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Batman’s most advanced weapon against crime was just hacked, revealing it’s major flaw that the Robins exploited.
WARNING: This article contains major spoilers for Robins #3, on sale from DC Comics now!
One of the centerpieces of the Batcave, the Batcomputer has always been one of the first weapons that Batman turns to when he has a particularly tough mystery to crack or a strong opponent he needs to defeat. The self-titled “first” Robin just hacked into it to steal every bit of data Batman has collected about his villains over the years and inadvertently revealed its major flaw.
Robins #3 sees the quintet of current and former Robins face off against the forgotten sidekicks of Batman’s deadliest villains, who each used stolen data from the Batcomputer to take on the appearance and skills of Joker, Poison Ivy, Penguin and Catwoman. The Robins were handily outmatched until Nightwing noticed that there was something slightly off about Catwoman’s attack. The faux-Catwoman did not pause after boasting about what she was going to do to him. He deduced that their transformation was based on Batman’s personal perspective of the villains, so they knew all of the moves that Batman had taught them. Afterwards, they used all the skills they were taught by others to defeat the fake villains. But the hack revealed the major flaw in Batman’s system: he doesn’t trust anybody but himself so his data was incomplete.
For all of his training, Batman’s key weakness has always been that he doesn’t trust anybody else. He’s expanded his fight on crime by training the Robins and a plethora of other heroes but he mostly keeps them at arm’s reach, never opening up to them. Batman’s demonstrated trust issues have a long history in DC comic books. Famously, Ra’s al Ghul hacked the files Batman kept on the strengths and weaknesses of his fellow heroes during JLA: Tower of Babel. The hack almost led to the defeat of the JLA and Batman briefly left the team because some of them would no longer trust him.
Luckily for the Robins, Batman’s data being tuned to his personal biases was the weakness that they were able to exploit in order to defeat the villains. At the end of the issue, Nightwing went to talk to Batman about what they’d seen and Batman dismissed every preoccupation that his adopted son was bringing him. Nightwing stormed off, leaving Batman brooding in the Batcave. Even though they don’t know it, the Robins are being hunted by a mysterious woman who calls herself the “first Robin.” From his silence during their conversation, it’s clear that Batman knows something he’s not letting on but he lets his ex-partner leave to pick up the pieces of his mistakes.
The Robins all went their separate ways except for Tim Drake who was previously kidnapped by the mysterious “first” Robin. Batman’s trust issues always come back to haunt him and not telling the Bat-Family about this mysterious Robin could seemingly be the final straw for the Robins.
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