The Red Robin Costume Came Out of Nowhere
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Tim Drake took over the mantle of Robin from Dick Grayson in "The New Batman Adventures" after stealing his costume, and...wait, that's a very different costume that we've never seen before, and it never gets explained. Where the heck did the red Robin suit come from?
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0:00 - Intro
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2:53 - The Robin Suit Conundrum
5:32 - Never-Before-Seen
7:49 - Option 1: The Same Costume
11:34 - Option 2: Jason Todd
16:12 - Giveaways
17:02 - Option 3: Little Richard
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What if dick realized eventually batman would need another robin so changed it ig ofc only saying this if the suit wasn't changed or something.🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨 I did watch all the way through
Its pretty simple. Batman had that red pants costume made for Dick out of sympathy due to the fact that his OG costume being to reminiscent of the Grayson family and his aerialists parents in particular who lets not forget were slaughtered right before his eyes. After much mediation and comming on terms with his sorrow, Dick decided that he should honor his parents and embraced the green on his sleeves but decided to keep the pants and have them be green as well. Now Bruce keeps that red and black suit Dick might've only used a couple of times on his Batcave because its the costume of the Robin he wanted to raise and not the one who abandoned him. The fact that the TAS suit is destroyed on Batgirls dream seems to indicate that not only Batman but also Barbara felt betrayed by Dick with his departure. And there you go, that's my explanation.
Side note: I absolutely love how Return of the Joker recontextualizes the "black eyes" as glint of malice when they're in the shade.
I brought that up in our previous video! I also love that, dunno if it’s on purpose but it’s very cool.
Coulda been a bait and switch, like “oh, it’s the new Joker model- sike! It’s the new NEW Joker model!!
Tim’s costumes became staples for every Robin.
Tim’s Bo staff became a staple for every Robin.
Tim is a pioneer who is criminally underrated [+]
TIM DRAKE:
**PRE AND NEW 52 all the way for me and he becoming BATMAN BEYOND is the end of his era....... DC REBIRTH TIM... does not freakin count**
Og red Robin was my fav
I still love Dick’s pixie suit from the 40s and All Star series
Did they call it the pixie suit..?
I think Tim's suit became the default Robin suit because Dick's suit looks stupid.
based on the timeline at 24:50, im choosing to believe that this edgier, black-and-red suit was just Dick's teenage goth phase
The talking through characters in clips is either expertly timed or very well edited. Cause the lip sync is on point
I know that Question line by heart at this point
@@dcauwatchtower I always get a little giddy whenever I hear "Not quite!" in one of your videos
I’d like to think Tim’s suit was a leftover prototype/spare suit that was put on display because Dick took one of the only other red and green suits that was kept in the cave when he quit
We can always hold that Dick preferred red and green because it was his family's costume. Even though, yeah, it makes him a huge target.
@@jonbrewer297 What if the red suit IS his original suit, but off-panel we see him ask for it in red and green like his family wore, since initially for him it was about vengeance.
That satisfies it being his original costume but also unworn.
@@TheLikenessOfNormal I do love that idea. The classic suit would be the one he chose to wear on his first few missions and was just his circus outfit slightly modified, the red one would be the one Bruce made him once he accepted him as his sidekick because the circus one was too obviously being wear by "a flying Grayson", and the TAS suit would be a mix of the two to symbolize both his adoptive parent (design of the red suit) and his biological parents (colour of the circus suit).
@@jonbrewer297 Yeah, we can always hold that Dick
I mean that works if you ignore the Lost Years were we saw Dick return his BTAS costume
"Even Chuck E Cheese became Tony Hawk" Wait, he wasn't always like that?
The sweet innocence
Would you trust your kids around a cigar chomping carnival barker rat?
A video on the Justice Lord suits could be cool. Like what were the potential in-universe reasons for each individual swap and if hose costumes have any hidden references/meanings.
Mostly for Superman. But yes.
I really like how they implemented the red and black suit in the main DC prime earth continuity.
Tim changed his colors from red & green to red & black to honor Superboy who died in Infinite Crisis.
“They were his colors.”
Yup. And then they gave the suit to Dick in Young Justice [+]
Tim really said "Robin, what a joke" and wore Superboy's colors in his honor.
