Tim Drake

Tim Drake is the son of Jack Drake and Janet Drake, who come from the same social class as Bruce Wayne.[2] As a young child, he visited the circus for the first time with his parents. The Drakes requested a photo of the Flying Graysons together, resulting in a momentary bond between Tim and Dick Grayson when they first met.[3]

By the age of nine, Drake had deduced the identities of Batman and Robin as Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson after witnessing a gymnastic move by Robin that he previously saw Grayson exhibit in the Flying Graysons. Inspired by the heroes' exploits, Tim trained in martial arts, acrobatics, detective skills, and scholastics to surpass himself both physically and intellectually. When Tim turned thirteen, he saw that Batman had become reckless and violent following the Joker's murder of Robin (Jason Todd). After the death of his mother and the paralysis of his father, Drake decided to intervene and was eventually recruited by Batman as the third Robin.

Before joining Batman as the third Robin, Tim Drake was given a modern design of the Robin costume and sent to train abroad with numerous experts to perfect his martial arts.[4] When Bruce Wayne retires following Knightfall, Robin goes solo to defend Gotham City. Robin would eventually go on to co-star with other teen superheroes in Young Justice and Teen Titans. He also made guest appearances in other DC comics as Nightwing and Azrael. Following the deaths of his father in Identity Crisis (2004), his best friend Superboy (Kon-El) in Infinite Crisis (2005–2006), and the presumed death of his girlfriend Stephanie Brown in Batman: War Games (2004–2005), Drake was relocated to Blüdhaven, the city where his brother Nightwing fights crime, for a period of time to escape the "ghosts" of Gotham City and remain near his stepmother Dana Winters, who was admitted to a clinic in Blüdhaven.

due to psychological shock from the murder of Jack Drake at the hands of Captain Boomerang. Tim Drake received another redesign of Robin's costume with a red and black color scheme. The colors are those of Superboy's costume, in homage to Superboy after his death in battle. Once Dick assumes the role of Batman after Bruce's apparent death in Batman: R.I.P. and Final Crisis, he dismisses Tim from the Robin mantle and hands it over to Damian Wayne. Tim, believing Bruce is still alive, assumes the identity of Red Robin and leaves Gotham City to search for Wayne across the globe. Tim Drake's search for evidence that Bruce Wayne was still alive after being separated from the rest of the Bat-Family. He was contacted by Ra's al Ghul's assassins, who were also interested in finding out what happened to Batman. At the same time, Tamara "Tam" Fox, the daughter of Lucius Fox, has been sent to find Tim Drake to bring him back to Gotham. Tim goes to Iraq and manages to uncover definitive evidence that Bruce was alive and lost in time, but was ambushed by an assassin from the Council of Spiders. He manages to lead him and Pru (one of the assassins working for Ra's al Ghul, who had become an ally of Tim) to the room of the Tam's hotel, and were kidnapped by the League of Assassins. Though initially reluctant, Tim Drake formed an alliance with Ra's before nearly bleeding to death due to his encounter with the Council of Spiders. He was placed in charge of the League of Assassins by Ra's and used the time to simultaneously plot how to stop the Council of Spiders and destroy the League of Assassins. After failing to thwart all but one of the Council's assassination attempts, Tim realizes that the Council will attack the League's base and realizes that he left Tam in danger at the base. Racing back to base, he simultaneously manages to delay the Council of Spiders, blow up the League's base, and escape with Tam.

After crippling Ra's's League of Assassins, Drake returns to Gotham City to thwart Ra's's plans to use Hush (surgically altered to resemble Bruce Wayne) to control the Wayne family's resources and destroy everything Batman held dear by directing his assassins to attack all of Batman's associates. Realizing that these attacks are a smokescreen and that the real target is forcing Hush to fire Wayne Enterprises, Red Robin decides to confront Ra's. He calls on all of his friends to protect the various targets. Drake has moved back to Gotham City and reestablished ties with his family and friends.

