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In 1993, after the success of Tim Drake's 3-part miniseries chronicling his tribulations as the third [[
As the series went on, Chuck Dixon left the book and different writers came on-board. The first was Jon Lewis, whose short tenure on the Robin series built a stable relationship between Tim and Spoiler and had fondness for writing slightly sci-fi plots, which was jarring in a Batbook that focused more on street-level crime. Next was Bill Willingham, who forcibly retired Tim from being Robin after his dad found out his secret, and killed off Spoiler in the War Games crossover. Adam Beechen took over the series with Robin: One Year Later and had Tim leaving Gotham for a while and temporarily staying in Bludhaven with [[Batgirl 2000
Red Robin, which was launched in late 2009 and written by Chris Yost and Fabian Nicieza, depicted Tim Drake's search around the world to find evidence that Bruce Wayne was still alive after cutting himself off from the rest of the Bat Family. He was approached by Ra's al Ghul's assassins, who were also interested in finding out what happened to Batman. The series lasted for 2 years, until the DCU reboot in 2011.
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* [[Rape as Backstory|Attempted Rape As Backstory]]: Both Ariana and Stephanie had a near-rape experience in their childhood, and both confessed it to Tim. It's no wonder that Tim has the '[[Let's Wait a While]]' mentality in the first place...
* [[Retcon]]: Stephanie's death in ''War Games'' -- it turns out that she was just hiding in Africa.
* [[Ship Tease]]: Arguably played between [[Batgirl 2000
* [[Secret Identity Identity]]: He sometimes addresses himself in the third-person in his thought dialogues, either as 'Robin' or 'Tim Drake'.
* [[The Call Knows Where You Live]]: The reason Tim is now an orphan and permanently dedicated to crime-fighting.
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