Nightwing’s Original Opinion of Jason Todd Would Break Red Hood’s Heart
Even though the first Robin, now Nightwing, is one of the kindest members of the Bat-Family, it's hard for anyone to get along with Jason Todd, AKA Red Hood. The first two Robins have a rocky history, especially since Jason was the first to replace Dick Grayson as Batman's ward. However, DC revealed that, upon meeting each other, Dick's initial thoughts on Jason were exponentially insulting to future moments in Red Hood's character history.
Once Batman starts to miss Dick after he became Nightwing, Bruce chooses to take in Jason Todd, whom he catches him trying to steal tires from the Batmobile. Despite the popular stories Jason is in, his most iconic remains Jim Aparo and Jim Starlin's A Death in the Family—the story that has Joker famously kill the second Robin with a crowbar. What makes the tale so historic comes from DC's poll that prompted fans to kill or save the Boy Wonder. Fans ultimately voted for the Joker to kill Robin, most likely because it was an unpredictable choice. Still, even after Jason's resurrection in Batman: Under the Hood, he arguably remains one of the least favorite Robins, both within and outside of the fictional universe.
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Scott Beatty, Chuck Dixon, and Scott McDaniel's Nightwing: Year One (collecting Nightwing #101-106) tells how Dick Grayson got his «disco» Nightwing costume and his first encounter with Jason Todd. After meeting Bruce's new ward, Dick thinks to himself as if he were speaking to Batman: «A sneaky, mean little punk. Maybe you hired him before the Joker could.» While it seems like a mere jealous thought, if Jason knew Dick thought this of him in modern comics, it would absolutely crush him. Jason has one of
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