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dick, early on in bludhaven: ugh, can’t believe BRUCE is coming around to try and show me up in my own city. he thinks I’m so incompetent but I can handle myself!! He better not make me look like a sidekick in front of my new rogues gallery or I swear to god—

*superman one-hit KOs dick’s nemesis for him as a treat, instantly solving many of dick’s problems for the day*

dick: hee :)

wufflesvetinari

going goblin mode about it

#Dick Grayson #Clark Kent #Dick & Clark #that’s an uncle and his nephew alright

three-semicolons

Btw just so we’re all on the same page, the secret behind Dick’s capacity to tolerate other peoples’ bullshit is definitely because no one is harder on him than himself.

You think bro is crippled by the jabs thrown at him about being weak or overly-performative or a disappointment?

Dick’s out here like “generous performance review but you neglected to mention the fact that I’m stupid and unfunny and will die alone :D”.

#Dick Grayson #Nightwing #Truth nuke

residentwordsofaffirmationdealer

bruce and dick hugging nightwing (2016) #122 // batman: black and white (2020) #5 // forever evil (2013) #7 // robin and batman (2022) #3

#Dick Grayson #Bruce Wayne

hood-ex

SHUT UP WAIT

"You'll take care of him?" "I promise we'll take care of each other."

Titans 2025 Annual #1

Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day #3

#Dick Grayson #Donna Troy #OP I love you #why would you do this

fantastic-nonsense

"I loved what you said about how superheroes are the evolution of the circus. 'Cause you see, the circus thinks that too. Imagine there was a spirit...or a god...of the carnival. Imagine he was born when the first caveman made shadow puppets on the wall of a cave to entertain his children. Imagine he'd been a force not just of entertainment...but of change itself." -Nightwing 2025 Annual

man Dick is really about to take on a god with nothing but two escrima sticks the power of friendship and a dream

#Nightwing 2025 Annual #Olivia Pierce #The Zanni #this was too good #Dan Watters I own you my life

littlefankingdom

"Helena Bertinelli and Jason Todd are the same character, different gender"

Don't insult Helena like that! She has never attacked teenagers and children just because she was pissed at Bruce. She has a way smaller kill count (she hasn't killed more than 5 people, Jason was at 80 in the first Outlaws run), because she actually kills only really terrible people, while Jason has killed people who run drugs or works for him. When she was introduced, she was recruited in the Justice League against her will (Maxwell Lord is reponsible for that), when Red Hood was introduced, he was not an anti-hero, he was a vilain. She has actually been portrayed helping people in Gotham and protecting Crime Alley, unlike him that gets the title of "protector of Crime Alley" from the fandom even tho he has never been shown protecting it.

You wish Jason was the male version of Helena, he is not.

#Helena Bettinelli #Jason Todd #this is so real #OP always cook

livsoulsecrets

Dick and Bruce having their “I’ve turned into my dad” moments:

Nightwing #43

Let Them Live: Unpublished Tales From The DC Vault #2

#Dick Grayson #Bruce Wayne #father and son #< I think I’ll use this tag from on for them #make searching stuff easier

residentwordsofaffirmationdealer

batman (1940) #13 // batman: urban legends (2021) #10

some habits you just never grow out of

#Dick Grayson #Bruce Wayne #most realistic father and son relationship lmao

forrest13

The Boy Wonder

#Dick Grayson #Oh ...#poor baby #((amazing art OP!))

dickgraysonmyrobin

what i ADORE about this batman and robin: year one series going on is how dick is almost near constantly reiterating that the circus is not something to be laughed at. like the point of it is entertainment, yes, but the people, the performers, their work, their LIVELIHOODS, are not meant to be seen as some kind of joke. you cannot be just ANYONE to perform in a circus, especially one like Haly's that recruited the best aerialists in the WORLD to tour with them. dick knows exactly how much work it takes to be the best and be ENTERTAINING while you are being the best, and so when people make fun of it, he takes that very seriously and is immediately confrontational about it because who are you to laugh at these hard working people? (issues below in order of screenshot: #2, #2, #3, #5, #6, #6, and #9)

and like dick FINALLY opens up to alfred in issue nine because, for once, he is not being made fun of for his distinctly circus background. he's juggling to cope and instead of alfred making a joke out of it, he compliments dick and says it's impressive, and this ACCEPTANCE and GENUINENESS is why dick finally cries

#Dick Grayson #Alfred Pennyworth #Batman and Robin Year One

jackandjanetdefender

Dick's best characterization is him ignoring 5 ongoing breakdowns while living in a condemned building. Stuff that man full of trauma and shake him like a maraca.

