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DC Comics superhero

Nightwing
Publication data
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Superman: Superman #158 (January 1963) Dick Grayson: Tales of the Teen Titans #44 (July 1984)
Created by	Superman: Edmond Hamilton Curt Swan Dick Grayson: Marv Wolfman George Pérez Damian Wayne: Ed Boon John Tobias
In-story information
Modify ego	Superman (Pre Crisis Era) Richard John "Dick" Grayson Ability Daughter Chris Kent Damian Wayne
Team affiliations	Batman Inc. Birds of Prey Young Justice Batman Family Teen Titans Titans Outsiders Justice League Spyral[1]
Notable aliases	Robin Batman Ruby X Agent 37 Target Talon Ric Grayson Birdwatcher Greyness Son of Gotham
Abilities	Expert detective Skilled acrobat and aerialist Skilled martial creative person and hand-to-mitt combatant Utilizing high-tech equipment and weapons

Nightwing is a fictional graphic symbol and superhero appearing in American comic books published past DC Comics. The character has appeared in various incarnations; the identity was adopted by Dick Grayson when he left his role as Batman's vigilante partner Robin.

Although Nightwing is normally associated with Batman, the championship and concept have origins in archetype Superman stories. The original Nightwing in DC Comics was an identity causeless by alien superhero Superman when stranded on the Kryptonian city of Kandor with his friend Jimmy Olsen. Drawing inspiration from Batman and Robin, the two protect Kandor equally the superheroes Nightwing and Flamebird. Post-obit the Crunch on Infinite Earths continuity reboot in 1985, Nightwing was re-imagined equally a legendary vigilante from Krypton whose story inspires Dick Grayson's choice of name when he leaves behind his Robin identity.

Other stories set among the Batman family of characters have seen acquaintances and friends of Grayson briefly assume the title, including his boyfriend Robin alumnus Jason Todd. Meanwhile, Superman stories accept seen Superman's adopted son Chris Kent and Ability Daughter take up the name for cursory turns as Nightwing. Various other characters accept taken the name in stories set exterior DC'southward main continuity as well.

In 2013, Nightwing placed 5th on IGN'due south Meridian 25 Heroes of DC Comics^[2] and Grayson as Nightwing was ranked the #1 Sexiest Male person Character in Comics by ComicsAlliance in 2013.^[3]

Fictional character biography [edit]

Pre-Crisis Era [edit]

Superman [edit]

Superman and Jimmy as Nightwing and Flamebird respectively. From Superman #158 (1963). Art by Curt Swan.

Nightwing is showtime depicted in the story "Superman in Kandor" in Superman #158 (January 1963). It is an alias used by Superman in pre-Crisis stories. The story is set in Kandor, a Kryptonian metropolis that was shrunken and preserved in a bottle past Brainiac. In Kandor, Superman has no superpowers, and is branded an outlaw there due to a misunderstanding.^[iv]

To disguise themselves, Superman and Jimmy Olsen create vigilante identities inspired by Batman and Robin. Considering neither bats nor robins lived on Krypton, Superman chooses the names of ii birds owned by his Kandorian friend Nor-Kan: Nightwing for himself, and Flamebird for Jimmy. Nightwing and Flamebird rename Nor-Kan's hugger-mugger laboratory every bit the "Nightcave", and use information technology as their secret headquarters. They also convert Nor-Kan'south automobile into their "Nightmobile", and employ "jet-belts" to fly into battle.

In Superman'southward Pal, Jimmy Olsen #69 (June 1963), "The Dynamic Duo of Kandor" introduces Nightwing's canis familiaris Nighthound. In "The Feud Between Batman and Superman" in Earth's Finest #143 (August 1964), Batman and Robin themselves visit Kandor with Superman and Olsen and the 2 Dynamic Duos team upward.

Van-Zee [edit]

In Superman Family #183 (May/June 1977), Superman's look-akin 2d cousin Van-Zee and his niece's husband Ak-Var take up the Nightwing and Flamebird identities.^[5] The vigilantes have on crime in their city as had Superman and Olsen earlier them.^[six]

Dick Grayson [edit]

Comprehend of Nightwing #1 (September 1995). Fine art past Brian Stelfreeze.

Both Nightwing and Flamebird team upward with Batman and Robin for an chance in Kandor that proves important to the young Dick Grayson. When Dick later gives up his role as Robin in 1984, he recalls the Kandorian gamble and renames himself Nightwing, in homage to both Batman and Superman.^[7] Later the events of the Crisis on Infinite Earths re-boot of the DC Universe, Superman no longer has knowledge of Kandor; instead, he remembers Nightwing as an urban fable of Krypton, which he shares with a young Dick Grayson.

Mail-Crisis [edit]

Kryptonian mythological effigy [edit]

Postal service-Crunch, at that place is a dissimilar originator of the Nightwing identity. Several hundred years before the birth of Kal-El, in that location was a Kryptonian man who was cast out from his family and decided to take on crime as the vigilante Nightwing.^[8] When Superman tells Dick Grayson of this story, Dick takes the name for himself.

Dick Grayson [edit]

Dick Grayson became Nightwing after he was dismissed from the role of Robin as a teenager. Grayson'due south Flamebird was Bette Kane. He was featured in a Nightwing series from 1995 to 2009; after Wayne's credible death, Grayson became the new Batman, subsequently retiring his Nightwing mantle temporarily.

Grayson's Nightwing costume was a high-tech adapt specially designed for his high-flying acrobatic style. His gauntlets and boots each independent eight compartments in which he could store items. They had a cocky-destruct feature built into them, like to the ones in Batman's utility belt, and, equally another security measure, the suit contained a i-use-only taser charge, which automatically emitted a loftier-voltage electrical shock when someone attempted to tamper with either the boots or gauntlets.

Each gauntlet'due south sections could contain a wide assortment of equipment, such as sonic or smoke pellets, modified batarangs ("Wing-Dings"), knockout gas capsules, throwable tracers, and a sedative-tipped dart launcher. The right gauntlet was likewise equipped with a 100,000-volt stun gun. Like the gauntlets, his boot compartments could comport vital equipment such equally flares, a rebreather as protection confronting whatsoever airborne non-contact toxins, a mini-computer equipped with fax, modem, GPS, and a minidisk re-writable drive. Other items were lock picks, a first-aid kit, a mini-cellphone, flexi-cuffs, antitoxin assortment, wireless listening devices, and a small flashlight. After coming to New York, Dick added a black utility belt to his costume, eliminating the need for his boots and gauntlets.

