Me, holding Nightwing by the ankle, dangling him off a tall building menacingly: How many.

Dick: it's not what you-

Me: How many traumatic brain injuries, Nightwing.

Dick: Not that many, honestly, I'm great at avoiding concussions because I'm very mobile and-

Me: oh is that so? Do you need help refreshing your memories, Rick Grayson?

Dick: Listen, I can explain-

Me: Oh yeah? You can explain how you can add a bird of paradise inspired fucking nightlight function in your suit, but can't be arsed to wear the bare minimum of protective headgear?

Dick:

Me: That's what I thought. *I haul him up gruffly, tear off his domino mask, and shove it against his chest forcefully. The expression on my face is so disdainful I might as well have spit on him, but you can't tell because I'm wearing a full head helmet.* I should kill you for this.

Nah, as soon as Bruce realised that Dick was never going to wear a helmet, he had Wayne Enterprises develop a hair conditioner which leaves hair fluffy, managable and impact resistant to the level of a professional hard hat.

I think it's hilarious that if they ever learned that Dick broke records in skydiving, the Titans would just not be surprised. They'd be like: yeah. That tracks. He was kinda already flying anyway.

They'd be surprised he didn't do it earlier in life.

"Really took you this long to break the record for skydiving? Getting a bit slow there, old man?"

Batman: Dark Victory #13

Nightwing (Vol. 3) #22

For those saying Dick is "DC's spiderman", Spidey was famously created as Marvel's answer to DC's Robin 😉

Something fanon gets wrong

Dick Grayson is genuinely one of the greatest fighters in all of DC.

I know people have trouble believing this for some reason but a man who has defeated every single one of his enemies, other people’s enemies, and has consistently come out on top should have his abilities talked about a bit more because they’re amazing.

Let's start small to big. Firstly Donna talks about Nightwing's abilities.

When I read this I was confused by what she meant. Prowess means skill or expertise and that makes sense but Dick has a lot of power behind him though...

And then I realized she meant metaphysical power.

Dick isn't a magician. He can't run at supersonic speeds, throw buildings, speak to animals, communicate with the dark, fly above the clouds, bounce bullets off his chest (Oh, wait. He can do it off his ass instead never mind), turn into animals, or other amazing abilities. But his skill is so high that he is easily able to keep up with people who can.

M'gann, the white martian with extraordinary capabilities, tells Dick, "You are just a human, with no superpowers, yet you have consistently excelled throughout your career, despite being surrounded by godlike beings."

This is incredible.

We see Dick leading teams of superheroes and metas all the time and we take it for granted but we never acknowledge the immense power and skill he must have for him to be able to do this.

Repeatedly. Time after time. He outsmarts both his human allies and outfights his meta ones.

One of Dick’s greatest OP moments is when he takes down the entire Titans team -Gar, Raven, Donna, and Jason too when he hung around with them- single handedly. And when Jason put a gun to the back of his head in supposed victory, Dick opened his hand to let the golden bullets fall, gleaming in the light with the coldest line, “with these bullets?”

We all know how amazing Bruce is, but Dick is on Bruce's level.

No?

Okay, here's the evidence.

He's a League of Assassins member and we all know that anyone from the League of Assassins is never just good. They're excellent. The entire fight Dick is looking for Blockbuster and he's so capable and good at fighting the entire scene was like watching Thanos flick Captain America away vibes. He's not even looking at him when he smashes his foot into Shrike's face!

Most importantly, he has defeated Deathstroke

The greatest thing about Dick is he is able to defeat Slade at the peak of Slade's abilities. Slade doesn't need to be weakened for Dick to win.

Here's where people has some hesitance accepting Dick's abilities.

"Bruce has defeated Slade but Dick has never been able to!"

He literally has in Dark Crisis but I'll give you the lead up.

Dick can easily disarm Slade.

He can predict Slade's moves ahead of time and properly counteract them.

He can go toe to toe with him and in one comic, they dance down a hallway, fighting, neither able to get the upper hand. The mercenary meta, considered by the US Government to be 1 of 2 greatest assassins (the other being Katana) isn't able to pin down and defeat a 20 year old despite his enhancements.

