Nightwing #100 options Batman’s first Robin coming head to head with considered one of his worse foes – and eventually settling their rating.
The next accommodates main spoilers for Nightwing #100, obtainable now from DC Comics.
Over his decades-long profession as a costumed crime fighter, Dick Grayson has confronted off in opposition to a number of the worst villains that all the DC Universe has to supply. Surprisingly, it wasn’t any interdimensional being or world-ending menace that left the best impression alongside the best way, however moderately the cybernetically enhanced KGBeast. Now, Nightwing has lastly been given an opportunity to complete what KGBeast began, and who walks away from it makes all of the distinction on the earth.
Because the solar units over Bludhaven within the pages of Nightwing #100 (by Tom Taylor, Bruno Redondo, Scott McDaniel, Rick Leonardi, Eddy Barrows, Javier Fernandez, Mikel Janín, Karl Story, Eber Ferreira, Caio Filipe, Joe Prado, Adriano Lucas, and Wes Abbott), town’s jail is cracked huge open by the calculating serial killer often known as Heartless. As unhealthy as it’s for Bludhaven’s most harmful villains to be let unfastened, the worst of all of them, has his sights set solely on the previous Boy Wonder. After ready patiently from the sidelines, KGBeast lastly has one other shot at taking down his worst enemy, whereas for Nightwing it’s simply one other alternative to show how succesful he actually is.
Nightwing Lastly Settles His Rating With the KGBeast
Whereas KGBeast as a personality has been an iconic Batman villain for the reason that late 80s, the present iteration of the character made his first look in 2014’s New Suicide Squad #2 (by Sean Ryan and Tom Derenick). A former Soviet agent whose augmentations have turned him right into a veritable supersoldier, Anatoli Knyazev isn’t any stranger to life or dying conditions, nor does he have any aversion to them in any way. In truth, because the KGBeast, Anatoli has made his title off the backs of his victims, though Nightwing’s has solely ever been a stain on an in any other case gruesomely illustrious profession as knowledgeable killer.
After being employed by Bane to kill Nightwing in a bid to psychologically destroy Batman, KGBeast seemingly did simply that with a single gunshot to the pinnacle. Fortunately, he survived the encounter, and what adopted left each him and KGBeast ceaselessly modified. For Nightwing, this meant quickly shedding his reminiscence, for KGBeast it meant severing all ties to his previous life within the hopes of escaping Batman’s wrath. As an alternative, KGBeast was hunted by Batman earlier than being paralyzed and left to die within the snow. Although he survived, going by means of a lot just for his authentic mission to be for naught has fueled KGBeast’s intense hatred for Nightwing. Sadly for the villain, the prospect to kill Nightwing has slipped by means of his grasp yet again, all whereas Dick Grayson will get to show why that can all the time be the case.
Simply as their earlier confrontations have pushed KGBeast to attempt to kill Nightwing as soon as extra, the chance to place KGBeast down is one which Dick merely can’t go up. If there may be any rating that he has been hoping to settle, it’s the one with the person who very practically ended his life. Past proving who is healthier on the battlefield, nonetheless, Nightwing’s victory is certain to solely embolden KGBeast’s hatred for him.
This is not to say that KGBeast is not a viable menace in his personal proper, however moderately that the form of menace he poses is eclipsed by the form of hero Nightwing has change into within the years since their preliminary encounter. As an individual, Dick has change into an unlikely optimist born from tragic circumstances. And, as a hero, he has stepped as much as tackle the function of heroes he by no means would have thought-about replaceable. KGBeast, however, has largely stagnated due to being tied down both by the Suicide Squad or imprisonment or a paralyzing sense of resentment, and it does not seem like that’s going to be altering anytime quickly.