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05/10/2004: the Robin oath...
Do we see somewhere what the full current version of the oath that Dick has sworn is? I've seen scans of that panel from Golden Age comics where Dick swears an oath by candle light, that (what we see of it) goes "And swear that we two will fight together against crime and corruption and never swerve from the path of righteousness!"
And in Gotham Knights #11 when Dick quotes that oath to snap Bruce out of his autohypnosis, he quotes it as "to fight crime and corruption and never swerve from the path of justice" which is close enough, I guess.
However, when Batman refers to the oath for example in Robin Year One, he makes it sound as if there was a section about absolute, and unquestioning obedience included:
Batman: "You once swore an oath to me. If you put that costume on, you'll honor those words to the letter and never again question my orders."
Dick: "Even if it means watching you die?"
Batman: "Yes. Without hesitation."
Now it might be just me, but that sounds as if the oath has undergone some major revisions or at least expansions from the original one, which didn't have anything in it about obedience without hesitation, not just as if they had the lecture about following orders before.
Visually the candle light oath scene is referenced at the very end of Dark Victory, for example, but we don't see the words there.
So do we see this new and improved oath in full somewhere?