Held in jump-loaded pouches in the dorsum of his costume, Dick carried a pair of eskrima clubs made from an unbreakable polymer that were wielded as both offensive and defensive weapons. Some depictions display these tools with the machinery to shoot a grappling hook attached to a swing line, while, in other instances, they can act as "line guns" like to the ones Batman uses. The clubs could also be thrown with such skill by Grayson (and peradventure due to their design) that they would ricochet off walls and objects to hit multiple targets, and so return to his hands. These clubs also have the capability to exist linked together as well as grow in size to make a staff, as depicted in many series, such as Teen Titans and Immature Justice (Robin uses these weapons).

Superman [edit]

In 2001's Superman: The Human being of Steel #111, Superman and Lois Lane travel to a version of Krypton later revealed to accept been created by the villainous Brainiac 13 and based on Jor-El'southward favorite period in Kryptonian history.^[9] Labeled every bit criminals, Superman and Lois get fugitives, adopting the Nightwing and Flamebird identities to survive, just as had Superman and Olsen in Superman #158.^[ten]

Tad Ryerstad [edit]

In Blüdhaven, a sociopath named Tad Ryerstad becomes a superhero, inspired by the retired hero Tarantula. He takes his name, "Nite-Wing", from an all-night cafeteria specializing in chicken wings. Unstable, Nite-Wing beats people for minor offenses. Nite-Fly is shot on his offset night out and Dick Grayson, as Blüdhaven's protector Nightwing, defends him from Blockbuster's gang, who retrieve it is Nightwing who has been injured. Afterwards Nite-Fly is released from the infirmary, he kills the gang who put him in that location. Not realizing how violent Ryerstad is, Grayson agrees to railroad train him. The ii attack Blockbuster's arrangement, but are captured and separated. Afterward an undercover FBI agent frees Nite-Wing, Ryerstad beats him to death, and when Grayson realizes what he has washed, Ryerstad flees.^[11] Nightwing subsequently tracks down and has Nite-Fly arrested by the police.^[12] In prison house, Ryerstad is cell-mates with Torque (Dudley Soames), merely the two escape by drugging the prison guard Amygdala.

Jason Todd [edit]

Nightwing #118-122^[13] run features Jason Todd prowling the streets of New York City under the guise of Nightwing, copying Grayson's costume.

Cheyenne Freemont [edit]

The "One Twelvemonth Later" storyline features a metahuman mode designer named Cheyenne Freemont donning a modified Nightwing costume to assistance Grayson.^[xiv]

Cheyenne outset met Dick when they had a one-dark stand together. They simply exchanged offset names the side by side morning, Cheyenne stating she's superstitious. The ii had breakfast together and then he left. When he left another human walked into her apartment. He assaulted her for getting her "plumbing" fixed in her bath robe. She hit him with a telekinetic blast.

Dick found out Cheyenne was a fashion designer from a friend of his from Bludhaven. She ran into Dick once more afterwards he accidentally became a model for her. Subsequently seeing paper clippings of Nightwing (Jason Todd) she started creating superhero themed designs. Cheyenne wore a Nightwing costume to help Dick and Jason from a metahuman monster named Jakob. He ate her, but she used her powers to accident him upwards from the inside. Due to recent events she was left broke and presently left New York City.^[15]

Power Girl [edit]

In Supergirl (vol. five) #6 (April 2006), Power Girl and Supergirl presume the identities of Nightwing and Flamebird in a story set in Kandor, just every bit in the original pre-Crisis stories featuring Superman.

Chris Kent [edit]

Chris Kent, son of General Zod, was Nightwing during Superman: New Krypton. In that storyline, Superman was coming to terms with the death of his adoptive father; he was besides dealing with 100,000 Kryptonians at present living on World, which he had released from the bottled cities on Brainiac's ship (the aforementioned ship that contained the lost Kryptonian city of Kandor). At the end of the fourth issue of the arc, a new Nightwing and Flamebird appear in Superman'southward Fortress of Solitude to stop two of Zod'south followers (who were living in Kandor) from releasing the Kryptonian General from his Phantom Zone imprisonment. While guarding the projector in order to prevent any Zod loyalists from freeing him from the Phantom Zone, both Flamebird and Nightwing exhibit powers that are not inherent to normal Kryptonians. Flamebird projects flames from her hands, and Nightwing uses "natural tactile telekinesis".

The pair seems to exist stronger than normal Kryptonians: they knock out the ii Zod loyalists with one blow apiece. In a subsequently appearance, the duo is seen in Gotham City. Unlike previous portrayals, it seems Flamebird believes herself to be the dominant partner. When the Kryptonians led by Zod and Alura flee to a new Krypton orbiting the Sun, Nightwing and Flamebird stay in Gotham. In Action Comics #875, that Nightwing is revealed as the son of Zod and Ursa, Chris Kent. The "Nightwing" identity is revealed to exist based on a mythical Kryptonian creature, whose existence is intertwined with that of its partner creature, the Flamebird. Inside the Phantom Zone Chris' mind interfaced with a piece of Brainiac technology, awakening a long-dormant connectedness to the Nightwing, and linking his listen to that of Thara Ak-Var, who had a connectedness to the Flamebird.^[16]

Alternative versions [edit]

• Terry McGinnis briefly moonlights as Nightwing in Batman Across #4, afterward Detective Ben Singleton claims to know Dick Grayson's by as Nightwing, which turns into a media fiasco.

Other uses in DC comics [edit]

• In the DC Comics Tangent Comics series, "Nightwing" is a cloak-and-dagger government organization which appears throughout the series. Headed by Marcus Moore and Francis "Black Lightning" Powell, who act to protect the Us and besides conceal the true nature of The Cantlet'southward involvement in the Cuban Missile Crunch.

Ongoing serial [edit]

Story arcs [edit]

Based on Nightwing'south increasing popularity, DC Comics decided to test the character'due south possibilities with a i-shot book and and then a miniseries.

First, in Nightwing: Alfred's Return #1 (1995), Grayson travels to England to discover Alfred, who resigns from Bruce Wayne's service post-obit the events of KnightSaga. Earlier returning to Gotham City together, they forestall a plot by British terrorists to destroy the undersea "Aqueduct Tunnel" in the English language Channel.

After on, with the Nightwing miniseries (September 1995 to December 1995, written by Dennis O'Neil with Greg State as artist), Dick briefly considers retiring from existence Nightwing forever before family papers uncovered by Alfred reveal a possible link betwixt the murder of the Flying Graysons and the Crown Prince of Kravia. Journeying to Kravia, Nightwing (in his tertiary costume) helps to topple the murderous Kravian leader and prevent an indigenous cleansing, while learning his parents' truthful connexion to the Prince.

Blüdhaven [edit]

In 1996, post-obit the success of the miniseries, DC Comics launched a monthly solo series featuring Nightwing (written past Chuck Dixon, with art by Scott McDaniel), in which he patrols Gotham's neighboring municipality of Blüdhaven.

