Creatures In The Earth

-Why couldn’t he do it for me?

What is the reason he cannot do that/ What could have been his reasons/ his answers/ his explanation not to do that Why, why on God's Earth is he still alive?! What? What, your moral code just won't allow for that? It's too hard to cross that line? Why? I'm not talking about killing Penguin or Scarecrow or Dent…

-Why couldn’t he do it for me?

He should have been able to do it/ He really should have done it/ There is no reason why he wouldn't/ couldn't do it. Ignoring what he's done in the past - blindly, stupidly disregarding the entire graveyards he's filled, the thousands who have suffered, the friends he's crippled...! You know, I thought... I thought I'd be the last person you'd ever let him hurt.

-Why couldn’t he do it for me?

Someone like him must have been able to do it/ He could have done it/ He should have done it/ It has to be him that do it/ I wanted it to be him that did it and no one else/ I was ready to do it for him. If it had been you that he beat to a bloody pulp, if he had taken you from this world, I would've done nothing but search the planet for this pathetic pile of evil, death-worshiping garbage... and send him off to hell!

-Why couldn’t he do it for me?

Why can't he actually take that action/ Why does he only pay lip service to wanting to do it without actually following through/ He merely wishes to do it and talks about it, but never actually does it. What? What, your moral code just won't allow for that? It's too hard to cross that line? Why do all the cub scouts in spandex always say that? "If I cross that line, there's no coming back."

-Why couldn’t he do it for me?

Why couldn't he do that particular thing/ not something else/ but only that thing. Why? I'm not talking about killing Penguin, or Scarecrow, or Dent. I'm talking about him, just him.

-Why couldn't he do it for me?

Why couldn’t he do it for that particular reason/ for me/ for this reason/ purpose/ not for any other reason or anything else. And doing it because... because he took me away from you.

-Why couldn’t he do it for me?

I should have been someone who is important to him. Wasn’t I supposed to be his soldier son? Was I not good enough? Would he had do it if it was someone else? And doing it because... because he took me away from you./ Stop! You’ll kill him!/ He took her from me, Robin... Every woman I love, something always takes her from me… / It’s him or me. You have to decide. 

#myitalicsappreciationpost

*Some additional links:

1. https://www.tumblr.com/cologona/775601147706785792/utrh-isnt-the-first-time-jason-tried-to-square

2. https://www.tumblr.com/glitter-stained/807566051437133824/jason-very-much-knew-that-bruce-is-completely-and

3. https://www.tumblr.com/la-morrigan/788198585535791104/some-more-thoughts-about-jason-todd-and-why-while

https://www.tumblr.com/jstodd/740343198817353729/god-i-love-when-people-think-too-hard-and-too-much

4. https://www.tumblr.com/abizarreyodelingincident/812269205386936320/batman-shouldnt-be-forced-to-kill-the-joker-at

5. https://www.tumblr.com/blueteehood/698032836752670720/i-was-thinking-about-under-the-red-hood-again-and

https://www.tumblr.com/arcade-confetti/768767265127759872/being-someone-who-read-under-the-red-hood-and-came

6. https://www.tumblr.com/gotham-blight/819542932866629632/jason-todd-asking-bruce-why-he-didnt-kill-joker

7. https://www.tumblr.com/shewhowillrise/744312278754656256/all-evidence-for-jason-points-to-the-fact-that

Note: This is mostly from comics written by Winick, as I refuse to acknowledge most of n52. Feel free to add more, though!

Note2: This post was originally formatted in a different way, as I foolishly forgot about the image limit.

Blades

1— His iconic dagger!

Can cut through stone, and most of Batman's gear. It's been heavily debated what kind of knife it is; wether a kris, a parrying dagger, or a third secret thing.

2— The blades he gives Mia to defend herself!

I'm not sure what kind of blade they are, they vaguely look like wakizashis? Their size varies from panel to panel so idk😔

3— The katana for the 'duel' with Oliver!

4— And to link with the next section, the exploding katana!

Yes, it's a katana that explodes. Jason baits Oliver into holding it.

Explosives

— First of all, he blows up many many things and it's not specified what exactly he uses. So the unspecified explosives that only appear as a cool fireball panel get a bullet point.

