Warning: Spoilers for Activity Power Z #7!
The Bat-Member of the family often known as Red Hood has all the time had a strained relationship along with his bat-brother, Nightwing, and after a terrifying nightmare depicts Jason Todd as somebody lesser than his colleagues, DC Comics reveals what Red Hood actually thinks about Dick Grayson.
Revealed within the opening pages of Activity Power Z #7, by Matthew Rosenberg, Jack Herbert, and Daniel HDR, this collection has been specializing in Red Hood aka Jason Todd as he leads a gaggle of undead villains dubbed Activity Power Z. A group secretly overseen by the Batman character named Two-Face, the members of Activity Power Z have been taking a brand new drug known as Lazarus Resin which helps hold Jason’s zombies alive and kicking simply sufficient to assist him to hold out their duties with out getting eaten alive.
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Experiencing quite a lot of ups and downs as of late as he tries to wrangle his crew after being betrayed by one in every of their very own, Jason has understandably had a tough time adjusting and finishing the duties at hand. Given a dose of Lazarus Resin with out his implicit information, all of those components — together with the concept that Jason himself is technically a person come again from the useless — lay heavy on Red Hood’s psyche, leading to a nightmare that brings Nightwing (and Batgirl) into the combination.
Exhibiting readers Jason’s unconscious the place he brutally fights a bevy of Batman rogues whereas dressed as Red Hood, this nightmare instantly feels off in a method that isn’t made obvious till Nightwing and Batgirl arrive on the scene. All of the sudden wearing a far too small model of his previous Robin costume, Jason is pressured again right into a junior position, implying that whereas round these senior Bat-Members of the family, he feels lesser and extra misplaced than ever. Telling them that he’s solely “attempting to maintain folks protected” by violently attacking these Batman villains, Nightwing and Batgirl then level out that Jason’s killing of those baddies is a part of the issue, and it’s right here, because the zombie-like decaying faces of his fellow vigilantes are uncovered, that Jason reveals how he actually sees Nightwing.
In a way, Nightwing (and Batgirl for that matter) are the heroic beliefs Jason believes he’s failing to stay as much as, with “Nightmare Nightwing” additionally appearing as a threatening and oppressive power on this dream, insinuating that Jason will not be behaving proper in his present position as a crimefighter. Moreover, Jason reverting to Robin in Nightwing’s presence is an ideal unconscious slip on this regard, making sense that Jason sees Dick on this conflicting gentle as Jason has all the time existed in Dick’s shadow because the second, less-fondly remembered Robin. It then turns into significantly attention-grabbing that in a guilt-based nightmare similar to this, Jason envisions Nightwing and never Batman giving him a stern speaking to. However what does this imply? Does Jason take into account his fellow bat-sidekicks — Nightwing particularly — extra of a commanding and/or dependable voice in his life than his surrogate father? Might Jason not deal with criticism coming from Batman however would hear it extra readily coming from his “brother” in arms? The solutions are a bit imprecise as Jason’s nightmare ends, however it’s nonetheless an intriguing method to take a look at Red Hood’s relationship with Nightwing, and the way he perceives him as an individual.
So though Red Hood and Nightwing are on higher phrases in actual life than this nightmare suggests, their tumultuous relationship remains to be one which’s a piece in progress. Red Hood would possibly see Nightwing because the antagonist at occasions, however at the least these issues are all in his head… nicely, principally.