Line #16 NightmareFuel/BatmanUnderTheRedHood


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:[[CameBackWrong "He returned to this world, but returned...damaged."]]]]
3	Batman Under The Red Hood has incredibly dark moments, that questions how it even earned a PG-13 rating.
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7	* The fact that Jason managed to get an OhCrap reaction out of The Joker. ''[[TheDreaded The]]'' '''''[[MonsterClown JOKER]].'''''
8	* Joker's absolutely brutal beatdown of Jason Todd in the opening scene. Jason’s got a collapsed lung, barefoot, outfit torn, spitting up blood. Even if Batman DID arrive before the explosion, Jason likely would have aspirated on his own blood.
9	* Red Hood's commandeering of several gangs and drug dealing operations by arranging a meeting. One of the more skeptical dealers asks why they should work for the Hood. Cue [[DecapitationPresentation duffel bag]].
10	-->'''Red Hood:''' [[BadassBoast Those are the heads of all your lieutenants. That took me two hours. You wanna see what I can get done in a whole evening?]]
11	* [[WhatMeasureIsAMook The Joker's almost casually brutal slaughter of four of Black Mask's gunmen]], starting with just these words: "May I have some water?" Apparently just slashing their throats wasn’t enough.
12	* Jason Todd's resurrection scene and his sequential freak-out. After they drop him into the Lazurus Pit, he bursts out of the water screaming like a madman, with a crazed look in his eyes. He kicks the crap out of Ra's Al Ghul's men, taking out one by jamming his thumbs right into the poor sucker's eye sockets. He then escapes by jumping out the window. His actions from this entire scene are borderline... '''''animalistic'''''. Though resurrection via a Lazarus Pit renders the one resurrected momentarily insane, even ''Ra's Al Ghul'' was afraid. What makes it more terrifying is Vincent Martella's performance. Just imagine [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Phineas Flynn]] screaming like he's in horrible agony.
13	** Even worse, he exits the flashback by jumping through a window [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat screaming as he falls down a ravine.]] It's never answered ''how'' he survived this, to the point that Ra's himself believed Jason to be dead because of the implausibility of doing so wrapped in nothing but bandages. Whether by sheer stupid luck or his training under Batman, Jason Todd was forced through cheating death once and then ignored all logic to do it immediately right after all on his own.
14	* Black Mask's [[SkullForAHead face]], though not [[LargeHam his character]].
15	* Red Hood shooting a Molotov cocktail that a mook was holding, setting him on fire (a sight that the audience is [[GoryDiscretionShot mercifully spared]]).
16	* The {{Flashback}} where Jason as Robin was fighting alongside Batman -- and, in the panic of the moment when a thug gets a gun aimed on him, stops holding back his punches and strikes the man so hard that it shattered his collarbone in a single impact, making him useless for info due to sending him into shock. This is from a ''teenager'', and Batman does later acknowledge that Jason was just flat out powerful for his age. It highlights that virtually every fight Batman and his family undertakes is one misstep away from permanently hospitalizing every single person they ever fight, and that every counter and takedown is a calculated process to avoid this problem.
17	* The Joker hijacking Jason's TakingYouWithMe gambit just so he'll get to die with Batman, proving that the Clown Prince of Crime is indeed a legitimate self-destructive lunatic.
18	* Nightwing and Batman's take-down of Amazo, which involves [[EarAche burying bladed batarangs in his ears]] and [[EyeScream affixing C-4 to his eyes before detonating it]]. Imagine them doing that to an actual human being...
19	* One of the kills the Red Hood does: he stabs a criminal ''in the eye'' with a tazer and then turns it on full-force, short-circuiting his cybernetic eyes and blowing up his ''brain''. While in the movie, it's done to one of the {{Canon Foreigner}} group, the Fearsome Hand of Four; in the comic, it's done to [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] baddie Captain Nazi.
20	* From Batman's perspective, a mysterious masked man with the training and equipment to keep up with both Nightwing and ''Batman himself'' is already a worrying prospect... And then he manages to find out what said figure said before escaping: "[[WhamLine You haven't lost your touch, Bruce.]]"
21	* When the de-hooded Jason thinks he's got the upper hand and tries everything he's got to kill Batman, the latter decides to take off the kid gloves. What results is a CurbstompBattle as he slams Jason through a wall, a sink, a toilet, you name it, utterly demolishing an entire room with Jason's body and face without even taking a hit the entire time. If he wanted to kill a person, there's nothing stopping him from brutalizing you hit by hit.
22	* Batman says to Jason that, "All I've ever wanted to do is kill him [Joker]". While we don't see Batman kill Joker in this film, you can read about what happens if Batman does kill the Joker, since in an alternate universe he goes insane (with the aid of Joker Venom) and becomes [[ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal The Batman Who Laughs]].

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