Spoiler Alert! Huge Spoilers for Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice ahead. When the trailer for Batman V Superman came out, One image that has stuck with fans and led to a lot of questions. It is the defaced Robin costume hanging in Bruce Wayne?s Batcave. Now director Zack Snyder has shed some light on the mystery of Robin?s fate. Snyder tells IGN entertainment ?In my mind, it was that Robin had died 10 years earlier, during some run-in with a young Joker.