While I love that Steph has been Robin, I'm perfectly happy with how she grew as Batgirl. I can't help but feel that Robin!Steph would be devolving. Though I certainly wouldn't say no to an AU showing how things went right in the first place!
Barbara has outgrown Batgirl then thousand times more than Dick ever outgrew Robin. But to be honest, I think that the main reason they're never going to make Dick Robin again is not because Dick grew up (after all Didio was willing to kill him as Nightwing, on the grounds that he wasn't Batman or Robin and thus was unimportant), but just because there were other Robins after Dick. Male Robins. Who are obviously much more important characters than female Batgirls or Robins - those they can basically erase, and no-one's the wiser!
If DC wanted me to be paying, happy customer, they'd just write a series about Steph and Cass being a team and girlfriends. Call 'em Spoiler and Black Bat if they had to.
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Barbara has outgrown Batgirl then thousand times more than Dick ever outgrew Robin. But to be honest, I think that the main reason they're never going to make Dick Robin again is not because Dick grew up (after all Didio was willing to kill him as Nightwing, on the grounds that he wasn't Batman or Robin and thus was unimportant), but just because there were other Robins after Dick. Male Robins. Who are obviously much more important characters than female Batgirls or Robins - those they can basically erase, and no-one's the wiser!
If DC wanted me to be paying, happy customer, they'd just write a series about Steph and Cass being a team and girlfriends. Call 'em Spoiler and Black Bat if they had to.