Jason Todd

## Red Hood ll

* Red Hood
* Robin
* Jason Todd

**Jason Todd** (August 15th, 1987 - November 10th, 2002; May 18th, 2003 -) is an American vigilante protector of **Gotham City**, former **League Of Assassins/Shadow** assassin & personal bodyguard of **Talia Al Ghul** and the youngest adopted son of American billionaire industrialist and notorious playboy **Bruce Wayne**, whom is legally deceased. Todd became the second **Robin** after his predecessor **Dick Grayson** became **Nightwing**. Like Grayson, Todd was trained by The Dark Knight himself, however, his violent attitude towards criminals has made him a controversial figure within the **Bat-Family**, crossing moral lines to pursue his ends, and repeatedly demonstrating his willingness to kill as an adult, led to his death at the hands of the **Joker**. Following his demise, Todd awoken in his coffin, in a catatonic state. Talia Al Ghul would learned of the boy's current state and successfully pull Todd away from his catatonic state by using the **Lazarus Pit**. During and briefly after his recover, Todd was trained by both the **League of Assassins/Shadow's**, and the **All-Caste**'s most skilled teachers. Becoming one of the most skilled and most feared martial artist. Eventually, Todd returned to Gotham City under the new alias **Red Hood**, using more lethal methods to fight crime, and quickly becoming the most feared and respected crime lord in Gotham.

## Biography

Jason Peter Todd was born on August 12th, 1985 at Gotham Row Hospital, to **Talia Al Ghul**, and an unidentified father. However, during Todd's birth, a massive shootout was occurring within the hospital, following a failed robbery attempt. During the commotion, Todd was taken by the Todd's family, whom fled immediately after. Todd was raised believing that his parents was Willis and Catherine Todd, and his parents thinking he was their biological child. Despite Al Ghul's best efforts at finding her biological son, they were all in vain and she was forced to leave Gotham without her son.

As for Todd, himself, his first few months being alive were brutal due to his-then concerning health conditions and parental neglect, and whenever Todd received any form of attention from his parents, it was either of his father's abusive actions or his mother's verbal abusiveness. In fact, Todd was

By the time Todd was six years old, he nearly was nearly sold to **Carmine Falcone**'s criminal organization to settle his parents debts. Only a year later, Todd witnessed his father being burned alive by a few of **Sal Maroni**'s goons, over a failed drug trade. With no other option for income, Todd was abandoned by his mother and was forced to become a homeless street rat. Only trusting the streets and his wits to keep himself safe. Spending the rest of his early childhood, wandering the streets of Gotham and often keeping to himself. During this time, Todd would often prosper through pickpocketing and low-level theft.

For his ninth birthday, Todd snuck into **Haly's Circus** and watched the Flying Grayson. Seeing Grayson for the first time and becoming positively awed of him. A few days later, Todd would learn that his mother was dead due to an overdose, and had been dead for quite some time. However Todd would later on learn that his mother's death was orchestrated by **Two-Face**.

When Todd was twelve years old, he encountered his biological mother for the first time, and helped her stop the **Red Hood Gang**'s attempt at a revival. During this, Todd earned Al Ghul's respect and impressed her, by performing a fighting move invented by the **All-Caste** that she, herself couldn't master. Although impressed, Al Ghul became oddly suspicious of the boy's heritage and expressed interested in keeping an eye on him in the future and to learn more about the boy's heritage to her father **Ra's al Ghul**.