10 Human Comic Book Anti Heroes You Don't Want To Mess With... Ever!
4. Red Hood
DC Comics
The decision to bring Jason Todd back from the dead in 2005's Under the Hood was... divisive, to say the very least. Todd's demise at the hands of the Joker during A Death in the Family was such an infamous - albeit iconic - moment in Batman's history, and his status as one of the few comic book characters who didn't actually get a resurrection defied one of the medium's most frustrating tropes.
That being said, Todd isn't exactly short of admirers. After a rocky reemergence into mainstream continuity where his personality amounted to little else other than 'DC's Punisher', Jason has managed to reintegrate himself back into the Bat-family's good graces, even adorning his outfit with a bat-symbol of his own (although his use of firearms manages to invoke the ire of the Caped Crusader frequently).
Either way, while Todd has since managed to dial down the most brutal elements of his crimefighting, he's still the last member of the Bat-Family you'd ever want to cross. Perfectly trained in mixed martial arts, firearms and a litany of various handheld weapons, Jason is one of Gotham's - and the DC Universe's - most lethal outlaws.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
