8 Great Characters DC Movies Have Completely Screwed Up

8. Robin

Batman Forever may have included The Flying Graysons, but that was really where the similarities between the comic book and movie versions of Robin end. Dick Grayson in name alone, this take on the iconic sidekick was shoehorned into Batman's third movie and was just all wrong. Sure, pairing Batman up with a child is an admittedly tough sell even today, but Chris O'Donnell didn't even look like he was in his late teens. O'Donnell was in his early twenties at the time, and so Bruce taking him in as a ward was hilariously bizarre. That aside though, and this Robin was just a very generic version of the sidekick. Lacking pretty much all of the personality traits which make Dick a great character, things only got worse in Batman and Robin when he seemingly hit puberty - in his mid twenties, mind you - and started rebelling against Bruce like a real brat. Pitting them against each other didn't make for entertaining viewing, and if this was Joel Schumacher's attempt to put Robin on the path to becoming Nightwing, it was a horrible failure. Of course, the way Batgirl was shoved into the movie emphasises the fact that both characters were only here to sell extra toys, and even accepting these movies as just being for kids (with terrible taste), there's nothing to like about this Robin.