Can we have a better codename for Tim Drake?

[Awesome!]

Maybe Tim should be killed......

[Chainshada]

Maybe Damian should be Dark Robin?

Shrike or Butcher Bird would be better, given how they like to impale their prey.

[MajorHoy]

Shrike or Butcher Bird would be better, given how they like to impale their prey.

But with a name like Butcher Bird it seems like he should dress like this



with maybe a bird face for a mask.

[Toreador]

Redwing reminds my of the work boots.

There's Flamebird, that's not being used in the nDCU.

Maybe Darkwing (although it's too close to Nightwing and Disney might be a little miffed).

Or any other bird reference not being used (sparrow, eagle, falcon, osprey).

[Godlike13]

Or any other bird reference not being used (sparrow, eagle, falcon, osprey).

Crimson Ostrich

[MajorHoy]

Red Ostrich

Cuckoo?

[Godlike13]

The Dark Dodo

[HXHAlex]

Maybe Tim should kill Damian

[fred10]

[Shmoo]

Redbird would be acceptable, but for my money nothing will beat Redwing. I mean, he's a "graduate of the Robin program" so homaging Nightwing is an easy move. Even Batwing homages Nightwing, and I can't remember exactly when Batwing's name turned up in the 70's/80's story, but Dick becoming Nightwing was a new concept then.

So it recognizes Tim's graduation from being Robin, homages one of his best friends, brothers and mentors in Dick Grayson, and indicates that he's retaining more of the "Robin" elements - the color red, the bird-themes - than Dick did. After all, Dick still a bird basically re-embraced his acrobat/trapeze lifestyle with his motifs, with a slight predatory bird angle.

Yes, Redwing. Just to delineate him from Robin a bit more and separate him from the burger franchise.

That's a good idea and i think it would have worked pre-flashpoint. However, since the only colors on Nightwing's costume are black and red that may be too similar. Maybe if they changed Nightwing's costume back to blue.

[sidekick77]

The problem with using Redwing is that it was already the name of a Team Titans hero in that mercifully short run. I guess it wouldn't be hard for creators to reclaim the name for Tim in the post-Flashpoint continuity. However, it would be ideal if they could find a way to give the codename some type of connection to Tim. I think it would allow for more personal claim and permanency, which has worked for Dick despite some folks seeing "Nightwing" strictly as a Kryptonian legacy.

In pre-Crisis history, during a vigilante adventure in the bottle city of Kandor, Superman and Jimmy used the names Nightwing and Flamebird in homage to Batman & Robin. Then in post-Crisis, Nightwing became Krypton's mythical vigilante. In any case, Dick took the name because he was iconically influenced by two houses [Batman and Superman] and wanted a name to reflect that history. I think that is why Dick has been successful at maintaining this mantle, seeing that Chris Kent's time as Nightwing was as temporary as Bruce being dead.

[[Trigger]]

Even though I don't like the name Flamebird it would go well with the pairing of Nightwing since both names are part of the lore.

As for the costume I loved the older one because it was a cross between his old Robin outfit and the look of Batman. it acknowledged both his past and his possible future. The old look made it seem like he really was growing past his "Robin" persona. This outfit makes him look more like Robin, which is probably what they were going for for the book.

[Quinnhop]

Red Dragon and Blackbat
(Time Drake) and (Cassandra Cain)

ft. I-Ching, Sabrewing (Stephanie Brown), Batman Japan (Jiro Osamu)

vs. Lynx II, Lady Shiva, China White, Tiger Shark II, White Canary, KGBeast, Camorouge, Shrike, Anarky, Victor Mikalek, King Snake, Shrike, etc.

Go all-out Iron First/Enter the Dragon meets Batman.

[Dr.wonderful]

In my "The Bat" series, Tim Drake became Reaver while wearing his Red Robin Costume.

[vampiric_cannibal]

I think Red Robin is an adequate, if not terribly interesting or easy to differentiate name. In continuity, if Tim allowed anyone to call him by his real name ever, then having a bad codename would be far less of an issue.