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BruTim
BruTim is the family ship between Bruce Wayne and Tim Drake

Canon
Unlike the other Robins that have fought beside Batman before going off on their own under a new title, Tim didn't start off as one of Bruce's wards as he still had his parents for a few good years before tragedy struck his family and became an orphan, like Dick and Jason before him. This has Bruce taking Tim in as his third son. There have also been other versions and universes that have Tim being orphaned at a young age, before he meets Batman and has Bruce adopting him when Tim is still a kid. Due to Jason's death, however, Bruce didn't want to train another Robin until he realised that Batman needs a Robin, as much as Robin needs Batman. So to ensure that Tim doesn't get killed like his predecessor, Bruce doesn't let Tim join him on the field until he is fully trained.

Games
Batman Arkham Series

Fanon
This family-ship is mostly focused on the Batman: The Animated Series, from how it had Bruce adopt Tim as a kid while the comics had Tim living with his parents before and after he became Robin. Until they got killed and had Bruce making teenage Tim an official member of his makeshift family. Along with there being fans who prefer to have Batman work beside a young Robin than an adult Robin.

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Trivia

 * One of the good endings of the interaction movie version of Under the Red Hood, Batman: Death in the Family, a young Tim becomes Batkid than the third Robin. As one of the options that viewers can make in the interaction film has Bruce die in Jason's place, preventing Bruce and Tim from meeting, and since he was the one who helps Jason remember his adoptive father's final words, he has Tim undergoing a bat theme persona, to honour Bruce's memory and want Batman stood for.

Variations

 * Batfamily refers to the ship between Bruce, Tim, Selina Kyle, Alfred Pennyworth, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Stephanie Brown, Cassandra Cain, Damian Wayne, Lucius Fox, and the other sidekicks of Batman

BWDG
BWDG is the family ship between Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson

Canon
Dick is the first of Bruce's wards that came into both sides of his life, as he helps Batman keep Gotham safe as the boy wonder, Robin. Bruce was there when Dick watched his parents die in front of him, and since he too had watched his parents die right before his eyes, Bruce decided to take him in.

Games
Batman Arkham Series

Moments
Teen Titans
 * After Robin says that he already has a father when Slade left, there was a brief moment when the scene showed a group of bats flying into the night. Showcasing that Robin does see Batman as his father.

Fanon
BWDG is one of the top Batfamily ships that regard Bruce and his wards who became both his partners and sons. Even though many have questioned Bruce's choice of parenting, from the way he had treated Dick as a solider than a child, fans are drawn to the moments when the two are able to have a father and son relationship. From the rare occasions Dick has Bruce express emotion, along with helping the Robins who came after him so they and Batman can work well together. Some fans think that the two are the most closes in Young Justice, due to the BWDG-like moments that were shown in the series.

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 * Batfamily refers to the ship between Bruce, Dick, Selina Kyle, Alfred Pennyworth, Jason Todd, Stephanie Brown, Tim Drake, Cassandra Cain, Damian Wayne, Lucius Fox, and the other sidekicks of Batman

DickDami
DickDami is the family ship between Dick Grayson and Damian Wayne

Canon
When it comes to the Batfamily's Robins, Dick is the one that Damian is the most closes with. Damian being the blood son has him thinking that he is more superior than Dick and the other Robins who came before him, while Dick simply tries to be a brother figure to him, as he has done with the other Robins who came after him, despite him being none too pleased with Damian's spoiled attitude. Even though Damian's pride keeps him from admitting it to anyone else, he had grown to except Dick as a brother. During the time Bruce was believed to be dead when he disappeared, leaving Dick to become Batman in his place, he made Damian his Robin knowing that Robin needs Batman as much as Batman needs a Robin.

