Jason Todd resumes his persona as the Red Hood and appears in several issues of Green Arrow alongside Brick as part of a gun-running organization, which brings Batman to Star City. This became especially apparent after his death. Instead, he alone is to blame for his death after refusing to wait for Batman and attempting to apprehend Joker by himself. [4] Jason Todd was created as Dick Grayson's replacement as Robin. To top it off, Essence shows that the order of the All Caste, the people most qualified to handle the situation, have been slaughtered, leaving her and Jason as the only known survivors. Batmans reaction was to become enraged to the point that it is heavily implied he will start breaking his no killing rule. let Joker crowbar the child to death 4) Bring him back alive 5) have him adopt the Joker's old villain name 6) have him fuck up Black . [60] The new team consists of Jason Todd as Red Hood, the disgraced Amazon warrior named Artemis, and the Superman clone called Bizarro. To meet the publishing schedule, the creative team prepared for either eventuality by writing, and partially illustrating, a comic which Jason survived the Jokers attempted murder and one in which he died. Jules Chin Greene is the DC Editor for Screen Rant's comics team. By saying that he died like "a hero," Jason makes it clear that the Bat-Family can no longer use the brutal manner of his death as a way to denigrate his use of crowbars as a weapon. Austin is an avid consumer and collector of comics for over 15 years since embarking on an impossible journey to read every issue ever published. In this new timeline, Jason's new origin is revealed in a special Red Hood and the Outlaws #0 (November 2012) issue, which changes how Batman first met Todd (stealing medicine from Leslie Thompkins, after she had treated him from a brutal beating). Joker had fun beating Jason, But the crowbar didn't kill him. But what sequence of events led to the killing of a boy wonder? The explanation for the character's return was revealed in Batman Annual #25 (2006). [19] The group included Roy Harper and Starfire. Except one guy hated Jason Todd (and the concept of Robin) so much that he voted for him every day (you were only supposed to vote once). It would also be the most recent, most painful thing he had to endure. It's crystal clear now that he is on the dark side. Joker beats the boy brutally with a crowbar and then leaves him and Sheila in the warehouse with a time bomb. Related: Tim Drake is Batman's Strongest Robin for the Scariest Reason. In his grief, Todd kills an alternate version of the Joker, also involved in Batman's killing, who then mocks his loss, vacating alongside Donna, Ray, and Kyle to the planet Apokolips before Earth-51's destruction. The description given was that it came from Beirut, Lebanon and was a former possession of the Joker. What I wanted to do here is put him in a place that he can't come back from. His favorite movie is Back to the Future and he enjoys creating/hosting trivia nights with his friends. The character was completely revamped. By the time Len Wein took over as editor of DC Comics' Batman titles in 1982, Dick Grayson had largely moved on to starring as the leader of the young superhero team the Teen Titans in DC's New Teen Titans title. (In later years, ONeil has said that while he has no hard proof, he heard that one guy [] programmed his computer to dial the thumbs down number every 90 seconds for eight hours.). When Dick presumably died, Batman was willing to risk everything. Jason Todd is implied to have died in the line of duty, although the exact details are not given. [51] He is led on a wild goose chase across the globe. in English and Cinema Studies from Oberlin College. Some pop culture historians have argued that Robin was a vital ingredient in Batmans half-century of popularity, a necessary counter-balance to the essential grimness of the Batman mythos, and I was not sure they were wrong.. Sometime later, Jason came back to life in his grave. Todd as Robin saves Wonder Woman, Superman, and Batman from Mongul by unleashing Mongul's hallucination-causing creature on the tyrant himself. Batman #426 - Death in the Family Batman #427 Batman #428 Batman #429. 