Red X 's Identity REVEALED! [Teen Titans] 

No. We don't know who the third Red X is either.

perhaps the real identity of red x was the friends we made along the way

Wait... Half demon child who could cause an apocalypse... Is that not already Raven's backstory?

11:21 when your dad say do one thing at a time

I always thought it should just be who tim drake became instead of the red Robin

Sounds like this this had the same problem that heroes in crisis did. They rush the big story so there's no time to focus in the potential that it had

Look the X from the show is one of three potential characters: Jason Todd, Grant Wilson, or just a clone of Dick Grayson. Beast Boy is likely the most correct when it comes to his identity simply because its presented as a joke rather than something we are supposed to take as a serious guess.

I was hoping Red X was just the Teen Titans version of Red Hood.

Red X works...alone.

he is robin from the future i kept searching and investigating and i am pretty sure its robin from the future

I was also really into this book as a concept, but the second I heard about it being about Red X’s identity I knew it was bout to be a real mess.

He loves lamp

The thing with the second Red X in that comic series raising someone for some revenge scheme doesn't feel 'in character' for him. From what I recall, at his core, Red X is/was a master thief who managed to get his hands on a high tech suit. At his best, he's an anti-hero and at the worst just a highly skilled thief.

I’m glad red x two is dope

Damn, and here I thought it was going to be Jason Todd.

I've never really liked the insistence of not revealing a character's identity because I feel like it limits what you can do with them. Like, Batman was initially introduced already a superhero with no origin story in his debut. But can you imagine if they never gave us Batman's backstory which informs his choice not to use guns, his soft spot for children, and his efforts to prevent crime through charity and social welfare programs? Like, I don't think you necessarily need to have Red X turn out to be someone we already know. You could just make an original character and give him a compelling and unexpected backstory that contextualizes his actions. Like, just unmask him in one issue and show that he's just some dude, but then start showing him outside the context of being a Titans antagonist. Show us where and how he lives, what he spends his money on after a successful heist, who he hangs out with and what kind of relationship he has with them and sprinkle in details about his family and where he grew up and how he made some of the connections he's made to give us a fuller picture of what motivates his choices. Maybe in the show, when he acted more friendly toward Robin it was because Robin reminds him of when he used to be more idealistic and looked up to superheroes before something happened to make him more jaded and self-serving. Or maybe it's because Robin reminds him of a brother who died or who he became estranged from. Maybe he steals because he grew up poor and that was the only way he saw to live the high life he wanted, or maybe he does it because he's deep in debt to some bad people, or maybe his "I only look out for number one" thing is a facade meant to hide that he's actually doing what he does for someone else he's close to. If you wanted him to be a preexisting character, he doesn't have to be Jason Todd, but you could use Jason's story for literally any character who got killed off a long time ago and hasn't been used or referenced in forever and breathe new life into them by explaining how they actually survived and how what happened to them influenced them to become Red X. Doesn't even have to be a former hero, it could a supporting civilian character.

I have a theory that Red X2 is actually Talon from Earth-3 (Dick Grayson) In Talons storyline he is actually a thief working with Owlman. He falls for Duela Dent (thr Jokesters daughter) and decides to change his ways and do whatever he can to protect her. In Earth-3 Dick Grayson (Talon) is in his late teens, older then in Teen Titan animated series. After Infinite Crisis Talon and Duela flee to New Earth to form a new life and join the Teen Titans. Not much is known after this event. Now tell me if you go to a New Earth and approach Titan Tower and realize there is already a Robin / Dick Grayson what would you do... cuz let's face it every iteration of Teen Titans has a Dick Grayson at some point. I think Teen Titans the Animated Series takes place on New Earth Talon showed up after the Red X suit gets placed into the vault. Talon being a master thief and also a version of Dick Grayson... has the tools and abilities to open the vault. This would account for the slight height increase because he's older, the exact same style, how to use all of the tools and gadgets, the exact same voice actor, the purpose of always calling Robin kid(he's older), his lifestyle difference giving him a Whittier attitude, and still answers the two questions of two iconic Red X sayings. First: Robin I thought you didn't play the hero. Red X: doesn't mean I don't know how. Second the infamous: "Just looking out for number one" He never says he's number one, Talon could be refering to Duela as number one. He gave up everything for her, and now found in this new world that he can't exist... He is doing everything he can to take care of himself and his girl.

