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admonition ! Spoilers for Batman and Robin # 20!It ’s pretty normal for a father and boy to share trait , and there ’s no denying thatRobinis definitelyBatman’sson . Damian and Bruce Wayne portion out many dissimilar things , including one heartbreaking trait . Damian seldom spill about his feelings , but one comic book just break how Damian truly figure himself .
Damian ’s true indistinguishability was unwrap in a sequence fromBatman and Robin#20 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Juni Ba where Damian admits thathis civilian self is more of a masque than Robin will ever be . For the past few calendar month , Batman and Damian ’s kinship has been heavily forced , withDamian considering leaving the purpose of Robin .
After Damian goes missing , Batman tries to cut through him down by root through his property , include his personal journal . Batman finds a few draught that dead illustrate exactly how Damian Wayne feels about his identicalness as the Boy Wonder , and they ’re pretty interchangeable to how Batman feels about the split between Bruce Wayne and the Dark Knight .
Just Like Bruce Wayne Is Batman’s Mask, Robin Knows “Damian Wayne” Isn’t His Real Self
Batman and Robin#20 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Hugo Petrus, Miguel Mendonca, Juni Ba, Marcelo Maiolo, and Steve Wands
A popular debate among comic Holy Writ readers is whether Batman is the mask for Bruce Wayne or ifBruce Wayne is the masquerade for Batman . Things are a bit more complicated than that , though , as the Bruce Wayne that Batman presents to the world is n’t the lawful Bruce Wayne . It ’s somewhat accurate to say that Bruce Wayne is a masquerade party , but only because the ditzy playboy billionaire that Bruce pose himself as is a masque . This personal identity is completely separate from the true personality of Bruce Wayne , and it seems that Damian has adopted something similar .
The harshest Batman critics have long argued that the Dark Knight get Gotham worse or else of good , and now DC is validate this claim .
Damian ’s diary details how he feels about Robin and his character in retain Gotham City safe , and one of the thing he reveal is that he does n’t view " Damian " as his true self . He outright states that his " true form " is the protector of Gotham City , and thatDamian only survive as a camouflage to cover his secret identity . It ’s a jolly grievous confession , especially deal that Damian is currently struggle with the very construct of his identity , as he is trying to enter out who he is in the world and who he wants to be .
Damian Wayne Is Trying to Decide Who He Truly Is
Right Now, He Doesn’t Even View “Damian” as Himself
Damian has struggled with identicalness more than any other Robin . While every other Robin has given up the mantle and sought out their own identity element , they never skin with who they were outside that individuality . Dick Grayson always make out he was Dick Grayson , regardless of his superhero codename . But Damian is n’t certain who Damian is . He ’s had to shinny over the geezerhood to settle if he ’s a Wayne or an al Ghul , and now he has to struggle to decide if he should even be a vigilante or not .
That ’s why it ’s so pitiful to see Damian take over the same behavior as his sire . With so many issues over who Damian is , it was easier to just say that Damian is a mask and project himself into the use of Robin , which he has done for closely twenty years . But now that Damian is stepping away from the pall of Robin , he has to figure out who he is . Bruce decided a long time ago that the Bruce Wayne identity could just be another persona to serveBatman , and now Damian Wayne is going to have to decide who he really is under the mask ofRobin .
Batman and Robin#20is available now from DC Comics !
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