He just went ahead and ignored the blue jeans 😁
@@elplebeuchiha1996I honestly prefer Dick and Jason to wear green and red and Tim to wear black and red. Plus it can be a nice symbolic change of Robin starting over since Dick left Bruce on a bad note and Jason died
Tbh I've always preferred Tim's Robin costume over Dick's. The black and red looks so much sleeker without the green.
Green is not a creative color.
@@astarteswillum5259 yeah it is buddy boy
Same here! Tim looked clean 🔥
@@Batman-lg2zj dhmis
Yeah no sht it was sleeker. Obviously less color will look cooler. But colorful is more pleasing to look at. But yeah yall obviously love The Winter Soldier movie Cap suit. Darker and no colors. The art style is also why Tim drake's suit works. But yeah everyone wants superhero suits to have no color.
This video reminded me that, when I was a kid, I read about the Death in the Family storyline on Wikipedia and then became ADAMANT that there were episodes of BTAS/TNBA with Jason and that I needed them
My theory: It seems the Tim Drakes Robin-suit was made to look different so that viewers can have a visual cue that this (tim drake) is a different person/robin than was previously behind the mask as Robin before. It's also possible that when the Robin suit is introduced the second time (appearing red/black), it is actually in a slightly parallel timeline where that always was the robin-suit. Similar to how Batman forever is a sequel to Batman-Returns, but takes place in a slightly parallel timeline according to the new Flash film that brings back Keaton.
Only thing is there's a flashback episode in the same series where Dick's costume is the red and green one as Robin
The first sentence is objectively correct
Maybe the true red Robin suit was the friends we made along the way. Love the videos and channel, keep up the great work!
You sound like new atom in black Adam movie - well I’m Dr. Fate and I’m shhhing you and making your chicken disappear with a wave of my hand
That has to be it...
The commentary for Over the Edge posed the same question of who changed Barbara into the hospital gown. The conclusion the commenters drew was “Alfred did it but he closed his eyes”
I wouldnt worry that much, Alfred's the most 1000000% MF in all of DC
6:48 pppffftt 🤣🤣🤣 the nostalgia just rushed over me after hearing "get up on the hydras back" ahh kh2 ❤️🤣
6:47 that kingdom hearts 2 reference was absolute gold
We make it every time Detective Bullock speaks in an episode, on our podcast “Jump on the Bat-Wagon”!
Tim Drake's suit was so popular and unique, that the comics even had him change it to red and black as a way to honor Superboy.
Oh yeah... And right after Tim and Wonder- girl hook-up. 😉
😄😆😂🤣
Plus, they gave the suit to Dick in Young Justice [+]
He literally mentioned that in the video
I always assumed Tim Drake’s costume was one of dicks old suits. Thanks for confirming my theory.
Yup Dick being a few years older then Tim fits this, it’s a Captain America/ US agent situation where a retired alternative costume was repurposed by another character
i think so too. at 15:31 you can see the red suit behind Alfred while the green and red suit is next to it.
I appreciate the reference to We're Back! A Dinosaur Story, a movie that basically nobody but me seems to like.
I reference it all the time on the pod! Someone told me recently it doesn't hold up as an adult, and now I can't decide if I wanna rewatch it or not...
One of the most underrated movies of my childhood!
@@dcauwatchtowerit totally holds up. I haven't seen it since I was 16, but hey, 28 is the new 16
Oh I like it too Danny!
I loved that movie and watched it soooo many times! I appreciated the reference too.
The “Not QUITE the same” overlap cut is GENIUS for granular stuff like this 😂 3:40
New to DC in general, and this is really quite interesting. Love the way people narratively explain artistic choices, artistically depict narrative choices, and all that. This Robin outfit is NICE though.
I would like a video depicting the costume change for Barbara from the blue and grey in BTAS to the black and yellow in TNBA and the theories that come with it.
That’d be a good one.
I think that could fall under the same costume "viewed through a different lens"
No reason, except... it looks better.
My only thing was reading the Jason Todd dcau comic during one of the flashbacks with Jason being Robin, Barbara has a different suit. It has an all black body design like TNBA but it's cowl, boots, gloves, and cape are the same blue from BTAS. It looks good, but kinda weird no one ever mentions it
The grey and blue was just so ugly almost everyone’s outfit was ugly in the original show I don’t know why only Batman’s outfit was ok but it looked sleeker in the new show
Did Dick ever actually return his Robin suit? He’s wearing it when he quits & he and Bruce weren’t really speaking for a while, so it’s possible that by the time Tim joins up, Dick still has his BTAS suit which is why it’s an older version of the suit in the cave that Tim steals. Bruce still wanted to honor Dick, but didn’t want to be like an ex asking for his stuff back.