At Batman's request, Dick journeys to this former whaling town-turned-industrial center to investigate a number of murders linked to Gotham City gangster Black Mask. Instead, he finds a city racked by police abuse and in the grips of organized crime consolidated by Roland Desmond, the gargantuan genius Blockbuster.

With a defenseless city to telephone call his own, Nightwing decides to remain in Blüdhaven until Blockbuster's cartel is broken. This allows him to be close plenty to Gotham to still be part of the Batman family, and far enough too to have his ain city, adventures and enemies. He takes a job as a bartender to keep his ear to the ground and worked closely with Oracle (Barbara Gordon) in an attempt to clean up the town. Blockbuster places a sizable contract on Nightwing'south head soon thereafter, while Grayson plies the unscrupulous Blüdhaven Police force Inspector Dudley Soames for information on the kingpin'south dealings. Also during his fourth dimension in Blüdhaven, Nightwing helps train a violent just enthusiastic street fighter called Nite-wing, who later kills an secret FBI agent.

Last Express mirth and killing the Joker [edit]

When the Joker is told he is dying by his doctor, he unleashes Joker juice on the inmates at the Slab, causing a breakout. At the end of the arc, Nightwing is responsible for killing the Joker against the wishes of Batman and Oracle. Nightwing becomes depressed and Oracle tries to bring him out of it.^[17] Soon after, Batman manages to revive the Joker.

Leader of the League [edit]

Sometime after "No Man'due south Land" ends, the JLA disappears on a mission to locate Aquaman and Atlantis (The Obsidian Historic period). Earlier they vanish, Batman instigates a contingency program, in which a scattering of heroes would exist assembled to create a new JLA, consisting of Nightwing, Light-green Arrow, the Atom, Hawkgirl, Major Disaster, Faith, Firestorm and Jason Blood. Nightwing is chosen to be leader until the original JLA are constitute, leading the group against the powerful Atlantean sorceress Gamemnae and helping to revive Aquaman to enquire for his help in sinking Atlantis, merely afterward returns to the reserve listing.

Graduation Day [edit]

For several years, Nightwing leads diverse incarnations of the Titans and becomes the about respected former sidekick in the DC Universe. Nonetheless, in the Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day crossover, a rogue Superman android kills Lilith and Troia, an event that tears apart both Young Justice and the Titans. At Troia's funeral, Dick declares he is tired of seeing friends die and disbands the team, officially ending the Titans. A few months after, Arsenal persuades Nightwing to join a new pro-active criminal offence-fighting team: the Outsiders, who would hunt villains, acting every bit co-workers rather than an extended family. He reluctantly accepts.

Expiry of Blockbuster [edit]

Dick plays a key office in exposing the corruption in the Blüdhaven Police Department. Despite reaching his original goals, Dick continues every bit a police officer during the 24-hour interval while spending nights as Nightwing, pushing himself to his limits and straining his relationships. The line betwixt his police work and his vigilantism began to blur, and ultimately Amy Rohrbach (his friend and superior officer, who knew his secret identity) fires him rather than permit him go on using questionable methods.

Wrongfully blaming Nightwing for the death of his mother, the mob boss Blockbuster bombs Dick Grayson's flat complex and promises to kill anyone in Dick's life. When the vigilante Tarantula arrives, Nightwing chooses not to finish her when she shoots the villain expressionless.^[eighteen] He enters in a catatonic state after this activeness, and Tarantula takes advantage of his emotional trauma to rape him. At length, Nightwing shakes himself from his depression and takes responsibility for his inaction. He captures Tarantula and turns her and himself in to the law. Amy, however, feels the world needs Nightwing costless and and so prevents him from existence charged.

Dick has destroyed the police abuse and removed the greater part of organized crime from this metropolis, merely his function in Blockbuster's decease is still a source of tremendous guilt for him. He retires from law-breaking fighting, with Tim Drake and Cassandra Cain as his replacements.

Grayson moves to New York, where he works closely with the Outsiders. After "insiders" threaten both the Outsiders and the newest incarnation of Teen Titans, however, Nightwing realizes that the squad has gotten "too personal" and quits.

Infinite Crunch and 52 [edit]

Due to a crisis of conscience, Dick adopts the new villainous persona of Renegade in club to infiltrate Lex Luthor'due south Cloak-and-dagger Society of Super-Villains. This ruse includes Nightwing aligning himself with his long-time enemy Deathstroke in gild to track the manufacturing and distribution of Bane's venom serum and to proceed tabs on the Club's activities in Gotham and Blüdhaven. He besides begins training (and subtly converting) Deathstroke's girl, Ravager.

Deathstroke takes revenge on Nightwing when Blüdhaven is destroyed by the Gild. The Society drops the super villain Chemo on the city, killing 100,000 people. Dick tries to rescue survivors just is overcome by radiation poisoning; only to be rescued himself by Batman. Nightwing confides that he let Blockbuster dice and asks Batman to forgive him. Batman tells him that his forgiveness doesn't thing; Dick has to move beyond Blockbuster's death. Inspired by his mentor, he proposes to Barbara Gordon, who accepts his proposal with a kiss.

Batman then entrusts Nightwing to alert other heroes about the danger that the Crisis poses. Dick flies to Titans Belfry, just due to the chaos resulting from the Blüdhaven disaster, the OMAC onslaught and other Crisis related events, the merely hero who answers his call is Conner Kent. Together, they locate and set on Alexander Luthor's tower, the center of the Crisis, only to be repelled by Superboy-Prime number. Prime is ready to impale Nightwing when Conner intervenes, sacrificing himself to destroy the belfry, ending the destruction of the Universe.

During the Battle of Urban center, Nightwing suffers a near-fatal injury from Alexander Luthor when he attempts to save Batman'southward life. Originally, the editors at DC intended to have Dick Grayson killed in Infinite Crisis as Newsarama revealed from the DC Panel at WizardWorld Philiadelphia:^[xix]

It was once again explained that Nightwing was originally intended to die in Space Crunch, and that you tin can see the arc that was supposed to end with his tragic death in the serial. After long discussions, the death edict was finally reversed, but the decision was made that, if they were going to exist keeping him, he would have to be changed. The next arc of the ongoing series volition further explain the changes, it was said.

Saved by the Justice Guild, Nightwing recovers with Barbara at his side. Every bit presently equally he'southward able to walk once more, Batman asks him to bring together him and Robin in retracing Bruce's original journey in becoming the Nighttime Knight. While Nightwing is hesitant, due to his engagement with Barbara, she encourages him to become and returns his engagement ring so he can make an honest conclusion for himself. Barbara feels that information technology is important he rediscover himself, and until he does they're not yet ready to be married. They function on adept terms, though before he departs Dick leaves her an envelope containing a photo of them as Robin and Batgirl, along with the engagement ring on a concatenation and a notation promising he'll come up back to her one day.^[20]

Soon subsequently his journeying with Batman and Robin ends, Nightwing returns to Gotham, following Intergang's trail. He works with the new Batwoman and Renee Montoya to stop Intergang from destroying Gotham, shutting off dozens of burn-spewing devices spread across the city.

