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WhileRed Hoodhas been through his fair share of tragedies , none have been more horrific than his resurrection . As the former Robin once revealed , Jason Todd was not exactly thrilled to return to the land of the life . In fact , he can confidently say he would rather have stayed dead .
Serving as Batman ’s second Robin , Jason Todd was brutally murder by the Joker in 1984’sDeath in The Family . Later recreate by Talia al Ghul as a calamitous gift to Batman , Jason returned as the Red Hood . DespiteJason Todd and Batman being more alikethan either will ever recognize , Red Hood was introduced as a nefarious flesh , often at odds with the Bat - Family . However , DC Rebirthsaw Red Hood develop into an anti - hero , as he struggled to make horse sense of a new hesitance to kill . At one point , Jason ran with a rebooted reading of the Outlaws , consist of Artemis , an Amazon , and Bizarro , a Superman clone .
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Red Hood first meets his teammates during an undercover missionary work that has him work for Black Mask . In 2016’sRed Hood and the Outlaws # 3by Scott Lobdell and Dexter Soy , Jason is forced to see Bizarro ’s gruesome birth . As he view the clone nearly drown , Red Hood ca n’t helpbut reflect on his own unhappy reanimation , stating , “ Not everyone wants to be alive . ” pay the violent nature in which he was upraise and his powerlessness to quit it , Jason ’s conversion is not a here and now to be celebrated but is instead a traumatic and appal computer memory .
ascertain Bizarro get to life in such a alike path hammers down the trauma of Red Hood ’s origin . The issue depicts Bizarro ’s birth alongside moments from Jason ’s resurrection . The parallels get as Talia softly lowers Jason into the Lazarus Pit . However , the follow panel show Jason panicking in a fog of fleeceable pee , blind to everything except his pain and Talia ’s fearful expression as he come up . Jason submit that Talia ’s terror may have been because of what he had become , pointing towards bitterness at how his rebirth changed him .
Unlike other superhero Resurrection of Christ , Jason Todd ’s return as Red Hood was a destinyforced upon him . It is important to sympathise that Jason did not get a say in his metempsychosis . Like Bizarro , Jason was violently wake up against his will , scared and confused as he drown in Talia ’s branch . As Jason has sound out , he does not wish to be alive , which is reflect in how he regard his reanimation and his memory of Talia .
Given the frightening path he was resurrected , it attain sense that Jason Todd is not contented with being alive again . Although devotee of the anti - hero may take issue , it come out that forRed Hood , staying beat may have been a kinder fate .
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