In the “Lost Years” comic version, yes, he brings the suit to the Batcave and leaves it folded up on the Batcomputer.
Great job giving us 80's babies a reason to hold on to our sanity! I never could reckon with the fact that Tim Drake was barely 5 feet tall and had a perfectly sized Robin suit waiting for him! I mean, just imagine if BTAS had produced a follow-up storyline after ROBIN'S RECKONING that showed Dick Grayson training with Bruce and receiving THIS kid sized outfit as his first TRUE Robin suit. Just a shame that some great subplots never got turned into full episodes. One can always dream...😂❤
I always ASSumed it was
A) different artstyle, like how Batman doesn't have oval, has entirely different face with pointy elf - comics Black Adam like ears and pouches in his belt
B) we saw Robin in the very end in previous version, and this costume belonged when Dick had comics style classic Bob Kane's c curls and classic height
Real attack on MY sanity was when I, THE kid that grew up with BTAS and Batman Forever and Batman and Robin notions, saw for the first time Adam West show based cartoon and then actual comics about Dick and Jason Robin. Took REALLY long time of self gaslight to convince me about Robin's classic costume + watching Ninja Scrolls in which based ninjas had similar exposed legs + Russian sambo where guys also have same exposed legs + accept that only Bob Kane and his ghosts ACTUALLY understood the assignment and the WHY of this costume, and how it should be drawn, and not everyone else who drew Robin ever since up until costume change into the Nightwing and until 90s cartoon and movie completely put pants on Robin. Until Zack Snyder , who UNDERSTANDS the Why of the Robin costume, along with Wilkinson modernized pants-less Robin suit, which looks absolutely awesome on cosplayers.
I think the rectangles on the gloves of some of the robin costumes are supposed to represent the scales on the legs of birds, I find it to be a simple yet clever design choice.
Speaking of "A Death in the Family," I've always found pretty fascinating the alternate page the authors made in case fans voted for Jason to live, which shows a blissful Batman holding Jason's body while yelling, "He's alive! Thank God!" I wonder how the Batman stories would have continued from that point if that page was the one used at the end. Anyway, it was colored and featured in "Batman Annual 25", the special issue that tells how Jason was revived, as "the reality that should have been", according to the narrator. They should have definitely adapted it for the interactive film
I know so little about Jason Todd, but wasn't he hated by the fans because he was "edgy" to the point of being unlikable? Not saying that "justifies" voting to have him killed off, but I do wonder if it would've harmed the ongoing story by driving more people away, if he truly was that unpopular.
Tim's always been my favorite Robin, ever since I learned about him in the animated series. I like his comics origin (what I know of it) even better than his merged-with-Todd animated backstory, but his attitude and personality always were more fun to me.
That said, the Young Justice version of Drake vs. Grayson felt...swapped, with the early season Robin having the impish computer genius quality and the later season Robin having this "I'm trying to be as serious as Batman" thing going on.
That always seemed really weird to me. Like life isn't a binary thing where you're either 100% okay or 100% dead... you _can_ be those things; but after a battle, _any_ battle, you'll likely be somewhere in between. If he's dead, he's dead... comics have a million ways to undo that, but there's no reason the characters should be aware of it. If he was alive, Batman shouldn't be exclaiming it to the Heavens, he should be saying something like, "Don't worry Jason, we'll patch you up." or something like that. I mean, I know it's more 'cinematic' this way, but it's still weird. The next few hours/days will be critical for him, and you don't really have time to confirm to the readers that they saved Twink-erbelle with their phone calls.
