their spirits, but it didn't do much. Aqualad had already departed in silence. At Batman's insistence, the members of the Team returned home to get some rest.
Nightwing noticed a private message from Kaldur. In the pre-recorded video, Aqualad explained he had to seek answers on his own, and passed leadership of the Team to Nightwing. At some point after the death of Aquagirl , Aqualad and Nightwing devised a plot in which Kaldur would "betray" the Team and work for his father Black Manta , to learn more about the Light and their new Partner. While reviewing his old case notes, Nightwing reminisced about a case in Bwunda five years earlier.
He remarked that they never realized how easy they had it. Nightwing won a sparring match against Lagoon Boy , just before Delta Squad arrived home. Robin reported that they apprehended Clayface , and sent him back to Arkham Asylum. Mal Duncan sent them in. Nightwing attended a briefing held by the Justice League about the alien attack on the UN.
John Stewart explained their real problem was not Lobo , but his target, a Krolotean. Adam Strange explained about the Kroloteans, and his adventure on Rann.
After he told that six members of the Justice League were wanted criminals on that planet, Nightwing reminded Batman of the missing sixteen hours from five years earlier. Nightwing offered that the Team would handle the mission, since the Justice League was not welcome. Captain Atom agreed. After the briefing, Zatanna and Rocket talked to Nightwing, Miss Martian and Superboy , and reminded them they still had an open invitation to join the League.
In unison, they stated they were fine where they were. Nightwing briefed the Team the mission to track down Kroloteans on Earth, and assigned the squads. He and Wonder Girl were Alpha Squad. Nightwing told him he was ready for the experience, but jokingly warned him not to die. Nightwing congratulated them for their success. Nightwing was present at the return of Zeta Squad, and handled the debriefing. Nightwing cleaned the Manta Troopers off the top walkways.
They were noticed by Manta , who ordered his men to attack the infiltrators. Nightwing was still on the walkways when Manta lost his helmet and revealed his true identity to Aquaman. He tried to reason with his old friend, assuring him that Tula's death was not their fault, but it was to no avail.
Kaldur'ahm escaped to a lower level, where Nightwing and Superboy intercepted him. Kaldur had no plans to fight, and instead pointed them at a bomb that was primed to blow up in two minutes. Unable to disarm the bomb, Nightwing called for a full evacuation.
They regrouped at the Bio-Ship, and only narrowly escaped the bomb's blast radius. Nightwing debriefed Batman that the bomb was of alien, but not Krolotean origin. Batman felt finding out who planted it would be a responsibility of the Team. Nightwing said his goodbyes to Batman, who left for Rimbor to stand trial for their actions under the Light 's mind control, along with the other accused Justice Leaguers. Batman thought Nightwing had the harder of the two tasks.
Nightwing and friends try to convince Red Arrow to give up his search for Speedy. Nightwing took a day off from the Team for personal business: trying to persuade Red Arrow to clean his act up.
Wally and Dick dismissed Roy's comments that he was just a copy, and not their concern; they argued that the cloned Roy was the only Roy they knew. They never met the original. Unfortunately, their appeal was to deaf ears. Roy ignored them, and went back to his hide out. Nightwing wanted to investigate boom tube activity in Bialya.
He briefed them while they were on their way in the Bio-Ship. Batgirl asked if an all-male Squad would have required an explanation, when an all-female Squad does.
Knowing he had been beaten, Nightwing decided to admit defeat and sign out. With Alpha Squad back home safe and sound, Nightwing debriefed them. He informed them that they faced Psimon because he had managed to elude his doctors. The mission answered some questions, but many still remained unanswered, to Wonder Girl's disappointment.
He reassured her that unanswered questions were not a bad thing, as they kept the investigation going. He congratulated them all on the mission. Nigthwing was present when Batgirl presented Doctor Fate with recordings of an ancient temple she and other Team members had found in Bialya.
Fate translated the hieroglyphics, revealing an ancient ritual to cleanse a scarab. Nightwing was working on the translation of the Krolotean intel from Malina Island. Most of it could be deciphered, except for one word. The closest English equivalent was " Meta-Gene ". He discussed it with Beast Boy and Robin , but their conversation was cut short when the computer detected an energy impulse.
In a ball of lightning, a small pod arrived in the Mission Room, and a boy jumped out. Beast Boy quipped that this was the impulse they detected, and as a response, the boy took Impulse as his name. As he ran off, Nightwing sent the two junior members after him.
