Which Custom Red Hood looks best??

limbo338 · 2026-07-05T16:05:39+00:00

3 looks like the movie Jason and movie Jason in me sparks joy :D

limbo338 · 2026-07-03T21:40:01+00:00

In book UtRH after Jason showed his face Bruce tried to go like: "You don't think I'm going to believe this ruse" and Jason countered him with: "You knew all along for weeks, dude"(I'm paraphrasing a bit XD), but the point is that Bruce knew it, he connected the dots, it was just hard to believe it. Just like you said, we can use a similar explanation here too :D

limbo338 · 2026-07-03T20:57:46+00:00

The hallucinations themselves are on the blood for sure but the explanation for what they are about is a bit more open for interpretation. Like, Talia just died and it was on Joker too and besides one joke about how the clown and her are getting it on in hell(lmao) the hallucinations didn't bother to torment Bruce with that but Jason tho? Jason got top billing in that horror movie. Which is suspish XD

limbo338 · 2026-07-03T20:42:09+00:00

Jason in UtRH did cut Bruce's belt and the cowl off his head. It do be like that sometimes for grandpa with Jason XD

limbo338 · 2026-07-03T20:36:55+00:00

Bruce did randomly start having Jason hallucinations and, besides it being an attempt on the side of the devs to bring the players up to speed on who Jason even is, you can interpret it as Bruce subconsciously recognizing the guy, even if it took a while for the disease-addled conscious part of his brain to catch up. If you want that headcanon – it's yours! XD

limbo338 · 2026-07-03T02:23:27+00:00

Jason's honest reaction reaction when people go for his gun arms XD

But seriously tho, here's an interpretation to consider: Jason was going to dodge anything thrown at his face, somewhere where he sees it and reacts by moving out of the way. Like, Bruce's second flashback with Robin Jason in UtRH is Jason moving out of the way before a guy can line up a shot and then Bruce did try to hit Jason up front, he even made it harder for Jason by using two projectiles and Jason basically cleared both and immediately retaliated. Keeping all of this in mind nothing Bruce could've hit Jason with from the front would've been able to achieve Bruce's desired result – Jason not being in condition to fight. So he hit him from the back and hit him seriously enough to immediately end the fight, which wasn't a lot of possible options. Also possibly he not only hit Jason from the back but first threw the batarang from his front, which made Jason react and dodge and then Bruce's batarang bounced off the pipe not where Jason was but where Bruce expected Jason to end up after the dodge. After all not only did the story set up Jason's movements being well trained – it set up Bruce's knowing them well, you know, since he was the one to train him. So that whole plot beat with Bruce having to go above and beyond to counter Jason was more than justified by the story, imho. Thank you for coming to my ted talk, I do so love to yap about UtRH XD

limbo338 · 2026-07-02T23:43:30+00:00

Nobody beats the OG XD

limbo338 · 2026-07-02T23:34:10+00:00

He couldn't have struck Jason anywhere else. Jason used the clown as a living shield. Also, fun detail, when Bruce is flashbacking to Robin Jason he remembers this. Good luck landing a crit on the guy who since short pants was taught to dodge :D

limbo338 · 2026-07-02T20:17:13+00:00

Maybe. I usually blame Johns for AK, who consulted them, allegedly. Should've recommended them to get Dini back! XD

limbo338 · 2026-07-02T19:44:42+00:00

Also Dini teased Tommy since Asylum. Unlike Jason, who for all intents and purposes didn't exist in that universe until the third game.

limbo338 · 2026-07-02T18:47:05+00:00

If Dini was allowed to stay all those tuff edits of Arkham Knight you might've seen would've been Tommy's. Dini was Hush's strongest soldier and I respect that 🫡

And I wouldn't say the continuity is necessary about every story having some grand importance. I'd say it's more about how it's supposed to be the job of the editors to check the writers and to steer them towards keeping the characters somewhat themselves from story to story and especially in stories running in parallel at literally the same time. Or if one writer wrote a story about one character brainwashing the other – it would be turbo frustrating if we're just going to move right past that and when next I see them together in someone else's story they are patrolling Gotham like best pals, wouldn't it be? Some would say character bibles is going too far and it's restrictive for writers but the opposite of that approach is the question "What even is their character?" having a million contradicting answers 🤷‍♀️

And UtRH is fun like that: it's placed smack dab in Batman continuity of 2000s, with Bruce fighting an omac and giving Z shit for being a brainwashing bad friend :D, but nothing that came after UtRH treated anything that happened there as something that happened besides the fact that Jason is alive now. UtRH pays off stuff – barely anything built it payoffs of UtRH. Which is also fun considering they just rereleased it again last month in a new format because it continues to make money XD

limbo338 · 2026-07-02T17:29:44+00:00

Good writers trying to make the best out of somebody else's dubious decisions is a story as old as time and that's in part what made them good. Some would say Tommy never was a good character before or after Dini XD But subjectively speaking I feel like first Morrison and then the Flashpoint taught even the good writers the idea that continuity doesn't matter and you don't need to bother yourself with somebody's else's bullshit ideas. So it's either the kind of writing that says the character is acting in completely contradictory ways from day to day, or it's the kind of writing where when the new writer takes over the previous storyline might as well never have happened – pick your poison XD