@@Wendy_O._Koopa
Keep in mind that a chikd like Jason literaly survived a brutal beating and an explosion, so it's not surprising that even a really serious guy like Batman reacted as if he just saw a miracle. Also, Batman doesn't waste time to take Jason to the Hospital as soon as he exclaims the happiness
Supposedly the vote for Jason being killed off was largely due to one person setting up his computer to repeatedly vote for Jason's death. That would highly suggest that that person had an intense hatred for Jason. Only way that could have work is if he also set it up so that each time it voted it was a different as a different individual
@@segevstormlord3713jason was hated at the time because he was a carbon copy of dick but just edgier. The solution to the problem if he lived would have just been fleshing out his character same as they did now by making him edgier. Hell they could have just gave him tims personality since he didnt exist yet
Looking at Dick's emotional state and going off of his age, it's quite possible the order of suits went like this- Being a very young child introduced to the 'cool' world of crime fighting dick had his very first suit with no pants. As he got older, possibly to imitate Batman or just from being older and outgrowing the no pants and pixie boots, he got the black and red suit. Once he started to grow into the Dick Grayson we see in the show, he got his final suit. A blend of both his original suit and second suit. Having the black cape back, boots, and pants while also having a lighter and brighter tone.
That’s not where the Red Robin suit came from
@@Batman-lg2zj it’s a theory and this isn’t about the red Robin.
@@Batman-lg2zj If you are referring to the one from the comics, then yes, I know that. It was given to Jason originally by the Batman of Earth-51 in the comic Countdown #14. Bruce explained to new-earth Jason he had planned to give it to his Jason so he was fully prepared for the war on crime but never got the chance as his Jason was killed by the Joker.
In young justice dick wears a robin suit with black pants and sleeves
@@JunTekuTheEngima Yep! and it looks great too. That suit is inspired by Tim's in the comics. Tim changed his to honor Connor after he died. Also, that is an entirely different show than the one I talked about in my original comment, I was talking about Batman the animated series.
This is kind of the way I always saw it was Dick had the classic comics costume, then had a “I need pants” moment so that’s where the red suit comes in then when he got a bit older had a “I miss green” moment. It’s possible that Tim didn’t really see footage of Robin until Dick was wearing the red suit so for *him* that’s the “real” Robin suit.
Old memories, but the way I explained it at the time was that Robin had two suits. One when he was a kid (the black and red) which was before the era of BTAS, and the one he wore as a teenager (red and green) which we saw in BTAS.
Obviously he'd have to get a new suit at some point because he would have grown out of the original one.
24:05
I have always found this cover pretty underrated. It's pretty cool to see Robin adopting a more menacing pose, even resembling a Vampire, instead of just acting as the goofy comic relief
It’s a great cover!
I honestly don't know how that pose works with him. It shouldn't, it should be ridiculous. But hot-damn does Tim pull it off.
@@dcauwatchtowerI want to ask you, is it true that Wonder Woman's age is 18? How is it possible if Hades created her clay three thousand years ago? And if that's his age, in your opinion, does it ruin Diana and Bruce's relationship?
At this point is so funny how the Tim Drakes Robin suits from the comics have more animated movie appearances than his owner Tim Drake. Apart from DCAU, Young Justices, and some videogames and Lego products, I can see how DC always forgot Tim Drake (and the others Robins)
A bulk of that is probably them wanting to differentiate Dick, Jason and Tim.........then Young Justice had to steal Tim's look again for Dick.
I had always just assumed that the costume was Dick’s when he was younger so it’s cool to see it’s cannon
The first thing I thought of when I saw this video was the different lens approach
I mean given the Kenner toyline has multiple different colored action figures, it’s easy to just accept that Batman and Robin have different outfits for different situations. Even if some of those color schemes are ghastly. I do like that the Adventures Continue comics add Dick’s red and green suit to the row of costume tubes.
That is a good point. So instead of "It's the real Robin suit" he should have said "Hey, it's the Night Patrol Robin suit!" and everyone would look at him like he was nuts because in-universe that would just be the nickname given to it by hero fans, and quite possibly made into actual action figures.
Batman has multiple outfits so not out of the question.
Batman has a scuba, artic and an all black suit... ect.
AMEN... YOU GOT IT. Why would kids need to buy another Robin toy, if it looks almost exactly like the last? They did it to sell more merch!
It’s amazing that you not only talk about Batman but the bat family as well! I keep coming back for more of your content!
This is really cool. I've always preferred the red and black suit for Tim.
I am now officially a patron!! Thank you for your DCAU work all these years with these deep dives and S-tier edits!!
Thank you very much!
You know I always wondered had Tim not been tortured by the Joker into Joker Jr and had kept being Robin do you think he would have eventually became his own identity and would have became Red Robin similar to his comic counterpart? Like seriously imagine a dcau version of Red Robin with his iconic bo staff and weird bird winged cape. In fact I can see Tim getting the Redboard, the Redbird Car and his motorcycle from the comics.
