I made these to do the Doom Eternal and Animal Crossing copies meme with them but it's funnier this way actually.They look like those latino memes of anime characters photoshopped into irl places for no reason

a smug Jason redraw

You can fight me on this, IDGAF, but "I'm not talking about killing Penguin, or Scarecrow, or Dent, I'm talking about him. Just him. And doing it because... because he took me away from you." is one of DC's most perfectly crafted short monologues ever. It sums up a whole character in a few, simple lines. It sums up Jason's motives, hopes, and pain.

i am still right here

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O, HAMLET

bruce: jason, why did you put those heads in that bag??

jason: your honor i plead silly

So I'm someone who started out reading dc fanfic but is now starting to get into actual source material.

I just watched Under the Red Hood and holy crap Jason gets mischaracterized so much in fandom. Like I know a lot of people have talked about this already but whatever.

Jason, so often is described in fanfic as impulsive or emotional, as someone who "thinks with his fists" rather than his head, when that couldn't be further from the truth.

In UtRH, this guy is able to manipulate so many key players into ending up exactly where he wants him, and yet people are still think he's one of the dumber members of the batfamily.

TL;DR - jason is way smarter than the fandom gives him credit for. I'm definitely not the first to say this, but it's not said enough.

red hood: kill the joker!

batman: i can’t.

red hood: fuck your stupid moral co-

batman: no i mean. i literally can’t he has political immunity from another country and killing him could start an international war.

red hood: …what

batman: superman actually had to stop me from killing the joker. then nightwing beat him to death and i had to revive him

red hood: dickiebird did WHAT?!

batman:

red hood:

batman: …jay-lad?

jason, pulling off his helmet: what the fuck bruce. why didn’t you just fucking say that. i went to all this effort for nothing!?

bruce: you’re alive? 🥹

jason: yes but more importantly i wasted so much time and effort and i can’t even kill the guy? what the shit, man. this is the worst

Jason Flipping During Fights: Then & Now

Under the Red Hood au but Bruce actually acts like a dad after finding out Jason's alive

Commission info ko-fi

One of the things I don't see discussed a lot when we talk about Jason and Bruce's confrontation in under the red hood is the fact that Blüdhaven just exploded right in the middle of it and Jason is being very cavalier (I'm being really nice here, he is straight up gloating) about Dick's potential death and that kinda would change the way the fight would go.

Suddenly the stakes are not just: "Joker is going to die" it's "my oldest son might be dead or dying and my second son won't stop the fight no matter what, I need this fight to be over very quickly".

Jason "I'm the only one allowed to torment Bruce" Todd

I would give anything for a Red Hood: Year One.

Start with a speed through of UtRH, picking up with a jason with his throat cut open by a batarang, lying in the wreckage of a building he blew up, batman and joker escaping, without him.

He has a criminal empire, the enmity of just about everyone in Gotham, and no plan. He is alive purely by coincidence.

How did he go from that to the guy we see post-Rebirth? What happened to his influence over gotham, all his underlings and suppliers? What happened to his relationship with Talia? What laid the foundations for the grudging acceptance of his family? What happened the next time he faced batman, with the ever widening gulf between them?

Whether it’s leaning into villainy and canonising Scarlet and the Pill Helmet, or the start of his depressed burn out era, or a genuine reconciliation with the bats, i want to see it examined from his perspective as one coherent narrative.

Reading UTRH and in awe of how calculated and planned out all of Jason's little schemes are. Last minute shipment no one knows about? Red Hood does and he's blowing you up. Secret little meeting? Red Hood is crashing the party after leisurely eavesdropping. Oh wait he's cornered and fleeing? Nope, that's a microgun and wearable box of ammo he hid outside the door, you're still the sucker here.

Jason was putting in WORK

It's so FUCKING INFURIATING AND EMBARRASING how fanon Jason Todd stans always tell newbie Jason fans 'Don't read comics,just make shit up!!!' when they SHOULD tell them 'If you're scared to read comics,just watch Under The Red Hood!' when it's the perfect Jason adaption and average movie length!!!If you like Jason Todd but haven't actually consumed his media yet and want to get started,ignore those niggas because they're the same people who pretend Jason's Robin dosen't exist because he's black,are disgusted that all three of his love interests have been woc because they want him to only date white boys and white pick me girls and complete erase Jason's autistic-coding,goth punk slay and just his entire swag including what'd make him beyond good afrolatino rep but are foul enough to hc him as latino anyway.Those are the devils talking and you should tune them out by starting up Utrh and you should get your favorite snacks for too because you deserve them and i've read every Jason issue ever so if you want more info on him when you're done follow me since i'll actually know what i'm talking about,i love y'all and stay hydrated and ignoring Janky Talker truthers

Can someone genuinely answer this ever lingering question as to why DC has such beef with Jason Todd?

They butcher his character and relationships, and for what? There’s so much fucking POTENTIAL not only with his character but with his story! There’s a way to actually write discourse in a relationship without making it so damn abusive. Maybe I’m missing something in the story or just in general, but it’s just so fucking irritating when it could be good.

You have a nice, good boy who only wants to help despite given the short hand in life who is then given a loving father who just so happens to be Batman. That boy is then murdered by Batman’s biggest enemy (don’t even get me started on the fucking Joker who essentially has become idolized in the worst ways by DC writers and directors) still trying to do the right thing despite being fucked over by the very person he so desperately wanted love from. Then, you have that same boy who’s just a little bit older, hurting and angry— acting out in every way he can against the man who loves him but couldn’t see past his own weaknesses. And what do DC writers do instead of making this complicated, intriguing and character growing relationship into something that’s not as fucking dumb and slightly out of character for Batman? They fuck him up.

It’s an extreme to say this, I know. And this isn’t against all DC writers, but you can’t deny a lie when it’s a pattern. It’s a cut and dry story that practically writes itself. You have a little boy who is so full of hope is growing along with the main character of the story (which, in my own personal opinion, Batman has Robin not as a soldiers—and omfg does that damn phrase make me violent—but as a potential, mutual factor of character growth) , who then gets a bit too cocky and distracted by his own hubris and need for love, to a hurt antagonist that goes against the man who he once called father. Like it’s too easy to not fuck this up, and yet DC seems to manages to do this every single time.

It’s almost like they want to portray Batman and Bruce Wayne as a man who is made “tougher” by his trauma (which has some patriarchal undertones if you catch my drift) instead of growing. Batman can grow. He can love. There’s one post that I’ve seen on Tumblr how Batman/Bruce does this whole vigilante thing out of love.

Which is why I don’t get why DC uses Bruce as a tool to hurt Jason when it isn’t really consistent. He loved Jason, and this is backed up by a lot of older and a few current issues. Don’t get me wrong, I get that their relationship post-UTRH is gonna be FUCKED. Yet, even the writing in that I can’t really agree with. KILLING (attempting to kill really) your son who had been dead for years, that you loved so much, and is acting out because YOU? Doesn’t make much sense, but, again, maybe I’m looking at this through a foggy lens.

This wasn’t meant to be a long post, but it’s just been on my mind and perhaps I could use another perspective. So, again, what’s DC’s deal with Jason and Bruce’s relationship, and Jason’s character as a whole?