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I don’t buy into the headcanon that Jason would be behind on technology but I do think that he would be extremely offline

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Sneakers (1992, Phil Alden Robinson)

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Devin Kelly, from “All That Wanting, Right?”

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titans tower au where jason is so mean and strong that he fully beheads tim (ignore the fact that the ‘throat slitting’ happened during hush cuz why would someone writing about specific events have read the comics pertaining to them)

Just heard about Jason’s dirty malicious attack on titans tower. Drake shattered like glass and his nasty little head popped off. Sad! Well there’s other robins

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😭😭😭😭GOT jump scared by the tim drake mute post jesus christ 😭😭 then saw it's just you, terrible experience 0/10 what are tim drake fans cooking?

I’m so sorry for inflicting it on you. every day I open the Jason tag like it’s the morning paper and every day Timmification stares back at me

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This will never stop being funny sorry for being a hater about it

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If Bruce killed anyone but cas to save the others he wouldn’t be able to have cas anymore. I don’t mean this as a dig but I think damian would forgive Bruce for killing any of them but dick. Dick would never forgive Bruce, or forget, but he also would get over it enough to continue to have a working relationship with Bruce, unlike cas. I think Tim puts it on the “reasons not to trust Bruce” pile he has in his mind. If Bruce tried for a third option and it ended badly matters to Tim and would affect his reaction. Jason would just be fucking confused that it’s not him. He wouldn’t believe it, and then after it sinks in that Bruce actually killed someone else and spared him he’s angry, like dick, but sickeningly Jason would grow to see it as an act of love for him, as if it couldn’t be jason for the same reason it couldn’t be damian. (I do not believe this is true) (none of these are imagining damian as “the one” because it could and should never be him. if it were damian then dick is tearing Bruce apart like a wild animal, cas is taking Batman away from him, and Tim and Jason are going on DamianQuest. dick is pissed at them for not including him but dicks writer doesn’t wanna)

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I’m recanting this post it’s our right as posters to be as wrong and loud about it as we want. However.

It is literally not my business if you quickly read UtH a year ago and don’t remember exactly everything that happened. However. Going into the Jason tag and seeing for the millionth time somebody saying “I’ve done it! I’ve figured out jason. He’s such an interesting character because [thing that was refuted in the text]” can I have a fucking break pleeewaasssseeee

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It is literally not my business if you quickly read UtH a year ago and don’t remember exactly everything that happened. However. Going into the Jason tag and seeing for the millionth time somebody saying “I’ve done it! I’ve figured out jason. He’s such an interesting character because [thing that was refuted in the text]” can I have a fucking break pleeewaasssseeee

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Does the mass-murdering criminal Jason "Red Hood" Todd canonically support the death penalty?

No, I can't find evidence that Red Hood supports the death penalty.

There is a difference between murder (illegal) and state-sanctioned killing (legal). Red Hood commits unlawful homicide. The death penalty is lawful homicide. Jason is a murderer. The death penalty is not legally considered murder. Commissioner Jim Gordon is a decorated military veteran, not a murderer.

Committing violence ≠ wanting the government to have the right to commit that violence. Batman and his allies brutalize criminals; they don't necessarily support the state brutalizing criminals. Red Hood kills some criminals; Red Hood doesn't necessarily support the state killing criminals. Catwoman doesn't necessarily support the state committing burglary. Et cetera.

The death penalty is administered by the criminal legal system. Jason does not like the criminal legal system (see some of his run-ins with the police). He grew up as an impoverished child who didn't believe in the system, he was raised by Batman to believe that vigilantes can make a difference that the system can't, and he became an adult criminal who still doesn't believe in the system. He's not interested in using the criminal legal system.

When Jason started up his villain business, the death penalty was legal in Gotham City. (See Batgirl 2000 #19 starring Cassandra Cain. It'll hurt your heartstrings.) The death penalty was also in place during his Robin run. Jason didn't argue in favor of the state having the right to kill prisoners, and the death penalty never addressed his complaints about the status quo.

Jason has rescued people from wrongful imprisonment and the death penalty. Again, he has many reasons to believe that the system is broken. He isn't interested in giving more powers and privileges to an abusive system that has wronged him.

Jason Todd is a criminal: a mass murderer, a terrorist, a villain. He does evil. He doesn't represent or support the legal system. He probably has the least political capital out of all the Batfamily-associated characters. He doesn't promote the death penalty. He commits murder—illegally, as a criminal, state-unapproved.

Some recent comics related to the topic:

Gotham Nights (2020) #11 "One Minute After Midnight", written by Marc Guggenheim

Red Hood and Nightwing team up to investigate the case of a man wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to be executed. Both of them disapprove of how the broken criminal legal system botched this case.

Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing #8 (2023), written by Matthew Rosenberg

"You familiar with Hannah Arendt's concept of Schreibtischtäter? Desk murderers? It's people who use the state to kill for them, so they don't have to get their hands dirty."

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British person coming to Gotham and pronouncing it Goat-ham getting jumped on the street

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Barry Lategan - Vogue UK, July 1972, from Hair: Fashion and Fantasy by Laurent Philippon (2013)

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you ever read fanfiction so good you start experiencing penis envy. sorry is this a safe space

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you cant even begin poems with "i will sodomise and facef uck you" anymore. because of woke .

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”which could mean nothing” is maybe my favorite phrase of all time. where would we be without it