* AscendedFanon: Arsenal calls Red Hood by his FanNickname "Jaybird." Red Hood is not pleased.
* ExecutiveVeto: The first issue was going to feature Starfire in a semi-transparent bikini, but the editorial response was essentially a very blunt "No."
* ThrowItIn: Issue #13 of the Rebirth series features some scenes in Bizarro's mind, and one of the panel descriptions called for Krypto to be "panting off to one side." However, artist Dexter Soy misread "panting" as "painting" and drew just that. Since the result was both comical and fit with the cartoony style of Bizarro's memories, it was kept.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Lobdell considered Gorilla Grodd and a few other unnamed [[http://www.gamespot.com/articles/former-robin-teams-up-with-bizarro-and-an-amazon/1100-6442470/ "handful of characters"]] before being offered Blackfire and Steel. But then Creator/GeoffJohns himself sat Lobdell down and suggested Artemis and Bizarro, characters Lobdell had initially believed were out of reach.
** Pete Woods went through ''many'' different ideas when designing Jason's appearance for the ''Outlaw'' era. Among them we have:
*** [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/b57059d72c1865d84185871c22dd6109/tumblr_pyei11fiRg1vj370fo2_1280.jpg A design that had Jason wearing Roy's bloodied tunic.]]
*** [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/6b1f149767e2c28e41b557f9c3c7150d/tumblr_pyei11fiRg1vj370fo1_1280.jpg Designs heavily reminiscent of his Arkham Knight iteration]]
*** ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed''[[https://66.media.tumblr.com/55aa44c8ffa10187368d1b298481f05a/tumblr_pyei11fiRg1vj370fo4_1280.jpg -esque designs]]
*** [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/cf1522b021f5c2d9efb2bff4b0a48a34/tumblr_pyei11fiRg1vj370fo3_1280.jpg Costumes that look like]] {{ComicBook/Deathstroke}} ripoffs.
*** For Jason's new emblem, he also went through many iterations, [[https://imgur.com/DvpQ7CA Arkham Knight inspired ones, skulls]][[https://imgur.com/r4y8Sy6 and a particularly memorable that merged Jason's red bat with a red arrow as a means to honor Roy.]]
* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: Scott Lobdell has [[https://www.newsarama.com/10181-lobdell-death-of-the-family-0-s-red-robin-decision.html admitted]] he doesn't like to plan stories too far ahead under the belief that since real life is unpredictable, his stories should be too.
-->'''Lobdell:''' ''I've said in other interviews that I'm not a writer that likes to plan ahead. Because, really, there isn't a lot of planning ahead in life either — and if we want our characters to feel life-like, we have to be prepared for the curves that life throws at them.''
** In another interview:
-->'''Scott Lobdell:''' ''I will say that, traditionally, in the past, readers of RHATO and Red Hood/Arsenal can notice where stories were set-up and set-up and set-up, only to have the conclusion of the story go careening off the tracks. I can say that there have been many times where I’ve started a story and someone from upstairs decreed that a particular plot thread had to be dropped, or a whole other plot thread needed to be added, or an entire story arc had to be gutted in the middle of the story. Those times have been very frustrating for me—but as a professional writer of some thirty years, I’ve always felt that part of the profession means that I need to turn in the story the editor/publisher wants and not always the story I want to write, or begin, or end.''