"the era. Dick continues his adventures with Batman, and begins studying law at Hudson University. However, Robin loses interest in his studies and starts to take on solo missions, and finds himself to be a capable crime-fighter. Shortly afterward, the mysterious Raven summons Dick Grayson and several other young heroes to form a new group of Titans. Robin assumes leadership, and moves out of the shadow of his mentor. Dick, now 19, realizes at that point that he has grown up: he no longer relies on Batman, and he and the Dark Knight disagree on crime-fighting methodology. Robin's newfound independence"
"changed his name to Ric, gave up being Nightwing, and became a taxi driver that frequently went to bars. With Bludhaven suffering from an increase in crime from the vigilante's absence, a detective named Sapienza comes across Dick's abandoned hideout in the subway and decides to become the new Nightwing. Dick Grayson is a prodigious natural athlete, expert acrobat, and aerialist possessing a peak level of agility and acrobatic skills. At a very young age, he trained in acrobats as a stage performer with his parents, and he is regarded as the greatest acrobat in the DC Universe. He is"
"a man in a costume. Then, with some gadget from his utility belt, he reminds me that he has an extraordinarily inventive mind. And how lucky I am to be able to call on him."" Robin, Batman's vigilante partner, has been a widely recognized supporting character for many years. Bill Finger stated that he wanted to include Robin because ""Batman didn't have anyone to talk to, and it got a little tiresome always having him thinking."" The first Robin, Dick Grayson, was introduced in 1940. In the 1970s he finally grew up, went off to college and became the hero"
"Bob Richardson (defensive back) Robert George ""Bobby"" Richardson (born February 24, 1944) is a former American and Canadian football player who played for the Denver Broncos and Hamilton Tiger-Cats. He won the Grey Cup with Hamilton in 1967. He previously played college football at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where he was teammates with defensive tackle Jimmy Sykes. After retiring from football in the late 1960s, Richardson went on to have a successful career in the financial industry before driving for Uber. Richardson relocated to San Diego later in life and currently spends his free time at the"
"Grayson, to be her successor as Nightwing and thus becoming Batman's replacement partner. Unlike previous depictions, Dick was never Bruce Wayne’s ward and protégé as Robin, and was made reference that he was a former circus acrobat-turned-police officer who works for Gotham City Police Department. A Nightwing ride is currently in operation at Six Flags New England. Nightwing Nightwing is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character has appeared in various incarnations, with the Nightwing identity most prominently being adopted by Dick Grayson when he moved on from his role as Batman's vigilante"
"questioned regarding his favourite quote from Shakespeare. Spike Dudley Matthew Jonathan Hyson (born August 13, 1970) is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenures with Extreme Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment under the ring name Spike Dudley and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Brother Runt. In ECW, he was a two-time World Tag Team Champion. In WWF/E, he was a one-time Cruiserweight Champion, a one-time Tag Team Champion with Tazz, a one-time European Champion and an eight-time Hardcore Champion. In May 1993, Hyson entered All Pro Wrestling's ""Boot Camp"" in Hayward, California"
"crime as the vigilante Nightwing. When Superman tells Dick Grayson of this story, Dick takes the name for himself. Dick Grayson became Nightwing after he was dismissed from the role of Robin as a teenager. Grayson's Flamebird was Bette Kane. He was featured in a ""Nightwing"" series from 1995 to 2009; after Wayne's apparent death, Grayson became the new Batman, subsequently retiring his Nightwing mantle temporarily. Grayson's Nightwing costume was a high-tech suit specially designed for his high-flying acrobatic style. His gauntlets and boots each contained eight compartments in which he could store items. They had a self-destruct feature built"
"""Best Sports Program"" Award for co-hosting ""Monday Night Kickoff"". He lives in the Twin Cities with his wife and three children, and they often visit with his family. In addition to his work for FS Wisconsin, Grayson does public relations work for McDonald's. Jeff Grayson (sportscaster) Jeff Grayson is a sportscaster for Fox Sports Wisconsin. Grayson is a sports reporter who covers the Milwaukee Bucks and Milwaukee Brewers for Fox Sports Wisconsin as the pre-game and post-game host. Grayson was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as the fourth of five children. In high school, Grayson served as a sports"
