Jason Todd In
Countdown to Final Crisis #14, Jason dons the outfit in the "Bat Bunker" (Earth-51's equivalent to the
Batcave) as he and Earth-51 Batman join the fight raging on the Earth above the bunker. Jason keeps his new suit and identity for the rest of his tenure as a "Challenger of the Unknown", only to discard it on his return to New Earth and revert to his "
Red Hood" street clothing. At the start of
Countdown, Jason Todd resumes the persona of the Red Hood and rescues a woman from
Duela Dent (
Two-Face's daughter). After a
Monitor kills Duela, he attempts to kill Jason, but is stopped by a second Monitor. This second Monitor apologizes to Jason before they both disappear, leaving Jason alone with Duela's body. Later, at Duela's funeral, Jason hides until all of the Teen Titans have left except
Donna Troy. Jason tells her what happened the night of Duela's death, and about the dueling Monitors. He knows that both he and Donna Troy have come back from the dead, and wonders which of them is next on the Monitor's hit list. The two are then attacked by the
Forerunner, but before she can kill them, the apologetic Monitor stops her, and recruits Jason and Donna for a mission to the Palmerverse (a section of the Nanoverse discovered by
Ray Palmer), in an attempt to find Palmer. During the trip, Jason takes it upon himself to name the Monitor "Bob". Jason seems to have a romantic interest in Donna, and is shown to be visibly disgruntled when her old boyfriend,
Kyle Rayner, joins their group as they take their tour to the 52 Earths which comprise the
Multiverse. A teaser image released to promote
Countdown showed a figure resembling Red Robin among assembled heroes in poses symbolic of their roles in the series. After a series of contradictory statements about this figure, executive editor
Dan DiDio firmly stated in the July 2007 DC Nation column that the figure is Jason Todd; Todd, a major player in
Countdown, has gone under the aliases "Red Hood" and "Robin". Tim goes on to tell
Spoiler that he will be leaving Gotham for an unspecified period of time. He is now the new Red Robin—an identity that is already tarnished and independent of the Bat-family—traveling the world searching for Bruce Wayne. Tim's new cape also happens to be a "paracape", like Dick and Damian's, which gives Tim a gliding capability when it is semi-rigid. Red Robin eventually rejoined the
Teen Titans and took over as the team's leader after
Wonder Girl stepped down. In September 2011,
The New 52 rebooted DC's continuity. In this new timeline, Tim is reintroduced as the leader of the Teen Titans. In DC's new relaunch,
DC Rebirth, Tim is in a team with other Bat-Family members as Red Robin in
Detective Comics. The team is led by Batman and Batwoman and also includes Spoiler, Orphan, and Clayface. As of the
Infinite Frontier relaunch, Tim Drake has returned to using the Robin identity along with the current Robin
Damian Wayne. ==Alternative versions==