#''Batman is an asshole and he always disapproved of Jason'' shut up and drink your coffee

[menolly5600]

From what I understand, the pre/post Crisis breakpoint, and the (is it called Flashpoint?) breakpoint prior to New 52 were actually situations that altered the timeline or merged multiple reality versions into one mainstream timeline and reality.

I believe it's canon that some people started remembering bits of their past selves that were written out of existence during those breakpoint situations. Tim in particular remembered pre-New 52 Young Just-us Bart and Kon, who weren't actually the same people as the New 52 Bart and Kon. It's complicated and confusing.

I've also heard that the first iteration of Jason as a circus acrobat Dick-clone was a poor choice made by the writers and management. Apparently the Titans comic team wanted to use Dick, but he couldn't be in two places at once. So the Batman team wrote him out, and decided to literally write a copy replacement for Robin. Guess they hoped fans wouldn't notice or care, but fans hated the copycat replacement idea. So the writers eventually rebooted his backstory to be a street rat tire thief instead.

But as far as fanfiction is concerned, if you want to cling to redhead Jason, and still be sort of canon compliant, you can probably finagle it. You could always have him remember being a redhead/blonde, even though he's a natural black haired guy now, and be confused about it. Or remember other things from his circus acrobat Dick-clone first iteration, and be confused by memories that seem to belong to Dick.

Maybe his magic protected his memory from the timeline rewrites, or the Pit scrambled his memories so much it unlocked past timeline versions of his memories. But he's still canonically black haired now.

I think it would be hilarious if he says something about being a redhead/blonde or a circus acrobat as a kid, and everyone else is so confused and concerned if he hit his head. Because they don't remember him ever being a redhead/blonde or being a circus acrobat kid. And Bruce never made him dye his hair to be Robin, he's always had black hair. And Bruce quietly worries about if his kids think he wouldn't care about them if they didn't have black hair.

I'M DONE WITH THE LIES AND DECIET JASON TODD DOESN'T HAVE RED HAIR

Or at least he doesn't have red hair in current canon or most of the continuity and y'all should get with it.

We've all seen it, there's a post about Jason and someone comments on the post and brings up how when Jason first appeared as robin he had red hair and he had to dye it black to be robin.

This is not true in current canon and only had a brief window of existence in the comics so lets dig into the different hair colors we've seen on Jason, they are as follows:

Blonde (Pre-Crisis, before 1985)

Black (post 1985, like 23-24 years of Post Crisis?? a long time)

Red (~2 years of Post Crisis 2009-2011)

Black (New 52, 2011-2016)

Black (Rebirth, 2016 onward, current canon)

Dropping detailed receipts below and god some of these panels are wacky:

Pre-Crisis/ Golden Age - BLONDE HAIR

First appearance of Jason Todd was a little blonde circus boy like a Great Value recolored version of Dick Grayson and if I have to live with that knowledge then we all do.

A lot of people claim this version of Jason also had red hair and for anyone who wants to say this blatantly yellow hair isn’t blonde compare it to Vicki Vale’s actual red hair which is orange:

Vicki Vale (orange)

Jason Todd (its fucking yellow)

The assertion that Jason dyed his hair to be robin are not entirely false in this version, in Batman (1940) #366 Jay did dye his hair black so he could pass as Dick cause he wasn't officially robin yet but wanted to help Batman. Dying his hair made him look so much like Dick it actually did trick Batman and the Joker which is weird since Jason's like a child and Dick is like legally an adult at point but whatever. Either way it wasn’t Batman making him dye it, in fact Bruce was unhappy about it.

Blonde Jason is obviously no longer canon and hasn't been since.

Post Crisis/ Batman New Adventures - BLACK HAIR

Jason was first shown with black hair when he stole a tire off the Batmobile. This iteration of Jason's introduction is the one we all know today and is considered by most to be Jason's *real* debut.

This comic run is no longer canon but is often used as the backbone for new canon content.

Post Crisis 2009 to 2011 - RED HAIR

OK, here is where all the red hair lore comes in. During Dick's Batman run with Damian as Robin the writer (fuck you, Grant Morrison) decided to introduce this shit:

This made not only made no fucking sense in Post-Crisis continuity, but also Jason look stupid as fuck.

For some reason people have snatched this panel and held on to it with all their might. Which like - I mean, the idea of Bruce making a kid dye their hair to be robin is super fucking funny but like, c'mon dude. There are so many real reasons to judge Bruce already lmao.

Jason kept having red hair until the New 52. Its no longer canon.

New 52 - BLACK HAIR

Giving you guys all caste Jay for this shot cause I still simp for that storyline, he deserves the magic fire swords fr.

He's back to black hair and we're almost to current canon.

DC Rebirth (current canon) - BLACK HAIR

We made it to current canon and his hair is still natural black bby. LETS GO.