"Elks Lodge in Oceanside. Bob Richardson (defensive back) Robert George ""Bobby"" Richardson (born February 24, 1944) is a former American and Canadian football player who played for the Denver Broncos and Hamilton Tiger-Cats. He won the Grey Cup with Hamilton in 1967. He previously played college football at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where he was teammates with defensive tackle Jimmy Sykes. After retiring from football in the late 1960s, Richardson went on to have a successful career in the financial industry before driving for Uber. Richardson relocated to San Diego later in life and currently spends his"
"with Batwoman and Flamebird. By the 1960s, Grayson had become an adult, and was a lawyer and the ambassador to South Africa. He adopted a more Batman-like costume, but still fought crime as Robin. This adult version of Dick Grayson debuted in ""Justice League of America"" #55, where he also became a member of the Justice Society of America. Although in semi-retirement for a time, he was called back to active duty when he rejoined the Justice Society during the period when he, Power Girl and Star-Spangled Kid, assisted them as The Super Squad. He appeared to have died during"
"a notable exception. Sometimes both sources are credited, as in Len Wein's ""The Untold Legend of the Batman"".) Although Robin is best known as Batman's sidekick, the Robins have also been members of the superhero group the Teen Titans—with the original Robin, Dick Grayson, as a founding member and the group's leader and with Tim Drake as the team leader . In Batman stories, the character of Robin was intended to be Batman's Watson: Bill Finger, writer for many early Batman adventures, wrote: ""Robin was an outgrowth of a conversation I had with Bob. As I said, Batman was a"
"Spike Dudley Matthew Jonathan Hyson (born August 13, 1970) is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenures with Extreme Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment under the ring name Spike Dudley and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Brother Runt. In ECW, he was a two-time World Tag Team Champion. In WWF/E, he was a one-time Cruiserweight Champion, a one-time Tag Team Champion with Tazz, a one-time European Champion and an eight-time Hardcore Champion. In May 1993, Hyson entered All Pro Wrestling's ""Boot Camp"" in Hayward, California to train as a referee and manager."
"wanna-be partner of the Batman some time before Robin appeared, was quite jealous of Batman's new 'official partner'. This was changed when Batman took the liberty of revealing their identities to Batgirl and fully accepted into the fold. Afterward, Robin and Batgirl developed a more friendly, almost sibling-like working relationship. Robin even likes calling Batgirl ""Babs"" when they aren't in costumes, though she is not fond of the nickname. As depicted in a possible future during the episode ""Artifacts"", Dick Grayson gives up the ""Robin"" name and costume to become Nightwing. Barbara and Batman still persist in calling him by"
"Murry Dickson Murry Monroe Dickson (August 21, 1916 – September 21, 1989) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball during the 1940s and 1950s. He was known for his vast array of pitches and deliveries — one of his managers, Eddie Dyer, nicknamed him ""Thomas Edison"" for his inventiveness — and for the longevity of his career. Although Dickson would lead the National League in defeats for three successive seasons (1952–54), he pitched the St. Louis Cardinals to the NL pennant by beating the Brooklyn Dodgers in the decisive Game 2 of the league playoffs. Then, during the"
"Grayson to Batman as her replacement after she is selected to be a Blue Lantern. It is also implied that, prior to becoming Batman's partner as Nightwing, she dressed in a female version of her mentor's costume at a costume ball, a nod to the original character. Barbara Gordon appears at Oracle in the digital comic series """" by Dustin Nguyen and Derek Fridolfs. In this series, she possesses an aquatic mech suit and is fond of ice pops. She is also in a relationship with Dick Grayson (Nightwing), and they are shown getting engaged in the series finale. In"
"comics, Dick Grayson was an 8-year-old acrobat and the youngest of a family act called the ""Flying Graysons"". A gangster named Boss Zucco, loosely based on actor Edward G. Robinson's ""Little Caesar"" character, had been extorting money from the circus and killed Grayson's parents, John and Mary, by sabotaging their trapeze equipment as a warning against defiance. Batman investigated the crime and, as his alter ego billionaire Bruce Wayne, had Dick put under his custody as a legal ward. Together they investigated Zucco and collected the evidence needed to bring him to justice. From his debut appearance in 1940 through"
