Teen Titans Go is perhaps a present aimed toward a youthful viewers, however an Easter egg noticed by a Reddit viewer is unquestionably meant for adults.
In a latest scene, as depicted beneath, Robin reaches onto a bookshelf stuffed with trophies and different Easter eggs to seize one thing, however his entire physique is pointed immediately at an urn full of “Robin II” ashes (one assumes), per its container. Beside the urn is a crowbar.
That is, in fact, a reference to “A Loss of life within the Household,” the 1988 comics story wherein Jason Todd, the second character to behave as Batman’s sidekick, Robin, was killed by The Joker.
Within the story, Jason was overwhelmed almost to demise with a crowbar and left to die in a room with a bomb. Batman later found his physique. On the time, there was a 900-number followers may name and pay cash to forged a vote as as to if or not Jason ought to die.
Whereas it was the explosion that technically killed Jason, the crowbar has develop into a macabre image in Joker tales ever since “A Loss of life within the Household,” partly due to the brutal and disturbing approach the beating was depicted on the web page.
That may be a fairly disturbing picture to have in Teen Titans Go, a decidedly kid-focused present — and naturally, some commenters have introduced up the odd timeline points it doubtlessly introduces because it has lengthy been assumed that the Robin on the present is Dick Grayson, so the notion that Jason Todd would have develop into Robin, died, after which Dick may have returned to the Titans whereas nonetheless a teen is form of questionable.
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That stated, it’s simply an Easter egg/in-joke, so the possible decision to that concern is the previous Thriller Science Theater 3000 mantra: “Repeat to your self ‘it is only a present, I ought to actually simply chill out.'”
Different Easter eggs on the trophy wall embrace Scarface, the Ventriloquist’s doll; Renu-Yu, a beauty product related to Clayface in Batman: The Animated Collection; and bandages belonging to the Batman villain Hush.
Teen Titans Go airs on Fridays on Cartoon Community.