There are five Robin's in total if you didn't know since you're still new to Batman lore. Dick Grayson the original Robin was created in 1940 to make Batman more kid friendly. Batman went from a gun-toting pulp detective to campy lighthearted Bat-Dad. He would stay that way until Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams made him dark and gritty again in the 70's. If you're interested there are UA-cam videos that go into Batman lore it's kinda crazy.
Since I don't think you are familiar with the extended Bat Family, here are the most prevalent members: Dick Grayson (introduced in 1940) is the first Robin but later he wanted to step out of Batman's shadow and became Nightwing (he is my favourite comic book character ever by the way). He and his parents were circus acrobats known as the Flying Graysons. After a mobster extorting money from their circus had cut the lines of the ropes they used for their act, Dick's parents fell to their deaths in front of their 9 year old son. Dick was later adopted by Bruce Wayne who was also in the audience and understood the pain of losing his parents and wanted Dick to not be consumed by anger and so trained him to become the first Robin the age of 9 and later became Nightwing in his late teens. He's now in his late 20s. He is the one Batman has the most intimate bond with. He is also in a relationship with Barbara Gordon in the comics. Barbara Gordon (introduced in 1966) is the daughter of police commissioner James Gordon and later becomes Batgirl. She became Batgirl when she was a teenager because she was inspired by Batman and Robin and wanted to protect people. Years later she was shot through the spine by the joker and became paralysed so she became Oracle. Eventually she got better in the comics (don't ask how) and became Batgirl again. Barbara and Dick Grayson are in a relationship. Barbara is currently around her mid-20s. The second Robin is Jason Todd. (Introduced in 1983) Jason was the son of a petty criminal working for Two-Face and a drug addicted mother and grew up in poverty in Gotham. At the age of 12, Batman caught Jason trying to steal the tires from the Batmobile. He was impressed with Jason's braveness and decided to take him in and train him as Robin. Jason did not have the cheerful personality of Dick Grayson and often showed to have a lot of repressed anger. He was eventually murdered by the Joker at the age of 15. Later he was resurrected (the details are very complicated and convoluted) by Talia al Ghul (one of Batman's greatest loves) and became the vigilante Red Hood which was the alias Joker used before falling in a vat of acid that permanently turned his skin white and his hair green. He is now around his early 20's. The third and best Robin is Tim Drake (introduced in 1989) (he's my favourite Robin but Dick Grayson as Nightwing is my favourite character). Tim Drake was only a toddler when he was there in the audience to witness the death of Dick Graysons acrobat parents known as the Flying Graysons after a mobster extorting money from their circus had cut the lines of the ropes they used for their act and fell to their deaths in front of their 9 year old son. Dick was later adopted by Bruce Wayne who was also in the audience and understood the pain of losing his parents. Tim was a massive fan of Batman and Robin and always looked up to them growing up. Tim is the smartest person in the Bat Family and at the age of 13 he used his own self-taught detective skills to figure out Batman and Nightwing's identities. After Jason Todd's death, Batman had become more violent and after Tim noticed he told Batman that he had figured out who he was and that Batman needed a Robin to remind him of what he stood for. Tim asked Dick Grayson to become Robin again but Dick refused and told him that he should be the one to do it. Tim accepted and after months of training the world's greatest martial artist Lady Shiva (who you will see in the games), he earned the right to become the third Robin. He is now about 16 years old. The fourth Robin is Stephanie Brown (Introduced in 1992). Stephanie Brown is the daughter of the Cluemaster, one of Gotham City third-rate villains. To ruin his schemes, she became the vigilante Spoiler. Stephanie's father Cluemaster spent most of her childhood in prison or away from the family. Though he claimed to be "rehabilitated" upon his return to Gotham, Stephanie was furious to discover that he was actually returning to crime