Red Hood *RESERVED*

[Jason Todd]

Red Hood



Franchise: DC Universe
Custom Title: Killer of Killers

Alignment: Neutral
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Special Abilities: In his training to become Robin, Batman instructed Jason Todd in acrobatics and martial arts. By matching his former mentor in combat, he has proven that he is physically superior to most Olympic athletes, just like Batman. His reflexes, stamina, and endurance are roughly comparable to that of Dick Grayson. After his return, Todd expands on his training by learning from people of the same caliber as those who trained his ex-mentor, Batman. Through Talia al Ghul, who secretly purchased enough shares to own Kord Industries as LexCorp.'s CEO, Jason has access to high-level civilian and military-grade weaponry, including firearms, explosives, rocket launchers, and advanced computer equipment and gadgetry. However, his dagger (which resembles a kris) still remains as his preferred weapon of choice for hand-to-hand combat. He also has some lethally-sharped blades resembling Batman's batarangs as throwing weapons. Although Jason does not possess the wealth of Bruce Wayne, his arsenal is nearly on a par with Batman's technology. Having been trained by Batman in investigation, it is arguable that Jason's detective skills rivals Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, and Tim Drake.

History: Jason Todd was a young street orphan who first encountered the Dark Knight while attempting to steal the tires off the Batmobile. Bruce Wayne saw to it that Jason is placed in a school for troubled youths which turns out to be Ma Gunn's School for Crime. Jason earned the mantle of Robin a short while later by helping Batman apprehend the gang of thieves. However, Todd did not wear the Robin costume until after six months of training. Batman realized that while Jason doesn't possess Dick Grayson's natural athleticism & acrobatic skills, he can become a productive crimefighter by channeling his rage. He also believed that if he didn't help the boy, Jason would eventually become part of the "criminal element."

There is an extremely controversial moment which occurred prior to Jason's death. It involved a serial rapist named Felipe Garzonas, who escapes prosecution due his father's diplomatic immunity. One of his victims, a girl named Gloria, hangs herself amid the threat of a third rape from Felipe. Jason discovers her hanging and makes a B-line for Felipe, ahead of Batman, who arrives just in time to see Felipe take a 22 story fall to his death, with Jason at the edge of the Balcony. Jason maintains "I guess I spooked him. He slipped." This highlights an earlier exchange where Jason uses excessive force on a pimp about to slash one of his working girls. It is never known, however, if Felipe fell to his death or was pushed by Jason.

Jason later discovered his mother was not his biological mother, and runs away to find the woman who gave birth to him. After following a number of leads, including an Israeli Mossad agent and Shiva Woo-San, Jason finally tracked down his mother, Sheila, to Ethiopia, where she worked as an aid worker. While Jason was overjoyed to be reunited with his real mother, he soon discovered that she was being blackmailed by the Joker, who was using her to provide him with medical supplies. Sheila herself was embezzling from the aid agency, and, as part of the cover-up, she handed her own son, who arrives as Robin, over to the Joker. The Joker beat the boy brutally with a crowbar, and then left him and Sheila in the warehouse with a time bomb. Sheila and Robin tried desperately to get out of the warehouse, but are still inside as the bomb goes off. Batman arrived too late to save them, and is only able to hold Jason's lifeless body in his arms. Sheila lived just long enough to tell Batman that Jason died trying to protect her. The bodies are taken back to Gotham City for burial.

Years later, while trying to discover the identity of a mysterious figure plotting against him (which turns out to be Hush), Batman discovers that Robin (Tim Drake) has been kidnapped. When he confronts the kidnapper, he discovers much to his surprise that the kidnapper is apparently an adult Jason Todd, standing at his own desecrated gravesite. Batman subdues this mystery "Jason" and discovers that it is only Clayface impersonating Jason. However, Jason's body was still missing.

It is later revealed that Jason had indeed died at the hands of the Joker. However, when Superboy-Prime altered reality from the paradise dimension in which he is trapped, Jason was restored to life, six months after his death. He broke out of his coffin, but collapsed thereafter and was hospitalized. After spending a year in a coma and subsequently as an amnesiac vagrant, he was recognized by Talia al Ghul, who restored his health and memory by immersing him in a Lazarus Pit in which her father was also bathing. It has been suggested at that time that exposure to the Pit's energies together with al Ghul might have affected Jason's personality. On Talia's advice, Jason determines his death was never avenged, and prepares to confront Batman by traveling across the globe in the same path of trainings as his mentor.

It is discovered what truly happened during the Hush incident: Jason Todd entered into a pact with Hush and the Riddler; he initially confronted Batman, then switched places with Clayface in order to observe Batman from afar. When Batman expressed no remorse for sparing the Joker's life after Jason was killed, Jason was further angered and took up the mantle of the Red Hood.

