10 Things DC Comics Wants You To Forget About Robin

5. Batman Is Kinda Creepy

Not that the clothes he dresses the Robins up in is the only part of his behaviour towards them that is a little suspect. In fact we're hard pressed to identify an aspect of Batman's obsession with scooping up orphans and forcing them to be his best mates (he's totally Michael Scott in that respect) that isn't deeply odd, and yet it continues apace, 75 years into the character's history. On a basic level, we're not sure while Child Services is still allowing Bruce Wayne take away these kids whenever he pleases - especially when a worrying amount of them end up dying. Or sustaining serious injuries on a regular basis, at least. Yes, yes, technically he's the "ward" of the various Robins, but y'know. Potato, tomato. There's a whole lot of other things too, however. We can see why Batman instantly gravitates towards exceptional children with tragedy in their pasts, because that's exactly what he is. He sees something of himself in all of the Robins, to the point that his projections make him into something of a pushy stage parent, living vicariously through Dick, Jason, Tim and Damian by training them up to become the same lethal, genius superhero detectives that he is. And you thought you had it tough when your parents forced you to stay in and revise for your GCSEs. Bruce Wayne is working out some of his many, many issues pertaining to his lost parents and his own lost childhood, in a dodgy sort of Michael Jackson fashion. Not only does DC not want fans to acknowledge how weird all of this is but nobody within the stories themselves bat an eyelid either. Alfred thinks it's cool, Dick's fine with seeing others take his place, and Commissioner Gordon hasn't once questioned why this flying rodent vigilante is always hanging around with kids. What's up with that?