5— The jumble of explosives in the Final Confrontation™️, we can see some dynamite, C4...

6— Bomb in a crate

7— Small bomb. Not lethal!

8— Bigger bomb. Yes lethal.

9— Continuing with this absolute icon: the bomb under the Batmobile (should I capitalize that?)

10— Small Rocket, used against Brick

11— Grenade?

12— Small, cylinder-shaped explosives. Detonated upon impact?

13— Small explosive that attaches to flat surfaces, used against Mr Freeze

14— Grenade.

15— Molotov Cocktail

16— Enough C4 to destroy a whole building, modded so it explodes if its temperature reaches one point, countering Batman's method of freezing bombs.

17— My absolute favorite, the exploding helmet!

Even if it's listed under 'explosives', it's also an important piece of technology in the Red Hood's arsenal.

Firearms

18, 19— The guns in the wall from Annual #25, there's surely more.

20— Machine guns hidden in crates!

21— Machine guns hidden in cars!

22— Rocket launcher, used against Black Mask

23— Even more hidden machine guns! This time in an electricity pole.

24— Machine gun (also hidden, but surprisingly not attached to anything)

25— Handgun👍

26— AK-47, you know the panel from where it's from

27— Submachine guns, I think 🙂

28— When out of ammo he uses his guns as blunt weapons, which I wanted to note

Tasers

29— The nazi-killing taser

30— The reason for the creation of this post! The grapple line taser! Attach it to a grapple line and it will shock whoever is connected to it. Noticed it in a reread of utrh and needed people to see it

31— Bonus: the bat-symbol taser. Iconic enough to be here.

Tech & Surveillance

32— Monitor and microphone?

33, 34— cameras :)

35— thing to see the feed of the cameras

36, 37— phones :)

38— his little tech den in #650

39, 40— computers :)

41— whatever this thing is

42— The surveillance device that looks like he taped a canon camera to his face

43— Wiretaps!

44— Bugs!

He also has his evil lair in B&R2009 bugged.

Miscellaneous

45— Does his crowbar count

46— smoke bomb!!

47— Injectable adrenaline. He just has that in his utility belt.

48— His batmobile-evade suit.

49— Is saying his belt buckle mean

50— Unspecified poison! Goodbye Egon

51— This thing that attaches to its target and launches them off

Not pictured:

The fancy wound dressing he gives onyx to patch up the shoulder wound he inflicted (I forgot to screenshot 💔)

Also, he has this whole hq-ish thing in Annual #25

(Edit: That rectangle in the gun wall kinda looks like an anti-drone gun now that I think abt it)

It could even provide a solution to the ickiness of the white Barbara gaining her powers from a vile misogynistic African god who hates and torments her because she's not a virgin.

What if the form her powers take and/or the torments inflicted on her were because she got the ritual wrong? And not because of a lack of chastity: because she's stealing a magic that doesn't belong to her, because she's working with an outsider's knowledge, because she disdains the understandings of the culture she's exploiting in favour of her (naturally superior) white western university education.

She thinks she knows better than the culture that birthed this power. She thinks, even if she doesn't say it, that she's more deserving of it than them. That she could do more with it than them. But it's not hers to take and it won't bend to what she wants.

Urzkartaga is a plant god, and plant gods are traditionally thought of as benevolent, providers, bringers of the harvest. Still, they can be angered, and when they are, they'll show their thorns.

Instead of being a monster torturing her for not being virginal enough, he's a furious god trying to wrest back what was stolen from his people.

you have to also bring up that jason is likely dealing with sex work and sex workers and prostitution. whether hes enforcing new rules on pimps, adding extra protection for sex workers, deciding when and where people can do business, and making sure children aren't involved with that either. he will have a hand in it. I rarely see people bring up the fact that jason would be involved in prostitution. and I think its because acknowledging this would kill the "ultra feminist jason todd woman protector" label fandom has placed on him.

This is from Robin Annual #1 btw and Rutledge is the guy who cut the Graysons’ ropes

Do you think Jason gave Bruce flashbacks?

Detective Comics (1937) #730

Former welfare recipients. The “intellectually challenged.” The unmotivated. The people with common sense […] left this neighborhood weeks ago.