genuinely how are we getting jason being an angry kid from his robin comics, like where does that come from outside of classist retcons that were made for the sole purpose of victim blaming a 7th grader
i mean jason definitely got angry a handful of times…but like, so does everyone…? what? generally to be an angry kid or an angry person implies frequent bouts of excessive or unreasonable anger, which, imo at least, jason does not have as robin. like, a nervy kid? yeah ig. an anxious kid? sure! a sensitive kid? absolutely!!!! an angry kid? …no???
and this isnt me saying jason being an angry kid would be a bad thing. i think thatd be incredibly justified and reasonable given his trauma and what happens throughout his robin run. but like i dont see how you can read jasons 80s robin run and describe him as an angry kid based off his actual behavior as written in said comics. i just dont understand what canon material we’d be basing that on outside of the aforementioned classist retcons 😭
like im trying to remember a time where his anger is disproportionate or unreasonable and i just?? cant?? he gets mad at two face because he killed his dad, and mad at bruce because bruce hid that from him for MONTHS; i wouldnt call that anger unreasonable or disproportionate especially considering hes like, 10. then theres the time he loses his cool on a pimp for assaulting a woman in batman #422, and then obviously he was furious about garzonas in batman #424…and then what else? even those last 2 examples are 1. explicitly described by bruce as unusual for jason in batman #426, 2. directly after the events of batman: the cult, which traumatized bruce let alone his middle schooler, and 3. are two similar situations, and imply that, if anything, he has a specific intolerance for sexual violence/exploitation rather than general “wrong-doing”
even if you loop in pre-crisis, which most people dont but i like to, jasons anger is still relatively rare and reserved imo, and its almost exclusively related to bruce in some shape or form every time. he snaps at julia because bruce is making him stay back from robin (which is the main way he gets to spend time with bruce) to avoid arousing suspicion from her while shes staying at the manor (he also feels bad abt this right after). he runs away to the circus because bruce is too busy to spend time with him as bruce wayne and wont let him join him as batman. im sure there are other instances but like you get the point. his anger is usually related to something or someone threatening his relationship with bruce, or bruce himself. which like, again, i wouldnt call frequent, disproportionate, or unreasonable enough to label him as particularly angry. even within the narrative his anger in these moments is framed as justified and understandable. of course hes sensitive about bruces attention his parents just died, like what?? also hes 12
i just see ppl all the time that are like “jason can be both the angry and the happy robin” which like, yeah? like i said i agree with that, it would be completely understandable if he was angry at the world, but i dont understand why he has to be. i dont see how you can call him an angry kid from his behavior within the actual comics. i also resent the whole “angry robin” “happy robin” thing in general because no one is just one thing and thats a lame way to describe characters, and even if were to label jason as just one thing i dont think “angry” or “happy” really fit for him, but thats a whole other post that im not getting into rn so whatever
idk maybe im missing smth or i just have an overly-sensitive reading of him but my impression of jason just based on his robin comics has never been angry
