Even in-universe, Batman’s sidekick Robin is form of a franchise. Each time you assume you might have all of them accounted for, one other one pops up, often with a really minor variation or two on the unique costume pioneered by Dick Grayson nearly 80 years in the past. And that is earlier than you even get into alternate timelines, the place something can occur and nearly anyone may find yourself in these little inexperienced booties. That is what has lastly put Duke Thomas right into a Robin swimsuit — and a extremely fancy one, at that, designed for the distinctive world of Sean Gordon Murphy’s Batman: White Knight. 

In Batman: Past the White Knight, the Dark Knight is not getting any youthful. Barbara Gordon asks Dick Grayson’s accomplice, Duke Thomas, to don some Robin armor within the hopes of getting the stolen Batman swimsuit again from Terry McGinnis, and it offers followers their first in-story take a look at a fancy dress that Murphy had beforehand revealed on Twitter.

You’ll be able to see the costume, and a prolonged, emotional assertion from Murphy, beneath.

“So far as the place Terry goes I … The trick with Terry, for me, was how you can make him just a little completely different,” Murphy beforehand advised ComicBook.com. “I did not wish to simply mirror precisely what occurred with the Batman Past cartoon collection. I needed to make it distinctive however type of acquainted on the similar time. One of many issues I actually needed to do is make him half Asian, which I did not notice this however a ton of individuals, together with myself, all the time assumed Terry was half Japanese and half Irish or one thing. Solely as a result of there’s a lot kanji in Neo-Gotham and he has lengthy black straight hair, like lots of people mistake him as being half Asian although each of his mother and father are extraordinarily white. So for this one, I made a decision to make his mother Asian and his dad’s clearly Irish, simply to type of lastly create a brand new form of Terry. Like perhaps it is simply window dressing, it would not actually have an effect on the story that a lot however I simply thought it was an attention-grabbing technique to break up my Terry from the opposite Terrys on the market and, clearly, to diversify the road, which is vital.”