Red x in teen titans go is robin just pretending into entering the hive tower that is probably a clue that red x is a robin.... Somehow😶🧐

thanks for the video

Just ask Beast Boy. Lol

I KNEW IT!

You see? He gives you the answer straight up, and then when you don't know who it is he goes into detail about the entire storyline. I'm glad that we don't have to go through 10 minutes to actually get a straight answer, and the way he revealed it makes me interested in what the storyline was so now I watch the whole video. It's just so refreshing to see people do things differently for once

Honestly, I think keeping the identity of Red X ( the one from the show) as a secret FOREVER, is pretty cool. Sometimes, we don't know all of the answers, and I think that's okay in this context.

Pettirosso is also Italian for Robin lol. He’s Brick, thinking himself Dick’s son, with Robin as a surname. They set up the entire answer to the mystery in the first issue, it’s pretty great.

I do like the idea of multiple Red X's. Where each of the Robin's use it at some point when they have to do "villainous" acts. Each of them having a different personality within the Red X suit.

My head cannon was that red x was a clone of Robin. Maybe created by Cadmus or Slade but it makes sense because he had the exact same voice actor. He knew how to get the suit from the locks and the Titan Tower And he would always make comments on Starfire and they were the exact same height and they fought the exact same way. Who else could it have been?

The other thing that feels a bit contrived is Red X-2 targeting Nightwing, given that the two separated on a relatively neutral note and mutual respect in the original iteration. For Red X-2 to hate Nightwing and Batman so much that he'd viciously kill his own pupil just to unsettle Nightwing feels so out of character for the mysterious and egocentric, yet cool and collected, rogue whom we had been introduced to so long ago.

Well that was.... underwhelming. There were so many cool theories and hypothesis on who he could be. I personally thought he was a defective clone of Dick Grayson made by Deathstroke since he wanted an apprentice in the episode "Apprentice." The clone idea sort of explains why he has the same voice, similar skills, the whole: "I thought you didn't like being the hero" "Doesn't mean I don't know how" Exchange. I guess that's what happens when you set your hopes too high.

I feel like Red X's identity should be similar to the Joker's in which people don't know the actual history of the original, but other authors can create 'what if' scenarios about the character's origins.

I'm really glad that this character from the original Teen Titans series was able to make the up to the made stream DC Comics. I think Red X is the only character from the Teen Titans animated series to make a appearance in the comics. Kinda makes me want to see Kitten (Killer Moth's Daughter from the animated series) make an appearance in the comics.

The funny thing is that I work at Chevron and the voice actor for Robin (Scott Menville) comes to my station every now and then, and I did ask him if he knew who Red X is, and yeah, even he didnt know. The production team never revealed any of that info to him and the other actor. By the way, Scott is such a cool and chill dude. Always happy to see him and talk about comics and shows. Lol

I still believe in the theory that Red X is Grant Wilson, Slade’s first born son A.K.A. The First Ravager. They introduced Rose Wilson as Ravager in the Teen Titans’ show comic, but never Grant, so it would be an interesting way to reintroduce him to the series, either by the help of a times gadget in his heart that reenergized his heart and increase his adrenaline to give him a second wind, or him being a clone after death, or resurrected by science or the way of Jason Todd. Either way, I like that idea, because it would bring him back into continuity and it would explain Red X’s fixation of Robin, since I’m pretty sure Grant hates him the most.

My theory was that there really wasn’t anyone under the mask. Teen Titans tried to actively avoid DC lore and origins of their characters usually. They’re just robot, animal man, witch, alien, and . They did break this rule many times over the course of the series, yes. Most notably Raven and beast boy who both had whole arcs centred around their past. But it’s very clear that their stance is making a fun character and dealing with everything else later. So by that extension, who was under the mask didn’t matter because his character was the mysterious antihero.