Impulse took care of the younger members, but Nightwing outsmarted him. He lined the hallway to the Mission Room with marbles. Impulse avoided them, but it allowed Nightwing the opportunity to flank him. He subdued the speedster, and cuffed him on his wrists and ankles. Robin and Beast Boy heard Impulse out, but did not believe his "future tourist" explanation. Nightwing supposedly wanted his DNA, and tried to trick the boy into giving it up.
Impulse happily complied. He also revealed the secret identities of everyone in the room. When Mal arrived at the Cave, Impulse took the opportunity to escape.
Beast Boy attempted to pursue, but Robin and Nightwing doubted if he could keep up with him. Fortunately Nightwing had taken the precaution of planting a subcutaneous tracker which he had put in the water glass Bart drank from, and traced it to Central City. He made a couple of calls to inform the Flash family. Impulse claimed he was ready to go back to his own time, but the time machine didn't work. Nightwing participated in a mission to protect the launch of a satellite, which was used to fake Artemis's death at the hands of Aqualad.
Though the satellite was destroyed, the rest of the Team was convinced of Artemis's death. Nightwing was at the Cave when Aqualad led a team to infiltrate the base. Blue Beetle, Beast Boy and Impulse were captured, and Mount Justice was destroyed, but Aqualad was able to pass along vital intelligence to Nightwing while securing his reputation with the Light. Afterwards, at the Hall of Justice, Nightwing tried to justify the extreme measures he and Aqualad were taking to Wally.
Nightwing used the intelligence Kaldur provided to have the Team find and infiltrate the Light's partner 's base and rescue their captive teammates and some teenage abductees being experimented upon.
In order to escape, most of the Team had to fight Black Beetle , but Nightwing was locked away from the fight on the Bio-Ship. Once everyone was aboard, Nightwing piloted the Bio-Ship away from the Reach vessel. Nightwing showed Mal, Superboy, Miss Martian and Wolf the warehouse he had arranged to temporarily house them.
When Mal decided to go the Hall of Justice to make other arrangements, Nightwing encouraged Conner and M'gann to go as well to collect their belongings that had been salvaged from the ruins of Mount Justice.
Nightwing watched G. With him normally questioning his past, this is a completely different take on Dick Grayson. He has little to no empathy and comes off as a monstrous brute who only cares about destroying Gotham's criminal underworld.
This version, while unique, is a harsh and scary look at what could have happened to one of DC's brightest heroes. While his time as Robin may have been some of the best formative years he could have had, it's undoubtedly for the best that Dick went off on his own and became Nightwing. By Zachariah Daubert Published Oct 31, Share Share Tweet Email 0.
Related Topics Comics News robin nightwing dc comics. While all of the Robins may look pretty similar four out of the five Robins have black hair and blue eyes , they are all totally unique in their own ways and graduate from being a sidekick to one of the most formidable heroes in DC to becoming their own solo characters. Dick Grayson is the first Robin and the most known out of the bunch.
He is the Robin featured in the live-action Batman Forever and Batman and Robin films from the mids. He also was the Robin featured in the Teen Titans animated series in , the live-action Titans series, and was the first Robin in Young Justice before becoming his own hero. Dick has a pretty iconic backstory. His family was part of the circus as an acrobat and was the youngest member of the Flying Graysons. After witnessing his parents die after a high wire snaps, Batman takes the young orphan in and adopts him.
Nightwing is the alter-ego to Dick Grayson once he realizes he is a capable hero in his own right. After disagreeing with the way Batman handled a lot of his crime-fighting, Nightwing decided to do things his own way.
Though Nightwing has his own city to protect, he often goes back to Gotham whenever Batman or anyone needs help. Jason Todd is the second young orphan to take up the mask. Jason is a lot more troubled than Dick was and proves to be a much more difficult challenge for Batman. Jason was a street rat, rough around the edges, and was a lot more ruthless than Dick ever was.
While Dick found Bruce's tactics too harsh, Jason felt like they weren't harsh enough. Unfortunately, Jason wasn't too well-liked by fans, leading the DC comics to actually hold a telephone poll as to whether or not the character should die by the hands of the Joker.
The poll succeeded and Joker killed the young boy, becoming Batman's greatest failure and biggest guilt. Nearly 20 years later, Jason Todd made his return to the DC world as the newest Red Hood a name in which the Joker used before even becoming the Joker.
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