Walking Dead | J. Todd

Basic Information

Name: Jason Peter Todd

Aliases/Alter Ego: Robin (the second Boy Wonder), Red X (temporarily), Arkham Knight (temporarily), Red Hood (currently)

Family: Todd Family (biological), Wayne Family (adopted)

Birthday: August 16th (year variable in comics/movies)

Zodiac: Leo

Personality Type: ENTP (The Debator)

Sexuality: Pansexual

Eye Color: Blue

Hair Color: Black

Skin Color: Variable (in some comics, he's described as fair, pale or even tanned)

Height: Variable (in canon, he's said to be 6'0")

Alignment: Complicated (fluctuates between the good and bad regularly).

Teams: Bat vigilantes, Titans, The Outlaws, League of Assassins (temporarily).

Skills and Abilities: Marksmanship, durability, agility, endurance, master martial artist, weapons master, vehicular mastery, stealth, high reflexes.

Preferred Weapon: All types of guns and rifles, his favorite being the sniper rifle and the AK-47.

Known Trainers: Batman, Ra's Al Ghul, Talia Al Ghul.

Occupation: Student at Gotham Academy (initially), Assassin (temporarily), mercenary (temporarily), crime lord in Gotham city (currently)

Origin Story: (variable in comics, following excerpt taken from https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Jason_Todd_New_Earth)

Jason Todd was the son of Willis Todd and Dr. Sheila Haywood, although his mother was forced to relinquish his custody when Willis married Catherine Todd. Catherine was a drug addict and died from an overdose, while his father had once worked for Two-Face and was murdered by the criminal. Legally an orphan, Jason lived in his father's apartment in a derelict building in Crime Alley, where he turned to crime out of necessity. Jason became highly skilled in stealing tires from vehicles and during one of his usual thefts, he met Batman as he stole the Batmobile's wheels.

Jason was taken by Batman to a school run by Ma Gunn, hoping to reform the young man. However, Jason soon realized Gunn conducted illegal activities with the youngsters at her "school" and he escaped. When Batman located him, Jason informed him about Gunn's crimes and even assisted Batman in capturing her gang, after which Jason was taken in by Batman as the new Robin at the age of 12.

After six months of training, Jason was ready to go into action as the new Boy Wonder. In his early adventures, Robin assisted Batman against notable criminals like Two-Face, Mime, the Crime Doctor, The KGBeast, Deacon Blackfire and the Dumpster Slasher. While working on this last case, Jason became more aggressive and driven against criminals.

Unlike Batman's first protegee Dick Grayson, Jason was impulsive, reckless, and full of rage. After a first meeting with his predecessor, Jason struck a good enough friendship with Nightwing and during a troubled time for the Titans, Jason is recruited by Donna Troy to help on a mission. Jason becomes frustrated by the situation when Donna expects him to figure out plans and save everyone, like Dick would.

Jason's violent methods against crooks eventually caused the accidental death of a criminal. Jason's attitude got him and Batman in trouble, but he showed no sign of slowing down. Instead, Jason became more reckless until he was forbidden from going out as Robin.

Eventually, Jason discovered that his birth mother, who he had thought was dead for years, was possibly alive in the Middle East. Without telling Batman, Jason left Gotham for the Middle East to track his lead. However, by seeming coincidence, Batman and Jason crossed paths anyway as the Bat was following the trail of the Joker, who had recently escaped from Arkham.

Arriving in the Middle East, Jason and Bruce worked together to foil Joker's plan to work with with local terrorists but failed to capture the madman himself. With the conspiracy plot averted, Jason and Bruce worked together to try and find Jason's real mother.

Eventually, the duo located her in Ethiopia. Jason's mother Sheila was working as part of the relief efforts for the refugees. Though the mother and son were happy to be reunited, Jason discovered the truth about her. Sheila had a secret criminal record, which the Joker was using to blackmail her to commit crimes in Ethiopia.

Having followed the Joker and his mother to a warehouse, Jason alerted Batman to their plan. Trying to stop it, Batman focused on catching a truck filled with Joker Venom, leaving Jason alone in the warehouse with the Joker. Without his mentor as backup, Robin sprung into action to save his mother solo, but she double-crossed him, luring Jason into a trap to protect her secret.

Joker took the opportunity to beat Jason senseless with a crowbar. Joker then tied Sheila to a post and planted a bomb in the warehouse, leaving the mother and son to die. Jason recovered consciousness long enough to untie his mother, but they were unable to escape the warehouse in time and the bomb exploded, killing them both.

Batman having realized the danger Jason was in, arrived too late to save them. Dragging Jason's corpse from the wreckage, all he could do was fix the crime scene to protect Jason's secret identity. Later, Bruce made arrangements to have Jason and his mother's bodies returned to Gotham and properly buried.

For years, Jason's death haunted Batman, as he considered this his greatest failure: not properly training Jason in his role as Robin and failing to protect him from the Joker. Nonetheless, he used this experience to not make the same mistakes with the third Robin, Tim Drake.

Jason remained dead for six months, his legacy haunting Batman. However, when the evil-alternate reality Superman known as Superboy-Prime punched reality itself, the timeline stuttered, and Jason was restored to life.

Jason broke out of his coffin but collapsed from exhaustion in the cemetery. He was found there and hospitalized. After spending a year in a coma, Jason awoke but suffered from amnesia. Being released, Jason roamed as a vagrant, unable to remember his life as a vigilante.

In other storylines, he was resurrected by Ra's Al Ghul by plunging him into the Lazarus Pit and later he returned to Gotham and took up the identity of Red Hood.

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