As a member of the Teen Titans and the primary of Batman’s sidekicks to strike out on his personal, Nightwing could be very common character amongst DC Comics followers. However this iteration of Dick Grayson isn’t showing on Titans thus far, because the DC Universe collection options Robin as the principle character.

Titans producer and collection author Geoff Johns spoke with DC Comics about why Grayson remains to be Robin within the present, probably hinting that Nightwing is coming within the close to future.

“We talked lots about beginning Dick Grayson as Nightwing,” Johns says. “All of us received to a degree the place we will miss and jump over what I feel is a extremely attention-grabbing interval of Dick Grayson’s life the place he left Batman and he was struggling to discover a new identification and who he was.”

Johns and government producer Greg Berlanti got here to the conclusion that it could work higher for Rachel’s journey towards turning into Raven to be mirrored by Dick Grayson’s post-Batman path.

“We took a sliver of the comics that handled Dick Grayson post-Batman a bit bit and amplified that much more, exploring what that interval for Dick Grayson was actually like,” Johns explains. “Nightwing is such a steady, assured, emotionally balanced character—he is Dick Grayson when he is discovered his place on the earth. We needed to construct as much as him turning into Nightwing.”

Johns defined the principle storyline of the primary season is to carry the Titans collectively, however that Rachel’s storyline is driving the plot ahead.

“After we checked out Raven’s story it is actually a couple of younger lady fighting this inside darkness,” Johns stated. “She lives and comes from a world that’s extra within the supernatural and horror vein. We determined to lean into that and have Dick Grayson’s journey mirror that. He has his personal darkness that he is fighting and attempting to beat.

“When he meets Rachel, they’re each on the same path of confronting this darkness that’s inside every of them and attempting to maneuver past it, management it, perceive it. It is actually solely with the assistance of different people who find themselves misplaced and looking for their place on the earth that they’ll all come collectively and assist each other. That is what the DNA of Titans is—a surrogate household. The characters and the perfect runs have at all times been about that. However the tone of it’s actually dictated by our first story, Rachel and Dick’s story.”

However followers ought to nonetheless anticipate to see why Robin deserted Batman’s aspect within the coming episodes.

“It is what we arrange within the pilot. It is actually about Rachel and serving to Rachel, looking for out what she’s coping with and assist her come to phrases with that. On the identical time, all the opposite characters are coping with their very own points. Dick Grayson is coping with his previous with Batman, and we’ll reveal what that actually was and what occurred.”

New episodes Titans airs each Friday on DC Universe.