The city calls him Robin — and for more than eight decades, that red thread has stitched the Bat-Family together, turning fear into hope, solitude into partnership, and grief into legacy. This is the story of every Robin — their victories, losses, failures, reinventions, and why Batman doesn’t just work with a Robin… he needs one.

Batman endures because he is a myth you can touch. A mortal man who became a symbol, he turns grief into purpose and fear into a weapon. Across eight decades and every medium imaginable, the Dark Knight remains pop culture’s most adaptable hero