Robin War

Robin War
Promotional Image for Robin War
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
Genre	Crossover
Publication date(s)	December 2015 – January 2016
Main character(s)	Robin, Court of Owls
Creative team
Written by	Tom King, Tim Seeley, Ray Fawkes, Lee Bermejo, Patrick Gleason, Brendan Fletcher, Scott Lobdell, Will Pfeifer
Artist(s)	Khary Randolph, Alain Mauricet, Jorge Corona, Andres Guinaldo, Walden Wong, Mikel Janín, Steve Pugh, Carmine Di Giandomenico, Scott McDaniel, Micuel Mendonca, Adam Archer, Javier Fernandez, Alvaro Martinez, Raul Fernandez

Robin War is a comic book crossover storyline published by DC Comics. The event ran from December 2015 to January 2016 in the books Robin War, Grayson, Detective Comics, We Are Robin, Robin, Son of Batman, Gotham Academy, Red Hood/Arsenal, and Teen Titans.

A young member of the We Are Robin movement named Travis sparks a citywide response to teenage vigilantes called "The Robin Laws," which make any visual or verbal identification with the movement illegal. Councilwoman Noctua spearheads the legislation, doing so to earn her place in the Court of Owls. Duke Thomas, leader of one of the cells of the movement, calls a meeting, which is interrupted by Damian Wayne, current Robin, who objects rather violently to anyone else claiming the title. James Gordon, current Batman, protests Noctua's orders to capture all of the Robins, but follows them when she refuses to relent. Damian takes him down, and Tim Drake and Jason Todd intervene, telling Damian to wait for Dick Grayson, the original Robin, current agent of Spyral. The Court of Owls murders Travis before he can follow Duke's guidance and stop the escalation of the war by turning himself in.

Dick, Jason, Tim, and Damian train the Robin movement and lead them on several missions, all of which turn out to be Dick's plan to have the authorities capture all of the Robins except himself to keep them safe. They are taken to a vast secret prison facility nicknamed "The Cage" which houses a large number of aerial barred cells reminiscent of bird cages. Grayson runs into Gordon, and together, they determine that Noctua seems to be benefitting from the war. The Cage is taken over by the Owls, who force Tim and Jason to fight to the death. Instead, they release all of the Robins from the cages and begin an assault on the Owl's forces of Talons.