History WesternAnimation / BatmanUnderTheRedHood

* ColdBloodedTorture: The movie begins with the Joker beating Jason Todd bto near death with a crowbar.

** Talia al Ghul and Ubu.
** Commissioner Gordon too.

** Nightwing sometimes falls into this.

* CheerfulChild: Young Jason, in the flashbacks.

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: [[spoiler: Black Mask frees Joker from imprisonment so that he can kill Red Hood. Joker promptly tries to publicly burn him and all of his associates alive. But, to be fair to the Joker, his motivation for doing so (beside the fun of it) ''was'' to attract the Hood's attention. He's just not the type to think "don't kill the guy who hires you" is an unspoken rule.]]
** [[spoiler: Also, Ra's al Ghul hires the Joker to distract Batman and Robin (at that point, Jason Todd) because they were getting too close to succeeding in stopping Ra's al Ghul. The Joker proceeds to set a trap, kidnap Jason and kill him. Bad move, Ra's al Ghul.]]
* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler: What Jason went through at the hands of Joker.]]

** Names such as The Penguin, Harvey Dent and the Scarecrow are bandied about by [[spoiler: Jason]], and he also references "friends [Joker] has crippled". The Joker's quip about the camera could also be a veiled reference to the events of ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke''.
** [[spoiler: Also, when Batman has the flashback of him cornering the Red Hood, aka. the Joker before he went crazy, at the chemical plant, the Red Hood pleads that he's not a criminal and that he was forced into the job.]] This could indicate that Joker has the same backstory that he had in ''The Killing Joke''.

* CoolCar: Several incarnations of the Batmobile

* CrazyPrepared: It's a Batman adaptation, so this one is a given, but special mention must be made of Red Hood's helmet. It has a remote-detonated bomb in it. For all those times when he wants to remove his helmet and roll it toward his adversary. He also wears a mask under his helmet.

* CurbStompBattle: As soon as Batman disarms the Red Hood near the end, their fight quickly turns into this, with Batman knocking him all over the place. Even more awesome is when you realize that he could have done this at any point, but didn't because he wanted to actually [[spoiler: save Jason from himself.]]

* CyberNinja: the Fearsome Hand of Four are a team of heavily teched-out ninja.
* DarkerAndEdgier: [[WordOfGod The crew behind the film]] have stated that they hold the opinion this could be their darkest work yet, both compared to the Franchise/{{DCAU}} and the previous films in [[WesternAnimation/DCUniverseAnimatedOriginalMovies the line]]. They wouldn't be too far off. ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' and ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'' have since taken the title for themselves.

* DownerBeginning: It begins showing the particular incident where Joker brutally beats, then kills Jason Todd.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Jason Todd blows himself up in order to finally end the Joker. However, it does nothing. Joker still lives, Black Mask still controls all of Gotham's crime, and Batman ends the film still angsting over his failures with Jason.]]

* EvilVersusEvil: Red Hood vs Black Mask.

** Also, [[spoiler: when Jason is resurrected in the Lazarus Pit, he attacks Ra's men in an insane rage. One of whom has the unlucky distinction of having Jason gouging his eyes with his thumbs.]]
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: Jason in the prologue. He sees the timer, knows he can't escape, and his only reaction is a widening of the eyes, before resignation sinks in.]]

* FauxAffablyEvil: The Joker (who's comedic demeanor thinly disguises the fact that he's a utter psychopath) and Red Hood (snarky and somewhat personable, but this masks some ''serious'' issues, as well as an extremely angry, violent persona).
* TheFettered: Batman.
* {{Fingore}}: A batarang jammed in the chamber causes Red Hood's gun to backfire, resulting in a bloodied hand.
* FixFic: AdaptationDistillation above, but in this case (in regards to the ''Under The Hood'' parts) it's [[Creator/JuddWinick the original writer]] fixing his own story years after the fact.

* GoneHorriblyWrong: Said by Ra's Al Ghul himself to describe how [[spoiler: Jason Todd CameBackWrong after the resurrection ceremony.]]

* GroinAttack: In the flashback, kid Jason kicks The Riddler in the cojones. [[spoiler: Later, as an adult, he threatens the Joker with a gun]]:

* TheHeavy: Red Hood.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The entire theme of the film.

* JokerImmunity: Obviously, since the Joker is around. [[spoiler: Jason's FaceHeelTurn is mostly motivated by the fact that he's furious that Batman didn't avenge him by killing the Joker.]]
** The trope is given a serious LampshadeHanging from [[spoiler: Jason]].
-->'''[[spoiler: Jason]]''': [[spoiler: Bruce, I forgive you for not saving me.]] But why? Why on God's earth is [[JokerImmunity he still alive]]?!
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Averted. [[spoiler: Jason emphasizes that he's not talking about executing every supercriminal like Riddler or Scarecrow, but makes a very good point asking why Batman wouldn't make one exception to his ThouShaltNotKill rule for the mass-murdering Joker. However, Batman points out that killing the Joker would make it that much easier to kill other supercriminals who deserve it less, and based on Jason's methods he'd probably execute guys like Riddler or Scarecrow anyway.]]
* KilledOffScreen: [[spoiler: The two guards that helped Black Mask get Joker out of Arkham are revealed in a quick to miss news report that they were murdered in jail while awaiting trial for their involvement.]]

