Within the newest situation of DC’s Robins, a simulation reveals that Nightwing would have been recruited by Spyral had he not met Batman.
Warning! Spoilers forward for Robins #5
Within the newest situation of DC Comics’ Robins, it is revealed that Nightwing’s time as a undercover agent within the New 52 period would have been his undoing. Being positioned in a simulation the place every Robin can see what their lives would have been like had they not met Batman, it appears as if Dick Grayson would have genuinely joined the group often called Spyral. Nonetheless, the espionage profession would have finally ruined the hero.
Again within the New 52 period following Without end Evil the place Nightwing’s secret identification was publically outed, Batman had Dick Grayson depart his superhero identification behind to infiltrate the brand new espionage group Spyral, tasked with investigating and monitoring superheroes. Given the codename Agent 37, Grayson secretly labored for Batman to uncover Spyral’s secrets and techniques. Nonetheless, this new situation of Robins sees Grayson changing into a real agent on this “What If?” situation, experiencing a simulation created by Tim Drake utilizing Batman’s value determinations of the Robins and the place they’d be with out him.
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As seen in Robins #5 from author Tim Seeley and artist Baldemar Rivas, Dick Grayson would have grown as much as turn into a police officer somewhat than being adopted by Bruce Wayne following his mother and father’ deaths. Moreover, it is revealed that Spyral and Helena Bertinelli would have recruited Grayson as Agent 37 for actual, utilizing the group’s harmful Hypnos expertise to finish missions for the larger good. As such, it appears Dick Grayson would have discovered a strategy to go good and be a hero even with out Batman. Nonetheless, Spyral was not with out its secrets and techniques and darkness. Mixed with the brain-damaging Hypnos, it is revealed that the lies and the mistrust constructed up and finally broke Grayson, proving that being Robin and changing into Nightwing is his biggest future.
As Nightwing and his fellow Robins uncover from this simulation, they don’t seem to be simply there to catch Batman and maintain him from descending too far into his personal darkness. He is there to catch them as nicely, giving them a real and larger goal somewhat than falling into self-destructive fates (particularly in Dick’s case). Changing into Nightwing was one of the best factor that might have occurred to Dick Grayson, and this simulation proves that his time with Spyral for Batman was a mission that might have destroyed him had he performed it for too lengthy.
Whereas this situation confirms that Grayson was all the time meant to be a hero, it additionally reveals that that need may have been corrupted Dick by becoming a member of the mistaken folks (resulting in his destroy). With Batman, Dick was given the means to be part of one thing greater whereas additionally being allowed to develop and turn into his personal man, surpassing the mission of the Dark Knight and forming his personal goal and identification with Nightwing. That is what allowed him to “belief his personal coronary heart”, one thing Dick notes he wasn’t in a position to do as an agent of Spyral from the New 52 period.