THE ROBIN THAT EVERYONE FORGOT: JASON TODD QUOTES. all these sentences were taken from various issues of the batman mythos said by Jason Todd aka Red Hood. Might include violence, and as usual for Jason, angst and mentions of death and child death. You can change pronouns, names, locations and anything you see fit.
“Oh, my goodness gracious! I've been bamboozled!
“Hey, it's going to be hard to learn a great many things about me, but one I'll give you for free...I am no one's son.”
“Look at me. Do you see terror? Do you see fear? Or is it just your own reflection?"
"You're right. I see my reflection in your eyes--And it's kicking your ass!”
“Give people a chance and they'll usually surprise you.”
“Batman can create as many crappy trophies as he wants. They don't change a thing. They’re built on lies and sand. And they will fall. Like his whole damn world.
There’s nothing to be gained getting caught up in his gravity. Nothing.”
Ignoring what he's done in the past. Blindly, stupidly, disregarding the entire graveyards he's filled, the thousands who have suffered, the friends he's crippled. You know, I thought... I thought I'd be the last person you'd ever let him hurt.
You don't understand. I don't think you've ever understood.
What? What, your moral code just won't allow for that? It's too hard to cross that line?
All I've ever wanted to do is kill him. But if I do that... if I allow myself to go down into that place... I'll never come back.
Why? I'm not talking about killing Penguin, or Scarecrow, or Dent. I'm talking about him. Just him. And doing it because... because he took me away from you.”
“You're angry and sloppy, running around the world hitting anything that'll fall down. And that's kind of a Red Hood thing.”
“You want to beat up on a kid, go enlist in the G.C.P.D. like every other bully in this city.”
“Sometimes you just have to give people a chance, Jason. They'll usually surprise you.”
You and I are more alike then you realize, Xiao. I was dead once. I get it - starting over is scary as hell.
I know you're still trying to be Superman. But you're not really, are you? You can't save the all, Kent... unless we give up the idea of taking Vandal alive.
Thanks for thinking of me. I'm happy to help, Bruce. Honored, even. That'll be $150,000.
I generally have several madness-inducing hallucinations before breakfast. And nothing in the real world can be as frightening as what we can imagine.
Really? You don't think I understand what it's like to be abandoned? Forgotten? To be the Robin nobody trusts?
I'll be damned if my best friend is going to die ... because he was dumb enough to trust me.
But there are some crimes -- sins -- even Gotham can't wash away.
You made the same mistake everyone does when it comes to me. I'm not evil. Or good. Unfortunately for you... I'm just practical as hell.
Funny, I actually escaped death... but one life later, the past keeps dragging me back.
I tried to go legit. Made friends. Failed them. That was then. This is now. This is me.
Don't know. Don't care. I got my hands full.
Anyone ever tell you really know how to ruin a party, Catwoman?
You almost got yourself killed. The angry, reckless vigilante bit is my thing.
That looks like it's gotta hurt. Well, I say that like I'm speculating or something. I know it hurts.
I seem to have made myself an enemy of all the bad guys.
Is that what you think this is about? That you let me die?
You can't stop crime! That's what you never understood! I'm CONTROLLING it! You want to rule them by fear but what do you do to those who aren't afraid?! I'm doing what YOU won't! I'm taking them out!
It might not be a popular thought but not everyone wants to be alive .
The world's greatest detective, and you still haven't figured it out?