* LaserBlade: The female member of the Fearsome Hand of Four had [[DualWielding two of these]].
* LaserSight: Black Mask has the standard "What's that red dot on my chest... oh" moment when Red Hood attacks his base. Red Hood apparently fitted a laser sight solely in order to provide that moment, since he blatantly waits for Black Mask to notice the red dot before he fires, and the weapon the sight is attached to turns out to be a rocket launcher, which hardly requires pinpoint precision. Justified in that the Red Hood still needs Black Mask to live at that point.

** Red Hood. According to the movie, there had been many previous Red Hood villains, [[spoiler: like the Joker before his chemical accident.]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Ra's al Ghul does this twice in the movie and for different reasons each time.
* MyGreatestFailure: Batman believes Jason's death to be this. [[spoiler: It still is to him by the end of the film.]]
--> [[spoiler: '''Batman:''' This doesn't change anything. ''[quietly, to himself]'' It doesn't change anything at all.]]

** [[spoiler: The news didn't say that the Red Hood was found after the end of the battle... and Batman apparently didn't find him...]]
** A more straightforward example was earlier in the film when [[spoiler: Ra's says that they never found Jason's body after he jumped out the window]].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Batman is this, at least in his own eyes.

* NoIndoorVoice: Black Mask.

** Batman's look of shock when he processes the audio of Red Hood's taunt, and discovers that the last word was [[spoiler: "Bruce", indicating that Red Hood knows Batman's identity.]]
** Black Mask saying "Oh, hell," as his reaction to [[spoiler: seeing the Red Hood aim a rocket launcher at him.]]

** Later on in the final fight, Batman takes out a cigarette lighter and proceeds to turn it on. [[spoiler: Jason's]] eyes widen just before Batman drops the cigarette lighter, setting [[spoiler: Jason's]] jacket on fire.
** Jason Todd gives a sad example in the beginning of the film, where after [[spoiler: he crawls to the door of the room where he is being kept only to find it locked, he turns around to see a bomb ready to explode. Jason just gives an apathetic and defeated look that just says, "ThisIsGonnaSuck, [[FaceDeathWithDignity but I accept it]]."]]

* PoweredArmor: The Fearsome Hand of Four.

* PyrrhicVictory: Batman manages to stop the Red Hood[[spoiler:/Jason and save the Joker's life,]] but as the Joker points out, though Batman managed to find a way to win, everybody still loses.

* SaveTheVillain: Twice. First with [[spoiler:Black Mask and the drug dealers]] and then with [[spoiler:The Joker]]

* SexySecretary: Ms. Li.
* ShadowArchetype: Red Hood, to Batman.
* ShooOutTheClowns: Nightwing is injured and taken home before Bruce [[WhamLine discovers just what Red Hood said]] [[PlotBasedVoiceCancellation as the train passed]]. [[spoiler:In fact, Dick Grayson and Jason Todd never interact in at any moment of the movie]].

* SidekickGraduationsStick: Dick changing from Robin to Nightwing. Also, [[spoiler: one could say this for Jason too in a darker version.]]

** For the Red Hood, it was finding out [[spoiler: that Batman hadn't avenged his murder]].
** [[spoiler: And the reason he didn't was because Batman is afraid that killing the Joker would become this for him.]]
--->[[spoiler: '''Jason''': What? Your moral code just won't allow for that? "It's too hard to "cross that line?]]
--->[[spoiler: '''Batman''': No! ''God'' almighty!... No. It'd be too damned '''[[EvilIsEasy easy]]'''. All I've ''ever'' wanted to do is kill him. A day doesn't go by I don't think about [[PayEvilUntoEvil subjecting him to every horrendous torture he's dealt out to others]] and then... ''end'' him. [...] But if I do that, [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim if I allow myself to go down into that place]]... [[ItGetsEasier I'll never come back]]. ]]

* StealthPun: [[spoiler: Robin Hood.]]
* SummonBiggerFish: Black Mask's final gambit. He is painfully aware of the fact.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Batman to Red Hood.
* TakeAThirdOption: When the Red Hood confronts Batman with a SadisticChoice [[spoiler: between killing the Joker himself, letting Jason do it, or shooting Jason to stop him, Bruce manages to block up Jason's gun, causing it to explode in his hand. The Joker is the only one pleased by this]].

* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Attempted by both the Red Hood and the Joker, in the same scene. It doesn't work.]]

