Tim Drake

* Tim Drake
* Robin #3
* Red Robin
* Red Robin (Variant)
* DCIU Concept Art (Tim Drake's Robin
* DCIU Concept Art (Tim Drake's Red Robin)

Bette Kane, Kate Kane, Grant Wilson, Joey Wilson (Cousins, once removed, through adoption)
Elizabeth Kane (Cousin, once removed, through adoption, Deceased)
Laurel Lance (Aunt)
Quentin Lance (Uncle)
Dinah Lance and Sara Lance (Cousins)
Lauren Drake (Cousin, sorta)
Dick Grayson, Jason Todd and Damian Wayne (Brothers, through adoption)
Cassandra Cain and Helena Wayne (Sisters, through adoption)
Mar'i Grayson (Niece, through adoption)

### Affiliation

The Bat Family (Member)
Titans (Alumnus)
Young Justice (Former Member)
The Team (Founding Member, #X-8, Leader)
The Network (Member)
Outsiders (Reserve Member)
Birds of Prey (Reserve Member)
League of Assassins (Former Member, as Red X)

## Biographical information

### Marital status

Engaged (Stephanie Brown, Fiancée)
Exes (Cassandra Sandsmark, Ex-Girlfriend)

## Appearances

### Appears in

Batman: The Long Halloween
Justice League
Batman: Under The Hood

Timothy Drake was born the son of Jackson Drake, a successful accountant, and his wife Janet Van Dorn-Drake, a very successful prosecutor for the Gotham District Attorney's Office. Due to his mother's involvement in the DA office, four-year-old Tim was in attendance with his parents at the campaign event for Harvey Dent where the Flying Graysons were murdered. That night would be one of Tim’s earliest memories which he would never forget and in fact, he would remember it in excruciatingly vivid detail thanks to his eidetic memory. It was later learned that Timothy was far ahead of other children in terms of mental development. Tim’s parents made full use of their resources to find ways for Tim to expand his horizons and foster his remarkable intelligence.

When Tim was nine, he discovered that his father’s accounting firm had been working for the Bertinelli family- the most powerful crime family in Gotham at the time. Looking deeper, Tim discovered that his father had done business with Tony Zucco years before. Tim remembered vividly that Tony Zucco was responsible for the murders of the acrobats five years prior.

Distraught, Tim snuck out of his house and made his way to the Gotham City Police Department. He had intended to inform a detective of his father’s dealings, but after he was turned away by an overworked desk sergeant, Tim had a different idea. He made his way to the rooftop and activated the Bat-Signal. Before the cops noticed their signal was lit, Batman, Robin, and Batgirl arrived to answer the call, Tim told them about his father’s involvement with the mob. This information allowed the Bat-Fam to rescue the life of Helena Bertinelli that very night. Helena's survival proved crucial in bringing the False Face Society down a few pegs. Unfortunately, Helena was the only Bertinelli that survived that night's attack from Roman Sionis' crew.

After the loss of the Bertinelli family as clients, Jack Drake’s business crumbled. The bad publicity also made Janet Van Horn unlikely to win her election campaign as the District Attorney after being appointed to the position temporarily after Harvey Dent's scarring. The Drake family moved to more modest housing and Tim was put in public school. Tim didn't mind, though. In his heart, he knew he had done the right thing.

When Black Mask had heard it was Jack Drake’s fault for the interruption in his operations, he sent a hitman named Digger Harkness to kill the Drake family. Tim’s quick wits allowed him to survive the hitman's first assault, but in order to survive the pursuit of hitman who had killed his parents, Tim played the last card in his hand and showed up at Wayne Manor, telling the butler he needed to speak with Batman.

Orphaned by organized crime, Tim Drake was placed in the care of Bruce Wayne after certain arrangements were made. Tim urged his new caretaker to allow him to train as the third Robin, but Bruce refused due to his still grieving the loss of Jason Todd.

Upon discovering the range of Tim’s intellect and deductive genius, Alfred opposed his employer and began to train Tim in secret. In the midst of this training, Tim devised a plan with Sasha Bordeaux and Alfred to dress as paramedics and use a fake ambulance (from a previous undercover operation) in order to get through traffic to come to Batman's aid when he went to have his fateful encounter with Bane. Tim's plan was originally to show up as Robin and secretly get the hostages out while Bruce dealt with Bane, but when Bane threw the Batman off the roof just as Tim, Alfred, and Sasha arrived on the scene, their plans quickly changed. While Alfred and Sasha loaded Bruce's battered body into the ambulance, Tim donned a prototype Robin suit originally made for Jason and distracted Bane long enough for the support team to get Batman to safety.

