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WhileBatmanmay be more renowned for his utility belt . Nightwingmay express uncanny thing than even the Caped Crusader himself . While both Batman and Nightwing carry a variety of gadgets , a few panel fromTeen Titans Academy # 5 , write by Tim Sheridan and illustrated by Steve Lieber , show that when it issue forth to eldritch items they load down with them , the student may have overtaken the schoolmaster .
In the issue , Nightwing find himself on the keister of his charges - Bratgirl , Chupacabra , and Megabat . Chupacabra - who at this point is only called Diego - has been " adopted " by a mad scientist who is going to experiment on him with a super - soldier serum . This is n’t a standard super - soldier blood serum , though - this one transforms those inject with it into horrifying bat - like creatures .
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When Nightwing lastly get up to Diego - who has , unfortunately , already been injected with this bat super - soldier blood serum - he has quite the variety of peculiar tools at his disposal to deal with the billet . All of these tools - as strange as they may seem - end up being passing utile . First , hepulls a heel tin whistle outand apply it to distract a bat - behemoth from attacking his friend . Next up : a compact mirror . While no explanation is collapse for the presence of this item , it certainly is unusual that he has it . The Bat Pack discover it hoard in the gang on his motorcycle . last , Diego - now going by Chupacabra - is seen conduct around a space mantle that Nightwing refers to ashis , which means it came from the pack on his motorcycle .
Utility belt ammunition have always been a bit of a deus ex machina in comics . A vulgar trope in cartoon strip - and even mockery - is that Batman always has a Bat - whatever handy . All heroes seem to stockpile on the button the right point at the right time . The items indicate that Nightwing carries with him - although super Wyrd - can easily be rationalized . A distance mantle is the perfect tool if he has rescued someone who ’s experiencing any sort of electrical shock . A dog whistling is a great putz if Nightwing is chamfer down a uncollectible guy cable that has guard dogs . Granted , the compact mirror may be the strangest , but it is an cheap and easy replaceable way to look around corner in covert state of affairs .
Some items in utility program belts can be truly eldritch and extremely situational and , while these items certainly seem leftover for Nightwing to manifestly always have on his person , they indicate thatNightwingis , above all else , a planner . He knows the issue he commonly run away into ( corners , dogs , people in various states of shock ) and is ready to take on those issues with only the tools he express in his utility belt and bike travelling bag .
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