In 2D or 3D works, the death of a decent character often becomes a successful tear gas, arousing huge repercussions and infinite sighs from the readers . And the DC family, which occupies half of the American comics, relies on decent people to eat. If you count from the first appearance of Superman ("Action Comics" Issue 1, 1938), DC World has been running for more than 70 years, and its heroes Not to mention a hundred, and occasionally throwing a blockbuster to kill one or two is also quite effective. For example, the second generation of Flash ran back in time in order to save the DC world, until the final body completely disappeared ("Infinite Earth Crisis").
Of course, on the other hand, the source of the money is these heroes. The business is about the long flow. The death incident is at best when the sales are better in the current period. The following text has become a problem. The DC family also understand that this kind of behavior is like killing a chicken to get eggs, so we see that although the death of Superman has become a classic in the American comics world, it finally came back to life. Afterwards, the deaths of Wonder Woman, Green Arrow, Little Superman, the Fourth Generation of Lightning, Batman... all have stories of wolves coming. The readers are sorrowful for their heroic sacrifices, and their hearts are like mirrors. They will come back after all.
Although the death of heroes is commonplace in the current American comics world, such things were relatively rare decades ago. Moreover, readers are more able to accept the Second Lightning to sacrifice themselves to save the world-after all, this is another promotion of heroism, and it has been perfected by the three generations of Flash. But another death has been called a murder by readers.
The deceased was Batman's second-generation Robin, Jason Todd. Before the DC world was reshuffled, his birth was similar to the first Robin, from the circus. But after the shuffle, the authors seemed to want to create a completely different Robin, so Jason was born in Crime Alley, where the Waynes and his wife died.
His fate seemed to be decided the moment he met Batman. At that time, the first Robin Dick had grown up and was injured in an action with the hunt for the clown, which made Batman consider letting him return to a normal life, but once he stepped into some areas, he could no longer let himself stand by. Robin became Nightwing and had a city (Batman) he guarded. Then the newspaper began to publish rumors that Robin was dead, and even Chief Gordon was asking Batman. The death of a righteous policeman will add another touch of darkness to Gotan, and Batman, who is alone, realizes that he is used to Robin by his side, and that he misses Dick very much.
That day, Batman patrolled Crime Alley. He returned to the spot and accidentally found that the car that happened to be malfunctioning with the alarm was tilted to one side, and the two front wheels were stolen. He couldn't help laughing at this, and hid beside him waiting for the little thief who dared to steal the bat wheel, and the little thief actually came back to take the other two remaining tires.
This was the first encounter between Batman and the second Robin. Jason, who was caught, looked brave and rogue facing Batman. He returned a wrench and turned his head and ran. Batman followed all the way to his room.
The room, which was like an abandoned house, had almost no furniture, and was simply shabby, with pictures of the adoptive mother on the table. Like most street gangsters, Jason smokes, steals, and speaks foul language. But he supported his seriously ill foster mother by himself for a year. After discovering the conspiracy of criminals to steal the museum, he went to stop him and helped Batman. Batman, who has been following him, finally decided to let him serve as the second Robin.
Jason is not an orthodox-born hero. He grew up in a sinful atmosphere and has seen countless ugliness and darkness since he was a child. His confrontation with sin is more like a person’s nature. There is no school to teach him good and evil, good and bad, but he has a kind of justice he insists on. Crime Alley has trained him to be capable and fearless. , The young man is mature and full of thorns. But in the final analysis, he is only a thirteen-year-old child. After being taken home by Batman for training, he began to show a smile and innocence that fit his age. After moving to Wayne Manor, Jason began to look like an ordinary kid (except for Robin's training and tasks). He went to school, worried about his homework, and concentrated on writing reports in order to get a good score. His relationship with Bruce is not easy to clarify. On the one hand, he lives in Wayne Manor, Bruce and Alfred are like his relatives, his life is guaranteed, maybe Bruce will check his homework from time to time. On the other hand, he and Bruce are the relationship between the trainee and the trainer. In some ways, it is like an extracurricular interest class. He also likes extracurricular activities as Robin.
