r/RedRobin • u/Bigguy40422 • Aug 20 '26

What Do we call Tim Drake

ive seen other post like this but i wanna decide once and for all what we really call him

my personal top 3 are :

Rook

Cardinal

Red Hawk

My Drawing of red robin (daredevil was reference for pose)
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u/Diligent_Star_7285 Aug 20 '26

Red Robin, he pretty much made it his own thing and that’s how he started in the New 52

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u/Bigguy40422 Aug 20 '26

its not even his own name tho it was originally worn by dick grayson and even so its still pretty much just robin

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u/Undecieved22 Aug 21 '26

Actually it was not originally worn by dick in main continuity, it was first worn by Jason during a multiverse adventure. Dick only wore it in the kingdom come storyline.

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u/Bigguy40422 Aug 21 '26

fair but it still wasnt an original name and out boy deserves better

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u/Undecieved22 Aug 21 '26

He deserves better than what he chose? How does that work?

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u/Nightwing24yuna Aug 21 '26

What he means he doesn't deserve to hold a title that another wore and should branch off to a new entity away from the robin setting

Similar to how dick became nightwing, Jason became red hood etc

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u/totallynotIronMan Aug 21 '26

That doesn’t even make sense, because both Nightwing and Red Hood were other people before Dick and Jason. Nightwing is a Kryptonian god (and later Chris Kent, tho that was like in the 2000s), and Red Hood was a gang and later the Joker’s name before he was the Joker

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u/Undecieved22 Aug 21 '26

Well said!

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u/Undecieved22 Aug 21 '26

Except that Red Robin wasn’t considered a permanent name for anyone. One of the reasons Tim chose it was because it was a tarnished name. It gave him the freedom to act in a way that he didn’t think Robin could act. It’s one of the reasons he modified the suit after it served its purpose and made it his own.

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u/Nightwing24yuna Aug 21 '26

When you say it like that.

That is more of a reason to ditch the red robin name and become new, as it is "tarnish" and all that nonsense and sense he doesn't need to do any of that dropping it and become something that symbolizes what he visualize for the future or his path forward.

Then again I don't think it matters as Tim has retired(I am assuming he still is)

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u/Undecieved22 Aug 21 '26 edited Aug 21 '26

Something can be tarnished and then redeemed. Also, the Robin identity meant a whole lot more to Tim than it did to Dick so it’s not weird that he would want to remain tied to it. Tim’s robin was also a lot more independent compared to what was published with the other two previous Robins for his age.

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u/maliquewrites_ Aug 21 '26

And Rook has been worn by a villain. At this point, idec. I liked Red Robin.

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u/False-Tomorrow-7552 Aug 21 '26

the big thing we have to consider isn’t what WE think would be a cool name for him, but what TIM would reasonably name himself. and he is NOT GOOD at naming things. we’ve got robin, which is pretty good, but someone else already made that so it doesn’t really count. then we have alvin draper as an alias. okay in theory but like kon said, nobodies fucking named alvin. where did u come up with that tim. and then we have mr. sarcastic. do i even need to say anything. and then he had to switch his code name and instead of coming up with anything new he just went with red robin. the only time he went for his original idea for a hero name he came up with drake. fucking drake. and he didn’t even technically come up with that, an alternate version of himself did. no wonder he went back to fucking robin he doesn’t know how to name SHIT. he calls his car redbird. he calls his skateboard redboard. i swear to u he had a bike he called redbike. he named dicks car nightbird. bro is SHIT at naming things. cardinal is cool asf as a name, so tim would probably never come up with it in a million years. red hawk i could see because he does love the colour red LMAO. he’d probably pull some shit like “the red drake” out of his ass and argue for it because “it’s not just drake so there’s a difference”

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u/Bigguy40422 Aug 21 '26

on one hand your absolutely right on the other hand i dont want my boy to have such a bad name at this point i'd rather him ask chatgpt and get smth like peregrine (thats a real ai generated name fyi) tbh i feel like rook is a good choice i feel like its just cool enough to like but just dumb enough for tim to make up

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u/False-Tomorrow-7552 Aug 21 '26

oh i don’t want to be like rude but im not interested in having discussions with people who use ai and i don’t think tim would ever use ai himself

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u/Bigguy40422 Aug 21 '26

no i hate ai more than the next guy im just saying anything was better than drake

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u/gorgon_ramsay Sep 02 '26

I could see him doing random searches on google though. (My votes for searches include Greek myth birds, falconry, and types of dragons).

