I wonder if Tim's original name was Jeff and they changed it for some reason?

Jeff and Jason both start with the same letter and they couldn't have that

It actually was supposed to be Jeff

Honestly, I'd forgotten how intensely creepy Tim was in his introduction.

"Yeah, I stalked you guys. I used to fantasize about being you. You're one of the most important things to me. I know where you live and where your friends live."

Tiny stalker

he was fated to be a hero or a villain

Generation Hope : I mean he did manage both

He's presently a hero but has multiple future villain timelines

Fun fact: Anarky was originally introduced to be Batman's new Robin, but Tim was already in the works and Anarky's writer hadn't known in advance.

that's just life in comics though

Syndrome Good End

A Lonely Place of Dying is wild. Tim just waltzes fucking in and announces that he knows who they all are and hey Dick remember when your parents died I was there.

At least they laid that out with Year 3 first, but yeah

Timbo, you were creepy and I wouldn't've wanted to know you.

And they let him!