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 Marsha Queen of Diamonds.
In the first episode, during a fight, Marsha shoots Robin with a poisoned dart, which turns the Boy Wonder into her love slave. With the youthful sidekick fighting for the villainess, Batman surrenders his arms. Robin is taken away, and Marsha demands that the Caped Crusader marry her as her price for the Boy Wonder's release.
In the next episode, Aunt Harriet poses as Batman's wife in order to stop the Caped Crusader from marrying Marsha. Then, Batman and Alfred rush to Marsha's lair and release Robin from his birdcage.
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For fans of Robin peril, this is definitely an excellent pair of episodes.
In the first episode, Robin is first hit by a poisoned dart and becomes Marsha's love slave. Interestingly, Batman was also hit by a similar poisoned dart and managed to resist the effects of the potion. In the Boy Wonder's defense, Commissioner Gordon and Chief O'Hara also became Marsha's love slaves, and the Caped Crusader may have benefitted from the fact that his youthful sidekick's promptly removed the dart from his senior crimefighting partner's body, possibly minimizing its negative effects.
Robin then engages in a fencing match with Batman, which ends in the Caped Crusader's apparent victory when the senior crimefighter grabs the Boy Wonder's right wrist, thereby gaining control of his young sidekick's sword arm. At this point, Batman was free to point the tip of his sword towards a vulnerable body part of his youthful partner in crimefighting. However, Robin soon disguises his apparent defeat by grabbing the top of the Caped Crusader's blade, apparently gaining control of Batman's sword and causing a stalemate to occur.
Robin spends the rest of the episode looking like a smitten, lovestruck puppy until he is dismissed by the apathetic object of his affection. As the grand mogul drags the Boy Wonder to the suitor's quarters, fans get a good shot of the rear of the young sidekick's green panties.
In the second episode, Robin lies unconscious in his cage in the suitor's quarters.
Since Robin dropped the communicator in "Spell of Tut", alerting King Tut to his presence inside a statue and needing to be saved from a plank over a crocodile pit, Batman has kept the danger-prone Boy Wonder on a short leash. However, producers managed to give Robin some quality time without Batman in this pair of episodes by shooting the Boy Wonder with a love dart, making him Marsha's temporary love slave, and putting the youthful sidekick in a cage.
Fans may have appreciated more scenes in which a lovestruck Boy Wonder pathetically pleads for Marsha's attention from his cage, or jealously fighting other suitors, or performing other death-defying stunts in order to prove his love for Marsha.
This blog is intended to promote the appreciation of Burt Ward's portrayal of Robin in the 1966 television series "Batman". You may purchase both episodes at the following link:
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