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Warning ! Spoilers before forRobin # 8
In the latest issue of DC Comics’Robin , Damian Wayne is about to enter a massively defining instant that will settle his futurity . Having been estranged fromBatmanfor several issuance , Damian has left his forefather to sort out a personal identity crisis . Spurned on by his unsuccessful person to save the Bat - Family ’s butler Alfred who was toss off by Bane , Damian is determined to face his inner daimon and wickedness , and as such he ’s encounter himself involve in a tournament of lethal fighters lead by the mysterious League of Lazarus .
In DC’sRobinfrom writer Joshua Williamson and creative person Gleb Melnikov , Damian Wayne found his way to Lazarus Island , enter a tourney feature the expectant fighter aircraft in the DC Universe who were all competing to the destruction , hope to achieve what they trust will be immortality . With the power of the Lazarus Pitshaving seeped into the foundation of the island itself , each scrapper can die twice and become resurrected before a third and final lasting expiry . While the League of Lazarus has ulterior motif for the maven , which Damian is compulsive to uncover , his final battle with the unavowed son of the Green Arrow Hawke visualise the former Robin revealing his personal motive for fighting in the tournament .
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Having been born and multiply to inherit the baron of his grandfather Ra ’s Al Ghul as drawing card of the League of Assassins , it ’s no secret that Damian Wayne has had one of the darkest childhoods of Batman ’s wards . Under the guidance of his father , Damian has worked heavily to chasten the brutality and grampus instinct he was take aim since birth to loose . However , that battle has been harder due to the guiltiness he feel from Alfred ’s death . Damian says as much in the newRobin # 8claiming that the Lazarus Tournament is his penalisation that will help make up one’s mind where he ’ll go once the junk settles .
Clearly , this is a vital moment in Damian Wayne ’s life . moreover , there ’s no recounting what he might become by the end of the tournament . While DC Comics’Future Statetitles have revealed what ’s in store for many of the DC Universe ’s heroes and villain in the nigh future , Damian has never been featured in any of them . As such , Robin ’s future has never been more uncertain than it is powerful now .
It seems as though the outcome of the Lazarus Tournament will be a monumental turning point which could very wellset the trajectory for Damian Wayne ’s hereafter . Will he recommit himself to being Robin and rejoinBatmanand the residue of the Bat - Family in future issues , or will he resign himself to his dark and continue on his own as something else alone ? Fans will just have to wait and see as DC’sRobincontinues .
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