[British and American] Jason Wayne's Struggle

For superheroes, resurrection is a drama that happens from time to time. For example, Superman and Doomsday once died together, but later it turned out that Superman was just faking his death and he was resurrected.

Green Arrow and Green Lantern have both experienced death and resurrection, and there is also a man named Rai Xiao.ao.Gu who soaks in the Lazarus Pool in the Middle East. What's more, magic still exists in this world.

But no matter what kind of resurrection it is, there will be a corresponding price, and a perfect resurrection never exists.

From the moment he saw the broken coffin in the Batcave, Dick felt joy and conflict. Joy because Jason was back, and struggle because Jason was driven crazy by the Lazarus Pool and he crossed that line.

Four years after the Ethiopian incident, when everyone accepted Jason Todd's death and got their lives back on track, Jason returned.

Tim left the Teen Titans, asked Superboy to take a flight back to Gotham, and asked the Oracle Barbara to retrieve the information, including what Jason did after returning to Gotham, and what happened between him and Bruce.

Barbara had a complicated expression. "I have the video of them fighting on the high-rise building. Jason has grown a lot taller and his skills have improved a lot. I don't know what happened to him, Bruce, and the Joker in that building later. But he is still alive. He should be hiding somewhere to recover from his injuries."

Dick had one of his legs broken by Jason's explosion. He probably understood that Jason didn't want to see him, but he still rushed there immediately after the incident and dug through the rubble like crazy. The moment he confirmed that Jason's body was not there, he visibly breathed a sigh of relief.

Tim thought about the man who had disguised himself as Clayface and knocked him out in the Gotham cemetery.

He touched the back of his neck. "Jason doesn't want to see us. He didn't even say hello to us."

"It's obvious that since he came back, he has only interacted with Bruce. He hasn't even met the others, not even Alfu."

Barbara leaned back on the back of her wheelchair and took a deep breath. "He came back through the Lazarus Pool, Tim. I want to remind you that no matter how much you worshipped him before, he has already attacked you and killed people. When you met him..."

Tim interrupted her: "Don't take it lightly. Keep the necessary vigilance. I know, but he is still Jason, Barbara. He is Jason. He is still a part of this family. We can't exclude him."

"I don't!"

Barbara shouted angrily: "How can I reject him now?"

But your vigilance started when he was still Robin, before he had ever taken a dip in the Lazarus Pool. He did not die fighting for justice, so he was not included in the statue of the Teen Titans' victims. He often walked alone on campus, and the only person he could ask to buy drinks with him was me, an elementary school student.

He was already very lonely at that time, and it didn't change even after he started dating.

Of course Tim knew that Jason had a lover, but at that time Tim didn't know who Jason's lover was, and he didn't see that person at Jason's funeral. He thought he was a coward.

When Tim became Robin, he found out that person was Dick.

After a long while, Tim asked abruptly: "Have you seen "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"? I'm not talking about the movie or the musical, but the figure skating show."

Barbara was silent for a while.

"I've seen it."

The despair in that show was so intense that it almost overflowed. Its infectiousness was also the peak of Jason's career, and it created a world record for him that no one has broken to this day.

Anyone who has watched the show would have no doubt as to why Jason traveled to the Middle East to search for the biological mother he had never met.

Barbara's expression was surprisingly calm. "I was prejudiced against him because he came from Crime Alley. I subconsciously distrusted his character and judged everything he did from a high position. I didn't say it, but I knew he felt my attitude. He didn't dare to approach me. He was polite but distant to me. All of us were the driving force behind his despair."

Tim was stunned: "Barbara..."

"But later I regretted it. I imagined countless times that if he were still alive, I would say sorry to him, start over with him, and be friends with him, but damn, I'm Oracle! I have to be responsible for this code name! Do you think I'm willing to remind you to be wary of the person you once admired? He was hurt so badly by the Joker just like me! The difference between him and me is that he has the courage to take revenge, but I don't dare. I can't defeat the fear of becoming a criminal and can't cross that line. I'm afraid of standing on the opposite side of Batman and my father!"

As a bat-like superhero, Barbara also has a dark side in her heart. This is the inevitable result of their fight against the darkness of Gotham. The abyss will always stare into their souls.

Barbara choked up and said with tears in her eyes: "From what I have investigated, there are 59 people who died at the hands of the Red Hood."

Late at night, Dick crouched next to Jason's favorite gargoyle, looking through the intelligence on the Gotham underworld after the Red Hood disappeared on his phone.

Black Mask was arrested on suspicion of helping the Joker escape from Arkham, but was released after paying a million dollar bail. The two guards who were suspected of helping the Joker escape have been murdered.

This is Gotham.

Dick stood up and said softly, "Welcome back to Gotham. Bruce said you were crazy, but I can see that he hasn't given up on you yet, and neither will I."

Then he leaped and disappeared into the night of Gotham.

In the Batcave, Alfred asked Batman if he wanted to remove the second Robin's blood-stained uniform, but Batman refused and drove away in the Batmobile.

Ah Fu stood in the wide, dark cave, looked around, and sighed deeply.

He had recently been thinking about the boy's excitement during his first night patrol, when Master Jason was still a child.

And the phrase "This is the Best Day of my life."

Who would have thought that now, everything has changed.

In the Middle East, Damian learned that the Joker was still alive and well.