"One Year Later" [edit]

One year later, Dick Grayson returns to New York City (his previous home base with the Teen Titans) in order to find out who has been masquerading as Nightwing. The murderous impostor turns out to be the former Robin, Jason Todd. Grayson leads the Outsiders once again, operating secret and globally.

Nightwing follows an armored thief named Raptor, whom he suspects is responsible for serial of murders. Later, Raptor himself is murdered in a fashion like to the other victims by an unseen contract killer, who gain to bury Grayson alive. Nightwing frees himself, wondering the relation between his experience and a mysterious voice who tells him that he is "supposed to be dead". Nightwing is having trouble finding things to proceed him busy during the twenty-four hour period due to the cast on his correct arm. Incapacitated from his injuries, he tries without luck to find jobs and continues to research into the mysterious assassinator.

At i signal, Dick agrees to attend a party for Bruce and their relationship seems to flourish. Bruce praises Dick for his success on the Raptor instance, and likewise mentions to look into the Landman Building which hosted ex-Lexcorp scientists; most likely those who worked on the Raptor project. Dick too continues to continue a close brotherly relationship with Tim Drake, and helps Tim bargain with his many losses during the terminal year.

Later on dealing with the Raptor issue, NYC is plagued by a villainous duo called Bride and Groom. Nightwing begins pursuit of these ii after some grisly murders, including that of the Lorens family (close friends of his after the Raptor incident). Dick began to get obsessed with finding them, not knowing how far he was willing to get to take them down. Eventually, he formed a makeshift team with some "villains" to find them. They located them, and after killing some of his "team", Nightwing chased them to a cave, where Bride began a cavern-in and the two are trapped there.

Nightwing, along with a group of sometime Titans, are summoned over again past Raven to aid the current grouping of Teen Titans battle against Deathstroke, who was targeting the latest team in society to get at his children, Ravager and the resurrected Jericho. Nightwing and the other sometime Titans continue to work with the current team before long after the battle with Deathstroke then as to investigate the contempo murder of Duela Dent.

When the Outsiders were targeted by Checkmate, Nightwing agrees that his team will piece of work with the organization, then long as their deportment in Africa are non used confronting them in the future. The mission however does non get as well as intended, resulting in Nightwing, the Black Queen and Helm Boomerang being captured by Chang Tzu. Later, Batman is chosen in by Mister Terrific who then rescues Nightwing and the others. Afterwards, Nightwing admits to Batman, that while he accepts that he is an excellent leader, he is not suited to lead a team similar the Outsiders, and offers the leadership position to Batman.

Batman accepts the position; however, he feels that the team needs to be remade, in order to accomplish the sorts of missions that he intends them to undertake. As such, he holds a series of tryouts for the team. The first audition involves Nightwing and Helm Boomerang who are sent to a space station under set on by Chemo. During the mission, a confrontation erupts between Nightwing and Boomerang, who has grown tired of fighting for redemption from people like Batman and Nightwing. Subsequently taking a chirapsia from Nightwing, he manages to throw him into a shuttle heading for Earth and quits the squad. Afterwards, Nightwing furiously confronts Batman. Batman does not deny his actions, and states that this is the sort of matter that the new Outsiders will have to deal with. At this, Nightwing resigns completely from the Outsiders, which Batman feels is best, judging Nightwing as well skillful for that sort of life.

In guild to help himself regain a sense of purpose, Nightwing opted to stay in New York City again, and play the role of the city'southward protector. He takes on a job every bit a museum curator; and uses the museum equally his new base of operations. During his short time in that location, Dick finds himself once again confronted with 2-Face, who years agone delivered Dick'due south greatest defeat. This time still, Dick soundly defeats Two-Face.

"Titans Return" [edit]

Nightwing joins a new team of Titans, with the same roster of the New Teen Titans, to stop an offspring of Trigon, which has non even so been named, from enacting his vengeance over Raven and the Titans, of every generation. Nightwing yet again leads the team, and they manage to stop the sons of Trigon from accomplishing their first attempt at global destruction and once again a few days afterwards.

Following the defeat of Trigon'southward sons, the Titans are approached past Jericho who had been stuck inhabiting the trunk of Match, Superboy's clone. The Titans managed to free Jericho, simply found themselves in one case again in trouble, due to the fact the Jericho's mind had get splintered due to all the bodies he had possessed in the past. Torn betwixt evil and expert, Jericho possesses Nightwing's body in society to keep from being captured. During this time, Jericho forces Nightwing to relive all of his greatest pains. Soon after, the JLA arrived, intent on taking Jericho in. Unfortunately they fail to auscultate him.

Following this, Nightwing decides to go out the squad once more, due to the events of the "Batman R.I.P." storyline, and due to Batman's credible death, Nightwing feels his attention should be amend aimed at protecting Gotham City.

"Batman R.I.P" and "Boxing for the Cowl" [edit]

As a forerunner to "Batman R.I.P.", at the New York Comic Con 2008, DC Comics gave abroad pins featuring Nightwing, Jason Todd, and Hush with the words "I Am Batman" beneath them. During the storyline, Nightwing is ambushed by the International Club of Villains. He is later seen in Arkham Aviary, frothing at the mouth and presumably drugged, believed by the staff to be Pierrot Lunaire, a member of the club. Scheduled for an experimental lobotomy by Arkham himself, he's spared by the ICoV taking hold of the Asylum, wanting to apply him and Jezebel Jet, Bruce'due south fiancée at the time, as bait.

Equally Jezebel's capture is revealed to be a cherry-red herring, due to her being a part of the Black Glove, Nightwing's lobotomy is even so awaiting, but he manages to escape by besting Le Bossu, and joining the fray between the Batman Family, the International Order of Heroes and the Black Glove itself. While he'southward forced to witness Batman'south dragging down Simon Hurt'southward helicopter and seemingly die in a fiery explosion with his foe, he'southward shown belongings Batman's cape, discarded during the fight.

Following the events of Batman'due south apparent death during Final Crisis, Nightwing has closed down shop in New York so as to return to Gotham. He has opted to give upwardly on having a normal job, and instead intends to put all his attempt into protecting the city. Later his returns he confronts Two-Confront and Ra'due south al Ghul, proving two of his mentor's greatest enemies that he is an equal to Batman after he defeated them. He also finds himself existence tasked to heighten Bruce's biological son Damian with Alfred.

