Even Red Hood Has Forgotten How Joker Actually Killed Him
Beaten within an inch of his life by the crowbar-wielding Joker, Red Hood survived only to be killed by a bomb the villain left behind. Intuitively, it's a situation that Todd should remember with crystal clarity. However, there are several stories where Jason Todd misremembers the details of his own murder.
While initially utilizing guns as his weapon of choice in his career as a resurrected crime-fighter, Red Hood has now switched to electrified crowbars. His choice of crowbars as a signature weapon — as revealed in Tom Taylor and Cian Tormey's Nightwing 2021 Annual #1 — is reasonable. On the one hand, he wants to be more sparing of the lives he targets for retribution. On the other hand, he confesses his choice to use the same instrument that «killed» him as a way to face the pain, horror, and fear he experienced during the Joker's brutal beating.
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However, while the crowbar beating is what ultimately became the defining image of his death to fans, Jason's lack of focus on the bomb that actually killed him is perplexing. As he points out in Task Force Z #8 (from Matthew Rosenberg, Jesus Merino, Jack Herbert, and Vicente Cifuentes), Jason died putting himself between the bomb and his mother, hoping that he would serve as her shield, and it was this which represented his final, heroic act. Despite this, the moment gets such little focus, it's often treated as if it didn't happen. Indeed, in Scott Lobdell and Dexter Soy's Red Hood and the Outlaws #5, even Todd describes himself as «someone who was beaten to death with a crowbar.»
Similarly, Joker has misstated how he killed Jason, and even the DC cosmos has seemingly got the wrong idea, with the
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