Whenever I think of a "super hero school", the X-Men's "Xavier Academy" comes to mind. To me, that's the template of how a "school for the gifted" should be handled. And with their ever-expanding roster of characters, I think that's a concept they should always incorporate w/ their stories. As far as Red X's identity is concerned, I think it should remain a mystery (especially if they come up w/ half-baked stories like this), because that's pretty much the most interesting thing about him. I fear that DC is going to do the whole Joker-thing, & make a bunch of characters w/ the same name & poorly try to explain a few of their lame backstories. To me, doing that just cheapens the original character. While I think it's rather lazy writing to create a character, but never give them a legit backstory, I prefer that for maybe 1 or 2 characters, instead of giving them multiple "questionable" histories and/or "copycats". And I've always hated stories where they just create characters, hype them up, simply to kill them off & their deaths really don't matter much (outside of a possible resurrection of some sort).

>Be the TTA writers >introduce beloved mystery character >don’t do much with him other than “ooooo who is he hehehe” >reveal his identity as some complete nobody who uses the name even though his unnamed mentor also uses the title >surprised as to why people do not care in the slightest about his death

I was IMMENSELY disappointed in the whole Red X thing. It was indeed the only reason why I picked up the stories, and the teasers were pretty amazing. What I didn't get though was that there were moments where some people apparently knew who Red X was, then others who didn't. For some reason Cyborg and Beast Boy had become one. It was a messy slip and slide, to the point that I felt like I had whiplash after reading a few issues alone. I'd also LOVE a video about Gotham Academy if I'm honest. Show off how a book involving a school, and brand new characters which have some weird relation to other characters, and have it done right.

Personally I stayed away from the new comics due to caution of the whole identity problem. I always liked the idea that Red-X was just an honorable thief whose ID didn't really matter. I never liked the theory of Jason Todd due to Red-X calling Dick 'kid' since Dick would be older than Jay; _that_ and Jason Todd, at the time of Red-X's creation, wasn't Red Hood and hadn't yet returned from his character death. I orginally liked the theory of Grant Wilson being the real Red-X, but this doesn't work for me entirely since X points out that he knows how to be a hero. Of course, he could just mean that he knows generally rather than intimately. Recently, I've preferred the theory of Red-X being a one-off character similar to Lance Bruner. Lance appeared in a single issue way back when where Bruce took the kid in for reasons too weak to really repeat. The kid was trouble from the start and, at some point, stole the Robin uniform in some half baked plot to sell Batman's identity. My reasoning for bringing up this odd little random is because Lance's impersonation of Robin was so convincing that even Batman couldn't tell the difference between he and Dick. And that's my incredibly weird explanation for why Robin and X have the same voice actor. Or, I don't know, X could just be an honorable no-name thief who's out for number one.

I Honestly love the theories back then where people believed red hood was Red X. Which is perfect since you could just say, This was a time were Jason was figuring out what identity to go by which would of work perfectly in the comics or the show.🐱

Should have been Jason change my mind

I never clicked on a video so quick in my life this is the moment I’ve been waiting for!!!

can also recommend strange academy for the boarding school vibes

Wait. So there are four Red X's. We know who 1 and 4 are, we get the history behind 2, but what about the third guy?

Uh man I think it would have been cooler if it was a revived Grant Wilson

You’re lying? Tell me you’re lying. Dude I’m 21 with a wife and two kids now and this is the happiest day of my life. Wait what the fuck is Brick?

They should never reveal the identity of Red X from the show unless they make another proper season. Loved the video as always and gotta say, your hair looks really good in this one!

Almost two decades, we finally know who Red X is! Even though he's not a known guy, I prefer that way. Red X is his own character after all

I have a problem that Dick, from the comics, has been Red-X like in the cartoon. In the cartoon, Robin was more serious and obsessed with catching Slade. That attitude is not consistent with the Dick of the comics, especially in the days of New Teen Titans. This Dick, like Robin, wouldn't do anything to infiltrate a criminal organization without telling his friends of his plan. If they had said Red-X was an alias used by Tim or Damian, that would have made more sense. There is also the problem that the Red-X II is more or less a copy of Deathstroke or Wrath, when in the cartoon he was a thief with a neutral alignment. He wasn't interested in revenge, just stealing things.

