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

[vampiric_cannibal]

Here's a relevant question regarding Damian's future: like his Robin brothers before him, eventually, Damian will need to grow and change as a person. The question is: what will he grow into? All of his predecessors (including even Jason) started out fairly bright and happy characters and then, to differing degrees, grew more serious and grim as they grew older and had different experiences. When someone *starts* as Damian has, what can he possibly grow into?

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

I think 15-20 years of real time will pass before Damian is aged enough to need a new role, and some niche will present itself. I suppose he could end up being the happy Batmale who isn't alienated from the rest. Or maybe a dark and edgy Batmale who is particularly ruthless and alienated from the rest. I'm guessing he'll be the eventual heir to Waynecorp; Dick has no interest, Jason is 'dead', Cass is barely numerate or literate, Tim is a science guy not a commerce on, so perhaps Damian will be the Batman INC heir, the international roving Batman.

[Froggy]

Here's a relevant question regarding Damian's future: like his Robin brothers before him, eventually, Damian will need to grow and change as a person. The question is: what will he grow into? All of his predecessors (including even Jason) started out fairly bright and happy characters and then, to differing degrees, grew more serious and grim as they grew older and had different experiences. When someone *starts* as Damian has, what can he possibly grow into?

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

why a cheery well adjusted playboy

that would be a twist

[Buried Alien]

why a cheery well adjusted playboy

that would be a twist

I would actually like to see that. All the previous Batmen/Robins went the same direction; Damian would truly be a trailblazer if he evolved in reverse.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

[shark]

Here's a relevant question regarding Damian's future: like his Robin brothers before him, eventually, Damian will need to grow and change as a person. The question is: what will he grow into? All of his predecessors (including even Jason) started out fairly bright and happy characters and then, to differing degrees, grew more serious and grim as they grew older and had different experiences. When someone *starts* as Damian has, what can he possibly grow into?

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

It will depend on what DC decides to do with him. Personally, I'd like him to follow Dick's example. Get his own identity and separate himself from Batman. It would be nice if his time as Robin makes him grow as a person, in a positive way. But as I said, he'll need more than just Bruce to pull that off.

DC could always turn him into a villain, but I think that route uninspiring and dull.

[elikal]

I vote NO.

And the reason is simple. While he is a very interesting character, he makes a bad addition to a Bruce-Wayne-Batman. For Dick-Batman he was a good addition, but with Bruce, he just does not balance him. Tim once analysed, Bruce needs a Robin to balance his darker side. Batman was the dark and serious, Robin the cheerful young apprentice.

Also,

- Damien as trouble youth should NOT work a "job" that contains so much violence. It will just feed his dark side. Damien Wayne needs something else that being Superhero in Gotham.
- same as a Jedi should not have attachments to an apprentice, Batman should not have his son as sidekick. That's just never good.
- I understand just making Tim younger again is not likely, but I loved young Tim Drake as Robin, and wish to see the return of a classic "Dynamic Duo" style B&R


I suggest to make Damien sidekick of Nightwing, maybe with their main base of operation NOT in gloomy and depressive Gotham. I am generally not so fond of a psychopath kid as Robin. Damien can be an interesting char in the Batverse but not as Robin.

[shark]

- same as a Jedi should not have attachments to an apprentice, Batman should not have his son as sidekick. That's just never good.

Batman will always have attachments to his Robins. And all of them - except Steph - are like his sons.

[Froggy]

I would actually like to see that. All the previous Batmen/Robins went the same direction; Damian would truly be a trailblazer if he evolved in reverse.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

He'd be like the batman who use to smile a lot. I think his time with Dick should affect him quite a bit and contrast with the time he spent with his father

while Grayson as he calls him isn't as analytical, he still was quite a good Batman and Damian seemed to enjoy working with him and the two of them ribbing each other

[MajorHoy]

Simple question, really: What should happen to Damian after Morrison finishes his run on Batman Incorporated?
There have been people saying they think / want Damian to die after Morrison finishes up his run on the new Batman Incorporated, and others want him to still continue after that.

