10 Worst Things Robin Has Ever Done

5. Jason Todd Beats Up Tim Drake (For No Good Reason)

Damian Kills NoBody
DC Comics

The one redeeming quality about the vast majority of the terrible actions and decisions of the various Robins over the years is that they at least generally have justifications for them - be it beating down a villain who had done something terrible, or doing something they thought was the right thing that later turned out not to be.

Jason Todd's no holds barred brutalisation of the younger Robin, Tim Drake, however, is precisely none of these things. Todd has no reason to hurt Tim aside from his own rage over feeling forgotten by the people who were close to him - and even then, the person he should be fighting over that isn't his replacement, but his mentor, meaning Drake is in every sense undeserving of the ordeal Jason puts him through.

While Jason has done a whole lot of pretty bad stuff in his history, the vast majority have been done because Todd thought they needed to be done. Not only did beating Tim Drake up unquestionably not need to be done, but it also definitely made the pair working together later on way more awkward than it needed to be.

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