He sneered: "Seeing him leave so resolutely, I thought he was so powerful, but he still failed. He is really useless. If I were him, the clown would have turned to ashes long ago."

Cassandra had just finished a training session and was sweating all over. She was squatting in the shade holding Mr. Freeze's head to cool off.

She said in disapproval, "Jay is not useless."

Mr. Freeze agreed, "He's very powerful, but Batman is just stronger."

"Batman is strong?"

Damian's interest was piqued. He squatted there and began to ask Mr. Freeze in detail about Batman's deeds. The education he received from the Aug family made him a man who longed to become a strong man and admired the strong at the same time.

From the beginning to the end, Damian firmly hated his instinct to get closer to Jason Todd, so he told himself that his attention to Jason was because of Jason's strength, and Batman, who was stronger than Jason, deserved more of his attention.

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Until a long time later, Strange still remembered Jason's dark history, and after Jason was released, he would bring it up from time to time to taunt Jason, and then be chased by Jason with a gun.

But when Strange first saw the scene that Jason considered to be a dark history, he was a little panicked.

When Strange asked about the cause of the wound, the young boy who looked less than 20 years old actually cried, with a particularly aggrieved look. His green eyes were filled with tears, and his tears fell on the writing paper with a plop, blurring the handwriting.

Strange didn't even have time to hand over a tissue, and quickly warned him, "Don't make any sound, you just had surgery on your vocal cords!"

Jason was actually just out of control for a moment. After all, he had just been hit by a dart from Bruce, and was blown up by a bomb, and buried alive in the rubble, and Batman saved the Joker but not him.

Then he learned that a group of unfamiliar doctors had performed emergency surgery on him, given him blood transfusions, and raised money for him to stay in the ICU when he was in the most difficult time three years ago, without asking for anything in return.

Comparing the two, who wouldn't feel sad and angry?

But to be honest, he only shed tears for less than 10 seconds before he immediately tore off two tissues to wipe his face, blew his nose, and brought his out-of-control emotions under control.

He wrote on the paper: "What hurt me was the psychopath in Gotham, the kind that has been diagnosed by the doctor."

Just one line of words made Dr. Strange's expression become very helpless. He muttered: "Gotham? Was the one who did it a psychopath? Then your injury was in vain."

The characteristics of Gotham include powerful industry and prosperous economy, endless psychopaths, and the super mysterious vigilante Bat. Finally, the psychopaths there will always be locked up in Arkham, which is known as a place where only the criminal elite in the United States can enter after committing crimes.

When the Internet was evaluating the "strongest super villain of the year", Gotham villains have occupied at least half of the top ten spots for 10 consecutive years. Only big bosses like Magneto and Doctor Doom could compete with them for the ranking.

The amazing thing about the United States is that each state has different laws. Some states have the death penalty, some do not. Some states allow same-sex marriage, some do not. And some states have super weird laws.

Some states do not allow "fishing on a camel", some states do not allow "selling cars on Sundays", some states do not allow "catching fish with bare hands", and some states do not allow "kissing on a train".

As well as Maine's "you are not allowed to leave the plane while it's flying", Connecticut's "bicycle speed must not exceed 65 kilometers per hour", Texas' "if you want to change the weather, you need to notify the local newspaper first", and New York's "it is illegal for two or more people to gather together and wear masks or other items that cover facial features."

Some people suspect that this is a law enacted against superheroes and mutants. Last year, a Green Lantern fan posted a photo on Twitter holding cardboards in protest, saying that this was discrimination against the superhero community. Later, the photo was forwarded as many as 10 times.

In short, according to the local judicial characteristics of Gotham City, such as there is no death penalty and mentally ill people can be exempted from medical treatment for their crimes, if you are injured by a mentally ill person in Gotham City, don't even think about asking the mentally ill person for compensation or making the mentally ill person pay the price. It would be good enough if you can save your life.

Strange even understood why Jason's teacher sent Jason to New York to recuperate.

Nonsense, you messed with a psychopath in Gotham, and you still want to stay in Gotham? Smart people know to run away quickly and recover in a safe place.

Unexpectedly, after listening to Strange's complaints about Gotham, Jason actually looked very angry. He wrote a big line in his notebook: "My injury is the fault of a psychopath, and has nothing to do with the city of Gotham itself!"

Strange nodded in understanding. "Oh, typical local characteristics, you know? The one who sutured your wounds this time was the same Dr. Legins. He's from Texas, and he also can't stand others saying bad things about Texas, but he himself often curses Texas. You all come from places where the people are tough. By the way, he said he'll give you a box of Texas strawberries when you're discharged from the hospital."

Jason: "..."

Sometimes Jason is also very curious about how outsiders view the people of Gotham.

He lowered his head in disappointment. Strange patted his shoulder and said, "Okay, your teacher will come to see you later. Take good care of your injuries. A nurse named Sharon will come to give you an IV later. Remember to smile at her. She is a figure skating fan and said that you look a lot like her idol when she was in college."

Jason curled his lips, not really worried about being recognized.

He has changed a lot, from just over 50 meters to 75 meters, from a boy weighing less than kg to an adult male weighing more than kg. If he had to walk slowly on the streets of Gotham to avoid being caught by Oracle, now that he has taken off his cowl in front of Batman, everyone who should know who he is would know.