With the details of his death now cleared up, hopefullyRed Hoodwill continue to subvert his family and readers' expectations in a way that only Jason Todd can. Jason Peter Todd is a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Batman brings Jason on a mission in Ethiopia to punish some of Damian's other would-be assassins, and while there he also takes him to the place of his death in the hopes Jason can provide insights into his resurrection so that he might apply the method to Damian. 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]. Later, Jason adopts the "Arkham Knight" identity and uses his remaining wealth to employ his own militia, which he trains with Deathstroke's help. The DC Rebirth introduced the revival of Red Hood and the Outlaws with a second volume released in August 2016. While initially utilizing guns as his weapon of choice in his career as aresurrected crime-fighter, Red Hood has now switched to electrified crowbars. [34], Todd eventually kidnaps and holds Joker hostage, luring Batman to Crime Alley, the site of their first meeting. He debuted as the second sidekick of Batman, donning the mantle of Robin after Dick Grayson. "Notes from the Batcave: An Interview with Dennis O'Neil. Jim Starlin and artist Jim Aparos 1988 comic Batman #426 kicked off A Death in the Family, which saw Jason Todd discovering that his biological mother might still be alive, then running away on a globe-trotting trip to unearth her identity. Confirms Batman V Superman's Dead Robin Is Jason Todd", "Warner Bros. Plotting Live-Action 'Nightwing' Movie With 'Lego Batman Movie' Director (Exclusive)", "Justice League director Zack Snyder seemingly reveals his unused plans for Robin in the DCEU", "COUNTDOWN TO NOV 11: Let the punishment fit the crime. to attend college. Catwoman would be a frequent guest star during this era as she wrestled with the role of hero and as a love interest for Batman which led to clashes with the boy feeling left out. Then he was retconned to be a street urchin with parental issues. In his new role as Gotham's most powerful crime lord, he repeatedly comes to blows with Batman and several of his allies. It features a plaque reading, "Jason Todd, a Good Soldier". An alternate version of Jason appears in the timeline of the 2011 "Flashpoint" storyline, where, among other changes, Bruce Wayne was killed as a child and thus never became Batman. 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 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. But the war goes on. Starlin wrote two versions of Batman #428, and Jim Aparo and inker Mike DeCarlo worked on both of them, drawing certain pages twice but very differently. p. 22. But itll be quite some time before Jason manages to eclipse the story hes most famous for. Todd then offers Batman an ultimatum: he will kill Joker unless Batman kills Todd first. The character has made appearances in several forms of media outside of comics, including television series and video games. However, Jason realizes that he does not simply want Joker to die, but desires to punish the villain with Batman. Todd is arrested by Gordon who informs him that the reason he has always worked with Batman is that Batman never violates the law "where it counts". However, his dagger remains his preferred weapon of choice for hand-to-hand combat; it can cut through Batman's armor and arsenal. [54] Later, however, the Wingman ruse is exposed and Todd returns to being Red Hood. 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. In the context of Jasons murder by reader input, its easy to read Tims origin as a hedge against the same negative fan reaction that labeled his predecessor as a usurper of Dick Graysons legacy. Batman enters the car and is at Jason's mercy, detonator in hand. 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. But what if Jason Todd had lived? 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. [50] He was a part of the order for an unknown amount of time before he was exiled, partly of his own will. and everybody still loses! [45], Jason files an appeal to be moved from Arkham Asylum where he has been held for observation for the last several months. During one of his special moves, he pummels his opponent with it multiple times, a direct reference to Jason Todd's death. [63] In addition to his prior skills (such as being a skilled gynmast and skilled detective), Jason is also considered an expert marksman with various firearms. Dick rushed over as soon as he heard, and offered Bruce his help in tracking down the Joker. 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. He still died but was eventually resurrected and recovered from it physically and mentally. [19] The group included Roy Harper and Starfire. Jason Todd's Memorial is a display-case in the Batcave which tributes the fallen Robin, Jason Todd. