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In the latest issue of DC Comics’Batman : Urban Legends , Dick Grayson find out that his death asNightwingleads to the end of the Bat - Family ’s next Christmases . In a short story have in the unexampled anthology issue , Nightwing is endeavor to keep Blüdhaven and Gotham safe from Scarecrow ’s gang , who are continuing to stimulate chaos despite Jonathan Crane ’s capture at the end ofDC ’s recently concludedFear Stateevent . However , his fellowship is waiting for him to come home so they can start their holiday celebration , inspire Nightwing to be visited by three spirits in his ownChristmas Carol - character story where his dark Christmas hereafter is revealed .
With Dick Grayson ceaselessly put to work on Christmas Eve as Nightwing , " The Bats of Christmas Past " from writer Tini Howard and artist Christian Duce sees the vigilante losing focus and pay back a face full of Scarecrow ’s fear toxin . Hallucinating , Nightwing is taken on a journey that leaf off ofCharles Dickens ' classicA Christmas Carol . However , rather than the Ghosts of Christmas Past , Present , and Future visiting Nightwing , the booze are rather replaced with Batgirls . While Barbara Gordon bring out the unintended consequences of the past times from Nightwing not coming home to Wayne Manor for Christmas , Stephanie Brown reveals that he ’s in danger of ruining another Christmas in the present as the Bat - Family are begin to worry about him .
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However , Cassie Cain ’s Batgirlserves to be the similitude for the Ghost of Christmas Future in this little tale . agree to Cass , Nightwing cease up ruin all Yule in the future for his Bat - Family in the dark timeline he ’s actively hallucinating for himself . By remain out on patrol on Christmas Eve , Nighting is ultimately murdered by the Scarecrow Gang . As a result , this make a domino effect where Christmas simply become the Bat - Family ’s night for war .
Thankfully , Nightwing ’s fear - toxin drug trip does the prank just as it did for Ebenezer Scrooge , contribute him to alter his ways and make more of an effort to cherish and value the holiday season . to boot , it turn out that the literal Cass was Dick ’s hole-and-corner Santa , which have in mind that her last - instant gift to Dick is hilariously consider care of the Scarecrow thugs while he is still hallucinating . As a result , this exempt Dick up tohead straight to Bruce Wayne ’s brownstoneto lionize Christmas with the masses who weigh most : his household .
While the hair-raising vacation time to come is all in Dick Grayson ’s headway thanks to the toxins , it ’s certainly a very probable outcome for how the Bat - Family would respond if Nightwing were to ever go bad on Christmas . As a result , it ’s respectable that Nightwing now has a peachy understanding of the value of Christmas , how he should be pass it , and with whom . That being said and irrespective of the lessons learned , it ’s still just an entertaining time to seeNightwingget Scrooged in the DC Universe .
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