My Nightwing rant
Intro: Warning! I might spoil somethings that happened in the comics so read this at your own risk.
If Iron Man is the new face or Marvel then Nightwing should be the new face of DC. He is the closest thing DC have to their version of Spider-Man. His combat and detective skills rivals or on par with The Dark Knight himself to the point where he came fill in for him. He can give James Bond a run for his money when it comes to sweeping women off their feet. Due to him being an uplifting character, he has a better dynamic with the characters in the Batman mythos. Plus, be the leader of the Teen Titans. Part of the reason why he's like this is because he doesn't let his past ordeal ruin his life. (To be fair how his parents were murdered wasn't as tragic as Bruce's.) Plus, he's a jack of all trades.
This character does have flaws like, part of the reason why he's a ladies man is because he has commitment issues. He has a temper and takes it out on enemies who wronged him or his loved ones. Plus, he doesn't have a problem with killing the Joker. He also picked up some bad habits from his mentor like being obsessed with the mission, pushing his allies too hard closing himself off to others emotionally, and saying out-of-pocket stuff.
With all that said it annoys me to see this character done dirty outside the comics. (Except for Young Justice.) When Dick Grayson was Robin on Batman TAS he was incompetent; when he became Nightwing he was treated like a supporting character. In the DC direct-to-video movies, he gets beat up or sidelined. Batman had to save this character twice in the Arkham Knight game. What the fudge!?! I can't comment on how the Gotham Knights game handled this character because I didn't play that game. Don't get me started on the Titans series. If it's true that Mr. Gunn will use Damian Wayne to be Robin we might not see Dick Grayson on the big screen anytime soon.
As much as I've been advocating for a Nightwing movie I didn't consider how hard it would be to make one with the source material. None of the Nightwing stories stood out to me and the ones that do weren't good. Nightwing having amnesia could have been a good story but it wasn't. His connection to the Court of Owls is second fiddle to everything else. This is the same problem I have with his rogues gallery. Deathwing is the only Nightwing villain that stands out besides Torque and Sylph. Deathwing is basically Nightwing's version of Bizarro. The Nightwing comics work better as a TV series than a movie.
Chuck Dixon's run on the character is my favorite run on this character. I say that because it focuses on Dick getting out of Batman's shadow, finding his place in the world and how he can stop crime in Bludhaven. After Chuck Dixon's run and before the new 52 the quality of the comics are hit or miss. I'm not crazy about the New 52 Nightwing comics because the writer is all over the place. I mean he doesn't seem to know what kind of story he wants to tell. Also, I'm not crazy about the direction he took with Tony Zucco. Nightwing rebirth was also a mixed bag.
The current Nightwing run is frustrating. Part of the reason why is because the Titans get involved with the story and it gets worse as the series goes on. How is this a run on Nightwing if half of it is him helping the Titans or the Titans bailing him out? Do you think No Man's Land would last as long as it did if Batman let the Justice League fix Gotham for him? (Speaking of the Justice League I'm surprised that Green Arrow didn't appear in that story because he could have been a big help. But I digress.) Another issue I have with this run is Nightwing is not proactive is stopping heartless. Also, the writer wants to give him acrophobia why!?! If Dick Grayson had this fear from day one I wouldn't mind it because that makes sense considering how his parents were murdered. I hope Tom Taylor (The writer of the current Nightwing run.) knows what he's doing with this subplot. We also get the history of Bludhaven in this run.
Each run has elements that I like about them and I want the movie to use them. For example, If we get a trilogy I would use the Alfred Pennyworth Foundation for the last movie. I want the director to show that Bludhaven is the worst city in the DC universe without being over the top about it or make the audience feel depressed. There is a story in The Streets of Gotham where Victor Zsasz has children fight each other to the death. I would like the movie to adapt that story. I'm worried about how Batman will be depicted because his relationship with Nightwing is unclear. Sometimes it's a Big Brother Little Brother relationship other times it's a Father and Son relationship.
Plus, we have different versions of them going their separate ways. I hope Hollywood doesn't adapt Nightwing year one because I don't like how Batman was depicted in the comic. He sees Robin as a soldier not as a person. That's what I want this movie to do for Batman to humanize him. That's the problem I have with the live-action Batman except for that one scene in Batman and Robin. If we do get Batman villains we should get Two-Face, The Penguin and Black Mask. I consider Two-Face as a Nightwing adversary considering their history just as much as a Batman villain. As for The Penguin and Black Mask, they can be silent partners for Block Buster.
That's all I have to say about this topic for now what do you think should be done with this character?