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. Alfred Pennyworth refers to Jason as wanting "to be redeemed" through his membership. The two battle and Grayson eventually defeats Todd, who says that he will be seen again. However, when Superboy-Prime alters reality from the paradise dimension in which he is trappedhis punches against the barrier keeping him from the rest of the universe causing temporal ripples that create an overlap of parallel timelines (Hypertime)Jason Todd is restored to life (as he was meant to survive the Joker's assaults), breaks out of his coffin, and is eventually hospitalized; because he wandered so far from his grave before his discovery, no connection was ever drawn between the two events. In Titans, Jason's death takes place in Gotham and has nothing to do with his mother. This series starred a new lineup of Outlaws: Todd, Artemis of Bana-Mighdall and Bizarro, who was touted as a darker counterpart to the Trinity. In the official alternate ending artwork, that fans couldve easily voted for with just 73 more phone calls, Batman wastes precious time removing Jasons Robin costume before taking him to receive emergency medical treatment. Jason became the second Robin after Dick Grayson became Nightwing and Batman was in need of a new sidekick. Talia took Todd in out of her love for Batman, while her father Ra's al Ghul was interested in the secret behind his resurrection. 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. They voted for his demise and in A Death In The Family, The Joker beat him to death with a crowbar. This reading order contains all the essential and recommended comic book issues for you to enjoy Jason Todd. Published Sep 18, 2021 Jason Todd's murder by the Joker has been revisited in recent DC Comics stories, and he deserves more than to be defined by his most traumatic moment. Years later, while trying to discover the identity of a mysterious figure plotting against him, Batman discovers that Tim Drake, Jason's successor as Robin, has been kidnapped. 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. The Joker, on the other hand, would occasionally remind Batman of this loss to torment him. Then he was retconned to be a street urchin with parental issues. Something went wrong. "[17], In 2005, writer Judd Winick began the Under the Hood storyline that revolved around the mystery of the identity of the new Red Hood. He is 'rescued' by Starfire and Arsenal, but does not regain his memories. He sneaks into the Batcave, and the first thing he sees as he boots up the bat-computers is Batman murdered. On the right is the page as it ran. Subsequent stories dealt with Batman's guilt over failing to save him. This allowed Grayson to officially take up the mantle of Batman.[41]. Due to a combination of Red Robin's involvement and a gun-toting gang member, Todd was shot in the leg and arrested by police. The Many Deaths of Jason Todd is an Batman fic by Zoeleo, found on Archive of our Own. Killing him with the crowbar, bombing the asylum. Jason Todd's backstory is altered to resemble his post-Crisis meeting with Batman occurring while trying to steal tires from the Batmobile. Todd is also left wondering if perhaps he would have been a better Robin and better person had he had had a life like Drake's and friends like the Titans. After spending a year in a coma and subsequently another year as an amnesiac vagrant, he is taken by Talia al Ghul after a small-time crook recognizes him as Robin due to his combat skills on the street.[1]. Now."[17]. Todd has reappeared with red hair, claiming that he is a natural red-head and that Bruce Wayne had him dye his hair black to look like Dick Grayson. Taking a Robin any Robin away from Batman was risky, ONeil said in his 1988 postscript to A Death in the Family. ", Marv Wolfman(w), Dan Jurgens(a). But what if Jason Todd had lived? Joker brutally beat Jason Todd to near 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. And so he uses Bruce's stuff, training himself to take over for him. Just beating him with a crowbar isn't like a form of absolutely violence they spoke about it later on as, in the three jokers, Jason said he cracked his skull with the crowbar, so I'm asking with all those gaps in the story , what EXACTLY happened?? When Jason Todd returned from the "dead" and took on the guise of the Red Hood (Joker's first identity), he eventually confronted Joker and beat him with a crowbar but let him live. [45], Jason files an appeal to be moved from Arkham Asylum where he has been held for observation for the last several months. But a few years later, when the Crisis on Infinite Earths offered an opportunity to reimagine anything and everything in the DC Universe, Jason was significantly reimagined. and everybody