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WhileNightwinghas long been regarded asBatman ’s star pupil , it seems he has fall from saving grace in a big way , asBatman Beyondproves that Dick Grayson is actually Bruce Wayne ’s worstRobin .
Dick Grayson became Robin after his parents were murdered by a Gotham City mob boss , and Bruce Wayne took him in as his own . Since then , Batman has been Dick ’s outstanding wise man , training him in the ways of being a superhero throughout his formative age and continued to be there for him after he sound off to become his own hero , Nightwing . Not only was Dick Batman ’s first Robin , but he proved to be his good and even helped train Damian Wayne after Batman take him in from the League of Assassins . However , in an alternate future tense within DC Comics , Nightwing completely turn a loss faith in Bruce ’s mission of using vigilante Justice Department to houseclean up Gotham and or else put his faith in another form of justice — and in doing so , proved to be Batman ’s greatest dashing hopes .
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InBatman : Beyond The White Knight#2 by Sean Murphy with Dave Stewart , Bruce Wayne has escaped from prisonafter being locked up for vigilantism when it came out that he was really Batman . While on the run , Bruce encounters some law enforcement agents of the GTO ( Gotham Terrorist Oppression Unit ) including the man in charge of the unit , his old ward , Dick Grayson . Even with all of the ripe technology at the GTO ’s garbage disposal , Bruce is still able-bodied to swiftly defeat Dick in a one - on - one fight . After he beats him , Bruce looks at Dick disappointingly and aver , “ Sorry , Dick . But you took the wrong lessons from everything I tried to teach you . If you want to protect Gotham , you put behind bars the criminals … not the entire city . ” Batman then leaves Dick lie in the grunge , kill and break , to contemplate what could be his last example from Batman .
In this darkneo - technical school future ofBatman Beyond , the GTO have essentially placed Gotham under martial law as crime in the city was deemed too out of control condition for the law military unit to handle alone . That means ceaseless surveillance , curfews , and endless suspicion of every single city resident . While crime has go away down , so has the quality of biography for everyone live in Gotham , making this novel " good " edition of the city an even worse home to live than it was before , and Dick Grayson has become an integral part of this totalitarian scheme . Under the guise of protecting innocent masses , Dick has already condemn them to live in what is basically a city - wide prison house , pin down them under the GTO ’s control and calling it refuge .
There was a fourth dimension whenNightwing would move outside of the lawto do what was correct , especially if there was degeneracy or bias present within the sound system . Now , Dick has become the very thing that he and Batman defend so hard against , a drab entity that has completely take over Gotham City just as any number of supervillains tried to do in the past . The only difference is the GTO has the law on their side , which work them even more life-threatening . Instead of working to take it down and free the the great unwashed of Gotham from this terrifying destiny , he conjoin them and fights every day for its continue existence , even if that means defend against the man who test to cultivate him to be the smashing interpretation of himself .
After selling his mortal to a totalistic entity in the name of peace and guard in the latestBatman Beyondstoryline , Nightwingproves thathe isBatman ’s worstRobin .
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