WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Red Hood: Outlaw #40, by Scott Lobdell, David Messina, Rex Lokus and ALW's Troy Peteri, on sale now.

Jason Todd has had a tough time in Red Hood: Outlaw since losing Bizarro and Artemis to a mysterious dimension. He tried to become a crime boss after usurping Penguin. And after that tanked, he was hunted by Batman and his fellow vigilantes who thought he was connected to the mysterious villain behind Event Leviathan.

Now, Jason has found himself a new role thanks to Lex Luthor, who offered him the chance to mentor some powerful young heroes before they go astray as part of DC's Year of the Villain. However, this new direction pulls a page straight from the Titans live-action series, with Jason's journey feeling very similar to Brenton Thwaites' Dick Grayson.

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In Titans, Dick wants to distance himself from the Robin suit and even burns it in Season 1, but he tries to keep doing the right thing as a cop in Detroit. When Raven falls into his midst, he takes care of her, despite the looming presence of the Trigon cult. This leads to him partnering with Starfire and Beast Boy, and as Season 2 rolled on,  Jason Todd, Donna Troy, Hawk, Dove, Conner Kent/Superboy, Jericho and Rose all joined Dick's ad-hoc family as he restarted the group of crimefighters. Of those young heroes, he took in Jericho, Rose, Raven and Conner because he doesn't want them to be weaponized or mistreated by evil teachers. He didn't like how Bruce groomed him and honed his aggression, so now as Nightwing, he wants to temper the youths' penchant for violence and transform them into true superheroes.

In Red Hood, Jason's new job is eerily similar, since he takes on the Generation Outlaw project because he's fearful that Lex would let a villain like Cheetah or Sinestro train them. Jason wants to protect them, and he wants to ensure no one does to them what Batman did to him, much like Titans' Grayson. He says that he "doesn't want to see stupid teenagers die trying to prove they can act like grown-ups," a sentiment that is doubtlessly informed by his infamous death at the hands of the Joker. Jason even instills a no-kill policy and comes across as a mix of mentors like Batman and Professor Xavier. However, by taking on a mentor role at such a young age, Jason has essentially mirrored Grayson's role in Titans.

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By taking on this team, Jason is trying to correct mistakes of old and work through his own ghosts as these Doom Bringers of Tomorrow come off like his version of the Bat-Family and of course, the Titans.

Jason's young team includes an eclectic mix of young heroes including the elemental Cloud 9, Devour (who eats metal to turn his body into metal weapons), D.N.A. (whose body can turn into anything they touch), Babe In Arms (a genius kid with a zombie mom) and Doomed (a S.T.A.R. Labs intern infected with Doomsday spores).

With Shay Veritas helping Jason in the Block, a special lab at the center of the Earth, the ex-Robin has his work cut out. Shay's clones have gone haywire, they've just discovered some S.T.A.R. Labs scientists who are now grotesque mutants. As if that wasn't enough, Artemis and Bizarro (his former Outlaws) are back from their trip across space and time, and they're not very happy.

Jason will have a lot to juggle as he connects with his old friends and tries to play den-father to the newbies. Dick's old crew turned on him in Titans for Jericho's death but they eventually reconciled. Since Red Hood's former allies don't seem to think he's mentor material at all, Jason will have to prove that he's worth following to two generations of heroes.

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