#build your own jason with pieces and bit of your favorite canon whats dc going to do. be mad.

[dailyjasontodd]

Hi! Im kinda new in the fandom and trying to get familiar with Jason as a character. Would you say that pre-crisis and post-crisis are too different regarding their personality? I’m aware of their different origin, but is it safe to assume that the way they behave, their choices and thoughts and feelings are different too? Or can both versions of jason feel like a continuity of the other with just a small change? Can both characterizations co exist? Thxs!

I wrote such a long answer for this but honestly it was unnecessary, tl;dr is that they're two different characters and their runs can't be read as a continuation of each other, but writers (and readers) pick and choose elements from both runs to consider canon, since during Infinite Crisis when Superman punched reality there was a merge of Jason's backstory, and there's elements of both since then. (And even before that!) You said you're new to the fandom so i'm not sure how much you know about that, but to make it short there was some cosmic event and both Jasons "merged" in one, its safe to say he's kept the stealing tires backstory ever since but sometimes writers use other pre-crisis elements.

(DISCLAIMER: i havent read dc in a while so i don't know if this still stands but given that last time i read comics "everything is canon" i'm assuming yeah. People feel free to correct me lol)

And about "is it safe to assume that the way they behave, their choices and thoughts and feelings are different too?" yes and no. They have similar themes in their characters (they're both traumatized kids experiencing their parents loss and having big shoes to fit, wanting to find their place as Robin/Bruce's son, etc) and have similar personality traits (good students, cheeky, stubborn, talked back to bruce and other adults) but to me their life experiences, and how their stories were handled sets them apart.

(by that i mean that pre-crisis Jason had a lot of more development than post-crisis and his relationship with Bruce was fleshed out more, while post-crisis we don't see that happen in.. real time i guess?. Plus pre-crisis bruce and post-crisis bruce is very different so that's a notorious change that affects jason's development as well)

Anyways, Pre-crisis is very fun so i recommend reading it regardless and then you decide what's still canon ^___^

#sorry if this is confusing im very bad at explaining :( #feel free to send another question or anything #to mee personally i keep jasons post-crisis personality #but since there's like a lot of jasons robin time that we didn't get to see because writers changed and the original one wasnt allowed #to flesh out jason like he wanted + there was a time skip we didnt see #i like to fill in with pre-crisis arcs. for example that whole catwoman and nocturna stuff happened idgaf what dc says!!!!!! #asks #anon #everyone has a different opinion on whats canon and what isnt and honestly its up to you atp. comics confusing and convoluted for no reason #build your own jason with pieces and bit of your favorite canon whats dc going to do. be mad. #mod jules #need to start tagging my answers