Tim Drake

Tim Drake, the third Robin, is a vigilante operating in Gotham City as Batman's partner. He is also the husband of Barbara Gordon and son-in-law of James Gordon.

Biography

Batman: Arkham City

After Batman tracks down a League of Assassins ninja and puts a tracker on her, Tim intervenes and delivers Batman the Line Launcher, Batman then delivers his own blood sample to Tim so he can help get Joker’s blood off Gotham’s hospitals.

Tim communicates with Batman after he’s got Ra’s Al Ghul’s blood, to confirm that there are at least thirty confirmed cases of Joker’s infected blood in Gotham General Hospital and nearly fifty at Mercy,

Batman: Arkham Knight

Tim is now taking care of the four Joker-infected in the Movie Studios after Arkham City, he is running diagnostics on Henry Adams to see if there’s a possible cure, as he shows no signs of the disease. Tim insists Batman throughout the story that he should help him, but Batman constantly refuses his help.

After ACE Chemicals blows up, the player can go to the Movie Studios as Batman and can talk to Tim. He says that he can’t communicate with Barbara and Batman lies to him by telling him that she’s fine.

After helping Ivy free her plant in Miagani Island, Batman goes to the Movie Studios to locate the Cloudburst, and Tim asks about Barbara, Batman once again lies that she’s fine and tells Tim that he should keep working with the Joker-infected.

Batman receives an emergency call from the Movie Studios from Henry Adams, who says that they’re under attack before being hit in the head by Harley Quinn, Batman arrives quickly and helps Tim take down Harley’s henchmen and track down the infected. Tim notices Batman’s strange behavior as they capture the infected, and after he calls him “Jason”, the former second Robin, Tim says that he has not done that in a while. After taking the infected to their cells, Tim opens one of the cells only to find Christina Bell, and Albert King or Johnny Charisma dead, and Batman tells him to not move, he finds out Henry was always infected and that he always hid it, he kills Johnny Charisma or Albert King, and eventually himself after discovering Batman is the last Joker-infected. Tim is shocked by this reveal and tells Batman to go in the cell, but Batman locks him instead, also blocking him communications. The player can choose to tell Tim about what really happened to Barbara, and he’ll break down and insult Batman for not letting him out.

After rescuing Barbara, the player can have an interaction with Robin to tell him about Barbara again. After Batman says that he’s rescued Barbara and that she is now fine, Tim will drop to his knees in relief.

Batman successfully stops the militia’s assault to the GCPD, but Barbara says that Gordon was in the Movie Studios, which is also where Tim was locked up. Batman quickly goes there, but finds Tim’s cells empty with Scarecrow’s symbol on it and his staff and gadgets on the floor. Scarecrow speaks with Batman that if he wants to see Robin and Commissioner Gordon again, he will have to surrender himself and sacrifice his identity.

Batman eventually decides to surrender and is transported to Arkham Asylum, seeing Tim bloodied and cuffed, when Gordon refuses to takes Scarecrow’s orders, he shoots Tim in the chest and forces Gordon to unmask Batman by holding him at gunpoint.

After the events of the game and the Knightfall Protocol, Tim proposes to Barbara and get married together, going on a honeymoon that later gets interrupted by Two-Face breaking out of GCPD, which forces Tim into the mantle of Robin again and takes him down.

Abilities

Equipment

Behind the scenes

Voice acting

Tim Drake is voiced by Troy Baker in Batman: Arkham City (2011), Matthew Mercer in Batman: Arkham Knight (2015), and Tom Austen in Batman: Arkham VR (2016).

Appearances

Games

• Batman: Arkham City (2011) - Side character, canonical
• Batman: Arkham Knight (2015) - Side character, canonical
• Batman: Arkham VR (2016) - Side character, canonical
• Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League (2024) - Mentioned (and implied to have died), non-canonical

Downloadable content

• Harley Quinn’s Revenge (2012) - Protagonist, canonical
• A Flip of a Coin (2015) - Protagonist, canonical