Batman the Animated Series Robin Quits Full Episode

Batman the Animated Series Robin Quits Full Episode

"Quondam Wounds" is the eighteenth episode of The New Batman Adventures . Originally ambulation on October 3, 1998. It reveals the story of how and why Dick Grayson left the function of Robin after the end of Batman: The Blithe Series and how Barbara discovered their clandestine identities and became office of the team.

Plot

Nightwing is taken aback by Robin'due south annotate.

As Robin fights against pick-pockets and thieves, i gains the upper manus and traps him in an overturned garbage bin. When the goon runs into the street a shadowy figure flies off a building and tackles him. Around the corner where Robin is extracting himself from the garbage bin, Nightwing emerges with the man who tried to run, with Robin remarking that he could have gotten him. As Nightwing shrugs off this proclamation and walks away, Robin remarks that he is just like Batman. Stunned, Nightwing stops and remarks that he'due south nothing of the sort. Robin points out the similarities between Batman and Nightwing to which the young adult irritably told him to "drop it". Robin then asks him why he left the role of Robin and Nightwing just responds that "things change" and he should ask Batman. Robin tells him that he did and Batman but said the same thing. Nightwing and then takes Robin to a dock and recounts his last days as Robin, just later on he finished college at Gotham Country University.

Bruce Wayne misses Dick Grayson's graduation considering he is working in his chapters as Batman and when Dick is celebrating his graduation with Barbara Gordon, he is paged by Batman who wants him to encounter him at a specified location from a tip he has received. As Dick returns to dance with Barbara, he relays some worthless excuse why he must go out. Batman is watching a warehouse and Robin arrives. They gear up to investigate and foil the latest scheme by the Joker. When the Joker easily makes his escape from the Dynamic Duo, Batman, trapped, orders Robin to go after them. Post-obit a henchman named Connor who is left behind, Robin encounters the man returning home to his family. Connor does not want anything to get down in front of his family, but earlier Robin can act, Batman crashes through a side window and pins Connor against a wall. While Batman mercilessly interrogates Connor, Robin pleads with him non to brand a scene in front of Connor'southward family. When Batman does not answer kindly, Robin takes off and afterward shows up at Barbara's flat (as Dick Grayson) complaining well-nigh the state of affairs and he tin can't do this anymore he wanted to become abroad from Batman and was unsure how to proceed. Eventually, he leaves every bit abruptly every bit he arrived with fiddling caption.

Joker displays the radar disruptor for his newest program.

Some time later, Barbara is asking Bruce what has come betwixt him and Dick. Understanding how she cares a neat deal for him, he asks her to follow him, opening the secret clock entrance to the Batcave. As she descends the staircase behind him, bats flutter from below and she realizes what Bruce is showing her about Dick and himself. Bruce also informs her of his knowledge virtually her secret as Batgirl. Alfred emerges from behind a corner and even tries to say that he is Batman. Bruce tells him that information technology's alright and Alfred tells him that there is something on the news channel that he might want to watch. Turning the volume up, the Joker is delivering a bribe notation for his latest scheme, involving a radar jamming device. Bruce asks Alfred to contact Dick, only Alfred tells him that he has been trying and cannot reach him. Bruce says that he volition need redundancy and Barbara tells him that he already has it. After Batman and Batgirl go out to take on the Joker, Dick comes down to the Batcave asking where Barbara is subsequently seeing her machine in the drive. Alfred tells him that she and Bruce take run an errand. Dick asks what kind of errand as he notices that the Batmobile is not parked in the cavern.

When Robin arrives at the scene of the Joker's program, Batgirl is thrown off a tower. Robin rescues her and the ii wing to another building top. Telling her that they demand to talk, she interrupts him because at that place is work to do. As Batman fights against the Joker and his henchmen, Batgirl re-emerges with Robin and tackles the Joker. He so begins to fire upon the iii, and Batgirl directs his attention toward the radar jamming device which is destroyed by the Joker'south gunfire.

Robin leaves his part every bit Batman's sidekick. To become Nightwing

Batman then grabs Batgirl and the two hang from the building edge equally the machine explodes and knocks everyone in close proximity to the ground, including the Joker. After the law go far and the scene is being picked apart, Robin is furious at Batgirl for not telling him her secret. She responds that he wasn't honest either and that Batman already knew her secret. Redirecting his acrimony at Batman for putting Batgirl in danger, Robin asks why he did not tell him that Barbara was Batgirl. When Batman tells him that information technology was not his place to tell Robin, Robin says that they have grown autonomously and quits. When Batman tries to stop Robin from leaving, Robin turns around and punches Batman in the face. Stripping his mask and greatcoat off, he leaves Batman and Batgirl and never was Robin over again.

Equally Nightwing finishes the story, he and Robin render to the scene of the earlier fight and find a wallet that had been stolen past the goons. After opening the wallet to see who it belongs to, Nightwing is shocked to learn that information technology'south Connor, who at present works as a night watchman at Wayne Enterprises. Returning the wallet, Connor relates the earlier encounter with Batman and how it changed his life. Bruce Wayne had given him a job and regularly checks on him, oft inquiring about the well-being of his family. Nightwing responds that Bruce Wayne is a good man and he and Robin leave. The Bat-signal comes on in the nighttime sky and Robin says that duty calls, and asks if Nightwing volition join him. Every bit Robin prepares to wing off, Nightwing remarks that it is most time and flies off with him to join Batman.

