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He may have made his name as Robin , but Tim Drake is destine to beBatmanin the future tense of DC Comics . That ’s the thunderbolt dropped in the current run of DC’sDetective Comics , now thatTim Drake is bring back from the deadafter his friends and family were force to ascertain him killed by Gotham ’s novel enemy as part of DC’sRebirth . Of course , Tim ’s death was only an illusion - he was actually read prisoner by a inscrutable baddie who knew that the former Robin was too overbold , too gifted , and too destined for grandness to oppose him . And just as Tim is breaking out of that prison and back into DC ’s Universe , he check that it ’s those same qualities that will one sidereal day lead him to take up the cowl when Bruce Wayne finally falls in DC ’s future .
At least , that ’s how thing weresupposedto toy out . Or it ’s the way they still will … that confusedness is kind of the pointedness of the story . The most recent issues ofDetective Comicsare built on everything James Tynion IV , Eddy Barrows , and the rest of theDetectiveteam have been build sinceRebirth . And that includes Tim ’s determination to leave the role of Red Robin and the Bat - Family behind to prosecute a sprightliness of academic excellence . But when Tim comes face to face with the Batman of tomorrow , he ’s impel to see that a life beyond Batman ’s shadow was always a dream .
His succeeding ego tells Tim that hewillbecome Batman … and a more corrupt man than he ever thought potential .
Tim Drake Meets The Future Batman: Himself
The exact ' prison ' in which Tim Drake has been kept would be severe to explain compactly , and the same live on for his captor -a resurrected Jor - El , Superman ’s father . As unclear as the reason or evenlocationof his incarceration may be , it ’s still good news . At the time of Tim ’s " decease , " the decision to give himself for Gotham was made as tragical as potential . Not only had Tim decided to enjoin Bruce that he was leave the role of ' Red Robin ' behind , having reconstruct a organization to help the Batman Family rightfully safeguard Gotham ( and beyond ) … but Tim had start to conceive of a full , well-chosen life history with his girlfriend Stephanie Brown , the Spoiler .
So when Tim finally gets the luck to break loose his cell in the otherworldly stronghold , he ’s not surprised to hear Batman on his radio , anticipate to free him for sound . Only … it ’s not the Batman Tim Drake knows . It ’s not a Bruce Wayne at all . It’shim , develop decades older , and relying ongunsto keep their pursuer at bay . Not just any gun either : the one used to mutilate Thomas and Martha Wayne , now"redeemed"to match evil . So needless to say , a far dark-skinned hero than Tim ever imagined himself growing up to become .
It ’s only when the story shifts to this old Tim , and the life and events that lead him to the same prison , that the true darkness in Tim ’s time to come can be understood . Because as much as he wished to NOT be Bruce Wayne ’s replacement … he was the only Robin left for the job .
The Fate of The Robins Revealed
It ’s an add bonus thatDetective Comics#966 also explain the hereafter of Dick Grayson , Jason Todd , and Damian Wayne . At least , the future theywouldhave had before a mysterious pinch to the timeline - quite perhaps the " Rebirth " mystery to beexplored in Geoff Johns’sDoomsday Clock . They ’re not more heartbreaking than they are predictable , but it ’s a cagy nod to retiring and current storylines .
For Dick Grayson , the Tim of the future tells his younger ego ( in a conversation he commemorate once having from Tim ’s point of view ) , the role of Batman fell most apparently . But before long , the ground Dick was never Bruce became more of import . Dick wanted a family , and children , and"moved on"as he always has . In the panel showing Dick resist Tim ’s demand to keep the hood , however , it appear Grayson is moving into the same home he engage inhis dystopic futureNightwing : The New Orderseries . detain tune .
With Dick retiring , Tim next cover the fabled ' Red Hood ' midway around the world , eventually catching a lede in the form of a story of a masked humankind battle a hundred deadly assassin . A engagement that would bolt down most men , but cost Jason only an center , a leg , and any willpower left in him . All thing turn over , the kind of terminate Jason Todd always seemed determined to find . As for Damian , well … make that one more nod towards the nightmare vision of Damian ’s Gotham first examine inBatman#666 .
In the end , Tim had no choice but to accept his destiny . Accept that the one living he was escape from was the only one fast enough to catch him . Eventually driven to toss off , keep apart himself from his friend and family , and see even Stephanie Brown admit that the Tim she knew was long give way . A path that led him to this prison with his younger self , free them both and returning his former self to his former base , so that his way of life may keep on as it had for him . Unless …
Will Tim Drake Change His Future… With Murder?
First , the effective news . After the Tims retrovert to the current DC version of Gotham , but before the elder Batman Tim can return to his own clip and tragical duties , he disclose an unexpected twist . This version of Tim , this variant of Gotham , and this version ofrealityisn’t exactly the same as the one he retrieve . One speedy slice across Tim ’s arm , and the unexampled mark appear on the older Batman ’s flesh reassert his suspicion : the pastcanbe changed . And as sturdy and grizzled as he may have seemed while informing Tim that he was foolish to ever dream of another life , Batman ’s oculus fill with tears as he sees a luck to fix his mistakes .
Now it ’s meter for the high-risk news . Instead of sharing a clinch with his younger self , Batman decides to paralyze Tim with an electrical flack so that he can take out his mission alone . obviously , as unlikely as this opportunity to exchange the yesteryear and"free"himself from the hood may be , the elderberry bush Tim Drake has design for it ( he ’s stillTim , after all ) . And to save the hereafter , and prevent the " Fall of the Batmen , " Tim demand only kill a individual person : Batwoman .
How or why Kate Kane cause everything to go wrong is a closed book not yet run out - go away fans to speculate if it ’s Kate who lead to Bruce Wayne ’s death . But with Tynion having pulled the string on Tim , Bruce , and Kate since theRebirthof this serial , it ’s lastly becoming vindicated that all route have been heading here .
What arrive next ? You ’ll just have to understand to find out … even the Batman of the future tense no longer bang .
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