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How I feel about this character

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This is the best guy of all time, he's loved & respected by basically everyone, and his goodness is practically a universal constant. But then you actually check how he's doing and it's like. Well he's lost his job again & his apartment blew up & his girlfriend left him & he's vaguely suicidal for the fourth time this year. I think it's an interesting juxtaposition. I like how his life is always in shambles but the second someone tries to check on him he's like "who me?? I'm good! Can I help with your problems 'cause I'd really rather not discuss mine, thanks :)"

All the people I ship romantically with this character

Koriand'r, obviously. I think there's merit in DickBabs, and lowkey I think he & Clancy had some cute moments too. Bea was the only tolerable part of the Ric arc, and if not for the Everything Else about Ric Grayson, I think she'd be higher on this list. I ship him with Helena Bertinelli in the same way I ship DareWidow, I like there to be some messy, unresolved feelings there but for them to not actively be together.

So, short version, Kory, Barbara, Clancy, Bea, and Helena 👍

My non-romantic OTP for this character

Donna Troy <3 Wonder Twins supremacy. Basic? Maybe. But they are the best friends of all time & I love them <3

My unpopular opinion about this character

Devin Grayson's run was good, actually. I think it's great when Dick suffers. Is it perfect? No. But is it enjoyable? Yeah. It's a snowballing downward spiral culminating in Nightwing #93 & then we go straight from that into War Games, and I think that's great :) I live to see my guys suffer :)

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon

Get! NightStar! Back! Together!!! No more modern canon DickBabs let's have some DickKory for the soul!!!

Are they Romantically and sexually compatible? Yes, of course, but there is a dissonance in their values and dreams for the future that are fundamentally incompatible.

Donna, for example, gets married at 19 (no matter how dubious many of us might see that to be) and is shown to value that, both throughout the relationship and her distress over the divorce. Especially since she's the #1 critic for Roy's views on marriage and "commitment." That can be chalked up to the fact that, being someone who is off-and-on in relationships with him of varying levels of involvement, she's the one with the most exposure to that part of his views and likely they've had this argument multiple times.

Roy is perfectly willing to accept commitment without marriage as he points out wrt his decision to take in and raise his daughter. He Did Not Have to, it's just that in his romantic relationships he does not value marriage as a milestone, but that man wants to be someone's first, last, and always choice so bad. He's constantly given reasons why he is not vital, or why he is replaceable, or other's opinions on what he is or is not capable of, and "jokes" about things like "at least my daughter is the one woman to whom I'm irreplaceable."

The thing is that for them to work out, one of them would have to compromise - Either Donna has to accept that marriage is not a measure of Roy's commitment (unlikely, not simply on a character level but on a publisher level), or Roy has to compromise on his anti-marriage views to engage in that amatonormative ideal (This is the Bad Route. Eddie Berganza my fucking beloathed.)

It feels pretty obvious and I don't understand why we even have to say it.

Nightwing is highly intelligent. This is someone who learned and became an expert in forensics and criminology within 6 months when he was 8-12 years old. He’s a master detective, with a record to prove it.

And because it’s a feat people rate despite meaning nothing at all, in Nightwing #152 - Ra’s calls Dick detective.

Chemistry/Biology/Physics

Batman vol 1 # 18 -Dick knew his chemistry. He has an excellent report in school

Titans vol 1 # 17 - figuring out how to clone a human

Tales of Teen Titans #45 - Come up with a solution to fix the problem in Aqualad and Tula’s lungs after analysing the chemical compounds in their lungs

Language

Action Comics # 842 - Knowledge of Tamaranean

Detective Comics Vol 2 36 - Russian

Grayson 1 - Russian

Nightwing Vol 4 51 - Dick Speaks German

Nightwing Vol 4 54 - Dick Speaks 12 Languages

Nightwing Vol 2 72 - Italian

Titans Annual 001 - Japanese

Robin Vol 2 175 - Farsi

The Power Company: Manhunter Vol 1 1 - Kikuyu

Batman: Gotham Knights - French

Titans 16 - Some Romany

Nightwing Vol 2 91 - Some Romany

Legends of the Dark Knight 100-Page Super Spectacular Vol 1 2, Dick uses sign language to talk to a temporarily deaf Bruce.

