And if he did stop being Robin for good, you'd think that story would happen in either Batman or Detective, not Teen Titans. While Dick did retire as Robin in New Teen Titans, there was special circumstances there - the Bat editors wanted to take him back and de-age him. Marv Wolfman told them to make a new Robin instead - something that hadn't happened since the silver age heroes replaced the golden age ones (i.e. Flash, Green Lantern, and over at Marvel, Human Torch). So Dick became Nightwing and Jason Todd was created to take over as Robin. Nowadays, you wouldn't expect that sort of thing to happen, so if Damian is stripped of his mantle, it won't be permanent.
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Another problem is that after that "Drake" situation I don't think the writers have currently any good ideas for ex-Robins identities left.
This is true but he's also a minor who needs supervision.
Damian has gone off the rails regardless of his best intentions or the fact that he's doing what we saw Bruce doing in his title.
They are both at fault. Damian needs to regain Batman's trust and Bruce needs to regain his position as respected authority figure. Damian lost faith in the grown up heroes which led him to try harsher more permanent solutions. He doesn't have faith in Batman's methods and believes that Bruce is too pre-occupied to notice his activities.
The fact that it took Bruce this long to find out pretty much says it all about how bad he failed in both his duties as parent and mentor.
What happened to Batman having eyes on everyone? It was established in different titles that he has all sorts of eyes on Damian.
Last edited by dietrich; 01-17-2020 at 11:17 AM.
Nah, you know what? Scratch that new identity stuff. The other solicitations about Batman speak of him losing something dear (shocking!) and him going over the edge.
Let's make him even edgier and dumber and have him... *spins the stupid dc ideas wheel* hit Damian in the face, making him trip and break his neck on a conveniently placed rock, removing him from the story. Wait...