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators . [73], In the Amalgam Universe, Jason Todd was a young S.H.I.E.L.D. Dressed in a version of a Batman costume, Todd is also living/operating out of an abandoned Gotham subway system. [69] After Jason defeats and captures the Joker; the villain becomes fixated on him. Trivia At this point [Jason] is beyond the point of no return in terms of ever being considered even remotely a hero. This team is referred to as DC's "Dark Trinity" in comparison to the new Trinity series included in DC Rebirth which follows Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman. Machine gun fire breaks out and Gordon is wounded in the arm. Despite this, the moment gets such little focus, it's often treated as if it didn't happen. Batman didn't get to him in time and Jason died in the explosion. Cameron Waldrop Jason Todd's Scar in Gotham Knights Explained The whole story of the scar can be seen in the A Death in the Family arc in the Batman comic (Volume 1, Issues 426-429) which includes a deadly attack on Jason Todd (as Robin) by a crowbar-wielding Joker. The only Robin to have died in main canon, Jason Todd is the second Robin to Batman following Dick Grayson's maturation into Nightwing. [22] Batman notes that while Todd doesn't possess Dick Grayson's natural athleticism and acrobatic skills, he can become a productive crimefighter by channeling his rage. He is later convinced by Damian Wayne to turn against Ra's when the latter takes it too far by using Amazo to slaughter millions. Oops. Joker brutally beat Jason Todd to near death. 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. [62] Jason was also taught by Batman in the use of firearms in training comparable to law enforcement agencies' requirements such as police departments or the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as required for crimefighting and forensics, despite not using this skill typically when he was Robin. You managed to find a way to win. Jason Todd was the second Robin, until he was brutally murdered by the Joker. 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. She also hires the same carpenters who built Jason's casket and had them build a replica of it (the original was destroyed and beyond repair after Jason emerged from it). Contents 1 History 1.1 Pre-Crisis History 1.2 Post-Crisis History 1.2.1 A Death in the Family 1.2.2 Return from the grave 1.2.3 As the Red Hood 1.2.4 One Year Later and Countdown Jason Todd Wasn't DC's First 'Dead Robin', controversial A Death in Family storyline, Batman Fans Were Right to Vote for Jason Todd's Death, X-Men's Most Underrated Member is Secretly One Of Marvel's Deadliest Heroes, Juggernaut's Tragic Ending Proves His Powers Are Pure Nightmare Fuel, Bruce Banner Confirms His Final Plan To Kill The Hulk. However, Starfire makes it clear to Roy that it is only physical, with no emotional ties. It was enough to see Jason Todd killed by crowbar at the hands of The Joker with Neil saying "It would be a really sleazy stunt to bring him back." The Joker then evaded capture by, well,. Red Hood and the Outlaws debuted in September 2011, written by Scott Lobdell and with art by Kenneth Rocafort. If you want more information, we tell more of the story below. The Joker, on the other hand, would occasionally remind Batman of this loss to torment him. After Batman's "death," Jason Todd assumed the guise of a violent Batman. Timothy Drake eventually takes up the bat mantle when Dick Grayson refuses to and sets off to fight Todd, who easily defeats him. Jason was well and truly dead for some time. Jason refuses to believe from Starfire and Arsenal that he had been on a path towards redemption and abandons his teammates. 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. The answer is a mix of new technology and tradition. ", The Uncanny X-Men and The New Teen Titans, Teen Titans Go! Navigation. Jason was something very familiar in our current age: The first rebooted version of an idea backed by 40 years of fan nostalgia. Bruce Wayne as Batman visits him there to inform Jason he's in Arkham for his protection. Jason resented this and stormed out, refusing to discuss the issue of his parents. [64] To hone this ability, he went a step further than Batman on his journey around the world to learn from masters how to kill a target with different types of guns, possess considerable "street smarts", and is remarked to be a natural leader. That wanted man turns out to be the Joker. Jason Todds death at the hands of the Joker is arguably the most iconic sidekick fatality in comic book history. "I heard it was one guy, who programmed his computer to dial the thumbs down number every ninety seconds for eight hours, who made the difference", O'Neil said in a Newsarama interview conducted alongside writer Judd Winick during the "Under The Hood" arc. This was not because ONeil or any of the other Batman office staff disliked the character, but because their readership seemed so divided on him. 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. 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. Similarly, Joker has misstated how he killed Jason, and even the DC cosmos has seemingly got the wrong idea, with the other-dimensional Batman Who Laughs commanding his Robins to respond with the call and response"Crow"/"Bar." 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. 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). The Joker tortured Jason for over a year in an abandoned wing of Arkham Asylum while filming himself, and eventually convinced the broken Todd that Batman had abandoned and replaced him. 