The Conundrum Of Jason Todd's Autopsy Scar

The Conundrum of Jason Todd's Autopsy Scar

Ok, so, recently I've been doing research on the different versions of Jason Todd and his life, death, and afterlife for reasons, and I stumbled across the discontinuity that is Jason's autopsy scar.

This post by pluckyredhead and this post by dailyjasontodd explain it pretty well, and when ruminating I realized that there is a perfect, literal explanation sitting in front of our faces.

Jason didn't have an "autopsy" if you mean someone performed postmortem surgery to try and find cause of death. That would have been impossible, since he most likely had a quick and quiet burial to hide his forensic ties to the Robin life.

No, what Jason had was experimental surgery done by the League of Assassins. I'm not an expert, but I think part of the reason Ra's al Ghul had an interest was because Jason came back to life for seemingly no reason. (and if that's not true based on current continuity or whatever, it's my personal headcanon anyway so)

Ra's wanted to figure out what made Jason live again. Part of that process would most undoubtedly include exploratory surgery that mimicked an autopsy, but didn't include permanent harm because they couldn't study what made him live if he was dead, right?

The scar is mostly fanon except for that one Robin variant cover, and most of the cause is to make Jason have more angst over his death and/or to freak out the rest of the Batfamily. But how much more angst would they, specifically Dick and Bruce, have when they realized that wait, Jason didn't have an autopsy, why does he have a scar, and then they find out that he has that Y-shaped scar because a secret league of assassins tried to cut him apart and dissect him to figure out how he was alive?

I don't think they would take that very well, to be honest. Especially if they found out that it was when Jason was catatonic, so no, there was no consent or anesthesia either. (and imagine the nightmares that Jason would have, not just of crawling out of his own grave and the Lazarus pit, but of being dissected alive and being able to do nothing to stop it)

TL;DR Jason Todd has a Y-shaped scar because the League of Assassins tried to dissect him, not because he had an autopsy in Gotham.

More Posts from Predatoryseasnail and Others

1 year ago

Oh my gosh I love this! At least one of each Big Three would be out of their era, and I love the idea that the iceberg from the Titanic was a sea monster

Where's the daughter of Neptune, Rick?

Like, seriously, where is she?

All the Big Three have at least two kids, one Greek and one Roman, one male and one female.

Zeus has Thalia, his Greek kid who emulates his lightning, and Jupiter has Jason, his Roman son who channels the winds.

Hades has Nico, who is the stereotypical Greek son of the lord of the dead, and Pluto has Hazel, his Roman kid who reminds demigods that he is the god of riches too.

Poseidon has Percy, his great demigod son who is just like the sea.

Where is Neptune's daughter, the child of the Earthshaker, who makes the ground quake when she's mad? Where is the girl who has a greater affinity with horses than even Percy or Hazel, who wins any horse race she participates in? Where is the demigoddess who is so much more comfortable in a lake than in the sea, because Romans associated Neptune with freshwater more than the sea? The girl that the legionnaires always blame when a fresh drought comes in, who's shunned because Neptune's kids are considered dangerous to have around, who understands Nico di Angelo on a level that the Greeks don't get, because she's considered bad luck too? The girl that immediately volunteered to go with Jason Grace when he quested to kill the Trojan Sea Monster, because he didn't know the ocean like she did?

Where is she, Rick?

1 month ago

Jason Todd: Mob Boss?

So I was reading bucky x reader as one does, and I noticed that there's a lot of mob!Bucky AUs. Which don't get me wrong, I love the trope, but then I realized my DC favorite character, Jason Todd (no I don't have a type shut up), doesn't really have any Mob! AUs. But then I was thinking...isn't the Red Hood gang already kinda a mafia? I feel like at some point, his gang (I hc them the Merry Men of Gotham) transcends normal gang level. They control so much, have strict rules like not dealing to kids or hurting the working girls, and once you're in you are part of the family - as in have access to the view of your boss bickering with his lieutenant while holding a sleepy stabby Robin. I'm pretty sure that's basically the requirements of a mafia, so. Jason's not just a crime lord anymore. He's the head of the Gotham Mafia.

I wonder if there are any fics about the rest of the batfam realizing this...

TL;DR Unlike mob!Bucky, mob!Jason Todd is CANON.


Tags
1 year ago

That is such a great addition. "Stealing your own life from death before it can take it from you" holy baloney that's deep

The Origin of a Name

So we all know that Tom's nickname name translates to "flight of death" in French.

Which is ironic because he fancied himself immortal, having made his Horcruxes. And it was a nickname he received/made not long after Hogwarts, i.e. not long after he made his first Horcrux and believed himself immortal (He just didn't use it openly until a decade later).

