History Fanfic / NewTamaran

** Red X is revealed to the reader to be [[spoiler:Jason Todd, but in Justice Returns he changes her surname to Sandsmark and marries Terra, implying they’ll have a daughter named [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Girl_(Cassie_Sandsmark) Cassie]].]]

* Wonder Girl (Donna Troy) is the daughter of Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor, making her a CompositeCharacter with Fury of Earth2

** [[spoilers:At the end of Justice Returns, the next group of young heroes is the [[https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Teen_Titans_(Earth-22) Kingdom Come Titans]], but only Nightstar and Red Hood have the exact same parentage. Kid Flash’s mother is Jinx, Aquagirl’s mother is Bumblebee, and Donna’s son Robert is the biological son of Shazam and stepson of Speedy.]]

** In her origin, Karen Beecher can be seen as this to [[Ironheart Riri Williams]]. While they’re both super-intelligent black teen girls, Riri Williams has a victim complex, steals from a university, replicates the work of Tony Stark, is self-centered, and doesn’t accept mistakes. This version of Karen Beecher has her be an actual victim of racism, gets her materials legally, vastly improves on her grandfather’s work, puts others first, and learns from her mistakes.

* Wonder Girl (Donna Troy) is the daughter of Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor, making her a CompositeCharacter with Fury of EarthTwo

* ShoutOut: The future revealed at the end of New Tamaran has characters from ComicBook/KingdomCome, the WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond episode [[Recap/BatmanBeyondS3E10E11TheCall “The Call”]], and ComicBookEarthTwo.

** In her origin, Karen Beecher can be seen as this to [[ComicBook/Ironheart Riri Williams]]. While they’re both super-intelligent black teen girls, Riri Williams has a victim complex, steals from a university, replicates the work of Tony Stark, is self-centered, and doesn’t accept mistakes. This version of Karen Beecher has her be an actual victim of racism, gets her materials legally, vastly improves on her grandfather’s work, puts others first, and learns from her mistakes.

** Chapter 8 of Justice Returns has jabs at WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo And LiveActionTV/Titans

** Chapter 8 of Justice Returns has jabs at WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo! And Series/Titans

Wham Line:

* Chapter 24: [[spoiler: “I won’t forget this … SISTER DEAR!!!”]]

* [[spoiler:Raven/Spectre gives one to Blackfire]]

* Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex: Discussed and averted in Unlikely Alike

* SelfInsertFic: In Chapter 34, Robin and Starfire read a letter from Saberlord Oboeshoes, in which he explains why he loves the Teen Titans, how much them mean to him, and reminding them of what makes them heroes