#Dick Grayson #This #which is why is current run is peak

seilnakyle

How it started vs how it’s going :’)

Batman And Robin Year One (2025) #8

Nightwing (2016) #113

#Dick Grayson #Bruce Wayne #James Gordon #Bruce wanting to be a good dad for Dick is healing me

batman-polls

Do you consider Dick Grayson, Barbara Gordon, and Helena Bertinelli to be among the “Batkids”?

Yes, all of them are

Dick and Barbara are, but Helena isn’t, because I don’t consider her to be a Bat

Dick and Barbara are, but Helena isn’t for some other reason

Dick and Helena are, but Barbara isn’t

Helena and Barbara are, but Dick isn’t

Only Dick is

Only Barbara is

Only Helena is

None of them are because I think “Batkids” can’t be legally adults or 21+

None of them are for some other reason

Other/Results

Voting ended onJun 25, 2025

#Dick Grayson #depends on the definition #If it is about being Bruce’s.child then only Dick is and I would find it weird to include him but not Tim Jason Cass and Damian #if it is about terminology and being an adult and not a child then none of them are but it’s still feels wrong to me because #Dick is the original batkid

why-i-love-comics

Nightwing #127 - "Other" (2025)

written by Dan Watters art by Dexter Soy & Veronica Gandini

#Dick Grayson

ladyloveandjustice

One of the wildest things that is apparently a thing now in briefly returning to comics fandom is...I've seen two posts saying people being put off by shipping Bruce Dick on the correct basis that Bruce and Dick are a father and son is erasure of queer history or something because it was meant to be an ambiguous relationship couldn't be categorized and...look my brain couldn't process either of those posts. It short circuited.

but the point is,. only somewhat related, and because I happened to be reading this stuff when I saw this, I want to clarify:

Bruce and Dick WERE referred to, and referred to each other, as father and son, very consistently in the Golden age. It was considered a familial relationship. Modern fandom and modern comics didn't make that up.

I've been reading a few random Golden Age Batman stories and its like. everywhere:

Bruce truly has an incredible thought process in the above one. I am agog. You CAN just say "I want grandkids" and leave it at that. man.

(I got a lot of these from this post series I ran across by @northoftheroad though I went out and cropped all the panels myself for some reason. But check that post for issue numbers and some more examples!)

The prevalence of "like" a son is because technically, Dick isn't legally Bruce's son in this era...not because Bruce didn't want to him be but because Bruce wasn't able to legally adopt Dick in that era. Single men adopting kids was just something that was not done back then (I didn't know this until recently myself!), and in some older comics they straight up explain that's why Dick is a ward, see @fantastic-nonsense really interesting post on it all here.

(interestingly sometimes Bruce does refer to Dick as "adopted" despite that, see here:)

But it's clear legality doesn't matter in regards to the actual relationship they have. They think of each other as father and son. And that's reflected with stuff like Bruce 'grounding' Dick from being Robin when he (supposedly) falls behind on his homework, etc.

So honestly, during that period where DC seemed not to want to say Bruce is Dick's dad (except in dramatic moments), that was actually a departure from the original, not the other way around.

(okay and. i think we need to be clear that. Frederick Wertham thought this was pedophilia because 1. he can't fathom a man wanting to adopt a child without it being predatory 2. He literally thought Bruce having a vase of flowers in his mansion was proof he was gay and 3. He CLAIMED some of his patients currently in the process of being "cured" for being gay said they fantasized about being Robin and taken care of by Batman or something like that. And that's fine if they did, but I think that's a far cry from anything being "intended", and wouldn't want to use him as source in general.)

(* clarifying to say I know about the 60's show's history w/ the queer community and do think Burt Ward clearly being an adult made a difference there, I think it's an interesting topic worth exploring by someone who's not me, my main intention with this post is to correct a factual misrepresentation of the comics. Also like, considering all the other fraught things going on here, this is a minor thing, but some of these arguments come off very 'adopted kids don't count' and this shows that even in 40s, they very much do.)

#Dick Grayson #Bruce Wayne #THIS