During the events of the Battle for the Cowl, Nightwing is said to have become unapproachable and less emotional. He is seen by the Bat-Conform brandish cases, even so mourning the loss of Batman. Nightwing is said to exist resisting the idea that someone needs to have upward the mantle of Batman, in spite of arguments from Robin and Alfred Pennyworth that it is necessary.^[21] Information technology is later revealed he has no objections to becoming the new Batman, just was ordered not to in Bruce's prerecorded bulletin for him, proverb that Nightwing and Robin could carry the torch.

Robin after informs Grayson that someone is masquerading equally Batman, using similar weaponry to their ain. Nightwing is afterward forced to rescue Damian after he is ambushed by Killer Croc and Poisonous substance Ivy. However, Nightwing'southward glider is shot downwards, and the two are forced to crash land into a skyscraper. In order to requite Damian time to escape, Nightwing offers himself up to the hit team that is subsequently them. He is about to be shot when he is rescued in a hail of gunfire by the Batman impersonator.

This eventually leads to Dick confronting Jason Todd, who has been posing as Batman. Later on a long battle betwixt the 2, Jason refuses Dick's help, while hanging on to a protruding ledge over Gotham's bay, Jason lets himself fall into the water.^[22] Afterwards returning to the cave, Dick assumes the identity of Batman, with Damian as the new Robin.^[23]

The New 52 [edit]

Nightwing in his New 52 costume. Embrace of Nightwing (vol. 3) #0 (November 2012). Art by Eddy Barrows.

In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC's continuity. In this new timeline, Grayson's costume changed the color of the "Nightwing symbol" from blue to ruby-red, and the emblem rolled over the shoulders, rather than traveling down the arm onto the middle and band fingers. The costume besides shifted from a skin-tight unitard look to an armored, full body suit, with spiked gauntlets such as Batman's rather than simply long gloves.^[24] Dick, along with all other members of the Batfamily, was a few years younger than previous incarnations. Despite being in his early twenties as opposed to his mid-late twenties, he was drawn a scrap shorter than in his pre-relaunch frame. Starting with issue 19 there was a alter in the accommodate.

Afterward the events of Flashpoint as office of The New 52, Nightwing was relaunched with issue #1. Grayson resumes the part of Nightwing following the return of Bruce Wayne. The new serial, written by Kyle Higgins, opens with Grayson having returned to Gotham, when Haly's Circus comes to boondocks. Through a series of events, Grayson inherits the circus and is working through internal struggles with his past equally he investigates the secrets the circus has brought almost.^[25]

During the events of Death of the Family unit, a Batman Family unit crossover, Haly's circus is targeted by the Joker. Equally a result, the circus is burnt downwards and the circus members leave. Dick is left feeling depressed and lost as a result of this and the death of Damian Wayne, the new Robin, and is at a loss for what to do with his life. However, when Sonia Co-operative reveals to him that she believes her father, Tony Zucco, is alive and living in Chicago, Dick makes the decision to take him downwards. Therefore, in 2013 Nightwing relocated to Chicago to hunt downward Tony Zucco and besides take downwards The Prankster, a new supervillain hacker in Chicago.

As office of the Forever Evil storyline, Nightwing'due south identity is revealed on every electronic device in the globe when Superwoman takes his mask off. Nightwing was captured prior when bringing Zsasz to Arkham Asylum and mistakes Owlman for Batman, which leads to Owlman knocking Grayson out. Currently, Grayson is being held captive by the Offense Syndicate. Owlman plans to ask Grayson to join them to fill in the spot of Earth-3 Richard Grayson who was Owlman's sidekick Talon who died when the Earth-3 vigilante Joker killed him and put his torso parts in boxes for Owlman to detect.

During his captivity, Nightwing is imprisoned in a containment unit of measurement built to hold Doomsday, with his heart monitored to set off a bomb should he attempt to escape. The alliance of Batman, Lex Luthor, Catwoman, Captain Common cold, Bizarro, Sinestro, Black Manta and Black Adam pause into the fallen Watchtower in guild to free him but likewise to sabotage the Syndicate. When they are detected, the bomb is triggered to detonate in minutes. Batman tries to free Nightwing, but Luthor, believing at that place is no time, incapacitates Batman and Catwoman before suffocating Grayson until his vitals drop and he appears dead. The flop is deactivated. An enraged Batman begins to brutalize Luthor, while Luthor tries to tell him that at that place may all the same exist fourth dimension to revive Dick before he is gone for good – then they do. However, with his secret identity compromised, he gives upwardly the Nightwing persona and is persuaded past Batman to fake his expiry and infiltrate the Spyral organization.

On Jan 21, 2014, DC Comics appear that the series would end in Apr with event 30. It was succeeded by Grayson, a solo series focusing on Dick's exploits equally an agent of Spyral. The series lasted until June 2016 and was succeeded past a new Nightwing series with DC Rebirth.

DC Rebirth [edit]

Post-obit the erasure of the knowledge regarding his hugger-mugger identity from well-nigh of the world in the final effect of Grayson ^[26] Dick went back to the Nightwing identity in the DC Rebirth era solo series, and the costume's colors were changed back to the traditional black and blue. At the showtime of the series (rebirth) Nightwing is still a member of the Court of Owls (after Robin War) and he goes on missions around the globe for the Court. They requite him a partner named "Raptor" and like Nightwing he wears a costume, merely he is much more than violent than Dick and multiple times Dick has to try to stop him from killing. Throughout the story arc, Dick must work as an undercover agent but also has to keep his morals and not impale fifty-fifty if the Court tells him to. Later on in the series, an upshot causes him to lose his retentiveness, which leads him to the name alter of Ric Grayson and temporary retirement of the Nightwing alias.

Space Frontier [edit]

In March 2021, the series became part of DC's new relaunch Infinite Borderland. Tom Taylor became the new author with Bruno Redondo as the artist. The serial follows Dick Grayson's render to Blüdhaven as he fights law-breaking while grappling with newfound responsibleness from inheriting billions in wealth from Alfred Pennyworth.^[27]

Collected editions [edit]

Nigh of the original ongoing Nightwing series was nerveless in several trade paperbacks while the series was being published. Beginning in 2014 the series was then reprinted, with the new editions including material that had been omitted from the previous run of merchandise paperbacks. Both the ongoing series Nightwing Vol. 3 and Nightwing Vol. four have been nerveless in trade paperbacks besides, during their publication.