without his need to leave clues behind. She decided something needed to be done. Stephanie tailored a costume for herself, and called herself the Spoiler. She knew where her father was hiding out, found out his plans, and left clues so that the police and Batman could stop him. Robin (Tim Drake) tracked her down, and she joined in on the capturing of Cluemaster. She also became attracted to Robin, and it annoyed her that he knew her identity but she did not know his. Eventually Tim and Stephanie fell in love.Stephanie also began a friendship with Batgirl Cassandra Cain (who was Batgirl when Barbara was paralysed). After Tim had to stop being Robin for personal reasons for a bit, Stephanie volunteered to be Robin. After Stephanie disobeyed Batman's orders (in order to save his life), Batman later fired her and told her that she was done being a hero because he could not trust her in the field. Cassandra Cain (introduced in 1999) was Batgirl after Barbara Gordon. Born with the assassins David Cain and Lady Shiva (the woman who trained Tim Drake) as her parents, she was trained to become the perfect warrior. Her father deprived her of speech so she would learn movement and physicality as her first languages. She is not taught to read or write and instead, reading body language is her only language. When she is 8, her father takes her to kill a businessman. As the man dies, Cassandra reads what he is feeling, realizes what she did, and runs away from her father. Batman adopted her into the Bat Family. Cassandra would eventually turn her Batgirl costume over to Stephanie Brown, Cassandra has since gone I want to use the names Black Bat and Orphan. Damian Wayne (introduced in 2006) is the fifth Robin. Damian is the biological son of Batman and Talia al Ghul. Sometime after Batman became a public hero, he fought Ra's al Ghul (pronounced Raysh) and the League of Assassins. During his adventure, he met Ra's' daughter Talia al Ghul. The two young adults fell for each other and, after a brief fling, they conceived a child. Bruce was unaware of the child's conception and returned to crime fighting for years. Damian was intended to be a formidable warrior. Raised by his mother Talia and the League of Assassins, Damian became a talented martial artist by the time he was a pre-teen. Eventually, when Talia deemed that Damian after turning 10 years old was ready, she allowed him to go to Gotham and meet his father - the Batman. Batman was surprised to learn he had a secret son with a supervillain but sought to learn more about the boy anyway. Despite his intense training to become a remorseless assassin, Damian was sympathetic to his father's vigilantism in Gotham and volunteered to become his next sidekick. Batman agreed and granted Damian the mantle of Robin.
Good video! Was catching up with all your Batman videos but happy you’re enjoying the games and learning more of the lore. As other comments said, there are multiple people that took on the Robin mantle, and Talia is one of Bruce’s main love interests however, Catwoman/Selina is his true love/soulmate in most media. 👀🔥😊
omg this is my first super thanks ever-i appreciate it! 🥹❤️ it really is mind blowing to me how much detail is in absolutely everything when it comes to this story/these games…the plan after i finish the batman games is to watch the movies in discord with everyone so i can hopefully understand even more! ☺️ (also from what i know…i’m rooting for catwoman all the way)
@@sapharic oh no problem! Happy to show my support as I do enjoy your videos. Also I’m interested to know what you think of the movies. If you’re only referring to the live action ones, that’s great but there also are the animated movies which are arguably as good or even better. The top 3 animated movies I would recommend are Batman Year One, The Long Halloween, & Under the Red Hood which are all adaptations of major comic storylines. Also I think most of everyone would agree with you on being Team Catwoman. Bruce & Selina are the OG enemies to lovers as they form a special bond despite Catwoman being a thief. When watching other media & this game, you can tell that Batman & Catwoman are in love with each other but outside of flirting, they both have a hard time expressing their feelings especially Bruce who you already know how he acts with others. 😂 Also the fact that the one thing that keeps them from being endgame is “the law” cause Bruce wants to do the right thing while Selina steals.
