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* HappilyAdopted: He's probably the only child to have a good relationship with his parents. And he's adopted no less.

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* HappilyAdopted: He's probably the only child to have a good relationship with his parents. And he's adopted no less. Heck, he's the only one of the team whose opinion of their parental figure ''isn't'' mired by the revelation of the teenagers being raised as experimental weapons.

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* AbledInTheAdaptation: Zig-zagged. He is introduced as able to speak when his standard incarnation was rendered mute as a result of having his throat cut at a young age, but he later sticks to using his body-surfing ability to communicate through his hosts after his father accidentally slashes his throat.



* AdaptationalOriginConnection: [[spoiler:With the exception of Raven, Starfire is the source of all of the superhuman powers due to S.T.A.R. Labs' experimentations.]]

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* AdaptationalOriginConnection: AdaptationOriginConnection: [[spoiler:With the exception of Raven, Starfire is the source of all of the superhuman powers due to S.T.A.R. Labs' experimentations.]]]]
* AdaptationalModesty: She dresses even more modestly than her incarnation in [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003 the 2003 cartoon]], which may have something to do with her being 16 in this continuity.



* AdaptationalNameChange: Not once referred to as Aqualad. There might not even be an Aquaman.
* AdaptationalSpeciesChange: He is normally an Atlantean. Here, like most of the Titans, he is a human genetically enhanced with Tamaranian DNA.

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* AdaptationalNameChange: AdaptationalUgliness: He looks less human and more like a fish-monster in this continuity.
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Not once referred to as Aqualad. There might not even be an Aquaman.
* AdaptationalSpeciesChange: AdaptationSpeciesChange: He is normally an Atlantean. Here, like most of the Titans, he is a human genetically enhanced with Tamaranian DNA.



%%zce* ActionDad: As ever.

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%%zce* * AbledInTheAdaptation: This version of Slade Wilson has both of his eyes intact.
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ActionDad: As ever.ever, he's a father willing to kick ass who values his offspring.



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%%* * ForScience: See IRegretNothingShe only saw her son as an experiment and put the changes his body was going through over his well-being.



* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: She comments to Steve's face that his family isn't real. Not the part where his adopted son is becoming Changeling.

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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: She comments to Steve's face that his family isn't real. Not the part where his adopted son is becoming Changeling.Changeling, but the part that he and his male partner adopted Gar.



* StarterVillain: She's ''that'' incompetent.

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* StarterVillain: She's ''that'' incompetent.The first antagonist faced by this continuity's Titans before Starfire vaporizes her.



* AdaptationalWimp: She is this continuity's Elasti-Girl, but is a normal human with no size-changing abilities.



* BigBad: Of Volume 2.

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* BigBad: Of He is the main antagonist of Volume 2.



* WellIntentionedExtremist: How he views himself.

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* WellIntentionedExtremist: How he views himself.He genuinely believes his plans will improve the world.



* CompositeCharacter: Between Wally West and Bart Allen.

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* CompositeCharacter: Between He's Wally West and with Bart Allen.Allen's original codename.



* AdaptationalUgliness: Usually she's depicted as being at least as attractive as Starfire. Here, Blackfire is a hunchback who makes [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney Quasimodo]] look ''normal'' by comparison.

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* AdaptationalUgliness: Usually she's depicted as being at least as attractive as Starfire. Here, Blackfire is a hunchback who makes [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney Quasimodo]] look ''normal'' by comparison.deformed clone of Starfire with a hump, so it goes without saying that she looks worse than her standard incarnation.
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* HasTwoMommies: Gender-inverted, as he is adopted by Steve and Richard.
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* BareYourMidriff: After gaining her freedom, she starts wearing some of what appears to be Raven's clothes, including clothes that shows off the trope.
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* OffModel: Elinore Stone is depicted as completely bald near the beginning of the book, then when her son Victor goes to reveal his newly metal skin to her, she suddenly has short-cut light brown hair from then onwards for no narrative reason and this is never noticed by the characters or mentioned in-story. More bizarrely a one-panel flashback shortly after has her briefly depicted with short-cut ''black'' hair.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Either he hates wheelchairs or there's a legitimate reason he wants the Robot Man exoskeleton.

