Aaaah. I get it now.
Damian's friends make him have character development. It makes him nicer.
Damian's brand, the one that differentiates him from the others, is being the brat, Robin.
No friends, no character development, means he can continue to be a brat forever.
Kinda like Bruce and solitary brooding.
Any healthy relationship he has is always struck down. He can't even have a consistently good one with his own father.
So all he has currently are the Titans who, in spite of how good or bad you think the series is, are all...kinda toxic to each other. The closest he has to a real friendship on that team is with Emiko.
Heh...did not know that. Well I stand corrected on that front, at least lol
SuperJon and DamiBats by stariver00 because I don't understand DC's decision making as this is infinitely better
Cursed Image! Well drawn but Cursed!
Ugh. Wally aside, I've never been a big fan of legacy characters taking over their mentors' roles. Especially when they're also their mentors' kids. That always just felt lazy to me. I don't wanna see them grow up into their fathers. I want them to find their own identities.
I'm not against the idea of legacy characters taking over their mentors' roles but it largely depends on the circumstances that lead to the mentors being replaced.
This. I have no problem with Damian becoming Batman. Heck in canon his is the only Batman that you can tell in a instant isn't Bruce.
But ideally I want him to go the BB route from Batman to Demon's Head or the Synder's JL route where he and Jon become Bat's and Supes but with responsible for world rather than their individual states.
I don't agree that Damian is denied friends to maintain his anti social ways/deny him character Development [though Supersons did that] Damian doesn't and has never had issues having friends it's just that his narrative does focus on that. He found it easy getting a whole team of folks to join the group. Damian doesn't have issues making friends in story. The problem is that like Suren his pals where created on the fly by individual writers with not much clout so they don't get used.
Suren
Colin
Maps
Maya
All where Created by individual writer
Jon was created by mandate so he was used and promoted the most.
The writer bring their characters into use when they can. Like Nguyen is doing with Colin. Like Gleason did with Maya.
Damian isn't denied friends anymore than Dick and Tim are.
You're right. He didn't. But then, I wasn't a fan of Dick becoming Batman either. Even if his partnership with Damian made it one of my favorite Batman runs XD
I dunno. Something about that inherited name stuff has never sat right with me. I was always cool with it in Wally's case because he was my first Flash, and in Terry's case because...well Batman Beyond is just fucking awesome (that and he didn't start as Bruce's protege)! But I didn't like Bart becoming Kid Flash (and later Flash). I've never liked Batman 666 (even if Damian does want that for himself). And I'm very much opposed to what's about to happen with Jon.
But then, that's just always been a personal preference of mine. I just like it better when sidekicks can make their own names for themselves instead of taking on somebody else's.