Do Batman and Robin share a romantic relationship?
In all sincerity I think they don’t. Albeit, there’s the little details we’d like to consider as clues such as the hug in the second book of The Dark Knight Returns and the amount of affection Batman offers the girl. But I think we all know that Batman has always considered the children his partners and nothing more. Of course, partnership means close-ship and that I think causes self-confusion. Cause, we do love thinking of our heroes as anti-heroes. I think it balances our perception of our own humanity, as well. I’m dumb, I rambled again. Sorry.
In all sincerity I think they don’t. Albeit, there’s the little details we’d like to consider as clues such as the hug in the second book of The Dark Knight Returns and the amount of affection Batman offers the girl. But I think we all know that Batman has always considered the children his partners and nothing more. Of course, partnership means close-ship and that I think causes self-confusion. Cause, we do love thinking of our heroes as anti-heroes. It balances our perception of our own humanity, as well. Darn it, I rambled again. Sorry.
Of interest, Carrie Kelly, the Robin invented by Frank Miller for Dark Knight Returns and Dark Knight Strikes Back, has an implied romantic relationship with Batman in Strikes Back (she has shed her Robin outfit and now wears a Catwoman-like outfit. I believe it to be a pretty clear implication, but it can be argued).