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: What Black Mask says when he plans to [[spoiler: hire the Joker]].

* ThouShaltNotKill: He's Batman. [[spoiler: Jason's entire BatmanGambit was about forcing him into a position where he would have to kill, but giving Batman a SadisticChoice never ends well.]]
* TimeBomb: All of the bombs make the compulsory beeping sounds during countdown, allowing the heroes to notice them before they go off. Also, during the endgame when [[spoiler: Jason is trying to blow up himself along with everyone else]], there is a 20-second countdown rather than an instant trigger to allow Batman to act. Because ''all'' bombs need a countdown.
** {{Justified|Trope}}; At this point in time, [[spoiler: Jason doesn't really want to ''kill'' Batman.]] Also possibly justified with the Joker (in the intro-flashback) because he's the ''Joker'' and would want people to know that they were going to die.
* TimeshiftedActor: Jason Todd is played by no less than 3 actors; [[spoiler: one as a kid, one as a teen, and one as an adult.]] The first one is Alex Martella, [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Vincent Martella's]] little brother, and ''he'' played Robin's teen incarnation! They got to work in the booth together!

* TragicVillain: [[spoiler:Jason Todd/Red Hood]].
* TranquilFury: It is very clear that Red Hood is pissed at Joker ([[spoiler:considering his real identity as Jason Todd, this is very justified]]) but keeps it limited to a clear focus, a calm, cold, methodical approach, and a crowbar to the face.

* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler: Jason Todd after first rising from the Lazarus pit.]] Several thugs bear the brunt of his wrath.

* [[VomitingCop Vomiting Drug Dealer]]: One mook's reaction to a duffel bag full of severed heads.

* WickedCultured: [[spoiler: Ra's al Ghul, who called off his guards when Batman broke into his lair, and invited him for a drink while telling him [[TheAtoner his side of the story.]]]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: Red Hood/Jason Todd.]]
* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Batman gives one (quoted under StartOfDarkness above) stating why he holds to his ThouShallNotKill principle, even when logic would dictate otherwise. [[spoiler: {{Subverted|Trope}} though, as this does not lead to him abandoning that principle even when the situation is at its most dire. In his own words, "Nothing's changed."]]

* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Joker was the only one [[spoiler: who was pleased with the outcome of Batman [[TakeAThirdOption Taking a Third Option]]]].

** The latter trope is likely the reason the more familiar James Gordon is police commissioner in the movie [[spoiler: when the Joker tried to set Black Mask and the drug dealers working with Red Hood on fire]] rather than Michael Akins, who was commissioner in the comics at the time.

* AntiVillain: Again, Red Hood. He is [[spoiler:ultimately revealed as a [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains Woobie Anti-Villain]]]].

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Jason Todd]] turns out to be Red Hood.
* BackToBackBadasses: Batman and Nightwing, and then later Batman and the Red Hood.

* BatmanGambit: Despite this being a Batman movie, it's the Red Hood who plays one. Everything the Hood did was to get [[spoiler: Black Mask desperate enough to release Joker, so the Hood could provide Batman with his SadisticChoice]].

* BatmanGrabsAGun: Deconstructed.

* BookEnds: The movie starts with Jason [[spoiler:on his last day]] as Robin and ends with [[spoiler: his first day]].
** Both the beginning and the climax (and not remotely by coincidence) involve Batman, Joker, [[spoiler: Jason, a crowbar, and a bomb]].

* BadassNormal: Batman, obviously, but also every other hero and villain to appear.

** Everything from ''ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily'' irrelevant to [[spoiler: Jason Todd's death]], like the Joker having DiplomaticImmunity, was understandably cut out.

** Everything from ''ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily'' irrelevant to [[spoiler: Jason Todd's death]] was understandably cut out.

The main plot details Batman's investigation into a new criminal who calls himself the Red Hood, who's been murdering the drug lords of Gotham City to force their gangs to work under his rules. This would be standard protocol for a superhero, but Batman's disturbed by how Red Hood always seems one step ahead of him, which only makes it more urgent to discover who he truly his behind his mask.

* RoleReprisal: In the French dub, several voice actors from previous adaptations reprised their roles here:
** From ''Film/Batman1989'' [[Film/BatmanReturns and]] [[Film/BatmanForever its]] [[Film/BatmanAndRobin sequels]]: Jacques Ciron as Alfred.
** From ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'': In addition to Alfred, Adrien Antoine as Batman/Bruce Wayne and Alexis Tomassian as Nightwing/Dick Grayson.
** From ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'': In addition to Batman and Nightwing, Xavier Fagnon as the Joker and Jean-Claude Donda as Ra’s Al Ghul.

* CrapsackWorld: Gotham City is the WrtechedHive it usually is, with a foul-tempered Black Mask controlling the city's crime and the Joker causing chaos. However, it's made worse than usual by the implication that Batman's crusade will never succeed and nothing will change.