I left out the scene where Dick twisting Deathstroke's arm and smashing his face into a bedroom mirror despite being complete weaponless and in his civilian identity. No protection and no support. But it's another example of how Dick's poweress is much greater than people expect of him.

Of course there are panels where Dick has been defeated by Slade but Dick isn't 17/18 anymore. He isn't learning to fight without Batman hovering over his side.

Also there is a panel everyone references to when talking about Nigthwing losing to Deathstroke. This one.

sure. okay. whatever. BUT WHY WON'T YOU SHOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT COWARDS?!?

THEY DANCE-FIGHT LIKE THEY'RE ENEMIES IN A BALLROOM ON OPPOSING SIDES BUT CAN'T AFFORD TO LET ANYONE FIND OUT.

THIS IS SOME HIGH LEVEL JAMES BOND-RED NOTICE-MISSION IMPOSSIBLE- TYPE SHIT.

That's Slade talking by the way. To his allies. Who do you think made him "GUUK!"?

And here they were evenly matched.

But Slade had to pull out bombs he had been saving for when other people came in order to defeat dICK AND HE STILL LOST BECAUSE DICK BESTED HIM.

Yup. Dick is just that good.

Nightwing defeated Bane

Before you go into saying something like "it was a holographic construction." What the fuck difference does that make? Does a holographic construction alter the strength used by the enemy, change their fighting style, phase through when fighting, act dumber than the real deal? No, right? The fact is Dick broke Bane's back the exact same manner that Bane broke Batman's. All those scenes of Bane punching Nightwing around? Let me remind you that the guy snuck up on Dick. The second time Dick underestimated Bane's powers before getting ready to put in real effort before Batman interfered to take Bane for himself.

All those amazing scenes of him defeating enemies that we've scoffed at recently? They're just a continuation of what already is written. It's not new or unbelievable, it's expected.

Here's my final point. Dick has defeated all of the Justice League's enemies in one go.

This is Batman/Superman comic where Kara gets infected so Dick as Batman sends her to the medbay while he tears down the Watchtower to save her. As in every single defense mechanism the Watchtower has, he demolishes it with his pure skill and abilities. Furthermore, the Watchtower defenses were enhanced by cyborg Superman to be lethal. To kill on sight.

Just. Phenomenal.

He did it! He defeated all of them and made it to the electronic controls he was aiming for.

Another thing I want to point is Dick's strength is greater than what people assume it to be.

He's the world's greatest acrobrat and has a build fitting of that but the strength he packs in his body is equal to that of a meta. Maybe it's because of how he only fights with metas and has teammates that are all metas but he has raised his striking power to equal that.

He shatters cyborg superman in one blow.

He can handle blows from meta humans in a way most others can't which suggests to me that he must've done some kind of training or have maybe increased pain tolerance or have the ability to backseat the pain so it won't affect his fighting. How many can take a hit and rise up the next second?

He's not metahuman. Batman must've done several tests because he also was amazed by robin Dick's poweress lol but really Dick is just extraordinary. Give him any enemy and he will garaunteed defeat them without using cheap tricks or surprise moves which is why he is one of the greatest. The only time people have gotten an upperhand on him is when he has been emotionally weakened. Emotionally. Imagine the absolute monster he would be if he controlled his emotions like Batman.

But I would never want him to though because his emotions are the reason why he's the light of DC.

This is for those who insist Dick Grayson is some lightweight dude who stumbled into building multiple gold standards - as Robin, as leader of teams, of non-human superhero, of greatest ally to superheroes and civilians alike. Nope. Dick built those gold standards with literal sweat, blood, and tears, since he was a toddler. Dick is a powerful superhero and his skills don't magically disappear or lessen when he faces edgelords who outweigh him. Dick is a maths prodigy and a scientific thinker - he understands conditioning, leverage, momentum, and basic physics 😉😎

honest to god, i always forget how funny this show is. godfather's face when sixta starts screaming "godfather is watching." priceless.

his ass is NOT watching.

Shrike when Nightwing forgets his name

For those not in the know, Shrike is mad for stuff Dick did as Robin, but my man holds zero care for him 😭:

Shrike thinks he’s Darth Maul to Dick’s Obi-Wan, but he’s at best Savage Opress.

