Due to being immersed in the Lazarus Pits, Jason possesses some magical abilities.
*Magic Negation - Jason was taught a powerful, arcane martial arts strike by Talia al Ghul that only a force of true good is capable of delivering. This technique was created by Ducra, as a way to strip away the powers of the Untitled.
*Summoning - Jason possesses the unique ability to summon the All-Blades - A pair of mystical blades manifested from Jason's own soul, designed to kill magic-based threats. The blades can only be summoned in the presence of true evil. Jason has even shown the ability to summon dozens of All-Blades at once.
Deception - According to Batman, Jason is a skilled liar
Jason ran the Iceberg Lounge for a short time. He was called "The Prince of Gotham".
Jason is able to hack into LexCorp computers in less than five minutes.
He has Genius Level Intellect
He can vomit on command
Jason was taught by Batman to pick locks in his second week of training.
Jason is a master martial artist, having received training from many of the world's most skilled fighters, including Batman, Nightwing, Bronze Tiger, Lady Shiva and the All-Caste.
He was considered the All-Caste's most successful pupil, earning him respect and secrets only he has been able to unlock. Even Damian, who doesn't have a very high opinion of Jason, considers his older brother to be one of the greatest fighters to have ever lived. As part of his Robin training, Bruce taught Jason a technique called "language of combat," wherein he can communicate with others while fighting. Jason is skilled enough to beat a weakened Deathstroke, and even Ra's in combat. Jason admits that whenever he fought Batman, he always held back due to their relationship.
Dim Mak - Jason is skilled in this ancient form of martial arts where you strike vital points of the opponent's body causing paralysis, intense and prolonged pain or death. He was taught a specific nerve strike technique by Lady Shiva, that allows him to instantly paralyze an opponent. Other martial arts he knows are Eskrima, Kung Fu, Muay Thai, Tae Kwon Do and Wing Chun.
Jason is Multilingual. (his Portuguese has gotten rusty over the years)
Jason is knowledgeable on various mystical concepts, due to his training with the All-Caste.
Through intense training, Jason has trained his body to the natural pinnacle of human physical prowess. His physical attributes roughly exceeded that of an Olympic level athlete. His strength, speed, stamina, agility, reflexes and coordination are at peak human perfection. He has displayed on multiple occasions that he is quick enough to dodge point-blank gunfire.
Jason is highly skilled with most weapons, though he usually favors using his dual handguns. He is skilled in knife-fighting, and can use virtually any common object as an improvised weapon, such as baseball bats, chains, a crowbar, and even a flag pole.
Jason is a highly skilled marksman. Unlike most of the Batman Family, Red Hood is one of few who has no problems with the use of firearms.
Due to his training over the years, Jason is a master swordsman.
He has even been able to keep up with the likes of Ra's in a sword dual, and even disarm him.
Jason Todd has a confirmed kill count of 83
Jason spent time in Arkham Asylum, where he had therapy sessions with Dr. Quinzel. Though when this happened exactly is unknown.
Jason kept the tire he originally stole from the Batmobile.
Jason's blood type is O-
Jason (and in addition the Outlaws; Artemis and Bizarro) was drafted on to Amanda Waller's Suicide Squad after getting arrested by Batwoman and the Gotham Knights.
Jason earned Talia's respect and managed to impress her further by perfectly performing a fighting move invented by the All-Caste that even she couldn't master. (this was back in "Zero Year".)
Jason broke out of Supergirl's grip twice (the first time she wasn't expecting it, yet the second time she was prepared, yet he still got out of her grip) with her stating "I thought you were normal like Batman... no "normal" human is strong enough to do that". He also snuck away from her despite her having super hearing.
He once tossed Bane with a leg grapple. Bane is estimated to weigh around 250 - 350 pounds.
Jason has an open invitation to join the League of Assassins at any time.
Jason once broke off the neck and arm of a large Talon. Note that Jason was the only one to beat a Talon on his own at this time, while Damian defeated one with two others and Tim was stilling fighting his.
Lex gave total custody of Bizarro to Jason and Artemis. (Image here x)
After being apprehended by the authorities, Jason passed all psych evaluations at Arkham Asylum and was then transferred to a Gotham prison. Upon his arrival though, suicide rates spiked within the prison. The result of pure fear on the inmates part. As Rorschach once said “ I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me ” and I can't think of anything that would better describe this situation.
Jason has a punch taught by the All-Caste that removes someones power and immortality. He once used this punch on Ra's.
According to Tim Drake of the future, after being killed by the Joker, one of Jason's bones was never set right, which caused a growing and devastating bone spur in his hip joint.
It's been said that during his time as Robin, Jason was an occasional smoker.
Jason Todd is one of the only in-cannon characters to ever be able to sneak up on Deathstroke and match him in combat.
EDIT (5/6/22): This kinda adds on to the other points on Jason's strength.
He's strong enough to break through a submarine hull with a single punch
Effortlessly lift a man over his head with one hand and throw him several meters through an airplane window.
