Batman has the Riddler, Spiderman has Doctor Octopus, Superman has Brainiac. Reeds has Dr Doom. I feel every great hero needs a genius-level villain that challenges him mentally this is especially for heroes with genius-level intelligence as it serves as a dark mirror to the hero

Does Nightwing have any of his own evil genius archetype?

Knowing that he is dead it was another character? I would take up the mantle

Hello!!

I just very recently sold my whole comic book collection and want to just get back into Nightwing (instead of having 1000 comics collect dust in my basement).
I heard issue #78 is a good starting point. Is that still true?

Would you guys recommend those volume things that have multiple issues? "Nightwing Volume 1: Leaping into the Light". Or would you recommend I start more recent? Wait for the current run to be over? I heard overall positive thing about Taylor's run, so I doubt it is the latter suggestion.

You can include in shows, TV series, movies, comics, etc.

Basically, what do yall think should be NW's character flaws in the modern day? I see this complaint a lot in regards to Taylor's run that he's turned Dick into a watered down kinda 1-dimensional guy, and sort of echoing what Christopher Priest said in 2018 (that he's become a flattened out character who has hashed out all his issues/flaws). And i've seen people that are fans of this run basically say the same thing but with a positive spin (that he's so wholesome in it because he's grown). Personally I think flaws or just negative behaviors in general are a part of what makes a character 3-dimensional and interesting. So to ppl who like the TT run, what do you think his flaws should be? Whenever I suggest traits that he had pre-2011 people accuse me of just wanting edgy NW back when I just feel that some of those traits are a natural consequence to core parts of his character (for ex, his massive guilt complex bcuz he cares for ppl a lot, his workaholic/obssesive nature bcuz again he cares a lot about his work. Even the fact that he self-isolates sometimes when not doing well bcuz he feels so strongly and needs that repreive + deals with ppl all the time). I just want character complexity for our boy so i'm asking this genuinely (I feel like a lot of newer fans only see him as a himbo 😭 or sometimes acknowledge his smarts but say he has a puppy personality 💀 This is a tangent but that's actually a big problem I have often with his modern interpretation, I think he's way too passive. Pre FP he was quite confrontational and would call anybody out. It's y I appreciate Gotham War a bit. )

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Babs: You're worth dying for Boy Wonder. Babs seeing Lady Shiva and Ivy there: Oh I'm definitely gonna die.

As a dude who grew up with Teen Titans I always thought it would be StarFire, I watched a lot of DC media like the DCAMU so I was happy to see them together there. (Not happy how Dick lost every fight for the plot)

Just recently my Nightwing passion resurged so I decided to buy comics. After some research I decided to start with Tom Taylor's new volumes.
From what I can tell they're setting up Barbara to be his love interest maybe? (I'd rather not get spoiled on the details, but still curious).

I know in the older animated stuff Babs was his love interest for a while, while also in some comics.

That being said which ship is stronger? :)

I mean, i just finish reading #109 and the explanation of nightwing's fear was that he had an accident when he was young in the circus. Is that the reason? I thought it would be like a scarecrow thing, or that a villain with psychic power was the responsable.

Did it gets an actual explanation in the next issues or Tom Taylor just thought that a superhero scared of hights make sense?