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[xxwwabi]

little wing meets the big red hood

[sohotthateveryonedied]

while were on the subject how long was jason dead for / how long before came back to gotham

Alrighty boys it's time for some MATH by a person who is very bad at math:

First things first, Jason died on April 27th at the age of fifteen. 

Batman: A Death in the Family

He remains dead and in the coffin for six months. (There is a comic that shows Jason in heaven, but this comic came out in 2001 which is long after Jason should have been up and about if we follow the timeline, but I’m chocking this up to Jason still being dead as far as the writers knew at the time.)

Green Arrow (2001) #7

Six months after Jason’s death, he is resurrected when Superboy-Prime punches reality in Infinite Crisis and unravels certain events in time, one of these events being Jason’s death. Instead of changing it so the death never happened, Jason’s decaying corpse is reanimated. 

Batman Annual #25

Jason wakes up in the coffin and digs himself out with a belt buckle from his funeral suit. 

Batman Annual #25

Jason still retains the injuries from the crowbar and explosion, so he suffers from some pretty intense brain damage which has him stumbling around Gotham for twelve and a half miles, completely catatonic. Some people find him and take him to the hospital where he falls into a coma. 

Batman Annual #25

Jason stays in the coma for a year before he wakes up. Still relatively brain-dead, his instincts kick in and he escapes from the hospital.

Batman Annual #25

Then Jason spends a year (or five months, if you prefer the timeline established in Red Hood: The Lost Days) on the streets, running entirely on instinct from both his Robin training and from the years he spent on the streets before being adopted by Bruce. 

Batman Annual #25

Talia al Ghul gets word of Jason being alive and has him taken to the League of Assassins compound. He stays there for another year, still catatonic and running solely on instinct. His body is in perfect fighting shape, but his mind is mush. 

Batman Annual #25

To restore his mind, Talia dunks Jason in the Lazarus Pit, healing all of his injuries (and erasing all of his scars, according to RHATO). 

Batman Annual #25

Red Hood and the Outlaws (2016) #50

Jason spends further time with Talia, studying from a multitude of trainers Talia hires to prep Jason for when he confronts Bruce. We can assume this takes a year or so? It’s said that Jason spends more or less a month with each trainer, so I’m going with a year. Over this time, Jason hones his skills and stokes the fire of his resentment for Bruce not avenging him by killing Joker/replacing him with a new Robin. 

Red Hood: The Lost Days #2

Red Hood: The Lost Days #4

Then there’s that weird thing where Jason and Talia sleep together, but we’re ignoring that. Jason takes off for Gotham to go beat up his dad. He meets up with Hush and teams up with him in exchange for telling him Batman’s identity. This is a moment fans tend to get confused about: Jason was there for the 2003 Hush storyline. Yes, Clayface was pretending to be Jason, but only for the end of the fight with Bruce. Everything before that was all Jason. He kidnapped Tim, confronted and fought Bruce, and then fled, leaving Bruce to assume that the whole thing was a ruse and Jason was still dead. However, Bruce knew from this point on that Jason’s grave was empty and his body was missing. 

Batman #618

Jason lies low in Gotham for a bit before the Under the Hood storyline starts in 2004, which I assume is anywhere from six months to a year in canon? It’s unclear exactly how long the gap is, but Hush happened a year prior in real time, so I’m working around that. It’s finally revealed to everyone that Jason is back from the dead, he confronts Bruce, tries to kill the Joker, etc. And the rest is history. 

Batman #648

Taking all of this into account, we can determine that Jason regains consciousness roughly 3.5 years (or just 3 years if you go by the RH:LD timeline) after his death, he returns to Gotham 4.5 years after (or just 4 years), and Jason being alive is revealed to everyone around 5-5.5 years after his death, which would make him roughly 19-20 years old. 

[spiritsglade]

we really do not put jason todd in a time loop nearly as much as we should.

[batfig-deactivated20250903]

there is something erotic about irritating a man. i’m really enjoying pissing you off. do you want fuck me yet

[lokutofu]

pov: you turned into the wrong alleyway

[mycroftrh]

look I understand the confusion but I cannot emphasize enough how much jason todd does not want to kill the joker. he wants someone else to kill joker ABOUT him. it's completely different

[lena-thinks-too-much]

he wants his death to mean something. He wants someone to care that he died and get upset enough to kill the joker for it.

Yeah he'd probably feel safer if he just killed the joker and didn't have to worry about him. But he'd feel like he matters if someone else did it. And that's what he cares about.

[cosmicpoutine]

oracle, ban this guy

(some shitpost while i work on that bernard comic)

[aliteralchicken]

Why are they always ten stories up, get down-

[starieve]

Attempting to get over 5 month long art block so here is a quick Jason Todd sketch from like two days ago :)

[oneswordstyle]

fixing his hair

[kittykatninja321]

Things that Talia does not know, has no way of knowing, and thus cannot relay to Jason

The fact that Bruce wanted to kill the Joker immediately after Jason’s death

The fact that Dick wasn’t at Jason’s funeral

the fact that Dick wasn’t at Jason’s funeral because he was in space at the time and Bruce kept his death hidden from him for weeks

The exact inner workings of how and why Tim joined the bats

The fact that Dick killed the joker in a fit of vengeful rage one time

[crashout-cain]

well now i'm thinking about a jason who didn't do utrh, but came back to gotham, killed the joker, and fuckin. joined a band. local (legally dead non-entity) rising star in the gotham post-hardcore punk scene accused of killing joker, incriminating video footage suggests. obviously if he's charged at all he gets off scot-free because who the hell is gonna convict him for that. this shoots him into, at the very least, local stardom. his music doesn't even need to be good. he's the early 2000s new jersey punk scene's golden boy.

[nondistinctmeganerd]

Jason, who's not used to non violent touch, who flinches away from hugs or pats on the shoulder. Jason, who can't remember the last time a hand didn't hurt.

Even before his death, it wasn't common, at least not enough to break his habit of flinching away from anyone getting too close

Jason, who secretly didn't mind getting hurt on patrol because it proved that someone cared enough to take care of him.

Jason, who came back to a world of violence, the echoes of the joker ringing loud in his head.

Jason, who can see the hurt on his families face when he jerks back from their hands.

Jason, who isn't sure he deserves comfort.

Jason, who wants more than anything to feel safe and secure and loved.

But when was the last time that Jason ever got what he wanted?

[raven-winged-sky]

Red Hood <3

Art by me (@kvac_creates on insta)

[thelaughingmagician]

Batman and Robin (2023) #18

[azoriawolf]

Art done for a Jason todd zine in ..2021?