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Friday, May 24, 2024

Robin IV - Batman: Wayne Family Adventures



















The fourth member of the Bat Family to use the title of Robin, Stephanie Brown held the position for only a short while in 2020, before returning it to Tim Drake. 

One of her proudest moments was solving the Riddler's riddles a full ten minutes after the G.C.P.D received them, using her experience with puzzles and games - as the daughter of Cluemaster - to her advantage. 

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The second person to adopt the mantle of Robin in 2015, Jason Todd was trained by Batman to fight crime in Gotham City, after Dick Grayson moved away and took up the alias Nightwing. 

Growing up in the Bowery, he saw firsthand the fear that criminals inflicted upon innocent lives night after night and wanted to do something about it. Jason was cocksure and often violent when going up against opponents, very rarely pulling his punches. 

He did not hold the position long, dying at the hands of the Joker, who beat him to death with a crowbar and left him to be blown up in a warehouse. 

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The first hero to take up the mantle of Robin in 2006, Dick Grayson, choosing the name to honour his parents, was a skilled acrobat, having grown up performing with The Flying Graysons at Haley’s Circus.

Due to his difficulty in following basic instructions and often enthusiastic and risky behaviour, he would be banned from going on certain missions. 

For a time, he was forbidden to go against Poison Ivy. 

Victor Zsasz - Batman: Wayne Family Adventures

A dangerous serial killer from Gotham City, Victor Zsasz is an enemy of Batman and his allies. 

On April 21st, 2022, Robin concluded that he was the suspect in a recent string of killings, advising the G.C.P.D to proceed with caution, as he is known to be unprotectable and lethal. 

"Jervis Tetch" - Young Justice: Outsiders

Now a coerced asset of the meta-human trafficking ring Branchwater, Clayface, aka Matthew Hagen, was forced to impersonate Jervis Tetch, living his life, while the real neuroscientist was operating with impunity, creating more operatives for Simon Stagg's corporate espionage unit. 

This trick was uncovered on September 12th when Batman's team, who had been tailing Tetch - on Wayne's orders - as he was on the way to "his" night shift, became suspicious of how much water he was drinking. Discovering clay backwash in an empty bottle he had disposed of, Orphan took it upon herself to attack their target in an alleyway, slicing him in half and forcing Hagen to reveal himself. 

With his cover blown, he retreated to a warehouse, inadvertently allowing the young heroes to discover one of Branchwater's Coercion Facilities. After a fight that saw the warehouse destroyed and the Hatter and Shade escape, they managed to secure a sample of the nanotechnology Tetch injected into his victims. With this in their possession, they could free Hagen from Branchwater's control. 

Jaqqar Marlo - Young Justice: Outsiders

The former director of the Research & Development department at Goode World Studios, overseeing the Good World VR Goggles project, Jaqqar Marlo (1969 - 2018was responsible for purchasing several off-the-books facilities used by Granny Goodness and the Light as meta-human trafficking processing centres. Once all the purchases were finalised, he was deemed as an expendable loose end that needed cutting. 

Wishing to silence everyone connected to the project and the shell company that Marlo used to purchase the facilities, The Light contracted the League of Shadows to assassinate him. Tracking him down to a bar in Al-Qawiya, he was chased through the streets by Black Spider. 

Giving the assassin the slip, Marlo believed he had escaped, only to be crushed by a gigantic boulder, which was being controlled by Spider's backup, Tara Markov.

Once the Goode World Goggles were discovered to be "defective", Gretchen Goode publically blamed Marlo, saying he was a rogue and corrupt businessman who did not speak for the company.