Collectively, the Teen Titans have made up a few of DC Comics’ hottest characters. Not solely has DC revealed a number of profitable comedian books with the characters, however the Teen Titans cartoon sequence immediately turned a fan favourite when it debuted in 2003. When the live-action Titans was introduced, long-term followers of the characters had been hopeful that the sequence would do their lengthy historical past justice.
Sadly, Titans has made a number of important adjustments to the characters and DC Universe. These adjustments displeased followers when Titans debuted on HBO Max in 2018. Nightwing is likely one of the characters most clearly affected, and the a number of alterations to his character had been disappointing for followers conversant in his backstory.
10 Nightwing Is Not A Good Chief In Titans
Probably the most basic traits of Dick Grayson within the comics is his potential to steer. He first exhibits he is a very good chief when he begins main the unique Teen Titans in 1964. He is gone on to steer a number of incarnations of the Titans, the Outsiders, and the Justice League.
In Titans, Grayson abandons his staff a number of instances, even when the mission is but to be accomplished. He lectures his staff about how they should study to work collectively and belief one another with their talent units, however refuses to disclose what his talent set is. He is merely not a very good chief.
9 Titans Grayson Is Accountable For Tony Zucco’s Dying
In Titans, Dick breaks Tony Zucco out of a safety transport and beats him till gang members present as much as kill Zucco for speaking to the police. When Zucco pleads to Grayson to avoid wasting him, Titans’ Grayson says no. He steps again and permits Zucco to be murdered.
On condition that his comedian counterpart goes into shock when he permits Tarantula to shoot Blockbuster, Titans permitting Dick to be complacent in Zucco’s dying is certainly poor characterization. Whereas Grayson’s comedian counterpart could have been livid at Zucco as a toddler, he finally let go of the necessity for vengeance.
8 Titans Does not Perceive Grayson’s Relationship With The Titans
There are two issues with Grayson’s relationships along with his staff in Titans. First, Titans has seemingly changed long-time fan-favorite characters Roy Harper and Wally West with Hank Corridor and Daybreak Granger. This appears to have been accomplished to offer Grayson and Granger an pointless romantic historical past and to make Hank jealous of that historical past.
The second drawback Titans has is the dearth of belief. Grayson’s teammates like Donna Troy, Daybreak, and Hank always query him. Within the comics, Grayson is likely one of the most well-respected characters within the DC Universe, and that respect begins along with his staff.
7 Titans’ Dick Grayson Does Not Care About His Secret Identification
Within the comics, sustaining his secret id is essential to Grayson. He even struggles to disclose it to his Titan teammates. He is aware of he should preserve it a secret that he is Robin so he can defend Bruce Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth, and later, the youngsters Bruce adopts.
In Titans, Grayson goes to analyze crimes as himself as an alternative of Robin. Within the first season, practically each villain he meets is aware of him as Dick Grayson, a tremendous fighter who hangs out with the Titans. When Tim Drake exhibits up and divulges he is aware of Dick’s secret id, it is no shock, as a result of Dick has by no means tried to cover his id on Titans.
6 Grayson Is Extra Of A Brawler Than An Acrobat In Titans
The comedian model of Dick Grayson by no means forgets that he started life as an acrobat. Each combating talent he has is accentuated by the truth that he grew up swinging on the trapeze along with his mother and father. That is apparent in most panels of Nightwing, as combat scenes see Grayson twisting his physique in methods solely an acrobat might accomplish.
The Dick Grayson of Titans doesn’t carry such a grace to his combating. He rushes in the direction of his enemy, assembly them with head-on tackles. His combating abilities have extra in widespread with a road brawler than an acrobat.
5 Titans Grayson Is Too Informal About Hurting Folks
There has actually been a number of situations the place Dick Grayson has misplaced his mood within the comics. When he believes the Joker has killed Robin for a second time, he loses management and finally ends up killing the Joker.
All through Titans, Dick shows no hesitation in hurting the dangerous guys. He is vaguely aggravated when Kory could have killed somebody, however solely as a result of he desires info from them. The fixed blood splatters are proof that he desires to harm the enemy, not simply knock them unconscious. Titans’ Dick additionally instructed Kory to explode a constructing full of individuals.
4 The Relationship Between Grayson And Batman Is Far Too Strained
Within the comics, Grayson and Batman have a falling out they usually wrestle to get again their outdated relationship. Regardless of that, Nightwing nonetheless respects the hero that Batman is. Grayson desires to construct his personal id, to not scrub his id freed from any Batman affect.
Titans makes the connection between Bruce and Grayson strained from the beginning. Batman’s comedian counterpart historically comforts Dick and gives him a technique to combat, but Titans’ Batman retains his distance. Bruce by no means takes on a fatherly position, and Grayson spends his teenagers and grownup life wanting to clean Batman’s existence from his life.
3 Grayson Does Not Perceive Folks In Titans
Nightwing makes visitor appearances in a wide range of characters’ books. He is one of the broadly revered characters within the DC Universe, and characters throughout the universe see him as a job mannequin. He’s an enormous brother, good friend, and confidante to characters each youthful and older than him.
In Titans, Nightwing would not appear to grasp any of the folks round him. He leaves indignant youngsters behind and would not count on them to run away. As an alternative of getting an sincere dialogue with Rachel about why he cannot be her mentor, he leaves her a be aware and plans to skip city. Within the comics, Nightwing is a tremendous mentor and mediator, whereas TV’s Nightwing has no folks abilities.
2 Titans Makes Shedding The Robin Identification About Disgrace
For Nightwing, shedding his id of Robin is solely a part of rising up. Whereas it’s a wrestle for him, it is solely as a result of Robin has been such a constructive a part of his life for thus lengthy. Discovering a brand new id within the comics is a constructive step and a mandatory a part of turning into a hero as an alternative of Batman’s sidekick.
In Titans, eliminating this id is in regards to the guilt and disgrace Dick feels as Robin. He thinks being Robin has made him violent and he has honest regret for his position in Jericho’s dying, which resulted ultimately of the Titans. Having Dick really feel disgrace about his time as Robin is a good departure from the comics.
1 Titans Eliminated Superman As Half Of Nightwing’s Origin
The identify ‘Nightwing’ is given to Grayson within the comics by Superman. As certainly one of Batman’s closest buddies, Superman is definitely Robin’s first option to speak in confidence to after he goes solo. Superman is sympathetic and tells him of the Kryptonian hero, Nightwing. This identify sticks with Grayson, and he adopts it as his personal.
Within the Titans model of occasions, Dick is in jail and receives the story from an inmate he is by no means seen earlier than. The image of Nightwing is drawn on the jail wall. Titans takes the mantle of Nightwing, which has at all times been about Dick mixing the influences of two of DC’s most recognizable heroes, and makes it into a very unrecognizable and needlessly difficult origin story.