Comic buffs: What is the point of Robin?!


Question: Comic buffs: What is the point of Robin!?
To me, Batman is a lone protector in the shadows, almost a dark legend to scare people onto the straight and narrow!. He's more an idea than a man!. He has this gravitas because he doesnt parade around and few people are really sure he exists, chinese whispers passed down the criminal line!.

So why does a man like this need a side-kick!? Especially one so young and flamboyant!. I understand that maybe Robin balances the Batman's darker moments , but wheres the fun in being balanced (as a reader)!?

It seems to me that for someone who controls the streets by being an ideal that transcends being human - even if that ideal invokes feelings of fear rather than positives - then he shouldn't have a human counterpart to bring him down to being only human (humans can be hurt, killed etc)!.

I should also say I haven't read the comic books, so I'm more than willing to be educated if my ideas are incorrect!.Www@Enter-QA@Com


Answers:
Robin was introduced back in the 40s and since then has become a key character in the Batman mythos!.

Comics back in the 1940s where very different and the "boy wonder" character didn't seem so out of place then!.

Robin isn't the silly character you know from the early cartoons, TV show and the more recent films!. There have been 3 main Robins, Dick Grayson (who is now known as Nightwing), Jason Todd (thought killed by the Joker only to reappear as the Red Robin) and Tim Drake (the current Robin)!.

I know with Tim Drake, Bruce Wayne made him travel around the world and carry out the same training that he did!. The characters outfit has also changed, it is darker (no longer with shorts!), and is mostly red now with only a little green!.

Even when Batman has been "re-imagined" by gritty comic book writers such as Frank Miller, Robin has still appeared!. He has become part of Batman - you have to remember that Batman only existed in comic book form for a year before Robin was introduced!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

Well, Dick Grayson was a part of a circus act with his parents, who were murdered by the mob when the owner of the circus refused to let the mob use the circus to smuggle stuff!.
Bruce Wayne was at the circus when this happened and took Dick in, because Dick was the same as him, orphaned by criminals!. He intended to Help Dick find his parents killers, probably because he had never found his, and then Dick proved he could fight and Batman kept him on!.

This is what I got from "Dark Victory"!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

Yes, but before the genre was taken over by Gothic intellectualism, these stories were for kids, and the idea of a 'youthful companion' to the caped crusader was supposed to re-ignite it's appeal to pre-teens by giving them a youth figure they could identify with!.
Ditto Bat-girl!Www@Enter-QA@Com

read the story and then you would know how he came into beingWww@Enter-QA@Com

Homosexual love interest!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

Batman certainly doesn't transcend being human - he is human!. Bruce Wayne (secret id Batman) is a wealthy philanthropist, and shows his philanthropy in this particular way, as a crime-fighting hero!. He took in Dick Grayson (secret id Robin), who came from a family of circus trapeze artists, as his legal ward after his parents were killed by the mafia, and for a number of years they worked together!. He could hardly have kept the secret from Dick and left him at home when he went out as Batman, could he!? Even Alfred knew what was going on!. Bruce and Dick separated when Dick grew up and assumed his own independent heroic role!.Www@Enter-QA@Com



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