Who is your favorite Robin?

[MikeandRaph87]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Damian was killed off probably because they didn't want the idea of a 4th Robin sticking around for long who was Batman's son on top of that. I don't see him returning outside of elseworld tales, unless 20 years from now some writer gets nostalgic or something for Damian Wayne.

DC has pretty much run themselves into a corner with the amount of Robin's they added. Not only is it starting to make Batman look like an idiot, but the aging concept also doesn't make sense, and the idea of Batman letting new Robin's work with him while previous ones get killed doesn't make any sense.

They pulled it off with Tim Drake because he basically forced himself to become Robin, but Batman allowing anyone else to become Robin after Damian will just be idiotic. So Batman loses his son and says, "OK, the Robin job is vacant now, who wants to be my new kid sidekick?" and putting another child's life in danger.

Eventually I can see DC pulling a huge retcon reverting back to the Nightwing and Tim Drake as Robin status quo.

The whole reason for the Robin intership mess was because at the time the reboot was decided to start Grant Morrison's Batman storyline was incomplete but it was forced to abide by the relaunch. In order to do that Damien Wayne, his creation had to be around and fit within the 5 year timeline that was set up. That is why Batman was established to have been around a bit longer just as Green Lantern was so Geoff Johns could continue his space opera. He too had to comply by making a change as to why Sinestro go co-billing with Hal playing his stooge for roughly a year. Anyway, the reason is Damien was meant to die at the end of Grnat's run. Grant Morrison always intended for Damien to die yet he kept getting story ideas and he had about a year more of story to go with the reboot as to why he had to retool it and got the Batman Inc. special in the post-crisis continuity. If you do not like the Robin intership mess blame Grant for not finishing his story on time. I do agree that Tim was rushed out of the Robin costume but it was for story purposes of Damien gaining the Robin costume while Bruce was absent. The Dick/Tim pair up had been done and Grant saw an opportunity for his meant to die character to gain attachment from readers and it did to an extent I believe. Still nothing beats Dick Grayson as Robin and I would have loved to have seen it if it actually was a complete reboot instead of a somewhat soft of one.