Sunday, July 31, 2011

Jason Todd

My first review was orignally going to be the animated movie Batman: under the red hood but I think I should do a anylisis over one of the main characters of the movie Jason Todd. Jason Todd was the second robin after Dick grayson moved on to be nightwing we first meet Jason at crime alley (where batman's parents died for comic newcomers and non-comic readers) trying to steal the tires off of the batmobile when batman comes along and takes him in as the new robin. Now for comic readers many know this is the origin after the event crisis on Inifinte Earths but before this event the origanal origin was very much like dick garyson's todd's parents were acrobats and were killed by killer croc (recuring batman villain) and was later adopted by bruce wayne/batman. Now for the reason comic readers know Todd back in the 80's DC and batman editor Dennis O'Neil was aware that fans didn't like Todd because "He wasn't like the first robin" so todd was kindnaped by the joker and was beating with a crowbar but before this DC comics I had an idea to hold a vote in the next comic for jason to live or die and the vote was very close but in the end jason todd died in the comic A death in the family with this iconic picture as the cover.
But years later DC comics had another idea where Jason Todd wuld come back from the grave orignally it was just clayface(another recuring villan)to trick batman. But later Todd did come back from the grave. Now origanally it was suposed to be a diffrent universes Todd but they scraped that idea. So to explain this they made a mini seires saying how he came back to life and trained with weapons and fighting arts to match batmans. But he took up the mantle of Red hood( Many people in the DC universe have taken this persoa including joker at one point) and started a territory war with the black mask(look him up on wikipedia) while still being somewhat of a anti-hero and is now a recuring villian/anti-hero thourhout the DC universe. Now my verdict over this character out of 10 is a 7/10 even though i like this chararcter I still have to admit he isn't perfect sure when he came back he had great stories but now is under used and when used has bad stoires now and days. so comment say if you agree or disagree next review Batman under the red hood.