And as the fans decided, Batman was too late, arriving to find Jason Todd beaten, burned, and dead.
His name was Jason Todd, and from the moment Batman caught him stealing the wheels off the Batmobile parked in Crime Alley, the pair’s fates were tragically intertwined.
And where the Batman family is concerned, it’s an opportunity to give supporting characters a brand new lease on life.
But it’s hard to make the argument that Jason Todd has ever truly stepped out of Batman’s shadow.