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AU where some new villain made a truth serum formula and captures Nightwing, Red Hood, Red Robin, and Robin. This villain somehow knows they’ve all been Robin at one point and decides to use the truth serum to try and drive a wedge between them all so that they stop working together. He starts with Robin, asking him who he thinks was the best Robin (Nightwing), who he thinks is the worst (Red Robin) and why he thinks that (Red Robin is annoying and arrogant). He does the same with Red Robin and Red Hood and gets varying answers that, while somewhat mean, are not enough to break the dynamic between them. Then he gets to Nightwing, who claims (truthfully) that he doesn’t have a favorite or least favorite Robin. The villain is displeased with this so they start to come up different questions to try and start an argument between the boys.

Eventually the villain asks “Which Robin is closest to the original? Closest to your Robin? Which one reminds you the most of yourself?”. Dick tries to fight the serum for a while, before finally biting out “The fourth one.” They all turn to look at Damian, and the villain scrunches up his brows, asking “Him? Really?” It was somewhat of a rhetorical question but Dick is forced to answer anyways. “No, not him. He’s the fifth Robin.” It takes a second before it clicks into place. “The girl Robin? Seriously?? I heard she didn’t even last a week!” Before anything else can be said, Batman busts into the villain’s lair and manages to take him down.

When they get back to the cave, the boys try to question Dick about it, slightly offended by the fact that he considered Stephanie’s Robin to be the most accurate to his. Dick, however, manages to evade them until the serum wears off. Dick himself isn’t quite sure how he can explain it to them. He’s not sure how to tell them that while he’s proud of all the work they’ve done as Robin, he never shared their reasoning for becoming Robin. He’s not sure how to point out the fact that the main reason they got into the vigilante game was for Bruce, not for themselves. He’s not sure how to explain that Robin might’ve been given to them for them to find light and happiness in, but that initially Robin was born from his darkness.

He’s not sure how to tell them that when Bruce told him about Steph, about Spoiler, about how she designed her own suit and went out to stop the man she has a vendetta against, he was so violently reminded of himself that he hung up immediately and didn’t speak to anyone for two days. He’s not sure how to tell them that when Bruce came calling a little while later, telling him about Steph being in-over her head, about him firing her, about her going off on her own only to end up tortured and dead, it was like staring in a mirror of his own relationship with Bruce, and that he’d punched Bruce so hard he’d nearly broken a finger. He’s not sure how to tell them about the quiet nights he stayed up talking with Steph, when Bruce was lost in time and it was just her, Damian, and Alfred around. He’s not sure how to tell them about how when Steph had told him about her relationship with Dean, he’d been reminded of his relationship with Liu so much he’d nearly thrown up. He’s not sure how to tell them that when Dick had opened up about his guilt about what happened in Blüd, Steph hadn’t given him any false placations, and talked about the guilt she felt over her role in the gang wars instead.

He’s not sure how to tell them that while all of them have felt like failures to Bruce, none of them had felt the harsh sting of Bruce ripping Robin away from them, the pain of Bruce telling them how incompetent and unworthy they were as Bruce fires them. He’s not sure how to tell them that while he may their older brother, he was only ever Bruce’s ward. Bruce never adopted him, and despite how far they’ve all come to work as a family, Dick still feels like an outsider sometimes. He knows Steph gets it. She feels like an outsider too.

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Batman & Robin: Year One #7 (2025)

written by Mark Waid art by Chris Samnee & Matheus Lopes

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golden age comic panel that has aged like a goddamn fine wine

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Dick, Donna, and Roy thinking of the Titans as family.

"We just wanted to remind you that even though you lost one family..." "...I gained another."

Nightwing: Secret Files & Origins

"When you told me the Titans were like a family--"

The Titans #13

"You guys are my family."

JLA/Titans #3

"We created a family."

Outsiders #1

"The Titans are more than my teammates. They're my best friends. My family."