Observation/Deduction

Teen Titans #12 - Deduces a coded message.

Teen Titans #46 - Notices that the number of footprints, and the weight behind them. Correctly deduces that the kidnapping was a ruse.

The New Titans #65 - Observes a Carousel for seven hours. Is able to recall everyone who went on the ride, with memory of their appearance, their clothing and who brought them to the park.

Nightwing #86 - While injured and watching TV, Dick solves four cases for “America’s Most Wanted” in a morning.

Star-Spangled Comics # 105 - Cracks a code and thinks of a way to foil radio controlled bombers.

The New Teen Titans #7 - Notices a trap on a door, saving Cyborg’s life

Batman: Dark Victory #12 - Solve a riddle before Batman himself even figured it out before becoming Robin

Flash Plus - Figured out how to escape a maze before the Flash could

Superman American Alien #4 - Showcasing his impressive deductive prowess even as a kid before he became Robin by reading Clark Kent very well (noticing that Clark’s hiding a lot of things about himself) who’s impressed by his observant talent

Justice League v2 #51- Thanks to his insight due to his deductive trained mind he starts to ask questions that give Cyborg and Green Lantern the idea to look for the source of the problem and how all the threats the League are fighting against all at once are actually connected somehow

New Teen Titans v1 #9 - Quickly deduces that he’s walking into a trap while alongside Beast Boy and that the man inside was actually a mechanical bomb about to go off

New Teen Titans v1 #30 - Detects a sniper through hearing and moves fast enough to save the target from being killed

Batman #697 - Showing great awareness/perception as he catches a reflection of someone else with Catwoman moving out the corner of his eye in the windows across the street

The Power Company Manhunter - Detects Manhunter’s presence as he’s creeping up behind him and is able to avoid his sneak attack using his speed and agility despite Manhunter’s super human reflexes 

The New Titans #86 - Detects Deathstroke’s presence nearby which impresses Slade since he mentions that not one man in a million would have heard him 

Nightwing #12 - His senses are so well honed that they’re able to pick up even Batman’s presence who’s hiding in the dark 

Grayson #1 - Showcasing his impressive level of perception (and reflex speed) by deflecting a projectile (tranq dart?) shot at him from a hidden enemy who turns out to be Midnighter who he’s also able to find very quickly as noted by Midnighter himself

Grayson #2 - Detects the presence and movement of the same speedster he encountered beforehand coming from behind him then avoids being ambushed by the speedster saving his unaware partner Helena Bertinelli in process

Batman #703 - Deduces that the getaway genius is actually a female despite the fact that she’s using a high tech holographic suit to disguise herself as a man having fooled everyone else  (It’s how she walks)

Batman & Robin #26 - Deduces Ray Man is using illusions against Nightrunner, Robin, and himself then comes up with a way to counter the illusions and subdues Ray Man 

Batman & Robin Eternal #11 - Quickly deduces Sculptor is a telepath after seeing her use her telepathy power against Harper Row (reading Harper’s mind to quickly find out her identity then putting her to sleep) impressing the telepath 

Grayson #17 - Not only is he able to deduce that Grifter is a telepath that can read his thoughts and moves ahead of time by the feeling in his head (having experienced the “bad touch” of telepathy before), he’s also able to break down Grifter’s preferred fighting style, personality, and motivation by reading his body language in mid combat 

Robin Year One #1 - Suspects the man (Mad Hatter) who’s giving away free headphones is not who he appears to be and tracks down his hideout by following his broadcast signal then gets the whereabouts of his current location from his henchmen 

Tales of Teen Titans #43 - Deduces how Donna Troy and Cyborg were captured

Nightwing #24 - Solves a homicide case that went unsolved for over 15 years

Batman Streets of Gotham #8 - Displaying his brilliant deductive mind as he tells Gordon exactly what happened when examining two crime scenes and some dead bodies

