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My character design of Ricky Addison Reed's Richard Grayson [I'm calling him Richard because his popular nickname "Dick" had long ago become slang for penis and used as an insult [even in Michael Keaton's Batman (1989) by Tim Burton Robert Wuhl's Alexander Knox says "Whatta dick!"] so Tim Burton likely would have had Robin called Richard Grayson] Robin planned for Batman (1989). Warner Bros bosses had insisted on including Robin in every Batman movie script from 1983 to 1988. Tim Burton really didn't want Robin in it and there ended up not being enough room for Robin's circus origin, training and introduction, too, without cutting out important Batman and Joker plot points. But what would Tim Burton have done with Ricky Addison Reed's Robin if the Warner Bros bosses had insisted on including Robin in Batman (1989)? I think Burton would have toughed him up with a fully Kevlar-padded costume concept with green Kevlar-padded leggings and sleeves for maximum protection for combat or winter weather protection and hand guns that could shoot a wide variety of things: pellets, tranquilizer darts, gas, rope, net or bullets (if Warner Bros would let him), etc. And a personality like the troubled child orphan David Collins in Tim Burton's Dark Shadows, like the macabre Vincent Malloy in Tim Burton's Vincent, and like a male violent Hit-Girl from Kick-Ass. I believe Keaton and Reed could have totally made over Batman and Robin's pop culture image away from the ambiguously gay flamboyant cheesy BatWest and WardRobin pop culture image. Reed's Robin wouldn't make Keaton's Batman look ambiguously gay. I think Reed's emotionally disturbed violent child Robin would have made Keaton's Batman look like a child endangering disturbing mastermind instead of gay.

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My character design of Ricky Addison Reed's Richard Grayson [I'm calling him Richard because his popular nickname "Dick" had long ago become slang for penis and used as an insult [even in Michael Keaton's Batman (1989) by Tim Burton Robert Wuhl's Alexander Knox says "Whatta dick!"] so Tim Burton likely would have had Robin called Richard Grayson] Robin planned for Batman (1989). Warner Bros bosses had insisted on including Robin in every Batman movie script from 1983 to 1988. Tim Burton really didn't want Robin in it and there ended up not being enough room for Robin's circus origin, training and introduction, too, without cutting out important Batman and Joker plot points. But what would Tim Burton have done with Ricky Addison Reed's Robin if the Warner Bros bosses had insisted on including Robin in Batman (1989)? I think Burton would have toughed him up with a fully Kevlar-padded costume concept with green Kevlar-padded leggings and sleeves for maximum protection for combat or winter weather protection and hand guns that could shoot a wide variety of things: pellets, tranquilizer darts, gas, rope, net or bullets (if Warner Bros would let him), etc. And a personality like the troubled child orphan David Collins in Tim Burton's Dark Shadows, like the macabre Vincent Malloy in Tim Burton's Vincent, and like a male violent Hit-Girl from Kick-Ass. I believe Keaton and Reed could have totally made over Batman and Robin's pop culture image away from the ambiguously gay flamboyant cheesy BatWest and WardRobin pop culture image. Reed's Robin wouldn't make Keaton's Batman look ambiguously gay. I think Reed's emotionally disturbed violent child Robin would have made Keaton's Batman look like a child endangering disturbing mastermind instead of gay.