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Warning : contains spoilers forShazam # 1 !
WhileNightwingrecently rededicated himself to acting as Blüdhaven ’s greatest protector , there was a fourth dimension when Dick Grayson failed his adopted city in spectacular fashion . But thanks to a late turn against the impossibly large and toxic villain Chemo , Nightwing is able to get revenge for his most annihilating frustration with help from the Teen Titans and Shazam .
InShazam # 1by Tim Sheridan and Clayton Henry , the Teen Titans fight Chemo in New York City . As the radioactive brat threatens to detonate and furnish the integral urban center uninhabitable , Nightwing and the Teen Titans work to hold it at bay despite its astonishingly vast sizing . The squad gain the upper hired hand when Shazam - recentlytaken under Nightwing ’s wingas a fellow member of the new Roy Harper Academy - sneak the toxic giant off its feet , with Raven dealing the critical blow when Billy Batson ’s powers are revealed to be on the fritz .
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WhileShazam # 1is the first fourth dimension readers see Chemo and Nightwing trading bodge in the newInfinite Frontierera , the duo ’s beef actually goes back to the days ofInfinite Crisis , the first time the Multiverse as a whole was truly threatened . During this event , Nightwing was die after the Secret Society of Supervillains , a collective whose membership included theJoker and Lex Luthor . In retaliation , the Society lashed out against Batman ’s friend by dropping Chemo on his adoptive metropolis . Chemo , as the name entail , is a large monster composed almost entirely of toxic chemical . When the villain drop Chemo on Blüdhaven , the monster ’s out shell violently , and explosively , ruptured and destroyed the entirety of Blüdhaven in a toxic green daze . Nightwing was scourge as his metropolis was so violently destroyed , especially since he was ultimately powerless to save anyone in it .
Now , inShazam # 1 , Nightwing face Chemo in New York City . Infinite Frontieris combine all DC ’s past continuity by aggregate multiple iterations of reality , meaning that while Chemo ’s attack no longer canonically pass off and Blüdhaven still exist , Nightwing belike remembers the desolation caused inInfinite Crisis . Dick clear infer how severe Chemo is , but hopefully he also study some satisfaction in leading the Teen Titans and their students to triumph , saving civilian lives and disposing of the toxic villain . Having recently return to Blüdhaven after find from amnesia , Nightwing ’s victory over Chemo is a symbolical win that create it well-defined he wo n’t be allow the tragedies of the past to be replicate .
Chemo obliterate Nightwing ’s adopted city , and while Blüdhaven may still be remain firm in current canyon , Infinite Crisisremains perhaps the most crushing loss Dick Grayson has ever face . That he ’s been able to write New York from a similar lot , and is now using the fate left to him by Alfred Pennyworth to support those Blüdhaven would otherwise allow to perish , mark anew era forNightwing- one in which he ’s delineate by the possible valour of the future , not the failure of the past tense .
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