Titans units up Dick Grayson’s transition from Robin to Nightwing in an sudden manner throughout this week’s episode of Titans.

The episode, amongst different issues, depicts the grownup Dick sharing the display screen together with his youthful self from the flashback sequences, and it is that dynamic that units up the following stage of his evolution as a hero.

Spoilers forward for “Asylum,” this week’s episode of Titans.

In the course of the episode, the Titans are captured and tortured whereas making an attempt to save lots of Raven’s beginning mom from the cult that has been chasing all of them collection. The torture undergone by every Titan is personalized to their persona and skills, so Dick’s is psychological in nature, as he’s drugged and rendered helpless, his mind happening a rabbit gap.

There, he’s confronted and crushed by his youthful self. After awakening in his Robin costume, younger Dick tells him that Robin was purported to “repair” every little thing, however that Dick managed to deprave the id and break all of it.

This follows the thread of Dick being extremely psychologically fragile up to now within the collection, permitting his points with Batman and emotions of loss over his dad and mom to come back out in dialogue throughout struggle scenes.

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In the end, after the crew escapes collectively, Kory torches the ability the place they have been being held. After the explosion, Dick finds his Robin costume sitting in a discipline, burning. He stands there watching it burn for a second, earlier than being referred to as to go away by Kory.

This can be a bit completely different from the way it performed out within the comics, the place Dick primarily made the selection as a result of he felt he had “aged out of” being Robin. In Titans, the thought of his costume being burned and Bruce having already taken on Jason Todd as a sidekick feels a bit extra like the choice was taken out of his fingers, though clearly that isn’t the case, since Bruce didn’t ask him to give up the swimsuit and Dick has been uncomfortable within the Robin function for the reason that pilot.

Titans airs on Friday mornings on DC Universe. The subsequent episode, “Donna Troy,” will see a costume-less Dick investigating his teammates’s secret origins with slightly assist from his outdated pal Donna.