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* BlindingBangs: His long bleach-blond hair obscures his eyes for most of the first volume. [[spoiler:Justified, since his ability to possess people is controlled by eye contact. When the characters and readers finally see both of his eyes head-on, it's just in time for TheReveal that he's TheMole.]]


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* MeaningfulAppearance: His long bleach-blond hair obscures his eyes for most of the first volume. [[spoiler:Justified, since his ability to possess people is controlled by eye contact. When the characters and readers finally see both of his eyes head-on, it's just in time for TheReveal that he's TheMole.]]

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* [[CallingTheOldManOut Calling the Old Woman Out]]: She yells at her mother for being an irresponsible drunkard.

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* [[CallingTheOldManOut Calling the Old Woman Out]]: CallingTheOldWomanOut: She yells at her mother for being an irresponsible drunkard.[[AlcoholicMom drunkard]].



* ActionDad: As ever.

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* AlcoholicMom: An AbusiveMom who's DrowningHerSorrows.
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* AdoptedToTheHouse: Taken in by Raven and her grandfather who makes it clear that she's family.


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* PapaWolf: Takes up a rifle to protect his family from S.T.A.R. Labs.

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* AdultFear: [[spoiler:Accidentally slitting your own son's throat tends to do this.]]



* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:Accidentally slitting your own son's throat tends to do this.]]



* AdultFear: Is the most concerned for his son out of all of the parents. [[spoiler:It got him shot.]]
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* VillainousBreakdown: Happens over the course of Volume 1, being a sort of BreakTheHaughty. She starts off as a smug, arrogant woman whose only care is the project, and other smart people, and by the end, she's begging for forgiveness by Starfire. [[spoiler: she doesn't accept.]]

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* VillainousBreakdown: Happens over the course of Volume 1, being a sort of BreakTheHaughty. She starts off as a smug, arrogant woman whose only care is the project, and other smart people, and by the end, she's begging for forgiveness by Starfire. [[spoiler: she [[spoiler:She doesn't accept.]]

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* PseudoRomanticFriendship: With Starfire. They're generally touchy-feely and end the book holding hands.



* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: With Starfire. They're generally touchy-feely and end the book holding hands.

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* PseudoRomanticFriendship: With Raven. They're generally touchy-feely and end the book holding hands.



* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: With Raven. They're generally touchy-feely and end the book holding hands.
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* AdaptationalUgliness: Usually she's depicted as being at least as attractive as Starfire. Here, Blackfire is a hunchback who makes [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Quasimodo]] look ''normal'' by comparison.

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* AdaptationalUgliness: Usually she's depicted as being at least as attractive as Starfire. Here, Blackfire is a hunchback who makes [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney Quasimodo]] look ''normal'' by comparison.
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* BaldWomen: PlayedWith. She isn't quite bald, but her hair is so short it's hard to tell.

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* BadassMustache: Has a good one.



* PsychicPowers: How Caulder theorizes her powers come from.
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Starfire's red.

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* %%* PsychicPowers: How Caulder theorizes her powers come from.
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* HairTriggerTemper: While he usually tries to at least [[FauxAffablyEvil appear friendly]], he becomes enraged at any sign of disrespect or insubordination, to the point where his "children," the Titans, are terrified of arguing with him.

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* HairTriggerTemper: While he usually tries to at least [[FauxAffablyEvil appear friendly]], he becomes enraged at any sign of disrespect or insubordination, to the point where his "children," "children", the Titans, are terrified of arguing with him.
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The leader of both the Starfire and Blackfire programs, and the Titans' [[ArtificialFamilyMember "father".]]

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The leader of both the Starfire and Blackfire programs, and the Titans' [[ArtificialFamilyMember "father".]]"father"]].
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The leader of both the Starfire and Blackfire programs, and the Titans' [[ArtificialFamilyMember "father."]]

