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| “ | I'm the guy you want on your side. I can protect you. Batman's gone! I retired him. Check the sky every night, no more Bat signals, the nightmare is over. Any problems with cops or other masks, I take care of it from now on. It'll cost you forty percent of what you make and trust me, you're about to make a lot more. Any questions? | „ |
| ~ Red Hood to Gotham's crime bosses. |
| “ | In living color. I got a new name now though. You'll be hearing it a lot around here. Red Hood. | „ |
| ~ Red Hood to Nightwing. |
| “ | This city owes us a lot, and I'm gonna collect the bill. | „ |
| ~ Red Hood to Molly. |
Jason Peter Todd, better known as Red Hood and formerly known as Robin, is a major character in the TV series Titans.
Jason is a brutal vigilante who was the former second Robin, thus making him the second partner of Batman. At the request of Bruce, he was taken under the care of Dick Grayson and became an official Titans affiliate. However, after the incident with Deathstroke, Jason turned his back on the group and was seemingly murdered by the Joker. Later on, however, he resurfaced as the murderous and vengeful criminal known as Red Hood.
He is portrayed by Curran Walters.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Jason was born to Willis and Catherine Todd, who neglected him and left him with his uncle Ray. His mother later overdosed and father was murdered by Two-Face. His uncle frequently took him to bars, but his drunken antics got them kicked out on multiple occasions. Some time later, Ray overdosed, leaving Jason alone to fend for himself. In and out of foster homes, Jason began stealing to survive. One day, he tried to steal the hub caps off the Batmobile. Sensing in the boy a kindred spirit, Batman took Jason under his wing and trained him to become the second Robin.
Helping Dick Grayson[]
After Dick Grayson left Gotham City, Batman sent Jason to warn him that members of Haly's Circus were being murdered. When Jason located Dick, he was ambushed by soldiers from the mysterious Organization. Jason assisted Dick by taking down six armed soldiers before helping Dick carry the body of Dr. Adamson to his car. While Jason expressed his passion for being the new Robin they headed to a safe house. Before Dick could depart, Jason explained his true reason for being there, giving him files and autopsy reports that informed him of the death of his circus friends. Shortly afterward, they were joined by Dick's friends, and he met Kory Anders, Rachel Roth, and Gar Logan for the first time.
Finding the location of the remaining circus survivor, Clayton Williams, Jason and Dick headed to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where they attempted to enter a bar in which Clayton worked. Although Dick was allowed inside, the bouncer automatically recognized Jason's ID as a fake and denied him entry. Despite being told to wait outside, Jason headed around the back and waited by the back door, sneaking in when someone exited to dispose of trash. As he entered, he flirted with some women and headed for the bar. He grabbed a stranger's drink and flirted with her, offering to buy her a new drink. However, her boyfriend took issue, causing Jason to pick a fight with him. Before it could escalate, Dick intervened and there was an explosion that stunned everyone in the location. They exited the bar, where Dick received a call from Nick Zucco, revealing himself as the serial killer responsible for the deaths of the circus mates. Before Dick departed to rescue a now kidnapped Clayton, Jason was given a brief speech on why he should not be Robin.
Despite this, Jason followed Dick anyhow and intervened in a fight between Dick and Zucco. Shot by an acid bullet, Jason made a remarkable recovery thanks to his suit's durable properties. Zucco was defeated, and the police promptly arrived at the scene. Responding to reports of gunshots, they were brutally beaten down by Jason. After severely attacking them, Jason was pulled aside by Dick, who took serious issue with his extreme violence, but Jason brushed it off and left.
Becoming a Titan[]
With Bruce out of the mansion, Jason chose to entertain himself by riding his motorbike indoors. He was interrupted by Dawn Granger and Hank Hall, who asked for his help to save Rachel and company. Once they arrived at the house, they met Donna Troy and Kory Anders there, who informed them about Rachel, her demonic father Trigon, and his plans to take over the world. Once inside the home, Jason was automatically taken into an illusion, in which Dick killed Batman. Enraged at the act, he and Dick battled it out. As a last resort, he grabbed a loaded, nearby gun, the same one that murdered Bruce's parents, and shot him straight through the head. This caused Jason to be instantly consumed by darkness and fall succumb Trigon's agenda. Possessed alongside the others, including Dick Grayson, Jason was controlled to attack Gar. Ultimately, Rachel managed to defeat Trigon, causing all of the Titans to snap out of their possessed states. Bidding farewell to the others, Jason, along with Dick, Gar, and Rachel headed to parts unknown. They made a quick stop at Bruce Wayne's, where Bruce allowed them use of a Titans Tower so long as they took Jason. Arriving in San Francisco, they acquainted themselves with the old Titans' base of operations.
