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Years after Dick Grayson steps away from being Blüdhaven’s nightly answer, the legacy he built — his students, his methods, his mercy, and the people he taught to survive — is weaponized by Raptor, who returns to prove that Dick’s goodness was always protected by uglier choices made beneath him. But as Raptor puts Nightwing’s life on trial, Doctor Hurt quietly twists that legacy into something colder: a reproducible model of guardianship without grief, doubt, or humanity. Across two seasons, NIGHTWING: THE LONG WATCH follows an older Dick Grayson’s final battle against Raptor, Hurt, Deathwing, and the temptation to become the permanent answer the world would gladly trust, forcing him to prove that Nightwing was never meant to be a throne, a system, or a perfect successor — but a lesson that people must learn to catch each other when they fall.