Robin, Red Robin, Red Hood, Arkham Knight, JASON TODD

Who is Jason Todd?

Jason Todd was first introduced in 1983 and was meant to act as Dick Grayson's successor as Robin after the former had aged out of the role and taken on the moniker of 'Nightwing'. Sadly, fan response was...not good to say the least. Was it his charming character. A decision was made to let fans influence the story for the first time. Joker kidnaps Jason Todd and beats him, leaving him to die in an explosion. Can Batman save him? Dial 1-900 to decide. And decide people did, . Adding insult to injury, rumours of somebody botting the poll arrived. All in all, it was probably the best thing that could have happened to him character-wise (in-universe I am of course very sad that he had to deal with that trauma). Jason Todd dies at the tender age of 15.
..Or does he?

That damn poll

The vote was set up in the four-part story "A Death in the Family" that was published in Batman #426–429 in 1988. At the end of Batman #427, Jason was beaten by the Joker and left to die in an explosion. The inside back cover of the issue listed two 1–900 numbers that readers could call to vote for the character's death or survival. Within the 36 hours allotted for voting, the poll received 10,614 votes. The verdict in favor of the character's death won by a slim 72-vote margin of 5,343 votes to 5,271.[5] The following issue, Batman #428, was published featuring Todd's death. Years later, O'Neil said hundreds of votes in the "Jason Dies" line might have come from a single person, adding a large degree of uncertainty to the honesty of results regarding a poll designed to determine the character's popularity. "I heard it was one guy, who programmed his computer to dial the thumbs down number every ninety seconds for eight hours, who made the difference", O'Neil said in a Newsarama interview conducted alongside writer Judd Winick during the "Under The Hood" arc.

And what do you care?

How can you hear that backstory and *not* care?