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* Carrie Kelly / Robin: A 13-year-old girl who becomes Batman's newest sidekick.

During the creation of the series, fellow comics writer / artist John Byrne told Miller " Robin must be a girl ", and Miller complied.

Comics historian Les Daniels commented, " In retrospect the imperative seems less than inevitable, perhaps no more than trendy gender bending or possibly just a response to the homophobia inspired by Fredric Wertham more than thirty years earlier.