Robin: Year One Movie

Robin: Year One is a 2018 American superhero film and part of The DC Bruce Timm Rebirth Fanon-Verse and it is the spin off/sequel to The Batman 4: Dark Victory (2017). The film follows Dick Grayson’s story as Robin as he became Batman’s sidekick but Two-Face has his own plans in mind.

### Robin

A year after The Hangman Murders. Dick Grayson continues his career as Robin, The Boy Wonder as Batman trains him in crime-fighting, against the judgment of Alfred.

### The Mad Hatter

A gangster named Shrike visits his boss, Mad Hatter, who has kidnapped young girls and is going to sell them to slavery. Tech told Shrike to keep The Caped Crusaders out of his business and he agreed to do that and left.

### Kidnappings

Batman and Robin are informed of the disappearances of eight girls by Captain Gordon and begin searching Gotham City for clues. After encountering difficulties in their search, Robin identifies one of the missing girls as Jennifer, a school acquaintance. While searching his school for leads at Batman's request, Robin discovers that the Mad Hatter is behind the kidnappings. Jason attempts to solve the case on his own.

### Follow The Hatter

After school, Dick saw The Mad Hatter is disguised, who has mind control a girl named Sofia. The Boy Wonder follows The Mad Hatter to his hideout and defeated his goons and interrogated of them and learned that Hatter is a yacht.

### Defeating The Mad Hatter

Robin decides to stop the villain on his own. With a little support by Alfred, Dick finds out that the Mad Hatter is delivering the girls to the Generalissimo on his yacht. Robin enters the yacht, fights through a horde of goons, rescues the girls and exposes the Mad Hatter's plot. Robin defeated Hatter and Shrike as the cops arrived and take them to Arkham.

### Proud

Back At The Batcave, Bruce is at first angry with Dick for going at the Mad Hatter alone, but he still is proud of his accomplishments as Dick smiled.

### Robin Continues

Dick aids Bruce in his war on crime, Alfred fears that the boy may not be able to balance a normal teenage life with vigilantism. Dick Grayson continues to prove his worth as Batman's aid by single-handedly defeating criminals like Killer Moth and The Penguin.

### Two-Face's Plan

Meanwhile, Two-Face, who feels that Batman is to blame for his disfigurement, plans revenge against Batman by plotting to kill his sidekick. To carry out his plan, Two-Face kidnaps Judge Lawrence Watkins in order to lure the Dynamic Duo into his trap.

### Finding Two-Face

When Captain Gordon meets with Batman and Robin to inform them of the kidnapping, he expresses concerns about Robin's young age and reminds Batman of the danger of the mission.

### It's A TRAP!

With this new realization, Batman orders Robin to sit out during the hunt for Two-Face; however, Robin secretly follows him during his search. Soon thereafter, Batman finds Two-Face in the act of kidnapping twin infants and tries to prevent their death. Although Robin shows up to help, the abduction of the infants turns out to be a trap and both Batman and Robin are taken hostage.

Two-Face carries out his revenge by making Robin choose between Judge Watkin's life and Batman's. While attempting to save the judge and Batman from Two-Face, Robin is badly beaten.

### Robin To Take Care

Bruce takes Dick to Dr. Leslie Thompkins for treatment, as Dick wokes up, Bruce decides to end Dick's career as Robin. This causes Robin to run away from Wayne Manor.

### The League of Assassins

While on the streets, Robin foils Mr. Freeze's plot to hold Gotham General Hospital's blood bank reserves for ransom, and is then enlisted by a martial artist named Shrike into a junior League of Assassins. Shortly after Dick's recruitment into the league, Shrike is hired by a crime boss to murder Two-Face, who has recently escaped from jail.

### Ninja Dick

Meanwhile, Batman begins his search for the escapee while Alfred tries to find Dick. While in the League of Assassins, Dick uses the name "Freddy Loyd" in order to conceal his identity. However, Shrike grows suspicious of "Freddy" and orders the other league members not to trust him. The junior League of Assassins quickly find Two-Face's hideout and attempt to murder him. Dick nearly kills Two-Face for all the pain that he has caused him, but instead he flees with the others. During his involvement with the group, Dick serves as an unofficial spy for Batman by sending letters containing information about the junior League of Assassins and Two-Face, but refuses to return home out of guilt.

### The Final Fight Against Two-Face

After returning to the League's hideout, Shrike demands the truth about "Freddy's" identity. Meanwhile, Two-Face learns of Shrike's plan, hunts him down, and tracks him to his hideout. At the same time, Batman finds Dick. The two take down Shrike, but Two-Face escapes.

### Robin Again

Afterwards, Batman allows Dick to be Robin again, as long as he agrees to follow Batman's orders. The team later captures Two-Face and were on the rooftop of The GCPD meeting Gordon and his daughter, Barbara, who is now under Captain Gordon's care.

### The Post Credit Scene

In the post credit scene, Barbara Gordon created her own Bat Suit and begin crime fighting as a superhero called Batgirl.

## Cast

* Ben Affleck as Bruce Wayne / Batman
* Marcel Ruiz as Dick Grayson / Robin
* Jared Leto as Jack Oswald White / Joker
* Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent/Two-Face
* Andy Serkis as Jervis Tetch / Mad Hatter
* Colin Farrell as Oswald Cobblepot / Penguin
* Kumail Nanjiani as Drury Walker / Killer Moth
* David Dastmalchian as Judge Lawrence Watkins
* Morena Baccarin as Leslie Thompkins
* Giancarlo Esposito as Dr. Victor Fries / Mr. Freeze
* Jeremy Irons as Alfred Pennyworth
* J.K. Simmons as Lieutenant James W. Gordon
* Zoe Saldana as Talia Al Ghul
* Alan Ritchson as Shrike
* Leslie Grace as Barbara Gordon