#genuinely one of the best parts of jason's early post resurrection character is his potential to go between ally & enemy & hero & villain

[bistephs]

POST-CRISIS JASON, VERSION 1: I want revenge against my former mentor/adoptive father, who I see as having failed me. I see the fact that he hasn’t taken vengeance for my murder as both a personal betrayal and moral failure. My methods are violent and unpredictable, and I’m not a good person, but I’m still shown to have my own moral code, however questionable it might be. I can be both an antagonist and occasional ally towards the heroes depending on the situation.

POST-CRISIS JASON, VERSION 2: I have literally no other motivation besides anger and jealousy towards the other, Better™ Robins. I will act ridiculously evil for plot convenience but still be easily defeated by the heroes. A minimum of ten panels per issue will be devoted to pointing out how Crazy™ I am. I’m going to kill a bunch of random people and shoot this 10-year-old now.

#like... yall wonder why jason fans 'pick and choose' his appearances when these are basically two entirely different characters #one is actually interesting to read about and the other is a plot device #and also! it's not like v1 jason can't be a villain! he's straight up the villain of utrh like!!! #genuinely one of the best parts of jason's early post resurrection character is his potential to go between ally & enemy & hero & villain #and to exist outside of the usual 'good guy'/'bad guy' dichotomy by not fitting neatly into either #while also being a character with a massive impact on comic book history (via death in the family changing batman storylines for years) #with all the associated baggage for both the in universe characters and out of universe readers #but yknow let's just make him the Crazy Evil Shooty Guy instead that's fine too #jason obv isn't the worst treated character in dc but he's one of the ones i get the most mad about #the potential this guy has is INCREDIBLE and dc just WASTES IT #jason todd #dc negative #anyways. whom among us does not pick & choose versions of our favorite characters when comic book canon is made of wet tissue paper #also want to mention how like #solely good and solely bad characters are FINE. a character doesn't have to be morally gray to be interesting & compelling #(see: cassandra cain being one of the most morally good & also most complex characters pre reboot flattening her out) #but dc has a habit of taking morally gray characters and making them Just Good or Just Bad and passing it off as character development #and really just like. erasing everything interesting about those characters instead #let characters be good let them be bad let them be both but for the love of god make them INTERESTING TO READ ABOUT