![]() ![]() ![]() His body burns down people's homes at strategic times, so that he and Bakugou can run inside and save someone together. He lives trapped in the back of his mind for that whole time, watching horrified as his quirk pilots his body around, pursuing a single goal to the detriment of all else. Izuku doesn't get his body back for a good year or two. That should have stuck around and been the definitive look for Bludhaven. Seeley used it to great effect, as did Humphries during his brief run, and I will always be pissed that DC didn't continue to use it. Las Vegas is the "Entertainment Capital of the World" and isn't that the perfect city for a hero who got their start working in the circus? Isn't the aesthetics of the gleaming casinos, the glamorous sex appeal of the performers, and the spectacle of the shows, all being used to cover up the seediness of mob bosses meeting backstage perfect for Nightwing? It's so utterly unlike New York City, yet Las Vegas is still dangerous, it's got a crime culture all it's own. Seeley turned Bludhaven into Las Vegas, and that was the fucking best concept for Bludhaven I have ever seen, it makes so much sense. Someone who loves the spotlight, but often uses it to obscure. Someone who is bright and flashy, but does have an element of darkness to him. Instead he created a city built for a hero like Dick Grayson. By the time we finally get back to Nightwing's solo plotlines, the audience has usually ceased to care and the run gets cut short. Usually his involvement is completely superfluous and it would've been better if the writer had gotten to opt out. Villains are fought, long running plotlines are set up, then everything is abandoned because it's Batfamily event time, and Dick has to run back to Gotham in order to play sidekick again. Patrolling the city as Nightwing, he fights a variety of bad guys who are usually rather lame and unthreatening, with his big bad being a Kingpin knockoff called Blockbuster. but WORSE!), Dick Grayson usually enrolls in a pointless job we don't care about in order to provide some meaningless soap opera drama that doesn't go anywhere. A typical Nightwing run tends to go like this: Moving to Bludhaven (which is Gotham. As Nightwing, Dick has been a second rate Daredevil which means he's a third rate Batman (fully prepared to get hate for this but I've read and enjoyed the Miller and Bendis DD runs so I feel entitled to my opinion). As Robin Dick Grayson is very much on Batman's level. The one all other superhero sidekicks are drawing on as a basis. As Robin, Dick has led the Titans and is an icon in his own right as The Sidekick, the original, the one every other Robin is built around copying or contrasting. That someone like Dick can confront the evils of Gotham and not break means there's still hope for that city. He took this kid in, trained him to be one of the best heroes the DCU has seen, and did it all out of the kindness of his heart. To the wider DCU, Dick is a friendly face who convinces others that Batman is competent and not a complete asshole. With Dick, Batman can take comfort in knowing that yes, he has made a difference in the world for at least one orphan boy, which is all he wanted when he lost his parents himself. Meeting Batman helped change Dick for the better, helped him heal after his parents died. For Batman, Dick is proof that Batman is a positive force. Character-wise, Dick Grayson really does fill a number of crucial roles in the DCU.
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