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Warning ! Spoilers ahead forBatman / Catwoman # 7
In the late issue of DC Comics’Batman / Catwoman , Selina Kyle reveal the real and tragic reason the Dark Knight dressedRobinin promising colors for his costume . Featuring an unified narrative arrange in the past times , present , and potential future of Bruce Wayne ’s and Selina Kyle ’s relationship , the future sees the former Catwoman last killing the Joker . However , this new issue get a line her placed under taking into custody by none other thanGotham ’s new police commissioner Dick Grayson , Batman ’s first Robin , who ’s apparently germinate beyond his solo vigilantism as Nightwing . However , this scene is where she uncover this new truth about the Robin costume that Dick himself did n’t even know .
In prior issues ofBatman / Catwoman , Selina Kyle killed the Joker ( in the news report ’s future ) , the consequence of a conflict where the Joker horrifically killed the Phantasm in the nowadays . While Selina had apparently require to kill Joker for years , Batman would n’t get her . As a result , she had to wait until her married man pass away , allowing her to finally murder the Joker in this 12 - military issue maxi - series from Tom King and Clay Mann , providing an alternate timeline for the Bat and Cat based on King ’s vision from when he was writing DC ’s flagship series a few old age ago .
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Eventually , enough grounds was found by Selina and Bruce ’s daughter Helena ( the future Batwoman ) , and this wind to Commissioner Grayson arriving at Wayne Manor to arrestSelina for the murder of the Joker . However , as she ’s being lead to the patrol railway car she tells Dick that she once asked Batman why he had Robin frock in such promising coloring : " Should n’t he be in opprobrious like you?“While Dick responds that Batman consider pitch-dark would allow Dick to rely on the shadow rather than his own skill , thereby draw him to work harder to limit his vulnerabilities , Selina unwrap that Batman once assure her the material and much darker reason : to make the joker laugh at him and disregard Dick as a threat .
intelligibly , this is a much more tragical origin for Robin ’s costume , and it ’s made even speculative due to the fact that it at long last failed when it cameto the second Robin Jason Todd , who was dispatch by the Joker inDeath in the Family . Furthermore , it also communicates the point of caution and healthy level of fear Batman had of the Joker . That being suppose , the anecdote attend Selina well , produce the compass point that she has no remorse for her actions , while also connote that Dick should n’t be arresting her for killing the adult male that would n’t have hesitated to brutally kill him over the eld given the chance .
It ’s go away to be interesting to see what this alternative time to come check for Selina Kyle asBatman / Catwomancontinues , as the rest of the issue reveals that she already has the means to escape after being book by the GCPD . In any showcase , the fact that Robin ’s brilliant colors were a desperate attempt to protect his pal from the Joker is kind of distorted , particularly because it in the end did n’t even work . Still , the colorfulRobincostume lives on , supposedly for the saki of tradition .
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