

Harper Row insists on living on her own as well. Stephanie never wanted to be adopted, and Barbara Gordon's father is still kicking so there's no need there. It looks like he adopted Cassandra Cain as well. There is some contention over Dick Grayson, though it looks like it was retconned so that Batman fully adopted him as a son. Worse yet, some of these aren't even properly canon in the mainstream DC continuity.ĭamian Wayne, Tim Drake, and Jason Todd are the ones that most people believe have been fully adopted.

The question of formal adoption and ward adoption is fairly contested across the internet, and it doesn't help that there are over 80 years of continuity to skim through with different titles like Batman, Detective Comics, Batman and Robin, Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight, Batman: The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Returns, Batman Incorporated, Robin, Red Robin, Batgirl, Nightwing, Red Hood and the Outlaws, Batman and the Signal, We Are Robin, All-Star Batman, and so much more.

This caused Nightwing to lose his memories of the Batman Family and become a cab driver called "Ric" Grayson. More recently came the second "death" of Nightwing after being shot in the head by the KGBeast. Next came the death of Tim Drake, but he was actually plucked from time by the mysterious Mr. However, Nightwing had to stay dead, with Dick going underground to infiltrate the Spyral organization. Nightwing's first "death" and unmasking was shortly after at the hands of the Crime Syndicate, but Batman resuscitated Dick. Leslie Thompkins.ĭamian Wayne being killed by the Heretic was the next, and it took Batman facing down Darkseid himself to bring Damian back to life. However, this was actually a ruse put together by Stephanie and Dr. The next was the apparent death of Stephanie Brown during the "War Games" event that saw the Batman Family trying to bring down the entire Gotham criminal underworld.

The first and most famous was the death of Jason Todd at the hands of the Joker. Unfortunately, Batman has experienced the death of a child sidekick (or former child sidekick) five times.
