Suicide Squad
admonition : spoiler for Suicide Squad : Get Joker ! # 2 are ahead .
It ’s no enigma that theSuicide SquadfromDC Comicsis a team made for misfit , make it a natural conniption forRed Hood , at least in theory . Using jug villains to transmit out missions that the US government would never formally admit to being involved in , theSuicide Squad typify the flip side of superhero comics . Whereas heroes are lead by their principles to preserve animation , the Suicide Squad will do whatever it takes to get their prison condemnation shortened . Their creation in the DC Universe evidences its famine of exalted heroism amidst the heroic of characters like Wonder Woman and Superman . But even with the Suicide Squad ’s unabashedly dodgy morals , Red Hood ’s reason for being on the team inSuicide Squad : Get Joker!is at betting odds with his foundations as a character .
In the ongoingBlack Label miniseries from Brian Azzarello , Alex Maleev , Matt Hollingsworth , and Jared K. Fletcher , an incarcerated Jason Todd is enter by Amanda Waller to lead Task Force X on a mission to drink down the Joker . Jumping at the hazard to not only reduce his prison house sentence , but also possibly get retaliation on one of his outstanding opposition , Red Hood link the team . However , as the series has gone on to its second issue , it is becoming more and more clear why Red Hood ’s presence on the team is a stumble .
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Azzarello ’s Red Hood is on the Suicide Squad because of his aim lack of a moral compass , and this glide path to the fictional character is where his use of goods and services on the teambecomes suspect . Not having morals is a delimitate characteristic of the Suicide Squad , but for Red Hood , the picture is much more complex . While Red Hood ’s willingness to down his enemies makes him importantly less of an idealistic figure in the DC Universe , the cause why Jason Todd became Red Hood in the first placeisbecause he has a moral ambit . Seeing that hisviolent murder at the hands of the Jokerwent unavenged by his adoptive male parent , Batman , it became Jason Todd ’s deputation as Red Hood to protect innocent people in a way that The Dark Knight never could . His methods are blemished , but his intention have always been in the right position .
By viewing Red Hood within this theoretical account , Suicide Squad : Get Joker!trades the primal tensions underlying his character for a simplistic position of morality . The result is aversion of Red Hood who not only fails his teammates as a drawing card , but failsJason Todd ’s not bad bequest as a character : emotionality . Without his acute inner life , Get Joker ! ’s Red Hood is n’t Red Hood at all , but a reflection of a reluctance to think that men like Jason Todd have tone about the violence they ’ve experienced .
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Looking back at his publishing account , Jason Todd ’s emotional naturehas been a consistent source of trouble for him , stretching back to his days as Batman ’s Robin , to his rebirth as Red Hood , to time as the leader of the Outlaws , and in his belated story fromBatman : Urban Legends . It drives him to make impulsive conclusion that he afterward regret , but on a fundamental level , turn out why he has never been a coldblooded killer . While Jason Todd has done someterrible things , he has never been driven by harshness alone , and this is a trait that differentiates him from the Joker and other villains in the DC Universe .
And this sense of emotion is precisely why Jason Todd ’s Red Hood is such a compelling character , because it open up door for a level of complexity that enriches the music genre as a whole . Jason ’s arc as a victim - turned - vigilanteillustrates the emotional and psychological costs of crimefightingto a arcdegree that almost no other graphic symbol in the DC Comics can challenge him on . The fact that such a conflicted character like Red Hood is driven by his own feeling about a traumatic issue in his life brings an bring sense of nuance to the DC Universe and superhero comics in universal .
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ButGet Joker!avoids delving into this complexity to ceaselessly remind lector of how bad the Joker is . In issuance two of the serial publication , Red Hood watches as the Joker ram Harley Quinn to strip and trip the light fantastic onstage for him . He does nothing , say that she is , " film one for the team " even though Harley is visibly humiliated by the trial by ordeal . Troublingimplications for Harley Quinn ’s fictitious character aside , this betrays the entire ethos of Jason Todd ’s twist as Red Hood : tonotstand idly by in the typeface of ill-treatment and harshness , to turn smell of outrage into action . His loser to do anything walk back on the advancement his case has made in rebelliousness of the Joker ’s actions .
This scene show why Red Hood ’s position on the Suicide Squad inGet Joker!is ultimately inconsistent with his character . His inactivity illustrate how he is not in the story to be Red Hood , but to be theRobin who was mutilate by the Joker . More than thirty years afterBatman : A decease in the Family , Jason Todd is once again banish to being a helpless injured party , an case of how terrible the Joker truly is .
Suicide Squad : Get Joker!misunderstands the Book of Genesis for Jason Todd ’s life story as Red Hood because it rivet on the moral dimensions of his military action , rather than the emotional reasons for why they pass in the first blank space . And while this certainly is n’t the first clock time that this has hap in Jason Todd ’s publication history , his presence on the Suicide Squad – a team ofpeople meant to be understood as " bad"–is frustrating because of its logical implication . If a victim can categorically be consider " speculative " for wanting to stop the violence that they experienced from happening to anyone else , then there are a lot more mass in the DC Universe besides Red Hood who ought to be onGet Joker ! ’s Suicide Squad .
at last , Jason Todd ’s spell asRed Hood exist in defiance of the Jokerand the helplessness that he instills in his victims . And yet Red Hood is not on the Suicide Squad inGet Joker!to continue the progress his character has made to specify himself on his own terminal figure . Despite becoming one of DC Comics ' most compelling characters , Suicide Squad : Get Joker!was never invested in unpackingRed Hood ’s complexities as much as it was in provide yet another spectacle for the Joker ’s cruelty .
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