Nightwing #144 - Deduces who the mastermind was that created an army of winged men and Talia’s involvement in the project 

Azrael Death’s Dark Knight #3 - Deduces who the new Azrael is 

Vigilante v3 #10 - Deduces Vigilante’s secret identity

Batman #694 - Damian deduces Black Mask’s plan only to find out that Dick figured it all out yesterday morning. In addition, Dick finds out the identity of one of the masterminds behind Black Mask’s operation

Justice League of America v2 #57 - Deduces that the Shade is the person linking all the shadow energy together although everyone else believes its Jade given her connection to both Shadow and Starheart energy

New Teen Titans v1 #38 - figuring out Donna Troy’s identity & background displaying some of his scientific knowledge in the process

Preparation

The New Teen Titans #16 -Has dusting powder for fingerprints on him despite not being in uniform.

The New Teen Titans #38 - Donna had searched the house before without finding anything of note, Dick had researched the blueprints and had used them to find a secret room.

Batman #687 - In a flashback as Robin, he shows his creativity in planning when he passes Batman’s test by successfully launching a well planned non-lethal sneak attack on him within the Batcave 

Trinity #9 - His mask has a small explosive charge installed that can self destruct

Outsiders v3 #37 - Has a piece of kryptonite to deal with Superman if need be

Grayson #8 - Revealing that he’s not only fought alongside the Justice League but has trained to fight them if need be (very likely thanks to his training from Batman). In this battle, we see him take on a super powered android known as Paragon who has the powers of the JLA and defeats it by exploiting the Justice Leaguer’s weaknesses while leading his fellow Spyral agent known as Tiger/Agent 1.

Computers

Action Comics # 842 - he used his knowledge of Tamaranean to hack an alien data terminal

New Titans # 55 - Hooked up the Titans computer to the Batcave’s computer

Titans United #7 - Breaks into ‘Bat-Level Encrypted’ records in a cadmus facility

Tech

Nightwing vol 4 # 25 - Saved a shipful of criminals (and himself) by extending the time field of Clock King’s high-tech alien weapon. Clock King called this “Amazing”

Titans vol 1 # 47 - Trying to repair the comm system in Titan’s headquarters.

Nightwing vol 2 # 138 - He has hacked the override to the Justice League teleporter (which Tim later hacked from him)

Star-Spangled Comics # 70 - Dick thinks of a way to survive a bomb-blast.

Nightwing vol 2 #50 - Able to point out what a full colour spectrum flash pulse is and that the gun it’s fired from is alien origin

Nightwing vol 3 #3 - Turn the microwave transmissions back to Zane

Nightwing vol 2 # 16 - He custom-made his car when he first moved to Blüdhaven

Nightwing Vol 2 # 144 - Build and program a Tech Glider with a remote GPS device

Nightwing vol 4 # 44 - Modified Escrima batons

Future State: Nightwing # 2 - Built Nano-Swarm cameras

Nightwing vol 4 # 78 - Heavily modified Escrima batons

Grayson #1 - Turns an alarm clock into a transmitter 

Outsiders #48 - Co built a mini EMP weapon, the first electrorang

Arkham Reborn #3 - Designed a special stun grenade to neutralise Clayface

Strategy

Justice League #57 - Leads a mix of heroes and villains, utilising all their powers to fight Omega-Knight 

Robin Year One #3 - As a rookie Robin, he outsmarts and apprehends Mr. Freeze by luring him into a trap he sets up on the spot

Batman Streets of Gotham #2 - Takes down Firefly by clogging his jets using a foam gun and then stirs him through a billboard 

Nightwing #146 - Takes out a young & stronger Creighton Kendall (who’s turned himself into one his winged men) by cleverly turning him into a lightning rod

Robin Year One #2 - Defeats the original Blockbuster by luring him into a trap he thought of on the spot 

