Batman is so impressed that he admits he’s Bruce Wayne and shows her the Batcave, practically hiring her on the spot. In fact, Carrie actually saves the Caped Crusader’s life when the mutant leader is about to crush his skull with a crowbar (the preferred killing method for costumed heroes in the Batman comics of the time).Īfter bailing out the Dark Knight, Carrie drags him to the Batmobile and makes a splint for his broken arm. She eventually follows some mutants into the dump where Batman gets his ass handed to him by their gang leader. Her weapon of choice is a slingshot and the first thing she does is sneak a stick of dynamite into the butt of a con artist who is hustling bystanders with a game of Three Card Monte! Adorable. After all, it suggests that, unlike the Robins that came before her ( Dick Grayson and Jason Todd), Carrie is not an orphan and she doesn’t need a family trauma to drive her… unless of course you consider having stoner hippie parents a trauma!Ĭharmingly, while Batman is out terrorizing the Gotham City night by severely beating up kidnappers and pimps, Carrie approaches crime-fighting like a cartoon character from the Looney Tunes. But at the same time, in a way this also makes Carrie special. The fact that we get so little of Carrie Kelley’s backstory plays into the book’s general theme that the world is so obviously screwed up that all it takes is one inspiring figure for people to start acting up and taking matters into their own hands. It’s easy to forget how (intentionally) funny Frank Miller used to be, despite The Dark Knight Returns’ reputation as a serious bastion of the turn towards grim and gritty superhero comics. I love her parents’ ramblings in the background. Here’s Carrie when she first sees the Bat-Signal in the sky: She’s saved by Batman and immediately becomes a fan. We meet Carrie early on in The Dark Knight Returns, when she and her friend Michelle take a shortcut through a decadent video arcade and almost end up getting knifed by a street gang of mutants (yes, it was the eighties). Also, I suppose it helped that she made her debut on the pages of one of the most acclaimed comics in the freaking history of the entire medium! In many ways, she anticipated future Robins like Tim Drake and Stephanie Brown. She’s this spunky teen who just goes ahead and dresses in that silly suit and totally owns it, kicking enough butt to impress the Dark Knight. Of all the bare-legged kids who have given Batman a helping hand over the years, Carrie Kelley is probably my favorite.
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