Warning : hold back spoilers forRobins # 1 !

InBatmanlore , the characterRobinis often ridiculed by pop finish ; his bright courting contrast humorously to Batman ’s dark costume and he ’s most often compared to Burt Ward ’s lighthearted incarnation in the 60sBatmanTV series . But Robin is a title that many charactershave possessed since Dick Graysonin 1941 . InRobins # 1,all the previous Robins sports meeting … and one of them redefines the role in a newfangled and exciting way .

Batman has had multiple Robins since the first , who would after go on to become his own Cuban sandwich Nightwing ; Dick Grayson ’s successor was the ill-famed Jason Todd , an unpopular Robin in the eighty andthus the only Robin to snuff it in the line of dutyat the hands of the Joker ( though like many comic book heroes , he eventually made a full recovery ) . Tim Drake and Stephanie Brown would continue to take on the name until Damian Wayne bring home the bacon them both . As the biological Word of Bruce Wayne , Damian has certain attitudes about his father and the clientele of being a Robin in general .

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InRobins # 1,all the Robins put together to discuss their panorama on the purpose . Dick Grayson does n’t even think back if Robin was his idea or Batman’s . Tim Drake was easily the most excitedto become Robin . Stephanie Brown was the only Robin to be evoke from the character ( temporarily ) . But Damian has another view : unlike the other Robins , he understands that" … Robin is simply a rich preparation ground . To survive it is to be first in bank line to become Batman when my father dies . "

Damian Wayne is perhaps more ambition and dedicated than any other Robin before him , owe to his fosterage and grooming . But he is n’t exactly wrong : when   Bruce Wayne   " died " inFinal Crisis(he got well quickly ) , Dick Grayson engage up the mantle . As the first Robin , Grayson had known Batman as a champion better than anyone else at that detail in DC history , demonstrate Damian ’s pointedness : whoever hold the drape of Robin is in the best possible spot to be trained by Batman , or simply determine through osmosis while fighting alongside Batman .

Comic book art: Batman faces the four Robins: Nightwing Dick Grayson, Red Hood Jason Todd, Red Robin Tim Drake, and Robin Damian Wayne.

Damian Wayne wants nothing more than tosucceed as Robin so he can move on to be Batman . He hasalwaysseen Robin as just a stepping stone to the next horizontal surface . Damian Wayne has n’t yet get over over to coarse cognition when it come toBatman , but his view ofRobinmirrors what many already think of the office : an intermediate point before becoming one ’s own paladin .

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