10 Times Batman Was A Total Jerk‏

3. Basically Every Time He's Recruited A Robin

Originally introduced as a sort of audience identification figure for comic book readers who would be the same age as the caped crusader's tween sidekick, Dick Grayson's journey to becoming Robin was still pretty traumatic when you take away Frank Miller. After all, Bruce Wayne did just sort of scoop up this grieving young orphan and basically force him to train to become a killing machine, getting him to wear an embarrassing costume along with it.

It's possible to overlook Damian, the most recent Robin, because he was Batman's secret lovechild and doomed to craziness by being raised by Talia al Ghul, but Jason Todd and Tim Drake are harder to gloss over. The second, totally unloved Robin wasn't particularly well served by his mentor, and Drake managed to figure out Batman's identity all by himself, only to be ignored until his parents were sufficiently dead and/or crippled to bring him on as Robin number three.

So basically Bruce Wayne kidnapped one kid, let another one die because he couldn't be bothered raising him properly, and was all but actively angling for another to suffer horrific family tragedy before giving him the time of day.