Within the newest concern of DC Comics’ Batman: City Legends, Nightwing learns that his demise successfully destroys all future Christmases for his household.
Warning! Spoilers forward for Batman: City Legends #10
Within the newest concern of DC Comics’ Batman: City Legends, Dick Grayson learns that his demise as Nightwing results in the top of the Bat-Household’s future Christmases. In a brief story featured within the new anthology concern, Nightwing is making an attempt to maintain Blüdhaven and Gotham protected from Scarecrow’s gang, who’re persevering with to trigger chaos regardless of Jonathan Crane’s seize on the finish of DC’s just lately concluded Concern State occasion. Nevertheless, his household is ready for him to come back house to allow them to begin their vacation festivities, prompting Nightwing to be visited by three spirits in his personal Christmas Carol-type story the place his darkish Christmas future is revealed.
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With Dick Grayson ceaselessly engaged on Christmas Eve as Nightwing, “The Bats of Christmas Previous” from author Tini Howard and artist Christian Duce sees the vigilante dropping focus and getting a face stuffed with Scarecrow’s worry toxin. Hallucinating, Nightwing is taken on a journey that riffs off of Charles Dickens’ basic A Christmas Carol. Nevertheless, quite than the Ghosts of Christmas Previous, Current, and Future visiting Nightwing, the spirits are as a substitute changed with Batgirls. Whereas Barbara Gordon reveals the unintended penalties of the previous from Nightwing not coming house to Wayne Manor for Christmas, Stephanie Brown reveals that he is at risk of ruining one other Christmas within the current because the Bat-Household are starting to fret about him.
Nevertheless, Cassie Cain’s Batgirl serves to be the counterpart for the Ghost of Christmas Future on this quick story. In keeping with Cass, Nightwing finally ends up ruining all Christmases sooner or later for his Bat-Household in the dead of night timeline he is actively hallucinating for himself. By staying out on patrol on Christmas Eve, Nighting is finally murdered by the Scarecrow Gang. Consequently, this creates a domino impact the place Christmases merely grow to be the Bat-Household’s evening for warfare.
Fortunately, Nightwing’s fear-toxin drug journey does the trick simply because it did for Ebenezer Scrooge, main him to vary his methods and make extra of an effort to cherish and worth the vacation season. Moreover, it seems that the actual Cass was Dick’s Secret Santa ,which signifies that her last-minute reward to Dick is hilariously caring for the Scarecrow thugs whereas he’s nonetheless hallucinating. Consequently, this frees Dick as much as head straight to Bruce Wayne’s brownstone to rejoice Christmas with the individuals who matter most: his household.
Whereas the nightmarish vacation future is all in Dick Grayson’s head because of the toxins, it is actually a really probably consequence for a way the Bat-Household would reply if Nightwing have been to ever die on Christmas. Consequently, it is good that Nightwing now has a larger understanding of the worth of Christmas, how he must be spending it, and with whom. That being mentioned and whatever the classes discovered, it is nonetheless simply an entertaining time to see Nightwing get Scrooged within the DC Universe.