Batman arkham knight wiki jason todd

Fictional character in DC Comics

For other uses, see Jason Todd (disambiguation).

Comics character

Jason Peter Todd is a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

First appearing in Batman # in March ,^[3] he was created to succeed Dick Grayson as Robin, Batman's partner and sidekick.

Batman arkham knight wiki jason todd

He initially shared a similar origin to Grayson, being the son of circus acrobats who are killed by criminals in Gotham (Dick's were killed by a local mob boss who sabotaged their trapeze while Jason's parents were killed by Killer Croc) and adopted by Bruce Wayne, Batman's alter ego, as his son and protege.

Following the Crisis on Infinite Earths event and the rebooting of DC's main comics universe, Jason's origin was changed to being a pre-teen street urchin and petty thief who Bruce adopted and mentored after finding the boy attempting to steal the tires off of the Batmobile.

This origin has since become the standard for subsequent iteratio