Top Five Dead or Alive: Red Hood (DC Animated Universe)

Look fam, everyone got their rituals, nah mean? Some folks like to eat a particular meal every first of the month. Some folks rearrange their furniture? Me? I watch Batman: Under the Red Hood. Aye. Month. I be scoping all these DCU animated films and for the most part, I can dig something out of all of them, but they all be fighting for second place, yo. Red Hood is the muthafuckin’ John Boyega over the couch reaction to all Batman animated films. Please believe, this shit go prison yard hard through every phase. And I know folks love Phantasm and Return of the Joker for good reasons, but you know what those movies ain’t got? Jason. Muthafuckin. I boosted the wheels. On the Batmobile. When I was barely double digits. Todd. Which, no matter what flick you prefer, ain’t no debate. Red Hood as a character, through any DCU animated film is Top 5 Dead or Alive.

“Fuck the whole industry! You tried to get rid of me! Y’all must be kiddin me!!” Man, you can call this shit tradition at this point. If you run with Batman and rock the Red. Stop. Yellow. Stop. Green. Stop. Then you know you gonna have to get dead and get brought back at some point. But Jason Todd was the original, fam. And the way that shit starts? With Jason getting blown da fuck up after getting the cape beat off him with a crowbar? Sheeeeeeiiit. Not everybody get an honorable death like that. Well, all the Robins kind of do, but still. Also, the movie improved upon the source cuz the comic book version was ehhhh. Som…