Jason doesn't blame Bruce for his death.
Yes. You read that correctly. He doesn't.
He only got mad that Bruce didn't kill the Joker after Jason died. For taking Jason away from Bruce. Then he got mad about being "replaced", which wasn't true, and Jason dropped that resentment after finding out the truth and going through an adjustment period.
He knows what went down at the warehouse isn't as cut and dry as to say it was Bruce's fault exclusively. Hell, let's be real, if you wanna assign blame to anybody then do it to Shelia. It's Shelia's fault.
She had the opportunity to let Jason help. He extended her an olive branch of trust and she threw him under the bus to keep her own embezzling scheme hidden. She was also embezzling money from funding for medical care for people in desperate need in a third world country. As a doctor herself. Why do people defend her?
She threw her son's life away, and her own, because she didn't wanna get caught embezzling money.
But no, we still get these bomb-drop panels of Bruce getting sucker punched by "YoU lEt jASOn ToDD dIE!!", then the fandom rallies behind it like moths to a flame as if it's some true fucking thing. As if he didn't have to make a hard choice between saving hundreds of people from being Joker Gassed and taking care of Shelia and the Joker with Jay. As if he didn't beg Jason to wait for him to get back so they could save his mother together. As if Clark didn't haul Bruce away from killing the Joker multiple times afterwards.
As if anyone who wasn't there has any right to criticize Bruce for having a sidekick when most heroes have ones too. Just because those sidekicks have powers doesnt mean they were any less in danger in a fucking BATTLEFIELD.
Donna died. Her husband and child also died. Roy got hooked on drugs when Ollie fucked off across the country for six months and didn't care to call the boy at all, then punched him in the face immediately after learning Roy was an addict and threw him out. He also never apologized for this act, Ollie legitimately thought it was the right thing to do. Hal had to be the one to help Roy out with Dinah, to find him and get him the help he needed. Hal and Dinah. Not Oliver.
Garfield was an afterthought so Steven could marry Rita, and Steven only adopted Gar explicitly because Rita required him to if they were gonna get married. They were a package deal. That was her only request. Because she loves that boy and wanted to give him a real home, a permanent one. When she FUCKING DIES, Steven became an abusive alcoholic and barely tolerated Gar's presence. He only marginally took care of Gar in name only as a legal obligation.
When Gar was acting out because the majority of the found family he lost DIED, Steven was too busy wallowing in his own self pity for losing Rita to care beyond getting pissed that Gar was acting out in the first place, and constantly disregarded Gar as a troublesome burden. They didn't start having a proper father-son relationship and begin patching up all those holes until long after the Titans came back into existence.
I don't wanna hear that Bruce is the only terrible parent figure who "let" his son die in battle. Especially when we know that shit isn't true. So many other sidekicks arguably went through much worse shit than just outright dying, and their mentor figures seemingly get a free pass because y'all motherfuckers like to nitpick. It is especially bullshit writers in the comics love to harp on Bruce's faults and decisions regarding the Robins, Jason especially, to bolster the flimsy enough morality scale increase the characters get from doing so on panel.
If Jason were to see this shit Wally and Clark pulled on Bruce in person, he'd knock them the fuck out.
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