Dive Deep into Creativity: Discover, Share, Inspire
The parallels between Cassandra Cain and Jason Todd are crazy.
Cassandra Cain’s kindness and compassion is rooted in the violence and hate from her childhood.
Jason Todd’s violence and hate is rooted in the kindness and compassion from his days as Robin.
Jason Todd was murdered by somebody when he was young and that defined the rest of his life.
Cassandra Cain murdered somebody when she was young and that defined the rest of her life.
Jason has murdered people after his death. Cass has been murdered after she killed. But what defines them will forever be what happened first.
Two sides of the same coin, the two roles in a murder.
The killer and the killed.
The parallels between Cassandra Cain and Jason Todd are crazy.
Cassandra Cain’s kindness and compassion is rooted in the violence and hate from her childhood.
Jason Todd’s violence and hate is rooted in the kindness and compassion from his days as Robin.
Jason Todd was murdered by somebody when he was young and that defined the rest of his life.
Cassandra Cain murdered somebody when she was young and that defined the rest of her life.
Jason has murdered people after his death. Cass has been murdered after she killed. But what defines them will forever be what happened first.
Two sides of the same coin, the two roles in a murder.
The killer and the killed.
Ok, so, recently I've been doing research on the different versions of Jason Todd and his life, death, and afterlife for reasons, and I stumbled across the discontinuity that is Jason's autopsy scar.
This post by pluckyredhead and this post by dailyjasontodd explain it pretty well, and when ruminating I realized that there is a perfect, literal explanation sitting in front of our faces.
Jason didn't have an "autopsy" if you mean someone performed postmortem surgery to try and find cause of death. That would have been impossible, since he most likely had a quick and quiet burial to hide his forensic ties to the Robin life.
No, what Jason had was experimental surgery done by the League of Assassins. I'm not an expert, but I think part of the reason Ra's al Ghul had an interest was because Jason came back to life for seemingly no reason. (and if that's not true based on current continuity or whatever, it's my personal headcanon anyway so)
Ra's wanted to figure out what made Jason live again. Part of that process would most undoubtedly include exploratory surgery that mimicked an autopsy, but didn't include permanent harm because they couldn't study what made him live if he was dead, right?
The scar is mostly fanon except for that one Robin variant cover, and most of the cause is to make Jason have more angst over his death and/or to freak out the rest of the Batfamily. But how much more angst would they, specifically Dick and Bruce, have when they realized that wait, Jason didn't have an autopsy, why does he have a scar, and then they find out that he has that Y-shaped scar because a secret league of assassins tried to cut him apart and dissect him to figure out how he was alive?
I don't think they would take that very well, to be honest. Especially if they found out that it was when Jason was catatonic, so no, there was no consent or anesthesia either. (and imagine the nightmares that Jason would have, not just of crawling out of his own grave and the Lazarus pit, but of being dissected alive and being able to do nothing to stop it)
TL;DR Jason Todd has a Y-shaped scar because the League of Assassins tried to dissect him, not because he had an autopsy in Gotham.