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WARNING : Spoilers for Teen Titans Academy # 8 ahead !
The past few month for " DCs Favorite Love Triangle " have been complicated and perplexing , withNightwingseemingly piquant in romanticistic relationships with bothStarfireandBatgirl , but inTeen Titans Academy # 8the record isfinallyset flat on whether or not Dick is cheating . Nightwing ’s passion life has been featured in many plot line over the retiring few decade , andfans are implausibly dividedon whether they think Dick should stop up with Kory or Barbara , but the one thingno onewants is to find out that Nightwing is in reality a cheating scumbag .
Nightwing and his Teen Titans mate Starfire , the Tamaranian Princess Koriand’r , are one of the skillful deterrent example of a " will they or wo n’t they " couple in the DC Omniverse . The two have not formally dated in comic strip for almost two tenner , ever since their intimate relationship was wipe off as part ofThe New 52 , but with DC ’s newInfinite Frontierera making all prior chief persistence event canon , Nightwing and Starfire havere - go into into a romantic relationshipas ofTeen Titans Academy # 2 , where they are seen sleeping in bed together . Simultaneously , in Dick ’s self - titledNightwingseries it is clear that he is romantically interested in , and actively pursing , his other long - time love interest Barbara Gordon ( otherwise known as the Bat Family ’s resident Batgirl ) .
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Frustratingly , it appear for the first several yield ofTeen Titans AcademyandNightwingthat neither of them would cite the events of the other , which has led many people to believe that Dick is keeping his two life underground anddisgustingly cheat on on Starfire with Batgirl . However , inTeen Titans Academy # 8- illustrated by Mike Norton and Hi - Fi with writing by Tim Sheridan - Wally West asks Kory about the whereabouts of Dick , which she does n’t know . When Flash asks,“Trouble in paradise?“Starfire responds with,“Paradise was a recollective metre ago , Wally … Wearetogether — As friends and workfellow — which is howIwant it,“confirming that Dick and Kory are no longer an item .
Clearly something has occur to Dick and Kory off - panel betweenTeen Titans Academyissues that has conduce to the two finish their romantic relationship but still remaining acquaintance . The likeliest response to this is that Nightwing has decided to officially stay in Blüdhaven as its protector , andDC wants Dick to end up with Barbaraover in theNightwingseries . This seems like a major detail to so hurriedly shove into a random scene inTeen Titans Academy , which begs the interrogative , " Did DC primitively require Nightwing to end up with Starfire , before resolve he should terminate up with Batgirl inNightwing ? " Nightwing and Batgirl last kissed inNightwing # 86,which debuted afterTeen Titans Academy # 8 , meaning that for a full calendar week referee believe Nightwing had kissed Batgirl before getting check that he and Starfire had fall apart up .
Thankfully , this fundamental interaction between Kory and Wally seems to be DC revealing that no , Dick Grayson isnota trickster , and that his and Kory ’s relationship was over before Nightwing and Batgirl ever formally started dating . Dick dally with Barbara over inNightwingis still kind of gross behavior , seeing as he was also romantically connect to Kory , but at least he is not the downright villainofTeen Titans Academy . Starfire and Batgirl are both unbelievably strong , independent adult female , and it is clear that neither of them would have put up with Nightwing string them both along . Hopefully , moving forward , Nightwingwill be capable to enroll into a bonk romantic relationship withBatgirlwhile still maintaining his irrefutable work and friend kinship withStarfire .
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