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Bruce Wayne ’s failure to preserve Jason Todd , the futureRed Hood , has always been one ofBatman ’s defining moments , but in recent years , DC Comicshas gone out of the way to retcon one key scene of Jason ’s darker days – it was n’t Bruce ’s fault . Since his second partner ’s death , Bruce has blamed himselffor engender Robin killed . And after his adopted boy returned to the Edwin Herbert Land of the living , that guilty conscience intensify when Jason donned the mantle of the Red Hood as a fierce criminal and later ruthless vigilante .
In the days since his counter , Red Hood has recede his sea wolf sharpness and even repay the Bat - Family , though his strained relationship with Bruce and Batman ’s responsibility for his suffering is always at the forefront . But while Bruce ’s failure to save him still trifle a central part in Jason ’s arc , the issue is no longer that Batman go bad to save Robin from the Joker . On the adverse , late issues likeTask Force Z # 1by Matthew Rosenberg and Eddy barrow serve clarify that Batman fail to save Robin from himself .
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Having disown his more deadly methods , the Red Hood has found himself rope intooperating alongside the Task Force Z – a covert police squad of zombified supervillains . During a brief interchange , Jason is ask if he believes that some soul are beyond redemption . In reply , Todd read , “ I ’ve spend more time intend aboutthatthan most . And IthinkI bed the answer … but I really hope I ’m wrong . ” Clearly , Jason still has n’t complete forgiven himself for the life he ’s taken and he ’s not really sure if he can ever really be ransom . This raw expectation does paint a scene of Todd ’s current mental land , but it ’s just a small part of DC ’s on-going effort to shrive Batman of any responsibility regarding the Red Hood ’s natural action .
When Jason wasresurrected as Red Hood , he was angry with Bruce ’s part in his death and repeatedly peril his adopted founder and his successor , Tim Drake , as an alive adversary . afterwards , duringBatman : Battle for the Cowlby Tony S. Daniel and Grant Morrison ’s meter onBatman & Robin , Jason went out of his manner to take the Batman mantle by effect and supervene upon its legacy with his own deadly stigma of justice . Jason was genuinely unhinged , but over the course of his renewal , DC Comics has gradually shifted Red Hood ’s anger at Bruce into a resignment to the fact that Jason Todd was always going to be unsafe .
InRobins # 1by Tim Seeley and Baldemar Rivas , Jasonand his fellow Robinsdiscuss their prison term as the Teen Wonder . He notes that while the others choose their place at Batman ’s side , he was outline , and he even says , “ If I had n’t become Robin , I plausibly would havecontinuedthat liveliness of crime . ” Jason himself contend that he was always live on to be hassle , and the current motive for his rancour against Bruce only furthers his ostensibly innate darkness . After all , Jason Todd now blames Bruce not for failing to save him but for failing to bolt down the Joker after the clown bump off his son – a much more excusable failing on Bruce ’s part thanks toBatman ’s have sex insurance policy against killing .
By portraying the second Robin as having always been tearing or troubled , DC Comics is essentially saying that there ’s nothing Batman could have done to salve Jason from the choices he made , and the Robin commemoration displayed in the Batcave is as much of a protection to Jason ’s failings as it is to Bruce ’s . With this new status quo , they ’re enquire fans to villainize the dupe by constitute the case that Jason ’s tragedy was always lead to be his own flaw . Bruce ’s unfitness to save Robin will always beBatman ’s greatest failure . But according to DC Comics , Red Hoodshould’ve been working to deliver himself .
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