Shortly after the events of "War Games" and just before "War Crimes," Jason Todd reappeared in Gotham City as the Red Hood, an alias once used by his murderer the Joker. He hijacked a shipment of Kryptonite from Black Mask, and in the midst of a battle with Batman, Nightwing, and Mr. Freeze, the Red Hood gave them the Kryptonite back, and told them he has gotten what he truly wanted: a "lay of the land." Shortly afterward, the Red Hood found the Joker (driven out of Gotham by Hush) and beat him with a crowbar just as the Joker had beaten Jason. Despite the violence of the beating, Jason spared the Joker, intending to use him later against Batman.

The Red Hood assumed control over several gangs in Gotham City and starts a one-man-war against Black Mask's criminal empire. Overall, he made efforts to take over Gotham's gangs, stop some of their illegal actions (such as dealing drugs to minors), and to kill the Joker in revenge for his own death. Because of his activities, he repeatedly came to blows with Batman and several of his allies. A Robin mask was found in the Batmobile, which never belonged to Dick or Tim, but was of the style that Jason wore as Robin, suggesting that he'd been stalking Batman. After their encounter in the cemetery, Batman increasingly became obsessive with the possibility of resurrection from the dead, and asked his allies such as Superman and Green Arrow, both of whom have died and returned to life, implying the Dark Knight knew that it was really Jason at the gravesite before he reveals himself to his former mentor in an alley. Around this time, Batman discovers that Jason's coffin has always been empty, and he begins to question whether or not Jason had actually died. Despite his return, Jason's Robin costume remains in its memorial display case in the Batcave; when Alfred asked if Bruce wanted the costume removed, Bruce replied that the return of Jason "doesn't change anything at all."

Knowing that Tim Drake had not only replaced him as Robin, but is reportedly a better Robin than he had been, Jason broke into Titans Tower to confront Tim. Wearing an altered version of his own Robin costume, Jason quickly immobilized the other Titans and strikes Tim down in the Tower's Hall of Fallen Titans. Furious that no memorial statue was made for him (despite his short tenure as a Titan), Jason demanded that Tim tell him if he is really as good as Jason has been told. Tim replied yes, and passed out. As he left, Jason tore the 'R' emblem from Tim's chest. In the Epilogue, Jason has apparently developed a grudging respect for his replacement as he states, "I'll admit. He's good." Jason is also left wondering if perhaps he would have been a better Robin and better person had he a life like Tim's and friends like the Titans.

Jason's return crescendoed when he kidnapped the Joker and held him hostage, luring Batman to Crime Alley, the site of their first meeting. Despite their now-antagonistic relationship, Batman also desperately wanted to help Jason along with stopping him, and intended to atone for his own failures. Jason asks Batman why he has not avenged his death by killing the Joker, and Batman tells Jason that he will never cross that line. An enraged Jason explained that Joker deserves it, because of the countless people he's murdered and even the friend he's crippled, and simply "doing it because he took me away from you." Despite this, Batman explained that it is not too hard for him to kill the Joker, it would be too easy; he has never once not fantasized about taking the Joker somewhere private and torturing him for maybe weeks before finally killing him, but refuses to go to that place. Jason offered Batman an ultimatum: Jason will kill the Joker unless Batman kills Jason first. Holding the Joker at gunpoint, Jason throws a pistol to Batman and begins to count to three while standing behind the Joker, leaving Batman with only a headshot if he wants to stop Jason pulling the trigger. At the last moment, Batman threw a batarang which ricochets off a pipe behind Jason and hits him in the throat, causing him to drop his gun. The Joker took advantage of the situation, detonating nearby explosives that engulf the platform they are on and send them plunging into the bay.

Jason resurfaced following the "One Year Later" shift in Nightwing, patrolling the streets of New York City as a murderous version of Nightwing. Jason showed no intention of giving up the Nightwing persona, and continued to taunt Dick Grayson by wearing the costume and suggesting that the two become a team. Grayson refused to join his side based on his methods of crimefighting. Not long after the two Nightwings meet up, Jason is captured and imprisoned by unknown mobsters. Rescued by a reluctant Grayson, the two joined forces to defeat the Pierce brothers. Jason left New York City and the Nightwing mantle to Grayson, along with a telegram telling Grayson he has returned to normal and still considers them family.

Jason Todd later resumed his persona as the Red Hood and worked alongside Brick as part of a gun-running organization, which brings Batman to Star City. Jason's true motives are shown when kidnaps Speedy (Mia Dearden) in an effort to dissolve her partnership with Green Arrow, feeling that they are kindred spirits, cast down by society and at odds with their mentors. The two fought, while Jason discussed the insanity of heroes for placing child sidekicks in danger. Mia was deeply troubled by what transpired between her and Jason, but ultimately decides to stick with Green Arrow.

