Titans season 3 just revealed the true reason Jason Todd bankrupt bad and made the switch from Robin to Reddish Hood. With Blackfire, Scarecrow, Lady Vic, and even Gizmo,Titans season 3 boasts many a vicious villain, but none are more thrilling than Red Hood. Adapting DC'southward "Death in the Family unit" comic arc, Jason is brutally killed at the hands of Joker, simply to resurrect under the more violent Red Hood moniker. Different the source material, however,Titans' Reddish Hood has been portrayed equally an outright villain. He killed Hank, all but destroyed the Titans, and has terrorized the good citizens of Gotham with devilish explosive implants.

Jason'south journeying to the night side seemed like the outcome of multiple influences coming together. Bruce Wayne's second Robin was nonetheless suffering intense trauma post-obit his brush with Deathstroke inTitans season 2, and Batman worsened things past abruptly relieving Jason of his sidekick duties. Scarecrow and so took advantage of Jason's vulnerable mindset by filling his father-effigy void and pumping the struggling Robin with anti-fright drugs. WatchingTitans flavour iii up until episode 12, Scarecrow appears to be the driving gene in Jason Todd'southward Cherry Hood transformation. The season's penultimate episode, "Dissipated," proves otherwise.

Cheers to Nightwing's untimely demise, Titansseason 3's "Prodigal" finally reveals what happens to someone when they're tossed into a Lazarus pit. Before he can resurrect, Dick Grayson faces nightmarish visions of his worst fears - an apparition of Jonathan Crane (airs intact), himself as Joker chirapsia up Jason Todd, and memories from his extensive catalog of past failures. If that's the kind of hellish revival someone every bit mentally balanced (forTitans) every bit Dick Grayson goes through, Jason Todd's Lazarus pit experience must've been significantly worse. At the time Jason died, he was racked with cocky-doubt, disturbing dreams, detest-filled impulses, and a lack of identity.Titans hasn't revealed precisely what Jason Todd witnessed during his Lazarus bathroom, but the harrowing hallucinations could've easily tipped him toward donning the Ruby Hood mask.

In hindsight, the Lazarus pit causing Jason Todd'south Cherry-red Hood transformation makes far more sense than Scarecrow's psychological manipulation or Bruce Wayne's fatherly failings. Earlier getting himself murdered by Joker, Jason was certainly on the road to villainy, but hadn't done anythingtruly irredeemable. He'd liaised with Scarecrow in Arkham and started cooking drugs, only the violence against civilians and despicable antics just began afterward Jason's dip in the Lazarus pit. Dick Grayson all but confirms it was dying and coming back to life that turned Robin rotten when they reunite in the terminal human action ofTitans flavor iii'south "Prodigal." Jason asks his predecessor why they're working together, and Dick replies, "because now I know what it's like to dice."

Blaming Jason'south villainy on the unpleasant process of death and resurrection makes his Titans redemption much easier. Had Ruddy Hood merely been a product of Jason's anger and ego, molded by a Gotham Metropolis supervillain thathe approached offset,Titans would have a tough time reforming Jason Todd into annihilation resembling a hero. Considering only those who take endured the full Lazarus pit experience can appreciate Jason'due south torment, however, audiences should have more kindly to Red Hood becoming an antihero of the Titans universe.

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