But whether Jason considers Bruce his father, this has never been positively stated. In the first days, he obeyed Bruce. He also admitted that the Wayne family treated him very well, but he also missed his dead father and mother. Judging from the fact that he has been supporting his mother alone for a year, he loves his parents very, very much. But Bruce was destined not to be a loving father. Batman himself must be strong enough to keep his distance from people. He could not let anyone be his weakness, nor could he show who he was special to, including Robin.
When looking through the information in the Bat Cave, Jason learned that the double-faced man had killed his biological father and became depressed. He was full of hatred and pinched the double-faced man’s neck during the hunt, bent on killing his father-killing enemy. But after talking with Bruce, he learned about the past and struggles of the double-faced man, and also understood his position as Robin, and even saved the double-faced man in the end.
He is not stubborn and stubborn. Although his nature is hot, Bruce may create a criminal if he leaves it alone, and becoming Robin to fight criminals also wants him to have a channel for venting, hoping that he can finally get on the right track.
But it is not easy. As Bruce himself said, Jason reminded him of himself in the worst days after his parents died. They are indeed alike in many places, with the same vicious tongue, violence, and solitude. The young Bruce once wanted to kill the murderer of his parents with his own hands, and Jason also had a similar idea of using violence to control violence in his heart. He believed that the bad guys should be punished, no matter what. In a homicide and corpse case, Batman and Robin were almost helpless and could only stand alone. The victim’s sister seduced the prisoner to take action and killed each other. After surrendering, she said that her behavior might not be legal. But it is correct. Contrary to Batman's principle of the supremacy of law, Robin agreed with her.
They have huge differences on the bottom line of behavior. On the one hand, the death of their parents made Jason extremely disgusted with criminal behavior. He could not release the sadness and miss for the death of his parents. He often cried at the photos alone and vented his anger and pain. Those criminals-and this has never been the right way to decompress. On the other hand, Jason is more obedient to his own judgment and behavior than Batman’s. Generally, he will follow Batman’s instructions, but once he encounters a crime, he will jump in desperately, and sometimes even needs Batman to stop him Fist thrown by the prisoner. In his opinion, regardless of Robin's identity or life from the past to the present, it is more often just a game.
In the face of various complex crime situations, perhaps Jason has some experience in tracking and fighting, but he is not good at "legalizing" punishment. In addition, criminals use various methods to take advantage of the law. Sometimes they even will Criminal convictions can't be done.
This undoubtedly irritated Jason, who has always played fast and straight shots. It was like a punch but missed, and his trainers often put various constraints on him. Although Batman will think of other ways to punish prisoners, it is time-consuming and has limited disciplinary effects. Perhaps the biggest shortcoming of this new Robin is that he is prone to anger and lacks patience.
Once Robin heard a call for help and broke into a house and found that a female model had been abused. They arrested the abuser, but he was quickly released because of his father's power. Later, the female model committed suicide because she was afraid of being hurt again. In anger, Robin went to find the abuser alone. When Batman arrived, he happened to see the person falling from the balcony. When confronted with questioning, Robin only said indifferently that he accidentally fell when he saw him suddenly appear. Afterwards, the deceased’s father avenged Batman and Robin. He kidnapped Director Gordon. In the end, the Director suffered a gunshot wound. The father who avenged his son died in the chaos.
All these bad events seem to be accusing Batman, and his initial decision was a mistake. Jason's nature is not a good, well-behaved boy. He is very smart and a good detective, but he cannot grasp the severity of crimes. He is violent, irritable, and unable to control himself. He thinks life is a game. If such a personality is careless, it will cross that line and become a criminal by a righteous policeman.