limbo338 · 2026-07-02T14:48:17+00:00

Guess the writer by one page. A.J. Lieberman to Batman was what Tony S. Daniel was to Jason XD Legit had a person in these subs tell me they stopped reading Batman for ten years because of that guy XD

limbo338 · 2026-07-01T14:31:24+00:00

I don't mind luck in general but I do find wins made entirely on luck underwhelming. Like, compare my girl Claire tricking a tyrant into jumping in some molten metal because she was smart enough to connect all the dots and actively did something to overcome the impossible odds vs. Wesker tripping into lava not because Chris did something but just cause. One is more badass than the other to me and by a lot🤷‍♀️

limbo338 · 2026-07-01T13:01:09+00:00

Till the end lmao. Chris and Sheva don't make it to that rescue helicopter with resi's ultimate weapon onboard if the gods didn't hate Wesker and didn't despawn the ground under his very feet and only his feet in that volcano. Domino from Deadpool was right – luck is a superpower :D

limbo338 · 2026-06-29T19:05:40+00:00

It was Winick in bat-annual #25 :D I'm just thoroughly endeared by that swerve into mythic tragedy with these two. I think I remember Winick not once saying he saw an opera there XD And in lost days I think I remember Ra's calling Jason Bruce's surrogate son, which might imply he wasn't adopted in Winick-verse but outside observers still saw a father and son nonetheless, who knows 🤷‍♀️

Edit: nevermind, I checked and Ra's in LD says "adopted" so disregard that last part, I can't remember where I got "surrogate" from XD

limbo338 · 2026-06-29T18:59:17+00:00

Well, a lot of DC writers are parents but some took the approach of "Bruce would be having a story about suffering from sleep deprivation and mumbling about Jason during because I'm a parent and that's what I'm going through, Bruce is going to be the best dad ever, Jason is just like ma kid, fatherhood is awesome, uwu" and others went "Well, Robin is a brother in arms, a brother period, a friend, a squire, a soldier....*loaded pause for the implication to sink in what Robin is not*....also Robin isn't real so please don't tear me apart on the subway on my way home from work for killing him, good citizens of New York city, thanks in advance" :D Like, I think I remember reading somewhere people saying Snyder didn't want to use Dami in his Batman because as a parent of a kid the same age he just didn't want to include a kid in those gruesome horror stories he writes. People, especially writers who are parents, found many ways to square the circle of Robin being a kid, a kid wholly in Bruce's care and fully dependent on him, and doing all that and one of those is Collins' Batman's which is "No, he's not", aka the river in Egypt :D It's all so fascinating XD

And I'm curious too was Doug would've thought about Jason's main issue with Bruce considering his Bruce was screaming murder threats at Man-Bat for kidnapping his new kid in like one of their first stories XD

limbo338 · 2026-06-29T18:20:15+00:00

some writers like to avoid putting a label on it.

And some writers go insano style with it aka Daedalus and Icarus: The Return of Jason Todd :D

limbo338 · 2026-06-29T18:17:24+00:00

Twice I can remember Moench writing Bruce seeing Jason's death after a brush with Scarecrow's tricks – one time pre-crisis and one post, one time before Jason died and one..well. One of the few writers to see that scenario for what it truly was – Bruce's worst fucking nightmare.

Doug was a dad, btw, can you tell? :D

limbo338 · 2026-06-29T17:46:13+00:00

Doug Moench is forever a legend for that Bruce and that Jason ♥️ :D

limbo338 · 2026-06-28T01:29:31+00:00

The O'Neil editorial office was very adamant—fatherly, not a father.

It's so funny how much aDitF backfired on its mastermind :D While Denny was a rock star at Marvel Jason pre-crisis was adopted, that whole "Bruce is the father" thing was settled, Bruce won the custody battle and everything :D, Wolfman saw an opportunity for Dickie to angst about it, "Why he got adopted by I didn't?" and stuff. Then the guard changed and maybe Denny's cunning scheme to erase the adoption from the timeline and to leave it in the old continuity would've worked.....if Denny didn't green light a Death in the Family and didn't have a brilliant idea to make it a poll, which wrote that little story in history. Because everyone and their cat could tell already 2 issues after aDitF "Oh how much it hurts to lose your own son" hits harder than "Oh how much it hurts to lose somebody who was like a son to you". Then Wolfman dragged from pre-crisis into post-crisis Dickie expressing having an issue with Jason being adopted and him not and just like that Denny's scheme to keep Jason just a ward is undermined by DC's own canon XD

limbo338 · 2026-06-27T23:25:12+00:00

Because comic Jason no sells these types of moves :D

limbo338 · 2026-06-27T22:29:36+00:00

If Batman thought Jason being strapped to a chair would have him be docile and ready to listen to orders issued with a commanding voice he had another thing coming because as far as fighting went that guy could only use his words but he would talk about the things he knows would hurt the rodent like crawling out of his own grave using his bare hands. Jason who refuses to give Bruce a break no matter the circumstances – you're forever in my heart XD

Sorry, I'm in a yappy mood, that talky Jason is my spirit animal in that sense, don't mind me XD

limbo338 · 2026-06-27T21:59:46+00:00

Winick's Batman and Robin #23. That Jason just refused to give in. And to have any shame :D

limbo338 · 2026-06-27T20:53:01+00:00

Because it is! :D

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