With Bruce out of commission, Tim decided to continue on in his self-appointed role as as the new Robin and with Sasha and Alfred assisting him around the clock. Patrolling the ruins of a lawless Gotham became too much for even Tim. Realizing this, Tim had the idea of tracking down Dick and Barbara Gordon to assist.

Tim played a part in getting Babs and Dick out of Gotham and once they were safe at the Manor, Tim convinced Barbara to sweet-talk Dick into assuming the mantle of Batman, temporarily. Dick agreed to do so, but only if Tim was allowed to serve as his official Robin. Bruce begrudgingly accepted; Tim, of course, was much more ecstatic in his acceptance.

When Bruce returned to his cape and cowl, he found that this new dynamic duo was out of sync. Tim and Dick worked together marvelously, but Tim was too cerebral, like Bruce, causing Bruce and him to constantly bicker and quarrel over who had the better approach for any given situation. Feeling underappreciated, Tim began to refuse outings with Bruce, spending more and more time at Mount Justice with Cyborg's new team of Titans, along with Cassandra Cain. Before long, Tim grew very fond of the team dynamic he had with his teenaged comrades. I'm sure his relationship with Cassandra Sandsmark had a lot to do with it as well.

During this period, whenever Tim was in Gotham, he was usually working alone as he and Bruce still butted heads over the most trivial of things. Eventually, Tim became fascinated by a new vigilante he discovered named Spoiler. In secret, Tim began teaming up with the new vigilante, even training her using the same techniques he had learned from the Batman. Tim is not pleased to admit it, but during this time he was more or less two-timing Cassie and Steph, though he stands by that his relationship with Stephanie was mainly flirtatious and had only gotten physical once and the two had yet to reveal their identities to one another.

In the summer before his senior year, Tim spent nearly the full three months with the Titans in a "crunch time" investigation of the Light's plans with the Reach. Tim didn't realize that Stephanie wasn't around for much of this until he returned to Gotham for a Wayne Foundation event and had a chance encounter with Stephanie on the street. He found out she wasn't even going on patrols as Spoiler and when Tim confronted her about it, she just got hostile and stormed off. A month later, Cass had to break it to Tim that he sucked at reading social cues and informed him Stephanie was pregnant from a fling with an old boyfriend.

Tim didn't handle that news well. He told Steph they were done as friends and he didn't see her again until the summer was nearly over. With the help of Cass and Alfred chastising him, Tim came round and apologized to Steph, but Steph made him earn forgiveness. She insisted he become her Lamaze coach. Not thrilled by it, Tim agreed and a few months later, Steph gave birth to a healthy girl and promptly gave her up for adoption.

During his senior year of high school, Tim Drake began conducting a secret investigation into the League of Assassins. Upon graduating, Tim decided he would leave Gotham to join the League as part of an undercover operation. In preparation for this, that summer Tim severed ties with nearly everyone and only let Bruce and Barbara Gordon in on his plan.

Returning to Gotham, Tim discovered that Batman and Batgirl had recruited Spoiler to wear the red, green, gold, and black of Robin. Though Stephanie offered the role back to him, Tim declined a return to that identity, saying he had grown fond of being ‘his own thing.' Bruce protested Tim using the Red X moniker as he had used it as an assassin. A compromise was reached with the moniker ‘Red Robin.' As Red Robin, Tim was given a much more high-tech armored outfit that incorporated some of the Red X features into the suit to make use of Tim's technical expertise.

As his way of apologizing to his friends who were hurt by his apparent betrayal, Tim founded 'The Team' and convinced many of his old Titans and Young Justice buddies to join up. Once he had the crew assembled, he successfully convinced Bruce to endorse them as an operational covert unit for the Justice League, operating out of the old Secret Sanctuary which they had previously used in their days as Young Justice: Mt. Justice.

Tim learned that his best friend Conner and his ex-girlfriend Cassie had begun dating. Still feeling guilty over having left them in the dark about his undercover operations and his lack of honesty concerning his relationship with Spoiler, Tim forced himself to accept that things were better this way and wished them the best of luck in their relationship. In exchange for his honesty, Cassie only punched him once for having made out with another girl... of course, that one punch did dislocate Tim's shoulder.

Sometime during the Reach invasion, Tim and Stephanie elevated their relationship from casual friends with benefits to full-on boyfriend and girlfriend.