Thoughts On: Teen Titans Season Three, Episode Two

So, my friend and I have been working our way through the very reasonably priced season sets for the animated Teen Titans. We just started on the recently-released third season, and this prompted some thoughts:

• The second episode of the third season involves an unnamed, never unmasked person stealing the high-tech “Red X” costume Robin used in the first season when posing as a super-villain. Now, I’ve always held that cartoon-Robin is some weird mixture of Dick Grayson (the first Robin in the comics) and Tim Drake (the third and current Robin), but in this episode he is definitely Tim Drake, because “Red X II” is so, so Jason Todd (the second Robin).
• Most amusingly, the writers were clearly aware of this, as that is in Beast Boy’s list of possibilities as to Red X’s identity.
• Related, cartoon-Robin is no mere Robin. He is the Goddamn Robin.

Now, I should probably work on writing something anime-related before this becomes a comics blog instead of an anime blog.