still loses! Faking his death, even tho I'm sure he died. Following his complicated resurrection as the Red Hood, Jason was outraged to discover Batman didnt avenge his death by killing the Joker. Or was he an annoying pest, unfit to wear the mantle that Dick Grayson had made so legendary? Housed in DC Comics archive in Burbank, California, are four of those unfinished pages, which I was lucky enough to view on a visit in the summer of 2019. It features a plaque reading, "Jason Todd, a Good Soldier". Todd discovers her hanging and makes a beeline for Felipe, ahead of Batman, who arrived just in time to see Felipe take a 22-story fall to his death, with Todd as Robin at the edge of the balcony. [27] Jason has since repeated the same pattern of killing his teachers when finding them guilty after he has finished with his training. Jason tells her what happened the night of Duela's death, and about the dueling Monitors. [77] After bidding everyone farewell, he, the Minotaur, and the similarly resurrected Isis commit suicide by walking back into the Lazarus Pit.[78]. After the Joker again escapes from Arkham Asylum, Jason tracks his whereabouts on his own and is brutally beaten to death by the Joker's men under his order.[70]. During a battle with a group of Monarch's soldiers, Earth-51 Batman is killed by the Ultraman of Earth-3, deeply affecting Jason. In the Alan Moore epic Superman Annual #11, "For the Man Who Has Everything", Batman and Todd join Wonder Woman at the Fortress of Solitude to celebrate Superman's birthday. The verdict in favor of the character's death won by a slim 72-vote margin of 5,343 votes to 5,271. Joker captured him, famously beat him with a crowbar, and then trapped him in a warehouse full of explosives. ", Pearson; Uricchio. His weapons of choice are a pair of customized IWI Jericho 941s, fitted with extra Picatinny rails and mini red-dot sights. When the Morticoccus virus is released from Karate Kid's body, he is forcibly brought back to the group by Kyle, much to his dismay. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. Meanwhile, Batman discovered that a cash-poor Joker was recouping his funds in an alarming way: by selling a nuclear warhead to Lebanese terrorists. Joker Beats Jason Todd to Near Death, Then Blows Him Up (Batman) Jason Todd was the unpopular second Robin who - in no small part due to his unpopularity - was beaten to a pulp by the. He later sent all the footage of himself torturing and eventually shooting Jason to Batman to torment him. Dick, Damian, and Jason go to one of the Red Hood's weapon caches where he assembles a composite costume made from his biker and "superhero" Red Hood attire. Essence, a fellow exiled member of the All Caste whom Jason knows, appears to him but is invisible to others. Jason escalates things further by poisoning the cafeteria, killing 82 and sickening 100 more inmates. This highlights an earlier exchange in Batman #422 where he uses excessive force on a pimp about to slash one of his working girls and Todd asks Batman if it would have been a big loss if he had killed him. [27][28][29], After learning of the Joker's arms deal in Los Angeles for another terrorism scheme against Gotham, Jason begins to stalk the villain as a masked assassin. Sheila herself has been embezzling from the aid agency and as part of the cover-up, she hands her son, having arrived as Robin, over to Joker. [76] Though the group is happy for a time, Jasn begins to become belligerent and regret being resurrected. After Jason is killed by the Joker and resurrected in the Lazarus Pit, he goes on to become the Red Hood, straining his relationship with Batman. First appearing in Batman #357 in March 1983,[3] he was created to succeed Dick Grayson as Robin, Batman's vigilante partner and sidekick. When Jason actually died, or even in the alternate reality where he survived, Batman was obviously devastated, but he responded by following his standard procedures. [54] Later, however, the Wingman ruse is exposed and Todd returns to being Red Hood. Jason Peter Todd is a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. However, Todd does not wear the Robin costume until completing six months of training. Comic Vine users. Batman, Inc is at war with an organization named Leviathan, headed by Talia al Ghul, Damian's mother and the woman responsible for reviving Jason, but in the present, she seeks to destroy Batman and has put a bounty on their son's head. In 1988, that's what fans did to Jason