I guess the question now is, Who is Red X III? What happened to him? My guess is it was likely Jason briefly so they can have their cake and eat it too. Get the Jason Todd "Reveal" but still keep Red X II's identity a secret.

Who is the third Red ❌ before Brick (was it the Red ❌ from the comic who is separate from Red ❌ from the show)? Seem to me that the writers should have the two plots (Red ❌ and the Titan academy) in separate series like THE TITAN should tackle Red ❌ storyline instead of combining them. Also taking Red ❌ from a charming thief to a knock-off Deathstroke and made knock-off Judas’ Contract storyline too. Finally didn’t Red ❌ first appear (in DC comics) in FUTURE STATE: TEEN TITAN or did you mean his first appearance into the main continuity proper?

Red X II: “You're the abandoned son of Dick Grayson" Dick Grayson: *is 26 years old* The math really isn't mathing there, how did Brick ever believe this blatant lie

So... if Brick is the 4th Red X, and Red X 2 is the unknown Red X is from the show.... Who is the third Red X? And where even is the third Red X?

Oh one thing people often miss is that the second Red X seems to be a metahuman that can teleport based on what Dick says in Teen Titans Academy #13 iirc.

Gotham Academy is worth it for Map's alone, I'm glad she's gotten more attention recently. Also, Marvel's Strange Academy does the boarding school thing really well, and y'know Dr Strange and Wanda are kinda a thing right now!

regarding the original Red X from the TT cartoon, Glen Murakami has said in interviews that he has someone in mind as to who Red X's true identity is....but he also thinks that the entire point of the character in the show is that you DON'T know who he is. Thus, he's basically never, ever going to reveal who Red X is. Man's going to keep that secret to his grave lmao

Part of the charm of Red X is that you don't know who he is. Just keep his identity a mistery.

While reading TTA, I actually really loved all the focus on the new younger characters. Most if not all of them had great potential. I know I'm not the only one either, but there was also a vocal minority really hating on the book for now focusing on the classic Titans. I think the writers ultimately tried to juggle too many thing (new gen, old gen, and Red X) to really flesh out anything.

I LOVED the Teen Titans show back in the day, and always thought Red X was such an interesting character with such a cool design. It was nice that they brought him back in the show and wasn't just a 1 off character. The show version of his is such a great mystery. And Titans Academy kind of shows why keeping it a secret is for the best. Still, it is great that they brought him into the comics anyway.

Clicked on so fast haha

So far we know that nobody knows who the True X… That is absolutely brilliant. It make a mark while honoring the mantle. But we don’t know who the next Red X. How do we know you aren’t actually Red X and your just telling us info just to convince us about the mantle.

It’s crazy that they turned the second red x from a anti-hero/thief to a straight up villain That is in fact wild

MAPS! Please do a Gotham Acadamy video, the characters within it are so well developed, it's such a fantastic series. Plus I want more people to meet Maps; she's a giant ball of mystery solving energy. She's also been seen in Detective Comics Paris Alleyne did some art of Maps as Robin with Cassandra Cain as Batman on Twitter, and Kelly Thompson was very interested in writing that book. I'd pick it up in a heartbeat

The part that's disappointing isn't that its someone I've never heard of, but that it was the identity of some random 4th Red X and not the identity of the guy who stole it from Robin/Nightwing in the first place.

I was really hoping it’d be Jason Todd.

my personal theory was always that the second Red X was just the suit itself. i mean its high tech with a weird energy powering it. now ad to it the fact Robin was going way overboard with thr creation of the suit he would probablyequipped it with some form of autopilot - it wouldve made perfect sense that the suit at some point just came alive and descided to do its own thing.