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The leader of both the Starfire and Blackfire programs, and the Titans' [[ArtificialFamilyMember "father."]]"father".]]



* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:STAR Labs is under scrutiny after the fight at it's front door, but he and Joey are nowhere to be found.]]

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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:STAR [[spoiler:S.T.A.R. Labs is under scrutiny after the fight at it's front door, but he and Joey are nowhere to be found.]]
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* ResentfulGuardian: She's Tara's adoptive mother, and by the time the story proper starts, she's left her job at Star Labs to take a job at a restaurant, her husband was killed to uphold the masquerade, and she's a substance-abusing wreck. She blames Tara.

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* ResentfulGuardian: She's Tara's adoptive mother, and by the time the story proper starts, she's left her job at Star S.T.A.R. Labs to take a job at a restaurant, her husband was killed to uphold the masquerade, and she's a substance-abusing wreck. She blames Tara.



* DefectorFromDecadence: Worked with the Starfire project loyally, but after his family started to get affected by the project in a way he never intended, he was ready to blow the whistle... [[spoiler: It did not go well.]]

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* DefectorFromDecadence: Worked with the Starfire project loyally, but after his family started to get affected by the project in a way he never intended, he was ready to blow the whistle... whistle… [[spoiler: It did not go well.]]



* PsychopathicManchild: Not malicious, has a childish hairstyle, apparently plays with a doll, has a backpack she wears on her front, is most sensitive to being made fun of... checks out nicely.

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* PsychopathicManchild: Not malicious, has a childish hairstyle, apparently plays with a doll, has a backpack she wears on her front, is most sensitive to being made fun of... of… checks out nicely.



* BadassNormal: When STAR Labs sends Deathstroke and a team of soldiers to capture Starfire and Raven, he takes up a rifle and tells the girls to run.

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* BadassNormal: When STAR S.T.A.R. Labs sends Deathstroke and a team of soldiers to capture Starfire and Raven, he takes up a rifle and tells the girls to run.

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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Absolutely ''nobody'' in this series thinks positively of her. She's been called tight-ass behind her back, she's experimented on her own son to the point he refuses to call her mom, Caulder's agent Clay makes snide comments at her incompetence to her face, and her actions disgusted Slade Wilson -- ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} himself.



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* HatedByAll: Absolutely nobody in this series thinks positively of her. She's been called tight-ass behind her back, she's experimented on her own son to the point he refuses to call her mom, Caulder's agent Clay makes snide comments at her incompetence to her face, and her actions disgusted Slade Wilson -- ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} himself.
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The leader of both the Starfire and Blackfire programs, and the Titans’ [[ArtificialFamilyMember “father.”]]

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The leader of both the Starfire and Blackfire programs, and the Titans’ Titans' [[ArtificialFamilyMember “father.”]]"father."]]



* AffablyEvil: He’s charismatic, manipulative, and friendly. His ChildSoldiers see him as a perfect father figure. He’s also willing to experiment on unknown numbers of innocent children, shape the survivors into a private army of child soldiers, and overthrow the government.

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* AffablyEvil: He’s He's charismatic, manipulative, and friendly. His ChildSoldiers see him as a perfect father figure. He’s He's also willing to experiment on unknown numbers of innocent children, shape the survivors into a private army of child soldiers, and overthrow the government.



* FauxAffablyEvil: While he is charismatic and a perfect father figure in the Titans’ descriptions of him, his destructive and frequent bouts of explosive anger show how much of his kind and fatherly behavior is simply a front to better manipulate the children.

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* FauxAffablyEvil: While he is charismatic and a perfect father figure in the Titans’ Titans' descriptions of him, his destructive and frequent bouts of explosive anger show how much of his kind and fatherly behavior is simply a front to better manipulate the children.



* HairTriggerTemper: While he usually tries to at least [[FauxAffablyEvil appear friendly]], he becomes enraged at any sign of disrespect or insubordination, to the point where his “children,” the Titans, are terrified of arguing with him.

