Dick Grayson is the adopted son of Bruce Wayne and was the first Robin who for years fought alongside Batman Until he grew up and decided to be his own hero and moved away from Gotham to Blood Haven and changed his superhero identity to Nightwing But this story is set between the transitional period back when Dick Grayson still works with Batman and is growing up But before he decides to go solo as Nightwing And as he is growing up Batman and him are butting heads quite often as he is sick of being treated like a child As he feels that he is a competent hero and deserves to be treated with more respect which to be fair he does But one evening Batman and Grayson have an argument about Grayson fighting a villain without Batman and getting wounded in the fight Batman is angry and tells Dick Grayson that he should have included him and they should have fought this villain together And Batman is kind of right but he shouldn't be saying this just after Robin is injured and being patched up by Alfred He should wait for him to cool down first because it's just going to cause Dick Grayson to lose his temper and Dick Grayson does lose his temper which is understandable as Batman is not easy to live with and to work with And this fight isn't just about this one night It's about years of Batman not trusting Dick Grayson and refusing to treat him as an equal You taught me a lot when I was a kid but I'm an adult now which is a common theme with teen sidekicks Because eventually they grow up and so their dynamic has to change Don't you think it's time to stop living in the batch shadow and be your own man? But since Batman refuses to listen to Dick Grayson and treat him as an equal Grayson decides that he has finally had enough and he leaves wanting his emancipation and Grayson goes out on his own completely even getting his own new place and a job to pay for it But paying bills is a lot harder to do when you don't have billions of dollars lying around and have to earn the money instead and One of his co-workers suggests that he try eddies now Dick Grayson is a bit desperate at this point But he would rather do anything than have to go back to Batman and so he goes to eddies to see what it is and Eddie turns out to be a guy who claims to have been trained into bet for six years by monks to be a human in peak physical condition If not superhuman condition and he takes in lost kids and teaches them how to be the same Teaching them to be stronger and how to fight and gives them a place to stay and sleep Which is all too good to be true? So of course it isn't true It's all an act to train the impressionable runaways to be his own personal army for his own personal ends He even takes them out to do pranks such as wrecking cars And this is a bonding step between him and the runaways that shows them that he can help them to take authority away from authority figures The whole idea behind this of course is to one show that they can trust him and two for them to take baby steps To start with getting the runaways doing something that they know is bad But that they don't think is too bad and then slowly get worse doing more and more illegal activities without them Realising how bad what they're doing actually is until eventually they're willing to commit any criminal acts that he asked them to But Dick Grayson was trained by Batman So unlike the other kids he sees through Eddie's deception and knows that he is building an army to commit crimes He even rings Alfred to tell Batman about their gang But then he realizes that he left him and he can't go crawling back to Batman whenever he has a problem So he goes along with all for the time being his plan being to learn more about what they are doing and collect evidence to bring them down on his own And he also does it because of a girl named Liu She's an older woman who is drop dead gorgeous So how has Dick Grayson to resist and he doesn't resist at all and gives into the woman's advances pretty quick And he not only sleeps of a woman for the first time But he also falls head over heels in love with her All of which is playing with his mind and distracting him from what's happening around him Now Dick Grayson has not been involved in any of the criminal activity that the gang is doing so far Other than a few pranks at the beginning because he is pretending that he has injured himself and then is staying behind whenever they go out to commit crimes But Liu is trying to get a hold of his ID card so that they can access Wayne Enterprises Saying that none of the others will think he is a loser anymore But Grayson doesn't fall for it and completely refuses as he would never sell out Bruce Wayne He and his father may be arguing but he'd never betray him But she stills his ID card from him when he's asleep anyway But Dick Grayson was just pretending to be asleep and he follows Liu after she is stolen the card And he sees that she goes from his bed straight to Eddie's bed and Grayson knows then without a doubt that she doesn't love him and never did She was just using him to get to Wayne Enterprises nothing more and if he hadn't had that ID card to access Wayne Enterprises They never would have hooked up in the first place and it's also made clear in the story that he always suspected This was the case but his feelings for her were making him ignore the obvious But he can't ignore it anymore and Dick Grayson is heartbroken Which is fair as this would really screw anyone up? We all remember our first loves and sadly for most of us it kind of ended badly I know my first love did it was nothing like this of course, but it still didn't end great and this betrayal from the first woman He has ever loved affects Dick Grayson forever always stopping him in future relationships from fully committing Even to those that he does love as he is always scared of being hurt in the same way But Grayson sucks it up and decides that enough is enough and he goes to Batman and tells him what's been going on And that he has learned that the gang is going to use his ID card to access Wayne Enterprises accounts and still money from them Batman is angry understandably and probably less angry about the gang stealing money from him and more angry that Dick Grayson has joined a gang in the first place And he says that he's going to stop these criminals before they even get a chance to rob Wayne Enterprises But Dick Grayson says no they should let them try so they can find the flaws in his security and fix them And then they'll have the evidence they need to take them down and put them in prison So Eddie and his gang breaking to Wayne Enterprises only to find Robin waiting for them and Eddie faces Robin one-on-one Robin takes him down quick and hard after all he has been training with him for the past few months So he knows his attacks pretty well and he is of course deadly angry with him for playing with him in this way But after he takes him down Liu gets the drop on him and holds a knife to his throat He elbows her hard and then takes her down as well, which is an emotional moment for him So Robin's first love and Eddie and his gang go down and Batman and Robin become a team once more Though the dynamic has changed between the dynamic duo Dick Grayson wants to be treated as an equal partner, but Batman says no as they are not equals as he is smarter Older and can still take him in a fight pretty arrogant for him to say it himself, but then it is true But Batman also says that he will treat Dick Grayson with more respect from now on Respect that he is aunt Thanks, I'm glad you finally have faith I can do things on my own And that is the story of how Dick Grayson lost his virginity This actually isn't that bad a comic arc after all who doesn't enjoy a story of love and betrayal But there is a fairly big flaw in the whole thing and that is that Batman let Dick Grayson leave But then didn't keep any tabs on him at all This is Batman we're talking about the most paranoid guy on the planet who invented brother I an orbiting satellite that monitors the whole world for frets and to monitor his friends and the justice league constantly And so the idea that he wouldn't be monitoring his adopted son when he leaves home is a little bit odd But other than that I think it's actually quite a good story and it shows Grayson in a very human light He makes mistakes falls in love with the wrong person and all of it really humanizes him Because at times Dick Grayson is put up on this pedestal as the perfect hero who always does the right thing And I think that this story makes him more relatable as a character There are other stories that also make him relatable of course But this one really shows him as a very human person because who didn't do something stupid when they were teenager? Who wasn't angry at their parents and who didn't lash out? We can all relate to this story But what do you think of this story? Do you think that it shows Dick Grayson and more human light? And do you think the Batman would just let Dick Grayson go or that he would definitely keep tabs on him? Be sure to let us know in the comments I'll just say a quick thank you to those who made this video possible by donating to the need of mass production page on Patreon Patreon is a crowdfunding site that is helping us to bring more videos each week and to race funds for adapting coin book stories into short animated films If you're interested in donating or just want to find out more, a link is in this video's description As always, thanks for watching and feel free to subscribe, share, like and comment