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Obviously, the idea of two years of petty psychological warfare in HOA-land turned into thinking about Jason and Roy living in the suburbs (something something Lian school and/or accommodations something). Jason would never pull shit like this on his Crime Alley neighbors--they've already got it hard enough. But their suburban neighbors, and the subdivision's HOA, which Jason hates on principle, are fair game.
Roy, who's essentially a WFH dad except when he's needed as Arsenal, gets to watch the outraged fallout of neighbors in bedhead and house slippers grumpily hunting down their trash barrels before the 6am deadline to bring them in, because this HOA does not play when it comes to issuing timely fines for CC&R infractions.
After two board members wake up to fines taped to their front doors, the HOA holds an emergency meeting and votes unanimously to send a letter of complaint to the trash company.
And Jason takes that personally.
Things escalate. As they do when Jason is involved.
First, Jason makes sure to leave blurry footage of himself on another neighbor's security camera. Like a cryptid.
So now there's that one neighbor complaining to to the spouse, family, and HOA that Red Hood is responsible for the wandering trash cans. He's coming all the way to this suburb from Crime Alley every Wednesday morning while everyone is asleep, just to sow low-level discord. The guy even raises the possibility that Red Hood actually lives in the subdivision and commutes.
That gets him laughed out of the room.
Eventually the HOA gets tired of fielding the increasingly divided debate over whether their cryptid Red Hood is real and holds a series of meetings on the subject where they decide to put out a cash reward for catching the disruptive kid who thinks it’s funny to dress up like a Gotham crime lord just to vandalize their subdivision on trash pick up day.
Jason is at every meeting and finds it hysterical.
The city council eventually hears about it during Jason Harper’s impassioned speech complaining about Red Hood's vendetta against the lawful and orderly handling of their trash. It's never the recycling or the green bins, and that's discrimination.
Mr. Harper follows up the speech with an indignant letter to the editor for good measure.
The HOA reward for Red Hood's capture is announced at the next city council meeting, and Jason laughs himself sick.
Then he escalates to the long game and declares suburban war:
He seed bombs the lawns.
And that's the last straw.
Where the fuck is Batman?
Eventually news of Red Hood's unchecked ecoterrorism in the burbs reaches Bristol and leaves Bruce speechless. Jason celebrates by seed bombing the Manor lawn.
(Then Tim visits the neighborhood while Jason and Roy are out of town. He turns up in a bargain bin Party City Red Hood costume with obvious sock padding, just to keep the gag going and also to watch Jason lose his shit at the footage of a skinny weasel offbrand spandex Red Hood casually digging up a section of SUV house's lawn and planting an entire tree in full view of the porch camera.)