It was the most underwhelming unmasking

Wait, fourth Red X? There was a _third_ Red X?

I read this book, it's so much worse than you described. It's frequently bringing up how DickxKori can't be a thing without developing a relationship or dynamic in the book. They fused Beastboy and Cyborg and ended with them having the illusion of being separated. It wants to often inject Shazam things in this story. Why? It's already so unfocused. This book was atrocious.

Agreed….Gotham Academy WAS great. Definitely worth getting more attention so I hope you do do a video about it some day.

A great example of starting small and ramping up the scale of the threats is Young Justice the show, it’s not perfect in handling the more complex plots but I feel like these comic writers could have taken notes to make a great young heroes centric storyline.

I still consider the Red X from the show to be the show's version of Red Hood (Jason Todd) like how they didn't used the name Deathstroke for Slade (and no sword and guns) they would need to change Red Hood a lot in the same way and the Red X costume was just there with perfect equipments for a PG "anti-Robin"

thats why Strange Academy is the best teen school book recently.

Always loved your content, even back in the crossover and smash history days! 😅😅 glad to still see you making content!!!!!

i prefer not knowing his identity to put into context, think "the Doctor" from Doctor Who his name, his real name is an important mystery. we will never know it, and the plot may tease us with it, dangling it in our face but will never actually tell us. keeping the viewers in the dark ads too that fun and interest in the character so to have Red X with no real identity that we could never even as fans outside the world, to never know, to never show their face, or reveal their name

So we don’t even know who the real Red X is still 😂

Red X is revealed… Red X 4, this leaves me with so many questions like 1 “who the hell is red x 3?” 2 “who the hell is red x 2?” 3:”why the hell should I even care about red x 4?” 4:”why the hell should I care about this comic at all as it isn’t the same universe as the show?”

Yeah I gotta say that reveal really hit me like a "brick" lol They should have just kept it hidden for ever and not made the identity the gimmick of the series about a freaking Titans Academy which inherently is interesting and something I've wanted since the old show when I was 10 years old.

0:57 I love the way you did that! So cleverly done! ..... Comic Drake: So, you wanna know the Identity of Red X but don't have the patience to watch *the entirety of my video?* Fine! I'll tell you! It's *[name drop]* Viewers: Who? Comic Drake: Don't know who that is do ya? I figured you wouldn't. And I also take it that you'd like to know who the heck that is right? Viewers: Yes please. Comic Drake: Great! Then you've come to the right place! Sit back, relax, and *watch the entirety of my video!* 😎 Man, I don't think I've seen a hook executed so brilliantly, so flawlessly and savagely! 😲😃👌🔥

Was surprised you mentioned Gotham Academy. It was one of the comic runs the pulled me back to reading the medium and I highly recommend for more people to read it.

Ok so we don’t find out who red x 2 is. But the little bit that we do see him. It’s NOT Jason Todd right?

Personally I thought it was Jason, it would have been interesting if in the OG teen titans they flipped the robins around and made Jason the first Robin since if he was the first it would have made sense why Batman was stricter in Teen Titans than in other depictions.

Honestly? Quoting BB "I still think you are Jason Todd". I imagine Jason either survived his Joker incident in the TT universe or again, he was revived with the Lazarus pit. And the whole stealing the Red X suit and powering it was just a step in some kind of vengeance plan we never got to see fully realize for Jason.

You are right. I wouldn't want to sit through 10 mins of video to get the answer at the end and i appreciate the respect you have for my time To show that i respect yours, I'll watch the whole thing, leave a like and subscribe.

Cause of the omniverse, I thought that Red X was going to be pre-Crisis Jason Todd. The one that is a redhead and has the same origin as Dick.

I know it's impossible for Red X 2 to be Jason Todd....but damn, it would be SO cool if he was. This whole hatred against "heroes" turning children into weapons would work so well given his backstory.