Todd. This second Monitor apologizes to Jason before they both disappear, leaving Jason alone with Duela's body. . When Batman expresses no remorse for sparing Joker's life after the second Robin was killed, Todd is further angered and takes up his murderer's original mantle. Jason's final preparation for his revenge against Batman is to forge alliances with several Gotham villains, including Scarecrow, whom he supplies with his militia and knowledge of Batman's tactics. The Joker kidnapped Jason, beat him with a crowbar, and then blew up the warehouse that Jason and his mother were held captive inside, all before Batman could stop him. At some point before the events of the comic, he was captured and tortured by the Joker, who wanted to know Batman's secret identity. One of his victims, a girl named Gloria, hangs herself amid the threat of a third rape from Felipe. Jason Todd was a street orphan until he met Batman after he had saved him from The Joker. This leads to Jason fighting Dick, all as Bruce reminds him how his hatred and anger will always cause mistakes in the field. [drops it into the truck] Joker : I can't believe you got him! [53], Todd has also been revealed to be a member of Batman, Incorporated, initially operating under the name of Wingman, an agent-based in Europe. The Death of Jason Todd By: Katie Trillion. He soon tires of Gotham and leaves, gathering the group together; after breaking out Roy from a Middle Eastern prison, he brings Roy up to speed on things. The only Robin to have died in main canon, Jason Todd is the second Robin to Batman following Dick Grayson's maturation into Nightwing. Despite feeling sorry for Jason, Dick left Jason to die again so he could continue the attack on the HYDRA base.[74]. But itll be quite some time before Jason manages to eclipse the story hes most famous for. After Batman's "death," Jason Todd assumed the guise of a violent Batman. Jason kills the creature, strengthening his resolve. Winick said, "I was less interested in the how and the why and the what of Jason Todd returning from the dead than I am about what Jason's return will do to Batman. Red Hood assumes control over several gangs in Gotham City and starts a one-man war against Black Mask's criminal empire, who himself had recently murdered a Robin (Stephanie Brown). He then began strangling Dick, but before he could kill him Colonel Nick Fury and Sergeant Joe Rock commandeered an aircraft and shot Deathlok several times in the back. 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. When Jason Todd returned from the "dead" and took on the guise of the Red Hood (Joker's first identity), he eventually confronted Joker and. He thought he could do what could never be done for him and 'make him whole'. "[10], Despite the poll results, O'Neil noted, "We did the deed, and we got a blast of hate mail and a blast of negative commentary in the press. In both pages, Batman says roughly the same thing: Ill handle this by myself. ", The Uncanny X-Men and The New Teen Titans, Teen Titans Go! Jason's mother is already dead by now and his father is serving a life sentence in prison, so he has been living on the streets. Jason was something very familiar in our current age: The first rebooted version of an idea backed by 40 years of fan nostalgia. On the one hand, he wants to be more sparing of the lives he targets for retribution. In the published version of Batman #428, the same page depicts Jasons funeral, where Alfred asks Bruce if he should get in touch with Dick Grayson. Red Hood and the Outlaws debuted in September 2011, written by Scott Lobdell and with art by Kenneth Rocafort. Batman decided to relieve Jason from his duties as Robin in order to allow him to mourn the death of his parents. [6], The vote was set up in the four-part story "A Death in the Family" that was published in Batman #426429 in 1988. He knows that both he and Donna Troy have come back from the dead, even already deducing that his resurrection has something to do with Alexander Luthor, Jr.'s plans during Infinite Crisis, and wonders which of them is next on the Monitor's hit list. