For the purposes of this discussion, let's try to sideline the whole "Ric Grayson" and "Didio hates Dick" debates, as they are already being rehashed over and over and over again by numerous other threads. If you want to argue/complain about that, please do so on those threads.

I really dig Dick Grayson. He's a really cool character that is largely unburdened by the misery that too often makes Batman such a drag, yet he has all the stuff that makes Batman so cool. After Wolfman & Perez's New Teen Titans became such a huge hit, Dick became less and less of a Batman-centric character and more of character at home within the larger DCU as Nightwing, a name that gave equal weight to the two pillars of the DCU, Superman & Batman. This was the strongest indication yet that Dick Grayson was now his own man, rather than just Batman's sidekick. In the late 90s, the Batman books reabsorbed Nightwing, gave him a way cooler costume and a new city to operate out of.

From that point on, Nightwing has bounced back and forth between Batman's world and the larger DCU. Obviously, he works really well in both, but where do you tend to enjoy him more? If you could define the character's role, how would you position him within the DCU, more closely associated with Batman or the DCU?