Nightwing Beats Batman, and I'll Prove It.

Water is wet, and Nightwing beats Batman.

This video hopefully comes across a little in-between a typical upload and one of my live streams; longer form with more stream-of-consciousness information but ideally still engaging. I think I reached a bit of a bottleneck in terms of uploads, where I’ve improved as an editor over the years but I’ve also gotten so particular that it might lower the threshold of uploads I can sustain and therefore lessen my ability to talk about more and more subjects.
I’ve also already provided at least over an hour of content proving Nightwing beats Batman, so consider this video a very lengthy response with more transparency that I can offer rather than when accounting for entertainment as the top priority. I think the sheer amount of information here makes it worth it on its own, as I’ve been living and breathing this stuff professionally since roughly April of 2020. That’s when I first started accruing Nightwing/Batman/DC Comics scans, interviews, etc. Many of the sources below can be found to read on the internet archive, some of them have a direct hyperlink. Others I went out of my way to buy myself.
I think people downplay Nightwing severely, and many people are just misinformed or see the claim that he beats Batman as incredulous in the face of the latter’s far greater mass consumption or reputation. However, I think this video does a good job illuminating that everyone’s favorite Batman writers and their works, the ones you have to thank for his status, are the reason why I think this conclusion is most valid.
I don’t personally think you can be a rational and openminded person and still disagree with my overall thesis so, I’m just going to link back to or cite this video from here on when making any Nightwing VS matches or content in the future; so I don’t need to indefinitely repeat myself.


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SOURCES IN ON-SCREEN ORDER:
Teen Titans Index # 1
Justice League: The Ultimate Guide
The Periodic Table of DC
The DC Comics Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Characters of the DC Universe - Updated and Expanded
The World According to Batman
DK Adventures: DC Comics: Batman: Adventures of the Dark Knight
Batman/Wildcat # 2
Who's Who in the DC Universe Vol 1 16
Batman: The Ultimate Guide to the Dark Knight
The Batman Sourcebook
DC CHESS COLLECTION # 14
DC Comics: Super-Villains: The Complete Visual History
DC Comics Super Hero Collection #19: Nightwing
Batman VS Deathstroke writer saying the two are equal - http://www.multiversitycomics.com/int...
https://www.dc.com/blog/2022/09/20/pu...
Batman The Ultimate Guide New Edition
https://www.dc.com/characters/ras-al-...
Ra's Al Ghul DC Comic Villain Unique Collector Card, Die Cut
Batman Secret Files and Origins 1998
DC's Who's Who: Update '88 # 2
Tom King says Nightwing can beat an all-out Batman - https://ragingbullets.libsyn.com/ragi...
DC Ultimate Character Guide New Edition
Batgirl entry: The DC Comics Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Characters of the DC Universe - Updated and Expanded
Tom King says Canary and Shiva are # 1 and # 2 H2H fighters - https://www.polygon.com/comics/493134...
Tim Seeley says Batman literally loves Gotham - https://comicsalliance.com/tim-seeley...
Grant Morrison says that the Robins can surpass Batman - https://www.ign.com/articles/batman-g...
Chuck Dixon says Nightwing equals Batman and will surpass him - Titans Companion 2. 2008
Tom King ranks Batfamily fighters - https://x.com/TomKingTK/status/833702...
Grant Morrison says Bruce can beat the Justice League - Wizard Magazine No.63 1996
Scott Snyder says Nightwing is the best emotional detective, can solve mysteries Bruce can't, and is not Batman-light - https://www.cbr.com/scott-snyder-deta...
Judd Winick says that Dick is a master detective, same as Bruce - Titans Companion 2. 2008
Batman: Gotham City Chronicles - Gotham City Guide
Scott Snyder says Superman would lose to Batman and then Nightwing would beat Batman - https://bigshinyrobot.com/comics/inte...
DC Ultimate Character Guide New Edition
Jay Oliva on DCAMU Nightwing - https://x.com/jayoliva1/status/895290...

00:00 Intro/DanCo
00:46 Robin ~ Batman
05:25 Nightwing VS Batman Rouges
10:40 Nightwing VS Batman Himself
16:39 Important Context
21:16 DC's Writers Agree With Me
24:59 Misc. Fights
26:03 Other Universes
28:05 In Summary