Book 1 and 2 (Post-Crunch) [edit]

Title	Material collected	Publication Appointment	ISBN
Original trade paperbacks
Nightwing: Ties That Bind	Nightwing: Alfred'southward Render #one; Nightwing Vol. 1 #1-iv (mini-serial)	September 1997	978-1-56389-328-v
Nightwing: A Knight in Blüdhaven	Nightwing Vol. 2 #1-viii	August 1998	978-ane-56389-425-i
Nightwing: Crude Justice	Nightwing Vol. two #9-18	September 1999	978-1-56389-523-four
Nightwing: Dearest and Bullets	Nightwing Vol. 2 #one/2, #19, #21-22, #24-29	April 2000	978-1-56389-613-2
Nightwing: A Darker Shade of Justice	Nightwing Vol. 2 #xxx-39; Nightwing: Secret Files and Origins (one-shot)	Dec 2000	978-i-56389-703-0
Nightwing: The Hunt for Oracle	Nightwing Vol. 2 #41-46; Birds of Prey #twenty-21	January 2003	978-one-56389-940-9
Nightwing/Huntress	Nightwing/Huntress #1-4 (mini-series)	January 2004	978-ane-4012-0127-ii
Nightwing: Big Guns	Nightwing Vol. 2 #47-l; Nightwing: Secret Files and Origins (one-shot); Nightwing 80-Page Giant (one-shot)	February 2004	978-ane-4012-0186-9
Nightwing: On the Razor's Edge	Nightwing Vol. 2 #52, #54-lx	June 2005	978-one-4012-0437-2
Nightwing: Twelvemonth Ane	Nightwing Vol. 2 #101-106	August 2005	978-1-4012-0435-8
Nightwing: Mobbed Upwards	Nightwing Vol. two #107-111	March 2006	978-ane-4012-0907-0
Nightwing: Renegade	Nightwing Vol. 2 #112-117	November 2006	978-i-4012-0908-seven
Nightwing: Brothers in Blood	Nightwing Vol. 2 #118-124	March 2007	978-1-4012-1224-vii
Nightwing: Love and War	Nightwing Vol. 2 #125-132	Oct 2007	978-ane-4012-1463-0
Nightwing: The Lost Year	Nightwing Vol. 2 #133-137, Nightwing Vol. 2 Annual #2	March 2008	978-i-4012-1671-9
Nightwing: Freefall	Nightwing Vol. 2 #140-146	November 2008	978-1-4012-1965-9
Nightwing: The Great Spring	Nightwing Vol. 2 #147-153	August 2009	978-one-4012-2171-3
New edition trade paperbacks
Nightwing: Old Friends, New Enemies	Cloth from Clandestine Origins Vol. 2 #thirteen; material from Action Comics Weekly #613-618, #627-634	August 2013	978-1-4012-4044-8
Nightwing Vol. 1: Blüdhaven	Nightwing Vol. ane #1-4; Nightwing Vol. 2 #one-8	Dec 2014	978-1-4012-5144-four
Nightwing Vol. 2: Crude Justice	Nightwing Vol. 2 #9-18, Nightwing Annual #1	June 2015	978-1-4012-5533-6
Nightwing Vol. 3: False Starts	Nightwing/Huntress #1-four; Nightwing Vol. two #one/2, #19-25	January 2016	978-i-4012-5855-9
Nightwing Vol. 4: Love and Bullets	Nightwing Vol. 2 #26-34, #ane,000,000; Nightwing Hugger-mugger Files and Origins #ane	April 2016	978-1-4012-6087-3
Nightwing Vol. v: The Hunt for Oracle	Nightwing Vol. 2 #35-46; Birds of Prey #xx-21	November 2016	978-one-4012-6502-1
Nightwing Vol. six: To Serve And Protect	Nightwing Vol. 2 #47-53; Nightwing eighty-Page Behemothic #1	July 2017	978-1-4012-7081-0
Nightwing Vol. 7: Shrike	Nightwing Vol. 2 #54-60; Nightwing: Our Worlds At State of war #1; Nightwing: Targets #1	February 2018	978-ane-4012-7756-7
Nightwing Vol. 8: Lethal Force	Nightwing Vol. 2 #61-70	November 2018	978-1-4012-8505-0
Nightwing by Peter Tomasi	Nightwing Vol. two #140-153	January 2020	978-one-4012-9171-6

Volume 3 (The New 52) [edit]

#	Title	Material nerveless	Publication Date	ISBN
Paperback
1	Traps and Trapezes	Nightwing Vol. 3 #1-seven	October 2012	978-1-4012-3705-nine
2	Night of the Owls	Nightwing Vol. 3 #0, #eight-12	July 2013	978-1-4012-4027-1
3	Decease of the Family unit	Nightwing Vol. 3 #xiii-18; Batman (vol. two) #17, and function of Immature Romance #1	Dec 2013	978-1-4012-4413-2
iv	2nd Metropolis	Nightwing Vol. three #nineteen-24	July 2014	978-i-4012-4630-three
five	Setting Son	Nightwing Vol. 3 #25-xxx, Annual #i	December 2014	978-1-4012-5011-nine
Hardback
	Nightwing: The Prince of Gotham Omnibus	Nightwing Vol. 3 #0-30, Batman #17, Young Romance: A New 52 St. Valentine's Mean solar day Special #1, Nightwing Almanac #1, Clandestine Origins #one	Dec 2020	978-1-7795-0700-6

Volume four (DC Rebirth, post-Rebirth, and Infinite Frontier) [edit]

#	Title	Material collected	Publication Date	ISBN
Paperback
one	Ameliorate Than Batman	Nightwing: Rebirth #ane and Nightwing Vol. 4 #1-4, #7-8	Jan 2017	978-1401268039
2	Back to Blüdhaven	Nightwing Vol. iv #9-15	June 2017	978-1401270858
3	Nightwing Must Die	Nightwing Vol. 4 #sixteen-21	September 2017	978-1401273767
4	Blockbuster	Nightwing Vol. four #22-28	January 2018	978-1401275334
5	Raptor'southward Revenge	Nightwing Vol. four #30-34	May 2018	978-1401278816
6	The Untouchable	Nightwing Vol. 4 #35-43	September 2018	978-1401287573
7	The Bleeding Border	Nightwing Vol. 4 #44-49, Almanac #1	January 2019	978-1401285593
viii	Knight Terrors	Nightwing Vol. iv #fifty-56	June 2019	978-1401291280
9	Burnback	Nightwing Vol. 4 #57-62	November 2019	978-1401294588
ten	The Gray Son Legacy	Nightwing Vol. iv #63-69, Almanac #2	May 2020	978-1779500212
xi	The Joker State of war	Nightwing Vol. iv #70-77, Annual #3	March 2021	978-1779505699
1	Leaping into the Light	Nightwing Vol. 4 #78-83	December 2021
Hardback
1		Nightwing: Rebirth #ane and Nightwing Vol. iv #i-15	October 2017	978-1401273750
two		Nightwing Vol. 4 #xvi-29	May 2018	978-1401278922
iii		Nightwing Vol. 4 #29-43	January 2019	978-1401285678
4	Leaping into the Low-cal	Nightwing Vol. one #78-83	Dec 2021	978-1779512789

Prestige 1-shots

• Nightwing: The Target
• Batman/Nightwing: Bloodborne

Most of issues #71-100 of Nightwing Vol. 2 have nonetheless to be compiled into any nerveless edition.

