Dick Grayson (Earth 1) - Smallville Extended Universe

**Dick Grayson** is the adoptive son and protégé of Batman who formerly held the mantle of **Robin**, and currently holds the mantle of **Nightwing**.

He is also a member of The Avengers after taking the name Nightwing.

## Personality

As a result of having witnessed the brutal murder of his family as a child and his subsequent upbringing by Bruce Wayne, Dick has developed a profoundly thick skin topped by a near-impenetrable suit of emotional armor to keep himself protected from the world at large, dour, stoic, humorless, introverted and deadpan, Dick typically forgoes most human contact and keeps his feelings to himself. He does not get along very well with people, many of whom perceive him as rude, stubborn, anti-social, prickly and disrespectful. However he does have a soft spot for children, especially runaways as he identifies with them, and with a select few people who have proven themselves trustworthy, such as his late partner Amy Rohrbach. He has no relationships beyond his former circus friends or a few others like Donna Troy, and has thus far exhibited no interest in pursuing a romantic relationship with anyone. Due to his circus upbringing, Dick places great value on family, believing it to be central to his world.

Dick has a very clear sense of justice befitting a vigilante as well as a strong moral compass; that good people must be protected and criminals must be punished.

However, Dick's outer persona hides a far darker side, a side which almost always comes out when he becomes Robin, when this happens, all of Dick's repressed rage, hatred, anger, and pain is released at once and he becomes completely devoid of restraint or morality when engaging criminals or villains, inflicting pain and injuries on them so monstrously horrific that most who cross his path run from him automatically. This side of Dick is not, however, evil, merely merciless and absolute for he does not harm innocents regardless of the situation and works daily to deny it for it is the side of him that Batman cultivated and encouraged most.

## Powers and Abilities

### Abilities

* **Peak Human Condition:** Nightwing, as a tremendously skilled and experienced acrobat and later vigilante, is in peak physical condition (almost on Batman's level) and from frequent intense workouts (in the Batcave, as Robin) and his numerous vigilante escapades, first as Robin, then as Nightwing, with his abilities being heightened to the peak of human potential.
	+ **Peak Human Speed:** Nightwing is superbly nimble and agile, having grown up in Haley's Circus and trained in acrobatics from birth, becoming an acrobat member of the Flying Graysons act (along with his parents) as the age of 12, and he later learning under Batman's tutelage to effectively utilize his natural agility in combat. Nightwing possesses peak human speed, able to keep up with and even catch his mentor.
	+ **Peak Human Agility:** Nightwing is superbly nimble and agile, having grown up in Haley's Circus and trained in acrobatics from birth, becoming an acrobat member of the Flying Graysons act (along with his parents) as the age of 12, and later learning under Batman's tutelage to effectively utilize his natural agility in combat.
* **Expert Martial Artist:** Nightwing was well trained in armed and hand-to-hand combat under Batman's guidance, which made him extremely skilled in martial arts, enough to serve Batman as his sidekick vigilante Robin (despite only being a teenager), and later continuing his career of a vigilante superhero under a new mantle, Nightwing.
* **Stealth:** Nightwing, like his mentor Batman, is an immensely formidable master of stealth and infiltration, capable of breaching high-security facilities without being detected.