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* Why does Red Hood wear a helmet when all of the other Robins, even post graduation, have either stuck to masks or cowls? Jason was beaten mercilessly with a crowbar, and he probably doesn't want to relive the trauma that comes with a cracked skull and being beaten black and blue.
* You'd think that after Jason Todd's resurrection and being brought back into the fold of the Bat Family, he'd pick a new name that isn't tied to costumed supervillainy, right? After all, to the outside world, the Red Hood Gang is a bunch of organized criminals, while to the Bat Family the name Red Hood calls to mind a [[Comicbook/TheJoker certain murderous clown]]. But when you take into account his previous moniker, Robin, it takes on a new meaning as a hood - a mask that birdkeepers put over dangerous birds of prey. Just like Dick and Tim before him, Jason has stepped out of his Robin persona into a new bird-themed one, and one that emphasizes his dangerous nature.
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* The late-[[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]]/early-[[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Dark Age]] villain Scarface always refers to Batman as "Gatman," and similarly pronounces all his B's as G's. It seems like just a strange verbal tic, until you stop to consider that Scarface is just a puppet controlled by The Ventriloquist, and the labial "B" sound is one of the hardest for ventriloquists to produce: he created Scarface's "speech impediment" as a way to work around the fact that he's really not that good.

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* The late-[[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks late-[[MediaNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]]/early-[[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Age]]/early-[[MediaNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Dark Age]] villain Scarface always refers to Batman as "Gatman," and similarly pronounces all his B's as G's. It seems like just a strange verbal tic, until you stop to consider that Scarface is just a puppet controlled by The Ventriloquist, and the labial "B" sound is one of the hardest for ventriloquists to produce: he created Scarface's "speech impediment" as a way to work around the fact that he's really not that good.
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\n* People make a lot of jokes about Batman grooming his Robins to be child soldiers, but consider: Bruce's understanding of healthy father figures ends with a shellshocked eight-year-old's worldview. Everything after that, Bruce was being mentored by shady figure after shady figure before he returned to the caring parentage of Alfred. Bruce was the original child soldier, and he volunteered for it.

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