The next article accommodates spoilers from Nightwing #96, on sale now.
Nightwing’s conflict towards Blockbuster took a darkish flip when his secret id was uncovered to him. Nevertheless, Blockbuster was killed shortly after by Heartless on the finish of Nightwing #96 (by Tom Taylor, Bruno Redondo, Caio Filipe, Adriano Lucas, and Wes Abbott). Whereas this appears to place the matter to relaxation, there’s nonetheless a risk that Nightwing’s secret is on the market someplace, a ticking time bomb that would go off on the worst attainable second.
Blockbuster is useless, nobody is denying that. Nevertheless, whereas his empire could have been crumbling round him, he nonetheless had a community at his disposal. Within the time between him fleeing and Heartless killing him, there’s a risk that he instructed somebody about Nightwing’s true id. This is not even factoring within the DC Universe’s behavior of resurrecting villains. Blockbuster could very nicely come again to life sooner or later along with his enemy’s biggest secret.
By the tip of the story, issues have been positively not going Blockbuster’s method. Oracle’s revelation that he had been working one of many metropolis’s worst non-public prisons, profiting off the distress of the criminals there, successfully turned his complete empire towards him. The factor is, this was solely a neighborhood response. There isn’t any technique to inform how rapidly or slowly this information unfold.
It signifies that Blockbuster nonetheless had some individuals who have been loyal to him earlier than he was killed. They seemingly would not be loyal for lengthy, one thing that he knew, however a determined man will flip to even the smallest sliver of hope when cornered. He knew there was no method he was getting out of this with out assist, so he would seemingly name upon the huge community that was nonetheless considerably at his disposal, presumably leveraging Nightwing’s id in alternate for assist, or maybe even telling them outright as a method of petty revenge.
Sadly for him, Heartless’ arrival stopped any likelihood he had of seeing his work by means of to the tip. This creates one other risk — Heartless was monitoring Blockbuster by means of the streets. If Blockbuster instructed anybody the reality about Nightwing, then Heartless may have overheard it. It is already been proven that Heartless stalks Dick Grayson, however figuring out that he and Nightwing are one may change the panorama of their battle solely.
He is been a background participant for some time now, however with Blockbuster gone, he appears intent on claiming town for himself. That in fact will put him on a collision course with Nightwing, and figuring out his secret id could be invaluable to destroying him. Then once more, there’s at all times the possibility that Blockbuster shall be resurrected. Villains have an unlucky behavior of coming again to life, if he comes again, he would possibly be capable to finish Nightwing as soon as and for all.