Let's see how much of a Nightwing fan you are! Here are One Dozen Nightwing Facts!
1. Robin was created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane in 1940. His design was inspired by the classic fictional character Robin Hood and the bird. The most recent origin behind Robin being Grayson's choice of identity is that his mother loved robins and the night before her death Grayson gave her a small brass robin for her birthday.
2. Dick Grayson is a founding member of The Teen Titans. He is also one of the three original members to stick around after the formation of The New Teen Titans. When Robin transitioned into Nightwing, he and the older Teen Titans established a new team simply called "The Titans". Grayson has also been a member of The Justice League under both the title of Nightwing and as Batman.
3. The name "Nightwing" comes from Kryptonian mythology. Superman had told Robin the story of two legendary crime-fighters on Krypton called Nightwing and Flamebird. In 2015, the story was retooled and stated Nightwing and Flamebird were two Kryptonian dragons. Flamebird would destroy and Nightwing would create. Betty Kane-the sister of Batwoman and the very first Bat-Girl-became Flamebird in the 1990's and holds the title to this day despite being distant from Grayson.
4. Because of his childhood experiences in the circus as an acrobat, Dick Grayson is a master of perception. He can plan a path across any terrain and predict an opponent's movements simply by reading their body language. He can even tell if someone is lying just by looking at you.
5. Robin was originally created to give Batman someone to talk to. In the 1980's Robin was more associated with The Teen Titans and editor Len Wein felt the Batman books needed Robin again, but Grayson was too old and too distant. Wein asked Gerry Conway and Don Newton to create Jason Todd as a new Robin. In addition, Wein asked Teen Titan's writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Perez to progress Grayson into another role, hence Nightwing.
6. Dick Grayson took over for Batman after Bruce Wayne seemingly died in 2008. When Dick became the new Batman, Damian Wayne had just been created and added to the story by Grant Morrison. Damian was the son of Bruce and Talia al Ghul and was raised as an assassin. As such, the new Batman & Robin was an inverse of the traditional duo because Batman was more optimistic and humorous and Robin was more violent and dangerous.
7. During the 1950's, there was a concern among parents that the Batman and Robin relationship was homosexual. This fear escalated in the 1966 Batman TV show staring Adam West and Burt Ward because Robin was clearly older than his comic book counterpart and still wore the green underwear. This concern from parents pushed Bob Kane and Bill Finger to create the original Batwoman and Bat-Girl to give the Dynamic Duo respective romantic partners. The current conception is that Bruce and Dick share a father-son relationship.
8. Dick Grayson has utilized Batarangs just like other members of the Batman Family, however he has designed his own throwing weapons to match his bird logo. These weapons have been referred to as Throwing Birds, Birdarangs, and Wing-Dings. Like Batman, Grayson refuses to use guns. When he was an agent of Spyril he would often use his gun to startle foes, trigger explosives, or as a makeshift Batarang.
9. DC Editor Dan Didio has been trying to kill Dick Grayson for the last decade. After the event "Trinity War" he insisted the character be killed off, but Geoff Johns met Dan halfway by having Batman fake Grayson's death and plant him as a double agent in the spy organization Spyril. Grayson would receive a self-titled series and be estranged from the Batman Family. Dan assumed this book would be overlooked, but fans followed the book and enjoyed the premise. Dan has stated his disliking of Dick Grayson comes from the character's age. If Grayson is allowed to be in his mid-to-late-twenties that would mean Batman would be in his mid-forties at least and Dan doesn't want Batman "to be old". Didio was also responsible for Stephanie Brown (Spoiler/Robin/Batgirl) to be left out of the 2011 DC Comics reboot because the character was too optimistic to be a Batman character.
10. The spy book "Grayson" was written by Tim Seeley and Tom King. Tom King had been a writer for X-Men alongside Chris Claremont, but after September 11th he joined the CIA counter-terrorism unit. King returned to comics in 2014 to help write "Grayson" and use his CIA experiences to improve the spy-element of the title. King also wrote Marvel's most recent "Vision" series and he has also been placed as the solo writer for the 2016 "Batman" title.
11. Dick Grayson was a main character in Bruce Timm and Paul Dini's "Batman: The Animated Series" in 1992, he even changed into Nightwing in season four of the cartoon. However, you will notice an absence of the character in the following "Justice League" and "Justice League Unlimited" series despite the same writers working on those shows. This is because of something called The Batman Embargo. When JLU was on TV it was on around the same time the "Teen Titans" animated series aired. The studio didn't want children to think "Teen Titans" was part of the DCAU, so JLU could not use Dick Grayson or any character featured in the Teen Titans cartoon, and the Teen Titans crew could not use Batman or any characters from the JLU cartoon. The embargo is also why Robin didn't appear in 2004's "The Batman" animated series until season four, because around that time "Teen Titans" had been cancelled after five seasons. This also created the only instance where Batman allied with Batgirl/Barbara Gordon before allying with Dick Grayson/Robin because Batgirl appeared one season earlier.
