How did Dick go from being his own man and leading his own team to crawling back to Bruce whenever he treats him like shit and letting Bruce hit him whenever he wants?

>>149102577 (OP)
Why are comics obsessed with giving "heroes" repugnant interpersonal dynamics? Found family should never be hitting each other

>>149102577 (OP)
Dick is easy to please. And whenever Bruce give Dick some positive lip service, Dick is satisfied.

All superhero families are the result of unplanned lore building

>In the early days, there was the superhero, let's call him A-Man
>A-Man is a huge hit, but back in those days, every superhero should have a younger sidekick, lets call this A-Boy
>The duo continue to be extremely popular, but now the readers are getting a bit bored of the same old routine, so the writers invent a new character who is more or less the same, let's call this A-Girl
>The series continues to thrive but then it gets boring again, so lets introduce the evil dark version of A-Man, we'll call him B-Man

At this point, everything is fine, it's just a goofy series, there's no real continuity between anything, it's more or less akin to Spongebob or Simpsons. Episodic fun.

>Trends are changing, now people want deep serious stories with tight continuities, so lets get rid of all the lame spinoff characters and return back to just A-Man (this time with a black suit)
>The reboot is extremely popular, so to give the fans a bit of love, lets bring in one of the legacy characters
>But we can't just introduce them out of the blue! This is serious story, we have to integrate it
>A-Boy is now actually a real person with a life and personality outside of being just A-Boy
>Kill A-Boy for the shock value
>But wait, A-Boy was popular, bring him back
>A-Girl now marries A-Man because serious gritty stories demand love... but lets also kill A-girl, for shock value!
>B-Man is revealed to be A-Man's secret brother, separated at birth!
>A-Boy is growing up (remember, tight continuity, many years have passed), he doesn't want to wear a skimpy leotard anymore, he wants to be his own man, now he is X-Boy

If you had designed a superhero story with a family concept from the get-go and not just A-Man, none of this would ever happen.
None of these characters are real outside of A-Man, they are all just desperate ripoffs, cashing in on the popularity of A-Man, but who cannot exist without A-Man

Because the Titans began flopping in the late 80s/early 90s when Batman was on the upswing due to the 1989 movie, and Denny O'Neil, who was editor at the time, was irritated at how popular Dick became in that title and wanted him back under Batman's thumb (remember it was Denny who shipped Dick off to college and didn't use him as much as prior writers due to hating how campy Batman 1966 was)

>>149102626
Writers use violence too casually instead of words or any other non-verbal communication. Ever seen Gundam Zeta? Everyone is bitching slapping each other every 2 minutes and then defending it for the rest of the episode.

>>149102794
This man has read every comic in existence.

>>149102626
Easy drama for hack writers.

>>149103669
This. It all boils down to Denny being petty.

>>149102577 (OP)
>How did Dick go back to the franchise that he was created for??

Titansfags...

>>149107535

Dick is glue that connects everything and everyone

Dick is the chosen one

>>149108273
This but unironically. The most important character in the DCU.

>>149102626
everything turns into soap opera when they focus so much on "character driven" stories being the only valid form of storytelling
I'm tired of this bullshit