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. As I'm sure you know, in the infamous Death In The Family storyline, Jason Todd was captured by the Joker, beaten via crowbar, and finally locked in a bomb-laced warehouse and killed. Sometime after his presumed death, he took on the identity of Red Hood, seeking revenge against his former mentor. Jason, ever the scrapper, only made threats in response to this. Bye bye Robin - bye bye Jason Todd. The blades magically appear in Jasons hands when needed. 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. [24], It is later revealed that Todd had indeed died at the hands of the Joker. He only donned the suit when Two-Face trapped both senior vigilantes in a collapsed building, and he declined to don it again without Batman and Nightwings permission. He is a black-haired circus kid with criminal acrobats as parents (Willis and Catherine Todd) who worked for Killer Croc. On June 6, 2011,[19] as part of DC Comics' line-wide revamp initiative, it was announced that Jason Todd would headline his title in the guise of the Red Hood. recruit with a bright future, who was personally mentored by Director Bruce Wayne and Moonwing. The moody HBO Max super-team drama did put its own spin on the infamous Batman comic book story A Death in the Family as Jason Todd ( Curran Walters) transformed from Robin to the vengeful. The last decade has been a renaissance for Jason Todd, the second character to fill the role of Robin, the world's most famous superhero sidekick. Alfred Pennyworth refers to Jason as wanting "to be redeemed" through his membership. Todd and Drake are confronted by another Red Robin in Robin (vol. He also steals all of Batman's schematics to create replicas of his arsenal for his militia to use, and stalks him and his allies to learn their tactics. 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. Some of the mail response indicated that this was at least on some people's minds. When Jason is the victim yet again of the Joker's personal war with Batman, the batfamily begins to tear apart at the seams. 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. Faking his death, even tho I'm sure he died. Joker beat Jason nearly to death with a crowbar in a warehouse in Ethiopia, then left him there to die with a bomb about to go off. The son of Catherine and Willis Todd, Jason lives on the east end of Gotham City in the Park Row district called Crime Alley. Todd acts as leader of the Outlaws, a group of antiheroes that "have several different exciting characters from the DC Universe some we've seen before and some we haven't," Batman Group Editor Mike Marts said. Heres the complete page that panel was from, the unused page 10 of Batman #428. While fighting with each other, Tim makes the remark that, "The crowbars are a little bit morbid, no?" Marcel Green is a writer for Screen Rant covering comics, manga, and anime. Todd also aided Batman while Gotham City was temporarily overrun by Deacon Blackfire as shown in Batman: The Cult. The call-in vote to determine whether Jason lived or died has been parodied and pilloried numerous times, and never repeated. This provides Jason an opportunity to plant a bomb beneath the Batmobile while Batman is on a stakeout for the arms deal. With Red Hood still characterizedbyhis rage at criminals, it seems this reframing of his deathcontinues to dictate how he's characterized. Thank god!. Object He was then caught in an explosion when the villain Hyena detonated a bomb intended to kill Bruce and Dark Claw. The team also includes Starfire and Roy Harper. [76] Though the group is happy for a time, Jasn begins to become belligerent and regret being resurrected. Considering the Joker is the one narrating this segment, it is open to debate whether he is telling the truth or not. Todd is booked under a pseudonym (John Doe), due to there being no identifiable prints on file for any member of the main bat heroes as well as Jason is still legally dead. [44] In the issue, Todd is characterized as increasingly unstable and his idea of "finishing off" Batman and Robin now consists of stripping them down to their underwear and exposing their identities via webcam activated by a phone poll [a nod by Morrison to his death poll]. Jason Todd was an orphan whose life had already been full of hardships before he met Bruce Wayne, who was the vigilante Batman. The Many Deaths of Jason Todd is an Batman fic by Zoeleo, found on Archive of our Own. Jason then switches places with Clayface to observe Batman from afar. As Batman's second Robin, Jason was killed by the Joker during the events of the 1988 Batman: A Death in the Family storyline from Jim Starlin, Jim Aparo, and Mike DeCarlo. The primary inspiration for the canonical death of Jason was the limited Elseworlds series Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, written and illustrated by Frank Miller, because the futuristic story contained references to Batmans deceased partner. As Moonwing, he made a careless mistake, which resulted in a S.H.I.E.L.D. Jason Todd was the second person to hold the mantle of Robin, the Boy