While he’s famous for using his signature guns in battle, the Red Hood has proven he doesn’t really need them. Red Hood’s use of guns has always set him apart from the rest of the Bat-Family, who largely share Bruce’s distaste for guns. However, he was ready to show that he did not need to rely on these weapons, as he was dangerous enough without them.
Red Hood is the pen name of second generation Robin Jason Todd. After being brutally killed by the Joker, Jason was resurrected by the mysterious power of Lazarus Abyss. He returns to Gotham City as the Red Hood, a ruthless vigilante who crosses the line that Batman will never kill criminals. Jason has since reduced his aggressiveness in his tactics and still uses the red hood’s identity, but he no longer rushes into killing monsters. Although the Red Hood may have found a loophole in Batman’s reign by killing the undead, the pair’s relationship has improved a lot in recent times. That doesn’t mean he’s no longer a deadly fighter, however, as his brief prison time has shown.
exist batman and robin #23, written by Judd Winnick and illustrated by Guillem March and Andrei Bressan, tells the story of Jason’s move from Arkham Asylum to Blackgate. Many of the prisoners there held a grudge against him for killing their criminal friends, so they often sought to attack him. Although unarmed, he handles with ease with just his hand, slowly killing his attackers one by one. However, he eventually escalated his killing spree, poisoning prison food and killing 82 prisoners in one fall.
Being able to kill so many enemies without any conventional weapons shows how dangerous Jason is even without a gun. Recent comics have even suggested that Red Hood might be a better fighter than Nightwing. While killing many of these criminals with poison, he also demonstrated his prowess in hand-to-hand combat by defeating his attackers, some of whom were much larger in size. It also shows how smart he is, capable of concocting a basically deadly poison from scratch. Arguably the more important quality it exhibits, however, is Jason’s extreme hatred of criminals and his determination to destroy them. He is even willing to endure the terrible and dangerous conditions of prison life to achieve his goal.
Red Hood is now a respected member of the Bat-Family, although this massacre of the Black Gate prisoners has shown him to be certainly the most dangerous. Even though Red Hood recently gave up his signature gun after nearly making the orphan he was trying to help, he could still easily kill any villain he comes across. want. This shows that the gesture is more symbolic than anything. While his guns are useful in combat, the Red Hood is dangerous enough without them.