After a flurry of different shots, the teaser returns to the amusement park scene and we see a shadowed figure violently beating someone – is it Todd? – with a crowbar, as Brenton Thwaites’ Dick Grayson ominously narrates.
With the foreboding narration, the Joker’s laugh, and crowbar imagery, it seems as though the HBO Max series is referencing A Death in the Family, which was an important Jason Todd comic book story.
And I think if he had to talk to the Titans as if they were real people, I don’t think they handled themselves well in terms of Jason’s breakdown and Jason’s torturing at the hands of Deathstroke and betrayal by Rose, the woman he loved.