Casually kick an airplane door off the hinges while it's flying.
Sent Deathstroke flying with a kick. (i'll get never over the fact their was a mouth on his helmet :/)
Break the neck and arm of a superhuman Talon.
Throw an alien with one hand.
Flip Susie Sue on her head (she weighs over 600 lbs).
Hold the roof of a collapsed building.
Support the weight of a enormous cruise missile for an extended period of time.
Cut a dinosaur's head off with one slice.
Overpowered a large group of Venom-users
Struck Lobo to the floor
He can apply practically superhuman force in his physical attacks to match Meta-human super-soldiers like Ravager (who easily has the strength of 10 men, possibly a dozen or more).
(EDIT: 6/20/22
When Jason concentrates hard enough (e.g. meditating) he can glow, this is due to his time in the All-Caste (x)
Jason is not influenced by Lazarus Pit side effects for the main part of Red Hood: The Lost Days. His short-term side effects include "sociopathy" and flat affect.
Jason is (almost certainly) not influenced by Lazarus Pit side effects during his villainous stint in Under the Hood (2005-2006) and Under the Red Hood (2010 movie), Outsiders (2007), Green Arrow (2007), and other stories written by Judd Winick.
Jason is possibly influenced by Lazarus Pit madness in other stories not written by Judd Winick—including the Brothers in Blood arc, Teen Titans ("Titans Tower incident" as dubbed by the fandom), Robin, Batman and Robin…
Jason is influenced by Lazarus Pit side effects in Battle for the Cowl by Tony Daniel (2009), according to an interview with the writer.
The Lazarus Pit is a traumatic memory for Jason according to the Rebirth run of Red Hood and the Outlaws (2016) #3. The trauma seems to be a typical response to his disturbing and painful experience of resurrection, not a supernatural effect caused by the Lazarus Pit specifically.
Jason suffers from "Lazarus flashbacks" (implied to be hallucinations) in Injustice 2 (2017).
Jason never used a Lazarus Pit in Batman: Arkham Knight, Batman: The Adventures Continue, Batman: White Knight, and other stories.
Red Hood: The Lost Days # 2 (2010)
RA'S AL GHUL: "You are certain that the Pit has not driven him mad?!"
TALIA: "It did not."
RA'S AL GHUL: "Perhaps not tonight. Or even tomorrow. It could take weeks, months, decades!"
Red Hood: The Lost Days is a prequel covering Jason's life between waking up in his coffin and storming the Gotham underworld as the Red Hood. Winick takes the opportunity to establish Jason's sanity and willing transformation into a villain, while also planting the possibility of delayed-onset Lazarus Pit madness to explain Jason's volatile characterization under other writers after Under the Hood (2006).
(RHTLD also re-retcons Jason's natural hair color as black, after the 2009 Batman and Robin series briefly retconned him into a natural redhead.)
Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
JASON: "Oh, you got to talking to Ra's, huh? Does it make it easier for you to think that my little dip in his fountain of youth turned me rabid… Or is this just the real me?"
In the 2010 movie adaptation of the 2005-2006 Under the Hood comic, Jason mocks the assumption he's acting under the influence of the Lazarus Pit. While there isn't a 100% unambiguous confirmation as to whether that's the case, the context seems to dismiss any outside influence on Jason's actions.
"Behind Batman: Battle for the Cowl Part Two" - Dan Phillips interviews Tony Daniel (2009)
TONY DANIEL: "Jason was always a little bit more on the reckless, daring side, and he obviously has a screw loose after coming back from the Lazarus Pit. When you do come back from the Lazarus Pit, you're not one hundred percent right in the head, and Jason really wasn't all that right in the head to begin with."
According to this 2009 interview with IGN, Tony Daniel wrote Battle for the Cowl (2009) with the premise that Jason's mind has been corrupted by the Lazarus Pit.
Red Hood and the Outlaws (2016) #3
JASON: It's like [Bizarro is] coming to life right in front of us. ...And I know firsthand what that feels like. The Lazarus Pit. Not unlike this guy--I didn't have any say in what was happening to me. It might not be a popular thought--but not everyone wants to be alive. I remember that feeling--waking up... feeling like I was going to drown even as I was being reborn. Feeling like I had no right to come back to this world."
Jason is deeply disturbed and traumatized by his resurrection, but the Lazarus Pit itself doesn't seem to have tampered with his mind.
Injustice 2 (2017)
The powerful healing waters of the Lazarus Pit brought Jason Todd back to life. However, the power of the Pit comes at a cost, and a change takes hold in Jason.
RED HOOD (battling another Red Hood player): "I'm having another Lazarus flashback."
Jason is not influenced by Lazarus Pit side effects for the main part of Red Hood: The Lost Days. His short-term side effects include "sociopathy" and flat affect.
Jason is (almost certainly) not influenced by Lazarus Pit side effects during his villainous stint in Under the Hood (2005-2006) and Under the Red Hood (2010 movie), Outsiders (2007), Green Arrow (2007), and other stories written by Judd Winick.
