Here at Moonbase Alpha, one of our absolute favourite new shows of recent years is Titans – which is why we’re hugely excited to hear some news about what lies ahead in the show’s third season.
Fresh from DC FanDome, as picked up by IGN, the big news for Season Three of Titans is that it will feature Barbara Gordon, Scarecrow, and Red Hood.
It’s been rumoured for a while that Barbara could be a part of the action for Titans’ third year, and we now know that this version of Babs will have given up the Batgirl role in favour of trying to replace her father Jim as Commissioner of the GCPD.
Where Scarecrow is concerned, this incarnation of Jonathan Crane will be an Arkham Asylum inmate who is utilised as a consultant. From what we can gauge, think of Crane as a little like Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs.
As for Red Hood, that’s a name that will instantly send alarm bells ringing for long-time comic books fans. That moniker was one first used by the pre-Joker Joker, but for the past 15 years or so the Red Hood name has been synonymous with the resurrected Jason Todd.
In the comics, Todd was famously beaten to a bloody pulp and killed in an explosion by The Joker as part of the iconic A Death in the Family arc. Years later, Jason was be brought back to the pages of DC Comics as the mysterious Red Hood – a badass, brutal vigilante who was more than happy to decapitate no-good criminals.
Initially, Red Hood went after Batman in addition to clinically stopping criminals. Jason’s anger towards the Bat stemmed from how the Caped Crusader didn’t kill Joker as revenge for Todd’s death. Since that initial butting of heads, Jason has been back in the fold as a card-carrying member of the Bat-family.
In Titans, Curran Walters has brilliantly played the character beats of Jason Todd to perfection for two years. The powers-that-be actually nearly killed-off Jason in Season Two before deciding against it, but it could well be that Todd is offed early on in Season Three before then returning down the line as Red Hood.
While all of this sounds ridiculously exciting for fans of Titans and fans of DC Comics, period, it’s interesting to see that no premiere date was even loosely touched upon for this third year of Titans. Given how the entertainment industry has largely been brought to a halt in recent months, it may be a little while until production is able to start on Titans, let alone when we’ll get to watch this new season.
As ever, expect more on Titans’ third season as we get it.
