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#DC so busy trying to convince us that jason deserved to die that they've accidentally gaslit themselves
disniq · 1 year
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“everyone says bad things about him” makes me so sad bc i dont think it was revealed he was alive yet?
and i know jason was victim blamed a lot post death i believe? but like. it just makes me so sad. he was a dead kid everyone was talking bad about :(
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Yeah, anon, me too :(((
It's one of those dumb recon things that just doesn't make sense in full context
Like, most of the victim blaming between A Death in the Family and Under the Red Hood comes from Tim and that makes sense to me. I can understand Tim internalising 'Jason was a Bad Robin' because 1) the bats don't know about Sheila betraying Jay, so it's easy to misinterpret the situation as Jason rushing in for no reason while Bruce was gone, 2) Tim didn't know Jason personally, all he sees is the damage left in his wake and I think as a very low empathy 13yo he needs to assign blame to *someone*, and Jason isn't there to defend himself, and 3) Tim is trying to convince Bruce he can do the job, so naturally step one is to believe you're better than the last guy.
Other sidekicks badmouthing Jason I could maybe buy as like the mentors using him as the ultimate cautionary tale EXCEPT that for all intents and purposes Robin didn't die! Jason Todd did, and he never gets a hero's funeral or a memorial statue at Titans Tower because Bruce essentially covers up his murder, and one of Tim's main selling points that Bruce should take him on is that people shouldn't know that Robin is gone.
So other heroes should either not have a clue about what happened to Jason at all, or be one of the few heroes who worked with him personally and know he wasn't "bad" at all.
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