I don't think we talk about how exactly Tim got replaced vs how the others got replaced as Robin enough.
Because the thing is, the others left.
Jason goes bezerk at Tim for being a pretender, the robin to replace him, Dick is mad at Jason for taking his name and his connection with his family, but they were both unavailable. Tim was still there.
Dick left. We can say Jason replaced him all we want- and he did! But Dick left. He lost tue robin mantle, but it was months before he was replaced. He was already moving on to nightwing when Jason turned up. Don't get me wrong, his anger is justified. But in this sense, Robin was placed in the gap he had left.
Jason was dead. And sure, he's mad about what happened when he was dead, but the long and short of it is, not that many people had died and come back yet. There was no reason for Bruce to hold on to the mantle as if Jason would return for it. I fully get Jason's anger, but at the end of the day, he was dead. People move on. And it's horrible to learn if you come back, but people shouldn't hold out as if you'll come back, typically they don't and assuming they will is unhealthy. At least until the phenomenon had been repeated multiple times. His anger? Understandable. But he was dead. He was gone, a gap was left behind, and it got filled.
Also he's a Detective i fully think he should have done more research into everything that happened after he died like Batman legit got blackmailed bro 😅
Anyway. Dick and Jason's anger is justified. But they had already left the mantle one way or another Before they were replaced.
But Tim was still there. He came down to the cave expecting to put on his suit- to discover this kid that had been boasting his superiority in his suit and then discovers Dick had given it away without asking. There was no gap, he was replaced anyway.
He'd been replaced once, with Steph. And it was complicated and messy but it couldn't be as hurtful because, like the ones before him, he'd left and he understood that.
But with Damian he was still robin. There was no arguement, no lead up, no reason to assume this lifeline would be given away when he'd already lost so much.
I'm not trying to villainise anyone here. Just bring attention to the reason i think people find Tim's replacement such a conflict compared to the others- Tim had been there.
This wasn't a Batman putting a robin in the place of a gap, this wasn't adding a robin to be Batman's moral compass and light, because robin was still in action. It wasn't talked about nor was he given warning. He came downstairs, to learn the hard way he'd just lost the suit. Just like that.
