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Your own personal Jesus. Someone to hear your prayers, someone who cares…

Oh sure, everyone loves Jason Todd because he’s such a tragic and suffering badass. They love how he was so close to Bruce but felt like Bruce abandoned Jason, let him down, and replaced him with another partner. They love his tough backstory growing up in poverty. They love his former idealism back in the good old days, even when that idealism crossed Batman’s moral boundaries in the name of the greater good. They love that Jason is so traumatized and unstable after his attack that they embrace him even at his worst. They love him becoming a mob boss, killing untold numbers of people with his twin pistols, creating more orphans in his wake, because they feel for his pain. They love him even while ignoring his bad stories, understanding that some writers simply don’t understand what makes him great, especially those stories that go out of their way to make him a villain. Most of all, they love the mutual, strained love between him and Batman, who never stops holding out hope that Jason will come back to him and not succumb to darkness again. They love Jason for all of that.

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