Summary

Warning ! moderate pillager For Batman and Robin # 4!Batman ’s currentRobinhas had a pretty rough chronicle , and now it may be amount back to frequent him in the shape of his former teacher , Mistress Harsh . Damian Wayne grow up in the League of Assassins and was trained from birth to bolt down the great unwashed . He spend a retentive time in the League and was trained by some of the world ’s majuscule and most brutal cause of death , and it seems one of them is return to see how her sometime scholarly person is doing .

Gotham City has been fuddle into convulsion as Batman and Robin are being attacked by an unknown enemy . Old villains , like the Terrible Trio , have get major upgrades , andnew scoundrel like Shush have appear . But who the exact mastermind behind these attacks is stay undecipherable .

The biggest hint so far has do in a trailer ofBatman and Robin#4 by Joshua Williamson , Simone Di Meo , and Steve Wands . In a flashback , readers see one of Damian ’s sometime trainers , who brutally reproof him for not living up to her expectations , even smack him across the grimace at one dot . It ’s possible she ’s returned to see her old student now .

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Damian Wayne has been cultivate to be an assassin his total spirit , but now Batman really need to train the young Robin how to be a human being .

Robin Remembers His Teacher Mistress Harsh

When Damian Wayne was bear , he lived with the League of Assassins , which was ruled over by his female parent , Talia al Ghul , and his gramps , Ra ’s al Ghul . These two tried to determine Damian into being the perfect prince who would eventually inherit the world . This required Damian to be civilize , both mentally and physically , so Talia brought in a great number of absurdly well - trained people to hone Damian ’s psyche and consistence . But most of these people were perfectionist and trained killers , not the sort to let things go . This is why , after all these twelvemonth , it ’s very potential that the one behind the tone-beginning on Batman and Robin now is n’t a villain from Batman ’s past , but from Robin ’s .

Robin was trained to be an assassinby a slew of people over the years , but as this preview show , the woman sleep with as Mistress Harsh clearly bear out in Damian ’s retentiveness . As her name would involve , she was an fabulously harsh teacher and would n’t settle for anything less than paragon . The preview draw a particularly grueling breeding segment where , disappointed with Damian ’s functioning , Mistress Harsh strike him across the aspect . She is then straightaway confronted by Talia al Ghul , who manifestly does n’t take kindly to her son being stumble by a simple handmaiden . reader have n’t seen how this interaction ends , but it ’s very probable that it does not go well for Mistress Harsh , and she ’s now return for retaliation on Damian .

Damian’s Past Returns To Haunt Him

It ’s not uncommon for writers to present new villains by using Batman ’s past tense as a way to bring them in . But Damian has almost as varied a yesteryear as his founder . Having grow up in the League of Assassins for the first ten eld of his life , Damian must have match a ton of villainous people . So it ’s really no surprise that withBatmanand Robin under attack from a new cryptic foe , it ’s potential that it ’s none other thanMistress HarshfromRobin’spast .

Batman and Robin # 4will be on sale from DC Comics on December 12 !

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