Check out the resurrection of Jason Todd!

There's just something really perverse about letting "fans" dictate the fate of a character (who was a child) instead of doing diligence as an author to craft a story that serves the character.

"Go to a building, sit, and hold a crowbar". Lol cold-blooded!!

I'm glad you discussed his original origin, which is largely forgotten. However, you left out a key reason why fans hated Jason and he died. Jim Starlin was writing Batman at the time snd hated the idea of Robin. So, he wrote him as an annoying little punk and was also mean to Dick. Jim wanted to kill him off, and Denny suggested the vote instead. Fans wanted him dead in large part because the writer did and that made them hate him too.

Robins would be mistreated like crazy after this. They even went as far as killing-ish Tim Drake. Ugh and not only killing-ish Stephanie they did the same to Dick...now Ric....I can't.

Denny O'Neal once recalled after Death In The Family was published, he went into a deli. The guy behind the counter noticed his Batman pin and asked about it. O'Neal replied that he was an editor at DC, working on Batman, and the guy shouted "Hey! This is the guy that killed Robin!"

I saw in some documentary a long time ago (very specific, I know) that part of the backlash against Robin's death was that it attracted the attention of people who didn't read comics and didn't know about Jason Todd, so they assumed Dick Grayson had been killed off. Ergo, outrage.

Greatest victim of Jason Todd's retcon was Killer Croc. He never regained his former gravitas after they wiped his murder of Jason Todd's parents from continuity. He went from being one of Batman's deadliest and most ruthless villains to a step-up from comedy relief.

Lol Batman is the one who was being an asshole, but someone else(Jason) is having to answer for it so Bruce can keep his ridiculously overblown pristine reputation-I’d say I’m shocked but ...🙄 Poor Jason

I may be biased considering I have Jay in his Red Hood incarnation tattooed on my thigh....but yes please all the Jason videos.

There was a large, vocal minority at that time who hated the concept of Robin. Either they believed Batman shouldn't be endangering children, Robin wasn't gritty enough, they resented how Robin reminded them of the hated 60s show, or that Batman worked better as a solo character. It wouldn't have mattered if it meant killing Dick Grayson so long as there would be no more Robin.

I still believe this was one, if not the darkest things to ever happen in comics, like sure now we have plenty of messed up Batman stuff but for the most part we are desensitized to it, it’s actually kind of expected at this point.

Another topic that kept showing up on those older comics and even after Jason came back to life, was how Jason was blamed for his own death, treated as a failure and regarded as a cautionary tale for Tim and even Damian.

A Death In The Family storyline that resulted in Jason's death also attracted mainstream media at the time. I think Entertainment Tonight did a bit of coverage on it at the time.

But it gave us both the Red Hood, and this Frank Miller joke!

His story was always interesting and I can at least appreciate/respect what came out of it. And his Robin run is fun to read.

I imagine that many people find Jason arrogant and disobedient and at various times he is just like that, but he has his reasons that are even very sad, and make him a very complex character and different from other Robins. You can see in the comic "Three Jokers" where Barbara Gordon tells Jason that she would like to be there to help him when he needed it and that she and the entire batfamily care about him. In this scene, Jason says that no one has ever said that to him. This scene is very important for the knowledge of the character because you can see that everything Jason does as Red Hood is because he thinks Batman doesn't really like him and doesn't care about him, which is a lie, but if he stops to think about it, Bruce has never been good at showing feelings and has even told Jason that "he doesn't have to put up with his rebellion because he's not your father." I think Bruce should try to talk to Jason, apologize sincerely, explain himself properly, like Barbara did and maybe Jason would understand him. Of course Bruce has tried to talk about this with Jason, but I feel he doesn't really try and doesn't really try to understand Jason. his dialogues trying to help Red Hood are like:

I'm not sure there was anything in this video that I haven't heard before due to my reading comics since my late teens and being really old.

Not sure I should have laughed so hard at the go sit and wait with a crow bar line, but I did. lol. More Jason please.

The part that got me was his mother selling him him out. As I remember, she turns away and lights a cigarette.