At the start of Countdown, Jason rescues a woman from Duela Dent (a.k.a. Joker's Daughter). After a Monitor shot and kills Duela, he attempted to kill Jason, but was stopped by a second Monitor. This second Monitor apologized to Jason before they both disappear, leaving Jason alone with Duela's body. Later, at Duela's funeral, Jason hid until all of the Teen Titans have left except Donna Troy. Jason told her what happened the night of Duela's death, and about the dueling Monitors. He knows that both he and Donna Troy have come back from the dead, even already deducing that his resurrection has something do with Alexander Luthor, Jr.'s plots during Infinite Crisis, and wonders which of them is next on the Monitor's hit list. The two are then attacked by the Forerunner, but before she can kill them, the apologetic Monitor stops her, and recruits Jason and Donna for a mission to the Palmerverse (a section of the Nanoverse discovered by Ray Palmer), in an attempt to find Palmer. During the trip, Jason takes it upon himself to name the Monitor "Bob". Jason seems to have a romantic interest in Donna, and is shown to be visibly disgruntled when her old boyfriend, Kyle Rayner, joins their group as they take their tour to the 52 Earths which comprise the Multiverse.

During a battle with a group of Monarch's soldiers, Earth-51 Batman is killed by the Ultraman of Earth-3, deeply affecting Jason. In his grief, Jason kills an alternate version of the Joker, also involved in Batman's killing, who then mocked his loss, vacating alongside Donna, Ray, and Kyle to the planet Apokolips before Earth-51's destruction. After the group was sent back to Earth, Jason left and returned to his crimefighting ways. When the Morticoccus virus is released from Karate Kid's body, Jason was forcibly brought back to the group by Kyle, much to his dismay. When the Challengers return to New Earth, Jason disposes of his Red Robin costume and abandons the rest of the group, though they go on to declare to the Monitors that they are now the monitors of the Monitors. Jason and Tim Drake are confronted by another Red Robin, whose identity is initially a mystery but later turns out to be Ulysses Armstrong. Due to a combination of Red Robin's involvement and a gun-toting gang member, Jason was shot in the leg and arrested by police. Upon the resolution of the gang war in Gotham, Tim Drake, under a pseudonym, visited Jason in prison to give him the Justice League access code to release himself from prison. Following his escape, Jason continued on the mend, and was summoned by Tim to come to the Batcave, where Batman has left a Last Will and Testament statement for him. After hearing the statement in private, Jason prepared to leave, not revealing what he was told, although he does pause before his old costume and the tattered remains of Batman's.

It is later revealed in Battle for the Cowl, that Bruce's last words to Jason were of regret at how Bruce had obviously overlooked Jason's deep emotional problems, and how it was a mistake to ever make him Robin. Bruce's message goes on to plead that Jason get psychological help. Jason rejected the notion.

Jason reappeared in the Battle for the Cowl. He is seen wearing a black and grey batsuit with two handguns, various other weapons, and a mouth-plate. He was also living/operating out of an abandoned Gotham subway system. His inner monologue demonstrated that he'd always had a desire to eventually replace Batman, and his displeasure with Batman becoming a public figure, rather than an urban legend.

After stabbing Tim Drake in the chest with a batarang, he and Dick Grayson battle down in the subway. Nightwing still wanted to save Jason, but instead of doing so, Jason fell into a river beneath the subway. This allowed Grayson to officially take up the mantle of Batman.

Jason retakes the mantle of the Red Hood after losing his bid to become the new Batman to Dick Grayson. With the goal of making the very concept of Batman obsolete, he placed a lot of effort into public relations: he drastically alters his Red Hood costume to look more like a traditional superhero outfit, recruits his own sidekick known as Scarlet, and uses Twitter to report on his crime-fighting activities. In their war on crime, Red Hood and Scarlet freely kill criminals, villains, and anyone who gets in his way, even the police. After all his killings, he leaves behind a calling card which states "let the punishment fit the crime." He described his vendetta against Dick Grayson as "the revenge of one crazy man in a mask on another crazy man in a mask."

Jason reappeared with thinning red hair, claiming that he is a natural red-head and that Bruce had him dye his hair black in order to look like Dick Grayson, as in his pre-Crisis origins. He also claims the white streak of hair that he got is from being resurrected in the Lazarus Pit. During the fight between Batman, Robin, and the Flamingo, Jason buries Flamingo in debris with a bulldozer. Flamingo is assumed dead, although Gordon reports that his body can't be recovered from beneath the rubble. Jason is arrested by Gordon. Scarlet flees Gotham, her mask finally falling from her face as she exits the city limits; Scarlet is gone for good.

Recently, Jason has escaped from prison, returned to his vigilante ways, and has opposed the Keene Act.

Sample Role Play Post: Red Hood stood on the rooftop of the building, glaring through his eyeslots, down at the drug dealers below. He watched as the two pieces of filth offered a bag of crystal meth to a passerby, someone who couldn't have been more than sixteen. While the teen turned down the offer and walked away quickly, it was the thought that counted. Jason gritted his teeth in anger.

Leaping down from the rooftop, he quickly slit the throat of one of the drug dealers before he had a chance to react. As the other reeled back in surprised, Jason whipped out a gun and pumped four bullets into his chest. Wiping the blood from his knife, he walked off, a grim smile on his face under the mask.

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