Batman himself would slowly grow to accept Tim as his new partner, although the memory of Jason would play a heavy part in how Batman trained Tim in the months building up to his official appearance as Robin. The image of Joker repeatedly beating Jason in Jim Starlin's 'Batman: A Death in the Family' remains disturbing to this day, and this likely explains why it's become the story's focal point, but this has also served to spread a misconception about his death that is so powerful, even Red Hood gets fact and fiction mixed up. During the "Red Son Rising" storyline, Bruce discovers that Jason is alive after finding his fingerprints on his bullets following a battle with the Joker. He then participated in a coup to help Madame Cat overthrow the Supreme Leader of Hydra, Lex Luthor a.k.a. Just . He confronts the kidnapper and is stunned to discover that he is an adult Todd, standing at his own desecrated gravesite, and wearing a redesigned and darker version of his Robin costume. In his Super Move, it is used to whack his opponent in the face twice. to attend college. In issue #14, Jason dons the Red Robin suitdescribed by Earth-51's Batman as something he was going to give Todd's counterpart when he was olderand goes into battle alongside Earth-51 Batman. ", Marv Wolfman(w), Dan Jurgens(a). As he points out inTask Force Z #8 (fromMatthew Rosenberg, Jesus Merino, Jack Herbert, and Vicente Cifuentes), Jason died putting himself between the bomb and his mother,hoping that he would serve as her shield, and it was this which represented his final, heroic act. But Jasons death was not forgotten nor immediately overturned. After following several leads, including an Israeli Mossad agent and Shiva Woo-San, Todd finally tracks his biological mother Sheila Haywood to Ethiopia, where she works as an aid worker. 1.) In the revamp period, Todd is portrayed as the "rebel" Robin, reflecting the late 1980s youth culture. The tragic ending was the one chiseled into comic history. You managed to find a way to win. He "defeated his archenemy". It is later revealed in Battle for the Cowl that Bruce Wayne's last words to Jason were of regret at how he had overlooked the young man's deep emotional problems. In 1988's "A Death in the Family" storyline, Jason Todd discovers that Catherine Todd was not his biological mother, and runs away to find the woman who gave birth to him. This lineup lasted for 25 issues, after which Todd briefly reunited with Roy Harper and then went solo. Freeze, Red Hood gives them the Kryptonite back, and tells them he has gotten what he truly wanted: a "lay of the land". Meanwhile, Batman discovered that a cash-poor Joker was recouping his funds in an alarming way: by selling a nuclear warhead to Lebanese terrorists. Jason Todd was killed by a bomb, but in the modern day, fans and even Red Hood himself believe Joker beat him to death with a crowbar. Jason tells her what happened the night of Duela's death, and about the dueling Monitors. Batman fell into a deep depression over Jason's "death". [30] Jason also admits to Talia that he has already deduced that the reason she finances his training is to stall him from killing Batman, but he has no desire to kill his former mentor anymore. They are successful, and Damian is resurrected, sharing a warm reunion with Jason and the family. Todd enters into a pact with Hush and the Riddler. Indeed, inScott Lobdell and Dexter Soy's Red Hood and the Outlaws #5, even Todd describes himself as "someone who was beaten to death with a crowbar.". However, Todd realizes that if he went through with it, his former mentor would never know about his return nor the identity of his killer. Jason Todd is well known within the DC Comics universe as the second person to take on the identity of Robin, junior partner of Batman. Jason Todd was a street orphan until he met Batman after he had saved him from The Joker. Ironically, the only surviving member of the gang offers Jason the possibility of a large government payday in exchange for his life, because he knows where a very wanted man is. Furious that no memorial statue was made for him (despite his short tenure as a Titan), he demands that Drake tell him if he is as good as Todd has been told. He was killed by the Joker and later revived by Ra's al Ghul's Lazarus Pit. Around this time, Batman discovers that the empty coffin buried at Jason's gravesite is a replica of what he bought. At the end of Batman #427, Jason was beaten by the Joker and left to die in an explosion. Jason Todd was not Batmans first experience with a dead Robin, but it was without a doubt his worst. Afterward, he swore allegiance to her. The DC Rebirth introduced the revival of Red Hood and the Outlaws with a second volume released in August 2016. A weekly roundup of the best things from Polygon, By submitting your email, you agree to our, The most tragic moment in Batmans history almost looked like this, Sign up for the Having been trained in the use of Batman's batarangs in perfect aim, he has some lethally sharpened shurikens based on his former mentor's designs as throwing weapons. After a storyline in Nightwing as part of the One Year Later event where Todd took the mantle of Nightwing for himself, the character reappeared in his Red Hood persona as one of the focal characters of DC's year-long weekly Countdown series starting in May 2007. In Batman #427, Batman ordered Jason not to confront the Joker until he returned from stopping a convoy full of deadly gas, but, fearing for his mothers life, Jason went in anyway. Batman subdues this mystery "Jason" and discovers that it is only Clayface impersonating Todd, concluding that "Jason's" greater physical age was to hide the flaws in Clayface's impersonation by allowing him to partially mimic Nightwing's combat skills. This allowed Grayson to officially take up the mantle of Batman.