12. In Tim Burton's 1992 film "Batman Returns" Marlon Wayans was originally cast as Robin. However, there were too many characters in the film already and the role was cut from the final script. Robin would eventually be played by Chris O'Donnell in "Batman Forever" in 1994, but Marlon Wayans claims he still receives residual checks from Warner Bros. every year. Both Marlon and Channing Tatum have expressed a decent knowledge of comic book characters in the interview linked below.
http://io9.gizmodo.com/5330150/the-real-reason-marlon-wayans-passed-on-playing-robin
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5. Robin was originally created to give Batman someone to talk to. In the 1980's Robin was more associated with The Teen Titans and editor Len Wein felt the Batman books needed Robin again, but Grayson was too old and too distant. Wein asked Gerry Conway and Don Newton to create Jason Todd as a new Robin. In addition, Wein asked Teen Titan's writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Perez to progress Grayson into another role, hence Nightwing.
6. Dick Grayson took over for Batman after Bruce Wayne seemingly died in 2008. When Dick became the new Batman, Damian Wayne had just been created and added to the story by Grant Morrison. Damian was the son of Bruce and Talia al Ghul and was raised as an assassin. As such, the new Batman & Robin was an inverse of the traditional duo because Batman was more optimistic and humorous and Robin was more violent and dangerous.
7. During the 1950's, there was a concern among parents that the Batman and Robin relationship was homosexual. This fear escalated in the 1966 Batman TV show staring Adam West and Burt Ward because Robin was clearly older than his comic book counterpart and still wore the green underwear. This concern from parents pushed Bob Kane and Bill Finger to create the original Batwoman and Bat-Girl to give the Dynamic Duo respective romantic partners. The current conception is that Bruce and Dick share a father-son relationship.
8. Dick Grayson has utilized Batarangs just like other members of the Batman Family, however he has designed his own throwing weapons to match his bird logo. These weapons have been referred to as Throwing Birds, Birdarangs, and Wing-Dings. Like Batman, Grayson refuses to use guns. When he was an agent of Spyril he would often use his gun to startle foes, trigger explosives, or as a makeshift Batarang.
9. DC Editor Dan Didio has been trying to kill Dick Grayson for the last decade. After the event "Trinity War" he insisted the character be killed off, but Geoff Johns met Dan halfway by having Batman fake Grayson's death and plant him as a double agent in the spy organization Spyril. Grayson would receive a self-titled series and be estranged from the Batman Family. Dan assumed this book would be overlooked, but fans followed the book and enjoyed the premise. Dan has stated his disliking of Dick Grayson comes from the character's age. If Grayson is allowed to be in his mid-to-late-twenties that would mean Batman would be in his mid-forties at least and Dan doesn't want Batman "to be old". Didio was also responsible for Stephanie Brown (Spoiler/Robin/Batgirl) to be left out of the 2011 DC Comics reboot because the character was too optimistic to be a Batman character.
10. The spy book "Grayson" was written by Tim Seeley and Tom King. Tom King had been a writer for X-Men alongside Chris Claremont, but after September 11th he joined the CIA counter-terrorism unit. King returned to comics in 2014 to help write "Grayson" and use his CIA experiences to improve the spy-element of the title. King also wrote Marvel's most recent "Vision" series and he has also been placed as the solo writer for the 2016 "Batman" title.
11. Dick Grayson was a main character in Bruce Timm and Paul Dini's "Batman: The Animated Series" in 1992, he even changed into Nightwing in season four of the cartoon. However, you will notice an absence of the character in the following "Justice League" and "Justice League Unlimited" series despite the same writers working on those shows. This is because of something called The Batman Embargo. When JLU was on TV it was on around the same time the "Teen Titans" animated series aired. The studio didn't want children to think "Teen Titans" was part of the DCAU, so JLU could not use Dick Grayson or any character featured in the Teen Titans cartoon, and the Teen Titans crew could not use Batman or any characters from the JLU cartoon. The embargo is also why Robin didn't appear in 2004's "The Batman" animated series until season four, because around that time "Teen Titans" had been cancelled after five seasons. This also created the only instance where Batman allied with Batgirl/Barbara Gordon before allying with Dick Grayson/Robin because Batgirl appeared one season earlier.
12. In Tim Burton's 1992 film "Batman Returns" Marlon Wayans was originally cast as Robin. However, there were too many characters in the film already and the role was cut from the final script. Robin would eventually be played by Chris O'Donnell in "Batman Forever" in 1994, but Marlon Wayans claims he still receives residual checks from Warner Bros. every year. Both Marlon and Channing Tatum have expressed a decent knowledge of comic book characters in the interview linked below.
http://io9.gizmodo.com/5330150/the-real-reason-marlon-wayans-passed-on-playing-robin
Thanks for reading!
Do you want to see Dick Grayson in Ben Affleck's Batman movie? Comment below!
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