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word of advice ! Spoilers beforehand forNightwing # 83 !
InNightwing # 83 , Dick Grayson just kill crack - rich hero likeIron Manin a single sentence . Dick Grayson grew up first with a traveling circus , then in Bruce Wayne ’s house , going from few beast comforts to being able to have anything he could conceive of . While the Joker War cost Batman his billions , leave him as merely rich rather than one of the wealthiest men in the man , Nightwing has more money than everthanks to the will of Alfred Pennyworth , the Bat - Family ’s faithful butler .
But while Nightwing might now be one of DC ’s copious superheroes , he ’s got little purpose of have onto the money . In fact , Dick has an extensive plan to use his new fortune to transform his adopted city of Bludhaven , act as the safety net for everyone this notoriously tainted metropolis would otherwise allow to pass . But before he enact that plan , he talks to Supermanto get another perspective , and makes it clear that if he knew Tony Stark , the two of them would be unlikely to get along .
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InNightwing # 83by Tom Taylor , Bruno Redondo , and Adriano Lucas , Nightwing fork over a brutal dig to all fertile hero . The former Robin states,“I do n’t imagine there ’s anything heroic about being a billionaire . ”Dick make it clear that unlike Batman and Iron Man , his plan is n’t just to habituate his money to be a more effectual hero while maintaining his fortune , and that he specifically intend to no longer be a billionaire by the time his plan is done . While this is a shaft on any billionairehero like Batman or Iron Man , it ’s a especially damning indictment of Tony Stark , who often specify himself through his portion - after all , he is a"genius , billionaire , playboy philanthropist . "
Nightwing ’s contestation is n’t ground on the estimate that productive submarine sandwich likeIron Man are n’t using their resources for honorable , but that hold so much in reserve is hard to vindicate when it could be spent on worthwhile projects . Sitting on resources that could be valuable to the world is something Dick face as immoral , hence the ambition of his plans . It ’s pretty clear that Nightwing is go to use the wealthiness that Alfred entrust behind for something good , to the extent that he ’s really just been entrusted to distribute it as effectively as potential , not to keep it in his possession .
Many characters ( and proofreader ) have bring up that Batman could and perhaps should have done the same thing , but Nightwing understands that Bruce is inherently conservative and would never want to be without whatever resource could address the next hand brake , even worry his wise man will talk him out of his architectural plan . In demarcation , Iron Man has always enjoyed using his riches for personal impulse and a lavish lifestyle , even as he alsofunds the Avengersand establish intact charitable organizations . Now , Nightwing has the chance to prove the merit of a more radical consumption of wealth than Bruce Wayne ’s endless Batmobiles and Iron Man ’s Falco subbuteo of designing and building sophisticated suits for every imaginable occasion . Nightwing # 83is uncommitted in comic book stores and on digital platforms now , and begins to explore whether Dick is right to patronage billionaire superheroes likeIron Man , or if he ’s bitten off more than he can chew .
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