#allowed Zdarsky to take him out of the story. which imo is preferable to writing him poorly. it also would have raised the stakes | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

cluescorner · 5 months ago

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They fucking did it again those bastards. Jason Todd fucking dies 2: Electric Boogaloo. Fuck it, let's go for a threepeat at this point. It'll be funny as hell.

#tuesday spoilers #jason todd #in all seriousness though like...what the hell #I'm not even a Jason superfan. I like him but I'm not like INVESTED in the way I am with Steph's stuff #but I am so upset on y'all's behalf. Damian and Jason have gotten so thoroughly fucked over by Zdarsky.#And not even in a way that makes narrative sense or is the logical conclusion to their character flaws #it really is the 'X is the best Robin disease so fuck everyone who isn't them'. Tim is Zdarsky's fave so these other guys need to fuck off #Update: Jason is not dead. which is somehow even worse #because it means they wrote a fake-out death for a character who's defining thing is that he totally actually died #and now they're having a character who LITERALLY DID DIE THAT IS HIS WHOLE THING have a fakeout death #why couldn't it be Dick? Or Tim? Or Damian?#Obviously it wouldn't be Cass or Steph or Duke because Zdarsky doesn't even pretend to care about them #but a Tim fake-out would make sense because Zdarsky is actually really good at writing Tim's whole 'I am Batman's caretaker/keeper' thing #so having Tim 'sacrifice himself' to protect Bruce would make sense and it would also fit with how he's characterized #and because (credit where it's due) Zdarsky is good at writing Tim it would probably be at least interesting if not straight up good #and a Damian fake-out would have made sense to do a while ago because it makes sense logistically and would have #allowed Zdarsky to take him out of the story. which imo is preferable to writing him poorly. it also would have raised the stakes #I'm opposed to a Dick fake-out because like...nah. we've gotten so many of those and I don't want to be reminded of Ric if I can avoid it #but it would have been better than fake killing the guy who DIED FOR REALSIES AND IT'S HIS DEFINING EVENT #Damian also died for realsies but IDK if that's been retconned and also it's not literally his whole thing #Damian is a Robin who died but he is not THE Robin who died

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