Now, Damian is being faced with a shadow version of himself in more ways than one. Bu as Heretic states in an appeal to Damian's darker impulses, "You cannot beat crime, Damian. The Heretic even views himself as a hero, which Damian takes issue with. As the Heretic tells the hero he once killed, he is dying thinks that the two can make a meaningful impact on the world by working together before he perishes.
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Now, after creating a series of patterns for Robin to track, he gives Damian the chance to work with him to achieve some mysterious goal. Afterward, he took his place ( and began to grow his criminal empire even further. He reveals to Robin that he tracked down the villain originally known as the Other and killed him. This time, however, Heretic's plan is not simply killing everyone that stands in his way. RELATED: DC's Titans Wasted the Comic's Biggest Villains Eventually, Heretic was killed in a confrontation with Batman atop Wayne Tower, but only after he is both decapitated and blown up.Įven though he was revived through a dip in the Lazarus Pit, his face is now severely bruised and scarred, including a neck scar where it appears his head has been stitched back on.
Not only does he put a serious hurting on Batman, he kills Robin by stabbing him through the heart. The Heretic is literal a killing machine, and he goes on to defeat multiple members of Batman Incorporated single-handedly including Batman himself. Talia does this by growing Heretic inside a whale in a facility made for meta-human gestation, which Heretic - upon growing to the size of an adult within his whale - breaks out of on his own, killing the entire facility's staff of meta-humans in the process. RELATED: The Dark Multiverse Proves That Is the Most Dangerous Teen TitanĪfter Batman turned down Talia's offer to rule the world as a family in Batman, Incorporated, she decided to create a new son, specifically a new Damian, who would not stray from the path set forward by the League of Shadows or hesitate to kill when necessary. Once the two are alone, the Other destroys his mask to reveal that he's the Heretic, a clone of Damian who killed the Robin in the past. With the Titans chained at his feet, the Other sends Kid Flash, Red Arrow, and Crush away with Lobo so that he may speak alone with Robin. In Teen Titans #37, the reveal of the Other's identity turns into a massive crisis of identity and confidence for the Boy Wonder. This last event ended with the Titans being captured and turned over to a mysterious buyer, who turned out to be none other than "The Other," the mysterious villain that Robin has been tracking since he took over the Teen Titans.
In the lead up to the most recent issue the team has discovered that they were betrayed by Roundhouse, the genie Djinn was trapped in her ring seemingly forever, and Crush went on a killing spree under the control of her father - Lobo. The most recent Teen Titans arc has already been a rough one for Damian and the rest of the team. While the Teen Titan has kept himself mostly in check since adopting the title of Robin, he's had more than a few moments of temptation. He constantly walks the line between the (relatively) bloodless way of his father Batman and the blood-drenched nature of his upbringing and training with his mother, Talia al Ghul and the League of Shadows. WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for Teen Titans #37, by Adam Glass, Bernard Chang, Scott Hana, Marcelo Maiolo, and Rob Leigh, on sale now.ĭamian Wayne's Robin has always been an edgier take on the Boy Wonder.
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