#modernising robin (pants and using tech etc) =/= tim drake clone

[mysterycitrus]

diskhorse about the robin from the teen titans 2003 cartoon actually being a reskinned tim drake clone has always confused me cause bar cosmetic design choices (staff, pants, cape, hair, etc) it’s a pretty fair adaptation of wolfmans dick grayson and a pretty terrible adaptation of tim. ignoring that the entire team and plot of the show is lifted from ntt…. that’s simply not how tim acted for most of his run as robin because tims robin had a significant connection to civilian life in the same way dick grayson generally didnt. he wasn’t actually a broody, hypercompetent asshole most of the time. additionally, lifting the ntt cast and giving them to robins other than dick (jason, damian, etc) super sucks on principle and im very very glad they didn’t do that in 2003