Jason is possibly influenced by Lazarus Pit madness in other stories not written by Judd Winick—including the Brothers in Blood arc, Teen Titans ("Titans Tower incident" as dubbed by the fandom), Robin, Batman and Robin…
Jason is influenced by Lazarus Pit side effects in Battle for the Cowl by Tony Daniel (2009), according to an interview with the writer.
The Lazarus Pit is a traumatic memory for Jason according to the Rebirth run of Red Hood and the Outlaws (2016) #3. The trauma seems to be a typical response to his disturbing and painful experience of resurrection, not a supernatural effect caused by the Lazarus Pit specifically.
Jason suffers from "Lazarus flashbacks" (implied to be hallucinations) in Injustice 2 (2017).
Jason never used a Lazarus Pit in Batman: Arkham Knight, Batman: The Adventures Continue, Batman: White Knight, and other stories.
Red Hood: The Lost Days # 2 (2010)
RA'S AL GHUL: "You are certain that the Pit has not driven him mad?!"
TALIA: "It did not."
RA'S AL GHUL: "Perhaps not tonight. Or even tomorrow. It could take weeks, months, decades!"
Red Hood: The Lost Days is a prequel covering Jason's life between waking up in his coffin and storming the Gotham underworld as the Red Hood. Winick takes the opportunity to establish Jason's sanity and willing transformation into a villain, while also planting the possibility of delayed-onset Lazarus Pit madness to explain Jason's volatile characterization under other writers after Under the Hood (2006).
(RHTLD also re-retcons Jason's natural hair color as black, after the 2009 Batman and Robin series briefly retconned him into a natural redhead.)
Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
JASON: "Oh, you got to talking to Ra's, huh? Does it make it easier for you to think that my little dip in his fountain of youth turned me rabid… Or is this just the real me?"
In the 2010 movie adaptation of the 2005-2006 Under the Hood comic, Jason mocks the assumption he's acting under the influence of the Lazarus Pit. While there isn't a 100% unambiguous confirmation as to whether that's the case, the context seems to dismiss any outside influence on Jason's actions.
"Behind Batman: Battle for the Cowl Part Two" - Dan Phillips interviews Tony Daniel (2009)
TONY DANIEL: "Jason was always a little bit more on the reckless, daring side, and he obviously has a screw loose after coming back from the Lazarus Pit. When you do come back from the Lazarus Pit, you're not one hundred percent right in the head, and Jason really wasn't all that right in the head to begin with."
According to this 2009 interview with IGN, Tony Daniel wrote Battle for the Cowl (2009) with the premise that Jason's mind has been corrupted by the Lazarus Pit.
Red Hood and the Outlaws (2016) #3
JASON: It's like [Bizarro is] coming to life right in front of us. ...And I know firsthand what that feels like. The Lazarus Pit. Not unlike this guy--I didn't have any say in what was happening to me. It might not be a popular thought--but not everyone wants to be alive. I remember that feeling--waking up... feeling like I was going to drown even as I was being reborn. Feeling like I had no right to come back to this world."
Jason is deeply disturbed and traumatized by his resurrection, but the Lazarus Pit itself doesn't seem to have tampered with his mind.
Injustice 2 (2017)
The powerful healing waters of the Lazarus Pit brought Jason Todd back to life. However, the power of the Pit comes at a cost, and a change takes hold in Jason.
RED HOOD (battling another Red Hood player): "I'm having another Lazarus flashback."
i think it’s important to get deeply emotionally unironically involved in a bad piece of media whilst fully aware that it objectively sucks ass. like for your health or whatever
I’ve gotta reblog this again because it’s honestly fantastic “he could be anyone and he chooses to be kind” shows such an amazing understanding of Superman as a character, who I think a lot of people who don’t understand him really struggle to write, Jeff Loveness continues to kill it, inhumans spiderman special, groot, he’s written so little and yet I remember like every moment, I really really hope he gets a series soon he more than deserves it
This is kinda an unpopular opinion but I hate when people insinuate that Damian loves Dick more than Bruce and Talia, or that Dick is a “better parent” to Damian.
Dick is not his father. Dick is his big brother and that should be acknowledged. Talia and Bruce have worked hard raising Damian even though they are not the best at it.
Personally, my parents didn’t do great raising me either—but despite my close relationship with my brother, he could never be a proper parent figure.
Dick and Damian are close, and Damian loves him as much as he loves the rest of his family. Honestly it just feels weird when people treat Dick as his actual parent beyond all the jokes. Damian, unlike most of the Batfamily, has both his parents. And they love him very much. Don’t take that from him, it’s a very important part of his character.
Robin: Son of Batman, Resurrection of Ra’s al Ghul
It just feels wrong to simplify his relationship with his parents, and it really makes them look bad when obviously they’re working hard to show that they do love him despite everything. It feels wrong to other timelines where Dick actually has children, because he’s not exactly the same to them and Damian, because Damian is his brother and not his son.