I love the “Bruce is strong enough to pick up post-Lazarus Jason through sheer will and training” trope obviously, but picture:

Jason and Bruce being so heavy/muscular/fucking big, that they’re the only ones who can pick the other up.

Cue Bruce getting called in anytime Jason’s down and they need to move him. Or Jason getting pointed puppy eyes from Alfred until he sighs and picks Bruce up and carries him to bed after he passes out on the couch.

To add -

Somebody DOES carry Jason out of sheer willpower, and that's Dick "Don't tell me what I can't do" Grayson. Jason is his LITTLE wing, thanks very much, and Dick CAN and WILL pick him up. It becomes not uncommon to see Red Hood riding piggyback on a stooped, panting Nightwing who keeps insisting that he "Has it handled."

Dick has been carrying this entire goddamn family on his back since he was NINE. He’s not going to let one (1) a magically induced growth spurt stop him.

You can tell a lot about a person and their sibling trauma based on whether they strongly prefer Damian and Dick having a sibling bond or a parental bond. Anyways hello fellow dick/dami sibling bond enjoyers were you the older sibling that horrendously mistreated your younger sibling because they were “annoying and difficult” and now regret it and wish you could go back and change things or were you the younger sibling who knows you were “annoying and difficult” but constantly wonders why you weren’t good enough for your older sibling to love you regardless of that? :)

Oh shit

Ok let’s delude ourselves for a moment into 1. Forgetting that Bruce has enough money for this to be handled entirely by caretakers and estate managers and 2. Believing that Bruce (or even all of the bat kids for that matter) is going to survive long enough for this to be a problem

Out of all of Bruce’s legally adopted or (mainline canon) biological children, which Batling is this?

There’s no “none of them” option because that’s too obvious and easy

Cass breaking the glass ceiling by being the lowest percentage when irl caretaking usually falls to the daughter because of misogyny

i don’t know who needs to hear this today but that man’s fight or flight response is fight. dick grayson doesn’t freeze or flee or fawn. he fights.

When you’re both hot you get sexualized to hell and back. When you’re both the favorite child and the sacrificial lamb. When you both have dysfunctional families. When you’re both royalty in chains bound by your fathers’ commands. When you both had to grow up in battle. When you both learn no one will save you but yourself yet you’re expected to save everyone else. When you’re both

Dick grayson would accidentally give away his identity on social medi-no. No he would not.

Man was literally tortured and didn’t say shit about anything

The New Teen Titans (1980) #30

I think the only thing worse than Roy being more accepted as a love interest for Jason than for Dick is Sl*de being more accepted as a love interest for Dick than Roy.Like.Like.You guys are kidding right????They were literally best friends for almost 40 years in irl time and for about a bit over a decade in-universe,their relathionship has so much romantic and to a lesser extent sexual subtext that i'm unironically convinced that they're in love with eachother as they are/were with Jade and Kory,Dick has infinitely more chemistry with Roy than he does with Babs and you'd barely have to change anything in their dynamic to make them a couple.And yet y'all would rather see Roy with someone who was FOURTEEN when he had an entire daughter and that he got his entire character erased to prop up,including making said daughter not canon anymore,and Dick with the guy who's such a misogynist that he's abused literally every woman he's had significant interactions with,was old enough to have kids Dick's age when Dick wasn't even done being Robin AND who literally looks like a racist grandpa(which he is)???????WHERE IS Y'ALL'S TASTE WHERE IS ITTTTTTTT

DICK IS THE VERY FUCKING REASON THAT ROY EVER HAD LIAN IN HIS CUSTODY IN THE FIRST PLACE!

(do do do battle anti copyright)

Dick Grayson was willing to risk life and limb for the daughter he just found out that his best friend had.

Out of the goodness of his own damn heart.

I don't know what I like most about this panel: the singing, the fact that Dick apparently installed a trapeze bar above the freaking swimming pool at Titans Tower, or the adorableness of him performing an Olympic-level acrobatics maneuver and immediately being like "Did you see that, Donna? :D Did you see what I did?"