In addition to the dedicated Nightwing collected editions, many issues of the Nightwing ongoing serial accept also been included in other collected editions as part of crossovers.

Other collected editions

• Batman: Cataclysm (Nightwing Vol. 2 #19-twenty)^[28]
• Batman: New Gotham, Vol. 2: Officeholder Down (Nightwing Vol. ii #53)^[29]
• Batman: Bruce Wayne: Murderer? (Nightwing Vol. two #65-66)^[thirty]
• Batman: Bruce Wayne: Fugitive Vol. 1 (Nightwing Vol. two #68-69)^[31]
• Batman: Bruce Wayne: Murderer? (New Edition) (Nightwing Vol. 2 #65-66, 68–69)^[32]
• Batman War Games Book ane (Modern Edition) (Nightwing Vol. 2 #96)^[33]
• Batman War Games Book ii (Modern Edition) (Nightwing Vol. 2 #97-98)^[34]
• Batman: The Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul (Nightwing Vol. 2 #138-139)^[35]
• Batman: Night of the Owls (Nightwing Vol. iii #8-9)
• The Joker: Death of the Family (Nightwing Vol. 3 #15-16)
• Batman: Night of the Monster Men (Nightwing Vol. four #five-six)
• Dark Nights: Metal: The Resistance (Nightwing Vol. four #29)

In other media [edit]

Television [edit]

• Nightwing appears many times in the DC Blithe Universe, voiced by Loren Lester.
  • Nightwing appears in The New Batman Adventures. At the end of the episode "Sins of the Male parent", Dick Grayson debuts when he remarks that "no i can be a boy wonder forever". In the episode "Yous Scratch My Dorsum", Nightwing makes his full episode debut and finds an unlikely ally in Catwoman in trying to expose a South American gun smuggling functioning into Gotham City. This episode highlights Nightwing, hints at his relationship with Batgirl (Barbara Gordon) and illustrates his tense relationship with Batman. The episode besides contains a sequence – showing Nightwing in his loft headquarters and charging into the night on his motorcycle as his theme music plays, culminating in a shot where he stands silhouetted confronting the moon. In the episode "Onetime Wounds", Nightwing explains to Robin (Tim Drake) about his last solar day as Robin, that he fought with Batman over the latter'due south controlling nature and what the former saw every bit an unnecessarily harsh approach, causing Dick to exit Gotham as a result and returns years afterward equally Nightwing. Eventually he partially reconciles with his former mentor and works with Batman several times during the class of the series. Nightwing also appears in the episodes "Joker's Millions", "Over the Edge", "Fauna Act" and "Chemistry". A spin-off focused on the character and Catwoman was considered at one indicate.^[36]
  • In Batman Beyond (set many years in the future), Nightwing's uniform (or at to the lowest degree a copy) hangs in the Batcave. In the episode "Lost Soul", Batman (Terry McGinnis) borrows the Nightwing mask when his own personal Batsuit is reprogrammed with a dead businessman'due south personality. In the picture Batman Beyond: Render of the Joker, Batman asks if all of the original Batman's assembly were bitter when they left to which Barbara Gordon replies "...look up Nightwing someday. Has he got stories". Barbara also mentions that Grayson had left Gotham following The New Batman Adventures prior to Robin'due south capture past Joker and Harley Quinn.
  • Nightwing has a cameo appearance in the Justice League Unlimited episode "Grudge Match". As Black Canary enters Blüdhaven, Nightwing can be seen on a rooftop next to two gargoyles.
• Nightwing appears in the Teen Titans episode "How Long is Forever?", voiced past Scott Menville. Nightwing is Robin's identity twenty years in the future.
• Nightwing has been featured in The Batman, voiced by Jerry O'Connell. In the episode "Artifacts", the yr 3027 accept flashbacks to the year 2027 which features Nightwing. Although he has been agile for a decade equally Nightwing, he is withal called 'Robin' by Batman and Oracle much to his annoyance. In the episode "The Metallic Confront of One-act", Nightwing (in his original costume) appears every bit Dick Grayson's video game character in an online part playing game.
• In Batman: The Brave and the Assuming, Dick Grayson (voiced by Crawford Wilson) makes his transcendence from Robin to Nightwing in the end of the episode "Sidekicks Assemble!" and appears equally Nightwing in subsequently episodes. His suit is based on his Tales of the Teen Titans #44 suit.
• A Nightwing animated series was in development before being shelved in favor of Immature Justice.^[36]
• In Young Justice: Invasion, 19-year quondam Dick Grayson (voiced by Jesse McCartney) is seen equally Nightwing. Nightwing has become leader of the Squad, assigning missions to his friends and sometimes fighting side by side with them. At the terminate of Invasion, he leaves the team. Later in the tertiary flavor, Dick Grayson is the leader of the Outsiders.
• Brenton Thwaites portrays Dick Grayson in Titans where Grayson is a leader of the squad. In the showtime-flavor episode "Asylum", Dick burns his Robin Suit, no longer wanting to be Robin, afterward creating the Nightwing identity in Season ii.^[37]
• A reference of Nightwing is made by Lucius Fox in the Gotham episode "They Did What?" when he mentions the "Nightwing Project" to Bruce Wayne. It is substantially a clocking device that comes into play as Bruce and Selina put the device on Bane summoning bats to distract him as they escape.^[38]

Film [edit]

Live action [edit]

Batman motion picture serial [edit]

In the grapheme'southward second appearance inside the film series, Batman & Robin, Dick Grayson pursues being a vigilante on his ain and wears the Nightwing costume design. With Chris O'Donnell reprising the role from the previous motion picture, the graphic symbol continues to go by his Robin allonym.

DC Extended Universe [edit]

Warner Bros. Pictures is developing a Nightwing live action movie centered on the character, fix in the DC Extended Universe, with Bill Dubuque writing the script and The LEGO Batman Motion-picture show managing director Chris McKay signed on to straight the movie.^[39]

Discussing why he likes the character and signed on for the project, McKay cited the character's showman personality and background as an entertainer and expressed his excitement for depicting that in the moving picture. He later stated that he wants to introduce a complete adaptation of the character, something that hasn't been done in previous movie interpretations of him before. McKay continued to state that the managing director-driven approach is why he loves Warner Bros., and how the franchise is differentiating itself from other popular shared universes. McKay likewise confirmed that the film would admit the titular character'due south by from the source cloth, including his time as a office of Haly's Circus, and also reaffirmed that the picture show will be a straightforward action motion-picture show with minimal employ of CGI special effects and grounded realism.

