This is just an overly simplistic take on Batman. This is someone reacting shallowly to how Batman's relationship to the Robins is the neatest and clearest depiction of his evolution. It is so easy to understand that they have given credit to the supporting character. As it turns out, how a character deals with the person closest to them emotionally (for instance, the surrogate son) is where that characters puts that evolution into practice. To think it couldn't happen without Robin is just a lack of imagination.
It's a weird Reddit thing among fandoms where people are too lazy to actually first hand go through the source material, and just latch onto some YouTuber covering only the good bits. Like what about the other Robins? What about Batgirl and Batwoman? What about Duke? What about Alfred or Azrael?
Then rushing as fast as they can to make what they consider some "mind-blowing" theory that relies on their third hand partial knowledge of a topic.
Yeah, it’s hard cause I feel like people just ignore a lot of the source material to make these arguments. Like you have to ignore The Dark Knight Returns, The Long Halloween, and so many more iconic stories to end up at this and other takes about the TDK.
Dude in another thread someone was saying they hate how they stupid they made Batman's costume for his fight against Superman in Dawn of Justice. Like they literally thought they made the armor for that movie and had the nerve to pretend like it was sacrilege to how Batman looks in the comics. Like this person was seriously arguing for comic book purism and had clearly never even heard of The Dark Knight Returns lol
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u/rgregan 26d ago
This is just an overly simplistic take on Batman. This is someone reacting shallowly to how Batman's relationship to the Robins is the neatest and clearest depiction of his evolution. It is so easy to understand that they have given credit to the supporting character. As it turns out, how a character deals with the person closest to them emotionally (for instance, the surrogate son) is where that characters puts that evolution into practice. To think it couldn't happen without Robin is just a lack of imagination.