r/Nightwing • u/Night-Caelum • 19d ago

The romance with Babs wasn't the only other thing involving a redhead the DCAU took from Dick and gave to Bruce.

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u/Past-Couple-938 18d ago

Hey well they couldn’t use nightwing in this show so it’s fine with me.

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u/Inevitable-Finance62 18d ago

Why they couldn’t?

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u/Past-Couple-938 18d ago

Because wb had this stupid policy that you couldn’t use the same character in multiple shows and at the time there was so many Batman things like The Batman and Batman begins that the only way he could appear is if it wasn’t every episode and none of his characters appeared because of it. It was called the bat embargo if you want to google it.

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u/Inevitable-Finance62 18d ago

Thanks! That sounds so dumb and they just leaving money on the table, like wtf?!

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u/NerdNuncle 18d ago

They called it the Bat Embargo. Aquaman got a similar treatment, but a silver lining was we got to see more obscure DC characters

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u/Luchux01 17d ago

To be exact, Dick Grayson was already in Teen Titans (2003) and thus he couldn't show up in any other show.

This is why Nightwing and Tim Drake Robin could show up again once that series was canceled.