This is why any Jason "reforming", "going good", "redemption" arc never achieve to amuse me. Because I don't think a guy killing a nazi is wrong, I don't think killing abusers, managing drug dealing (because let's be honest drug dealing will stay around as long as they let rich people and the STATE make money from it.).
Hell, I want dc to convince me is wrong, to tell me why is wrong, I want have this though process be challenged.
Without bringing Batman's point of view.
I don't give a a single fuck. About what Batman think. I don't give a shit if he doesn't approve it. Batman in the end of the day no matter how many time he emulates poverty and lacking experiences. It still as it is. An "emulation" a "test", a "experience" he could snap his fingers and it's over. Batman has no idea how it is grow up with lacking, or with crime at his next door.
It's one aspects of his core personality. He doesn't know, he didn't experience. But he cares. He cherish human life, he cherish second chances he is a good man who believe in the goodness of mankind. And there's nothing wrong with that.
Batman is a super-hero. He was born one at that alley at 8 years old and he's going to die like that.
He doesn't get it, he never experienced. But he cares, so he tries, he tries to emulate, he tries to understand and he tries to help.
Jason on the other hand had a totally different experience. And Jason on the other hand had to work with what he got. And what he learned. He had the opportunity to experience and see the system from different sides.
And this is why I think of him (even though I don't say that much or that often here) as a fucking warrior. Jason operates in Gotham the same way soldiers operates in their missions. He strategies, he fights and he plans based on crime fighting and crime management. He saw a system with flaws and it tries to eliminate the core problems of it. If that means he'll have to work as the bad guy and put some people down while on it too bad.
It doesn't matter because rather than Batman (who works from every piece and small action and person involved matter) Jason sees the big picture and works from there.
Different lines of work, different point of views.
Batman is there to save people and arrest criminals.
RedHood is there to fight crime and terminate nuisances. He will save people, he will kill people whoever the plan he's making leads him.
He very rarely thinks about the small and common moments and/or people involved (for better or for worst.)
If we're comparing Jason todd is much closer to the way Wonder Woman fights crime (moral code) than Batman.
The same way Nightwing is closes to Superman moral code than Batman.
But both of them (obviously work from their dad, Batman technics).
Jason isn't a broken man, there's nothing to fix. My guy is not out there shooting blindly. He has a other way to work things.
And if we aren't trying to fix Wonder Woman, we aren't trying to fix Batwoman and we aren't trying to fix every warrior/anti-hero/hero who kills under the sun. Tell me why on hell are we trying to fix Jason Todd?
The batfamily gets doomed from start when you try to analize them, their work and their lives from an extention of Batman's character.
That's why Grayson's arc is the most compelling and complete and in the moment they (dc writers) decided to pull him back it went backwards.
You can't hire writers who don't want or don't try to understand the characters point of view to write them. It's just stupid. And you can't just start working from the fix-it point of view when theres nothing to fix.
I've said that before and I'll say it again.
Jason Todd didn't came from a rejected character, to a villain, to one of the most known and beloved characters fr the Batfamily from nothing.
Know you fucking audience and work from there.
Hire writers who care and understand the characters audience and work from there.
Y'all (dc) got him popular with under the red hood and then get :0 surprised when the readers don't give a fuck when it deviates from there.
It's just some of us like to see nazi's getting killed. Is that a crime???? Is that the point comics got??? Y'all afraid of killing a nazi???
Like it's literally the comic roots, it's literally what got many of us on board???
Mf get proud in being "dark and gritty" and then piss their pants about get a little of killin in the pages but yet refuses to confront the moral of that.
Dc is literally hiring the equivalent of 12 year olds playing with action figures and barbie dolls and I'm getting tired of this shit.
They either reform this mf, keep him as and anti-hero, make him a bland of both (all of that without batman) or stop complaining about the down sales or trying to gaslight us that the character isn't popular anymore.
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