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Robin Has Been Absent From Batman Movies Since 1997’s Batman & Robin.
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Although Robin has been a prominent fixture in the Batman comic books since his introduction in 1940, appearing in numerous forms as the character aged and was replaced with the mantle being passed on to a successor, his last appearance in a Batman movie was in the ill-fated Batman & Robin, and considering how badly that movie was received it is not surprising that he did not feature in Chris Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy, and has not appeared in the DCEU other than as a tattered costume in Batman V Superman, suggesting the character’s death had already happened before the time of the movie. His only other recent appearance in live-action has been in the DC’s Titans series, which has currently not been linked to the movies in any way.
While the mural could be used as a throwback memory in Batgirl, showing that the Dynamic Duo have previously existed in this part of the DCEU, it will be interesting to see if he does feature at all as a character in the movie considering it has been hinted that the film will serve as Batgirls’ origin story and will see Bruce Wayne passing on his Gotham Knight mantle to Barbara Gordon. The image of Batman on the mural does seem to show a “current” Batman that is pretty much identical in appearance to the Tim Burton movies, which would suggest an expected and substantial time jump between Batman Returns and Batgirl during which Robin could have had his moment.
We will have quite a wait before this particular conundrum is cleared with Batgirl having no current release date, although it has been said that the film will debut on HBO Max sometime in 2022.
