How is it legal?
Asking for a friend.
How come Batman can live with Robin?
Oliver Murphy
Cameron Phillips
They're father and son, and what a son!
Thomas Davis
Are they? I thought it was illegal for handsome single men to adopt shotas.
Charles Rogers
not when you're rich
Henry Harris
Didn't he adopt them?
Carter Bennett
It was weirdest before Jack Drake died when Tim hung out at Bruce's all the time and everyone (rightfully so) assumed Bruce was fucking him.
Grayson Gutierrez
Midnight Mink is so fucking jealous right now
Liam Hughes
How is what legal?
Caleb Morales
Dick is an orphan and since he had no family, Bruce offered to adopt him.
Also, in the past, adoption rules were super fucking lax. Bruce never formally adopted Dick (this becomes a plot point post-Crisis; part of the reason Dick severs all ties with Bruce after Jason Todd came along was that Bruce legally adopted Jason but never did that for Dick). So in Bruce's case, since Dick had no family, he became Bruce's ward which in olden times means "orphan living with someone who promises to take care of them but can get rid of them at any time".
James Cruz
so was Bruce able to formally adopt Dick before? Did he even explain why he didn't?
Owen Ward
Why do you faggots have to ruin everything with your degeneracy?
Jason Nguyen
He's a millionare
Jacob Reyes
Bruce is the richest taxpayer in the city. If he wants to start "collecting" strapping young boys the city turns a blind eye to it, just like Woody Allen grooming his "daughters" as wives.
Grayson Anderson
Pre-Crisis, Batman didn't have to because he was rich and rich people taking in orphans was something people didn't raise questions about due to the fact that Dick was going to grow up rich and powerful.
As for why he took the extra steps to adopt Jason, it was the 1980s by that point and legally you couldn't just take in orphans no question asked. Also, right before Crisis, DC did a story where a super-villain (Nocturna) tried to adopt Jason under Batman's nose to force Batman to marry her (by taking Robin from her) and Bruce had to legally adopt Jason to stop her from beating him to the punch and adopting Jason.
So they had to pay lip service to that and Max Collins addressed what the previous writers danced around, IE how come Jason got adopted but Dick was just a "ward", with Bruce defending not formally adopting Dick by saying that since he got custody of him no questions asked, he never bothered to file the paperwork.
Gabriel Ward
>Also, in the past, adoption rules were super fucking lax
Because thanks to the two World Wars, gang violence, Spanish Flu, massive fucking poverty form the depression and people treating Strychnine like Five Hour Energy and heroin like cough medicine, there were a lot of orphans to go around.
Asher Morris
you amerifags are such prudes. there's nothing wrong with that.
Jaxon Thompson
I got a laugh out of DC rushing Batman into a heterosexual relationship with Catwoman just as Ozymandias enters the DC Universe.
And then further having Ozy imply that LUTHOR might be the gay billionaire of this dimension, nice save there DC.
Saved the fanbase from jarring self-awareness.
Jordan Stewart
Anyone else thinks Alfred is the real hero? Dude can't even enjoy a fake milloinare life like Bruce but he keeps doing all sorts of shit for him that go beyond what normal butlers do.
Juan Price
I'd vote Trump if he allowed single men to adopt children. I want my own sidekick.
Colton Hill
And this how America started to destroy itself.
Parker Foster
Everyone knows Dick was old enough to sleep in his own bed in his own room.
This is bullshit, Bruce did it. Waiting for when the robins will grow some balls and spill the beans in the documentary "The Wayne Mansion".
Matthew Ortiz
Isaiah Carter
Why Batman doesn't stop him
Luke Nguyen
user...
Austin Barnes
Was it ever explained why Batman went with the name "robin" for his sidekicks?
Canary would have fitted better for a boy being raised in such a toxic city and living in a cave.
Asher Rogers
No way
James Rogers
Depends which continuities you're looking at. In Rebirth the Robins are Bruce's wards, except for Damian of course.
Kayden Allen
Oh user, Bruce Wayne once made a Batmobile that ran on the hopes and dreams of Robins. It goes fast.
Blake James
Current explanation is that Dick was a big fan of Robin Hood and named himself after him.
Brody Walker
>Flexible
Aaron King
>wards
>Butler
These elements are legitimately outdated.
Nicholas Wilson
Pure
Logan White
WHO THE HELL IS BRUCE WAYNE?!
Eli Johnson
It's that they're all mini clones of him that should raise the most concern."Bruce Wayne narcissistic pedophile!" makes such a great headline.
Eli Rodriguez
Autism incarnate
James Diaz
I’m 20. Do you think Bruce will keep me as his sex slave or will he whore me out? Because the former I can but the latter eh.
Isaac Ortiz
Anything older than 10 is too old.
Plus if you arent a blue eyed, black haired, genius than he won't take you.
He is less picky with the girls since he doesn't want to fuck them.
Brody Davis
Something tells me Bruce is the last person to care about laws over doing what he wants.
Lucas Wright
>doesnt care about laws
So you're saying that if he had to he might say...oh I don't know..rape someone if it would save Gotham? Interesting...
Logan Hall
Not if he had to. Only if he wanted to.
Carter Smith
Half-true. He does have a strong rebellious aspect to his character but that energy is channeled in the way of social service and justice.and not on his impulsion. This means that if he feels that there are laws which hinder what he believes to be justice he is going to rebel against them hard.
Samuel Foster
What's more justice that taking a young spry boy into your home, having him sleep in your bed, & wear a bright tight uniform to clobber older men in?
Oliver Sullivan
Pre-Crisis Bruce couldn't formally adopt Dick because was a bachelor but being a ward was OK.
Blake Howard
Bribes.
Lucas White
Are *you* gunna tell Alfred he's not necessary?
Hunter Butler
You, I like you.
You, too.
Xavier Baker
Not to contradict you but Foster parenting is still a thing user.
Not quite the same as adoption.
Bentley Howard
Why not "limber"?
Logan Jones
Ha-ha, good one, user, that's a real knee-slapper! Bruce Wayne-HA, I'd believe Commissioner Gordon, Aferd -what, Nickleback? Dollarsworth?- Wayne's "butler" dude - or fuck, hell, "Matches" Malone - was Batman berfore I'd believe Bruce Wayne is!
Lincoln Williams
Wertham was right
Jaxon Foster
You only see what you want to see
Nicholas Young
>Bruce
>taxpayer
Oh no no no no no
Alexander Foster
Wertham was a sloppy scientist pandering to parental guilt to make money.
Robert Garcia
This. Seduction of the Innocent reads like a novel length clickbait article.
Ian Mitchell
One Brave social worker tried to go after Bruce Wayne, once.
Julian Allen
And he was ordered off the case because Mr. Waynes a very influential person.