So little Tom was doodling with his name, trying to make something that was in no way reminding of his Muggle heritage, and also remembering the French he glanced at when he learned that it was sort of a "pure-blood" language tradition.

And little Tom, believing himself to be newly immortal, stumbles upon an anagram , a smush of vol-de-mort that means death flies. He sees it as fate, that death flies from him because he is just that powerful as a student.

And he needs to be seen as noble, that he is descended from pure blood, that as a descendant of Slytherin he is the true lord of darkness.

And thus, the name Lord Voldemort was born.

6 months ago

I have learned that Sabine's Loth-cat is actually named Murley. So while Ezra might have originally called the cat "Sniffles," Sabine vetoed that idea mighty quick and gave the kitten a "name befitting the cutest member of the Spectres." Sniffles may or may not be used as a nickname when Sabine is not around :)

[also edited the tags appropriately]

An Easter Egg for Ezrabine/Sabezra shippers

So I was watching rewatching Rebels and noticed that in S1E15, it's revealed that the stolen TIE fighter that Ezra and Zeb "got rid of" was painted by Sabine.

Old news, but Ezra knew about it and Zeb didn't. You know blueberry boy showed it to her trying to impress, and it turned into hang out sessions where Sabine painted and Ezra...messed around with a wild Loth-kitten.

And of course it became their tradition whenever they were on Lothal and space mom and dad Hera and Kanan were being a bit overwhelming or whenever they just needed a break. They got to bond more, and Ezra named the Loth-kitten Sniffles because it was allergic to a certain kind of Sabine's paint and kept sneezing (that she totally didn't stop using as soon as she found out, she's a hardcore Mandalorian what are you talking about).

A TIE fighter is...pretty big. Painting all of it like that would take hours and hours of time, hours and hours of Sabine and Ezra hanging out, free from their parents Kanan and Hera and the Empire, and just able to be teenagers with joint-custody of a wild Loth-kitten.


Tags
1 year ago

Where's the daughter of Neptune, Rick?

Like, seriously, where is she?

All the Big Three have at least two kids, one Greek and one Roman, one male and one female.

Zeus has Thalia, his Greek kid who emulates his lightning, and Jupiter has Jason, his Roman son who channels the winds.

Hades has Nico, who is the stereotypical Greek son of the lord of the dead, and Pluto has Hazel, his Roman kid who reminds demigods that he is the god of riches too.

Poseidon has Percy, his great demigod son who is just like the sea.

Where is Neptune's daughter, the child of the Earthshaker, who makes the ground quake when she's mad? Where is the girl who has a greater affinity with horses than even Percy or Hazel, who wins any horse race she participates in? Where is the demigoddess who is so much more comfortable in a lake than in the sea, because Romans associated Neptune with freshwater more than the sea? The girl that the legionnaires always blame when a fresh drought comes in, who's shunned because Neptune's kids are considered dangerous to have around, who understands Nico di Angelo on a level that the Greeks don't get, because she's considered bad luck too? The girl that immediately volunteered to go with Jason Grace when he quested to kill the Trojan Sea Monster, because he didn't know the ocean like she did?

Where is she, Rick?


Tags
1 year ago

Did anyone else ever notice that the Underworld kids are excluded even in their names?

Like Jason, Thalia, and Perseus are all mythological names based on great heroes or goddesses.

And then there's Hazel, Bianca, and Nico. Not connected to mythology at all.


Tags
1 year ago

The Origin of a Name

So we all know that Tom's nickname name translates to "flight of death" in French.

Which is ironic because he fancied himself immortal, having made his Horcruxes. And it was a nickname he received/made not long after Hogwarts, i.e. not long after he made his first Horcrux and believed himself immortal (He just didn't use it openly until a decade later).

So little Tom was doodling with his name, trying to make something that was in no way reminding of his Muggle heritage, and also remembering the French he glanced at when he learned that it was sort of a "pure-blood" language tradition.

And little Tom, believing himself to be newly immortal, stumbles upon an anagram , a smush of vol-de-mort that means death flies. He sees it as fate, that death flies from him because he is just that powerful as a student.

And he needs to be seen as noble, that he is descended from pure blood, that as a descendant of Slytherin he is the true lord of darkness.

And thus, the name Lord Voldemort was born.


Tags
1 year ago

An Easter Egg for Ezrabine/Sabezra shippers

So I was watching rewatching Rebels and noticed that in S1E15, it's revealed that the stolen TIE fighter that Ezra and Zeb "got rid of" was painted by Sabine.

Old news, but Ezra knew about it and Zeb didn't. You know blueberry boy showed it to her trying to impress, and it turned into hang out sessions where Sabine painted and Ezra...messed around with a wild Loth-kitten.

