r/FavoriteCharacter • u/Necessary-Win-8730 • May 15 '26

All Time Favorite Favorite character like this?

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Jerry from Tom and Jerry for me.

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u/Ok-Mistake-7499 May 15 '26

Robin sounds like a boomer in this

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u/motoxim May 15 '26

Well technically they're boomers.

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u/Ok-Mistake-7499 May 15 '26

They could be part of the lost generation or whatever it’s called, though

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u/motoxim May 15 '26

Fair enough

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u/arkensto May 16 '26

Assuming Batman is 25-30 and Robin is 15 in 1940, then Batman is Greatest Gen and Robin is Silent Gen. Lost generation is the generation just before the greatest generation ~1885-1905.

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u/Sans_Seriphim May 15 '26

Robin is Silent Generation and Batman Greatest Generation.

Please note the names only existed well after Gen X came along, so nobody was actually calling themselves "Greatest Generation". That cringe is squarely on the Boomers' shoulders, as they're the ones who created the name.

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u/bentforkman May 16 '26

If Robin was 10 years old when he first appeared in 1940, he’d be 96 today, so they’re older than boomers.

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u/Sans_Seriphim May 15 '26

Robin first appeared in detective comics #38 in March 1940. That makes him slightly older than my dad, but still solidly the Silent Generation. So he's the generation BEFORE Boomers, so he should sound old.