"Tim Drake Tim Drake is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly in association with the superhero Batman. Created by Marv Wolfman and Pat Broderick, he first appeared in (August 1989) as the third character to assume the role of Batman's vigilante partner Robin until 2009. Following the events in """", Drake has adopted the alias of Red Robin. As a young boy, Drake was in the audience the night Dick Grayson's parents were murdered and later managed to discover the identities of Batman and the original Robin through their exploits. After the death"
"Dave Grayson David Lee Grayson (June 6, 1939 – July 29, 2017) was an American football defensive back in the American Football League (AFL) and the National Football League (NFL) for the Kansas City Chiefs and Oakland Raiders. He played college football at the University of Oregon. Grayson attended San Diego High School, playing running back and defensive back. As a sophomore, he helped his team achieve an 11-0-1 record, while outscoring opponents 382-65 and being awarded the mythical National championship by the National Sports News Service. After the season he transferred to Lincoln High School. After graduating from high"
"seventies. He also was involved with organizations like the Boys Club, YMCA and the Committee for Community Involvement of Black Athletes. Grayson died on July 29, 2017. His son, David Lee Grayson, Jr. played linebacker in the NFL from 1987–1990 with the Cleveland Browns and in 1991 with the San Diego Chargers. Dave Grayson David Lee Grayson (June 6, 1939 – July 29, 2017) was an American football defensive back in the American Football League (AFL) and the National Football League (NFL) for the Kansas City Chiefs and Oakland Raiders. He played college football at the University of Oregon. Grayson"
"Richard Grayson (writer) Richard Grayson (born June 4, 1951 in Brooklyn, New York) is a writer, political activist and performance artist, most noted for his books of short stories and his satiric runs for public office. Grayson's fiction is largely autobiographical, or pseudo-autobiographical, and his early work was heavily influenced by the metafictionists of the 1970s, such as John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Ronald Sukenick, and his mentor, Jonathan Baumbach, who headed the Brooklyn College MFA program in fiction and was one of the founders of the publishing cooperative The Fiction Collective, for which Grayson worked as an editorial assistant in"
"sidekicks, including Lex Luthor's Mercy Graves, the Joker's Harley Quinn, Jigsaw's Amanda, Shinnok's Quan Chi, Ben Wade's Charlie Prince (from ""Three-Ten to Yuma""), Wario's Waluigi, Dr. Eggman's Orbot and Cubot and Magneto's Mystique (only in the ""X-Men"" live action films). Frodo Baggins's Samwise Gamgee, and Harry Potter's Ron Weasley, as well as the afore-mentioned Sancho Panza and Doctor Watson, are notable sidekicks from fiction. In fiction, the term ""sidekick"" commonly refers to assistants to crime-fighting heroes. However, sidekicks do not necessarily accompany a crime-fighter, such as Leporello, Don Giovanni's servant in the 1787 opera. Villains can also have sidekicks, who"
"Ford Garrison Robert Ford Garrison (August 29, 1915 – June 6, 2001), nicknamed ""Rocky"" and ""Snapper"", was an American professional baseball player and coach. An outfielder, the native of Greenville, South Carolina, threw and batted right-handed, stood tall and weighed . He appeared in 185 games in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox (1943–44) and Philadelphia Athletics (1944–46). Garrison played 1,822 games during a long minor league career (1938–43; 1946–52; 1954–56). The bulk of his Major League playing career took place during World War II — although he missed part of the 1945 season while serving in the"
"at the company's 480 Lexington Avenue office, alongside ""Superman"" creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, as well as Jack Kirby, Fred Ray, and Mort Meskin, ""one of my best friends, who[m] I brought up from MLJ"". By early 1940, Kane and Finger discussed adding a sidekick. Robinson suggested the name ""Robin"" after Robin Hood books he had read during boyhood, saying (in a 2005 interview) that he was inspired by one book's N.C. Wyeth illustrations. The new character, orphaned circus performer Dick Grayson, came to live with Bruce Wayne (Batman) as his young ward in ""Detective Comics"" #38 (April 1940)."