And of course it became their tradition whenever they were on Lothal and space mom and dad Hera and Kanan were being a bit overwhelming or whenever they just needed a break. They got to bond more, and Ezra named the Loth-kitten Sniffles because it was allergic to a certain kind of Sabine's paint and kept sneezing (that she totally didn't stop using as soon as she found out, she's a hardcore Mandalorian what are you talking about).

A TIE fighter is...pretty big. Painting all of it like that would take hours and hours of time, hours and hours of Sabine and Ezra hanging out, free from their parents Kanan and Hera and the Empire, and just able to be teenagers with joint-custody of a wild Loth-kitten.


Tags
5 months ago

The puns kill me. Jinx is literally powder with guns. She's gunpowder.

And what does gunpowder do? Blow things up.


Tags
Loading...
End of content
No more pages to load
  • sonjaren
    sonjaren liked this · 2 months ago
  • nepehra
    nepehra liked this · 8 months ago
  • infinisse
    infinisse liked this · 8 months ago
  • sofyreneko
    sofyreneko liked this · 11 months ago
  • mentallynothere-art
    mentallynothere-art liked this · 1 year ago
  • bi-bastards
    bi-bastards liked this · 1 year ago
  • fishandchips2go
    fishandchips2go liked this · 1 year ago
  • clytemnestra-was-right
    clytemnestra-was-right liked this · 1 year ago
  • teapocolypse
    teapocolypse liked this · 1 year ago
  • villainofourtime
    villainofourtime liked this · 1 year ago
  • chimeratoonz
    chimeratoonz liked this · 1 year ago
  • wyldmountainthyme
    wyldmountainthyme liked this · 1 year ago
  • maeashryver
    maeashryver liked this · 1 year ago
  • abrabora
    abrabora liked this · 1 year ago
  • spookit
    spookit liked this · 1 year ago
  • qali146
    qali146 liked this · 1 year ago
  • its-gettinghard-tobesomeone
    its-gettinghard-tobesomeone liked this · 1 year ago
  • arson-the-ace
    arson-the-ace reblogged this · 1 year ago
  • arson-the-ace
    arson-the-ace liked this · 1 year ago
  • brieblade
    brieblade reblogged this · 1 year ago
  • brieblade
    brieblade liked this · 1 year ago
  • crimsonblazes-blog
    crimsonblazes-blog liked this · 1 year ago
  • iheartyorkshireterriers
    iheartyorkshireterriers reblogged this · 1 year ago
  • iheartyorkshireterriers
    iheartyorkshireterriers liked this · 1 year ago
  • hela-spawn-of-loki
    hela-spawn-of-loki liked this · 1 year ago
  • alittletinflower
    alittletinflower liked this · 1 year ago
  • road-gremlin
    road-gremlin reblogged this · 1 year ago
  • road-gremlin
    road-gremlin liked this · 1 year ago
  • beeisnotdead
    beeisnotdead liked this · 1 year ago
  • bsmr261
    bsmr261 reblogged this · 1 year ago
  • absolutely---not
    absolutely---not liked this · 1 year ago
  • ahoyimlosingmymind
    ahoyimlosingmymind reblogged this · 1 year ago
  • ahoyimlosingmymind
    ahoyimlosingmymind reblogged this · 1 year ago
  • ahoyimlosingmymind
    ahoyimlosingmymind liked this · 1 year ago
  • nijiryuu
    nijiryuu reblogged this · 1 year ago
  • nijiryuu
    nijiryuu liked this · 1 year ago
  • wordsfromshona
    wordsfromshona liked this · 1 year ago
  • vivienneperseus
    vivienneperseus liked this · 1 year ago
  • sing-me-under
    sing-me-under liked this · 1 year ago
  • space-dreams-world
    space-dreams-world liked this · 1 year ago
  • zyukan
    zyukan liked this · 1 year ago
  • adroitodpacky
    adroitodpacky liked this · 1 year ago
  • littlehillbill
    littlehillbill liked this · 1 year ago
  • tired-smartass
    tired-smartass liked this · 1 year ago
  • screamingvikings
    screamingvikings liked this · 1 year ago
  • godalinva-fleur
    godalinva-fleur reblogged this · 1 year ago
  • godalinva-fleur
    godalinva-fleur liked this · 1 year ago
  • straightoutta-kirkwall
    straightoutta-kirkwall liked this · 1 year ago
  • predatoryseasnail
    predatoryseasnail reblogged this · 1 year ago
predatoryseasnail - hi, I'm Murex!
hi, I'm Murex!

lover of many fandoms, including but not at all limited to PJO, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, DC (specifically batfam cause I love them), and Marvel

17 posts

Explore Tumblr Blog
Search Through Tumblr Tags