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The thing is, just because he was a cop doesn't mean he was toeing union lines and condoning police brutality and whatever. In fact, his time at the police department was specifically spent preventing this exact type of behavior.

This includes:

Intervening to prevent police brutality from other officers:

Using his cop connections to more easily access villains by slipping in and out of the Nightwing persona, with the added benefit of not having to butt heads with the law and accidentally getting them freed in the process

Clearing OVER A HUNDRED CORRUPT BPD MEMBERS using officer privileges and his ties to Amy

And on the smaller end of things:

Preventing harassment of a gay cop

Saving a girl who wrote to her Christmas letter to the BPD

Etc etc etc.

And it isn't like Dick doesn't recognize the limitations of being a police officer either. There's a whole subplot in an issue where he can't deal with a domestic dispute as a cop because it's out of his jurisdiction, but it is because he is an officer that he was aware of it and could exact vigilante justice after the fact.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that it's fine if you don't like him as a cop in the present day or if you don't think the job suits him in general. I liked his time as one, but there are other things you can do with his character.

What bothers me is when Dick is prescribed the typical negative stereotypes associated with being a cop simply because he was one, when in fact his whole arc as a cop was about going against the grain to cripple the corruption from the inside. He at no point adhered to the stereotypical standards of being a cop. Most of his fellow cops kind of hated him. He did his best regardless. And, for many relevant stories of the era, him being a cop gave him access to resources that were integral to his job as Nightwing. It worked.

And I guess you could say that the BPD was still corrupt at the end of the day, but you could also say Gotham is still full of crime after a decade and a half of Batman. Why does he apprehend the criminal?

Because, even if for a second, there's hope of improvement. And that's what matters.

Real comicbook readers with media literacy know that DickBabs' entire history in the comics is soaked in manipulative pedophilia, child grooming, misogyny, slutshaming, racism, xenophobia, cheating and straight up character assassinations.

If you’re actually a Dick fan and a Babs fan, you’d know how much the characters suffer whenever DC forces them together.

The only people who defend DickBabs are those ignorant and egostistical shippers who don’t care about the characters as individuals. They’ll excuse all the harmful toxic and abusive elements in the relationship as long as Dick and Babs are paired because They’re not fans of Dick or Barbara. They’re just fans of the ship.

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‎70s DickBabs? Adult Barbara SA'd minor Dick by putting her lips on him. That’s pedophilia and child abuse.

‎90s DickBabs? Misogyny, deaged Barbara just to make her "pleasing and dateable" to a man, Racism + Xenophobia, slandered Kory and POC women, Tresspassing + Voyeurism, had Barbara stalk Dick with spy cams in his own apartment, Verbal and Physical Abuse, Toxic Girl Boss Oracle bullied Dick multiple times while unprovoked.

‎Rebirth DickBabs? Trying hard to copy TimSteph's dynamic. No wonder, they later erased TimSteph to make this knockoff look original. 

‎Tom Taylor DickBabs? He said "I’ll fix DickBabs."

Also Tom Taylor: "but what if she's unemployed and he's brainless. And I canonize Fanfiction and Headcanons I secretly enjoyed reading during highschool."

‎Watters' DickBabs? Same corny goofy ass shit. Barbara spams "Boy Wonder" chanting it like a magic spell to keep the coodependency alive, maybe the writer is not really a huge shipping weirdo like Tom Taylor but hey still obviously an editorial’s puppet.

‎Every writer, Every Era, Every version is a new flavor of Trash.

‎DC: "We’ll make them love Dickbabs."

‎Polls and Popularity gap: "No, we want Dickkory."

‎Loud minority: "They don’t read comics!"

‎Comics: Exist. Legally. Pirated. Scans posted 24/7. Panels everywhere.

‎DickBabs: still flops harder than DickKory.

‎Loud minority: "You’re all misogynist, ableist, sexist, stupid people who deserve to die!" - just to cope over ink and paper.

‎Maybe it’s not Dickkory fandom's fault. Maybe your dumpster fire ship is just simply boring, mid, and less popular. And it's time to accept that for you to heal. Cope

dick created the mantle and everything robin stands for, but he got to grow into his own hero as nightwing

jason added compassion to robin's attitude, but his robin run was painfully short

steph was seen by civilians and rogues as a girl in a costume instead of being seen as robin

damian was struggling with his identity and social development after leaving the league of assassins, so his start as robin was marred by that

tim? he's a white boy whose (overinflated) struggles were having housekeepers and going to boarding school because his parents were busy

even duke who technically never got the robin mantle is more interesting as a robin because he's got all this nuance and development to his character

ignoring all their skills and whether or not X Y or Z us better at something, the fact that tim never gets any sort of personal development is enough to know that he is a bland character, if anything he's the best at blending in since he doesn't add anything anywhere

and i think that's why people like him, because he doesn't add anything and doesn't have nuance so you don't have to think about him. he's just there

Must protecc dumb squishy human boyfriend. More heroes should treat the bats this way, that's the funniest shit in the world.

By Timothy Donohoo.

Nightwing is a former Boy Wonder, but he's equally defined by the leading ladies in his love life. These have included several heroines across the DC Universe, but the two most notable are Barbara Gordon's Batgirl and the Teen Titan, Starfire. His fellow Batman sidekick may be who DC is trying to pair him off with at the moment, but Starfire is his one true love.

Nightwing's relationship with Starfire has been a major part of his character for decades, and it's part of what helped him become his own man. However, his romance with Batgirl always felt unnatural and forced, more of a necessity than an organic development. Here's why the Dick Grayson/Barbara Gordon romance pales in comparison to his love for a certain Tamaranean.