Dick Grayson may not even know his own identity these days, after having been shot in the head earlier this year, but it's still important nonetheless.
'Ric', as he's known by currently, has embarked on a new life after surviving his assassination attempt, but it's an earlier incident that proves he's the Bat-Family's most unfortunate members as of late.
Back during Forever Evil, when the Crime Syndicate had seemingly killed the Justice League, Dick was intercepted by the group and unmasked live on air. Dick then proceeded to go through... a whole lot, shall we say, but the unmasking proved pivotal enough for him to completely change as a hero.
No longer going by Nightwing, Dick infiltrated the spy agency known as SPYRAL and operated under a new alias. He did this for several years until he once again assumed the Nightwing identity, only to suffer the aforementioned wound and decide 'Ric' was a more appropriate name.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
