Within the newest difficulty of Past the White Knight, Red Hood reveals how he outlined the Robin function as Batman’s first sidekick (not Nightwing).
Warning! This publish accommodates SPOILERS for Batman: Past the White Knight #6Within the newest difficulty of Batman: Past the White Knight, Jason Todd’s Red Hood proves simply how in another way he sees the function of Robin as Batman’s first sidekick (as an alternative of Nightwing). On this alternate model of the DC Universe, Jason was Batman’s first Boy Wonder slightly than Dick Grayson who turned his second. As such, this resulted in a really completely different notion of the mantle with Jason claiming accountability for the Robin function way over he does in the principle universe.
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Beforehand in Sean Murphy’s Past the White Knight, it was revealed that whereas Jason Todd was additionally kidnaped by the Joker on this universe, he wasn’t killed. As an alternative, he was stored alive and let go solely till Batman had chosen Dick to take over the Robin mantle as the subsequent Boy Wonder. Feeling betrayed because of the substitute, it was years earlier than Bruce found Jason was nonetheless alive (however by then it was too late). Jason had already moved on. Now, Todd is the Red Hood with a sidekick of his personal named Gan whom he is been coaching to turn into the perfect model of Robin doable.
Nevertheless, the brand new Past the White Knight #6 sees Jason encountering Dick who’s turn into an officer of the Gotham Terrorist Oppression Unit, now a rival regulation enforcement group to the GCPD who’ve turned “Neo-Gotham” into an oppressive police state. Disgusted with Nightwing’s function in taking away Gotham’s public freedoms, Red Hood throws some punches at his successor. He is additionally very indignant that Dick successfully corrupted the Robin function and what it is meant to face for.
White Knight’s Red Hood Has Extra Possession Of The Robin Mantle
Whereas Dick believes he was prepared to do what was essential to maintain Gotham crime-free whereas Batman and Jason weren’t, it is extra stunning to see Jason feeling such conviction over his previous function as Robin. Not like the Red Hood of the first DC Universe, this model was by no means murdered or confronted the identical ranges of darkness after being resurrected. As an alternative, he was merely changed when he nonetheless had a lot extra to offer as Batman’s Robin, therefore his place now the place he is coaching Gan to be the type of Robin he as soon as was (if not even higher).
Maintaining that in thoughts, it’s totally attention-grabbing to see White Knight’s Jason caring a lot about what being Robin is supposed to represent. Whereas it is most likely one thing the unique Red Hood cares about in the principle universe as properly, he’d actually be hard-pressed to vocally share it as his emotions are probably extra complicated. At any price, this alternate Red Hood flipping the script as Batman’s first Robin is without doubt one of the most compelling variations on this new sequence, particularly contemplating his perceptions of Nightwing who’s sometimes depicted as the perfect and brightest Robin. Past the White Knight #6 is on sale now.