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I made a timeline google doc :)
It's mostly focused on the stuff of fanfics. If you know where Helena, JPV, or Duke fit in- or if I've missed any important events- please let me know.
Edit: here are some updated preview pics! (Duke, Helena, and Jean-Paul added. A few other things clarified.)
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I think a lot of the weirdness surrounding Jason’s characterization in post-crisis can be explained by the fact that Dick and Tim must be given a piece of the Jason-pie. Jason had a very compelling and dramatic dynamic with Bruce, so of course Dick and Tim needed to get in on the action as well. (Bruce is emotionally affected by Jason so Tim must prove his mettle by being an unimpressed brick wall. Bruce is “hated” by Jason so Dick’s specialness is proven by how Jason still likes and admires Dick, etc)
Anyways this is kinda salty but something I like to indulge in sometimes is reading all of Jason’s appearances in their comics as being solely their perception of Jason, rather than how he really was. The way Jason is used in their stories says something about their characters, but what does it say when the narrative isn’t particularly set on propping them up as the protagonists?
Tim thinks Jason is an emotionally unstable reckless idiot whose ideas are wayyyy too extreme, Dick thinks Jason is straight up crazy (literally as well as in the derogatory sense) and they both think that Jason is obsessed with them.
In Titan’s Tower and Brothers in Blood, Jason’s return ignites a minor identity crisis in both of them. Jason comes to Tim raving about being forgotten. Tim seems to resent Jason’s memory— for being the Robin that died, that failed Batman, and stained the mantle.
Jason comes to Dick as an evil doppelgänger. An image of what Dick might’ve been, or could still become if he lets go of himself. Unlike Tim’s Jason who simply is inferior, Dick’s Jason has a whole inferiority complex. Dick’s Jason noticeably lacks any of “real” Jason’s usual pragmatism (a trait that even Tim’s Jason has) and is instead just a childish copycat performer… what does that say about Dick’s unconscious impression of Jason?
Applying this lens to UTH itself is also interesting. (Of course we can’t say the entire comic is just Bruce hallucinating, but we can consider the comic to be the story of the “actual” events as told by Bruce.)
That UTH is written pretty much entirely from Bruce and Alfred’s perspective, with no thought boxes from Jason’s POV at all, indicates that Bruce doesn’t assume (or can’t predict) what Jason is thinking.
Bruce does understand that Jason is a pragmatist, but he also (incorrectly) connects Jason’s cynicism as Red Hood to Jason’s attitude as Robin. To Bruce, Jason was not an idealist who was burned— he was already a cynic as a child and he only got worse.
The fact that only Jason’s harshest interactions with criminals are depicted is also interesting, because this is a comic where Bruce straight up calls criminals garbage, and can be quoted as calling them “malignant scum that ravage the city.” Bruce seems to think that Jason’s willingness to kill is the result of having the same contempt for ~criminal scum~ but less temperance. It’s possible/likely that Bruce holds himself responsible for Jason’s actions; if not his actions then his attitude.
What if I said the reason Jason "steals all of Dick's friends" is because he died before he could form his own team, and then by the time he came back DC had aged him up so aggressively that he no longer fit with the generation that actually would have matched his age? What if the problem is that Jason should be far younger, but the team ups with heroes from Dick's generation enable audiences to forget that Jason should actually be closer to Tim's age than Dick's? What then?
Fic where Jason and Judy meet at the graveyard and become friends
Why the fuck would Duke Thomas at 12 years old know who Red Hood was. How many 12 year olds do you know who are keyed into the big figures and events of the criminal underworld? What the fuck are we even saying
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tired of cannibalism as a metaphor for love or sex. can we get into cannibalism as a metaphor for colonization.
1. Europeans using Egyptian mummies as medicine
2. The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within US Slave Culture by Vincent Woodard
3. "Abolitionists turned the tables on Europeans by accusing them of being cannibals when they ate sugar tainted with the flesh and blood of slaves."
4. Zombies (which I would class as cannibals, since they were human and need to eat humans to live) have a root in Haitian folklore and represented enslavement.
adding that, if you can find it, cannibal culture by deborah root is about exactly this. the way the white western world is a hungry, destructive force that cannibalizes non-white cultures and creates wealth and status through the cannibal colonization of those cultures.
here's the intro
i almost think there's an essay in bell hooks' black looks about this too? yes! just checked, there's an essay called "eating the other"
there should have been 40 years of jaybin
I like to think that when COIE rewrote the universe that Jason’s skill as an acrobat remained completely unchanged. So in the post-crisis universe Jason ends up being this homeless kid who is just inexplicably extremely talented, like his mind doesn’t remember being Robin but his body does… kind of like how he was when Jason first resurrected.
Uh do I allowed to talk about how Jason managed to wipe the smile off Joker's face, or is this like a trivia matter to you guys and I'm the only person that find these panels satisfying
Like he managed to make Batman laugh and now he managed to make Joker stop laughing does that appear to be interesting to you guys or is that only me
Can you not victim blame your little brother, Dick ? And say he got himself murdered ?
Is. Hang on. Is that a redraw of Jason SAVING TWO-FACE'S LIFE??? THAT'S WHAT IS A PRIME EXAMPLE OF DAREDEVIL JASON????? SAVING THE LIFE OF HIS FATHER'S KILLER??????
(Batman 411 by Max Collins with art by Dave Cockrum)
And btw for an exact shot of Two-Face (albeit, not Harvey) getting full-body slammed into feet first by a Gotham vigilante during Jason's Robin, can I interest you in:
(Detective Comics 581 by Mike W. Barr with art by Jim Baikie and Pablo Marcos)
But nobody says Bruce is deathly reckless by doing that, do they?
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Can we talk more about how Judy's words affected him can we talk more about how Gloria's death will haunt him can we talk more about Sheila and how he feels about her and how he still forgives her even after she betrayed him and still loves her and call her his mom please please please
ppl will be like jason fans made up that he loves his mother bc they want to co-opt mothers day to be about him #failson todd fanon strikes again
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I almost feel bad for Batstans that the writers all seem to love Bruce but have zero conviction in his ideals or principles, but then I remember how many comic series and on-screen adaptations he has and I don’t feel so bad anymore.
"i just think jason should suffer the consequences of his actions" <- words of someone who hasn't read any of his comics in the last forty years
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Early post crisis Jason is soooooo cute because he’s developed his philosophy and identified a solution for Gotham’s problems beyond just disagreement with the no-kill rule, and he’s trying to become this monster of efficiency, but also he just can’t help but careee <333
Internal struggle of cynicism vs hope, and the world pushes him evermore towards cynicism but he can’t help it he’s an inherently hopeful boy and it keeps cropping up like an unkillable weed in his heart <3333
Did you know that AO3 allows fics with homicide in them? There’s a whole tag for Major Character Death and even more tags so you can find exactly what kind of character death you want to read.
Don’t they know that murder is illegal? You just know there are a bunch of homicidal maniacs out there who love to read those stories. They write them, too, in between killing people.
Anyone can read the stories on AO3! Kids can read them! They’re getting exposed to stabbing, poisoning, even guns! And they’re writing the heroes doing the killing, too! That’s basically telling kids it’s okay to go out and murder their families. It’s promoting violence and encouraging homicide and if we don’t do something about it soon, you’ll be murdered next!
The devil came to my house and tried to burn it down, which is why this post exists in the first place.
