The “streetwise kid” and “toughest streets” thing definitely leans towards the “If we make Wally West black, he needs to be from the hood!”-type of racism. And to be blunt, even Duke isn’t really that stereotypical, at least not in presentation. If what they wanted was greater diversity, than just making Tim a black kid and keeping the rest of his backstory soldi could have done that - while a wise move would be to incorporate how race,would *still* impact Tim in that scenario, the sheer “tenacity” of someone deciding “Black Robin must equal street kid” is ridiculous, particularly when they have Jason already being the street kid, both in the comics and the show.
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The Drakes were also not that rich.
I mean yeah they were pretty rich, but not on the Level of the Waynes, Kanes, Elliots ..., and they were not among the founding families.
By the way Duke was also not that poor, more working class or maybe even lower middle class, not like Jason or Harper Row.
We don't know the plot yet. If he saw Grayson's death as a child, he's Tim Drake
The part about Duke *also* not being from a stereotypical “black” background is one of the reasons why there’s greater risk of Titans Tim being a worse representative than Duke would have been if representation was their primary goal.
Well, 1) he’s not got a reputation as the “privileged Robin,” even if he was in fact more privileged than the others, because the character was always much more than that. And 2), it certainly wasn’t hard to justify him as a vigilante - that’s what good storytelling did for him in his first handful of appearances.
Really, none of Gotham’s teen heroes are “justified” as being part of the vigilante life; giving them the motivation and contextualization to go out and be the equivalent of real world child soldiers *without it being problematic* is one of the conceits of the setting. It just like how Gotham “needs” a rich billionaire to wage a privately funded campaign of ninja warfare, amateur detective work and experimental technology against a recurring cast of colorful murderers.
Really, most of Tim’s problems seem to arise from people trying to o fix what wasn’t broken with him before hand.
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