Editing Robin (character) (section)

===Bruce Wayne Junior===
In "The Second Batman and Robin Team" (''Batman'' #131, April 1960), Bruce Wayne's butler Alfred writes a story about the possible future of Batman and Robin. In it, Bruce Wayne marries Kathy Kane ([[Batwoman (Kathy Kane)|Batwoman]]) and they have a son named '''Bruce Jr.''' When Wayne retires as Batman, Dick Grayson takes over the role of the Caped Crusader. Bruce Jr., having secretly trained on his own, volunteers to become the new Robin, despite objections from his mother. As Robin II, he fights alongside Batman II.<ref>''Batman'' #131</ref> Several subsequent "[[Elseworlds#Imaginary Stories|imaginary stories]]" featuring Bruce Jr. followed; the last in this series was "Bat-Girl—Batwoman II" in ''Batman'' #163 (May 1964). Bruce Wayne Jr next appeared in ''[[World's Finest Comics]]'' #215 (January 1973) as one of the [[Super-Sons]].<ref>{{cite book|last=McAvennie|first= Michael|last2=Dolan|first2=Hannah, ed.|chapter= 1970s|title = DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle|publisher=[[Dorling Kindersley]] |year=2010 |isbn= 978-0-7566-6742-9 |page= 157 |quote = Scribe Bob Haney and artist Dick Dillin introduced the DC Universe to an alternate timeline starring the World's Finest offspring in January's ''World's Finest Comics'' #215.}}</ref>

[[Grant Morrison]] used the Bruce Wayne Jr. character in ''[[JLA (comic book)|JLA]]'' #9 (September 1997), in the story "Elseworlds."<ref>In an interview with ''[[Wizard (magazine)|Wizard]]'', writer Grant Morrison stated that he took inspiration from the Silver Age Bruce Junior stories.</ref> After the supervillain [[Key (comics)|Key]] traps the Justice Leaguers in dream worlds, Batman dreams of a future in which he is married to [[Catwoman|Selina Kyle/Catwoman]]. They have a son named Bruce Junior, who was raised from birth to be a superhero and serves as Robin II alongside a [[Tim Drake]] Batman.

[[John Byrne (comics)|John Byrne]] created his own Bruce Jr. in the epilogue of the ''Batman/[[Captain America]]'' crossover from 1996; this Robin is a red-head and resembles a male Carrie Kelley. Captain America wakes up in modern times after having been frozen in ice towards the end of World War II. He reunites with Batman, a friend who had helped him when [[Joker (comics)|Joker]] and [[Red Skull]] joined forces. Cap is amazed to learn that in the time he slept, Bruce Wayne has retired from being Batman, has passed the mantle to Dick Grayson and that his son Bruce Junior is the new Robin.

Byrne revisited Bruce Jr. in his ''[[Superman & Batman: Generations]]'' series. There, Bruce Junior is son of Bruce Senior and his wife, who is never identified but is implied to be [[Julie Madison]]. "BJ" greatly desires to be a hero and trains in the hopes of following in his father's footsteps. His mother refuses to let BJ become Robin until he turns eighteen. On Halloween night of 1964, when BJ is fifteen, he and [[Superman]]'s daughter Kara ([[Supergirl]]) sneak out to have an adventure and, with the help of [[Wonder Woman]]'s daughter [[Wonder Girl]] and [[Barry Allen|The Flash]]'s nephew [[Wally West|Kid Flash]] join forces to defeat some of Flash's Rogue's Gallery. Afterward they decide to form their own team called the [[Justice League]].<ref>''Superman & Batman: Generations 2'' #2 (September 2001)</ref> BJ and Kara become romantically involved as adults, but BJ puts the relationship on hold when [[Joker (comics)|Joker]] kills Dick, forcing him to become the third Batman. BJ and Kara eventually marry, but their wedding is halted by Kara's brother Joel Kent. Joel, who had been manipulated his whole life by [[Lex Luthor]] to hate his family, kills Kara by punching through her chest. Joel dies shortly thereafter, and BJ agrees to raise his powerless son in order to prevent another such tragedy from happening (he also marries Joel's widow, Mei-Lai, sometime in the intervening years).<ref>''Superman & Batman: Generations'' #3</ref> The child, named Clark Wayne, becomes BJ's Robin and is offered the mantle of Batman when he becomes an adult. Clark turns it down, having deduced that he isn't BJ's biological son, and believing that only a real Wayne should be Batman, instead adopts the identity of Knightwing. In the 1990s, BJ goes on a quest to locate his missing father, whom he eventually discovers as having taken over [[Ra's al Ghul]]'s criminal empire and turned it into a force for good. Bruce asks BJ to assume control of the organization so that he can become Batman once again. A story in ''Generations II'' has Bruce's dying wife imply that BJ isn't his biological son, but this is not explored until ''Generations III'', where BJ uses a Lazarus Pit and becomes Robin once more, ultimately learning that he truly is Bruce's son and everything was a plan by his mother to make up for never allowing father and son to work together as heroes. In ''Generations III'', BJ's life is greatly extended by the use of the Lazarus Pit so he can help the human resistance battle the forces of [[Darkseid]], but when he is mortally wounded he decides to pass on, feeling that he's kept Kara waiting far too long; the sight of their spirits departing together is enough to make even Bruce Senior shed a tear.<ref>''Superman & Batman: Generations III'' #5 (July 2003)</ref>

For more information on a similar concept, see [[Damian Wayne]], Bruce Wayne's son by [[Talia al Ghul]]. In the wake of his father's apparent death, his father's first Robin, Dick Grayson, took over as Batman with Damian serving as the new Robin. The version of Damian depicted in ''[[Batman: The Brave and the Bold]]'' has more in common with Bruce Jr. than with his portrayal in comics.