I was thinking about Under the Red Hood again and this scene:

[ID: four panels of the Under the Red Hood comic. Jason Todd’s monologue, as he holds the Joker at gunpoint and confronts Batman: "I’m not talking about killing Cobblepot or Scarecrow or Clayface. Not Riddler or Dent… I’m talking about him. Just him. And doing it because… because he took me away from you”. End ID]

The real heartbreak of the comic is this scene. I have seen people take Jason’s monologue and run a marathon with it arguing that Batman should kill the joker because otherwise he’s responsible for all the deaths caused by the Joker yada yada.  My brother in the DC comics, that’s not the point. Jason knows Batman doesn’t kill. Jason knows that Batman won’t ever kill as a way to stop crime. He knows that. This is not Jason asking Batman to kill the Joker in order to become a better or more efficient vigilante. This is a son asking his dad to prove that he loves him by avenging him. The “Just him” is important. That’s why when Batman says he can’t cross that line because it would be too easy and that he would never come back from that, Jason is so furious. Because he’s not talking about Batman changing his way to fight crime. He’s not expecting Batman to kill anyone else. For Jason there shouldn’t be a line to be crossed, because the Joker already exploded that line when he killed Bruce’s son. Jason is asking for one thing, and Batman’s answer is about something else entirely - the big picture that Jason can’t even consider, because nothing should be more important than your son. Nothing. The heartbreak of this conversation is that Jason and Bruce couldn’t understand each other until the very end.

And it ends in tragedy.

Friendly Reminder, as I have always liked to stress as much as possible, it’s totally okay to have your opinion and to have different views about certain things, on my part I will always respect you 100% if your views and opnions are different than mine and we can just agree to disagree like decent adults. Like I’ve said before there’s no reason why we can’t be mature, kind, and civil when discussing topics that are very important in the world right now and why we believe this and believe that, everyone is different and entitled to their opinion at the end of the day and not everyone is going to agree with one another and that’s absolutely okay, at least for me it is, in fact that’s what makes this world a lot more interesting. I have learned this a lot growing up but it seems like some people have not yet when I see that they resort to lowblows, talking violently, judging, condemning (which we are literally no one to do to anyone) and wishing badly upon you and others.

Again, we don’t have to be at war with each other all the time, we are all human so let’s treat each other with respect and kindness especially if we are old enough to know and do better.

Thank you. 🖤