Potential Spoilers about Nightwing's New Direction

[Pohzee]

Lmao at the people complaining about King infusing "too much realism" into superhero comics here. Amnesia exists in the real world, but it is a trope far more common in fiction and fantasy than real life. This might be a dumb idea, but not for that reason. I get that it has become the go-to lazy complaint to throw at King because of Heroes in Crisis, but c'mon. There are plenty of valid criticisms that may be made about King's writing, but conflating "edgy" with "realistic" is misguided.

Like the concept of people complaining that a character developing amnesia is too realistic is just hilarious to me. Imagine this being said for any other medium, like a TV show or something. It's dramatic. That's some soap opera material.

[Onthetrapeze]

Why not?
I haven't been reading the book, but has Titans ignored any other developments with the characters in other books?

I don't know, this one seems too significant to be ignored...

[Pohzee]

I don't know, this one seems too significant to be ignored...

Darkside War ignored the entirety of the DCYou status quo changes like Truth era Superman, BunnyBats, and Finch's Wonder Woman.

[Onthetrapeze]

Darkside War ignored the entirety of the DCYou status quo changes like Truth era Superman, BunnyBats, and Finch's Wonder Woman.

Well, Wally and Roy have already disappeared from current Titans.

[Godlike13]

Forgotten everything of what? Because he seems to be running around in costume still.

[Zaresh]

Hear me here.
What if these rumours are for real and he does get amnesia, but the writer plays it in a different way than usual. Dick gets amnesia, but for whatever reason (because he gets stuck with Vicki, who discovers his identity just before he gets hit or shot or whatever), he chooses to pretend he's the same, playing hero with his team, in his city, with Vicki assisting him, while he has to work towards recovering those memories in a brainstorm and, and the same time, he's being chased by someone? That's a lot of stuff going on: he has to play a role he doesn't know the script for without anyone (family, allies, enemies) noticing; he has to stop some villain or villains that are changing him, he has to chase his own memories, and he has to deal with Vicki not messing up his identity, not abissing him, or whatever the conflict for that thread could be. I think something like that could work well for twelve issues and it could also touch a bunch of nice themes.

[Godlike13]

Hey, at least someone is trying to come up with something. Honestly the situation wasn’t too different then with Grayson. With something bad happening to Dick elsewhere forcing a new direction. Good or bad, i rather they try new directions then not. If it sucks, it suck. But I still would rather they try things then just spin the wheels with Nightwing.

[byrd156]

Hey, at least someone is trying to come up with something. Honestly the situation wasn’t too different then with Grayson. With something bad happening to Dick elsewhere forcing a new direction. Good or bad, i rather they try new directions then not. If it sucks, it suck. But I still would rather they try things then just spin the wheels with Nightwing.

Isn't the mobile headquarters a direction already? I thought he was supposed to be going cross-country or something.

[SixSpeedSamurai]

Maybe he'll finally start going by Rick.

[byrd156]

Maybe he'll finally start going by Rick.

Why would he do that?

[Rac7d*]

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/09...erse-spoilers/

"That, fresh from destroying Batman’s marriage to Catwoman in Batman #50, Bane has put a hit on Nightwing. And, without any cowl to protect him, Dick Grayson is shot in the head.

He lives. But has forgotten everything.

And rather than resolve this in an issue or two, this will be the new ongoing status of Dick Grayson. Dealing with the real world trauma – and without a super-filled Sanctuary to make him feel better."

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Leave him alone
to torture some other hero

I guess it will be up to Babs to heal him

he cannot lead Titans with this status so how is that suppose to work is he leaving TITANS right before titans airs and gets its sales booth, becasue I frikin droppin it

[Nite-Wing]

I think its about time Dick starts wearing a helmet
He is pretty susceptible to lethal shots with just his mask for protection

[king81992]

This feels like the editorial heard all 'the Nightwing is boring' complaints and are trying to make him 'interesting' in a really questionable way.

[MajorHoy]

If we doing this whole Bane is destroying Batman on multiple levels thing, I like the idea of him targeting the Batfam too.

Didn't they already do "Death of the Family" with Joker instead of Bane in the New52?

Darkside War ignored the entirety of the DCYou status quo changes like Truth era Superman, BunnyBats, and Finch's Wonder Woman.

I think quite a few people tried their best to forget about the Finches' Wonder Woman.

I think its about time Dick starts wearing a helmet
He is pretty susceptible to lethal shots with just his mask for protection

I didn't realize eye masks were a type of body armor.
Heck, I thought masks were to protect secret identities! (I know, such a dated concept that's so last century!)

[Kaled]

Originally posted by Zaresh

Hear me here.
What if these rumours are for real and he does get amnesia, but the writer plays it in a different way than usual. Dick gets amnesia, but for whatever reason (because he gets stuck with Vicki, who discovers his identity just before he gets hit or shot or whatever), he chooses to pretend he's the same, playing hero with his team, in his city, with Vicki assisting him, while he has to work towards recovering those memories in a brainstorm and, and the same time, he's being chased by someone? That's a lot of stuff going on: he has to play a role he doesn't know the script for without anyone (family, allies, enemies) noticing; he has to stop some villain or villains that are changing him, he has to chase his own memories, and he has to deal with Vicki not messing up his identity, not abissing him, or whatever the conflict for that thread could be. I think something like that could work well for twelve issues and it could also touch a bunch of nice themes.

Then that means either you or Percy is a fan of Anne Perry's Inspector Monk Novels. As that is the exact premise of the novels. She did finally have Inspector Monk recover his memory but he spent several novels hiding it from friends and family and from the police force he worked for before he became a private detective.