Also another thing that I cut out of my post about Dick and flying trapeze, but am posting here: height. Because I’ve seen a lot of talk about Dick’s height on tumblr recently. You can headcanon Dick at whatever height you want. Go nuts, have fun. But. First off – trapeze and aerials and acrobatics are all different things, and they are all different from artistic gymnastics. The “ideal” body for a gymnast is not the same as the “ideal” body for an aerialist or a trapeze artist. While there is crossover, they are not the same. (Example: I can throw a full twisting layout off a trapeze. If I’m on the ground, I can usually manage a cartwheel.) Dick in comics is obviously good at gymnastics as well. In the comics, on trapeze, Dick has been both a flyer and a catcher. I have a friend who’s 5’1, which would actually be on the tall side for elite women’s gymnastics. She is an amazing flyer. There are tricks on flying trapeze she is too short to throw. Not a lot of them, but there are some. In my experience, guys who are both great flyers and great catchers tend to be 5’10-6’0, 175-180 lbs. This isn’t a scientific study, this is just personal experience, and you can have Dick be whatever height you want in your story or headcanon or whatever, those are yours, but in canon I’d say this is something DC actually got right for once. And there’s no reason Dick can’t be 5’10 or even 6’0 and still be a great flyer. Being tiny is not a requirement for being a good flyer, those things aren’t mutually exclusive.