What you HAVE to know about Damian Wayne before he gets adapted into live action #batman #damianwayne #batmanandrobin #nightwing #dcu

Here are some things to know about Damien Wayne before he enters the DCU. When Brave and the Bull comes out Damien's popularity will skyrocket and so will the hate surrounding this character. Damien might come off as arrogant but he's not actually arrogant at all. In truth Damien is the opposite, he's extremely insecure. He was raised to be a weapon and the deadliest warrior in the world by the age of 10. This training was so severe that his organs would have to be replaced after training sessions. For 10 years he spent his life trying to earn love from the algals but those same tools he learned from them made Bruce despise him. Not legitimately but that's how Damien felt. So he tried and tried to win over Bruce but none of the strategies that worked with the algals worked in pleasing Bruce. For this reason a lot of people assume that Damien is inherently bad but as we learn about Damien we see the opposite. Even when Damien was being trained to be emotionless, being trained to be the best weapon in Raz's tool belt he still had a massive bleeding heart, whether it being saving Goliath who would become his best friend or freeing all of his clones to put them on an island to be safe from Raz's tyranny. He took the brunt of Raz so his brothers wouldn't have to. Damien's biggest insecurity as a child is the idea that he could never make his family proud and it makes sense when you're split between two lives and because of Morrison's writing the algals and Bruce are aligned in two completely different mentalities. A lot of people think of Damien still for some reason as the person who took out Grayson. When this is a non-canon mainline comic. In justice where in main canon Damien has sacrificed his life and yes legitimately died like Jason Todd Jason is not the only one in order to save Grayson and an innocent person. And this is not the only time he was willing to sacrifice himself. He wanted to give up his entire life energy and die in order to revive his father and he would have done it if he had enough life energy to bring back Bruce. A lot of people look at Damien as the arrogant or violent Robin. When the truth is he's always been the opposite. He is the Robin with the biggest heart which is why he deals with emotion the worst. Alfred gave up his location because he didn't want to be used as a pawn. Bruce sent Damien in to save what he thought was safe Alfred and instead Damien got sent into a trap where Alfred sacrificed himself. Damien still after knowing all of this blames himself for the passing of Alfred and it tears him apart because Alfred's the first one to believe in him. Us the reader were supposed to be like Alfred and see in Damien what Alfred did but most people failed at that reading objective. And after losing Alfred Damien would never take life again because Alfred believed he can get better. So what does it mean if Damien refuses to give others that same opportunity? What's really compelling about the character of Damien Wayne is the people who can't see through the facade either due to a lack of reading or just struggling understanding the deeper message of the character. That perception they put on Damien is the perception he feels internally. He views the R on his chest to mean ruin. He thinks he's a burden to everyone around him but the reader and the characters around him like Maya, Grayson, Stephanie Brown, Alfred, they all view Damien as more and they view the R that's on his chest as redemption. Being a better person, learning how to be who he's always wanted to be and forgiving himself for the sins of his past. With Grayson specifically if you look in the Beastworld event, Grayson almost is willing to sacrifice the entire world by getting John Kent a parasite of the Beastworld that would turn him into a villain just so Damien won't be brainwashed again because Grayson can't deal with that happening to Damien one more time because he knows how hard he takes the sins of his past even though he was a little kid who was taught that that was the way to live. I know Damien is going to be wildly hated when this movie comes out and I know I have around two more years to prove to you guys that Damien is not that character. I've covered every Damien appearance to some degree. Maybe every Damien issue I have over 900 Damien win videos. I was talking about Damien when he was the most hated Robin and it was common opinion that he was the worst and I'm not giving myself any credit for the changing opinion on Damien win but I was here the whole time because I knew the character he was meant to be and I'm blessed enough that I got to see it in real time. So don't miss that opportunity when the DCU rolls around because I promise being on the right side of it is way more fun than all the people who were stuck on the wrong side.