Living in Titans Tower for the next three months, the newly-formed team began training tirelessly. Using Dick's suggestion of a blindfold, Jason and Gar sparred. However, Jason became annoyed when Gar hit him, leading to Dick stressing the importance of the exercise. That night, the team converged in the living room as helicopters flew past the tower. Turning on the news, they saw reports of a girl named Rose Wilson fleeing from police. With Jason impressed with her skills, Dick went to retrieve her, bringing her unconscious body to the tower to recuperate. Meanwhile, Jason highlighted how they did not know if they could trust her. Wanting to find out who she was, Jason and Gar took her old bandage and analyzed the blood, finding her identity to be that of Rose Wilson, the daughter of Deathstroke.
After spending long periods time in the Tower, Jason and the others continue to adjust to their new home. Jason grows frustrated and impatient in being left out of the fight. He, like the others, try interacting with the newcomer, Rose. After the Titans return from their latest mission against Doctor Light, Jason confronts Dick over their failure, and how they could take him out. Jason gets angry and tries hitting him, but is knocked down in one move. After Doctor Light evades the Titans again, Jason rebels and takes Gar with him to search for Doctor Light by themselves. They both take to the underground sewers. When Jason encounters Doctor Light, he recalls Dick's training and beats him down, only to face Deathstroke, who later kidnaps him.
Jason is held captive by Deathstroke and blindfolded, while being questioned by his captor on being a Titans member, stating that he was being used, like his friends, by Grayson, and will eventually be killed for his ends. Deathstroke later contacts the Titans, stating Jason will be released in exchange for Rose, and he mislead them using Jason's removed tracker. After the Titans arrive, Dick secretly meets with Deathstroke to trade himself for Jason, but he is unmoved, revealing Jason being bound to a set of explosives. Kory comes in, but they fail to prevent the explosives' activation, sending Jason falling.
Jason is unexpectedly saved by Conner mid-fall, who swiftly lands on a car, saving him. Amidst the house, the Titans find several objects implanted in their rooms which bring painful memories, which Jason is accused of, which impacts Jason further after he is dealing over the trauma of the fall. He later trains for stress relief, which Dick confronts him on, and Jason snaps at him. After Jason is feeling the impact of his trauma and the scorn he's facing, Jason contemplates suicide and goes up on the roof to jump, Dick meets him and consoles him over his trauma, and confesses his part of recent events unfolding, saying he's at fault on it, due to his past actions.
Leaving the Titans and Return to Gotham City[]
After Jason decides he has to leave the Titans, he grows closer to Rose after taking her to his old school and also uncovers her secret after she gets out of Deathstroke's plan, which causes them to become estranged. After the Titans defeat Deathstroke, Jason decides to leave by himself, and Rachel leaves as well with Donna to Themyscira to resurrect her, and the others form a new team of Titans.
Jason returns to Gotham City, where he begins experiencing nightmares. After one such nightmare, a concerned Bruce awakens him and asks if he's okay before suggesting an old friend of his, Dr. Leslie Thompkins, for therapy. During his sessions, Jason learns that Leslie was once a colleague of Dr. Jonathan Crane, the former supervillain Scarecrow, which fascinates Jason as he is growing desperate to overcome his fear. After hearing back from Leslie, Bruce decides that Jason should no longer be Robin, feeling responsible for dragging him into crime fighting, and by extension, his traumatic experience in San Francisco. Jason, however, is enraged and grows disillusioned with Bruce, thinking that Bruce sees him as a failure and that Leslie betrayed him as well.
