>>119180815Because the films never present us with the growth of the character.
Batman, in comics, is a sad child scarred by his parent's murder, driven to extremes of violence by grief. When he grows up, and his vendetta brings people he cares about into his life, and he gets kids of his own, he grows into more than the wounded child, he becomes a father. And I'm not just talking about Damian here, I'm talking about Dick onwards. Batman grows when he realizes that his mission is bigger than his grief or his trauma. When it's all about him, he's myopic and static.
But studios have had bad experiences in the past with Robin as a character, and he's always been either aged-up or barely present, Nolan hated the very concept of the sidekick and as such compromised his conclusion to the story, because Robin and the Batfamily is where this story is meant to go, and when you try to neuter that you neuter what the story is about.
Batman needs a Robin.
