Zack Snyder teases a Justice League Snyder Cut story change involving the DCEU’s Robin

Zack Snyder has taken to social media to tease more about the Justice League Snyder Cut, specifically one DCEU mystery that could potentially be covered in more detail in the 2021 HBO Max release.

“Did you have plans to dive deeper into the background of [Dick Grayson’s] death in your future movies? Maybe [Justice League]?” fan Maroof Husain asked on Vero (via CBR). Snyder’s tantalising reply? “A hint” will be in his version of Justice League.

Robin has been conspicuous by his absence in the DCEU series of movies. His suit was displayed, complete with mocking Joker graffiti, in Suicide Squad, while Ben Affleck’s Batman continues to reflect on the loss of his sidekick in Batman v Superman.

Even more interesting – unless Snyder misread the question – is that it was Dick Grayson who died, not Jason Todd.

That, in fact, may have been the original plan. Back in 2018, when the Snyder Cut was still a hashtag and not a reality, Snyder teased that he had plans for Robin (H/T ComicBook.com). Those plans involved Grayson’s Robin staying dead and Carrie Kelley taking over the mantle.

While we’re unlikely to see the future of Robin mapped out in the DCEU – at least not in the way Snyder would have hoped – we might at least see one iteration’s final day, and the moment that broke Batman, in the upcoming Snyder Cut.

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