The explosion would have destroyed much of Gotham in the name of nihilistic chaos but the plot was foiled by Batman. Red Hood commit several robberies and attempted to create a chemical cocktail at Ace Chemicals which would turn the facility into a giant chemical explosion. However most of the gang's members were not willing participants but instead middle-to-lower class residents of Gotham being blackmailed by the Red Hood and made to wear their own variation of the Red Hood mask and each given a code-number while the future Joker was "Red Hood One". The Red Hood gang was lead by the man who would become Joker and who was already a twisted, homicidal nihilist dedicated solely to chaos.
In the New 52, during Batman's first year in Gotham the Red Hood Gang was his first big opponent. This Red Hood however had a moral-compass and used his influence over Gotham City's gangs to reduce violence and drug-trafficking. Years after this would have taken place, the Red Hood mantle was taken up by the ressurected Jason Todd who started conquering the criminal-underworld to act as a gangster that started a war with Gotham's then most powerful crime-lord the Black Mask. In a backstory to Joker which might very likely be a derranged fabrication, Joker recalls having been one of the decoys to take-up the Red Hood mantle in-order to help the gang rob his old workplace of the ACE Chemicals Plant.ĭuring the robbery, the gang was ambushed by the police and by Batman with the gangsters running the operation having been shot dead while the Red Hood was chased by Batman to a cat-walk which he fell off, falling into the vat of chemicals which supposedly dyed his hair green, bleached his skin white and gave him his signature red smile. In the story Batman: The Killing Joke, the Red Hood Gang was first introduced as being a criminal operation run by gangsters who created the super-villain alias of "The Red Hood" in order to act as a red herring which would distract the authorities and Batman from pursuing the real men in charge.
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