To expand a bit on what you read about Solomon Grundy, Solomon Grundy's original name was Cyrus Gold. Cyrus Gold was born some time around the early to middle 19th Century. He was an infamous gangster who met his demise when he was gunned down and his body was dumped in Slaughter Swamp. Unknown to anyone, the swamp was a nexus of mystic energy that, over the course of many years, interacted with and changed Cyrus' body. Decades later, Cyrus' mutated body rose out of the swamp, now the soulless zombie. When Cyrus left the swamp, he wandered until he showed up in a homeless camp and when asked about his name, one of the few things he could recall was that he was "born on a Monday." One of the men at the camp mentioned the nursery rhyme character Solomon Grundy, and Gold adopted the moniker. The nursery rhyme goes: "Solomon Grundy, Born on a Monday, Christened on Tuesday, Married on Wednesday, Took ill on Thursday, Grew worse on Friday, Died on Saturday, Buried on Sunday. That was the end, Of Solomon Grundy." Grundy is tragically forever cursed to die and be resurrected over and over again. Randomly reborn into something new.
Coming up next (unless side missions are happening): The BEST boss fight in the whole game. You better master your stealth skills ASAP, to get through that one. You also need to know how ALL of your gadgets work, too. After that, Alfred will contact you about a cure. I suggest you take his call.
Is no one gonna talk about the fact that Penguin has a goddamn shark? Batman should've brought his shark repellent. Yes that's a real thing it was the 60's it was wild. Seriously Batman and Robin used to fight aliens and shit it was crazy. I wish I was alive during that time but sadly I was born in 2001.
Yeah, there are a few Robins!! Tim's one of my favorites, he's probably my favorite as actually Robin (Dick Grayson, the first Robin, is my overall favorite but as Nightwing, and the second Robin is also very high up there for me). They're all basically like Batman/Bruce's sons
I've watched a few actual plays of the Batman Arkham games, and so many people seem to either have a real struggle with the stealth in the game, or prefer to just charge in head-first and do things the noisy way. I'm not sure why that kind of approach seems so common...
i will say, i’ve just within the last year been getting into these types of games-so the fight style is very different to what i’m used to! i’m glad to hear i’m not alone atleast hahah
Other than Poison Ivy and a few other characters that I won’t mention yet. Solomon Grundy is one of the strongest Batman villains. With depending on the day, is strong enough to hold his own against teams like the Justice League and JSA ( Justice Society of America). And fight powerhouses like Superman and Etrigan the demon! And still Batman be putting hands on him. Fun fact, Batman visits Grundy on every Thanksgiving and gives him a meal. Talia Al Ghul was originally one of Batman’s best love interests and the DCAU, The Bronze Age of Comic, and the Arkhamverse show this perfectly. But has now become Batman’s worst love interest, because she famously Bill Cosby him! and had his child ( who is Damian Wayne the fourth Robin after Tim Drake the third Robin ) A Goated writer named Grant Morrison, misremembered a Batman story where Talia lied to Batman and said she had a miscarriage with their child. But actually she just hid the baby from him. ( This was back when they were both in a consensual relationship. ) Grant misremembered that, which led to Talia becoming DC’s Bill Cosby. Don’t get me started on Ra’s but I’ll let someone else tell you that. 😅
@@sapharic I'd recommend doing Origins next - it's the most similar to this one in gameplay, so there'll be less of a learning curve to adjust to the differences.
happy new year! ❤️ i try and stream everyday except for 1-2 days out of the week most times…i typically start streaming around 3-5 PM PST! but i post on discord a bit of a better schedule :)
There are five Robin's in total if you didn't know since you're still new to Batman lore. Dick Grayson the original Robin was created in 1940 to make Batman more kid friendly. Batman went from a gun-toting pulp detective to campy lighthearted Bat-Dad. He would stay that way until Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams made him dark and gritty again in the 70's. If you're interested there are UA-cam videos that go into Batman lore it's kinda crazy.
the question is…who is the coolest/best robin? 👀 the original?
@@sapharic Tim Drake! Dick Grayson is the OG and the coolest one, but Tim is overall the best one out of all of them.
@@sapharic Depends on which one you like more. I like Tim Drake the most. Well before the New 52 ruined him. The New 52 ruined a lot of good things.
