The Tim Drake Robin/Red Robin costume history

Tim Drake was the third person to assume the mantle of Robin and serve as Batman's sidekick, and has also been the third person to assume the mantle of Red Robin. Tim has worn a quite a few costumes as a teenaged vigilante. Tim fist assumed the role of Robin when he deduced Batman's identity and realized that without a Robin to balance him out, the Caped Crusader was spiraling into darkness. Tim's Robin costume was based on the outfit worn by the original Robin, Dick Grayson, but with added touches. No longer would Robin wear green shorts and a red tunic. As Robin Tim wore an armored red vest and green leggings, and replaced the pixie boots of the original Robin with black combat boots and lined the outside of the yellow cape with black for additional stealth. He even altered the R logo into a sharp yellow emblem that could be thrown as a shuriken. Tim wore his Robin costume until the death of his best friend Superboy, and wore a new black-and-red costume (Superboy's color scheme) to honor him. Tim's new suit also had touches of Batman's costume, as it had black trunks and gloves with scalloped spikes. When Batman's son Damian Wayne was given the Robin identity, Tim was crushed. He left the Bat-team and decided to wear the Red Robin costume that had been briefly worn by Jason Todd, the second Robin (and the costume worn by a future version of Dick Grayson). The black cowl and armored emblem gave the former Boy Wonder a more menacing look. When he reconciled with Batman he streamlined his Red Robin suit, adding lightweight armor and added the scalloped spikes back to his gloves. When Tim found himself in a bizarre cyberspace reality called the Unternet, he discovered his Red Robin suit had been altered, as his cowl was now a sharply pointed mask and his suit was primarily black with red boots and a red bird emblem.

After the events of Flashpoint created the New 52 continuity, Tim's history was altered. In this new reality, Tim was recruited by Batman and became Red Robin early on as he felt it was too soon to replace Jason Todd as Robin when the world assumed the second Robin had been killed by the Joker. Tim's first Red Robin costume was similar to his second Robin costume, only more armored and without the black trunks (and with a stylized red mask). When Tim left Batman after Damian became Robin, he created a hi-tech Red Robin costume that combined elements of the Robin costume with that of the original Red Robin costume. His new suit even had glider wings that allowed Red Robin to fly. When Tim finally returned to work with Batman, he created a suit that looked very similar to his original Robin costume, except he changed the symbol to two interlocking R's and wore green boots instead of black.