I always thought Jason Todd being the 2nd Red X in the animated show before becoming Red Hood, was neat. Obviously since this comic book 2nd Red X is supposed to be the same one from the animated series, it cannot be Jason as Jason is already established as Red Hood in Rebirth. The 4th Red X was lame, I agree, and I would like to hear what happened to the 3rd Red X?

honestly, if this was in cartoon/animation format instead of just still images in a comic book, i think it would be way more appealing and/or nice. something about the way its presented in the comics makes it lose a lot of the possible magic there could be; and the idea of that story playing out but in the way the teen titans show (or any animated DC film) would normally do feels more right to me.

So I'm supposed to believe some random kid is basically able to go toe to toe with Robin because he was raised by an abusive family and then saved by Red X ...... Makes sense 😂

That’s really disappointing I love red x in the show I thought his design was sick af and was so excited when he came back in the show and comics as his own character and not robin this time but the comics really dropped the ball they had a great concept but sadly didn’t capitalize on it

For anyone looking for another teenage boarding school centered book that's actually about teenagers and their issue go read Strange Academy seeing the diffrenet ways each cahrecter uses magic is cool af.

Since it was unconnected to the rest of the DCAU, I guess I always just figured that there were so few characters to be suspects in the show, he was either just some guy or a clone of Robin. Seems like the first one bared fruit.

I'm surprised you didn't mention Avengers Academy. I kept negatively comparing this series to Avengers Academy almost the entire time. Like you, I struggled to remember the names of several of the students over the series, whereas in Avengers Academy I knew ALL of the main character's names. The entire Titans Academy series felt like disposable filler. I honestly did not remember who Brick was when he was revealed as X. For a second I thought he was Bunker, due to him using brick constructs as his powers. And honestly. after typing that out, having Bunker be Red X would have been way better, because at least Bunker has some (admittedly limited) exposure in the DCU. Brick though, was just a non-entity, and now he's dead, so even more of a non-entity.

It would be great for a series of issues of nightwing to be about him dealing with Red X and having other members of the bat family help him in order to stop whatever red x is planing

My headcannon for the actual show is that it was Jason Todd. It made since with Robin being Dick, but them never actually saying his name. Also, Red Hood, Red X.

Although I respect the main comic continuity for finally giving Red X an identity, I think in the original TV show it works better if we don’t know for sure who he is. Simply put the mystery of who Red X is is his biggest selling point. I mean he makes only a handful of appearances throughout the show and apart from being highly skilled, a decent thief, and kind of a bad boy there isn’t really much to his personality. Literally every ability that he has he stole from Robin, so him not having a definitive identity was the only thing that gave him identity. So although I think for the main comic continuity it’s great that he has a real face and name and you can totally add his true identity to your teen titans head canon but I think it’s best if we never know for sure who it is in the show’s universe. Also before anyone says it no he was not Jason Todd in the show. Red X was clearly intended to be older than Robin by the fact he kept on referring to the boy wonder as “Kid” so unless teen titans pulled a white knight and made Jason the first robin that wouldn’t have ever worked.

I'm going to try to get Teen Titans uncancelled and had this idea with Red X where it turns out is..... Some guy. Literally just some guy. Not a well known DC character or even a DC charater, just some guy. The idea behind this is something like that line from Arkham City. Answers don't always give you ever lasting satisfaction. Sometimes you have to prepare yourself for a little disappointment.

If i remember correctly in one of those sites where the creators responded to fans question multiple people from the original team said that it was indeed Jason Todd

Why would Red X 2 want to ruin Nightwings life? Why did he kill Bricks parents? Isn't the point of Red X 2 that he isn't a villain but a thief. He doesn't kill, he steals. Wasn't that a big part of his character? An anonymous, high-tech, dangerous thief who's in it for an unknown reason? I don't like how they portrayed his character in this comic.

Honestly i think they should've just had Red X be a new villain and his own character instead of him already being connected to Nightwing's past. Because it makes it easier for the new readers to follow who Red X is without having to know his history from the Teen Titans show.

Me and Korath 0:52 had the exact same reaction and phrase at the exact same time when Red X's Identity was revealed

It should of been kept a secret. Makes the character cooler, although I thought it was either Jason Todd or Grant Wilson.