Since I don't think you are familiar with the extended Bat Family, here are the most prevalent members:
Dick Grayson (introduced in 1940) is the first Robin but later he wanted to step out of Batman's shadow and became Nightwing (he is my favourite comic book character ever by the way). He and his parents were circus acrobats known as the Flying Graysons. After a mobster extorting money from their circus had cut the lines of the ropes they used for their act, Dick's parents fell to their deaths in front of their 9 year old son. Dick was later adopted by Bruce Wayne who was also in the audience and understood the pain of losing his parents and wanted Dick to not be consumed by anger and so trained him to become the first Robin the age of 9 and later became Nightwing in his late teens. He's now in his late 20s. He is the one Batman has the most intimate bond with. He is also in a relationship with Barbara Gordon in the comics.
Barbara Gordon (introduced in 1966) is the daughter of police commissioner James Gordon and later becomes Batgirl. She became Batgirl when she was a teenager because she was inspired by Batman and Robin and wanted to protect people. Years later she was shot through the spine by the joker and became paralysed so she became Oracle. Eventually she got better in the comics (don't ask how) and became Batgirl again. Barbara and Dick Grayson are in a relationship. Barbara is currently around her mid-20s.
The second Robin is Jason Todd. (Introduced in 1983) Jason was the son of a petty criminal working for Two-Face and a drug addicted mother and grew up in poverty in Gotham. At the age of 12, Batman caught Jason trying to steal the tires from the Batmobile. He was impressed with Jason's braveness and decided to take him in and train him as Robin. Jason did not have the cheerful personality of Dick Grayson and often showed to have a lot of repressed anger. He was eventually murdered by the Joker at the age of 15. Later he was resurrected (the details are very complicated and convoluted) by Talia al Ghul (one of Batman's greatest loves) and became the vigilante Red Hood which was the alias Joker used before falling in a vat of acid that permanently turned his skin white and his hair green. He is now around his early 20's.
The third and best Robin is Tim Drake (introduced in 1989) (he's my favourite Robin but Dick Grayson as Nightwing is my favourite character). Tim Drake was only a toddler when he was there in the audience to witness the death of Dick Graysons acrobat parents known as the Flying Graysons after a mobster extorting money from their circus had cut the lines of the ropes they used for their act and fell to their deaths in front of their 9 year old son. Dick was later adopted by Bruce Wayne who was also in the audience and understood the pain of losing his parents. Tim was a massive fan of Batman and Robin and always looked up to them growing up. Tim is the smartest person in the Bat Family and at the age of 13 he used his own self-taught detective skills to figure out Batman and Nightwing's identities. After Jason Todd's death, Batman had become more violent and after Tim noticed he told Batman that he had figured out who he was and that Batman needed a Robin to remind him of what he stood for. Tim asked Dick Grayson to become Robin again but Dick refused and told him that he should be the one to do it. Tim accepted and after months of training the world's greatest martial artist Lady Shiva (who you will see in the games), he earned the right to become the third Robin. He is now about 16 years old.
The fourth Robin is Stephanie Brown (Introduced in 1992). Stephanie Brown is the daughter of the Cluemaster, one of Gotham City third-rate villains. To ruin his schemes, she became the vigilante Spoiler. Stephanie's father Cluemaster spent most of her childhood in prison or away from the family. Though he claimed to be "rehabilitated" upon his return to Gotham, Stephanie was furious to discover that he was actually returning to crime without his need to leave clues behind. She decided something needed to be done. Stephanie tailored a costume for herself, and called herself the Spoiler. She knew where her father was hiding out, found out his plans, and left clues so that the police and Batman could stop him. Robin (Tim Drake) tracked her down, and she joined in on the capturing of Cluemaster. She also became attracted to Robin, and it annoyed her that he knew her identity but she did not know his. Eventually Tim and Stephanie fell in love.Stephanie also began a friendship with Batgirl Cassandra Cain (who was Batgirl when Barbara was paralysed). After Tim had to stop being Robin for personal reasons for a bit, Stephanie volunteered to be Robin. After Stephanie disobeyed Batman's orders (in order to save his life), Batman later fired her and told her that she was done being a hero because he could not trust her in the field.
