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Warning : spoilers for Robins # 5 are ahead !
Taking up the chimneypiece ofRobinhas always been a complicated effect to hold , as it has proven to be both a blessing and a curse for the likes of Nightwing , Red Hood , Tim Drake , and Spoiler . That hardly even come up the control surface as far as the many name to have scratch their case into aRobin mask over the eld . However , it is only recently that one of the former Robins has actually made sense out of what it means to be Batman ’s sidekick .
InRobins#5 by Tim Seeley and Baldemar Rivas , Nightwing falsely comes to the conclusion that all of the Robins truly needed Batman in their lives , after they all fail a simulation without The Dark Knight by their side to catch them . But it is Red Hood who challenge that thought process and articulateswhat it actually means to be a Robin . answer to Dick , Jason says , " No , Dick . That ’s not it . We all fell because we were n’t there for each other . "
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Although as Robins , they were all technically sidekicks , Jason Todd sees thing a little other than with penetration independent from their relationship with Bruce Wayne . In Red Hood ’s mind , a Robin does not exist to have Batman ’s back . Instead , a Robin survive to catch the back of other Robins . Re - contextualizing the Robins as those who need to catch each other when in distress , not Batman , adds a whole young deepness to the Robin role that had n’t been previously judge in Batman lore until now .
Dick Grayson , Jason Todd , Tim Drake , Stephanie Brown , and Damian Wayne have all get change degree of achiever and failures from wreak alongside Batman . For some , Red Hood especially , those failure proved peculiarly dreaded and were more hurtful to their human relationship with their father pattern than helpful . However , even when their relationship with Bruce was strain , the Robins have always had each otherto go down back on in a shared siblinghood . Only they empathise the kind of trauma and pain they experience that is dead unique to being a Robin . While Batman certainly played a part in bettering their lives , it ’s hard to envisage what any of these Robins life-time would have looked like without each other .
It make it all the more apropos that Red Hood was the one to reach this conclusion , to commence with , seeing as he ’s arguably the only brother -or at least former Robin- to systematically dubiousness Batman ’s every move and motive . When the Bat - Family is reference within DC Comics , it ’s typically in the scope of Batman being at the head of the mesa surrounded by all of his sidekick . However , Red Hoodintroduced a new stratum suggesting that the exclusiveRobinclub is a family in itself , sovereign from The Caped Crusader .
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