This turned into me talking about Tim becoming Robin, and how wild of a ride it was.
I’ve started reading the old Batman comics, and dude they are WILD-
Now side not, I gotta skip around because it’s a long af comic, so I’ll get to the older stuff as time goes on.
At this moment I mainly wanted to read Tim becoming Robin.
So I started in Issue (Chapter?) 436, it pretty much has the first time bb Tim is shown (I had just finished “Death in the Family” when I went over and read this)
There he is, he’s like 3.
Then we dont see him for a while, and we watch Batman just LET Zucco die in front of Dick, and Dick is like “WTF!?” Because B just kind of let him die, like, showing he isn’t himself rn, and showing he isn’t in a good mindset after Jason.
Then a bit later we see someone try to kill Dick with a Tire Iron, and B is like “NO NOT AGAIN-” and Dick is okay, because he kicks the dude, and gets away getting the upper hand.
Then in Issue (Chapter?) 440, we get a first person pov of Tim trying to find Nightwing, and it’s great, we even get to see Kory.
Tim finds Dick and Dick is like “Wtf do I do with this?” and brings him to Alfred like “What do I do!?” and Alfred is like “Idk” and while this is happening, Tim is like over there, first thing he did was play the piano-
and he is very adamant about Dick being Robin, it NEVER crosses his mind he would be Robin, but Dick puts the idea there, and after Dick runs off to save Batman, Tim is left with Alfred worrying, and Tim is like “HECK NO I CAN’T-” and so he puts on Jason’s old suite, and runs off to help.
This image is so cured, that’s Tim, He needs his pants-
He has zero fighting ability rn, never punched a man in his life, and he squares up against two-face-
Also
I can’t get over Dicks face in this. (This is Tim trying to convince Batman that he needs a Robin, and Bruce has never seen this child a day in his life, doesn’t even know his name-) An then-
He pulls a big brain move, when Two-Face was beating the crap out of him, he just slips a tracker onto him. Look how smug he is ohmigosh.
Anyways they stop two-face, and Tim is like, “Aight if you dont want me here, I’ll leave, it’s fine, it was so awesome being Robin for the day, I’m good, if you want me gone, bye” and Bruce is like “Well... If you train.....” “Yes, yes, always yes, lets goooo”
And so Bruce and Alfred start training Tim.
And he kind of just chills for a bit, they are very sus about his parents, and stuff, but yeah, he does help out in one more case, and like-
He calls himself “Little Bat” I Cant.
Then we get one of my favorite things now, but Tim is getting close to being ready to be Robin, and in Issue (Chapter?) 456, (or was this 455?) 20 issues after introducing Tim, Batman is like “You can’t go crime fighting tonight in that suite!” and he runs off to fight Scarecrow. And Tim is like “Okay”
Doesn’t put the suite on.
Instead, as Vicki and Batman are both been hit the the fear toxin and are in the middle of panicing, and Batman is in a sticky situation-
BOOM-
He shows up wearing this- gg Tim gg, big brain, out smarted batman- (Side note, when he left to do this, Alfred is like “Where are you going?” and Tim is like “Gonna go lose the ability to be Robin” because he thought Bruce would never let him join because of this, he thought all the work he has put in will be for nothing, but he knows he’s gotta save Bruce.”
He does immediately get fear toxined, and like-
“I dont care if I’m afraid- I can still fight!” then Immediately beats Scarecrow with a pole, knocks him into the chemicals next to him and send Scarecrow into his own fear induced panic, as he saves Batman and Vicki.
Then at the end of it all Bruce is like “Thanks for saving me...” and Tim officially becomes Robin in the last panel.
And now he has pants. Wild.