Quote Originally Posted by BardicDuelist View Post
I can't believe that this ended up four pages in without anyone mentioning that the title/gag is a reference to the Batman comic/animated video "Under the Red Hood" where Jason Todd does this. (I know a bit of a spoiler, but it happened YEARS ago and the continuity has gone through literally three changes since).
Not really. The "Batman: Under the Hood" comics came out in 2005. "Under the Hood" was the name Hollis Mason's fictitious biography in Alan Moore's "Watchmen", which pre-dates that by almost two decades. I'm sure there have been countless references to "Under the Hood" in superhero pulps through the years, and probably in older literature as well, so trying to pin down the exact first appearance of the phrase is probably a fool's errand, but rest assured it did not begin with Batman.