Cassandra Cain (introduced in 1999) was Batgirl after Barbara Gordon. Born with the assassins David Cain and Lady Shiva (the woman who trained Tim Drake) as her parents, she was trained to become the perfect warrior. Her father deprived her of speech so she would learn movement and physicality as her first languages. She is not taught to read or write and instead, reading body language is her only language. When she is 8, her father takes her to kill a businessman. As the man dies, Cassandra reads what he is feeling, realizes what she did, and runs away from her father. Batman adopted her into the Bat Family. Cassandra would eventually turn her Batgirl costume over to Stephanie Brown, Cassandra has since gone I want to use the names Black Bat and Orphan.
Damian Wayne (introduced in 2006) is the fifth Robin. Damian is the biological son of Batman and Talia al Ghul. Sometime after Batman became a public hero, he fought Ra's al Ghul (pronounced Raysh) and the League of Assassins. During his adventure, he met Ra's' daughter Talia al Ghul. The two young adults fell for each other and, after a brief fling, they conceived a child. Bruce was unaware of the child's conception and returned to crime fighting for years. Damian was intended to be a formidable warrior. Raised by his mother Talia and the League of Assassins, Damian became a talented martial artist by the time he was a pre-teen. Eventually, when Talia deemed that Damian after turning 10 years old was ready, she allowed him to go to Gotham and meet his father - the Batman. Batman was surprised to learn he had a secret son with a supervillain but sought to learn more about the boy anyway. Despite his intense training to become a remorseless assassin, Damian was sympathetic to his father's vigilantism in Gotham and volunteered to become his next sidekick. Batman agreed and granted Damian the mantle of Robin.
Happy New Year🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Good video! Was catching up with all your Batman videos but happy you’re enjoying the games and learning more of the lore. As other comments said, there are multiple people that took on the Robin mantle, and Talia is one of Bruce’s main love interests however, Catwoman/Selina is his true love/soulmate in most media. 👀🔥😊
omg this is my first super thanks ever-i appreciate it! 🥹❤️
it really is mind blowing to me how much detail is in absolutely everything when it comes to this story/these games…the plan after i finish the batman games is to watch the movies in discord with everyone so i can hopefully understand even more! ☺️
(also from what i know…i’m rooting for catwoman all the way)
@@sapharic oh no problem! Happy to show my support as I do enjoy your videos. Also I’m interested to know what you think of the movies. If you’re only referring to the live action ones, that’s great but there also are the animated movies which are arguably as good or even better. The top 3 animated movies I would recommend are Batman Year One, The Long Halloween, & Under the Red Hood which are all adaptations of major comic storylines.
Also I think most of everyone would agree with you on being Team Catwoman. Bruce & Selina are the OG enemies to lovers as they form a special bond despite Catwoman being a thief. When watching other media & this game, you can tell that Batman & Catwoman are in love with each other but outside of flirting, they both have a hard time expressing their feelings especially Bruce who you already know how he acts with others. 😂 Also the fact that the one thing that keeps them from being endgame is “the law” cause Bruce wants to do the right thing while Selina steals.
Hi, happy that the games you play on stream are coming to yt too, that's nice and also Happy New Year
happy new year! :)
To expand a bit on what you read about Solomon Grundy, Solomon Grundy's original name was Cyrus Gold. Cyrus Gold was born some time around the early to middle 19th Century. He was an infamous gangster who met his demise when he was gunned down and his body was dumped in Slaughter Swamp. Unknown to anyone, the swamp was a nexus of mystic energy that, over the course of many years, interacted with and changed Cyrus' body. Decades later, Cyrus' mutated body rose out of the swamp, now the soulless zombie. When Cyrus left the swamp, he wandered until he showed up in a homeless camp and when asked about his name, one of the few things he could recall was that he was "born on a Monday." One of the men at the camp mentioned the nursery rhyme character Solomon Grundy, and Gold adopted the moniker. The nursery rhyme goes:
"Solomon Grundy, Born on a Monday, Christened on Tuesday, Married on Wednesday, Took ill on Thursday, Grew worse on Friday, Died on Saturday, Buried on Sunday. That was the end, Of Solomon Grundy."
