What should DC do with Damian when Morrison leaves Batman Incorporated?

[shingi70]

But the alternative is Tim Drake who comes from the same school of bland as Clark Kent and Barry Allen.

[TZDEKA]

I woulda pegged you as a Clark fan given your avatar.

[coveredinbees]

Clark and Tim aren't bland. : (

[vampiric_cannibal]

To be fair, Damian has unfairly hated on Alfred's food since the beginning while Bruce and Dick love Alfred's cooking.

If its canon that Alfred makes crap waffles, apply zealous Geoffcon so it was always that way. I don't remember other instances of Damian disliking Alfred's cooking, more of Damian being genuinely uninterested in food.

Clark and Tim aren't bland. : (

Correction: When written well by someone who understands the characters, they are very interesting and genuinely benevolent heroes. Some comic writers only know how to do broken anti-heroes, which is what Tim ended up as for a time anyway.

[TZDEKA]

If its canon that Alfred makes crap waffles, apply zealous Geoffcon so it was always that way. I don't remember other instances of Damian disliking Alfred's cooking, more of Damian being genuinely uninterested in food.

No, he's specifically anti-Alfred's cooking. In his very first appearance he insulted Alfred's cooking and threw it against the wall, and there were a couple more instances after that pre-Flashpoint at least, either in Batgirl, B&R, or Red Robin. Hopefully someone has the scans.

[shark]

Yes, he should.

Because 1) We really don't need yet another robin and 2) he has a lot of potential.

Robin has never been 100% light and bright. Even Dick had a tragic past. The key is to get characters that balance his personality. Bruce is not enough. Dick, Colin, Steph were good for him, and Damian really needs some friends ASAP.

But between Snyder's Talon-troubled Batman and Tomasi's clueless parent Bruce, I think they would need to hire Stephanie Brown as a nanny to help Damian loosen us. (Alfred is cool, but he can't go as crazy as Stephanie would.)

I'd pay good money to see that.

[JasonTodd428]

I like the little demon child myself and think he has a lot of potential to be a decent Robin. My problem with B&R right now is that I don't think the Bruce/Damian foil works very well because the two are so much alike and I don't find it to be an interesting mix. The Dick/Damian foil was a lot more interesting to me because it reversed the Light/Dark motif and because the two of them are polar opposites. I wish DC had left Dick and Damian together for a bit longer not because I care who would write the book but because I enjoyed reading about them working together because it was fun and bit more lighthearted then this book has been so far.

[MajorHoy]

And while I enjoy Damian and don't want him to change too radically (just maybe lighten up a little more among some others in the Bat-family), I just don't know if it's maybe time for him to come up with a new costumed identity while he still works with his dad.

[grizla]

And thanks to the power of retcon that situation was re-retconned back to its original state of it being consensual and Morrison apologized for that mistake ages ago I believe. I mean they even say that it was in the first or second issue of the new52 Batman and Robin saying that he let his "heart rule over his head"

did not know that. I admit i haven't been keeping up with new 52, the reboot really turned me off. I tend to run at least a year behind current story lines anyway. Kinda wish the retcon stuck though, i never liked the way damian was handled. (I do understand i'm out voted on this point) also 10 is really young. Like really really young. I just never saw that tiny scrap of reality that would make so i could connect to damian. Even the the most outlandish heros should have something grounding to build on.

[osoito]

I am too a damian fan. I enjoyed the relationship dick and him had (the man child I am cant construct that sentence and not look at it inappropriately). I feel in B&R there is so much riding on him and bruce working everything out it is holding the story back. With dick it felt well we will give this a shot and we can realistically both walk away from one another but they didnt and that kept it all rosy, they were as someone said the polar opposite of each other. At the moment because bruce and him are forced its not working as well for me, Hopefully we get a good story that can develop their relationship because the last thing we need is another robin.

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[scouter227]

Douche was the wrong word. I meant more like... troubled, serious, brooding. Certainly not the happy go lucky Robin.

I edited my post.

No, Jason WAS a douche. That's why people wanted him dead. They had an 800 number to kill him off. People HATED him because he was a DOUCHE.

[osoito]

No, Jason WAS a douche. That's why people wanted him dead. They had an 800 number to kill him off. People HATED him because he was a DOUCHE.

Unless that theory about it being fixed is true. They did bring him back so there must have been a reason for that

[batGRRRl4ever]

Robin was conceived as more of "a laughing, fighting, young daredevil who scoffs at danger" (wording from Detective Comics 38, 1940). Tim became the third Robin to Batman because he felt Batman needed a lighter, brighter counterpoint to keep Batman from being too dark and all.

But Damian ain't it. He's not a bright, smiling, happy-go-lucky kid. He's killied before (even before Nobody), and he could easily do so again in the future.

Should he maybe take on a different identity to reflect his slightly darker, more serious side?

This. Damian is to Robin as Cass was to Batgirl, in that the creator admitted explicitly that Cass was the "anti" Batgirl in comparison to Barbara's tenure. Damian is the same in comparison to the original with Dick. The kid walks a razor's edge to not become a future Arkham inmate himself, and the Bat teams may as well just either:

1.) Have Damian embrace fully his dark nature and get an outfit more in line with it:



2.) Or two, let the kid lighten up a little already. A kid character shouldn't be a borderline psychopath, it's distasteful.

[petesake]

Well the last thing batman needs is a brand new 5th/6th robin

[scouter227]

Unless that theory about it being fixed is true. They did bring him back so there must have been a reason for that

This is the very first time I've ever heard that killing off Jason Todd was fixed. And they did have a reason for it. ($$$$$) It's why they rebooted the DC Universe. It's why they disrupt ongoing storylines for one shot "Event" stories which usually end up being all show and no go. Plus, Jason Todd is much more believable as someone who is off the hinge than as "Robin".