Robin OYL Part 2

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WARNING! This is the infamous story written by Adam Beechen that is remembered for what it did to the character named Cassandra Cain. Eighteen scans will be had of three issues (Robin #150-152).


There is only one thing reading this story will culminate in if you're a fan of Cassandra Cain:

The only way to survive after reading these scans is to remember, the character is in a better place and written by better writers now. Keep repeating that to yourself and you should be okay. Remember these positive thoughts.

When we last left Tim he had been given an ultimatum: Break out David Cain or else Cassandra Cain dies. Tell anyone and Cassandra Cain dies! So Tim does the logical thing. He goes to Blackgate to break David Cain out:




Thankfully after through the remainder of the security due to it being installed by Wayne Enterprises. And math is there anything it cannot do?! Wait the ninjas gave Tim this long a time table to break David Cain out? Well at least they're nice ninjas and not extreme with a very short time table.

Anyway, Tim breaks David out and knocks him out. He then interrogates David when they're near the meeting site. Cass's pop plays innocent not knowing what's going down. And seriously, the strange thing is re-reading this David Cain seems in character throughout this. It's only later in Beechen's Cass mini does the whole OOC David show up.

So since David doesn't give him the right answer, Tim knocks him out again. So they arrive and at first nobody is there. But being that this is ninjas they appear out of nowhere and begin fighting Tim. It becomes a numbers game and after a mysterious someone tells the ninjas to attack a weak spot of Tim they exploited earlier in part 1, they capture Tim.

And so the great mastermind of this arc stands revealed. Can you guess who it is?








I remember when first reading this. What this scene above reminded me of:

#150 ends with Cass holding Tim up and pointing the gun at her father. But just when you think it can get any worse? Oh but it does! IT DOES!





Heh.. Crazy crime crusade.



So did Linkara get his magic gun from Cass? I'm just saying. It looks the same caliber and fires more than one round. Plus it disappeared and suddenly Linkara began wielding one. Just saying.

After this EVIL act (as if the reveal wasn't the topper), Tim has had enough and with both arms (wait.. his shoulder was broken how did he do that?) beats down Cass's ninja posse. Oh and he blows some up too like literally killing them. Now we know who the bad influence was on Steph who blew up people up in the first issues of her series. Tsk tsk..

So it all comes down the epic showdown:



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Yeah, I think this one (besides the villain reveal) made me the most angry at this arc. I mean come on, Cass's ablities DO NOT WORK THAT WAY! If they did any thug would have been able to beat her. The only time she had that sort of problem was when the metahuman rewired her brain to talk. Ugh just ugh. But we're almost done. I have to finish this. *deep breath*

So Tim and Cass brutally fight each other both landing some vicious blows on the other. In the end before a victor could be claimed:




And Tim jumps off from the explosion Die Hard style to the ground to find some dead ninjas (not by his hand honest) and David Cain missing. So in final summary we're given this at the end:




But it doesn't end there. So Cass is a major threat to the Bat Family right?


Oh no, if you had the gall to stay around one more issue you where treated to one more slap in the face.







And thus ends how Cass became a super villain. Dare I continue and post her other villain ventures and the revelation she was on Slade juice? I hope you all survived without getting into a rage fit. I know I almost went into it after looking at these pages again.