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Despite this, the moment gets such little focus, it's often treated as if it didn't happen. DC Comics still has the pages of the book in which he didnt. Le guitariste d'AEROSMITH et de THE HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES sera accompagn par le chanteur Gary Cherone (EXTREME), le bassiste Dave Hull, le claviriste Buck Johnson et le batteur Jason Sutter. Jason was trained by Bruce, and was his partner until his death at the hands of the Joker. If Jason is to cheat death, he will survive the explosion after being beaten to death by a crowbar by Joker. Todd instead decides to kill Batman directly by traveling across the globe in search of a similar, but the deadlier type of training to Bruce Wayne's own to prepare for that day. He wasnt resurrected until 2005, when he took his revenge on the Joker and swore to carry on Batmans quest against crime, but now as the murderous Red Hood. Scarlet flees Gotham, her mask finally falling from her face as she exits the city limits. After escaping from Arkham, Jason hacks into one of Bruce Wayne's bank accounts, using part of the money to pay Deathstroke, while keeping the rest for himself. Tim Drake & Jason Todd Bonding Not Canon Compliant Non-Consensual Drug Use After spending 14 months hidden in an abandoned wing of Arkham by the Joker, Jason is saved before his death even while just on the brink of it even if it is to the point his reality and and fantasy are blurring together Language: English Words: 37,369 Chapters: 11 /? After the group is sent back to Earth, Todd leaves the group and returns to his crime-fighting ways. After receiving training from the All-Caste, Jason received a pair of magic knives called the All-blades which are large bronze knives capable of slaying magical foes, but are harmless against mundane enemies. Every few minutes, theyd call the special phone number that allowed them to check on the vote tally, and nail-bite some more. Canonical Character Death; Batman: A Death in the Family; The opposite of a fix-it; I actively make it worse; Jason Todd-centric; Protective Bruce Wayne; Jason Todd is Robin; for now anyway; what if the vote to kill Jason happened in the comics; The Author Regrets Nothing; Summary. Bruce Wayne sees to it that Todd is placed in a school for troubled youths, which turns out to be Ma Gunn's School for Crime. Oops. He was resurrected by Ra's Al Ghul and began working for his cause as an impostor Batman, who uses guns. Jason Todds death at the hands of the Joker is arguably the most iconic sidekick fatality in comic book history. He is killed during this storyline by his ex-girlfriend (an alternate version of Empress) on behalf of his stepmother Catherine. She has a B.A. "[12] However, DC stood behind the outcome of the poll. 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. [51] After his exile, he became Red Hood and came to be at odds with Dick Grayson, Starfire's ex-lover, and his Robin predecessor. Ironically, it seems Jason wouldve preferred Batmans reaction to Dicks presumed death over a morbid mannequin in a Robin costume. Within the 36 hours allotted for voting, the poll received 10,614 votes. Jason responds by correcting them that he wasn't actually killed by a crowbar, he was killed by the bomb that the Joker detonated after Jason tried to get his mother to safety. [19] The series focused on Jason Todd's redemption and introduced a simplified version of his origin story as the Red Hood in Red Hood and the Outlaws #0, a special prequel issue between #12 and #13. In his Super Move, it is used to whack his opponent in the face twice. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll However, Jason realizes that he does not simply want Joker to die, but desires to punish the villain with Batman. It's one of the most brutal deaths in comic book history and even managed to sneak its way into the DCEU with homages to his death in Batman V Superman and Suicide Squad. The team would stay together until Red Hood and the Outlaws (vol. He was brutally beat to death with a crowbar by the Joker and Kiki Roulette. Maybe hed have tried to get Dick Grayson to return, only to don the Robin costume himself to save his mentors lives. 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. When Jason Todd stammers that he promised Batman on his deathbed not to violate the no killing rule and couldn't have killed the drug dealers lieutenants, the weapons dealer pilots, or Black Mask himself when Joker claimed he did, Joker before realizing Jason suppressed the memories mockingly stammers Batman's name in a similar manner to the Comic-book lore is malleable and ever-changing, but this detail in particular is at the core of what Jason Todd's death says about his character. Thanks to @domcianciolo and @kittelsen! 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