Warning: Spoilers for Nightwing #121!Historically, Nightwing has gone out of his way to differentiate himself from Batman. Of course, that isn't to say the her3o necessarily hates his mentor.

Nightwing hasn’t just ignored Batman’s advice—he’s surpassed him, and Batman knows it. Cue the Dark Knight admitting in his own words that his son is officially better than him.

Back then, Batman and Robin confront Colombina and the Cirque Du Sin cultists. Now, Zanni; our partial narrator and big bad, taunts Nightwing from a dimension potentially between life and death.

However, in the animation, Talia sends her son to Batman to protect him from Slade ... much to the chagrin of Nightwing/ Dick Grayson. This straight-to-DVD movie is part of the DC Universe ...