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Red Hood is an alias adopted by the Joker and Jason Todd (also known as Robin ). HISTORY The first Red Hood In the original continuity, the man later known as the Joker was a master criminal going by the name of the Red Hood (his costume consisted of a large domed red helmet and a red cape.) While attempting to rob a chemical plant, his men were dispatched and then he was suddenly surrounded on a catwalk by Batman and Robin. Left with no alternatives, he dove into a catch basin for the chemicals and swam to freedom, surviving because of a special breathing aparatus built into the helmet. The toxins in the vat permanently and grotesquely Disfigured him, however, turning his hair green, his skin white and his lips red. Upon discovering this, he went Insane and became the Joker. In '''', Alan Moore wrote an alternate possible origin of the Joker, and thus the Red Hood; the Joker is a former chemical technician, now a struggling stand-up comedian with a pregnant wife. Approached by the Red Hood gang to lead a raid of his former workplace, the Ace Chemical plant, he accepts, in order to make enough money to start a better life for his family. The gang gives him the costume of the Red Hood, which has been worn by many men like the Joker before - this way, the gang are able to falsely identify the Red Hood as their leader on all the crimes the perform, with the police unaware that a different dupe is behind the hood every time. The day of the proposed robbery, however, police inform him that his wife died in a freak accident. He attempts to back out of the robbery ("There's no point now") but the gang tell him if he backs out now, they will kill him. During the robbery, the plant's security men spot the intruders and shoot the other criminals dead. The Joker tries to flee, but Batman appears and corners him on the plant's catwalk. Terrified, he believes Batman to be a Demon sent from Hell to punish him and leaps off the catwalk into the chemical basin to escape. From there on, this origin is largely identical to the original. An interesting retroactive continuity change appears between the ''Batman'' #450-451 story line ''The Return of the Joker'' and the recent graphic novel one-shot '''' episode ''The Laughing Fish''). In this story, Batman is in possession of the Red Hood costume, presumably having discovered it on the banks where the Joker washed up after his swim in the chemical basin. Presumably, this difference is due to ''The Killing Joke'' origin having appeared after ''The Return of the Joker''. ''The Man Who Laughs'', however, remains ambiguous, able to be applied to either Joker origin. The second Red Hood See Also: Jason Todd In the ''Batman: Under the Hood'' storyline, Jason Todd, the former Robin killed by the Joker in ''A Death in the Family'', returns using the moniker of the Red Hood. He beats the Joker with a crowbar (mirroring the way the Joker had beaten Jason with a crowbar before killing him with a bomb) and then kidnaps him. The new Red Hood assumes control over various gangs in Gotham City and starts a one man's war against Black Mask 's criminal sectors. He actively tries to cleanse the city of corruption (such as Drug Dealing and Gang Violence ), but in an Anti-heroic way, coming to blows against Batman and several of his allies, including Robin and Onyx . |
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