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Regardless of being all grown up, Nightwing nonetheless remembers being Robin and getting kidnapped by Gotham’s villains as a foolproof entice for Batman.
Warning: SPOILERS for Punchline: The Gotham Sport #4Gotham Metropolis’s forged of rogues know the proper technique to get at Batman—and Nightwing remembers being caught within the center. Regardless of being all grown up, Nightwing nonetheless remembers being Robin and getting kidnapped by Gotham’s villains as a entice for Batman.
Although Nightwing is now utterly impartial of Batman and, in actual fact, operating a Justice League-level crew of his personal, he started his vigilante profession a long time in the past as Robin. Dick Grayson’s Robin was Batman’s associate at first, and he not often left Gotham, if all of it. This meant Batman’s villains had been Robin’s villains, particularly since Robin was not often seen with out Batman at his aspect through the Golden and Silver Ages of DC Comics. Issues have modified rather a lot in Gotham since these early years, together with the quantity of kid and teenage vigilantes operating across the metropolis. Dick Grayson could also be an grownup now, however there are a lot extra younger Gothamites past Robin for the town’s many rogues to focus on, together with Bluebird: a younger girl named Harper Row who has been preventing for her metropolis because the New 52.
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Nightwing Used to Be Gotham’s #1 Goal
Nightwing and Bluebird discover out that Gotham’s rogues are nonetheless prepared to play the kidnapping card in Punchline: The Gotham Sport #4 by Tini Howard, Blake Howard, Max Raynor, Luis Guerrero, and Becca Carey. Bluebird has been monitoring and confronting Punchline—the town’s latest clown-themed crimelord—for months. Punchline’s newest retaliation consists of kidnapping Harper’s little brother, Cullen. Harper is understandably frightened, however Nightwing assuages her fears whilst he helps her seek for Cullen: “He is gonna be simply tremendous. Folks used to kidnap me on a regular basis as a method of attending to Batman.”
Nightwing goes so far as recalling one explicit incident with the Penguin and being trapped in a large egg, which can be a reference to a 1949 story from Batman #56. However Dick’s final implication right here is that, in all his private kidnapping experiences, he is by no means gotten severely damage: he merely served because the bait till Batman arrived to avoid wasting him. And naturally Batman saves Robin; that is what makes this a foolproof plan. However what Nightwing hasn’t taken under consideration (and the way may he?) is how Gotham has modified because the goofy Golden and Silver Age: Punchline is a sadistic killer, and Bluebird is true to worry for her brother’s security.
Batman’s Rogues Have Gotten a Lot Extra Harmful Over the Years
Punchline is perhaps extra harmful than the Golden Age Penguin, however no less than Bluebird has Nightwing by her aspect. He most likely did not initially admire all of the kidnappings of his youth, however no less than now he has the expertise to again him up. And regardless that Batman cannot save each kidnapped vigilante in Gotham, no less than now he has a grown-up Nightwing to look at over the opposite fledgling heroes.
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