The first origin account, revealed that X had once been a criminal known as the Red Hood. In the story, he is a chemical engineer
looking to steal from the company that employs him and adopts the
persona of Red Hood. After committing the theft, which Y thwarts,
he falls into a vat of chemical waste. He emerges with a persistent grin.
The most widely cited backstory, depicts him as originally being an engineer at a chemical plant who quits his job to become a stand-up comedian, only to fail miserably. Desperate to support his pregnant wife Jeannie, he agrees to help two criminals break into the plant where he was formerly employed to get to the card company next door. In this version of the story, the Red Hood persona is given to the inside man of every job (thus it is never the same man twice); this makes the man appear to be the ringleader, allowing the two criminals to escape. During the planning, police contact him and inform him that his wife and unborn child have died in a household accident.
Stricken with grief, he attempts to back out of the plan, but the criminals strong-arm him into keeping his promise. As soon as they enter the plant, however, they are immediately caught by security and a shoot-out ensues, in which the two criminals are killed. As the engineer tries to escape, he is confronted by Y, who is investigating the disturbance. Terrified, the engineer leaps over a rail and plummets into a pound lock of chemicals.These events, coupled with his other misfortunes that day, results in the birth of X. This origin is supported when Y performs chemical tests on the Red Hood he recovered from the chemical plant during his first investigation into X. X's Red Hood identity is further confirmed when X finds an old Red Hood costume he kept and puts it on to help his recovery after the events of A Death in the Family.
The story "Pushback" supports part of this version of X's origin story. In it, a witness recounts that X's wife was kidnapped and murdered by a corrupt cop working for the criminals in order to force the engineer into performing the crime. X attempts to find the corrupt cop who committed the murder, but after his henchmen are murdered by Prometheus, only to be beaten badly by Hush, then expelled from ______ before this takes place. "Payback" also shows pictures of X — identified as "Jack" — with his wife, giving further support to this version.
ID X and Y (the blank is a place blanked out for obvious reasons).
The most widely cited backstory, depicts him as originally being an engineer at a chemical plant who quits his job to become a stand-up comedian, only to fail miserably. Desperate to support his pregnant wife Jeannie, he agrees to help two criminals break into the plant where he was formerly employed to get to the card company next door. In this version of the story, the Red Hood persona is given to the inside man of every job (thus it is never the same man twice); this makes the man appear to be the ringleader, allowing the two criminals to escape. During the planning, police contact him and inform him that his wife and unborn child have died in a household accident.
Stricken with grief, he attempts to back out of the plan, but the criminals strong-arm him into keeping his promise. As soon as they enter the plant, however, they are immediately caught by security and a shoot-out ensues, in which the two criminals are killed. As the engineer tries to escape, he is confronted by Y, who is investigating the disturbance. Terrified, the engineer leaps over a rail and plummets into a pound lock of chemicals.These events, coupled with his other misfortunes that day, results in the birth of X. This origin is supported when Y performs chemical tests on the Red Hood he recovered from the chemical plant during his first investigation into X. X's Red Hood identity is further confirmed when X finds an old Red Hood costume he kept and puts it on to help his recovery after the events of A Death in the Family.
The story "Pushback" supports part of this version of X's origin story. In it, a witness recounts that X's wife was kidnapped and murdered by a corrupt cop working for the criminals in order to force the engineer into performing the crime. X attempts to find the corrupt cop who committed the murder, but after his henchmen are murdered by Prometheus, only to be beaten badly by Hush, then expelled from ______ before this takes place. "Payback" also shows pictures of X — identified as "Jack" — with his wife, giving further support to this version.
ID X and Y (the blank is a place blanked out for obvious reasons).