* ThemeTuneCameo: What sounds an awful lot like the distinctive drum beat of "Molossus" from ''Film/TheDarkKnightSaga'' plays during the flashback where Batman and Robin pursue the Joker in Sarajevo.

--->[[spoiler: '''Batman''': No! ''God'' almighty!... No. It'd be too damned '''[[EvilIsEasy easy]]'''. All I've ''ever'' wanted to do is kill him. A day doesn't go by I don't think about subjecting him to every horrendous torture he's dealt out to others and then... ''end'' him. [...] But if I do that, [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim if I allow myself to go down into that place]]... [[ItGetsEasier I'll never come back]]. ]]

-->'''--Tagline'''

** From ''Film/{{Batman}}'' [[Film/BatmanReturns and]] [[Film/BatmanForever its]] [[Film/BatmanAndRobin sequels]]: Jacques Ciron as Alfred.

--->[[spoiler: '''Batman''': No! ''God'' almighty!... No. It'd be too damned '''[[EvilIsEasy easy]]'''. All I've ''ever'' wanted to do is kill him. A day doesn't go by I don't think about subjecting him to every horrendous torture he's dealt out to others and then... ''end'' him. [...] But if I do that, [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim if I allow myself to go down into that place]]... [[MoralEventHorizon I'll never come back]]. ]]

* AdaptedOut: Batman, Nightwing, Alfred, and Jason are the only members of the Bat-Family featured in the movie. As noted above, Gotham's then-police commissioner, Michael Akins is replaced with the more traditional James Gordon. Likewise, the removal of the ties to ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' also meant the removal of Deathstroke, Captain Nazi, Hyena, and (technically) [[spoiler: Superboy-Prime]].

* BigBadEnsemble: The Joker and Red Hood [[spoiler: A.K.A Jason Todd.]]

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Because, after all is said and done, ''nothing'' changed.]]

* TheHeavy: Red Hood.

* ShooOutTheClowns: Nightwing is injured and taken home before Bruce [[WhamLine discovers just what Red Hood said]][[PlotBasedVoiceCancellation as the train passed]]. [[spoiler:In fact, Dick Grayson and Jason Todd never interact in at any moment of the movie]].

* HappyFlashback: The movie ends with a flashback to when Jason first becomes Robin.

* CheerfulChild: Young Jason, in the flashbacks.

--->[[spoiler: '''Batman''': No! ''God'' almighty!... No. It'd be too damned '''easy'''. All I've ''ever'' wanted to do is kill him. A day doesn't go by I don't think about subjecting him to every horrendous torture he's dealt out to others and then... ''end'' him. [...] But if I do that, [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim if I allow myself to go down into that place]]... [[MoralEventHorizon I'll never come back]]. ]]

--> '''Joker:''' "So, what's the plan? Slumber Party? Charades? A little Truth or Dare? YES! I'll start with dare!"
--> [''Red Hood pulls out a crowbar'']
--> '''Joker:''' "Or maybe I'll just go with truth."

---> [[spoiler: '''Jason''': What? Your moral code just won't allow for that? "It's too hard to "cross that line?]]
---> [[spoiler: '''Batman''': No! ''God'' almighty!... No. It'd be too damned '''easy'''. All I've ''ever'' wanted to do is kill him. A day doesn't go by I don't think about subjecting him to every horrendous torture he's dealt out to others and then... ''end'' him. [...] But if I do that, [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim if I allow myself to go down into that place]]... [[MoralEventHorizon I'll never come back]]. ]]

** Riddler makes a nonspeaking appearance in flashback. [[CreatorCameo Bruce Timm is credited as his voice actor]], despite the sum total of his lines being [[TheVoiceless grunts as he's being pummeled]].

* ShaggyDogStory

* StealthHiBye: This time Batman makes one [[spoiler:to Ra's al Ghul]] after he relates [[spoiler:how he resurrected Jason Todd using the Lazarus Pit]]. Although this time it's not PlayedForLaughs but [[PlayedForDrama for Drama]].

* ShooOutTheClowns: Nightwing is injured and taken home before Bruce [[WhamLine discovers just what Red Hood said]]
[[PlotBasedVoiceCancellation as the train passed]]. [[spoiler:In fact, Dick Grayson and Jason Todd never interact in at any moment of the movie]].

* ShooOutTheClowns: Nightwing is injured and taken home before Bruce [[WhamLine discovers just what Red Hood said]] [[PlotBasedVoiceCancellation as the train passed]].

* StealthHiBye: This time Batman makes one [[spoiler:to Ra's al Ghul]] after he relates [[spoiler:how he resurrected Jason Todd thanks to the Lazarus Pit]]. Although this time it's not PlayedForLaughs but [[PlayedForDrama for Drama]].