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The relationship betweenBatmanandhis son , Damian WayneakaRobin , has always been strained at best , and now The Dark Knight has insulted The Boy Wonder so sorry that it ’ll be a recollective while before Damian forgive him for it . rent ’s just say that bringing up the last of Alfred — something Damian still heavily blames himself for — is n’t the good course of military action when attempting to console your nipper about the death of yet another one of his enjoy single .
Making all the unseasonable paternal decisions in the first part of the Batman / Robin / Deathstroke crossover event titledShadow War , by Joshua Williamson and Viktor Bogdanovic , Batman and Robin have just witnessed the assassination of farseeing - clock time bat - villain and Robin ’s gramps , Ra ’s al Ghul . apparently shoot and then blown up by the soldier of fortune know as Deathstroke , Batman and Robin are reel from these event as Ra ’s ’ execution was not only unexpected but tragical considering he was just about to give the world the secret behind the immortal fluid of the Lazarus Pits .
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shoot through the school principal and then burn by a well - placed grenade , Ra ’s al Ghul ’s death now hits Damian where it hurts . Having not too long ago lost another one of his gramps in Alfred Pennyworth , Robin still pick himself for his part inAlfred ’s deathduring the issue of the story arc title “ City of Bane ” , a fact made even hard to deal with since Damian late decidedagainstreviving Alfred via a ampoule of Lazarus Resin . And now with Batman thump that wound after Ra ’s ' untimely demise , Bats has a lot of explicate to do to a son that just needed to hear some reassuring words from his father .
After take out Robin away from the explosion that dashed any Leslie Townes Hope of using Ra ’s ’ consistency to resurrect him in the Lazarus Pits , Batman start things off right by soothe his son with a much - needed clinch . But after their embrace , Damian is still rightly upturned , blame Batman for lose “ two grandfathers ” because of Bruce ’s choices : Alfred because of Bane ’s beef with the big bad Bat , and Ra ’s because he did not allow Damian to save his physical body . Saying , “ If I was the one there , I could have keep Alfred , ” Batman accidentally lets slip a comment that directly alienates his son . And though he tries to excuse right afterward by saying he did n’t mean what his Bible were clearly implying , the harm had been done , leading Robin to surprise off claiming that he ’ll play Deathstroke in “ drained or alive ” and without Batman ’s help .
Not exactly the skilful choice of Good Book even if the intention behind them were n’t meant to be deleterious , Batman implying that Alfred would still be live if Damian had n’t step foot in Gotham , gotten captured , and thenforced Bane ’s hand in killing Alfred , is still a heavy persuasion to play up right after Damian ’s biological grandfather was essentially blown to smithereens . And while Batman before long realizes his inexcusable misunderstanding , it ’s too little too late for an revilement that blend way too far in making a period that instead should have been a heart - to - heart conversation rather than an off - hand commentary .
So although it seems like Ra ’s al Ghul ’s death might be permanent this time around , Batman necessitate to do better about hand his Logos the parental counseling he so clear necessitate in this unmanageable time . Batmanslipped up in a somewhat unforgivable fashion when referencing Alfred ’s unfortunate dying , and now he has to getRobinback before Damian does something he ’ll rue .
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