Injustice
When Nightwing and Robin were helping Batman at Arkham Asylum, Damian was tired of Dick telling him want to do and how to fight, like he had done during the training they had before they left, Damian's anger had got him to throw a baton at Nightwing. The baton had hit Dick on the side of his head while force led to him breaking his neck when he hit the ground. Damian was horrified when he realised that his actions were the cause of Dick's death, despite the times Damian couldn't stand Dick he had grown to except him as a brother, as seeing Dick's dead body brought him to tears. He tried to tell Batman that Dick's death was an accident, but he wouldn't hear him out and assumed that Damian had killed Dick on purpose. Dick's soul became Deadwing and used his new abilities to tell Damian that he doesn't blame him for his death and knows that it was an accident. To honour his fallen brother Damian became the new Nightwing in his place, since Deadwing had given him permission to do so.

In the 2021 film version of Injustice, Deadwing saves Damian (still as Robin) from being killed by Ra's and then helps him to fight the Demon Head. Even though Damian had tried to regain control of his body he eventually allows Dick to help him. After the fight Damian tells Dick that he was sorry for causing his death and how he was always a better person then he was, dead or alive. Dick reassure Damian that he already has forgiven him and gives Damian advice to aid him in the future, like watching his feet and not killing everyone he fights. Damian smiles as he tells Dick that he'll try to do things his way.

Fanon
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Trivia

 * In Earth 22 Damian is married to the daughter Dick had with Starfire, Mar'i Grayson. Making Dick and Damian in-laws that just brothers alone.

Variations

 * Batboys refers to the ship between Dick, Damian, Jason Todd and Tim Drake
 * Batfamily refers to the ship between Dick, Damian, Bruce Wayne, Selina Kyle, Alfred Pennyworth, Jason Todd, Stephanie Brown, Tim Drake, Cassandra Cain, Lucius Fox, and the other sidekicks of Batman
 * BatKids refers to the ship between Dick, Damian, Jason Todd, Stephanie Brown, Tim Drake and Cassandra Cain (and sometimes Barbara Gordon)

DamiMar'iJon
DamiMar'iJon is the polyship between Damian Wayne, Mar'i Grayson and Jonathan Kent.

Canon
Damian Wayne is the son of Batman and Talia al Ghul. This makes him an heir to the world's greatest crime-fighter, and its greatest super-villain Ra's al Ghul. Damian became the fifth Robin, working alongside his father as Batman.

Mar'i Grayson, Nightstar, is the daughter of Teen Titans Robin and Starfire in the not too distant future. Her mother died from a circulatory illness when she was young. This happened despite Bruce Wayne's best efforts to help Starfire. Her relationship with her father was somewhat strained due to them being on opposite sides of the conflict. By contrast, she shared a close relationship with Bruce Wayne whom she called Gramps. However, as she grew older, she realized that the world was not the one her parents knew. As such, she devolved into a vigilante, striking out at other metahumans for little or no reason.

Jonathan "Jon" Kent is the firstborn son of Kryptonian superhero Superman and news reporter Lois Lane. He fought crime alongside his father as the young hero Superboy. After growing up in a short period of time, Jon went to the future and joined the Legion of Super-Heroes before returning to the present just in time to pick up the mantle of Superman.

Fanon
Even though they haven't met fans often ship them because of their similarities such as tragic past, family issues, etc. In the DC comics, Damian and Jon have met in a series of comics called "Super Sons" and Damian and Mar'i have met in the "Kingdome Come" comic series, thus they make individual ships : DamiJon and Demonfire.

Writers portray Mar'i and Jon a bubbly personality and they mostly bond over the fact that they are hybrids, i.e. Mar'i being half Tamaranean and Jon being a half Kryptonian. Both of them thoroughly enjoy troubling Damian.

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Variations

 * Demonfire refer to the ship between Damian and Mar'i
 * DamiJon refer to the ship between Damian and Jon

JayDami
JayDami is the family ship between Jason Todd and Damian Wayne

Canon
When the interaction movie version of Under the Red Hood, Batman: Death in the Family has viewers decided to have both Bruce and Jason survive the Joker's bomb, Jason meets baby Damian when Talia approached him to join the League of Assassins. The files Jason has read on the Bat-computer has him being aware that Talia was expecting Bruce's child, but due to what happened to Jason in Bosnian Bruce cut ties with her, along with Talia telling Bruce that she had lost their child before he was born so he wouldn't be forced to pick between Damian or Jason. Jason was surprised by Damian's existence and didn't want to be the baby's father figure in Bruce's place, but Talia said the right things to convince Jason to join her and to help her raise his baby brother. Jason's ending monolog of this version has him stating that Damian was also the one who got him to except his mother's offer, along with him planning to warp Damian into a weapon that would destroy both the League and the Bat family. He calls Damian his brother as he holds the baby in his arms, while Damian touches the "R" on Jason's chest.