Wonder. Related: Batman Fans Were Right to Vote for Jason Todd's Death. Hes appeared in movies, TV shows, and video games, while even his comic book self became the leader of his own team of antiheroes. Jason Todd's Rebellion is one of the story branches for for Batman: Death in the Family.. Synopsis. In it, Batman cradled Jasons battered body, his face raised to the sky in a rare smile, the tonal opposite of the published image, in which he sorrowfully lifted Jasons corpse. I don't know if it was fan crazinessmaybe they saw him as usurping Dick Grayson's position. "[7] Even though Jason Todd was unpopular with readers, O'Neil could not decide what to do with the character, so he opted to present the choice to the readership. Using the money from Talia and infuriated by her statement that he "remains unavenged", Todd paid a group of mercenaries to help him return to Gotham. 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. The first death in the Bat-Family occurred much earlier and included a disturbing amount of foreshadowing. Enter the URL for the tweet you want to embed. Jason had to kneel in front of thisthis monster as he laughed and jeered at him, swinging a crowbar around and beating him with it. He was killed by the Joker and later revived by Ra's al Ghul's Lazarus Pit. He now operates as the Red Hood to honor his deceased brother and plans to get revenge on the Joker and Batman.[83]. Jason will become the Red Hood in the third series, White Knight Presents Harley Quinn, where he and Harleen work together against the returning Neo-Joker. 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. 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. Now."[17]. He was a good soldier. [40] Nightwing still wants to save Todd, but Todd refuses the offer, and instead allows himself to fall off a speeding subway into the Gotham River while stating they would see each other again soon. In 1989, Denny O'Neil, Marv Wolfman, and Pat Broderick would introduce Tim Drake as the third Robin. 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 then proceeds to fall back into his hero persona, ranting how he did what Batman never did. 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 "[13] O'Neil would later regret his comment.[14]. Batman Arkham Knight Jason Todd's death Joker kills Robin Torture scene NukemDukem 967K subscribers Join Subscribe 4.9K Share Save 1M views 7 years ago Spoiler Batman Arkham Knight Jason. 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 . Jason is forced to destroy the bodies of his teachers and friends. When the Challengers return to New Earth, Todd disposes of his Red Robin costume and abandons the rest of the group, though they go on to declare to the Monitors that they are now the monitors of the Monitors. Sheila and Jason try desperately to get out of the warehouse but are still inside as the bomb goes off. 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. 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. 152 False. [72], In this alternate timeline, there appeared a version of Jason. 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. Instead, he alone is to blame for his death after refusing to wait for Batman and attempting to apprehend Joker by himself. 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. Sheila lives just long enough to tell Batman that Jason died trying to protect her. 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. One of his victims, a girl named Gloria, hangs herself amid the threat of a third rape from Felipe. He's appeared in movies, TV shows, and video. For many years following his brutal execution, the Bat-Cave featured his Robin costume in a display case as a memorial to him. Jason Todd is implied to have died in the line of duty, although the exact details are not given. A true honor. "[12] However, DC stood behind the outcome of the poll. Upon learning that the man training him in lethal combat is also the leader of a child sex slave ring, Jason frees the latest shipment of children and takes them to a local embassy, then returns to the training compound and poisons his new mentor for his crimes. Batman decided to relieve Jason from his duties as Robin in order to allow him to mourn the death of his parents. Talia then gives Todd the idea to be the Batman that Gotham needs. [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. Out of all the characters who have put on the Robin suit, Jason is the one who died in it. It is later established during the story arc Infinite Crisis that Superboy-Prime is responsible for the changes on Jason Todd's origin and character when he inadvertently created Hypertime-lines.[23]. The poll ended with a narrow majority of votes in favor of killing Todd, resulting in his death. Jason Peter Todd is a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.First appearing in Batman #357 in March 1983, he was created to succeed Dick Grayson as Robin, Batman's vigilante partner and sidekick.Initially sharing a similar origin to Grayson, his character was rewritten after the Crisis on Infinite Earths event. A Death in the Family originally ran through Batman #426-429. 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