Titans units up Dick Grayson’s transition from Robin to Nightwing in an surprising manner throughout this week’s episode of Titans.
The episode, amongst different issues, depicts the grownup Dick sharing the display along with his youthful self from the flashback sequences, and it is that dynamic that units up the subsequent stage of his evolution as a hero.
Spoilers forward for “Asylum,” this week’s episode of Titans.
Through the episode, the Titans are captured and tortured whereas making an attempt to avoid wasting Raven’s delivery mom from the cult that has been chasing all of them sequence. The torture undergone by every Titan is custom-made to their persona and skills, so Dick’s is psychological in nature, as he’s drugged and rendered helpless, his mind taking place a rabbit gap.
There, he’s confronted and overwhelmed by his youthful self. After awakening in his Robin costume, younger Dick tells him that Robin was purported to “repair” all the pieces, however that Dick managed to deprave the identification and destroy all of it.
This follows the thread of Dick being extremely psychologically fragile thus far within the sequence, permitting his points with Batman and emotions of loss over his mother and father to return out in dialogue throughout battle scenes.
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Finally, after the group escapes collectively, Kory torches the power the place they had been being held. After the explosion, Dick finds his Robin costume sitting in a subject, burning. He stands there watching it burn for a second, earlier than being known as to depart by Kory.
It is a bit completely different from the way it performed out within the comics, the place Dick primarily made the selection as a result of he felt he had “aged out of” being Robin. In Titans, the concept of his costume being burned and Bruce having already taken on Jason Todd as a sidekick feels a bit extra like the choice was taken out of his palms, though clearly that isn’t the case, since Bruce didn’t ask him to give up the swimsuit and Dick has been uncomfortable within the Robin function for the reason that pilot.
Titans airs on Friday mornings on DC Universe. The following episode, “Donna Troy,” will see a costume-less Dick investigating his teammates’s secret origins with a little bit assist from his previous buddy Donna.