Is Robin any longer necessary?

It just occurred to me that maybe the reason readers never liked Jason Todd wasn’t because the character had too many psychological issues, but because the concept of sidekicks had become corny (I guess DC’s way of thinking otherwise is the difference between DC and Marvel). I keep hearing how in 1940 sales of Detective doubled when they introduced Robin as Batman’s partner. But that was 1940. Sidekicks today are considered silly. Why did the writers who introduced Tim Drake think the writers of ‘83 ended Dick Grayson’s career as a sidekick? I wish the writers of today would follow the Return of the Joker storyline and have Tim suddenly just disappear.

However, I think it could be cool if a Batman movie was made in which Jason died, then after that maybe it would be time to allow pop culture to forget about Robin, coz he’s bringing down the coolness of Batman’s image.

Robin is cool, because out of evey 4 robins, 2 die lol.

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I think they have robin because batman does not have a whole lot of family, and i think he gets lonely sometimes.. even though he would probably not admit it. .. .

Batman could easily have a sidekick, like Nightwing, and be cool.

The problem lies within Robin's coolness, not the idea of a sideick.

He sticks out like a sore thumb next to Batman. Nightwing at least looks like his sidekick.

nightwing though imo is too old to be a sidekick, he's a hero in his own right...

The thing is that a lot of people really like Tim Drake. He has his own series, for crying out loud--which makes him rather more than a sidekick, in my opinion, since he does a great deal of work independantly of Batman. I don't think of Robin so much as a "sidekick" as the youngest member of Batman's core team (Oracle, Nightwing, Batgirl, and Robin).

Batman needs robin to give him hope..and Robin bright costume helps draw more gunfire on Robin and less on Batman!

How many Robins have their been? Can I get a quik rundown on who and happened.

Dick Grayson - Now Nightwing and leader of the Outsiders
Jason Todd - Beaten to death with a crowbar by the Joker and got blown up.
Tim Drake - the most well-trained Robin; his father died in the Identity Crisis event. He is now an orphan and is a member of the New Teen Titans.

Dont forget Stephanie Brown, She took over for Robin after Drake went on vaction or something like that lol.

She was killed by the Black Mask

Carrie Kelly - Bacame Catgirl, works for Bruce Wayne's little Bat-Army

Carrie Kelly was from Earth 2 I believe, technically not in current DC continuity, and never actually existed, thanks to the Crisis.

true..so technically they have been four robins 3 of which were male one female. two alive two dead.

they need new nicknames....everytime batman gets a new sidekick they automically call them robin....it made sense when grayson was robin because that was his nickname...dont any of these other kids have nicknames...or is batman so lazy he just calls all the kids that live in the manor robin..he's suppose to have this great mind and he cant even think of a new nickname

Well its not his fault his sidekicks want to be Robin lol.

what do you want him to call his sidekicks Bat kid or something? I mean Batman and Bat kid sounds lame. Batman sidekicks are called Robin it's a traditon that's all.

Robin is Batman's emotional support. Tim, probably more than any of the others has been critical for this role. Robin is a better sidekick name than calling him Batboy or Junior.

Yeah I always wonderred that.

Robin should imo be no more. When Nightwing was born, Robin should have ended right there.

Batman and Nightwing - sounds awesome.

It's always something unoriginal with these sidekicks. Oh lets just call the next one Robin. Or Bat-something. It's either Batgirl, Batboy etc or just Robin. Where's the fun in that?

Tim Drake should have been called something else. I dunno, something as cool as Nightwing. Call him Twilight or Hawkwind or Black Falcon or whatever. Something cool for this day and age. In fact TIM DRAKE is a cooler name than Robin.

Batman and Hawkwind? Batman and Twilight? Batman and Robin sounds crap these days.

Wait! Isn't Robin Nightwing? And I thought he quite being Batman's sidekick to join Teen Titans.

P.S. The show (Teen Titan) is pretty funny.

The original Robin, Dick Grayson, became Nightwing.