My Personal Headcanon:
while on a Justice League mission, Bruce suffers his first heart attack. During his convalescence, Tim Drake joins the League as Red Robin with Superman’s knowledge but without telling Bruce, as a means of dealing with his trauma following his torture / killing of Joker. Red Robin successfully completes at least 3 League missions before Bruce returns as Batman, accompanied by Power Girl (aka Tea Hamilton, aka Galatea from Project Cadmus who’s honoring her late father’s wishes by joining the League). Both Tim and Tea leave the League upon Bruce’s return, both having successfully dealt with their personal issues, and it’s Tea we see with the elderly Tim in BB:RotJ.
In this case, it would make sense for the people at large, who don't know their real names or backstories (and have not noticed Bruce Wayne got a new ward at the same time Batman got a new Robin) would start referring to them as "old Robin and red Robin." and it's not hard to see him picking that for that reason. I don't know that there was ever a reason given in the comics other than 'it sounds kind of neat'
Nope. He'd be called The Drake.
@@GabePuratekuta oh yeah, that is ALSO a kind of bird.
@@KairuHakubi It's also an hero persona Tim went by in the comics.
And here I thought the only way I’d get to watch someone talk about Robin costumes for half an hour is if I could stand to use a mirror for that long 😌❤️
My theory for Jokers eyes being black in TNBA is that Joker decided to wear contacts to make himself appear more menacing, but later ditched them by the time JL came around.
The Boy Wonder's comic origin actually referred to Robin Hood, especially as depicted in William Soare's art. There you got a bird-red tunic with lincoln-green highlights. So yeah...definitely wierd to see a Robin costume with no green.
Also, assuming Barbara's dream Batcave layout is correct, it would stand to reason that Bruce shoved the BTAS Robin costume back aways due to it being the one Dick wore when he quit. To the contrary, the red and black one represents a more wholly positive time, where he and Dick were the Dynamic Duo. Not for nothing, but, if I were Batman, I probably wouldn't want to remember that sucker punch, either! Lol.
I would love an Aquaman and Mera costume DCAU explanation. I know there are at least 2 major changes but why are they so drastic for him where as the other heroes stay more consistent?
Great video!
Aside from the change from green to black, the way the trunks match the gloves, boots, and sleeves is similar to the original suit, so I think it could be a suit Dick wore sometime between the Batman Adventures flashback and BTAS, as a transition into his pants-wearing phase.
Said it once I'm going to say it here too. it's a butterfly effect caused by every time they time travel in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited
Yet another WDB classic, I can feel it!
You know I just remember seeing this as a kid and I was like why does Robin look SO different? He's a kid now? I didn't read the comics and had no clue who Tim Drake was, I just knew this guy wasn't Dick Grayson. I literally didn't know it was Tim Drake until I learned of his existence from the comics a few years ago. Even after I saw ROTJ it was like "oh this Robin's name is Tim" but since I didn't know Tim Drake was a thing it meant nothing to me. I feel dumb having typed all this out now...anyway great video keep up the great work guys!
For Batgirl to dream reference (yes, I'm making that a thing) Dick's original suit, she had to have seen it at one point. Using a bit of reality on this, when we dream, it's usually mixed with references we've seen or are familiar with. So, the green and red is a carry over from BTAS. Tim's suit could have been a prototype that Dick (maybe Jason) wore for a quick moment before getting his own proper suit.
Also, I love how comic book Tim's suit eventually evolves into the animated version after Infinite Crisis during the 1 year later storyline in Teen Titans.
Here’s my two cents: I think the black and red suit is an earlier version of the original Robin suit. It appears to be smaller than Dick’s Robin suit so it could have been from an earlier point in time, when Dick was a young teen. I bet there were multiples of this red and black suit made to fit Dick as he grew up. That’s just my theory.
Weird thing is that in the comics it’s actually drawn with the same colors as Dick’s suit
@@tigerlord9302 If you're talking about the "Batman the adventure continues" comics from resent years then the Robin your thinking about is Jason Todd, Tim Drake still has the red, black & yellow Robin suit but it's reveled that Jason existed and in flashbacks Jason is shown to have worn a similar suit with the red, green & yellow color scheme, the design for Jason's actually being a reference to a costume he briefly wore in the bronze age just before officially becoming the 2nd "Boy Wonder"
@@Kid_Spitfire Actually these are recent but aren’t The Adventures Continue.