Groundwork information

Dwelling video releases

Trivia

  • This episode's flashback was later adjusted into the limited serial The Batman Adventures: The Lost Years. Written past serial writer Hilary J. Bader, with artwork by Bo Hampton, Terry Beatty, Lee Loughridge, and Rick Taylor, information technology bridged the gap between Batman: The Animated Series and The New Batman Adventures, explaining how Batman discovered Batgirl'southward identity, Dick'south journey effectually the world, and Tim's life prior to condign Robin (including his witnessing the terminal fight between Batman and company against the Joker.) Reverse to popular conventionalities, the Lost Years series was based on the script for "Quondam Wounds", rather than the other fashion effectually.
  • Although Dick never says it out loud, conspicuously the climax of this episode implies that Dick has forgiven Batman.
  • This version appears to be a more Pre-Crisis version of Dick retiring from Robin on his own accord rather than the mail-Crunch version having him fired past Batman.
  • Alfred telling Barbara that he is Batman is echoed on the Static Daze episode "Hard as Nails" where he tells Static the same matter and replies to Static's disbelief "But once, I'd like someone to believe that".
  • This is the only The New Batman Adventures episode that features Dick in his Robin outfit and is just 1 of ii episodes to feature the entire squad (Batman, Batgirl, Robin, and Nightwing) in their current costumes, though Batman and Batgirl are only seen in the flashback. The other episode to show all four heroes in costume is "Over the Edge". However, neither episode shows all 4 together in costume at the same time.
  • Joker makes a reference to the 1995 film Apollo 13 when he says, "Houston, nosotros have a problem."

Cast

Actor Role
Kevin Conroy Batman/Bruce Wayne
Tara Charendoff Batgirl/Barbara Gordon
Loren Lester Nightwing/Dick Grayson
Mathew Valencia Robin/Tim Drake
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. Alfred Pennyworth
Mark Hamill The Joker
Townsend Coleman Rocco
Neil Ross Henshaw
Ian Buchanan Connor
Pamela Hayden Geena

Uncredited appearances

  • Andrew Goodwin
  • Ellen Barton
  • Jeff Adams
  • Joseph Gibson
  • Lucius Fox
  • Sharon Trick
  • Stephen Davis
  • William Deever

Quotes

Robin: Y'all sound just like Batman.
Nightwing: I'm nothing like him.

Barbara: (notices Bruce Wayne is not at Dick'due south graduation) He'll be crushed Bruce missed this. Where could he be?
Alfred: Perchance he had car trouble.

Dick: (being summoned as Robin) This isn't a adept fourth dimension.
Batman: I'm not making a schedule.

Batman: You're belatedly.
Robin: Excuse me for having a life.

Joker: Nice entrance. Either yous've never heard of a door or you just like pulling drinking glass out of your shorts.

Joker: If you stick your olfactory organ in, it might get cut off.

Robin: Batman, not like this. Not in forepart of his family.
Batman: The sooner he talks the sooner nosotros exit!
Robin: (Seeing child starting to weep) I'grand outta here now!

Barbara: He was so upset he couldn't even talk well-nigh it. Information technology wasn't the first time I've seen him similar that. What is it between yous two? What's going on?
Bruce: You lot really care for him, don't yous?
(Barbara nods)
Bruce: Follow me.

Alfred: Primary Bruce, I... (sees Barbara in Batcave). Ms. Gordon, I, uh, see you've discovered our trivial secret. Yes, I acknowledge it, I am Batman.
Bruce: Information technology's all correct, Alfred.
Alfred: Very good, sir.
Barbara: Why would you trust me with this?
Bruce: For Dick'southward sake. Besides, I'thousand not the just one with a hole-and-corner, am I... Batgirl?

Bruce: Alfred, contact Robin.
Alfred: I've already tried, sir. I'm afraid he'south not answering.
Bruce: Keep trying. The Joker will accept his goons well-placed. I'thousand gonna need back-up.
Barbara: You've already got information technology.

Dick: Alfred, I saw Barbara's car parked out front. Where is she?
Alfred: She and Master Bruce are running an errand.
Dick: (noticing that the Batmobile is gone) What kind of errand?

Joker: (Seeing Batgirl) Something new has been added: a big comeback over the Boy Blunder.

Batgirl: Thanks.
Robin: We need to talk.
Batgirl: Not now. He needs united states.

Joker: What!? Y'all should be sidewalk stroganoff!
Robin: I inverse the bill of fare.

Batman: I thought we had the same goals.
Robin: Things change. I inverse. The game's over, Batman. I quit.

Joker: (dazed) Houston, we have a problem. (falls unconscious backwards)

Robin: I guess Batman had a change of middle. Who'd take thought he had ane?

Batman the Animated Series Robin Quits Full Episode

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