2. Robin (Tim Drake) (DC Comics)

HOLD ON LET ME EXPLAIN MYSELF! Before you jump to aggression let me make this clear: my favorite character to read about who went by the name Robin was Dick Grayson. But I would still argue that Tim Drake was the best Robin of the five or six or thirty depending on how you count them.

Part of it comes from Tim’s origin, which was easily the best. Tim Drake figured out who Batman and Robin were at the age of nine. NINE!! Call Batman the world’s greatest detective all you want, he wasn’t that competent in his pre-pubescence!! Years later, after Jason Todd got killed, Tim noticed Batman was growing angry and violent and something needed to be done about it.

Tim proved himself worthy of taking on the identity of Robin and joined Batman as a true partner. He’s also notable for having actual non-Batman parents or at least a father) for years after becoming Robin.  Tim was supergenius levels of smart and made a better one-to-one partner for the Dark Knight than any Robin has before or since.