@@tigerlord9302 only other resent comics I can think of are the main universe one's where Tim has regressed back to being Robin again for some stupid reason dispit the fact Damian Wayne is still Robin and despite the fact that there where multiple times where Tim says that he has made peace with the fact that he isn't Robin anymore and that he excepts that it's time for him to move on, like how Dick Grayson went from Robin to Nightwing but for some dumb reason all of that has been stripped away to the point that Tim might as well be a different character entirely ( at least he feels that way to me in resent years), as for the red, green & yellow costume Tim has currently it's in reference to the first Robin suit that he wore, the same one that Dick Grayson has in Batman the Animated series even though it originated with Tim
@@Kid_Spitfire I forgot the name but they’re taking place at random points in the DCAU, but are mostly based off TNBA. Dan Slottbis one of the writers.
I’ve been thinking of watching the entire DCAU because of your videos. I mostly just watched BTAS and Batman Beyond when I was a kid, so it’ll be fun to watch everything else finally.
I never once thought this hard about the odd costume. this was .... thorough.
A mayhaps explanation: Tim Drake *did* find Richard Grayson's costume 'with a different lens'. But wore his own costume afterwards (justified by Jason Todd's mayhaps story where *he* stole Richard Grayson's costume, and then got his own afterwards.
And that this *different lens* costume clarification thing was never actually confirmed because it's a kids show for goodness sake!
(Also coz like, if you colour Tim's costume one way for one episode, then he gets a new costume with new colours the next, not only is that extra designs and stuff, but also you'll get a bunch of genius' asking 'waaait, they're wearing different costumes... Are they different people...?')
I never realized this before.
0:01 salt and pepper
Pencil and eraser
Pen and paper
Bread and Butter
Black and White
Man i always forget how strange small costume details can be such huge difference and reasoning
Holy crap! I just realized that Tim didn't get his black and red Rebin suit like this one in the comics until the early 2000s! To be fair, I missed TNBA when it came out (my parents switched cables packages to one without Cartoon Network RIGHT around the time that BTAS ended and TNBA moved to CN (even though they knew it was my favorite show that I watched almost religiously 🤬). So I didn't see this suit until after I had been introduced to Tim's black and red threads in the comics when I started watching TNBA in college 😅. So I just kind of assumed the show was using the suit from the comics, but now I see that it was actually the other way around 😅...
Like, I *knew* that he got that suit in the comics in the early 2000s, but I just never thought about it until I watched this video, lol 😅...
I love the fact that I binged all of your costume, timeline and the adventure continues comic videos over the past week only to have you all surprise me with this new one!
I also love this!
Infinite respect for the dedication to detail in this video and others on this channel!
This was always my favorite robin design. The first robin design I ever saw
I'm a simple man. I see DCAU video essay, I watch, I subscribe. Great video on a topic _I personally_ find trivial but entertaining nonetheless!
Ah yes… a video that can finally rival the infamous yellow batsuit.
good golly gee i hope so
😭 I love that you made dicks first DCAU robin suit as a design but no it's terrifying in the actual DCAU style
It does kind of seem intresting that the robin suit is the only suit changed for flashbacks. It might be a mix of wanting to seperate characters and needing to make a new model anyway.
I have a crush the first robin/Nightwing and I have to say it's pretty awesome seeing tim and the rest of the robins having fans.
Semi-related but the possibility of a Catwoman cameo in JLU, might be the Yolanda Montez version of Wildcat if Ted Grant trained her and had her as a backup member for him.
Oh yeah and the suit’s pretty similar too.
I've had a JLU theory/head cannon that the "green lantern" that booster gold got confused for is guy Gardner who we now know does exist in the dcau
Or could be Hal!
Gotta love all the work that goes into making these videos. Nice job!
I’d like to think that Tim had systemic hypoplasia that made him look 13 for ten years (at the least) or for the time his was Robin. Then, sometime in the future (after being Joker-fied) modern science had come up with a cure for systemic hypoplasia, and Tim took it in order to look his age; this actually making him look in his 50s by the time we see him in Return of the Joker.