Moments
Lego DC Batman: Family Matters
 * Because of the way that Batman had refused to talk about Jason it gets Damian to think that he was dead.
 * Until he learns that the Red Hood is the second Robin.
 * Damian thought it was cool that Jason had once stole the wheels off the batmobile.

Fanon
Some fans like to think of Damian as the second Jason, from how similar the two are to another in their own ways. From being cared for by Talia during their time with the League of Assassins and being Robins who have killed. Giving the two common ground to stand on and due to the things that the two might not be able to bring themselves to share with Bruce or Dick, fans like to think that Jason and Damian can share those things with each other. Along with Jason helping Damian to stay on the none killing path, after he started to lessen his number of kills. Because JayDami-like moments were only seen in the comics, as well as a limited number of animated films and TV shows, it has the family-ship be over shadowed by DickDami, BruDami and JayDick; even though a few JayDami fans would like to see more of the two in other sources of media.

Due to the way that the Young Justice series has Jason and a very young Damian in the same scenes together, fans began to wonder if Talia has Jason helping her to raise Damian or simply has him serve as their personal bodyguard. From how Jason was about fight Cheshire when her words made her sound like a threat to Talia and her son. Some fans are hopping that any future Young Justice seasons, or any other source of media on the series, would have more Jason and Damian scenes.

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Trivia

 * Injustice 2 have can Jason and Damian face off against each other. Their intro dialogues to one another, as well as during their fight, has them possessing an antagonistic relationship.

Variations

 * Batboys refers to the ship between Jason, Damian, Dick Grayson and Tim Drake
 * Batfamily refers to the ship between Jason, Damian, Bruce Wayne, Selina Kyle, Alfred Pennyworth, Dick Grayson, Stephanie Brown, Tim Drake, Cassandra Cain, Lucius Fox, and the other sidekicks of Batman
 * BatKids refers to the ship between Jason, Damian, Dick Grayson, Stephanie Brown, Tim Drake and Cassandra Cain (and sometimes Barbara Gordon)

JayTim
JayTim is the family ship between Jason Todd and Tim Drake

Canon
Due to the way Tim became the third Robin after Jason's death, the second Robin wasn't very fund of his replacement and felt that Tim was proof that Bruce didn't care about Jason. The second Robin's absence and how Batman was acting after he "disappeared" from sight was what got Tim to become Jason's (unwanted) successor, as he had noticed that Jason's death had affected those who cared about him.

Comic
Batman: The Adventures Continue

Even though Jason wasn't seen or mentioned in any of the episodes of Batman: The Animated Series or any of the other cartoon shows from the DC Animated Universe, he does appear in one of new comic stories that continues the series from where it left off and fills in one and two gaps. Tim becomes aware of Jason's exitance and his time as the Robin before him when Bruce and Alfred learned that Jason was alive, as it gets Tim to ask them who was Jason and what happened to him, even though Bruce didn't want to waste any time to find Jason, he does have Alfred tell Tim Jason's story that helps Tim to gain a better understanding of Jason. When it looked like that Batman had returned from his search, Tim realised that it was Jason in disguise when "Batman" apologized and tells Jadon that falling for his trick would make him a poor Robin, after Tim had caught Jason off guard so he could knock him onto the ground. Jason had went to the Batcave to kidnap Tim so he can use him to force Bruce to kill the Joker, Tim had tried his best to Jason but the former manged to knock Tim out and grabs the kid's Robin suit before he places the unconscious Tim over his shoulders. Jason's requires Tim to wear his Robin suit, minus the utility-belt, while keeping him in a small glass box that will fill with water. Tim becomes aware of this when he felt the water beginning to pour into the case and wakes up to find Red Hood waving at him. He tells Tim that he knows what it was like to be powerless while trapped, before advising him to work on his breath stroke, as he plans to keep Tim in there for a while. Thanks to Batman, after Red Hood brought him and Joker to where he was keeping Tim, he was able to secretly tell the young Robin how he can escape the flooding glass box. Despite what Jason had done to Tim, he gets Batman to "focus on the Robin who needs" him, as he knew that Bruce needed to get Tim out of the damaged, flooding room as soon as possibly when Jason allows himself to fall into the raging water, so Bruce's focus would be on Tim than him. Because of what happened to Jason Bruce began to wonder if letting Tim and Barbara into his world of crime fighting was a wise choice, Tim tells him that Jason had made his choice as much as he had made his and he wasn't going anywhere. As for Jason, he was found and patched up by Slade and Sunny.