[41]. Todd asks Batman why he has not avenged his death by killing Joker, a psychopath who has murdered countless people and crippled one of their best friends, arguing that Batman should have done it "because he took me away from you". Instead of being trained by various men after his return from the dead, Jason Todd was trained by an order of warriors known as the All Caste. Beaten within an inch of his life by the crowbar-wielding Joker , Red Hood survived only to be killed by a bomb the villain left behind. On another level, however, Jason describing his final actions as heroic brings up a concerning theme in how his death has been memorialized by Batman, who frequently described him as a "fallen soldier" rather than an innocent child killed by an incredibly evil man. DC Comics still has the pages of the book in which he didnt. However, Jason realizes that he does not simply want Joker to die, but desires to punish the villain with Batman. Hes appeared in movies, TV shows, and video games, while even his comic book self became the leader of his own team of antiheroes. The call-in vote to determine whether Jason lived or died has been parodied and pilloried numerous times, and never repeated. He is killed during this storyline by his ex-girlfriend (an alternate version of Empress) on behalf of his stepmother Catherine. This edit will also create new pages on Comic Vine for: Until you earn 1000 points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Nightwing notes that Jason fights aggressively like he's angry at the world and doesn't hold back. It is suggested by Dick Grayson that Todd was infuriated by Wayne's last words, a reaction that led him to become monstrous, murdering Batman in that same arc. Dick rushed over as soon as he heard, and offered Bruce his help in tracking down the Joker. A lot of adventures occurred post-Crisis which fit with the circus acrobat era and in some cases ran simultaneously in Detective as the street kid origin was being laid out in Batman. No help from now on thats the way I want it., In the 36 hours they were open, DCs hotlines received 10,614 calls (at a total cost of $5,307 to the readership), and the verdict proved editorials assumption right: Fans were divided on Jason Todd he was murdered by a margin of only 72 votes. newsletter. p. 22. They also interrogated Joker's henchmen who were with him during Todd's murder, in hopes to find out how the boy could have survived. His initial goal was to convince Dick Grayson to go back to being Robin, not to take the role himself. Alfred Pennyworth refers to Jason as wanting "to be redeemed" through his membership. Upon the resolution of the gang war in Gotham, Drake under a pseudonym visited Todd in prison to give him the Justice League access code to release himself from prison. In the first line of his postscript in the first collected edition of that story, Batman editor Denny ONeil protested his own culpability in Robins death with one quote, We didnt kill the Boy Wonder. And also keeping him for 2 years, but besides all that. As I looked the pages over and tried not to freak out too visibly, DC archivist Ben Le Clear told me a story of ONeil who had voted for Jason to live and other DC staff hanging around the offices, biting their nails well into the final evening of the poll. Austin's goal is to provide ScreenRant with detailed articles that showcase his research into obscure corners of the comics universe. Holding Joker at gunpoint, he throws a pistol at Batman and begins to count to three while standing behind Joker, leaving Batman with only a headshot if he wants to stop Todd from pulling the trigger. Thank god!. Despite feeling sorry for Jason, Dick left Jason to die again so he could continue the attack on the HYDRA base.[74]. Jason is forced to destroy the bodies of his teachers and friends. Mia is deeply troubled by the discussion but ultimately decides to remain with Green Arrow. . [drops it into the truck] Joker : I can't believe you got him! "[12] However, DC stood behind the outcome of the poll. The Joker using a crowbar as his One-Handed weapon style is a reference to Jason's death; in which the Joker famously used a metal crowbar to beat the child hero to near-death before leaving him to die with his mother in an explosion. [1][26] For years, Todd learns various skills from various masters, assassins, mercenaries, and aviators around the globe, including guns, poisons and antitoxins, martial arts, acrobatics, and bomb-making. Batman is instructed to meet the kidnappers at a city junkyard and to bring Robin. In the DC Bombshells continuity, Jasn was a child from the Basque Country in Spain who aided Kate Kane and Renee Montoya during the Spanish Civil War. On the one hand, he wants to be more sparing of the lives he targets for retribution. But itll be quite some time before Jason manages to eclipse the story hes most famous for. Oops. The disparity in Batmans reaction is even worse when examining the intended possibility of Jason surviving his fateful encounter. The story arc was a. After his murder, Jason Todd was later resurrected by Jonathan Crane and became a ruthless and the most dangerous criminal and vigilante known as Red Hood, becoming Jonathan Crane's partner and an enemy of the Titans as a result. Jason Todd is implied to have died in the line of duty, although the exact details are not given. [49], Following the events of the "Flashpoint" storyline, the DC universe was relaunched, with Red Hood becoming the leader of the Outlaws in their series, part of the New 52 line of comics. Jason Todd was the logical candidate, ONeil said. Despite their now-antagonistic relationship, Batman desperately wants to help Todd and intends to atone for his failures. The description given was that it came from Beirut, Lebanon and was a former possession of the Joker. 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