The Batman line underwent one of its biggest changes during the Knightfall storyline, with Bruce handing over Batman's role to a completely different person for the first time.  Jean-Paul Valley took on the role, with Tim Drake remaining as Robin in Gotham. Despite being a Batman story, the KnightQuest part of Knightfall actually came to an end in Robin's issue.

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Referred to as Turning Point, this Robin storyline would see Bruce Wayne realize what he'd done by placing the wrong person in charge of Gotham City and picking the wrong person to be Batman. Bruce's realizations in this issue would lead to the last part of Knightfall, where Bruce would do everything it took to reclaim his mantle as the true Dark Knight.

10 Tim's Still Managing His Secret Identity

Turning Point Tim Drake's Secret Identity

Fans of Tim Drake from the Teen Titans era or even the modern era might not be used to him having to deal with his secret identity. Very early on in his career, he not only had to balance his secret identity, but it had to be done while dodging his family’s live-in maid, Mrs. McIlvaine. As Tim’s parents were often out of the scene for one reason or another, the maid provided an adult presence that didn’t ask him to go out fighting crime.

9 Bruce Nearly Retires

Turning Point Bruce Wayne Retires

Coming out of KnightQuest The Search, Bruce managed to get his ability to walk back thanks to the Justice League Task Force. But despite being able to walk again, it didn’t mean he was going to step back in the shoes of being Batman immediately. Instead, he was actually considering retiring altogether. Rather than returning to Gotham City as the Bat, he chose to hand the role over to Jean Paul Valley, who he had tapped as his replacement.

8 Jack Drake Makes His First Appearance In The Robin Comic

Turning Point Tim Drake's Dad

As mentioned, for several issues of the Robin solo series, the only person at Tim Drake’s place was their maid and assistant, Mrs. McIlvaine.

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Jack Drake had been kidnapped during an earlier part of KnightQuest, so the comic's first six issues saw Tim largely coming and going as he pleased. But after Bruce managed to recover Jack with the Justice League's help, he was finally able to make his first appearance in the main comic book with the end of KnightQuest.

7 Tim Was Nearly Killed By Jean-Paul

Bruce originally points out that Tim Drake was responsible for Batman’s conscience. It would be a solid point, as that was originally how Tim Drake asked Bruce for Robin's role—he wanted to balance out Bruce’s darker behavior after the last Robin fell in battle. But when he tried it with Jean Paul Valley, it had a decidedly different outcome. In Robin's first issue, it opens with Valley nearly choking Robin to death, only to come to his senses at the last moment and allowing Robin to get away.

6 Bruce Finally Discovers The Truth About Jean-Paul

Turning Point Jean-Paul Batman

Ultimately, what starts Bruce’s journey towards choosing to take down Jean-Paul is found in Turning Point. Bruce wants to retire, but when he learns that Jean-Paul was responsible for allowing a killer named Abattoir to die, he takes issue and wants to talk with Valley about it. But when Valley refuses to take him seriously and even threatens him purely because he believes the mantle of the Bat belongs to him, it becomes obvious Bruce can no longer seriously consider retirement.

5 Jean-Paul's Other Way Of Getting Around

Turning Point Jean-Paul Tim Drake Batmobile

One thing that’s referenced during Knightquest: The Conclusion is Jean-Paul no longer uses the Batmobile. For Robin only fans, this could be somewhat confusing as Jean-Paul rarely appears in the comic. This new method of transportation is a subway car built by NASA. Customized to look like a Bat, the car can travel 250 miles per hour and runs on Gotham’s underground transit system.

4 Batmobile VS Redbird

Turning Point Batmobile vs Redbird

In Robin's very early issues, he had attained a car known as the Redbird. It was a sweet sports car largely was meant to be his version of the Batmobile, and he got into a dangerous street race with Jean-Paul after he knocked Bruce around and raced off, abandoning them both.

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Despite Tim showing off surprisingly sweet driving skills for a fourteen-year-old, he’s still not quite capable of keeping up with the Batmobile. Eventually, the Redbird is taken from him thanks to his multiple adventures away from home, with him losing it in issue #74 and not getting it back for almost a decade.

3 Breaking Into The Batcave

Turning Point Tim Drake Locked Out of the Batcave

Jean-Paul continued the trend of Batman growing ever-darker as a character. Though Bruce’s family was considerably smaller during this era, he still had Alfred, Robin, his own mechanic, and Nightwing that were granted access to the cave. Jean-Paul Valley pushed all of these people away and eventually sealed off every other route into the cave other than driving in. Even the Wayne Manor entrance was bricked off, specifically after Tim confronted him and pointed out the flaws in the way Valley was handling some enemies.

2 Bruce vs. Jean-Paul Round One

Turning Point Bruce Wayne Jean-Paul

When people think of Bruce Wayne vs. Jean-Paul, they think of Bruce facing him at his best and eventually getting the mantle off of Jean-Paul. But what people forget is the first time the two of them fought. With Bruce having spent months without being Batman while Jean-Paul ran up against multiple threats that honed his already sharp abilities, things went...considerably worse for Bruce. He was easily rebuffed by Jean-Paul and told he was no longer worthy of the mantle of the Bat.

1 Bruce's Eventual Trainer

Turning Point Bruce Wayne Training

After Bruce gets embarrassed by Jean-Paul, he’s forced to make some tough decisions. Realizing he’s no longer good enough to take on the mantle of the Bat, he decides to seek out the one person who could give him the fighting skills he needs once again. The person in question turns out to be Lady Shiva Woo-San, the best martial artist in the DC Universe. Shiva took him in, forcing him to face a series of increasingly more powerful martial arts masters before he finally regained all of his skills.

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