Nightwing's Original 'Sister' Needs a Bigger Place In His Modern Stories

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While Nightwing's romantic tension with allies like Starfire and Batgirl is part of what fans love about him, his more platonic bond with Wonder Girl deserves way more modern exploration. Dick Grayson’s attitude towards his fellow Teen Titan Donna Troy establishes that she is a hugely important person in his life who he once saw as a sister, but one who tends to go ignored in modern stories in favor of close friends like Wally West and Jon Kent.

Wonder Girl shares one of Wonder Woman’s more controversial origin stories, where she was sculpted of clay and magically brought to life. However, instead of Hippolyta, Donna Troy's creator was a villainous Amazonian sorceress named Derinoe, who wanted her new construct to destroy Diana. The Amazons intervened in this plot, rescuing the girl but needing to wipe her memory so that she believed herself to be just one of the many people who were saved by Wonder Woman. Nonetheless, she was taken to Themyscira and raised with the skills and knowledge needed to become a superhero. As a founding member of the Teen Titans, Donna literally grew up alongside Dick Grayson and the two of them formed one of the strongest bonds on the team. They are a natural intersection of the extensive Bat-Family and the Wonder-Family, which deserves greater recognition.

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Nightwing poetically described the platonic nature of his friendship with Wonder Girl in Nightwing: Secret Files & Origins' 'Orange You Glad I Didn't Say Banana' by Devin Grayson and Brian Stelfreeze. Here, while discussing past loves, Dick says that Donna is “someone I somehow always knew rather than someone I discovered. She never made my breath catch so much as… well, she