Titans #21

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Gotta keep a straight face u guys

based on this post

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Dark Crisis #2

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Batflek desperately needed a half dozen late teens-mid twenty somethings popping in and out harassing him through every movie the same way that Battinson desperately needs an eight year old that craves violence.

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Repeating patterns

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whatever 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

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My favorite thing to add to my text post is Dick remembering everything that's retconned. So

Jason: sometimes I wish Bruce never adopted me

Dick: I almost adopted you

Jason:... What?

Dick: back when you were a blonde acrobat, you had the same trauma as me, I wanted to adopt you.

Jason: when I was WHAT?

Dick: yeah, you were menace back then too-

Jason: BRUCE DICK IS ACTING WEIRD! HE'S SAYING I USED TO BE BLONDE AND AN ACROBAT!

Bruce: he does that sometimes

Dick: Bruce remember when Alfred didn't exist yet and it was just you and me?

Bruce: sure chum *pats head*

Dick: what is Julie doing now?

Bruce: *whispering above Dicks head* I have no idea who that is.

Bruce: No idea why don't you go look her up?

Dick: ok *leaves*

Jason: what the hell?

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there is a such scary small (0.005) chance dick grayson on screen could ever be done justice even slightly it could only be embarrassing and saddening and disappointing…………but my hope 🕊️💡🖐️…………my dream….. would be……the planned Batman Brave and the Bold movie has a NW appearance where damian is very unruly and disobedient but like sort of immediately calmly listens to dick because he perceives DG as Impressive and DG is mostly just chill just a brief rescue sequence or something and DG’s appearance in the movie is very small and goes unrevealed until opening weekend but despite small screentime he quickly becomes a fan favorite & phenomenon then a longggg radio silence with no appearances and then in a deathstroke movie SEQUEL DG appears as a side character “undercover” but not as NW just as like slummimg-it heir “unwittingly” getting caught up in some random wealthy conspiracy abroad and they have a brief intense fight and theres allusions to joey and DG knowing each other and dick is like telling someone whos trying to help him, while he’s fighting Slade, “stop - go - he won’t hurt me. because he knows he’d fail - and then he’d be embarrassed” yada yada some conceit that cleverly resolves the situation and theyre post-climax and DG is leaving and Slade is like “Kid” and dick is like “what” and Slade is like “you know. that’s not why.” and maybe rose is in here and dick leaves with her stealing her from slade IDK but anyway THEN AND ONLY THEN do we get a Nightwing solo movie which establishes that Dick absolutely does not want to be Batman even though the narrative will be such that it seems like Oh Yes You Will Be Batman It’s Inevitable You Won’t Escape and then it establishes Bludhaven and sets stuff up and then Nightwing 2 CHEMO somehow and then dick suicidal and adrift appears next in a Titans movie where theres Donna and Roy (with the implication that they were together in a larger team during their youth, but that NTT equivalent never really happened) and the movie is sad and someone dies and Kory has been introduced in this film and that’s the end of Dicks arc is like him slipping away with her into the stars grieving but sort of happy + hopeful. And then he never ever appears again THE CRITICAL THING IS THAT HE CANNOT BECOME OVEREXPOSED. HE CANNOT.

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world war 3 was on the line, jason

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Superman performing cpr on humans: *gently does it with one hand like u do on babies*

Superman performing CPR on Wonder Woman: *punch punch punch*

Justice League: A League of One

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SixFanarts - 7/6!!!!

Figs, cherries, bright colored glasses and star shaped earrings, you know, the usual Donna Troy and Starfire date.

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show me, show me, show me how you do that trick

[id: a drawing of dick grayson and joey wilson from new teen titans, done in shades of red. dick is laying on top of joey, smiling into a kiss. joey has a hand on the back of dick's neck with a thumb on his jaw. they're laying in grass, a tree behind them. /end id]

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genuine freak behavior

this is like the third time they've ever hung out!!!

from Shadow of the Bat #29 (1994)