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shyjusticewarrior · 3 days

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Sportsmaster, you'll never be him

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mottemort · 6 months

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they are tired

#jason todd #red hood #rose wilson #ravager #dc #fanart #batman #sketch #dc spoilers #dc comics spoilers #joker the man who stopped laughing #movie night #they will also invite Steph and Kate

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trust-and-jump · 1 year

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Ah yes, eerie Jason Todd

#red hood #jason todd #joker the man who stopped laughing #creepy #dc comics #dc comic panels #comic panels

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thecruellestmonth · 3 months

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Does the mass-murdering criminal Jason "Red Hood" Todd canonically support the death penalty?

No, I can't find evidence that Red Hood supports the death penalty.

There is a difference between murder (illegal) and state-sanctioned killing (legal). Red Hood commits unlawful homicide. The death penalty is lawful homicide. Jason is a murderer. The death penalty is not legally considered murder. Commissioner Jim Gordon is a decorated military veteran, not a murderer.

Committing violence ≠ wanting the government to have the right to commit that violence. Batman and his allies brutalize criminals; they don't necessarily support the state brutalizing criminals. Red Hood kills some criminals; Red Hood doesn't necessarily support the state killing criminals. Catwoman doesn't necessarily support the state committing burglary. Et cetera.

The death penalty is administered by the criminal legal system. Jason does not like the criminal legal system (see some of his run-ins with the police). He grew up as an impoverished child who didn't believe in the system, he was raised by Batman to believe that vigilantes can make a difference that the system can't, and he became an adult criminal who still doesn't believe in the system. He's not interested in using the criminal legal system. He isn't interested in giving more powers and privileges to an abusive system that has wronged him and the people he cares about.

When Jason started up his villain business, the death penalty was legal in Gotham City. (See Detective Comics #644, The Joker: Devil's Advocate, Batgirl 2000 #19, Punchline #1.) The death penalty was also in place during his Robin run. Jason didn't argue in favor of the state having the right to kill prisoners, and the death penalty never addressed his complaints about the status quo.

Jason has rescued people from wrongful* imprisonment and the death penalty. Again, based on his own firsthand experiences, he has many reasons to believe that the system is broken. *Some of us would argue that locking any people in prisons tends to be wrongful and inhumane by default, but we could choose to accept the standard premises of crime fiction as without endorsing it as moral instruction.

Jason Todd is a criminal: a mass murderer, a terrorist, a villain. He does evil. He doesn't represent or support the legal system. He probably has the least political capital out of all the Batfamily-associated characters. He doesn't promote the death penalty. He commits murder—illegally, as a criminal, state-unapproved.

Some recent comics related to the topic:

Gotham Nights (2020) #11 "One Minute After Midnight", written by Marc Guggenheim

Red Hood and Nightwing team up to investigate the case of a man wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to be executed. Both of them disapprove of how the broken criminal legal system botched this case.

Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing #8 (2023), written by Matthew Rosenberg

"You familiar with Hannah Arendt's concept of Schreibtischtäter? Desk murderers? It's people who use the state to kill for them, so they don't have to get their hands dirty."

#Jason Todd #Jason Todd meta #Batfam meta #Batfamily meta #Batfam #Batfamily #Robin II #Batkids #Batman Gotham Nights #DC Robin #Red Hood #Joker The Man Who Stopped Laughing #Matt Rosenberg #canon vs fanon #fanon vs canon #panels #RHATO 2011 opens with Red Hood saving somebody from being unjustly executed. Don't read it. It is bad. Just trust me.#Jason Todd is legally dead and not registered to vote.#I could make a much longer post about Jason's general contempt for authorities but let's limit it today.#thecruellestmonth #I know the 1992-2010 comics purists are going to come after me for using recent comics.#I could make a much longer post about Post-Crisis Jason Todd's attitudes about the police and the state.#But that longer post still wouldn't have much to say about the death penalty--#--because--AGAIN--there is NO evidence that Jason supports the death penalty! But there is plenty of indirect evidence that he doesn't.#Do the words ''system''‚ ''state''‚ ''criminal''‚ and ''legal'' look like real words anymore?#ID in alt text #described #image described #ID in alt #image description

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betterthanbatman1 · 6 months

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I’m so-

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cecexoxo · 7 months

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Steph and Jason having coffee together is my favorite thing

#they're besties your honor #dc comics #dc #comic panels #comics #dc universe #batfam #jason todd #stephanie brown #dc spoiler #spoiler #red hood #task force z #joker the man who stopped laughing #dcu

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oifaaa · 6 months

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Spoilers for joker the man who stopped laughing but would it be annoying if joker toxin was the thing that turns Jason evil again? Yes, would I still be happy to get my evil boy back? Also, yes

#tuesday spoilers #wednesday spoilers #joker the man who stopped laughing #joker the man who stopped laughing spoilers #i dont think thats were its going #i think its just gonna help “cure” jason for a bit #but #you gotta admit itd be funny #if we got evil jason and dick in charge of the bats again #all we'd need now is a classic tim drake break down #and wed be re living 2009

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evasive-anon · 6 months

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OK, like its terrible Jason keeps having his brain chemistry altered against his will BUT it would be really funny if Batman started all this shit to make Jason not kill anyone just to unlock the new story arch where he kills even more.

#lowkey hyped for villian Jason content #joker the man who stopped laughing #comic preview #comic panels #dc comics #jason todd #red hood #the joker #joker dc #original post

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koraesdoodles · 5 months

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