Nightwing #15 - Tricks Blockbuster into bringing down a building on himself

Nightwing v2 #5 - Defeats the powerful rhyming demon known as Acheron (similar to Etrigan The Demon) by luring the demon back into the place from where it came which binds the demon 

The Titans #25 - Commands Kid Flash to use his powers to direct a gas

Nightwing vol 3 #9 - Tricks William Cobb into entering a location where Dick can lower the temperature quickly, rendering Cobb unconscious

Justice League of America #53 - Formed a plan to defeat mega man and the crime syndicate

Outsiders #23 - Can fool a polygraph

New Teen Titans v1 #5 -Leads the Teen Titans to victory over Goronn

New Teen Titans v1 #6 - Leads the Teen Titans to victory over Trigon 

Return of Donna Troy #2 - Despite not being apart of either team at the time, he naturally takes command over the Outsiders and Teen Titans when they’re ambushed on Minosyss

Return of Donna Troy #3 - Quickly comes up with a plan for the team to subdue a brainwashed Donna Troy as we also see the others looking to him for his leadership in the situation

Return of Donna Troy #4 - Leading the Outsiders, Teen Titans, and native rebels in a war against the Titans of Myth 

JLA #69 - Chosen by his mentor (Batman) to lead the new JLA that the Dark Knight formed as a contingency plan just in case something happened. Batman refers to Nightwing as the best and only person able to lead the team

JLA #73 - Successfully leads the JLA in battle against the very powerful Gemamnae as they manage to take her down and trap her. However, their efforts prove to be only a temporary victory since she is much more powerful then they know 

Justice League of America v2 #42 - Takes command over a newly formed JLA as they bring down the powerful Atlas

Blackest Night Batman #3 - Trusting his judgement, Red Robin and Deadman follow Dick’s lead as he comes up with a very clever yet risky plan on the spot to save/hide Red Robin and himself from the Black Lanterns after deducing how they respond to emotion (He freezes himself and Tim)

Action Comics #842 - Immediately takes command over a group of meta humans which includes Superman once their group is attacked

Where is my 6'4 redhead going undercover wearing sunglasses inside????

Like Marv Wolfman made it clear she can blend in and no one has really played with it.

"he would never accept her culture" what makes you think that??

why do people absolutely deny the development of a relationship? why don't people think that Dick and Kory would have changed in their future relationship? for ourselves and for each other. no one stands still, especially in a relationship, especially like Dick and Kory's, because they've ALREADY changed. they both made mistakes in this relationship, and almost always after a while (usually not for long) they realized these mistakes, admitted them and apologized. and they really didn't do that anymore.

Happy Pride Month

i think bruce cherishes every fun moment with his son because the day he stops hearing grayson's laughs and jokes and no longer sees that blinding smile on his face is the day bruce's life looses meaning

there were actual fights against the comic code where queer people made uncensored, unapologetic queer media in comic that weren’t acknowledged by brudickers. how about we talk about them?

do you actually care about queer history or is it just your incest ship?

robin was always supposed to be younger. he was always supposed to be a kid. the oldest he would be is sixteen, it’d still be grooming. and why focus on the homophobia instead of what people did to go against it? the fall is not the historical part, it’s the rise. why would we talk about stonewall more than we talk about marsha p johnson? make it make sense.

need i remind you that bruce and dick possibly being gay was not the the only reason the comics code happened which some of you make it seem, if anything i’m not even 100% sure that even pursuaded comics in any way as much as the way people thought in that era, but the introduction to two female love interest for batman and robin so they looked less gay because the comics code was already in motion before sudection of the innocent HIT SHELVES. seduction of the innocent more so functioned as a thing that stigmatized comic books towards indefinite queerness.

It's even worse when Barbara is inserted into adaptations or content that she (just in general or as Batgirl instead of Oracle) has no business being in. (New 52!Earth 2, anyone? 🤮)

Barbara and even Tim will hold onto your secrets, maybe sometimes just happening to send a package if you're not taking care of yourself.

She also ignores other woman and their troubles because she is jealous and insecure.

I rather have neither in my house.