Dick Grayson (Robin) - Nightwing
Jason Todd (Robin) - Red Hood
Barbara Gordon (Batgirl) - Oracle
Bette Kane (Bat-Girl) - Hawkfire
Cassandra Cain (Batgirl) - Orphan
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Na, the lead up was perfect. Showed Bruce completely losing it and going through the stages of grief. Him trying to trick Jason made perfect sense just like him breaking and nearly killing Joker after Jason made perfect sense.
He wasn't himself and that showed you just how far he was willing to go.
With 29 people having voted,* Barbara Gordon (Batgirl) - Oracle = 11 votes
* Dick Grayson (Robin) - Nightwing = 9 votes
* Jason Todd (Robin) - Red Hood = 7 votes
The three other options have either 1 or 0 votes.
Did they return with an entirely new mantle that they kept (for a significant amount of time)? Because, in retrospect, I should have used the term reinvention rather than comeback - anyway, that's what was meant. I realise Babs went back to being Batgirl, but she was Oracle for a significant amount of time, and still kept it.
NOTE: Thread was originally started in July 2021.
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With 37 people having voted,* Barbara Gordon (Batgirl) - Oracle = 14 votes
* Dick Grayson (Robin) - Nightwing = 11 votes
* Jason Todd (Robin) - Red Hood = 10 votes
The three other options still have either 1 or 0 votes.
Pretty much this. I'm a huge Nightwing fan but Dick has always had a steady fan base and him becoming Nightwing was just the next step in his story. It was not necessarily a "comeback". He has always been a successful character.
Jason on the other hand came back from being everyone's least favorite Robin to being a good character with depth, a fanbase and marketability.
Barbara becoming Oracle completely redefined the character and made her crucial to the DC community. Its gotta be between Jason and Barbara.
It took a long time for the resurrected Jason Todd to find his footing. It seemed like until the New Fifty Two, writers didn't know what to do with him. He was written inconsistently from writer to writer, the Judd Winnick version of Red Hood seemed like a whole different character from the Grant Morrison version. It's easy to say that at that point Jason fresh off of Countdown and impersonating Nightwing was featured in more bad stories than good.
I remember the initial reception to Red Hood and the Outlaws be generally negative with perhaps the biggest controversy of the 2011 relaunch being Starfire's sexist portrayal in that book, but people seem to like that version of Jason and the Rebirth Outlaws was well received.
Last edited by Timothy Hunter; 04-21-2022 at 07:20 PM.