10 Things DC Comics Wants You To Forget About Ra's Al Ghul
8. He Was Jealous Of Batman For Being A Better Father
A lot of Ra's' plans are vast and elaborate schemes built around his goals for the entire world. Some of his plans though are just kind of petty.
One of Talia al Ghul's main conflicts is how she is torn between her desire to be with Batman and her desire to serve her father. However, in the 00's, she finally decided that her father would never let her live how she wanted and abandoned him.
Like every other bad parent in history, Ra's blamed the collapse of his relationship with his daughter on someone else and swore revenge on Batman for taking her from him. He decided that he would take a member of Bruce's family from him, in this case his ward Dick Grayson.
Instead of the usual "send ninjas to kill him" plan, Ra's decided on the far less impressive plan of trying to drive a wedge between the two by convincing Nightwing that Batman hated him and sabotaging Bruce's attempts at adoption.
To add to the patheticness, the plan failed dismally and Bruce Wayne ended up formally adopting Dick Grayson as his son.
The entire plot was fueled by Ra's' jealousy that Batman was a better father than he was. Looking at the next entry on this list, he was definitely right to be jealous.