But Those Kids Didnt - Tumblr Posts

Not to mention just how much a character has changed. How much some of society has changed since the character started, but despite just about everything changing since the begining. The core story still is the same.

Richard is still the first Robin who came from the circus. He is still the first sidekick, and the start of the era. It has been over 80 years, and while most of everything from the story tones to the way comic books look has changed, that things are still the same.

That kid from world war two had Richard as a Robin, the first of a kind.

The kid enjoying colour TV had Richard as a Robin, and maybe got to see Jason as Robin.

It is also heartbreaking.

Now, we have Robin's from all different places with all different stories and struggles. We have inclusion and acceptance[mostly]. We have characters who we can find ourselves in. Love to the core, and not be ashamed to like. We are allowed to love comic books, and the stories that come with them.

But those who came before us couldn't. Stephanie Brown was the first female mainstream Robin in a cannon universe. Carrie Kelly was the first female Robin to have been in a story. They were the first time girls had a Robin.

Jason was the first Robin to show that there wasn't just one Robin. That it wasn't just one type of character. He was the first one to show that Robin could be someone new. He was the first time we were shown a character taking up a name and carrying it well.

There are kids who saw Richard as Robin but never got to see a new one.

There are kids out there who didn't know who Jason was.

There were kids who will never know that Jason was murdered.

There were kids who never got to see Jason come back.

There are kids who never saw the new Robin who brought the Batfamily together again (bigger and better).

There are kids who never got to see a female Robin.

There are kids who never got to see a POC Robin.

There kids who never got to see Richard grow up to Nightwing.

There are kids who never saw Richard as a leader, as an older sibling, as an adult, as a parent.

There are kids who never got to see what we get to see, the stories we get to love, and the jokes, and pain we get to have from these characters.

There are kids who might not have found the Robin role model they needed, but we get to have.

The history is amazing, and Richard and comics have come a long way, but to know that what we have now some other kid never got to have.

it's crazy to think about how long comic book characters have been around for

Dick Grayson was created in 1940

There's probably been tons of kids, adults, and older people who were just obsessed with him as I am now

It's just crazy to know that I probably share the same favorite character with people who lived such different lives than me

A soldier in WW2, one of the first astronauts to go to the moon, a kid enjoying color tv for the first time - it's possible any of them could have loved the same character I, so many years later, do now

And that's just so heartwarming and cool and wack all at the same time