More than three decades after the event, the murder of Jason Todd is still shocking, but he was not the first Robin to die, arguably.
Since the crime that gave rise to him, the history of Batman is full of tragedies, including the loss of his sidekick at the brutal hands of Joker, but you will be surprised to learn that Jason Todd was not the first Robin to die, at least for dramatic effects. .
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In his long career, many of Batman’s stories have been forgotten, and bringing them back might seem like they’ll cast a shadow over the narratives we take as canon. However, the narrative quality of the authors of Batman is so rich that these situations that could seem repeated are complementary.
So we go back in time to discover the loss of the first Wonder Boy.
Jason Todd wasn’t the first Robin to die.
Just as Jason Todd was not the first young man to wear the Robin suit, he was also not the first Batman ally to die wearing it.
As Screen Rant’s Austin Mace recalls, Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns was the inspiration for A Death in the Family, containing the reference to a dead former ally of Batman.
However, it was the two authors who laid the foundation for the Batman universe who are responsible for the first Robin to be killed for dramatic effect. We’re talking about Bill Finger and Kane, who made them in “The Case of the Honest Crook” from Batman #5, published in 1941.
In the adventure, Batman captures a thief and discovers that he is a young man fallen into misfortune who steals what is necessary for his wife’s medicines, with a history of bad decisions that have led him to the wrong steps and not the taste. for committing a crime
After hearing the sad story, Batman decides to take revenge on the thugs who got the young man into this problem, but seeing their degree of violence, he decides to inform Commissioner Gordon while Robin looks for clues in the house of one of the criminals.
Catching up with his partner, Batman finds Robin badly injured, even briefly believing him to be dead, and takes the limp body in a scene eerily similar to Jason’s ending.
Batman’s reaction is to become enraged “to the point where it is implied that he will break his no-kill rule. Even as he realizes that Dick is still clinging to life, Batman threatens to kill a doctor with his bare hands if he doesn’t immediately operate on the boy.”
Sorry Jason, Dick is the favorite.
After turning the boy over to a doctor, Batman seeks revenge and forces the thug to confess his misdeeds to the police, despite being shot three times. The doctor operates on Robin and then on Batman. Despite the fact that the story ends with the culprits in jail, the first thief redeemed and with a job and with the two heroes safe, it is curious to see how irrationally Bruce acted when he believed Dick dead, brutally distant from the moments after Jason’s death.
Perhaps for this reason, Jason’s fury in his return as the Red Hood and his thirst for revenge against Batman are, at least a little, justified.
Source: ScreenRant
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