10 Things Everyone Always Gets Wrong About Robin

Jason Todd really got the short end of the stick as a Robin. Dick Grayson had outgrown Batman, in both age and relevance due to him needing to go off to college. Replacing a popular character is hard enough but Jason Todd was hamstrung from the beginning.

In his first appearance, in 1983's Batman #357, Jason Todd was a circus acrobat who's parents were killed by a crime boss (this time Killer Croc) and Bruce Wayne adopted him. He was also a red-head who started dying his hair after he finds an old Robin outfit in Dick's old room. Jason Todd was designed to be just a minimally altered version of Dick Grayson to keep the dynamic that worked, before, and fans saw right through it right from the start.

Luckily, Jason did get a new origin story with Crisis on Infinite Earths, where he was almost the polar opposite of Dick Grayson. Now he was a street hood who tried to steel the wheels off the Batmobile and was taken in by Bruce to stop him from becoming a criminal. Some origins are just better after being rebooted.