Nightwing and Red Hood have all the time had a rocky relationship, however nothing ready Dick for the trauma Jason’s dying would convey.
Few issues might make a member of the family’s dying extra tragic, however sadly, Nightwing managed to seek out them after Jason Todd’s dying. When Jason Todd died in A Dying within the Household it despatched shockwaves by means of the Batfamily and when Nightwing came upon, nearly the whole lot that might’ve gone fallacious occurred.
After Dick Grayson left to turn into Nightwing and focus extra on the Titans, Batman encountered an orphan on the streets of Gotham, named Jason Todd. Needing a brand new companion and eager to set Jason down a greater path, he took him in and commenced coaching him as the brand new Robin, one thing Nightwing appeared initially apprehensive about and even admonishes Bruce for what little coaching Jason appears to have. Ultimately, Dick strikes onto a extra mentor function and even presents Jason his outdated Robin costume, as seen in White Gold and Reality. The few interactions seen between Nightwing and Jason solely make it all of the extra tragic that readers by no means actually bought to see their friendship progress. Decision could be the final time they interacted earlier than Jason’s premature dying. On the time of his dying, Dick was out in house, on the planet Tamaran, which explains why Bruce could not contact him when it occurred, however it does not clarify why Bruce did not contact him, in any respect.
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In New Teen Titans #55 by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez, Nightwing came upon about Jason’s dying by means of a mutual Titan, the perpetually boastful and callous Danny Chase. Nightwing would later use Jason’s dying to justify firing Danny. Nightwing was, understandably in shock when he came upon, and after venting his anger over Danny Chase brutally revealing Jason’s dying, he visited Bruce, the place after a heated argument, Bruce would punch Nightwing within the face, claiming he did not want or need one other companion ever once more.
After the dying of Jason, Dick’s relationship with batman turned troublesome and Dick struggled loads with grief and rage. Including to the trauma is that this stole Jason Todd’s heroic future from him. In Joker: Final Snigger #6 after Joker mentions how arduous he hit Jason, Dick responds by beating Joker to dying along with his naked fingers. Joker is finally resuscitated by Batman, however it nonetheless reveals the psychological place Dick was in that he willingly and simply broke the Batfamily’s primary rule: No Killing. The trauma of Jason’s dying stayed with Nightwing for a very long time, he felt like since he left the place of Robin, Jason was left to take up the mantle which put him in line to be killed. Since Nightwing had been a educated acrobat lengthy earlier than he ever turned Robin, he felt he would’ve stood a greater likelihood as a result of his fast pondering than Jason, who was only a little one off the road.
Jason’s dying and the occasions round it have been so traumatic that Nightwing, when he was contaminated with worry toxin, one of many central themes of his nightmare was Jason’s dying as proven in Nightwing #10. Fortunately after Jason’s revival, he and Nightwing have gotten the possibility to foster an precise brotherly friendship.
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