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Few characters maintain the excellence of working alongside Batman for so long as Nightwing has. When Dick Grayson misplaced his mother and father and was adopted by Bruce Wayne, the Batman got down to do greater than recruit and rehabilitate a susceptible younger man. Batman got down to train Nightwing the whole lot he would wish to succeed as each a criminal offense fighter, and a human being; following the Justice League’s obvious demise, Nightwing embodies Bruce’s best lesson when it issues most.
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Dark Crisis is the DC Universe’s subsequent large occasion, with the demise of the Justice League setting off an incredible chain of occasions as the subsequent technology of heroes scramble of their absence. For subsequent technology heroes like Nightwing, Jon Kent’s Superman, Yara Flor’s Wonder Woman, Jo Mullein’s Inexperienced Lantern, and Jace Fox’s Batman, Dark Crisis presents a chance for them to step into their mentors’ footwear, although the method might be removed from straightforward.
In Justice League: Street to Dark Crisis #1’s “Group Up” by Joshua Williamson and Dan Jurgens, Nightwing is interrupted by a panicked Jon Kent, who has simply realized of the League’s obvious deaths. Dick sits Jon down and consoles him; after ordering some consolation meals, their lunch is interrupted by one other emergency demanding the mixed may of The Man of Metal and Blüdhaven’s Favored Son. As a member of the Bat-Household, it’s apparent that Nightwing can maintain his personal in a struggle, and function an incredible detective when the event calls for it. Whereas these have been key formative features of his tutelage beneath Batman, his interplay with a distraught Jon exhibits each Batman’s most essential lesson, and his best private power: compassion. Dick’s preliminary response is a bit coarse since he’s been round lengthy sufficient to see a number of heroes (together with Batman) die and are available again to life. Nightwing believes that this time might be no completely different, and as such, there’s nothing to fret about.
Nightwing shortly picks up that his angle and citing precedent doesn’t do sufficient to assist Superman, and takes on a extra compassionate method to console the Man of Tomorrow. Dick admits his personal moments of doubt, and the instances that he’s actually struggled with the demise of his family members, and their eventual return, referring to Jon and exhibiting that these anxieties and fears are regular, and that the League has confirmed that they will all the time maintain on to hope. Crowning the pep-talk with two orders of Clark Kent’s favourite steak, Nightwing is ready to consolation Jon, and agrees to attend the youthful heroes’ vigil for the fallen League. Dick understands how a lot his participation would imply to Jon and the opposite youthful heroes, and the way essential it will be to maintain morale up within the face of a brand new menace. Nightwing’s compassion right here is each about consoling an expensive pal, and guaranteeing that the youthful heroes like these on the Teen Titans Academy are in a match mind-set to defend the Earth.
Batman has many classes for the members of the Bat-Household, from managing obscene quantities of wealth to persistently profitable six-versus-one fights. His best lesson, nevertheless, is compassion: one of many driving forces behind his conflict on crime. Because the Justice League has seemingly perished, Nightwing has stepped up and demonstrated Batman-levels of compassion as he consoles Superman as it seems that his father is among the many lifeless.
Justice League: Street to Dark Crisis #1 will launch from DC Comics on Could thirty first, 2022.