Robin (DC animated universe)
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Dick Grayson, a. k. a. Robin a. k. a. Nightwing, a DC Comics superhero and supporting character of Batman, consistently appeared in Batman: The Animated Series, and several of the related series created by Bruce Timm and Paul Dini, played by Loren Lester.
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[edit] Appearances
- Christmas With the Joker
- Fear of Victory
- Robin's Reckoning, Part I
- Robin's Reckoning, Part II
- Night of the Ninja
- The Strange Secret of Bruce Wayne
- If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?
- What Is Reality?
- I Am the Night
- The Mechanic
- Shadow of the Bat, Part I
- Shadow of the Bat, Part II
- The Demon's Quest, Part I
- The Demon's Quest, Part II
- House and Garden
- The Terrible Trio
- Harlequinade
- Time Out of Joint
- Bane
- Baby Doll
- The Lion and the Unicorn
- Showdown
- Riddler's Reform
- Second Chance
- Harley's Holiday
- Lock-Up
- Make 'Em Laugh
- Deep Freeze
- Batgirl Returns
- Sins of the Father
- You Scratch My Back
- Joker's Millions
- Over The Edge
- Animal Act
- Old Wounds
- Chemistry
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[edit] DC animated universe biography
Dick Grayson's most notable TV appearances were on Batman: The Animated Series and The New Batman Adventures where Dick was voiced by actor Loren Lester. The Emmy Award winning Batman: The Animated Series episode "Robin's Reckoning" contains an origin story for Robin. In this series, the Robin costume has been updated to the modern version. Another episode, "Old Wounds", explained that Dick (then still Robin) had come to blows with Batman over the Dark Knight's controlling nature and increasing ruthlessness, and that Grayson had left Gotham as a result. His motivations for leaving was that "Nobody can be a Boy Wonder forever." He returned years later as Nightwing, and, though he worked with Batman several times over the course of the series, never fully reconciled with his former mentor.
The Batman Adventures, a spin-off comic book series based on the TV shows, featured Grayson's Robin/Nightwing as a recurring character. Most notably, "The Lost Years" story arc, which serves as a connector between the end of Batman: The Animated Series and the start of The New Batman Adventures, tells the DCAU's version of Grayson's journey to become Nightwing.
Batman Beyond, another TV series in the DC Animated Universe, implies that Dick is still alive and bitter some fifty years later.
Dick Grayson made a non-speaking cameo on Justice League, appearing very briefly in the episode "The Savage Time" as a member of the alternate time-frame Bruce wayne's resistance against Savage's regime. He is seen sharing an intimate moment with Barbara Gordon, apparently also a member of the resistance. The Batmobile is also glimpsed briefly in that squence.
Nightwing has a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo in the Justice League Unlimited episode "Grudge Match", apparently now having moved to neighbouring Blüdhaven to start his own career.
Grayson (as Nightwing) is one of the four playable characters in Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu.
Though the Teen Titans animated series never explicitly states the real name of the show's Robin, Dick Grayson is often implied and is also confirmed by the show's creator, Glen Murakami.[citation needed] In the episode "How Long is Forever?", Nightwing appears as Robin's future identity. In "Fractured", a Batmite-like character infatuated with Robin has the name "Nosyarg Kcid": "Dick Grayson" spelled backwards. When Raven temporarily possesses Robin's mind in 'Haunted', there are brief flashbacks, one of which is in a circus as two people on the trapeze begin to fall, the fate Dick Grayson's parents meet in the comics. In the episode "Go", Starfire acquires the ability to speak English by giving Robin a passionate kiss, as her character did with Dick Grayson in the comics, a detail confirmed in the film Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo.
[edit] Design
For The New Batman Adventures, Grayson was redesigned as Nightwing by Glen Murakami.