"a member of the Justice League. His real name is stated to be Thomas Grayson, implying that he is somehow related to Dick Grayson. A version of the Red Hood appears in ""Batman '66"" (which is based on the 1960s ""Batman"" TV series). Here, he threatens the city if Joker is not turned over to him at midnight. Despite Batman's attempts to capture Red Hood, he escapes with the Joker. It is revealed that the Red Hood is Professor Overbeck, a doctor at Arkham Asylum. His new method of treating the patients by using his brainwaves to correct their minds"
"former circus acrobat-turned-police officer prior to becoming Batman's new partner, in the ranks of detectives within Gotham City Police Department. In the 2016 comic book, which features an alternate retelling of Clark's journey to becoming Superman, Clark meets Dick Grayson in the children's section of LexCorp, where he is wandering around trying to find something to do while Bruce is being interviewed. Dick tries to use his observational skills to learn the truth about Clark in order to practice his detective skills and prove to Bruce he's ready to fight crime with him. Clark surprises Dick by pointing out everything"
"1980, Grayson once again takes up the role of leader of the Teen Titans, now featured in the monthly series ""The New Teen Titans"", which became one of DC Comics's most beloved series of the era. During his leadership of the Titans, however, he had a falling out with Batman, leading to an estrangement that would last for many years. In the post-""Crisis on Infinite Earths"" continuity, the maturing Dick Grayson grows weary of his role as Batman's young sidekick. He renames himself Nightwing, recalling his adventure in the Kryptonian city of Kandor, where he and Batman meet the local"
"most feared safety duos in the NFL. Hopkins retired after the 1993 season and finished his career with 30 interceptions, 12 sacks and 1 touchdown. Wes Hopkins Wesley Carl Hopkins (September 26, 1961 – September 28, 2018) was an American professional football player who played as a safety for the Philadelphia Eagles during his entire 11-year National Football League career from 1983 through 1993. A walk-on for the Southern Methodist football team, he was first noticed after he made a ferocious tackle on teammate and future Pro Football Hall of Fame running back Eric Dickerson during a team practice. Hopkins"
"a door and pinning her to the ground. Herbert Goodman Herbert Goodman (born August 31, 1977) is an American professional mixed martial artist and former NFL running back for the Green Bay Packers. In mixed martial arts, Goodman competed for Bellator, M-1 Global and King of the Cage. He received his nickname, ""Whisper"" due to his soft-spoken personality. Goodman was born and raised in Miami, Florida, attending Homestead High School where he competed in track and field, becoming a two-time letter winner in the sport and also placed third in the state long jump during his senior year. Goodman began"
"G. B. Grayson Gilliam Banmon Grayson (November 11, 1887 – August 16, 1930) was an American Old-time fiddle player and singer. Mostly blind from infancy, Grayson is chiefly remembered for a series of sides recorded with guitarist Henry Whitter between 1927 and 1930 that would later influence numerous country, bluegrass, and rock musicians. Grayson wrote much of his own material, but was also instrumental in adapting several traditional Appalachian ballads to fiddle and guitar formats. His music has been recorded or performed by musicians such as Bob Dylan, Doc Watson, Mick Jagger, the Kingston Trio, and dozens of bluegrass artists,"
"brother, Ricky Gibson, died. Robert's mother and father are also deceased. The WWE acknowledged the legends death on WWE.com Robert is engaged to Tami McMaster. He is part owner of Zeke's Deep Sea Fishing tours in Orange Beach, Alabama. Robert Gibson (wrestler) Robert Gibson (born Ruben Gibson, July 19, 1958) is an American professional wrestler. He is best known as one-half of the tag team known as The Rock 'n' Roll Express, with Ricky Morton. He has competed in singles competition also, since he has won various singles championships throughout his career. In February, 2017, it was announced that the"
"a team of black players. In December 2016, amid the United Kingdom football sexual abuse scandal, Richardson became the third former Chelsea player to allege abuse by former chief scout Eddie Heath. Derek Richardson (footballer) Derek Richardson (born 13 July 1956) is an English former professional footballer who played as goalkeeper. Born in Hackney, Richardson played professionally for Chelsea, Queens Park Rangers, Sheffield United, and Coventry City, making a total of 73 appearances in the Football League. He later played non-League football with Maidstone United, Welling United and Fisher Athletic, before becoming a London taxi driver. He also played at"
"(4), most seasons leading league in pass receiving touchdowns (9), most seasons leading the league in total touchdowns (8), Most consecutive seasons leading league in pass receiving touchdowns (5), most seasons leading league in scoring (5, now tied), and most consecutive seasons leading league in scoring (5). Sportswriter Zipp Newman referred to Hutson as ""the Ty Cobb of the gridiron."" Records held as of retirement: Note: * = remains an NFL record as of 2017 season ""Source"": Don Hutson Donald Montgomery Hutson (January 31, 1913 – June 26, 1997) was a professional American football player and assistant coach in the"
"very feminine Bianca Steeplechase. In this version, Grayson's family are still circus acrobats, but their deaths are caused as a result of his activities as Robin rather than the traditional other way round. He is overcome by grief and rage over their murder and his subsequent recklessness leads to his own death. He is replaced as Barbara's partner by Detective Bruce Wayne, who takes the identity of Batman, but the memory of him drives even Barbara to the point of insanity and she adopts the Robin guise as part of seeking revenge. Within the New 52 DC Multiverse, Earth-37's 1960s"