User blog comment:Thailog/Ep. 207 "Depths" discussion/@comment-68.1.145.12-20120709040450/@comment-3094698-20120713204246

sorry about turning this into a discussion on ice cream.

now back to topic. my opinion of grayson as being just a gymnast as robin is just that, my opinion, you dont need to all scream at me at once over it, its not like im spamming it all over the wiki.

the only reason he was ever made leader of the teen titans was because he was partner with the freakin batman, it makes sense to put your most successful character's protege front and center in your comic book, it wasnt done because of any in-universe traits he had, it was purely for marketing reasons. in fact dc, years later removed tim drake from the leadership of young justice once it became successful because he wasnt a leader, similarily damien wayne wasnt made leader of the titans when he joined them because he wasnt leadership material and the book was doing well enough. grayson would eventually grow into these qualities naturally after he became nightwing.

as to dick being a detective, ive never seen a storyline where dick actually did any dectective work, from what ive seen he just does some cool flips (and on young justice some computer hacking)