Batman has experienced the deaths of multiple Robins over the years, including Jason Todd and his biological son Damian Wayne. After Damian's death, Batman went through the five stages of grief as outlined by the Kübler-Ross model: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. In denial, Batman refused to accept Damian was truly gone. In anger, he became more brutal fighting crime. During bargaining, he searched desperately for ways to revive Damian. Depression set in when he realized nothing could bring Damian back. Eventually, Batman reached acceptance and understood he must go on protecting Gotham.

1. BATMAN AND THE 5
STAGES OF GRIEF
A Death in the family by Jon Davis

2. DEATHS IN THE BAT
FAMILY: A BACKSTORY
It is common knowledge that there is batman and robin.
What isn’t so common is that batman has had multiple
robins throughout the years. Sadly some of his robins have
also died. The first to die was Jason Todd, the second robin
at the hands of the joker. This crippled batman emotionally.
More recently Damian Wayne his biological son was killed
by Talia. Batman at this point was torn between grief and
the belief that since Jason was resurrected so could
Damian. This however only deepened his madness and
resentment.

3. THE 5 STAGES OF
GRIEVING
The Kübler-Ross model, or the five
stages of grief, is a series of emotional
stages experienced when faced with
impending death or death of someone.
The five stages are denial, anger,
bargaining, depression and acceptance.

4. DENIAL
At first Batman couldn’t believe that
Damian Wayne had died. He was grief
stricken and in the memory of how Jason
Todd was revived via the Lazarus pit
batman didn’t truly take in how his son
was truly dead.

5. ANGER
He couldn’t accept that Damian was
gone. What further angered him was that
everyone kept telling him to accept the
loss and that Damian couldn’t be brought
back. At this point he became more brutal
when crime fighting even nearly killing
people.

6. BARGAINING
Being aware that Jason was resurrected
by the Lazarus pit, Batman proceeded to
search out Jason forcing him to relive his
tragic past and even tried to find
Frankenstein in order to revive his dead
son.

7. DEPRESSION
Being aware that nothing he could try will
bring back his dead son batman goes
into depression. It gets so far as that he
even takes out his sorrow when crime
fighting and nearly beats a few criminals
to death.

8. ACCEPTANCE
Batman now understands that he has to
accept that his son is gone. In his pursuit
of justice he has lost a lot of people he
cared about and there were unfortunate
events that transpired as well. Still
Gotham needs him and he will push on,
and until he is fully recovered his old
partners always drop in to keep a
watchful eye.

9. CONCLUSION
The stages of grief Batman experiences are fairly
similar to The Kübler-Ross mode. Even though he is a
comic character the artists try to portray him as
accurate as possible to a real person. It is my belief
that in this way the correlation between The Kübler-
Ross model and batman regarding the grieving of
his loss is very similar.

10. REFERENCES
Wikepidia on The Kübler-Ross model
Comics on Batman, Batman and robin, a death in the family saga,
batman inc, and a few other comics as reference material as well
as the under the red hood movie for Jason todd..