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Batman #456: Identity Crisis, Part Two: Without Fear of Consequence...

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Batman #456: Identity Crisis, Part Two: Without Fear of Consequence...

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Batman #456: Identity Crisis, Part Two: Without Fear of Consequence...

Released: November 1990 Story: Alan Grant Pencils: Norm Breyfogle Inks: Steve Mitchell Lettering: Todd Klein Colors: Adrienne Roy Editing: Dennis O'Neil

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Batman #442 (My thoughts)

Alfred has known him for ONE NIGHT and he already gets Master Timothy status. It's unreal how fast he got endeared to this little shit. Alfred and Tim's relationship is so underrated and I will never stop saying it! In a way, Alfred mentored him before Dick or even Bruce did. Alfred has such an important role in teaching him how to be a support for Batman, and accepting how dangerous what they do is as someone on the sidelines

Alfred is so strong, he really doesn't get enough credit for how hard being Batman's guy in the chair, emotional support, nurse, and father is. He could lose his son every single night and he just has to sit at home and hope for the best

Right of the bat (hehe) Tim has SO much respect and appreciation for Alfred and it's really nice to see.

Hey look, it's the profile thumbnail!

It's like Tim can't physically restrain himself from jumping in to help when he sees a problem. He's so worried

This is where we get into one of my biggest gripes with fanon, the "tim forced batman to make him robin" thing, and also a bit of the "bruce was irresponsible and chose to endanger a random civilian child" thing, although the 'are robins child soldiers?' discourse is too heavy for me to get into.

The biggest problem I have with it is when Dick and especially Alfred are portrayed as being against the decision and forced to accept it by Bruce

As with a lot of fanon, it's rooted in canon and then horribly exaggerated. Tim talks Alfred into taking him to save Bruce and Dick, despite multiple attempts to talk him down both in the cave and in the car. Tim followed Dick all the way to Haley's circus to try and talk him into being Robin, if Alfred didn't drive him the little shit absolutely would've found his way to the fight anyways the second the man turned his back. He's extremely stubborn. And, as established in earlier installments, Batman has been reckless to the point where it is VERY likely he'd die out of his own lack of self-regard any day. I really can't blame Alfred for having a moment of weakness here. Bruce means more to him than anything in the world and Alfred can see that in Tim.

This is also where we get into the "did Tim stalk the bats and take pictures of them regularly?" fanon discourse. I definitely don't think there's canon support that he was following them every night on patrol as an extremely young child (he didn't even figure out their identities until he was 9. I've seen writers make him as young as FOUR trying to follow them and as a big sister to a 4 year old, y'all are insane) That being said, I think his use of the word "followed" could be interpreted in a few ways. It would be a perfectly valid interpretation that he means 'followed' in the way one follows the news, as in keeping track of. However, he does have A LOT of pictures of Batman and Robin and, in my opinion, a lot of them don't look like newspaper clippings. Plus Batman and Robin are rarely caught on film, I don't think the newspapers would catch them often enough for Tim to build a collection that big.

Tim also knows when Titans meetings are, where Dick's apartment with kori is and the fact that they're together as well as knowing what angle to peep through the window at and where to view both the tower and that apartment stealthily. He knows where Dick's New York apartment is, he knows how to get in, he knows how to get into Dick's safe.

He DID manage to follow Batman to that fight on the dam and photograph it.

I think that's too much evidence to completely dismiss the idea that he's followed them before

And here's the real kicker about the 'Tim forced them' thing. TIM DID NOT GO IN WANTING TO BE ROBIN! TIM SEES THIS AS THE ONLY SOLUTION TO BATMAN'S SELF-DESTRUCTIVE VIOLENT SPIRAL!

Tim is selfish. He is stubborn. He's reckless. He wants to help no matter the risk. He sees a problem that affects him deeply out of a VERY parasocial relationship and demands to be able to fix it no matter what anyone else has to say about the matter. And he's a 13 year old boy with a heart too big for his chest. Tim was made to be robin

(coming back for part two after work. we're still only on page seven and I have MUCH more to say)

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Batman #455: Identity Crisis: Part One

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Batman #455: Identity Crisis: Part One

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Batman #455: Identity Crisis: Part One

Published: October 1990 Story: Alan Grant Pencils: Norm Breyfogle Inks: Steve Mitchell Lettering: Todd Klein Colors: Adrienne Roy Editing: Dennis O'Neil

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TIM DRAKE POP QUIZ

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Rite Of Passage

Detective Comics #618: Rite Of Passage, Part One: Shadow On The Sun Detective Comics #619: Rite Of Passage, Part Two: Beyond Belief! Detective Comics #620: Rite Of Passage, Part Three: Make Me A Hero Detective Comics #621: Rite Of Passage, Part Four: Trial By Fire

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Detective Comics #621: Rite Of Passage, Part Four: Trial By Fire

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Detective Comics #621: Rite Of Passage, Part Four: Trial By Fire

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Detective Comics #621: Rite Of Passage, Part Four: Trial By Fire

Released: September 1990 Story: Alan Grant Pencils: Norm Breyfogle Inks: Steve Mitchell Lettering: Todd Klein Colors: Adrienne Roy Associate editing: Dan Raspler Editing: Dennis O'Neil Synopsis: Rite of Passage' conclusion. Batman as finally learned where the Obeah Man is holding Tim Drake's parents captive and races to the rescue—but will he arrive too late to prevent the young Tim from experiencing the loss of his parents?

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Detective Comics #620: Rite Of Passage, Part Three: Make Me A Hero

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Detective Comics #620: Rite Of Passage, Part Three: Make Me A Hero

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Detective Comics #620: Rite Of Passage, Part Three: Make Me A Hero

Released: August 1990 Written By: Alan Grant Pencils: Tom Lyle Inks: Scott Hanna Cover By: Bob Lerose and Norm Breyfogle Synopsis: Within hours, Tim Drake's parents will be murdered by the Obeah Man—and the Batman still does nothing to try to save them! 'Rite of Passage' part 3.

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Detective Comics #619: Rite Of Passage, Part Two: Beyond Belief!

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Detective Comics #619: Rite Of Passage, Part Two: Beyond Belief!

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