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The OTHER DCAU Robin... well, robin at any rate.

Years ago, in Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew, they visited Earth C-Minus, a world where the Justta Lotta Animals were the pre-eminent heroes. One member was Batmouse (Who is this rodent of mystery? Is he a bat? Is he a mouse? He'll never tell) and his sidekick was the "One panel and you'll miss him"; Boyd, the Robin Wonder.

However, in the criminally underappreciated "Krypto the Superdog" series there is actually a Robin analogue too! A young bird rescued from certain doom at the paws of the Joker's criminally inclined hyena's by Ace the Bat-Hound. Developing a severe case of hero worship and takes on the identity of Robbie the Robin, to assist the unwilling... make that EXTREMELY unwilling Bat-Hound. The little birdie is so eager to please that Ace is terrified of him, Ace eventually cons his stalker sidekick into asking every pigeon for assistance in locating the Hyenas base and whilst he's out doing that, running like hell for Metropolis to hide in Krypto's doghouse of solitude)

I ask you, how could he be scared by bird with a cute little beak like that?

He has all the making of a proper Robin too... He's eager, happy, brave, resourceful



And appears to be developing the tendency to get tied up a lot too (In fairness, at this point in his second adventure, Isis had already captured Krypto, Ace and Streaky the Supercat.



And of course, it ends with our brave little birdie being the hero... You can just TELL how pleased by that Ace is, can't you? :)



Oh, and for legality, and for those who think that Nightwing can't get any cuter, here he is in a form where you can scratch him behind the ears AND tickle his tummy and he'd really, REALLY like it! :) I just can't quite work out his name, Nighthound seems too... obvious, the names of the Justa Lotta Animals were usually a lot cleverer (and sillier) than that; Green Lambkin, Zappanda, Firestork....

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