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Nightwing stands out as the gentler soul of the Bat-Household, however Red Hood raises the query of whether or not Dick’s weapons are not any completely different than Jason’s crowbar.
Spoilers forward for Nightwing 2021 Annual #1
Heroes like Nightwing might must get tough with unhealthy guys, however does his brother-in-arms Red Hood have some extent that Dick’s weapons of alternative are a bit an excessive amount of? In comparison with a few of the different members of the Bat-Household, Nightwing is usually seen because the “good man” of the Gotham crew. So how precisely does that work when he’s pulverizing villains with electrified metallic batons?
Weapons are an absolute necessity for the Bat-Household, who struggle highly effective villains like Killer Croc and Bane virtually nightly. From grappling weapons to smoke bombs, Batman and his sidekicks have an arsenal to show the tide of any struggle. Some even have trademark tools, corresponding to Batman’s Batarangs or Robin’s Bō workers. Nightwing’s escrima sticks have been his trusty preventing instruments for years, however has the time come for Dick to discover a new weapon extra appropriate for his present mission?
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In Nightwing 2021 Annual #1 by Tom Taylor, Cian Tormey, and Daniel HDR, Red Hood has been caught on digicam murdering an FBI informant and three federal brokers in chilly blood and is nowhere to be discovered. Dick journeys to seek out Jason and get some solutions, all of the whereas wanting again on the primary heart-to-heart he ever had along with his adopted brother after Dick’s dismissal as Robin. The 2 meet, and after a bit of detective work, uncover the true perpetrator behind the deaths; drug kingpin Wolfgang Bylsma, a vendor Jason is much too accustomed to. Sadly for Bylsma, Jason remembers his mom buying the vendor’s medication, placing her on a lonely, painful street to dependancy. A livid Red Hood makes use of his new trademark crowbar to actual a extra painful type of retribution earlier than being stopped by Dick.
The 2 have one ultimate dialog the place Red Hood agrees with Nightwing that justice would not must be violent, till Dick factors out Jason’s present use of a crowbar. Jason smugly retorts that Dick’s batons aren’t precisely the softest weapons round, and he might have some extent. The story has Dick wanting again on Jason’s violent tendencies and convincing him that it isn’t the way in which the Bat-Household does issues. Nevertheless, as Nightwing, he typically depends on electrified escrima sticks to take down any type of villain, superpowered or not. However for somebody who’s arguably a greater fighter than Batman, does he want them? Ought to Dick decide to changing into extra of a guardian determine and ditch the weaponry, choosing extra defensive tools? Maybe it is time for a Nightwing to be the primary Bat-Household member with a protect.
The toys are arguably the most effective elements about being in Bruce Wayne’s orbit. However the preventing expertise of Batman and his followers are a few of the greatest on the earth, and most Gotham villains will be dealt with with a well-delivered punch. On the very least, it most likely would not harm Nightwing to think about Red Hood’s recommendation and depart the sticks behind.