Robin (comics)

Robin is a DC Comics superhero, a teenaged sidekick to Batman. Since 1940, several different characters have stepped into the role of Robin. In each incarnation, Robin's brightly colored visual appearance and youthful energy have served as a contrast to Batman's dark look and manner.

Robin in other media

• Batman and Robin were frequent guest stars on the Adventures of Superman radio drama from 1945 to 1949. On that series Robin was played by Ronald Liss.
• In Columbia Pictures' movie serials of the 1940s, Robin/Dick Grayson was played by Douglas Croft in Batman (1943) and by Johnny Duncan in The Adventures of Batman and Robin (1949).
• In the campy 1960s Batman television series and its 1966 movie offshoot, Robin/Dick Grayson was played by Burt Ward. This version of Robin was known for the line: "Holy , Batman."
• In various Batman-related cartoon series produced at Filmation and Hanna-Barbera throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Robin/Dick Grayson was voiced by Casey Kasem or Burt Ward.
• Robin did not appear in the Tim Burton movies Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992). This was the first time in which Batman and Robin were not presented as an inseparable pair to those who did not follow the comics. In Joel Schumacher's much lighter sequels Batman Forever (1995) and Batman and Robin (1997), Robin/Dick Grayson was played by Chris O'Donnell. In those films, the tension between Batman and Robin was greater than in most adaptations. In Batman Forever, his costume closely resembles the Robin uniform worn by Tim Drake—a costume which, rumor has it, Tim Burton helped design for the comics. In the latter of the two films, O'Donnell was portrayed wearing a costume that resembled the Nightwing outfit from the comics, however, the character was still referred to as Robin.
• The first two seasons of , which debuted in 1992, featured Robin/Dick Grayson, voiced by Loren Lester, only occasionally because he was attending college. In its third and final season (1994–1995), the show was retitled The Adventures of Batman and Robin as Robin appeared regularly. In the reinvention of the series, Batman: Gotham Knights (1997–1999), Dick Grayson became Nightwing, and his place as Robin was taken by Tim Drake, voiced by Mathew Valencia. The animated series continuity does not include Jason Todd, although the cartoon Drake's origin is almost identical to Todd's and bears little resemblance to the comic book's Tim Drake. A version of the Carrie Kelly Robin also makes a short appearance in Batman: Gotham Knights, in a dream sequence in the episode "Legends of the Dark Knight".
• Robin, voiced by Scott Menville, appears in the Cartoon Network adaptation of the Teen Titans but he has not been referred to by given name and it is unclear whether he is meant to be Dick Grayson or Tim Drake; although several clues have indicated it is Dick Grayson. A time-travel themed episode portrayed a future where this Robin has taken on the role of Nightwing, and in another episode an alternate universe Robin shows up named "Nosyarg Kcid" (Dick Grayson spelled backwards). Another episode also showed an image of two acrobats falling from a trapeze and a shadow of a boy (Robin) and a tall man (Batman) taking a vow above the candle light in a cave when teammate Raven melded with Robin's mind.