Okay I wanna talk about a trait of Winick's Jason that I think is important:
What he says and what he does aren't always the same.
And people sometimes catch on to this with his bad actions, will call out hypocrisy easily when it comes to his crimes...but sort of overlook it when it comes to anything else?
So first I want to talk about him stabbing Onyx.
What does Jason say versus what does he do?
Well. When he talks with Bruce right after it, he has his famous rain philosophy chat where he says this:
I love this line, by the way. Winick's Jason can be very poetic.
But also: is this true? Not really.
Jason doesn't...kill anyone, who tries to stop him.
He immediately treats Onyx's stab wound after stabbing her, despite knowing she would probably try and attack him again to get him to stay and answer for his murders. And while the knife is still in her shoulder, he words it as a death threat:
...Except he doesn't wait for her to answer, to give any sign of compliance, before he's immediately treating the wound:
And he clearly is expecting she'll still try to fight him:
Here he even stops using the pretense of murder threats, just saying he'll beat her up. So. We're sort 0 for 2 on "death may come to those who try and stop me", and Jason doesn't even seem interested in trying.
Okay now the other major example.
In Lost Days, Jason says he "doesn't care about the world":
I've seen people take this at face value and say Jason clearly only cares about revenge, look he said so etc. But this is the most obvious example of Jason either putting up a front or lying to himself.
Because he says immediately after he goes out of his way to stop a terrorist attack and ensure innocent people aren't framed for it:
He doesn't have to do this. It benefits him in no way. It puts him in more danger:
Except of course, that he does care about the world, and innocent lives, enough to risk his own, regardless of what tough mask he wants to put on while 17 and furious and hurting.