So, I've come up with a few choices . . . some serious, some . . . well . . .

So, what do you think?

* Kill him off; nobody else can write him properly
* Let him live; he’s a great addition to the Batman family
* Let him switch to being Nightwing’s sidekick
* Change his code name to something more appropriate
* Have him replace (or kill off) Jason Todd and take over the Outlaws
* Give him a sex change and have him be the new Batgirl
* Have his brain / thought patterns transplanted into Titus (his dog)
* Have him and Bruce change bodies, so he takes control of Wayne Industries
* Have him dispatched into the past, possibly eventually returning to the present
* Let him just disappear until Morrison eventually comes back to the Bat-books
* I don’t care
* Other (please explain)

Oh, and if you want more than one of these to happen (like maybe the sex change but also teaming him with Nightwing), try to just choose one. I'd rather "other" be the option for scenarios I didn't even suggest.

[TZDEKA]

Stay as Robin, alive.

[MajorHoy]

A poll has been added . . . but your choice will be made public.

(Also, only one choice; no multiple choices.)

[batGRRRl4ever]

* Change his code name to something more appropriate

I would be for this, something more in line with the borderline psychopath that he is (I dare anyone to challenge me that his little sketchbook of slayings is 'normal')

* Give him a sex change and have him be the new Batgirl

This would have only worked with Cass' version, lol

* Other (please explain)

Ship him off to a boarding school with a heavy emphasis on social interaction and a clinical counselor staff.

[Dr. Hurt]

Man, there's like 100 Damian threads.

Anyway, i hope he doesnt die or have some big change to his character or whatever. Keep him around. He is a new Robin, his character is interesting, and people love him when he teams up with lighter characters who he can bounce off very well. His future as Damianbats is also fantastic and very intriguing.

And no i dont agree that he should be killed off. Dini and Miller wrote him just fine. Just get Morrison to write down some notes that DC can give to any writer who's about to write him. *cough*Tomasi*cough*

I also dont agree with him being Nightwing's sidekick even if i think Dick is the best partner for him. He's Robin and Robin is Batman's partner. Unless they share him or something.

EDIT 1: Interesting how my choice, which is the most conservative btw doesnt exist on the poll.
EDIT 2: Apparently i am blind and didnt see it. Anyway i chose "other", meaning that.

[KurtW95]

They should reveal he's not really Bruce's son and he goes mad.

[Dr. Hurt]

I would be for this, something more in line with the borderline psychopath that he is (I dare anyone to challenge me that his little sketchbook of slayings is 'normal')

Until Tomasi who made him a psychopath like Jim Gordon Jr, killing animals and showing other such psychopathic behaviour, Damian wasnt a psycho. He was merely a misguided kid, who was taught to be a killing machine. Dick's mentorship had a massive effect on him.

At the end of the day, his daddy issue, his brooding, and the fact that he's a kid that doesnt know how to have fun is what's great about him. If he gets therapy or whatever you might as well read a Tim book. Keep Damian as little grimdark Bruce is all i'm saying.

[MajorHoy]

Until Tomasi who made him a psychopath like Jim Gordon Jr, killing animals and showing other such psychopathic behaviour, Damian wasnt a psycho. He was merely a misguided kid, who was taught to be a killing machine. Dick's mentorship had a massive effect on him.

At the end of the day, his daddy issue, his brooding, and the fact that he's a kid that doesnt know how to have fun is what's great about him. If he gets therapy or whatever you might as well read a Tim book. Keep Damian as little grimdark Bruce is all i'm saying.

Some of the things he first did, like dispatching/beheading the Spook, soundly thrashing and injuring Tim in the Batcave, and a few other pre-Tomasi incidents could be seen as being somewhat "psychotic" . . . just because he was raised differently and really didn't understand they were not proper actions doesn't mean we just laugh them off and dismiss them as "innocent, childish mistakes".