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While theTeen TitansAcademy has focused on the development and growing of DC ’s newest generation of young heroes , the series ’ most tantalizing mystery story has centered around the reappearance ofRed X , a persona previously used by Dick Grayson . While Nightwing has long molt the persona , someone is using the byname and motive to raise hell across the Infinite Frontier , andTeen Titans Academy # 5just dropped a huge cue to narrow down the list of likely suspects wear the skull - face cowl .
InTeen Titans Academy # 5by Tim Sheridan and Steve Lieber , readers learn more of the Bat - Pack ’s backstory and how they came to be inscribe by Nightwing into theTeen Titans Academy . Most of the issue is a flashback explaining how the Bat - Pack work their first case in an orphanage and were convinced something strange was underway regarding several miss children . As they investigate on their own terms , Diego ( afterwards known as Chupacabra ) is kidnapped by an associate of the orphanage ’s manager and injected with an observational first-rate - soldier blood serum . After fending off his captors with the aid of Nightwing and the Batpack , the group of friends is offered the opportunity to go to the Teen Titans academy together to escape being split up through the foster - care system . They pertain their tale to Red X , who appreciates their forwardness and in turn of events unmask themselves to the Bat - Pack off - dialog box . The Bat - Pack ’s response and Red X ’s subsequent dialog go a long way to specify downwho is behind Red X ’s masque .
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Red X ’s reaction to the Bat - Pack ’s tale holds several clew that help specialize down the list of likely individuals put on the costume . first , the Bat - Pack evidently greet who was under the mask when Red X unmasked themselves . While the characters do n’t explicitly say anything that charge to who is Red X , their reactions following Diego ’s incredulous “ No direction ! ” are too nonchalant for it to be a new character or even one of their previous suspects such as Tooby or Matt Price . Second , he makes his disdain for Nightwing and his methods make love while alluding to the fact thatRed X is building his own team . It appear that this despite has a cryptic root , and could imply a anterior history that most of the Bat - Pack , and most of their suspects , would not be secluded to or affect in .
Given this new evidence , it seems possible that Red X could also be a new character not see unmasked in theTeen Titans Academyseries . Their particular disdain for the Bat - Family ’s methods and apparent familiarity with Gotham ( as see by the want to prove necessary context regarding the orphanage and key portion of Gotham ) could point thatClownhunter has reinvented himselfafter the Joker War . The last time the young , hyper - violent , and surprisingly capable vigilance man was see , Ghostmaker helped him escape from the Dark Knight . Clownhunter has yet to re-emerge in his hometown of Gotham , despite never giving any indication of abandon his crashing vendetta againstsuper - criminasl , like Joker and Punchline . peradventure in a revenge - motivated moment of inspiration , Clownhunter slip the Red X regalia and is using it to further his own blood feud ?
Red X’ssecret identity has proven to be a systematically challenging aspect of Infinite Frontier as the character makes several appearances across different series . While it may still be some time before reader get a definite solvent as to who is running around in Nightwing ’s former alter - ego , it seems that theTeen Titansand their students at Teen Titans Academy may have given readers the big clue as they instruct who ’s under the masquerade party .
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