DC Let Fans Vote To Kill Robin — 72 Votes Made The Difference #shorts #comicinsights#joker #batman

Added: 2026-05-20

[00:00:00]In 1988, DC Comics let the public vote whether Robin lived or died. 72 votes decided it. Jason Todd was the second Robin and nobody liked him.

[00:00:11]Fans found him arrogant, reckless, replaceable.

[00:00:15]So, DC did something that had never been done before.

[00:00:19]They set up two phone hotlines, one to save Jason, one to kill him. DC killed Robin and they didn't make it clean. The Joker didn't shoot him, didn't outsmart him.

[00:00:31]He beat a 15-year-old boy with a crowbar, slowly, methodically, then left him in a warehouse with a bomb.

[00:00:39]Jason Todd died trying to shield his own mother from the blast. The last thing he did was try to save someone else.

[00:00:46]The boy fans voted to kill died protecting someone he loved.

[00:00:51]Batman arrived too late.

[00:00:53]He pulled Jason's body from the rubble and DC never let him forget it.

[00:00:57]For 16 years, Jason Todd stayed dead.

[00:01:01]The empty Robin costume hung in the Batcave, a reminder that Batman failed, that 72 strangers decided it. Would you have voted to save Jason Todd or let him die? Part two coming. The Joker story that scared DC's own editors. Subscribe.