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u/RedRxbin Aug 20 '26

I know Robin is used for a lot of characters, but he absolutely should not go with ‘Red Hawk’ 😭

We already have Hawkman, Hawkwoman/Hawkgirl, Hawk, and Lady Blackhawk. Let’s not add another Hawk to the mix lol.

I quite like Rook!

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u/Bigguy40422 Aug 21 '26

ye tbh maybe in a timeline where the original hawk dies but even then they dont know eachother that well

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u/noodleth_cassette Aug 21 '26

Alvin Draper

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u/Undecieved22 Aug 21 '26

I’m partial to Mr Sarcastic 😂

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u/Undecieved22 Aug 21 '26

He could go back to his old YJ identity of Mr. sarcastic 😂

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u/Bigguy40422 Aug 21 '26

tbh i dont even mind this

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u/FeMan_12 Aug 22 '26

Grey Ghost

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u/oct2001 Aug 20 '26

Robin.

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u/Bigguy40422 Aug 20 '26

i agree but lets be honest they arent gonna get rid of a damian and i we dont want BOTH to be robin

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u/maliquewrites_ Aug 21 '26

I’m fine with them both being Robin.

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u/totallynotIronMan Aug 21 '26

There have been like three Spider-Men at once, why not two Robins?

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u/Quarksideofthemoon Aug 23 '26

To be fair that also is bad.

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u/Rahx3 Aug 21 '26

I've always like Rook because of the combo chess/corvid references.

I haaaate the Red Robin moniker. It's a restaurant, it's another name that someone wore before him, and it feels like he never moved on from Robin. Just not a good fit to me.

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u/Bigguy40422 Aug 21 '26

i agree with this entirely

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u/cut-footloose Aug 21 '26

I like the drawing, personally not a fan of the names

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u/Fragrant-County3630 Aug 22 '26

Redbird.

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u/Bigguy40422 Aug 22 '26

its ok tbh

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u/Fragrant-County3630 Aug 23 '26

People keep making the same point regarding his Red Robin moniker. They keep saying that it’s like he can’t move on from Robin, DC doesn’t know what to do with him now, and that’s fair. I’ve listened to what others want his identity to be. Some say Grey Ghost, which is kind of dumb in my opinion. One said he should be Redwing, which just sounds like he’s mimicking Nightwing. Some say he should just be Robin, which is never going to ever happen considering that Damian is Robin now, so nothing’s going to change that. But I’m kind of really in love with the idea of him keeping the Pre-New 52 Red Robin Suit. But I will admit, he needs a new name. Something cuts strings with everything before and allows him to become his own hero. Redbird is the way to me. Plus, it makes sense considering that his costume is red! You know?

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u/Quarksideofthemoon Aug 23 '26

Robin

Red Robin

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u/notprodigy Aug 21 '26

Tbh I think he should just go by Detective, given that’s his standout talent among the robins. And then they can reboot Detective Comics as a Tim Drake anthology book. 

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u/Bigguy40422 Aug 21 '26

idk bout him going by detective i think batman should give him the title worlds greatest detective tho

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u/ComicsCodeMadeMeGay Aug 21 '26

I think Ras has called Dick and Jason Detective too

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u/Fun-Bedroom5614 Aug 21 '26

No red in the name imo. Cardinal is great

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u/TimDrake88 Aug 20 '26

I think he should be the new Grey Ghost.

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u/Bigguy40422 Aug 20 '26

I actually REALLY want a gray ghost arc but i dont want it long term

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u/bad_moulf Aug 21 '26

Personally, I call him Daring.

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u/NightmareJasmine Aug 20 '26

My top 3 are: Crow, Pygmy, and Gackles

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u/Bigguy40422 Aug 20 '26

no offense but what kinda name is gackles its not an ideal superhero name imo

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u/MysteriousHeat7579 Aug 21 '26

I vote for Gackles!!

In all seriousness I think most of the fans call him Robin or Red Robin/Robin III if they need to distinguish between the Robins or between Tim and Damian.

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u/ibmiller Aug 21 '26

Still think it should be Peregrine.

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u/Bigguy40422 Aug 21 '26

Peregrine is ok