Nightwing from Batman the Animated
Series
by Mike Peters
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Dick Grayson leaves his Robin
role, and takes up the new identity of Nightwing
Batman Animated Series
Dick was voiced by actor Loren Lester. The B:TAS episode "Old Wounds" explained that Grayson (then still Robin) had come to blows with Batman over Batman's controlling nature and increasing ruthlessness, and that Dick had left Gotham as a result. 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. Batman Beyond, another TV series in the DC Animated Universe, implies that Grayson is still alive (and bitter) some fifty years later.
Unfortunately, we never see Dick Grayson on Batman Beyond.
Comic Books
In comic books published by DC Comics, Nightwing is the super heroic
secret identity of Richard John "Dick" Grayson (Batman's first ward), adopted after his retirement as the first Robin. In Pre-Crisis continuity, Nightwing's name originated as that of a legendary Kryptonian bird Superman chose to name himself after when he visited the bottled Kryptonian city of Kandor and started temporary career as a superhero modeled after Batman. The Kryptonian origins have recently been partially restored, with recent comics revealing that Grayson heard the legend of the Nightwing from Superman himself.
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