Warning: Contains spoilers for Titans episode 10.

In Titansseason 3, episode 10, “Troubled Water,” Scarecrow’s plan opens up a possibility for Jason Todd to return in season 4 as a more comic accurate Red Hood. Jason Todd (Curran Walters), alongside Scarecrow (Vincent Kartheiser), has been a central villain for much of season 3, and the season could end with his death. However, there are several hints throughout the season that there are more stories Titans wants to tell with the character, and those might lean into the comics more.

Titans season 3 has shown that Scarecrow created Red Hood with the intention of using Jason as a puppet in his schemes. Jason’s strong personality and distaste for authority (as was well-established in the previous seasons) causes certain issues for Crane as he goes rogue and attempts to get back in with the Titans, seeking their forgiveness. Despite this, Red Hood has so far been shown to conduct extremely villainous acts without remorse in the moment, notably the murder of Hank Hall (Alan Ritchson) as well as many civilians.

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In the comics, Red Hood is not a cut and dry villain. While he often finds himself in conflict with the Bat-Family, there are times when they reconcile. Jason’s tactics are often brutal or lethal in a way that the others cannot accept; however, they are usually actions taken in an attempt to produce a positive outcome, casting Red Hood as more of an anti-hero than a pure villain. At the end of Titans season 3, episode 10, Scarecrow’s plot enables the possibility of this anti-hero portrayal being viable in the future. Because of Crane’s video the people of Gotham currently believe that Red Hood is a hero who will work to keep Gotham safe where the Titans have failed. If Scarecrow is removed from the picture at the end of season 3, season 4 could see Red Hood portrayed as a brutal but moral anti-hero vigilante and could even see him agreeing to a version of Batman’s no-killing rule as he does in some comic storylines.

Since the season 3 introduction of Red Hood, Titans has been working to make the character appear redeemable. Having him puppeteered by Scarecrow allows him to be portrayed as less culpable, especially as Sacrecrow’s iteration of Jason’s drug seems to have some additional properties that help keep Jason pliable. Even so, Jason has pushed back against some of Scarecrow’s darker plans and eventually shows remorse over Hank’s death. The flashback episode that explained Red Hood’s origin emphasized that Jason’s first act in the new costume was to save the person that Molly had been looking for as, for a brief moment, he lived up to the Red Hood ideal of doing the right moral thing but in a brutal manner.

More recent plots focusing on Gar Logan/Beast Boy (Ryan Potter) also support this direction for the show. As he is shown investigating what Jason was doing before he became Red Hood, teaming up with Molly in the hopes of saving him, and learning about what Bruce Wayne knew of Ra’s al Ghul and the Lazarus Pits, Beast Boy is likely to be central to Jason’s eventual redemption. Scarecrow’s Gotham wide video promoting Red Hood suggests what that redemption might look like and allows for any one of several possible accurate adaptions of Red Hood storylines in Titans season 4. Whether he returns as an anti-hero vying for Batman’s title, teams up with the League of Assassins, or establishes the morally-gray “Outlaws,” there are plenty of routes that the show can take to return to Jason Todd in the future.

Titans releases new episodes Thursdays on HBO Max.

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