Animation [edit]

• Dick Grayson appears equally Nightwing in Batman: Under The Red Hood, voiced by Neil Patrick Harris. He first appears to patrol Gotham alongside Batman, offering help when he found him fighting a group of smugglers. He was also present during i of the first battles with the Red Hood (Jason Todd), where he obtained an injury to his leg causing him to sit out of the final battle between Batman and Cherry-red Hood.
• Nightwing appears in the DC Animated Flick Universe, with Sean Maher voicing the character.
  • In Son of Batman, he beginning appears to stop Damian Wayne from killing the defeated and severely wounded Ubu. After a prolonged boxing (which happens off-screen, although a few shots are after seen during the credits), Nightwing manages to subdue and necktie up the boy, although he ends upwardly with a number of sizable sword cuts. At the cease of the film, he pilots the Batwing to rescue Batman, Talia and Damian.
  • In Batman vs. Robin, Nightwing returns to help train Damian while Batman is busy investigating the Court of Owls. Dick is dating Starfire in this flick (as he called her "Kori", matching the redhead paradigm on his phone), who phones him and tries to entice him to come over to her identify.
  • In Batman: Bad Claret, Nightwing is forced to take Batman's place and don his spare costume during the time he's missing. He later on helps Batman break free of the conditioning Tailia put him through. Given the phone call between him and Starfire, it would seem Bludhaven has had and then much criminal offence, they haven't had a chance to be intimate in some time.
  • In Teen Titans: The Judas Contract, Nightwing is the leader of the team, alongside Starfire. He assists the Titans in taking on the threats of Blood brother Blood and Deathstroke.
  • In Justice League Dark: Apokolips State of war, it was revealed that Nightwing died in the battle against Darkseid's ground forces of Paradooms, forth with near members of the Teen Titans. Attempting to cease a Paradoom from killing Robin, he was pinned down and impaled in his chest. Robin managed to revive him using the Lazarus Pits, but the progress also rendered Nightwing insane and mentally ill. He was later seen in the end of the film in front of the destroyed Titans Tower, still mentally unstable, only with a roboticized Starfire comforting him equally the Flash rebooted their ruined world's timeline.
• In The LEGO Batman Picture, Robin (Dick Grayson) temporarily dons a spare Batsuit in the Batcave, which is called the "Nightwing" suit (similar to Superman's Nightwing uniform equally an easter egg), during the Joker'due south takeover of Wayne Manor, while Batman is trapped in the Phantom Zone.
• In Batman and Harley Quinn, Nightwing is a main character in this moving picture, aslope Batman and Harley Quinn. Nightwing helps Batman and Harley Quinn in attempting to end the Floronic Man (the villain in the moving picture) in his plot to plough all humans and animals into plant people. Nightwing is voiced by Loren Lester (who reprises his office from the DC Animated Universe) and has a budding romance with Harley Quinn throughout the movie.
• A Feudal Japan version of Nightwing appears in Batman Ninja.
• During the terminate credits for Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a comic comprehend with a picture of Nightwing appears with the explanation "Raphael vs. Nightwing'.

Miscellaneous [edit]

Barbara Gordon appears equally Nightwing alongside Batman in the Smallville "Detective" story arc of the Smallville: Season 11 series.^[twoscore] This role was originally to be filled by Stephanie Brown, but DC editorial withdrew permission to utilize the character after her advent had already been appear and solicited, necessitating Gordon to supplant her.^[41] Afterwards Barbara is recruited by the Dark-green Lantern Corps equally a Blue Lantern, she asks her young man, Dick Grayson, to exist her successor as Nightwing and thus becoming Batman'south replacement partner. Different previous depictions, Dick was never Bruce Wayne's ward and protégé as Robin, and was made reference that he was a former circus acrobat-turned-police officer who works for Gotham City Police Department.^[42]

Video games [edit]

• Nightwing (Dick Grayson) appears in LEGO Batman: The Video Game as a playable character, voiced past James Arnold Taylor.^[43]
• Nightwing (Dick Grayson) appears in Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu as a playable character, voiced again by Loren Lester.
• Nightwing (Dick Grayson) appears in the MMORPG game DC Universe Online. He will help the thespian in a battle against Bane if the actor is using a Hero grapheme, or he will attack the player if using a Villain character. Nightwing is likewise one of the many characters than can be unlocked to use in PvP Legends matches.
• Nightwing (Dick Grayson) is a downloadable grapheme in Batman: Arkham Urban center, with vocal grunts provided by Quinton Flynn. Nightwing has no relation to the story as he remains behind to protect Wayne Estate while Bruce Wayne is locked upwardly in Arkham City and Robin (Tim Drake) is dealing with the outbreak caused by the Joker'southward poisoned blood.
• Nightwing (Dick Grayson) is a playable DLC character in LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes, voiced by Cam Clarke.
• Nightwing is a playable grapheme in Infinite Crunch.
• Nightwing appears as a playable fighter in Injustice: Gods Among Us, voiced past Troy Baker (mainstream version) and Neal McDonough (dark alternate analogue). Dick Grayson is the mainstream version while Damian Wayne is the dark alternating analogue.
• Nightwing (Dick Grayson) appears as a playable graphic symbol in LEGO Batman iii: Beyond Gotham, voiced by Josh Keaton.
• Nightwing (Dick Grayson) is available as a playable character in Batman: Arkham Knight, voiced past Scott Porter, as part of the game's "dual play" feature. He as well appears in the principal story where he assists Batman in sabotaging the Penguin'southward weapons smuggling operation in Gotham. Nightwing stars in his own DLC story pack entitled GCPD Lockdown, prepare later on the events of the main story, where he must foreclose the Penguin from escaping the GCPD Detention Center. He is also featured in the Season of Infamy DLC mission revolving effectually Killer Croc, where he helps Batman investigate a prison airship that crash-landed in Gotham and auscultate Croc.
• The Lego Batman Movie version of Nightwing is playable in Lego Dimensions.
• The Damian Wayne version of Nightwing returns in Injustice two, as well voiced by Scott Porter. Damian primarily uses his Robin identity in the game while his Nightwing persona appears as a non-playable enemy in story, although Robin can obtain and equip his Nightwing gear.
• Nightwing "The Aeriform Avenger" is also available as a playable character in DC Legends introduced during "Titans Month".
• Nightwing (Dick Grayson) is a playable character in Lego DC Super-Villains, voiced by Matthew Mercer.
• Nightwing (Dick Grayson) volition be one of the four main playable characters in the 2022 video game, Gotham Knights.

Rides [edit]

A Nightwing ride is currently in operation at Six Flags New England.

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External links [edit]

• Nightwing at DC Comics' official website

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightwing

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