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Nightwing and Starfire moving into their new apartment with their newborn.

Art by Rafael Colantonio and Unik Gen

Actually, picking Dick up and chucking him is a pretty tried and true strategy as far as team based work goes. You’ll see characters transport him by carrying him and then either toss or deploy him, and because he’s Acrobat McGee, he usually uses this for vertical maneuverability.

That said, Koriand’r did it a ton during NTT. He also had a few occasions of this with non-romantic interests. This was primarily with Donna, and then to a lesser degree Garfield and Victor. Outside of NTT, I can recall at least one or two occasions where Clark has thrown him, too. His other love interests down the line, lacking flight, did not.

When I realized this, I couldn't help but think about the fact that the average height of a woman in the United States is like 5'2"-5'4" (157.5-162.5cm). This is highly statistically improbable, meaning either:

1.) The average superhero is incredibly tall just due to natural selection in that pool (more likely to get people with the whole "warrior" build going on because, you know, warrior).

And I could see this being plausible, except it's not like every DC female hero frequenter is massive. Sure, there's definitely a lean towards taller than average, but not to this extent. Stephanie and Cassandra are only 5'5" (165cm). Dinah Lance is 5'4". Selina Kyle and Talia al Ghul are only 5'7" (170cm) and 5'8" (172.75) respectively. In fact, given his surrounding pool, it kind of seems like Dick naturally selects for the tallest woman in the region.

Ergo, the only other rational conclusion:

2.) Bro like big strong women. Bro is into that muscular matronage big time. He yearns for little spoon experience.