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Look at yooou. Always so serious! The first annoyed with quip and quickness, the second earned his anger and pain--(and ultimately his death)--but you... you have always bored me with your perfection, that arrogant flaunting of how much better you think you are than everyone else. 
History
Tim Drake is a teen vigilante who once trained under the Batman using the moniker Red Robin, both a reference to the role of Robin and a memorial to the fallen Jason Todd.
Origin
Tim was an athletic and popular teenage genius, who sought out new and exciting challenges within everyday life. One such challenge was to find out the secret identity of his local superhero Batman. After crossing the Penguin to get Batman's attention, Tim's family was put into witness protection, and Tim used his middle name as his new last name "Tim Drake".
With the Robin mantle still not filled after the predecessor's death, Batman finally acknowledged Tim's skill and offered him the position. Tim declined, however, finding that taking the name of a fallen hero was disrespectful, and chose to act under a moniker known as Red Robin.[1]
Batman trained Red Robin to be a vigilante, and the two worked together for a short time before Tim had a falling out with his mentor and went into a state of semi-retirement.
Teen Titans
Tim, in his retirment, preferred to do his crime fighting over the internet, fighting cyber crime. However, after being attacked by agents from the shadowy organization N.O.W.H.E.R.E., Tim donned a new Red Robin suit and returned to the world of crime fighting, forming the new Teen Titans to combat N.O.W.H.E.R.E.[2]
Death of the Family
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Batman Eternal
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Robin War
Robin War
When a group of rag-tag vigilante's called We Are Robin were setup in a war against the Gotham City police, Tim was among the former Robins (Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, and Damian Wayne) that attempted to control the situation. The four Robins set out to train the We Are Robin movement and lead them on several missions, all of which turned out to be Dick's plan to have the authorities capture all of the Robins except himself to keep them safe. Tim and the others were taken to a secret prison facility nicknamed "The Cage", soon learning that the Court of Owls had orchestrated the whole war.
After being forced to fight Red Hood in a match that was supposed to be to the death, Tim and the other Robins managed to fend off the Court of Owls and their army of Talons, clearing their names and allowing the We Are Robin movement to return to the streets. Though Tim expressed disappointment that Dick had kept the secret of his plan from the rest of them, Dick apologized, emphasizing the lengths he went through to protect his Robin family.
Batman and Robin Eternal
Tim Drake would team up with his fellow Robins again when Dick was on an assignment for Spyral and to stop a cyborg cyclist. After Dick encounters a group of children and a mysterious silent women who tipped him off to a conspiracy around a woman named Mother.
Later, Tim's witness-protection-program parents would turn out to be Dick's lead. Tim and Jason follow a strange electronic signal tied to the mystery and find Bane attempting to take back his former country from the mysterious Order of St. Dumas. Working together with the villain, Jason and Tim stumble upon and fight Azrael, one of Mother's children loaned to the Order of St. Dumas as their assassin.
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Rebirth
Tim was one of Batman' many allies who had been recruited to join Batman and Batwoman's crime fighting team in Gotham. The team was a sort of vigilante-training group, consisted of himself, Orphan, Spoiler, and Clayface. On his way out, so to speak, Tim had plans to retire entirely as Red Robin, getting a huge scholarship from Ivy University and making plans with his new girlfriend and teammate Stephanie Brown.
While on a mission, Tim hacked into the database of their latest target the Colonists to discover their plans. Realizing a swarm of the Colonists drones was sent out to execute dozens of innocent lives, Tim hacked the drone's mission directive to make himself the sole target. While Tim managed to take down the first wave of drones, he was apparently killed by the second wave, devastating the Bat family and his former Teen Titans teammates. However, unknown to his allies, Tim was actually teleported to an unknown location by the mysterious Mister Oz and kept prisoner.
Powers and Abilities
Abilities
- Acrobatics
- Computer Hacking[3]
- Computer Operation[3]
- Disguise[4]
- Gadgetry[5]
- Genius Level Intellect: Tim possesses an IQ of 142.[6]
- Gymnastics[1]
- Investigation: Tim Drake is often cited as the most analytic of Batman's proteges, as his detective skills on on par with Batman's himself.[7] While Dick is the acrobat, Jason is the marksman, Tim is the detective, leaving Damian to be the true son.[8]
- Leadership[9]
- Martial Arts: Tim Drake is trained in hand-to-hand combat by Batman himself. After years of training and experience, Tim has been able to fight off the likes of super villains as well as his own teammates sometimes. He strikes harder than the rest of the Robins.[8]
- Stick Fighting: Tim is highly skilled in the use of a bo staff in combat.[10]
- Peak Human Condition[1]
- Tactical Analysis: While simple and complex investigation is Tim's forte, even in stressful situations Tim can analyze an issue and come up with a plan almost immediately.[8]
- Throwing[2]
Paraphernalia
Equipment
Transportation
- Glider Cape (Formerly)
Notes
- Tim Drake was created by Marv Wolfman and Pat Broderick, first appearing in Batman #436. However, in the Prime Earth continuity, Tim Drake first appeared as part of the New 52 DC Universe in Teen Titans (Volume 4) #1 by Scott Lobdell and Brett Booth.
Trivia
- Unlike his New Earth counterpart, this incarnation of Tim Drake was never Robin, instead taking the name Red Robin instantly. This was due to him finding it disrespectful to cast himself as Robin so soon after Jason's death.
- As of Batman & Robin Eternal #1 Tim is 16 years old and has an IQ of 142.
- Tim lost his virginity to Cassandra Sandsmark. [11]
Related
- 482 Appearances of Timothy Drake (Prime Earth)
- 295 Images featuring Timothy Drake (Prime Earth)
- 36 Quotations by or about Timothy Drake (Prime Earth)
- Character Gallery: Timothy Drake (Prime Earth)
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Teen Titans (Volume 4) #0
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Teen Titans (Volume 4) #1
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Detective Comics #936
- ↑ Teen Titans (Volume 4) #3
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ Teen Titans (Volume 4) #0
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Teen Titans (Volume 4) #16
- ↑ Teen Titans (Volume 4) #5
- ↑ Detective Comics #934
- ↑ Teen Titans (Volume 4) #17
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