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Not a chance. We already had the origin story of Batman and now the movies are free to dive right into actual plot. Lets not have another movie where we need to spend 20-30 minutes of it explaining who this character is, especially when that character is as useless and uninteresting as Robin. Batmans is a more then strong enough character to carry plenty of movies on his own.

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The only comic book storyline where Robin "worked" was The Killing Joke, where The Joker kills Robin. And that only worked because of all of the history between Robin and Batman.

Unfortunately, there are multitudinous reasons why that can't work now, not the least of which is The Joker not being in the film series now. I don't think that storyline could work with another villian.

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You could never call him"Robin" in the film--the name is just terrible. An interesting spin would be to make him a rogue cop who catches Batman's attention due to his questionable (i.e. violent) methods. Batman shows him a better way to thwart criminals, and the two assist each other on certain things without really "teaming up" or revealing Wayne's identity. That removes the word "sidekick" from the equation and lends a more adult feel to the film.

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Robin is an essential part of the Batman mythos. I would be really interested in seeing how Nolan would handle adding him. But, it's still pretty early in his version on Batman's chronology to be adding him.

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No.

Robin is just a messed up character who goes from an aid in vendetta to dead. From vendetta, again, to vengeance.

Robin's a crappy character.

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Dude. Seriously, Robin is about failure. I'm actually not dissing the character here. Batman acts as mentor/father figure to Robin, and continually fails at it. It's a chance for Batman/Bruce to redeem himself, to mend that part of him that's broken, and he never manages it. In the comics he is constantly alienating each new kid he takes in who becomes Robin. (We're up to at least #3, depending on how you count.)

The first Robin, the one folks think of when they think of the character, is Dick Grayson. What Batman does is take this kid in after Grayson sees his parents murdered. Bruce feels bad for Dick Grayson, and wants to give him the opportunity to try to right things the same way that he himself has. But it doesn't quite fit. Dick's parents weren't the same kind of people Bruce's parents were. What Grayson needed was a surrogate father, which is what Bruce needed. Rather than really provide that, Bruce instead provides the same broken solution that he's latched onto as Batman.

So, could Robin work? Yeah, he could, but it would take someone looking at it in the right way. Could it work in the Nolan films? Maybe, but a lot of things would come into play. How old would Robin be? Too young, and it's unlikely Jim Gordon (as characterized in the Nolan movies so far, I haven't seen Dark Knight) would go along. Too old, and it becomes pretty pointless for him to be there.

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Yeah, it could work. Thing is, Nolan has been exploring the psychology (psychosis) of Batman. Robin is a part of that. It's not just about a loner becoming a dad, though the insta-family thing is important. It's also Bruce seeing himself in that kid, and giving him everything that Bruce wanted then - a chance for revenge, and the skill to carry it off.

What I'd want to see is how, through trying to help the kid, Bruce damages him further. What they both think is right is so skewed that the audience is horrified for them both. And at the end Bruce has to send the kid away, to protect him. THAT's a story I'd like to see.

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Batman's best "sidekick" in Nolan's real-world vision of the comic is his own inner conflict. Robin is simply not necessary. I would rather another director of Nolan's skill have his own separate take on Robin for two or three well-developed movies, and then have them merge later. This would be better than to have Robin thrown into the mix when we know the next Batman movie is going to be about checked rage (Batman) against unchecked rage (Dent/Twoface).

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I've never seen it work, but I don't know that it can't. The two big things working against him are his name (Robin isn't terribly tough or dark) and the mystique of Batman. Part of what makes him an interesting character are his roles being so polar and opposite -- Bruce Wayne, the playboy millionaire, and Batman, the silent loner. Adding a sidekick to Bruce Wayne would be fine -- fun even. But Batman isn't buddy material.

What might work is: Tim Drake's parents (if he is the real Robin, I just searched and apparently there are many) have a ton of insurance, so Drake is wealthy-ish and the same age-ish as Bruce. He is also a vigilante and butts heads with Batman. Pretty simple plot device for conflict.

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I totally agree with Greg Holkan, Robin CAN work but only if you use it as a story point and not some excuse for more merchandising. If you go with the DARK KNIGHT RETURNS Robin (a girl no less) it would be fantastic. Someone who idolizes Batman for what "they think he is" not for who Batman really is. She doesn't have to have a tragic story, so it wouldn't be a Revenge thing. What if in Nolan's Batman universe they create a cheesy tv show that has a ROBIN in it that was created specifically for kids to relate to. Then in the "real" world she sees the adventures that they go on and creates her own Robin costume and voila. It could be a relevant social commentary and would not be the whole Ambiguously Gay Duo.

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I think the introduction of Robin really would signal the beginning of the end for Nolan's Batman franchise. The character is simply too much of a cartoon - beyond his relationship with Bruce Wayne, he's an incredibly shallow character, and really doesn't bring anything of his own to the table.

I don't see any need to rush into a Robin story, for the character to be present at all.

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If they do use Robin in a future film they should, use the Dark Victory graphic novel as a outline. Its the only time I've seen a plausible explanation for Robin's existence, they turn Robin into the only link to Bruce's humanity. I really think thats the only way Robin could work.

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Robin was actually named after Robin Hood, not sure if that helps the name at all.

For Robin to work he has to be family member of some kind. Bruce adopting some random moody teenager seems more than a little strange.

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I think the introduction of batgirl makes for a better storyline. It can go in many different directions, especially with her being the daughter of Gordon. I remember one of the TV series had an alternate future where batgirl is killed off and Gordon turns on batman. That turned out to be really interesting until it turned out to be a dream or a scarecrow hallucination or something.

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