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* HairTriggerTemper: While he usually tries to at least [[FauxAffablyEvil appear friendly]], he becomes enraged at any sign of disrespect or insubordination, to the point where his “children,” "children," the Titans, are terrified of arguing with him.



* WouldHurtAChild: He led the Starfire and Blackfire Projects. Everything that the parents and scientists at the Starfire Project did, the unethical experimentation that caused all the conflict in Volume One? That all went through him if it wasn’t his brainchild to begin with.

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* WouldHurtAChild: He led the Starfire and Blackfire Projects. Everything that the parents and scientists at the Starfire Project did, the unethical experimentation that caused all the conflict in Volume One? That all went through him if it wasn’t wasn't his brainchild to begin with.



The oldest member of and leader of the Titans, and the team’s speedster.

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The oldest member of and leader of the Titans, and the team’s team's speedster.



* CrystalPrison: In one fight, she traps Tempest’s hands in a block of crystal. Generally, she uses her powers defensively to trap her opponents instead of directly attacking them
* GemstoneAssault: Her power is creating crystals, although she doesn’t use it as much as her “siblings”

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* CrystalPrison: In one fight, she traps Tempest’s Tempest's hands in a block of crystal. Generally, she uses her powers defensively to trap her opponents instead of directly attacking them
* GemstoneAssault: Her power is creating crystals, although she doesn’t doesn't use it as much as her “siblings”"siblings"



* EstablishingCharacterMoment: leaping out of a helicopter, grinning, fists in position to fight (contrasted with Kole and Wally, who are in a landing pose), shouting “I wanna beat up the green one!”

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: leaping out of a helicopter, grinning, fists in position to fight (contrasted with Kole and Wally, who are in a landing pose), shouting “I "I wanna beat up the green one!” one!"
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* AdaptationalUgliness: Usually she's depicted as being at least as attractive as Starfire. Here, Blackfire is a hunchback who makes [[Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Quasimodo]] look ''normal'' by comparison.

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* AdaptationalUgliness: Usually she's depicted as being at least as attractive as Starfire. Here, Blackfire is a hunchback who makes [[Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Quasimodo]] look ''normal'' by comparison.

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* BrightIsNotGood: His ColorMotif is yellow/white but primarily blue. [[spoiler:The most vile of the kids.]]



* LightIsNotGood: His ColorMotif is yellow/white but primarily blue. [[spoiler:The most vile of the kids.]]

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* BadassGrandpa: Don't let the white hair fool you, he can still take down whole squads of armed soldiers.



* OldSoldier: Don't let the white hair fool you, he can still take down whole squads of armed soldiers.



* BadassGrandpa: When STAR Labs sends Deathstroke and a team of soldiers to capture Starfire and Raven, he takes up a rifle and tells the girls to run. And this is a normal guy.

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* BadassGrandpa: BadassNormal: When STAR Labs sends Deathstroke and a team of soldiers to capture Starfire and Raven, he takes up a rifle and tells the girls to run. And this is a normal guy.run.
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* ElectricBlackGuy: Surprisingly averted. Despite being a black version of a character that normally has ShockAndAwe powers this version of Cassie is limited to super-strength and has no hints of electrical manipulation powers.

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* ArchnemesisDad: GenderFlip. She's Victor's mother, and first big enemy.

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* ArchnemesisDad: GenderFlip. She's Victor's mother, mother and his first big enemy.



* BerserkButton: Don't mention the failing of Project Starfire. When Rita mentioned allowing the project to be abandoned, she nearly choked the woman to death.

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* BerserkButton: Don't mention the failing of Project Starfire.Starfire failing. When Rita mentioned allowing the project to be abandoned, she nearly choked the woman to death.



* BigBadWannabe: She's not nearly as competent as she likes to think. [[spoiler: Think about it, she had over ten years to plan for the children to get those powers, and she loses Starfire, the kids, the facility, and her life,]] all thanks to her arrogance.

