Robin



The second Robin, real name Tim Drake, replaced Dick Grayson. {| class="toc" id="toc" style="font-size:11px;background-image:none;"
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Contents
[hide]*1 History
 * 1.1 Early life
 * 1.2 Adventures As Robin
 * 1.3 Later Years
 * 2 Background information
 * 3 Appearances and references
 * 3.1 The New Batman Adventures
 * 3.2 Superman: The Animated Series
 * 3.3 Batman Beyond
 * 3.4 Static Shock
 * 3.5 Gotham Girls
 * 3.6 Justice League
 * 3.7 Justice League Unlimited
 * 3.8 Feature film
 * 4 References
 * 5 External links
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Early life Edit
Tim Drake was the son of Gotham City criminal Steven "Shifty" Drake, who was often a thug for the crime lord Two-Face. He had very little respect for his father, and often had to fend for himself. Around the age of 10, Tim began to idolize Gotham City hero Batman and placed newspaper clippings on his wall. After Batman left a batarang behind at a crime scene, Tim found it and began using it himself.

When his father double crossed Two-Face, he left Tim a note and a key to a Gotham City airport locker. This key was discovered by Two-Face's henchmen when they briefly kidnapped young Tim. Two-Face flipped his coin, and decided to execute Tim, but Batman showed up and rescued him.

oon after, they discovered that Tim's father was killed outside of Gotham. With no place to go, Bruce Wayne adopted Tim and began to put him under his tutelage as the next Robin.[5]

Adventures As Robin Edit
Almost immediately, Robin began working in the field. One of his first acts was helping Batman thwart the Joker's attempt to kill Gothamites with his Joker Gas during a New Year's Eve celebration.[6]

Later, when Mister Freeze began targeting assorted people in order to destroy people's hope, Freeze went after Bruce Wayne's family. Freeze at first considered to freeze Tim Drake the surrogate son, but ultimately decided to go after Alfred. Tim was left behind to watch over Alfred when Batman and Batgirl went after Mr. Freeze.[7]

During one night of working solo, Tim came to the aid of a young girl with amnesia, whom he named Annie. He developed a bit of a crush on the girl, who seemed to be living in constant fear of an unknown assailant. She later proved to be a lost creation of Clayface, who had created her in order to scout out Gotham for his inevitable return. Unfortunately the girl had 'forgotten' her purpose and continued to run. When Clayface reabsorbed the girl, Tim took her 'murder' very hard and almost killed Clayface.[8]

When Bruce Wayne went mysteriously missing, Tim was left to protect Gotham on his own, while Nightwing andBatgirl went to search for him, thinking that Ra's al Ghul had a hand in the disappearance. When Supermanarrived, growing concerned himself, he and Robin teamed-up, with Superman masquerading as the missing Batman, and Tim being his guide. Together the duo discovered that Bruce was actually under Brainiac's mind controlling nanites. Together they managed to save Bruce and again destroy Brainiac.[9]