Gay batman & robin

The feature film Batman Forever, and especially its sequel Batman & Robin, both helmed by the openly gay director Joel Schumacher, have been interpreted as having homoerotic overtones. Tim Drake is the Robin who isn’t really sure how to be Robin anymore — but in this week’s Batman: Urban Legends, he’s figured at least one thing out. A nice boy asked him out on a date, and Tim.

Gay subtext managed to insinuate itself into the Dynamic Duo’s dyad from the very start. Freely adapted from The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon, out now from. Robin has come out as bisexual in the latest Batman comic. Tim Drake – a.k.a. the third Robin – realized he’s bi in the newly released issue Batman: Urban Legends #6. In the latest issue of "Batman: Urban Legends," Robin accepts a date with a male friend, confirming the Tim Drake version of the character is queer.

This wonderful article is not about that. This is about things in the Batman and Robin relationship that everyone takes for granted, but are actually exceptionally strange, when you stop and think about them. If anything, the messiness of the Batman and Robin relationship makes it more fascinating, from a storytelling standpoint, because it muddles with the boring portrayal of Batman as perfect.

In fact, as we shall show, the man who dresses up as a bat every night is a total weirdo. Starting with…. Batman, famously, dresses in dark colors as camouflage, allowing him to blend into the night, invisible to criminals. Robin, meanwhile, wears the brightest costume possible.

Schumacher, a gay man, went on

While fighting alongside Batman. The Caped Crusader hides in the shadows, while his youthful ward… wears a garish red, yellow and green costume that attracts attention. And bullets, we assume. There have been many Robins over the years, and while their origin stories have changed over the decades, all are presented as minors at the time they meet Batman. Dick Grayson, the first Robin, first appeared in Detective Comics 38 eleven issues after Batman debuted in Detective Comics 27 and was a junior member of the acrobatics troupe The Flying Graysons, led by his parents, John and Mary.

When criminals kill them, Batman takes on Dick Grayson as his ward, training him to fight crime. Yes, Dick Grayson was an acrobat, which is dangerous. But taking a minor out on the streets at night to fight criminals with guns — in a brightly colored costume, no less — is child endangerment. There are two meanings of the word chum. It can mean friend — or it can refer to the stuff you throw to sharks, as bait.

Again, inequality. Batman wears a cowl that covers his entire face, except for his mouth. Robin wears a masquerade-party style mask that covers only his eyes. But still. Ditto for Batgirl Alicia Silverstone. Robin was modeled on Robin Hood.

In , when Robin was introduced, Robin Hood was a red-hot pop culture property thanks to the Errol Flynn hit The Adventures of Robin Hood see publicity still, above. But Robin Hood is famous for two things. One is stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, and the other is shooting arrows. Especially considering his loud, gaudy, bullet-magnet costume,.

As we mentioned, there have been several Robins through the years. When Dick Grayson grew up and became Nightwing finally donning a dark colored costume — smart! Fans voted for him to die. Or adopt him? Which is absolutely chilling. Amusingly, the youthful ward of the Batman TV show was played by Burt Ward, so maybe the show was just having fun with that.