After stealing a single vial of Scarecrow's fear toxin from Bruce's trophy collection in the Batcave, Jason infiltrates Arkham Asylum by posing as an undercover operative of the G.C.P.D. in order to talk with Jonathan Crane himself. However, Crane easily sees through this because the former supervillain is already on police payroll as a psychological consultant. Unfazed, Jason demands that Crane provide him with the fear toxin formula so that Todd can reverse-engineer it into an anti-fear drug. Although Crane is initially uninterested and brushes him off, Jason reveals the stolen fear toxin to him, at which point Crane finally realizes that Jason is actually the former Robin. Jason offers to provide Crane with information about Batman and the Bat Family, and Crane - seeing a perfect opportunity for revenge against Bruce - agrees, but only on the condition that Jason find a way to free him from Arkham.
Death of Robin and Birth of Red Hood[]
After nights of experimenting with the formula Crane provided, Jason would finally succeed in creating the anti-fear drug. After returning to Crane with evidence that the drug worked, the duo began the first phase of their plan - bringing down the Joker. Dawning the Robin costume against Bruce's orders, Jason tracked the Joker to an abandoned amusement park at Gotham Harbor, where the Clown Prince of Crime would bludgeon Jason to death with a crowbar. After Jason's corpse was taken to the morgue, Crane had his henchman Cyrus Beake smuggle the body out and bring it to the basement of Arkham Asylum, where a mystical Lazarus Pit had been left behind by Ra's al Ghul. After being resurrected from the dead by the pit's healing waters, Crane used Jason's own anti-fear drug to brainwash him into becoming the vigilante "Red Hood", a new savior for Gotham in Batman's absence, with Bruce having resigned from crime fighting after murdering the Joker in revenge for Jason's death.
Jason's Revenge[]
With the world believing Jason dead and Batman gone, Red Hood began by taking out the top enforcers of Gotham's crime families and forcing the city's top crime bosses to swear loyalty to him. In exchange for 40% of the profits, the mob would have Red Hood's protection from law enforcement and other vigilantes like Nightwing. Under Crane's orders, Red Hood would begin a terror campaign designed to lure Dick Grayson into his clutches, who had just returned to Gotham after hearing about Jason's "death". First, Jason would abduct children from families who lived on Gotham streets with bird names (chosen specifically as a clue for Dick) and then force their parents to commit acts of terror on his behalf. One such incident involved a mother who bombed a public shopping mall in broad daylight, and after she was brought in by police, she asked to speak with Nightwing. However, she instead gave them a phone number, and when Commissioner Barbara Gordon dialed it, the call activated a drug pump in the woman's arm, causing her to overdose and snap her own neck. Following this, Dick was recommended to Crane by Barbara, and during their talk in Arkham, Crane revealed that a note in the case file had been written on the back of a page torn from a chess manual. The page described the "Bird's Opening", which led to Dick and the Titans discovering the Hobbs Defense. And by extension, Dick associated it with the old Hobbs gunpowder factory, which he and Bruce had closed years ago. Jason places a false 9-1-1 call from the factory, so Dick and the Titans arrive in search of Red Hood. During a confrontation between Nightwing and Red Hood, a piece of Jason's helmet was broken off, revealing his true identity to a terrified Dick. Dick went as far as to dig up Todd's fake grave at Wayne Manor, verifying that the coffin had indeed been empty.
Feigning no awareness of his actions as Red Hood and claiming to have no control over himself, a seemingly unwell and desperate Jason would plead for help and amends from fellow Titan Hank Hall (Hawk), who Jason lured to the abandoned Gotham gym and promptly attacked, placing an explosive device in Hank's chest that had mere hours before detonation. Red Hood phoned Dick and demanded fifty million dollars worth of gold bars, providing the Titans with the time and location of a delivery from an armored truck. Against their better judgement, Dick and his team agreed, sending Dawn Granger (Dove) to rob the truck and confront Red Hood. Jason gave her a gun, claiming that it was the deactivator for the bomb, and told her that if she simply pulled the trigger and killed him, Hank would be saved. However, even after Nightwing intervened, Dawn would pull the trigger, only to find that Jason had tricked her - the gun was actually the detonator, not the deactivator. With Hank blown to pieces, the Titans could only lament his death while Red Hood escaped.
