I wouldn't classify Jason as an anti-hero nor and anti-villain. He's a guy that clearly needs help. What his doing is wrong, but contextually you'd put him in the 'mentally unstable' category, not the 'completely and utterly evil' category. Also? teaching kids that there is only black and white - no moral ambiguity = very harmful IMHO. Life is full of moral ambiguity. Every comic character has gone through some patch of it during their time of being written. Hell, didn't come of the good guys pretty much mind-rape a bad guy and Batman once? Why aren't they classified now as being evil, when what they did was clearly wrong? Because some would disagree upon the right and wrong of those actions, hence moral ambiguity. Some people believe in killing people who have done horrible things )i.e. killing, rape, maiming, torture, genocide, etc) while others think that killing those people brings you down to their level and hell, two wrongs don;t make a right yeah? If anything, Jason would simply be at this point the anti-Batman. That seems to be more his goal than anything. To him, Batman failed to stop the Joker, Black Mask, and crime in Gotham. 'So, if Batman's methods weren't cutting it, what should I do to fix this? - The opposite of what he's doing.' Jason's rationale is pathological, not to be used as his measuring stick of good or evil. Pathological (irrational or insane) thoughts and actions are they're own thing, outside of right and wrong, because there's a defect in the person's line of thought. First you'd have to get the person to a place where they are in a sense, truly themselves. Then one can see exactly how their mentality shall fall into what classification. Now, if the person cannot be fixed (the damage to their sense of self and their perception of reality is too far gone) then what can you do? Moral ambiguity has a place. If not, then every story would be simple and, to me at least, unappealing. How do you advance a character and make them grow without them having to go through some sort of test of will and emotional well being? Without making them question themselves, and for some, change, and for others, continue to persevere as always?