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Dick Grayson and Tim Drake: Intuitive vs. Logical Intelligence 

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I’ve been thinking a lot about Dick Grayson and Tim Drake, and their skills as detectives. Now, for the most part, Tim Drake is shown to be a better detective (or at least, the potential to become a better detective) than Dick, and that’s fine. But this sadly seems to come with a lack of emphasis on Dick’s considerable intellect in more modern characterizations. I think it’s very possible that you can portray two people as being smart, while at the same time showing one to be the smarter.

So, in order to set the record straight, I thought I would compare and contrast Dick and Tim’s distinctive approaches to detective work, and how their approaches to detection reveal much about how their intelligences function.

Tim Drake, of course, is highly logical. Like his mentor, he can gather clues from a crime scene, and using logical deduction (and his considerable scientific skills) to analyze, deduce, and discover the most likely scenario. After all, this is the kid who managed to deduce Dick Grayson and Bruce Wayne were Robin and Batman, and that Helena was Huntress

Dick, unlike Tim, is not depicted as possessing these same forensic skills, or at least, not on the same level. However, Dick posses a great deal more intuitive intelligence — in this case, the ability to figure out what makes people work, and what motives they could have, with little “logical” evidence to go on. It’s this kind of intuitive thinking that lets Dick solve four cases just by watching the stories on TV.

So, we can see that both styles of thinking have their merits. Tim may not thrive at discovering motive and getting inside a criminal’s head, like Dick can, but his logical, deductive process does enable him to go further than Dick as a detective.

It certainly doesn’t help that Dick himself is so taken with Tim’s abilities that he often says that Tim is smarter. That’s something I don’t necessarily agree with, because it tends to posit just one type of intelligence as being the only legitimate intelligence. It discounts the fact that as stated above, Dick is intuitive. He is also very emotionally intelligent. There really is no “smarter than” here where they exist in completely different categories. They outpace each other in their own respective categories. While Tim can do all of the standard forensic work and research and excels where he has prep time and Dick isn’t necessarily the best at that, Dick can do his preliminary work and jump right in, adapting to whatever comes up. As he has said before, he thinks best on his feet. He and Tim are tactics (Dick) vs. strategy (Tim). 

One good, early example comes from A Lonely Place of Dying where Tim, based on all of his observations and the most logical outcome was completely wrong about the circus sabotage. It was Dick who solved it, not only by looking at the evidence, but also because he understands people.

Another way to think about this is that Dick may also shirk the research because he’s okay with depending on others to back him up, and he’s not nearly as insecure about his own abilities to get himself out of a jam as he is in failing others. He knows that he can count on everyone else and himself to think quickly.

It really is bothersome that a lot of writing has interpreted this as Dick just not being as good of a detective as Tim, as if he were not also trained by the best. Tim may be the genius, more cerebral one, but Dick’s no fool. 

Dick’s still a great detective, even if Tim has the potential to be greater. 

Reblogging this because the excellent commentary is totally worth having. As an intuitive thinker myself, I’ve come to understand that there are many benefits to intuitive intelligence. The main one is the ability to come to (accurate) conclusions that a logical thinker could never arrive at because logical thinking is a very step by step process, where as intuition is very much about making leaps. One solid, non-Batman example is seen in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Harry, an intuitive thinker, is able to conclude that the Deathly Hallows are in fact real much more quickly than his more logical ally, Hermoine. The other is the ability to predict what others will do, which I think is Dick’s main strength over Tim in terms of intellect. Intuitive intelligence, while less dogged and less precise, is also much warmer and more people oriented.