Red Hood later staged an assassination attempt on Jonathan Crane from within Arkham, framed as retaliation for the latter's services to Dick, but was actually a ruse to have Crane transferred to Blackgate Penitentiary so that Red Hood could ambush the transfer and free him. Crane surviving the attack at all was enough for Dick to realize that he was the true mastermind behind Red Hood's actions, so Dick intercepted the transfer himself and took Crane hostage, with Red Hood hot on his trail. Jason followed Dick to an old cabin on the outskirts of Gotham, a secret safehouse where Bruce had trained both of them to become Robin. As Jason laid in wait for his former brother in arms, he would be ambushed by Dick. Red Hood and Nightwing engaged in a rematch, while Crane attempted to use this as a chance to escape, only to be quickly subdued by the safehouse's invisible forcefield. In search of the escaped Crane, helicopters from the G.C.P.D. arrived and opened fire on Red Hood at Barbara Gordon's command, only to instead mistakenly shoot at Dick. With Nightwing wounded, this provided Red Hood and Crane with the perfect chance to disable the forcefield and escape.
Scarecrow's Plan[]
Now reunited with his mentor, Jason demanded to know the full plan from Crane and insisted that their operation was in jeopardy now that Dick knew everything. Crane gave him another dose of the anti-fear drug, and assured Jason that the plan was simple: to immerse Gotham in chaos and then make themselves the solution, leaving the city indebted to them.
Crane and Jason would make the Snowy Cones Ice Cream Factory, a former hideout of Mr. Freeze, into their hideout, using it to produce large quantities of the anti-fear drug. Growing impatient, Jason insists that he and Crane tie up loose ends and go after Nightwing directly, but Crane takes him to the Thomas and Martha Wayne Memorial Hospital to witness a team of doctors being murdered by the assassin Lady Vic. Crane reveals that he had hired her to steal a medical device that can mass-produce and multiply chemicals, and that if Jason is unhappy with his role in the larger plan, he can easily be removed and replaced altogether. However, this fear tactic proved less than effective, as Jason would later give out the anti-fear drug to gangs on the streets, in direct defiance of Crane's orders. This resulted in mass chaos even by Gotham standards, and left the city's crime bosses with second thoughts about their deal with Red Hood. When Jason returned to Crane for another dose of the drug himself, he would discover all too late that Crane had laced his inhaler with knockout gas, as punishment for his disobedience. Jason awoke to find himself tied to a chair, where he would remain until the Titans arrived at Snowy Cones to thwart production of the drug. With no choice but to flee, Crane released Jason and the two of them escaped with a single vat of the anti-fear drug.
Sobering up from a lack of the drug, Jason confronted Crane and finally denounced the absurdity of his plans, mocking Scarecrow's current scheme to drill through the floor of an old pumping station to poison Gotham's entire water supply with the anti-fear drug. Jason would leave Crane and plead for amends with Dick and the Titans, but unknown to him and Dick, Crane had secretly overheard their conversation.
To be continued.
Personality[]
| “ | Dove: You're an a**hole, Jason. Jason: Yeah, well, we all get there eventually. |
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| ~ Dove and Jason. |
Jason is a young man who has a lot of duality to him. Jason has a lot of unresolved anger due to his upbringing and years of familial neglect, therefore, he can be violent and impulsive. He takes amusement in provoking fights and, as shown when fighting cops, has an unrelenting technique to his fighting style. He has a short temper and can sometimes insult people whenever he feels offended or belittled. He does not like being bossed around or told what is best for him, especially if he feels strongly opposed to it. As seen with his interactions with Dick, he is either willing to rebel or disobey orders and do as he sees fit.
Jason has expressed on more than one occasion how much he looked up to Robin as a child. Although he has a lot of respect for his role as Robin, he has some skewed beliefs about the responsibility and sacrifice that comes with it. For instance, Jason loves being Robin, thinking of it as the best job in the world, and believes that Robin has to be a distraction for Batman's enemies. However, he also has the questionable notion that being Robin means he can do whatever he wants, even if it means assaulting people he has issues with.
