"I NEVER HAD A CHANCE"

Jason Peter Todd was born onto the streets of Gotham City, as the son of Willis Todd and Sheila Haywood. To say that Jason had a tumultuous upbringing would be an understatement. His father going to prison and his mother overdosing didn't help matters either, and Jason learned to live off the streets of the city. He subsisted from stealing hubcaps and selling them for profits. Life wasn't good, far from it, but he was surviving and that was enough for most days. One night, Jason found himself stealing the hubcaps of the Batmobile... and was confronted by the Batman. Jason was expecting a fight. The last thing he expected was to be brought into the Batman's cave, and made a part of his family. He would learn that Batman was really Bruce Wayne, and Jason was adopted into this family. Shortly after that, he became the second boy to wear the colors of Robin. But despite a purpose and family, he was left discontent. He was angry at the world for how cruel it could be. He found a ray of hope when he learned that his mother was alive in Ethiopia, and journeyed alone to meet her.

He was betrayed by her, who took him to the Joker. Jason was brutalized by the Joker and beaten with a crowbar. The crescendo was a ticking time bomb. On April twenty-seventh, Jason Todd was murdered by the Joker. He was only fifteen.

Two years later, Jason would be dunked in the Lazarus Pit, and rise from the grave. He wasn't given much information from Talia Al Ghul, only the phrase "You remain unavenged." Jason would learn the truth, that Batman let the Joker live. Enraged, Jason dedicated himself to taking his teachings from Batman to the next level, to kill when he had only learned how to subdue. The revelation that Bruce had taken on a third Robin, one Timothy Drake, had only made matters worse, leading Jason to the conclusion that he was never a son of Bruce's, only a replaceable asset. After briefly helping Tommy Elliot and Edward Nygma with their plan to strike against Bruce Wayne, Jason decided he needed to act on his own, and fight both Batman and crime.

Jason fashioned a makeshift Batsuit, and began storming the Gotham City underworld as a new and lethal Batman. Through his actions and his garb, he would garner the attention of both the Caped Crusader and the Clown Prince of Crime. And his endgame for all three of them is yet to be fully realized...