Timothy Drake (DCAU)

Timothy Drake
DC Animated Universe‎
Real Name	Timothy Drake
Other Aliases	J.J., Joker
Relatives	Stephen "Shifty" Drake (father),
Affiliation	Batman Family, Titans
Base Of Operations	Gotham City
Status
Alignment	Good
Identity	Secret Identity
Citizenship	American
Marital Status	Married
Occupation	Adventurer · Sidekick
Characteristics
Gender	Male
Height	5' 6"
Weight	130 lbs (59 kg)
Eyes	Brown
Hair	Black
Origin
Universe	DCAU
Creators	Marv Wolfman · Pat Broderick · Bruce Timm · Paul Dini
First Appearance	"Sins of the Father" (September 20, 1997)
Last Appearance	"Future Shock" (January 17, 2004)

Hero time!

— Robin

History

Timothy Drake was the second Robin. His father Shifty Steven Drake was often a thug for Two-Face. Shifty Drake went missing (and was later revealed to have been killed in Metropolis) and the runaway Tim met Batman. After finding out Batman's secret identity, Tim stole the Robin costume to get revenge on Two-Face.

He went on many adventures with Batman. One night, Robin thought that he was saving an innocent woman from evil thugs, but it was just a trap set by the Joker and the woman was Harley Quinn in disguise, who then knocked out Tim. The Joker then tortured him for days at the old abandoned Arkham Asylum. He learned what Batman's secret identity was from him and then he "made" him into a "son" - Joker Junior. Then Joker tried to use him to kill Batman, but Tim turned and killed Joker instead with Joker's BANG! flag gun. Luckily, Dr. Leslie Thompkins, a close friend of the Wayne family, managed to restore Tim to normal. However, from that point on, Bruce forbade Tim to ever work as his partner again.

Tim moved on from there and became a communications expert, married and had two children. However, as Terry McGinnis had discovered, while Drake was being held captive by Joker, the Joker put a chip in Drake's body which controlled him and caused him to transform into the new Joker, yet he always turned back to Tim. As the Joker, Tim used the Jokerz gang to steal high-tech equipment which he assembled into a satellite jamming device which he used to control an orbiting defense system. In a fight between Tim's alter ego and Terry McGinnis as Batman, the new Joker was defeated by Terry destroying the chip that controlled the transformations with the Joker's electric joy buzzer, restoring Tim Drake to normal. During his recovery, Tim saw in Terry someone who was worthy to bear the mantle of Batman.

Powers and Abilities

Abilities

• Acrobatics
• Martial Arts
• Investigation

Notes

• Tim Drake was voiced by Mathew Valencia for the animated series The New Batman Adventures. For later appearance he was voiced by:
  • Eli Marienthal for the Static Shock episode "The Big Leagues" and for the animated film Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman
  • Scott Menville for the video game Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu
  • Andrea Romano, as Joker Junior, and Dean Stockwell, as middle-aged Tim, for the animated film Return of the Joker
  • Shane Sweet for the Static Shock episode "Future Shock"
• The character is an amalgam of Tim Drake (New Earth) and Jason Todd (New Earth) with a few similarities to the latter.
• This version of the character is exclusive to the continuity of the DC Anumated Universe and is an adaptation of Tim Drake/Robin. The original character was created by Marv Wolfman and Pat Broderick and first appeared in Batman #436.

Related

• 131 Appearances of Timothy Drake (DCAU)
• 33 Images featuring Timothy Drake (DCAU)
• 8 Quotations by or about Timothy Drake (DCAU)
• Character Gallery: Timothy Drake (DCAU)

External Links

• Robin at the DC Animated Universe Wiki

Footnotes

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