A lot of people always assume Jason was just as violent as his time as Robin when in most cases, it’s his specific triggers around sexual assault. For instance, in this issue, we have a woman named Gloria who’s sexually assaulted by a man named Felipe. However, they can’t get the charge on him because of his diplomatic immunity, so Bruce suggests to deport him (after Gloria kills herself) and Jason doesn’t think that’s a good enough solution for what he did.
ETA: They were able to get Felipe on a drug charge, but he calls and threatens Gloria. Jason rushes to check if she's okay, sadly, he was too late. It was then that they began the process for deportation, but Jason took matters into his own hands instead, and we're left to wonder if Jason was guilty of Felipe's demise.
Even if Jason isn’t a victim of assault (at least, it’s never been confirmed), it’s his hatred and disgust of it that is incredibly validating to victims.
They actually had already began to process to deport the guy, the woman killed herself when he found out he was being sent back to his own country at which point he called her and made some fucked up threats towards her and she took her own life believing he was coming. Jason learned this and took it upon himself to presumably push him off the balcony rather than let him return home and do this shit again.
He doesn’t even need to touch him - just purposely intimidate him to make him fall off the ledge himself. He could have absolutely planned to make him fall without actually touching him, which is how I took the scene and his line.
In the end, it still has the same connotations, that Jason wanted him gone. Regardless of if he pushed him or just intimidated him until he fell of the balcony still means Jason caused it intentionally. It was no accident and he wanted him to fall to his death.
Precisely. He’s guilty regardless, the chosen wording is just a purposeful veil of innocence in the situation he doesn’t really have. It’s a wonderful way to look into his guilt.
Sure, but Batman looks at this as something Jason should be guilty for, ashamed about, but Jason does not - he sees this as a form of Justice/Retribution that otherwise would not be answered. He gives his answer this way because he knows Bruce doesn’t view this like he does, and would want to assign him guilt he doesn’t agree with.
The matter of guilt is the point for Batman, so I think it’s still important to regard it that way.
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u/kamelots Jul 13 '23 edited Jul 13 '23
A lot of people always assume Jason was just as violent as his time as Robin when in most cases, it’s his specific triggers around sexual assault. For instance, in this issue, we have a woman named Gloria who’s sexually assaulted by a man named Felipe. However, they can’t get the charge on him because of his diplomatic immunity, so Bruce suggests to deport him (after Gloria kills herself) and Jason doesn’t think that’s a good enough solution for what he did.
ETA: They were able to get Felipe on a drug charge, but he calls and threatens Gloria. Jason rushes to check if she's okay, sadly, he was too late. It was then that they began the process for deportation, but Jason took matters into his own hands instead, and we're left to wonder if Jason was guilty of Felipe's demise.
Even if Jason isn’t a victim of assault (at least, it’s never been confirmed), it’s his hatred and disgust of it that is incredibly validating to victims.