He can show a playful side, being charismatic and flirtatious. He has flirted before, notably with Dawn. However, he gets a kick out of openly doing it in front of other women's significant others. Overall, he is a thrill-seeker and often has questionable motives when appearing to show a different side to him.
Despite that, he truly feels a responsibility for keeping people safe against enemies who he believes may harm and endanger the public, including his allies. There are times where his pride can get the best of him and get him into trouble. Unfortunately, because of this trait, he once went against orders, allowing himself to become abducted and experience a near-death experience that ultimately traumatized him. After this experience, despite his arrogant behavior, he has revealed to have his limits. He has gotten emotional over numerous false accusations and even contemplated suicide.
After becoming Red Hood, Jason's anger and reckless behavior were taken to their upmost murderous extremes. He became more brutal, sadistic, manipulative, and spiteful in his demeanor. He even went far as to involve civilians in his plans and applied to Hank's empathy in order to plant a bomb into him all for the sake of revenge against the Titans.
Abilities[]
- Peak physical condition: Due to his training with Batman, Jason Todd's body is at the pinnacle of the human condition. He has displayed peak human strength, speed, stamina, agility, and reflexes because of his extensive training. His conditioning allows him to recover from most injuries very quickly, though not superhuman.
- Master acrobat: Since becoming Robin, Jason has developed free-running skills and could drop from a height of several feet without injuring himself. His skills allow him to fluidly dodge and attack from different directions without losing balance.
- Honed senses: Jason has sharp hearing and sight, as well as keen skills of perception. He can pick up an incoming danger and react extremely quickly; for example, he was able to react instantly to Gar and Rachel's attacks during their training. He was also able to quickly dodge several of Arthur Light's blasts.
- Master combatant: Jason possesses impressive and prodigious fighting skills, as he was able to take down several armed soldiers and police officers on his own. His combat style is very brutal, by him using more extreme methods, compared to Bruce and Dick, to incapacitate enemies. His rage and sadism make him potentially more violent vigilante than Dick Grayson. Jason is also skilled enough to overcome Gar and Rachel during their workouts and was also able to subdue Arthur Light twice, choking him out with just his legs the second time. However, Jason was unable to handle far more experienced fighters such as Dick Grayson or even Slade Wilson. After becoming Red Hood, Jason was able to fight on near equal grounds with Dick Grayson as Nightwing. His fighting style seems to be comprised of Boxing, Muay Thai, Karate, Krav Maga, Jiujitsu, Kali, and Pro Wrestling.
- Master marksman: Jason has impressive marksmanship and has demonstrated this ability when he shot Dick point-blank in the head with a gun, albeit he did this in a fake reality. After becoming Red Hood, Jason's firearms skills were upped to near mastery of them. He could even uses his handguns in close quarters combat.
- Master knife wielder: Jason is highly skilled at using a knife in combat. This is seen during his first fight with Nightwing where kept him on the defensive back foot with a series of quick slashes and stabs.
- Expert swordsman: Jason is seen to have impressive swordsmanship. As he was able to nearly surpass Gar Logan with a wooden sword, he can combine his martial arts to improve his swordsmanship.
- Master tactician: Jason is a highly skilled planner. He was able to use gangsters to commit heists and bombings around Gotham and set up plans to frame the Titans as criminals by putting bomb on Hank Hall to blackmail them into robbing a van. He later manipulated Dove into activating Hank's bomb by disguising the detonator as a gun and trick her into killing him in order to save Hank.
- Skilled detective: Jason developed some skills as a detective under Bruce's wing, as he helped Gar locate Arthur Light by having him search for heat sensors in underground tunnels.
- Skilled chemist: Jason has some skill in chemistry when he reverse engineered Fear Gas to have the opposite effect.
- Stealth: Jason is skilled in stealth due to his training as Robin.
- Skilled driver: Jason has driving skills, as he has mentioned that he's capable of driving the Batmobile. He's also capable of riding a motorcycle.
Equipment[]
- Red Hood Suit: Jason wears a full body armor suit when operating as Red Hood. It came with a metallic red helmet with a voice modulator to disguise his voice and a belt to holster his weapons and contains most of his other gadgets. He also sometimes wears a hooded leather jacket.