I think a interesting video would be on how the Prototype suit from Superman:the animated series, could be the predecessor of the Batman beyond suit, since they’re both relatively sleek suits with enhanced agility, strength, rocket boots, paralysis fail safe system, HUD built into the lenses ect, I know there’s not a lot of in terms of evidence for it being true but I thought it was an interesting connection nonetheless
I assumed anything we saw in the DCAU could have led to the future tech. That’s what they did in JLU in the epilogue episode to explain Terry being Bruce’s genetic son. I’d think Wayne Enterprises would buy up companies that had tech that was too dangerous to be left unchecked to prevent any new similar villains. That suit was hyper advanced but then you see similar tech in JLU and Batman mainly funds the watchtower.
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You said Dick 33 times, James
I like how he progressively get angrier and angrier throughout the video
Costume evolution, eh? Like:
- the evolution of Aquaman
- Why Shayera ditched her helmet
- From Super Friends to Ultimen
- Why Superman decided to go Beyond
- Great idea
- She stopped being Hawkgirl
- Did it
- Coming soon to a Short near you
I love the DCAU so much and I love how watchtower database continues that amazing legacy
These are the kind of videos I love from this channel ❤
I always assumed that Tim's costume was just a costume Dick wore when he was younger, so it's neat to hear that that is indeed the correct answer. Also, Dick's BTAS Robin suit has another difference from Tim's original Robin suit in the comics: The R logo is different, and is based on Dick's logo from his original Robin suit in the comics.
Robin in TAS outfit is exactly like Tim.
No pixie boots
Shirt sleeves
Even the notches on breast
Tim emerged as the Robin of the 90s, so animators took upon to design modern accordingly
My daily dosis of costume conandrum
This was a great video and I'd personally like to see one for Barbara Gordon's Batgirl suit if possible your videos are always awesome to watch
Big fan of these DCAU break downs
This channel is amazing! Seriously, thank you. I’ve been binging all these videos the past few days, can’t believe I didn’t discover you guys sooner
Thank you!
... Is Watchtower Database Canon ?
Dope video👍🏿
I always assumed it was a style choice. Thanks for the breakdown.
Thank you for this video... No- no really. This question has LITERALLY tortured me for so long, not just the color aspect, but also the fact that it fits Tim seemingly instantly despite the obvious height difference between him and Dick. Just one of the many things that had me headcanoning TNBA as a different timeline for a long time.
Man, imagine what the backstories would be like for the Robin suits if they actually *cared* about continuity.
One of the cartoons did a good job with Dick's costume origin, explaining things like how the R got on it, leading to the codename Robin.
The blood of Jason Todd stained the old Robin suit, hence why it's red. Jk but for real, it's just Dick Grayson's Robin suit with the green swapped out. It's no big mystery.
or IS IT
I figured back when that episode of nightwing quit being Robin episode originally, and figured that red suit might have been one Grayson wore back when he was a kid too anyway💁🏻♂.
I remember seeing Jason's suit in UtRH and instantly getting flashbacks to Tim's Btas suit, man. I remember wondering if that was their way of like, subtly linking the two. it made me happy.
them retconning it later makes no sense at all, lol. talk about shooting yourself in the foot lol
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Nuh uh
Idk bout that
LIES
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Love your storytelling so much! Especially the awkward style of jokes:)
This I was a brilliant watch. I, personally, never gave it much thought. I always swayed amongst the lines of the “viewed from a different lens” theory. The BMAU was always changing up its characters.
The red and black was the cleanest robin suit and is my absolute favorite.
You all do a great job with the cutaways and general eduting.
It’s funny that BTAS is darker and more mature than Brave and The Bold but Brave and the Bold has the nuts to show off the Waynes being shot down in cold blood
If I remember correctly, it was something that was censored back then. Some companies were more strict about it than others. Censorship is always changing though cause of laws and stuff.
I love "hey throw a robin costume in the background" and nobody checking the design can turn into this, wild
Lettercol pages in comics used to be treasure troves of off-to-the-side answers - especially ones written by Roy Thomas.
That Robin suit Tim wears in TNBA is straight fire. Probably my favorite design.
I would have just chalked it up as Dick’s first Robin when he first became Robin 😂
The original concept for Robin was so comic book readers could fantasize that they were going on adventures with Batman.
15:59 Love that clip for "So WHAT. IS IT?!"
you have. NO CLUE. how much this has kept me up at night. thorough and exhaustive, fun and informative, THANK YOU.