While Batman has a headache for this disobedient child, the new Robin is not welcomed by readers. Maybe some old readers still think that Robin can only be Dick and don't want someone to replace him, or maybe they think this violent boy from the street is not suitable for Batman's assistant. In short, the editorial department received letters from readers saying that they did not like this new Robin.
So DC held a telephone poll to let readers decide whether Robin died in the hands of the clown. With more than 10,000 voting calls, the weight of the marginal advantage finally fell on the cruel end, with 5,343 votes to 5,271 votes. Readers’ choices determined Jason Todd’s death.
Although it was later revealed that someone used a machine to repeatedly vote to manipulate this result, in any case, the reader's opinion orientation gave the editors the idea of obliterating him. They may be thinking that changing a Robin that conforms to the public's aesthetic can get more. They can make this poor little boy die tragically and touchingly. By the way, they can educate the children now that they will be punished if they don’t listen to their father.
Leaving the reality side aside, in the DC world, Jason's increasingly serious loss of control made Batman consider whether to suspend his Robin business. At this time, Jason discovered the news of his biological mother, so he was angry to find his mother alone.
Jason, who left home to find his mother, followed the clues and came to the desert. Bruce didn't worry about him and went together, but the two met the clown who was planning a conspiracy.
The clown took away Jason's biological mother, and Bruce needed to solve the crisis on the other side. He told Jason not to go to the clown impulsively, but Jason was very worried about his mother, so he secretly followed behind the clown.
He found his biological mother in the clown's camp, but unexpectedly, the biological mother was in the same group as the clown, so he was betrayed. After being tortured by the clown, he was locked in a room full of bombs with his biological mother. The first thing he did after waking up from a coma was to untie the ropes of his biological mother. At that time, he was completely unsteady, covered in blood, and his eyes were so swollen that he couldn't see his surroundings. Step by step, he moved to behind his mother, as if he was this person. Never betrayed him, just like she is the gentlest and most beautiful mother in the world.
The mother finally hugged him like her son, trying to take him away from this place. We always feel that this is just another difficulty they will always get through, but this time, the ending of everything has already been arranged. The time bomb was in its final countdown, the only exit was locked from the outside, and Batman was still on his way.
He stood behind his mother at the last moment, trying to withstand the impact of the bomb with his body. Then the world collapsed. Everything entered the endless darkness.
In the ruins, Batman had never held him so tenderly.
Since then the father lost his son.
Jason Todd, Batman's assistant, second Robin, died.
…This murder was accused by the masses of media as a brutal and inhumane murder. It does not only mean killing a righteous policeman, a hero who has been punishing evil and helping the weak. He was tortured by the craziest criminals. The stick smashed the bones, was wounded all over, and was eventually blown to death. This is a murder that is meaningless and cruel, and most importantly, the target of the murder is only a minor. He was only fifteen or sixteen years old when he died, and he was still a child who needed to be protected but had always protected people.
Jason seemed to roar his doubts to the world at the price of his own death. Why can't the prisoner be executed, why the law and rules are above everything, why can't they do the right thing, why must he be killed...
Hush, boy. You are dead.
Who killed the robin?
it's me. Readers say that we don't like this robin, we want new ones.
it's me. Jason said, I shouldn't listen to my father, I just want to be a good boy.
it's me. The clown said, I knocked out his brain with a crowbar, and then blasted him to pieces.
……it's me. Batman said.
He appeared in Batman #357 in 1983. (Note) Before him, Dick had existed as the first Robin for more than forty years, and since then he has been helping everywhere as Nightwing.
He died in Batman #428 (A Death of Family) in 1988, and later in Batman #436 in 1989, Tim appeared as the third Robin and has been active around Batman to this day.
In the DC world, he probably only stayed with Batman for two years, and for the real world only five years.
Most people remember his death.
But forgot that he was alive.
Note: The appearance here refers to the setting before the DC World shuffle. Jason is a blond/red-haired circus boy. DC World was reshuffled in 1985-86, and then Batman#408 confessed his new birth in 1988 and became a street thief.
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