Within the Season 3 finale of Titans, Dick Grayson’s Nightwing pulls off a nasty transfer at Arkham Asylum that reinforces why he cannot ever be Batman.
WARNING: The next comprises spoilers for Titans Season 3, Episode 13, “Purple Rain,” obtainable now on HBO Max.
One of many main features of Titans Season 3 has been Dick Grayson’s (Brenton Thwaites) progress from Robin to Nightwing. He is wrestled with concern and anger, identical to Batman, however after dying and being reborn, Dick does appear to be he is able to change into the following Dark Knight as he understands compassion and empathy extra. Nonetheless, that is completely walked again within the season finale as Dick pulls off a nasty transfer that reinforces why he cannot ever be the Bat.
Dick’s workforce makes use of a Lazarus bathe of rain to deliver useless Gothamites again to life, whereas additionally shutting down Scarecrow’s operation. He will get an RV for them to allow them to street journey again to San Francisco, however he has a pitstop to make, visiting Scarecrow in Arkham Asylum.
However as Jonathan Crane warns that the doorways cannot maintain him, hinting that he’ll expose the identities of the heroes, Dick smiles and brings Raven in. She makes use of her magic on Crane, breaking his thoughts by injecting him with the concern and angst he inflicted unto others — particularly all of the Titans. They stroll away fortunately but it surely’s a bizarre ending as it isn’t befitting of heroes who’ve seen the sunshine.
Now, whether or not or not this erases Crane’s recollections, it harkens to 2004’s Identification Crisis, the place Batman bought indignant on the League for wiping the thoughts of Dr. Mild. Mild dedicated a sequence of atrocious acts towards the likes of Sue Dibny, so Zatanna erased his recollections to guard the key and guarantee different villains would not discover out.
Within the melee, as Batman noticed, he too was mind-wiped, with the bombshell being that this methodology was utilized by the League in different instances to cover their identities. It led to Bruce finally determining the deception, not trusting his friends and enacting the damaging Brother Eye spy plan.
Dick walks that very same harmful, conceited path right here in Titans, as a result of quite than discredit Crane, use Bruce’s sources now that he is again to cowl it up, or work with A.R.G.U.S. or Barbara as Commissioner to nullify Crane’s phrases, Dick goes for revenge and torture. It is hypocritical as he did not like how Batman bought emotional and killed Joker after Jason Todd’s loss of life, so Dick should not be the identical monster he is preached towards.
The brand new Bruce would undoubtedly see this as crossing the road together with his virtuous perspective again, and it truthfully seems like Dick regressed by way of being that one who bought Red Hood to embark on his personal redemption quest. That is vindictive, and if Crane goes free, we might get a madman worse than Joker or the previous Scarecrow all on account of Dick’s egocentric flouting of the regulation.
All 13 episodes of Titans Season 3 can be found now on HBO Max. The present has been renewed for Season 4.