Grundy is tragically forever cursed to die and be resurrected over and over again. Randomly reborn into something new.
This part was probably my favourite part so far… game really tried you… threw the kitchen sink at you 😂 You adapted well You’re doing so well.
LOL it was so fun and so stressful and so chaotic and it was great and i appreciate you!!!
Coming up next (unless side missions are happening): The BEST boss fight in the whole game.
You better master your stealth skills ASAP, to get through that one. You also need to know how ALL of your gadgets work, too. After that, Alfred will contact you about a cure. I suggest you take his call.
Is no one gonna talk about the fact that Penguin has a goddamn shark? Batman should've brought his shark repellent. Yes that's a real thing it was the 60's it was wild. Seriously Batman and Robin used to fight aliens and shit it was crazy. I wish I was alive during that time but sadly I was born in 2001.
Yeah, there are a few Robins!! Tim's one of my favorites, he's probably my favorite as actually Robin (Dick Grayson, the first Robin, is my overall favorite but as Nightwing, and the second Robin is also very high up there for me). They're all basically like Batman/Bruce's sons
Great video , you're improving . But you didn't get the grapnel boost upgrade yet ?
thank you! i actually don’t think i have, i’ll go back and check today!
@@sapharic As of this video, you don't have it. It's a gift, for the AR side mission.
@sapharic Oh ok , you need it to get around the city faster , especially when completing the Zsasz side missions.
Why did no one tell her that the same quick fire also detonates.
yeah we don’t talk about that fight…i struggled…a bit too much HAHA 😭
Talia and Bruce have a son too in comics , She is one of the most popular love interest of Batman
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Yes another part of this ❤️👏🏽
I've watched a few actual plays of the Batman Arkham games, and so many people seem to either have a real struggle with the stealth in the game, or prefer to just charge in head-first and do things the noisy way. I'm not sure why that kind of approach seems so common...
i will say, i’ve just within the last year been getting into these types of games-so the fight style is very different to what i’m used to! i’m glad to hear i’m not alone atleast hahah
Other than Poison Ivy and a few other characters that I won’t mention yet. Solomon Grundy is one of the strongest Batman villains. With depending on the day, is strong enough to hold his own against teams like the Justice League and JSA ( Justice Society of America). And fight powerhouses like Superman and Etrigan the demon! And still Batman be putting hands on him. Fun fact, Batman visits Grundy on every Thanksgiving and gives him a meal.
Talia Al Ghul was originally one of Batman’s best love interests and the DCAU, The Bronze Age of Comic, and the Arkhamverse show this perfectly. But has now become Batman’s worst love interest, because she famously Bill Cosby him! and had his child ( who is Damian Wayne the fourth Robin after Tim Drake the third Robin ) A Goated writer named Grant Morrison, misremembered a Batman story where Talia lied to Batman and said she had a miscarriage with their child. But actually she just hid the baby from him. ( This was back when they were both in a consensual relationship. ) Grant misremembered that, which led to Talia becoming DC’s Bill Cosby. Don’t get me started on Ra’s but I’ll let someone else tell you that. 😅
Arkham Origins Next Series?
It’s so underrated
yes! already have it bought!
Say less! 🥲🙂
@@sapharic I'd recommend doing Origins next - it's the most similar to this one in gameplay, so there'll be less of a learning curve to adjust to the differences.
@@N0-1_H3r3i have actually heard that from a few people now! i might have to do origins next…i heard it’s also pretty short in comparison i believe?
What days do you stream? I just wanna make sure i catch it. Also happy new years!
happy new year! ❤️ i try and stream everyday except for 1-2 days out of the week most times…i typically start streaming around 3-5 PM PST! but i post on discord a bit of a better schedule :)
my fav batman game is the newest but I did enjoy that one too
I was playing this today on my xbox 360 also Happy New Year🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
aaaa so fun! happy new year! :)
@@sapharic Yep and thanks😊👍
W game😊
Can you play the Spider-Man game next
it is on my list of games to play! :)
@@sapharic cool you’re gonna love all the villains and Spider-Man himself as a hero in the story it’s so cool