During one of his special moves, he pummels his opponent with it multiple times, a direct reference to Jason Todd's death. The series eventually ended coinciding with the DC Rebirth event. [8] The following issue, Batman #428, was published featuring Todd's death. The following month's Batman #618 (October 2003) revealed that the appearance of Todd was a ruse by the villain Clayface under the direction of the Riddler and Hush. 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." The backup introduces a massive retcon in which the Joker is responsible for orchestrating the major moments of Todd's life such as his father's imprisonment and death, his mother's overdose, his introduction to Thompkins, and his adoption of the Robin identity. Even Red Hood Has Forgotten How Joker Actually Killed Him, Red Hood Writer Talks Jason Todd's New Chapter, New Robin & More, Jason died putting himself between the bomb, DC Hints Red Hood's Bat-Family Reunion Has Been A Lie. Even after being brutally beaten, Jason still tried to protect his mother. 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. When Batman allows Carrie Kelley to assume the mantle of Robin, Alfred Pennyworth objects, citing Todd as a reason. The bodies are taken back to Gotham City for burial. [45], Jason files an appeal to be moved from Arkham Asylum where he has been held for observation for the last several months. Red Hood and the Outlaws was later rebooted as part of DC's Rebirth event. [6], The vote was set up in the four-part story "A Death in the Family" that was published in Batman #426429 in 1988. 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. Between one agonised, gasping breath and the next, Jason was awake and staring up at a woman in a cave: his grandmother, Lavernai Pocolom, Roman Goddess of Thieves and Cheats, and Etruscan Goddess of the Underworld. To make the very concept of Batman obsolete, he puts a lot of effort into public relations: he drastically alters his Red Hood costume to look more like a traditional superhero outfit and recruits his sidekick Scarlet. 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. Heres the complete page that panel was from, the unused page 10 of Batman #428. Loeb explained, "I always liked Jason, liked the idea that Batman had a Robin who died in the line of duty and how that would motivate anyone to continue their quest. Initially sharing a similar origin to Grayson, his character was rewritten after the Crisis on Infinite Earths event. The tragic ending was the one chiseled into comic history. Jason Todd 's relationship with Batman turned sour as a result of his battles with criminals, which were almost suicidal. Batman decided to relieve Jason from his duties as Robin in order to allow him to mourn the death of his parents. 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. Oddly enough, these two missions led them to cross paths, foil the Joker, and find Jasons real mom where they cross paths with the Joker once more. [24], It is later revealed that Todd had indeed died at the hands of the Joker. Flamingo is assumed dead, although Commissioner Gordon reports that his body cannot be recovered from beneath the rubble. Ra's refers to Todd as a "curse" and a "pestilence" unleashed on the planet, saying that madness may affect him for "hours, months, or decades". Then he was retconned to be a street urchin with parental issues. And also keeping him for 2 years, but besides all that. 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. 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. All of the henchmen die, and Garzonas is finally crushed by a pile of junk cars. 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. 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. A democratic vote would answer the question. [51] He is led on a wild goose chase across the globe. Dick tells Barbara that Jason was Bruce's favorite. This is a reenactment of Robin's death from the comics. [61] Over time, Jason developed his skills, becoming adept in various forms of martial arts (Aikido, Capoeira, Karate, Ninjutsu, Savate, Krav Maga, Kickboxing, Silat, and Taekwondo) and eventually developed keen detective skills. The League of Assassins tracked and eliminated everyone in Gotham who knew of Todd's resurrection to prevent Batman from finding out. Said, Schaefer: Well, Geoff's idea was to have Red Hood be the Jason Todd of Earth-Two. A Robin-bearing mask is found in the Batmobile, which never belonged to Dick or Tim, but is of the style that Todd wore as Robin, suggesting that he'd been stalking Batman. In both pages, Batman says roughly the same thing: Ill handle this by myself. Pearson, Roberta E.; Uricchio, William. 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. Jason Todd was an orphan whose life had already been full of hardships before he met Bruce Wayne, who was the vigilante Batman. Jason was trained by Bruce, and was his partner until his death at the hands of the Joker. Oops. [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. His choice of crowbars as a signature weapon - as revealed in Tom Taylor and Cian Tormey's Nightwing 2021 Annual #1- is reasonable. [60] The new team consists of Jason Todd as Red Hood, the disgraced Amazon warrior named Artemis, and the Superman clone called Bizarro. agents launched an attack on HYDRA's base, Deathlok was sent to confront them, where he spotted his former mentor, Moonwing, and attacked him from behind. & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jason_Todd&oldid=1140746310, Fictional characters with post-traumatic stress disorder, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from February 2016, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Expert hand-to-hand combatant, martial artist, and marksman, Jason Todd makes his live-action debut in the 2018 television series, Walters reprises his role in the 2019-2020 annual, Jason Todd makes his animated debut in the 2010 animated film, Jason Todd has a cameo appearance in the 2016 animated film, Three boys named Dick, Jason and Tim appear in, The fallen Robin referenced in the DC Extended Universe was long stated by, Jason Todd as Red Hood appears as an iconic gear set style called "Gotham's Outlaw" in, Jason Todd as Red Hood is one of the four main playable characters in the 2022 video game, Jason Todd as Red Hood is a playable character in, The videotape of the Joker "killing" Jason can be viewed in, Jason Todd as Arkham Knight is a playable character in the, Jason Todd as Red Hood is a playable character in downloadable content in, This page was last edited on 21 February 2023, at 15:36. Years later, Jason returned, sought revenge against Batman . Sharrett, Christopher. Having learned that Tim defeated the Joker by himself in their first fights, Jason seeks to best him in combat. It is also revealed that, like Tim, Jason was also aware that Batman survived his encounter with Darkseid. Red Hood and the Outlaws debuted in September 2011, written by Scott Lobdell and with art by Kenneth Rocafort. 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. Machine gun fire breaks out and Gordon is wounded in the arm. to attend college. Red Hood : Yes, we have. In 1988, Robin died. Joker had fun beating Jason, But the crowbar didn't kill him. Make the Joker more evil, make Jason suffer properly. 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. Dick raised the bar and ironically, Nightwing makes a harsh joke that Jason lowered the bar, or in his case, the crowbar, poking fun at how Joker beat him to death as he wasn't good enough. False. The death of Jason Todd, also known asRed Hood, is one of the most dramatic moments in the history of DC Comics. However, Batman has not been supportive of Jason's role on the team, which is understandable given his close proximity to some of the biggest names in Bruce's rogues gallery. 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. The stage was set for the story, told in 1988's Batman #426-#429. As Moonwing, he made a careless mistake, which resulted in a S.H.I.E.L.D. This led to DC Comics holding a telephone poll in 1988's "A Death in the Family" storyline to determine whether or not the character would die at the hands of Batman's nemesis, the Joker. DC Comics still has the pages of the book in which he didnt. Comic Vine users. presumed he was dead, but he survived and his body was recovered by HYDRA, who replaced his damaged body parts with robotic parts, transforming him into Deathlok. The character was resurrected in 2005's "Under the Hood" story arc, which saw him becoming a murderous antihero known as the Red Hood. Jason Todd was the second Robin, until he was brutally murdered by the Joker. Batman admits that he has often been tempted by the thought of taking the Joker somewhere private to torture for weeks before finally killing the maniac, but says that he refuses to go to that place. Jack reveals that Jason eventually broke from the torture and said "I wish I'd never met Bruce Wayne", and that Joker let Jason go free. 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