Films
When the interaction movie version of Under the Red Hood, Batman: Death in the Family has viewers decided to have Bruce die in Jason's place and select events that have him become a murderous Red Robin than Red Hood, Jason meets a young Tim Drake in the good ending of Red Robin's battle with Two-Face. Tim had manged to sneak up behind Two-Face and taser him to save Red Robin. When Robin gets up and is about to kill Two-Face, Tim stops him from doing so by pointing one of the guns Jason had dropped at him. Red Robin tells the kid that evil can't be caged only killed, but Tim mangas to convince Jason to end his killing spree as he reminds Red Robin that he used to stand for something when he was good, before he became the bad guy and that he should use the pain he feels to become strong, as killing Two-Face won't bring back whoever or whatever he lost or make the pain he feels disappear. This gets Jason to remember Bruce's final words to him and what his adoptive father stood for. Along with Tim helping Jason to realis what he had become. After he puts his guns away he asks the "stubborn kid" who opened his eyes to tell him his name and sometime after that Tim became Jason's sidekick, who does by Batkid than Robin. As Tim helps Jason to remember what Batman stood for, so he won't stray from the path he set him on again.

Fanon
Some Jason Todd fans have noticed DCAU Tim Drake was given a similar backstory to Jason in the Batman: The Animated Series, from how the series had Tim as the orphan son of a criminal who had ties to Two-Face and stole to survive before he met Batman. Along with the Batman Beyond film having young Tim be curly tortured by the Joker. This got fans to think that Tim was also serving as Jason Todd in the series, long before the continuum comics of the animated series finally added Jason to its universe. As well as having Tim and Jason in the series' Red Son Rises arc issue.

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Trivia

 * Even though the Batman Arkham Series doesn't have Tim and Jason meet or interact on screen, they were aware of each other. As Tim was recruited when Jason was captured by the Joker, who used this fact to hurt Jason into hating Batman.
 * The Joker in Batman's head even compared Tim with Jason from sensing how worried he was about Tim and reminding him of Jason, to the point it had got Batman to call Tim "Jason" by mistake, while Tim comments on how he hasn't heard Jason's name be said in a while.
 * Tim and Jason are set to appear in the upcoming game, Gotham Knights, as they and two other bat-sidekicks team up to keep Gotham safe in Bruce's place. What the good or bad terms of their relationship in the game would be is yet to be revealed.

Variations

 * Batboys refers to the ship between Jason, Tim, Dick Grayson, and Damian Wayne
 * Batfamily refers to the ship between Jason, Tim, Bruce Wayne, Selina Kyle, Alfred Pennyworth, Dick Grayson, Stephanie Brown, Cassandra Cain, Damian Wayne, Lucius Fox, and the other sidekicks of Batman
 * BatKids refers to the ship between Jason, Tim, Dick Grayson, Stephanie Brown, Cassandra Cain and Damian Wayne (sometimes Barbara Gordon as well)
 * DickJayTim refers to the ship between Jason, Tim and Dick Grayson

TimBerKon
TimBerKon is the ship between Tim Drake, Bernard Dowd and Kon-El.

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 * Konnard refers to the ship between Kon and Bernard
 * Timber refers to the ship between Tim and Bernard
 * TimKon refers to the ship between Tim and Kon