After Bruce Wayne's return, Tim begins to aid him in his plans to expand his mission globally with Batman, Inc.[11] Tim is eventually appointed as the head of the newest incarnation of the Outsiders who now serve as Batman, Inc.'s black ops wing.[12] Red Robin eventually rejoins the Teen Titans and assumes leadership from Wonder Girl. He remains as the team's leader during their climactic battle against Superboy-Prime and the new Legion of Doom.[13]

Following an adventure with Black Bat, where he confronts Ra's al Ghul's sister,[14] Tim stalks and attempts to kill the revived Captain Boomerang during Brightest Day. Although Tim eventually stops himself from killing Boomerang, Batman berates him for his actions.[15]

Before becoming Robin, Tim Drake had been trained in martial arts and was already a skilled fighter, while also being trained in fields such as acrobatics, detective work, and criminology. After becoming Robin, Drake managed to hone his combat skills and eventually became a master hand-to-hand combatant and an expert martial artist, being skilled in several fighting styles such as Aikido,[21] Judo, Karate,[22] Savate,[23] Kung Fu, Ninjutsu and Tai Chi[24] as well as being trained in gymnastics, and was taught by numerous masters including Batman, Dick Grayson, and Lady Shiva. Although he has been outmatched and beaten by other members of the Batfamily; particularly Jason, he is shown to be a calculating and cunning combatant. It should also be noted that Damian Wayne punched Tim in one of their early encounters and that for a time Tim had a habit of holding back when facing Damian. When Tim finally decided not to hold back, he easily beat Damian with impunity. Tim even briefly held his own against Dick Grayson. His weapon of choice is the bo staff. Tim was able to hold his own against several notorious Council of Spider assassins at once while protecting Tam Fox and also in the endgame of their plot to destroy several League of Assassins bases; earning praise from Ra's al Ghul himself who was watching the fight from afar.[25] He managed to survive a potentially fatal encounter with Jason Todd in Battle for the Cowl by feigning death. He was eventually rescued by Robin/Damian Wayne. With a special shot, Tim is also inoculated against several toxins the Batman Family has encountered, such as Joker Venom, Scarecrow's fear toxin, and some of Poison Ivy's pheromones.

The most intellectually gifted of the Robins, Drake has deduced most of the identities of other heroes, including the Flash and Superman. Furthermore, after thwarting Ra's al Ghul's master plan to murder everyone Bruce Wayne cared about and ruining the Wayne family fortune, Ra's has addressed Tim as "Detective", a title the villain once reserved only for Bruce Wayne.[26] His intellect has allowed him to excel in computer science and a variety of assorted scientific techniques, such as biology, engineering, and genetics, which he has been shown to use in his attempts to re-clone Superboy.[27] Tim also speaks several languages beyond his native English, including Cantonese,[28] Russian,[29] Spanish, and German.[30] Even Nightwing is proud of his abilities, saying that he was a better Robin than he was.

Drake, like Dick Grayson and Damian Wayne, has served as the leader of the Teen Titans as well as Young Justice, and was even put in charge of Superman's rescue efforts at Blüdhaven following the attack by Deathstroke and his fellow villains.

In many ways, Tim Drake's personality is similar to that of his predecessor, Dick Grayson: he is determined to succeed in missions and is willing to take risks to achieve this. However, Tim takes his heroism much more seriously than Dick and does not have the natural confidence that Dick had, despite his natural affinity for leadership.In many ways, Tim Drake's personality is similar to that of his predecessor, Dick Grayson: he is determined to succeed in missions and is willing to take risks to achieve this. He is introverted and brooding, but works better in social settings than Bruce most of the time. Tim is a more natural detective than previous Robins and is talented with computers, allowing him to excel in his role as a leader. Unlike his predecessors, Tim is not the most proficient combatant and has had to work on his fighting technique, using the bo staff to gain an advantage that Batman does not require. His outgoing and friendly nature makes him highly approachable, while his intuitive understanding of people's emotions allows him to connect with a wide range of audiences. Tim Drake, an expert detective and technological genius, demonstrated his skills when he became the third person to take on the role of Robin. He became a model combatant under Batman's training and later took on his own vigilante role as Red Robin.