- Twin WE Hi-Capa 5.2 K: Jason carries twin semi-auto handguns as his primary sidearms. They come equipped with tactical flashlight attachments with red neon strips. He most notably used it to headshot a gangster during a meeting and to ward off Nightwing to escape from their first fight. He later used them inclose quarters combat during his second fight with Nightwing.
- CSI STAR XR5: Jason sometimes carries this assault rifle as his primary firearm of choice which he used during both of his fights against Nightwing. It comes equipped with a scope and a tactical flashlight attachment.
- CZ Scorpion Evo 3 A1: Jason used this sub-machine gun to take out serval of the crime bosses's henchmen when setting them up with a meeting.
- Combat knife: Jason has a combat knife holstered on the left side of his belt which he uses as his main weapon in close quarters combat.
- Smoke grenades: As both Robin and Red Hood, Jason carries several smoke grenades to cover his ambushes and escapes.
- Flash-bang Device: Red hood threw and shot a flash bang like device to stun Nightwing during their second fight to gain the advantage.
- Grappling Device: As Robin and Red hood, Jason uses a grappling device to repels him across surfaces. He used a modified one to string a thug up while allowing him to descend from the catwalk.
Relationships[]
Family[]
Allies[]
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Enemies[]
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Quotes[]
| “ | Open it! (...) Open the bag! (...) The bag. All your number twos are in there. | „ |
| ~ Red Hood reveals himself to gangsters with the heads of their lieutenants |
| “ | Red Hood: What took you so long? Nightwing: Got here as soon as I could. Red Hood: Thought I was gonna have to hire a sky rider. Nice work on the chess crew though. Nightwing: Wasn't me. I have my team working on it. Looks like you had a team too. Red Hood: They were expendable. Just like the Titans! Nightwing: Who are you? Red Hood: The one who run when you let them down. Gotham... it's mine now. |
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| ~ Red Hood and Nightwing at the start of their first fight |
| “ | Oh come on, man, you know the tune. Outgunned and outmanned, just throw in the towel and I promise I'll be gentle. | „ |
| ~ Red Hood searching for a hiding Nightwing |
| “ | Bruce did always told me you were better than me with the toys. | „ |
| ~ Jason revealing his identity to Nightwing after his mask is damaged |
| “ | Good to see ya, Hank. | „ |
| ~ Red Hood before knocking hank Hall unconscious |
| “ | Dick Grayson: I could wire that right now and it would all be over. Jason Todd: And rob Gotham of a good show, circus boy? |
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| ~ Jason refusing negations with Dick over Hank's life. |
| “ | I'm sure Hank will be proud. | „ |
| ~ Jason to Dove after she hijacked a gold van to save Hank |
| “ | Jason: I've got the deactivator as promised, it engages as soon as my thumb releases the trigger. You wanna save Hank? (takes off helmet) all you have to do is kill me. Dove: What happened to you? Jason: Same thing that happens to everybody, I grew up. You can too, you just have to face your fear, Batman did it it's easier than you think. Just pull the trigger and you'll be free! Dove: You're an a**hole, Jason. Jason: Yeah, well, we all get there eventually. Oh, Hank's gonna blow soon. So whose it going to be, babe? Me or Hank? |
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| ~ Jason presents Dove with an ultimatum |
| “ | Who invited that guy? | „ |
| ~ Jason after Nightwing appears to stop Dove |
| “ | Nightwing: If you do this, he wins. You won't save Hank, he's lying. Jason Todd: Hey, Bat Boy, she's as grown a** woman, let her make her own decision! |
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| ~ Jason to Nightwing trying to stop Dove |
| “ | Oops! My bad. Looks like I gave you the detonator. | „ |
| ~ Jason reveals his trap to Dove |
| “ | Wow, classic moves. You're even fighting like Bats, huh? | „ |
| ~ Red Hood taunting Nightwing during their second fight |
| “ | Nightwing: You told Crane everything. Everything! This ends here. Red Hood: What did you think was going to happen? After what you did to me? After what you let happen?! Nightwing: This isn't on me, you made your own choices! Red Hood: But you made yours? Come, dude, you're just like the old man. A copy. Everything you do, everything you did is because of him. But not for long. |
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| ~ Red Hood and Nightwing during their battle. |
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