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Who Is The Greatest Robin? The Best Boy Wonder Debate
Who is the best Robin? it is perhaps the simplest, yet most debated question in all of comics. Batman's sidekick for the better part of 60 years, Robin, the boy wonder, is a role several DC characters stepped up to fill. Some with more success than others. Vote now for your favorite Robin, whether it be the original or one of his worthy successors.
- 1Up 152Down 18The original Robin, Dick Grayson went on to lead the Teen Titans, take on the name Nightwing, and eventually replace Bruce Wayne as Batman.
Dick Grayson became Robin after Bruce Wayne took him in following his parents death. A former circus acrobat in "the Flying Graysons," Dick's skills were put to use as a partner for Batman. - 2Up 94Down 30Tim Drake managed to force his way into the role of Robin. A skilled computer hacker, Tim was able to determine that his neighbor Bruce Wayne was in fact Batman. His tenacity and intelligence eventually led Batman to allow him to become Robin.
After leading both Young Justice and the Teen Titans, Tim eventually became "Red Robin" following the events of "Battle for the Cowl," the crossover where it was decided who would be Batman after Bruce Wayne's death.
His parents were both killed after he had already become Robin, at which point he was adopted by Bruce Wayne. - 3Up 55Down 47Batman's illegitimate son with Tahlia Al'Ghul, the daughter of Batman's enemy Ras Al'Ghul, Damien Wayne became Robin after his father, Bruce Wayne had died. Impudent, rash, but lethal and skilled, Damien only became Robin to try to understand his father better after his death. He had been trained by his grandfather Ras to be an assassin since birth.
- 4Up 44Down 54After Dick Grayson became Nightwing, Batman took on a new Robin. Jason Todd became the new Boy Wonder after he impressed Batman, by stealing the wheels off of the batmobile.
Fans never warmed to the "edgier" street punk turned sidekick. In a vote put to fans, it was decided Jason Todd would die.
Years later he was brought back from death during the crossover event Infinite Crisis and he eventually became the lethal vigilante the Red Hood, the original identity of the Joker. - 5Up 30Down 53During a time when Tim Drake had decided to quit being Robin, Batman attempted to get him to come back by drafting Stephanie Brown, Tim's costumed girlfriend "the Spoiler," as the first in continuity female Robin. Stephanie didn't last long as Robin as Batman didn't think she was capable of the job.
In an attempt to prove she could handle it she accidentally set off a gang war in Gotham City.
She has most recently been serving as Batgirl, training under the original Batgirl Barbara Gordon, AKA Oracle.
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Who Is The Greatest Robin? The Best Boy Wonder Debate at 1/13/2013 9:30 PM