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* BigBadWannabe: She's Despite being the main antagonist, she's not nearly as competent as she likes to think. [[spoiler: Think about it, she had over ten years to plan for the children to get those powers, and she loses Starfire, the kids, the facility, and her life,]] life, all thanks to her arrogance.]]



* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of TheSociopath and MadScientist. On paper she's a brilliant woman who is trying to revolutionize the world. In reality, she is a short sighted, unapologetic bitch, and it burns a bridge with everyone she knows. Even people loyal to her abandon her and people she's loyal to use her as an excuse to make a FallGuy.

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* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of TheSociopath and {{The Sociopath}}ic MadScientist. On paper paper, she's a brilliant woman who is trying to revolutionize the world. world and is just ruthless enough to see things through to the end. In reality, she is a short sighted, short-sighted, unapologetic bitch, and it burns a bridge with everyone she knows. Even people loyal to her abandon her and people she's loyal to use her as an excuse to make a FallGuy.



* DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler: forget the fact that she should've had a plan for the moment things didn't go her way (which is the kids accepting their change and being loyal like Joey, and for when Starfire started to break free. She should've run from Starfire the moment she was freed. She'd still be alive at least.]]

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* DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler: forget Forget the fact that she should've had a plan for the moment things didn't go her way (which is the kids accepting their change and being loyal like Joey, and for when Starfire started to break free.free}. She should've run from Starfire the moment she was freed. She'd still be alive at least.]]



* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: She seems very controlling and abrasive towards Victor in the beginning, but she seems to start opening up when she sees that her son is mutating. However, instead of concern, she's actually viewing him like he's a successful test subject. She only gets worse from there.



* NonActionBigBad: The most she gets in terms of action is shooting Steve for defecting. She usually leaves physical work to subordinates. Justified since she's just a scientist. She isn't trained for action.



* TheSociopath: She shows several signs of this. From her manipulative and dishonest nature and superficial charm, to her lack of empathy and remorse. She has a grandiose sense of self-worth that makes her prone to being very impulsive despite her status as a scientist. Interestingly, while it could be assumed that she's high-functioning at first glance, a better case could be made for her being a low-functioning example.
* StarterVillain: She's ''That'' incompetent.

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* TheSociopath: She shows several signs of this. From her manipulative and dishonest nature and superficial charm, charm to her lack of empathy and remorse. She has a grandiose sense of self-worth that makes her prone to being very impulsive despite her status as a scientist. Interestingly, while it could be assumed that she's high-functioning at first glance, a better case could be made for her being a low-functioning example.
* StarterVillain: She's ''That'' ''that'' incompetent.

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* HasTwoDaddies: Adopted by Steve and Richard.

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* HasTwoDaddies: Adopted HasTwoMommies: Gender-inverted, as he is adopted by Steve and Richard.



* UnableToCry: Due to the spreading metal. See SuperpowerDisability

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* UnableToCry: Due to the spreading metal. See SuperpowerDisabilitySuperpowerDisability.



* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Starfire speaks English, if somewhat [[YouNoTakeCandle broken]]

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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Starfire speaks English, if somewhat [[YouNoTakeCandle broken]]broken]].



* LastOfHisKind: Very Likely.

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* LastOfHisKind: Very Likely.likely.


















A Navajo teenager who has recurring [[DreamingOfThingsToCome dreams]] about those who will become the Teen Titans.

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A Navajo teenager who has recurring [[DreamingOfThingsToCome dreams]] {{dream|ingOfThingsToCome}}s about those who will become the Teen Titans.
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* AngstWhatAngst: He pulls this on the initial shock of being able to turn into a green cat. And he tries to force himself into this, since he admits to Tara he'd like to curl up in a ball and cry, but won't because people need him.



* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: [[spoiler:Is he really brainwashed?]]



* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: The moment she showed pride at Vic's transformation meant that she was less concerned for her child than any of the other parents. It also doesn't help that she kills Steve after commenting that they should call the cops.]]

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