Robin the Boy Wonder is the eager, youthful sidekick of Batman, the Caped Crusader, the vigilante crime-fighting alias of millionaire playboy Bruce Wayne. Introduced in 1940 as orphaned acrobat Dick Grayson in the DC comic book series Batman, Robin was played by Burt Ward in the 1966 television series on ABC.
As played by Burt Ward, Robin has a cute, boyish face, clean-cut, brown hair, and a compact, athletic physique which fits perfectly with his character's acrobatic background. His colorful outfit, with his dark green mask, gloves, and booties, his bright, red shirt, his shiny, yellow cape, his tight, green panties, and his form-fitting, flesh-color leggings, certainly catches the audience's attention.
Due to his youth, inexperience, and smaller size, the Boy Wonder is clearly the weak link in the Dynamic Duo, which their opponents often seek to exploit. Robin is also cocky, enthusiastic, and overly eager to prove his independent crime-fighting abilities, especially to Batman. He is often in trouble and in need of rescue.
This week's villain is Joker.
In the first episode, Batman and Robin fall through a trap door into a bin in the basement, where they are apparently separated to meet their different fates. Batman is placed in a giant key cutter where the machinery will cut his body as if it were a giant key, while Robin is placed in a wax spray chamber where his pores will be filled with wax.
Episodes where the Dynamic Duo are to share the same fate tend to reveal a lack of imagination on the part of the villain. In this episode, I credit the Joker for thinking up a different demise for Robin.
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