Why damian wayne had to die

Morrison's Batman depicts a future wherein Damian has become Batman. However, he is soon resurrected, with temporary superpowers. Batman was not aware of Damian's existence for a considerable time. Genetically perfected and grown in an artificial womb, Damian was intended to be a formidable warrior.

He is raised by Talia and the League of Assassins. He becomes a talented martial artist by the time he is a pre-teen, at which time Talia reveals Damian's existence to his father and leaves him in Batman's custody in an effort to disrupt his work. Precocious, spoiled, and violent, Damian battles Robin Tim Drake , whom he wants to replace as his father's sidekick, and sucker punches him off the T-Rex of the Batcave.

Grounded by Batman, he escapes, dons a variant Robin costume made of Jason Todd 's old tunic and assorted League of Assassin gear, and gets into a fight with and decapitates the villainous Spook. Although misguided and malicious, Damian seems to genuinely want to aid his father's war on crime. Eventually, Batman confronts Talia, but both Talia and Damian are soon caught in an explosion. They survive the explosion, but a badly injured Damian requires transplants of harvested organs, which his mother orders her physicians to carry out.

He made a full recovery. Talia takes Damian to the Australian Outback where he is tutored in the secret history of his grandfather, Ra's al Ghul. Talia is unaware that a former servant of Ra's, named White Ghost, plans to use Damian as a shell for the soul of Ra's to return to Earth. This process would, of course, kill Damian. Talia is able to save her son from his fate at the last minute.

However, Ra's is still able to return, as a rotting, undead corpse, still needing Damian to stabilize his form. Damian flees to alert Batman, but he is still pursued by his evil grandfather.

However, Robin, suspicious of Damian's intentions, does not believe his story and begins a fist fight. Damian flees and encounters Alfred. Before he can effectively relay his news he is attacked by Robin, who perceives Damian's attempt to help a tripping Alfred as an attack, and renews their battle.

As they fight, members of the League of Assassins approach the manor with the intention of killing all others within and bringing Damian back to Ra's alive. Damian and Tim fight side-by-side against Ra's and his minions.

However, their collaboration is hindered by their very different philosophies of battle, not to mention their strong dislike - even hatred - of each other. Damian is willing to betray Tim at any moment for his own safety. Ra's captures the two and tells Batman that he will use one of them for his own body. Batman offers his own body instead. Ra's refuses the offer, feeling that he needs someone of a younger age.

Batman offers a third alternative: "Fountain of Essence," which contains the qualities of a Lazarus Pit. Damian leaves his mother and Tim to an unknown fate, while he goes off to be with his father.

Unfortunately, he ends up captured by Ra's and nearly loses his life. Batman and the others manage to save him, and Talia takes her son and escapes.

Damian aiding Jim Gordon against Doctor Hurt 's forces. Soon after these events, Talia and Damian take up residence in one of the League of Assassin's many bases, where Talia continues to monitor Batman's activities, such as his relationship with a woman named Jezebel Jet. Meanwhile, Damian continues to train under the eye of the archer-villain Merlyn.

Both Damian and Talia become concerned when they catch wind that a group known as the Black Glove is targeting Batman.

The pair of them fly back to Gotham, where they save Commissioner Gordon from a booby-trapped Wayne Manor and ask to pool their resources. Damian meanwhile steals a Batmobile with Alfred in order to rush to Batman's side.

Damian, uncaring of basically everyone, runs an ambulance off the road, unaware that he had taken out the Joker as a result. Alfred admonishes the boy, who threatens to kill him in response. Once they arrive at Arkham, they learn that Batman is again missing in action.

Although Batman survived the events of R. Damian apparently decides to stay in Gotham following his father's supposed death, and takes up residence with Alfred and his adopted brothers Nightwing and Robin. While joy riding in the Batmobile one night, he is attacked by a group of villains. Oddly enough, Damian's previously cruel and aggressive behavior is replaced with a more childlike and fearful persona going so far as to call for his mother when attacked by Killer Croc and Poison Ivy.

He is saved however by Nightwing, but unfortunately, the pair of them end up being attacked by a new gun toting Batman revealed to be Jason Todd. While in pursuit of Jason, Damian is shot point-blank in the chest, and rushed to the Batcave by Nightwing and the Birds of Prey. Despite his intensive injuries, Damian refused to be sidelined and almost attacks Alfred in order to help Dick battle Jason.

Alfred however, does not stop Damian, but instead encourages him to pull his own weight, and even offers Damian the old Robin tunic that he once stole and asks that the Squire help Damian. Together, the pair locate and rescue an injured Tim Drake from nearly being killed in the explosion.

Unfortunately, much to Tim's shock, Dick does not continue to take him on as Robin. Damian, of course, revels in the fact that he has usurped Tim's previous role. Feeling betrayed and infuriated, Tim punches Damian, leaves, and takes on the mantle previously worn by Jason Todd: Red Robin. During their first week as partners, Damian proves himself to be a much different Robin than Tim or Dick were, though somewhat similar to Jason Todd.

Argumentative and arrogant, Damian often disputes with Dick and undermines his authority as Batman, even going so far as to claim that he might not be worthy of the Batman mantle. Damian expresses a strong willingness to take over the Batman identity himself if Dick is not "up to it. It is later revealed that Damian has begun to visit his father's former friend and enemy Thomas Elliot, also known as Hush , in the prison at the top of Wayne Tower.

Dick and Tim put him in and engage him in chess games. Damian claims that these visits are purely out of his curiosity to find out why Hush would alter his appearance to that of Bruce Wayne's. But Hush suspects that the visits are Damian's form of grieving for Bruce and a way to "spend time with your old man. After leaving the Bat Family, having been usurped of his position of Robin to his dismay, Tim takes on the mantle of Red Robin and begins searching the globe for Bruce Wayne, who he feels is still alive.

Robin is upset his parents kept the secretive competition from him and is eager to prove he can win it. After fighting King Snake Bane's father , a representative for the island grants him access to the tournament and when he arrives, Damian's ego comes bursting through - and it leads to his surprising downfall in his very first fight.

When she goes over the rules of the upcoming fights, Robin jumps in mid-speech and tells her "this chitchat is a waste of time. A new hero named Flatline accepts and after the two exchange blows, she rips out his heart. Flatline is Robin's opposite , as she was trained by great fighters who died in battle and absorbed their defeats to learn from their losses.

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While hindsight tells him how he did the right thing by giving Damian a long story and character arc, Morrison recalls how he initially planned to kill him off at the end of a four-issue story line where Batman meets his son and then the youngster dies a hero.

He changed his mind, and fans really hated the character once he started sticking around. It took a few years but he started to grow on people — making his death a lot more meaningful and important in the long run.

I didn't want to do that," Morrison says. There were moments, however, when Morrison reconsidered Damian's ultimate fate when he teamed up with Dick Grayson, a former Robin and current Nightwing who took the mantle of Batman for a time in the Batman and Robin series when Bruce Wayne had "died" during Final Crisis and was off the table for a while.

That period, pairing a serious little kid and a Batman who wasn't as tortured as the usual guy under the cowl, also made for some of Morrison's favorite stories during his Batman run, he says. The dynamic was so strong that Morrison feels he could have written it for years. However, DC had other plans for Batman and wanted to go back to square one for 's "The New 52" relaunch, which put a halt to Morrison's work tying every era of the superhero together from the s to present day.

He still has three issues to go, though, and Morrison's not done shaking things up.