- In chapter 37, Control Freak is a piss-take at Adam Conover
- Wonder Woman and Wonder Girl both at one point say, “Sometimes we need to destroy what we hate to protect what we love” – a blatant inversion of a line by Rose Tico
- Justice Returns has jabs at Teen Titans Go! And Titans
- Abner Smith from Wonder Girl’s origin is a middle finger to Bradley/Chelsea Manning and Wikileaks
- Conversely, Cheshire’s origin begins as a condemnation of drone strikes and civilian casualties
- In Bumblebee’s origin, her followers devolve into a parody of Black Lives Matter and Antifa
- Kid Flash’s origin involves a school shooting, and contains some harsh commentary on how modern society responds to mass shooters:
- “Then it was just me and the shooter. I knew I should have just left him bound for the authorities. But this was hardly the first school shooter in my lifetime, and I recalled what had happened to the others. All given life in a luxurious prison cell, three square meals a day, letter correspondence with their admirers, and voting rights. I didn’t want that scum to get off so easy.”
- “The nation couldn’t stop talking about the shooting. Gun control advocates used it to push for stricter gun bans (even though the shooter was too young to legally purchase any firearm, and anyone who pointed that out was accused of hating children). On the flip side of the spectrum, alternative radio hosts accused the shooting as a government set up, and the grieving families were crisis actors who needed to get summer jobs.”
- “Thankfully, Aunt Iris finally shut the media off. She knew what we needed was time to grieve. To realize that we couldn’t save everyone, and how rage can easily take us over.”
- And this line directed towards the security guard at Parkland:
- “This man … whose sole job was to protect the students … failed to do so … acted like a coward … and was showing no remorse for it. A second later, Uncle Barry was standing where that coward was - right leg sprawled out in front of his left, his right arm punching forward – and the coward was replaced with a blood explosion.”
The Mafia: (spoilers) Blackfire meets Lex Luthor while dressed up like a member.
The Power of Love: (spoilers) How Starfire defeats Blackfire, and why Raven becomes a benevolent deity.
TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: President Steve Trevor delivers a two-parter (chapters 30 and 34) to Wildfire:
- Trevor: I'm calling to reason with you. Let me begin by asking a question: how is what happened at your sister's wedding any different than what you did in Metropolis?
- Wildfire: Oh, I see; you're the wise, old man giving bullshit wisdom to the stupid young kids, right?
- Trevor: Yes, I am a man. A man who has seen war for nearly a century. I've witnessed every atrocity that grown adults will do to each other, every act of sadism done against innocents, every type of cultural erosion done in the name of country, religion, power and greed. And now, you have just joined them in the ranks of evil. You treat war like it's a game, a game that you have initiated out of your own childish pettiness.
- Wildfire: That's not true at all. We still need a bunch of supplies to continue our colonization, and I've decided on a much better trade proposal. We're going to invade your planet, rule your people, and take everything we want in exchange for imposing on you the superior culture of a much more advanced species!
- Trevor: So, Congress was right to quickly reach a resolution then. You really are going to war over your neighbors. Well, as inferior as we are, we've known about the existence of intergalactic imperialists for quite some time. We wouldn't be so foolish as to not have some type of defense prepared.
- Wildfire: "Oh yeah? Well, bring it on, bitch!
- (later, after defeating Wildfire’s army in Washington DC)
- Trevor: You are a king without an army, which doesn't make you a king at all. Tell me, how does it feel to lead your soldiers to defeat and ruin, all in vain? How does it feel to repay kindness with violence? How does it feel to go turn an oppressed people into a legion of brutes? How does it feel … to murder an angel?
- Wildfire: Well, you're a warrior. You should know
- Trevor: So, you and I are the same, is that it? Here's where you're wrong. Yes, my whole life I have devoted to killing, but I kill so that my children's children won't have to wake up one day under the rule of a tyrant, and I kill so that those children who do wake up under a tyrant will no longer have to. I don't kill because I hate my enemies, but because my enemies' hate drives them to kill me. And I kill because I love my wife, and she will not return to this planet turned into your playpen!
- Wildfire: Well, I kill because I love my sister! And I can't look at you or any of your kind without seeing the face of that demon who took her away from me!
- Trevor: Then you’re not even a soldier. You’re just pathetic.
- (spoilers – Raven/Spectre gives one to Blackfire)
- "Your sister that you love to torment so much IS MY FRIEND! NOBODY HURTS MY FRIENDS! And that's exactly what you are - a pathetic nobody! You will have no friends to mourn you, no family to carry fond memories of you, and no legacy but one of sadistic misery. Your removal from this universe will be the only good thing anyone will ever say about you ... and I am going to enjoy making it happen!”
Tsundere: Wonder Girl briefly acts like a stereotypical version of one towards Speedy. Played For Laughs.
Tuckerization: Jump City Police Commissioner Slack is named after Teen Titans writer/producer David Slack
Villain Has A Point: Lois Lane finds herself agreeing with Lex Luthor in that letting Tamaraneans, a race of emotionally-prone living weapons, live amongst or near humans isn’t a good idea.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Lex Luthor’s hatred of space aliens (as well as Amazons and Atlanteans) is fueled by his desire to protect the human race from being conquered

- “Crown Princess of Tamaran … meet … THE CLOWN PRINCE OF CRIME!!!”
- “I won’t forget this … SISTER DEAR!!!”
- “Not my baby!”
- “Beneath his mask, Slade smiled for the first time in ages.”

- Amazons and Atlanteans are also like this. With their respective others away, [[spoiler:Steve Trevor and Mera fall in love, and Wonder Woman accepts them both when she returns.]]
- [[spoiler:When Raven achieves godhood, she sets up a physical presence on every world with civilization. On each of these worlds, she finds new friends and lovers (which includes Starfire, Nightwing, and Barbara on New Tamaran), even though Beast Boy will always be her truest true love.]]

-->'''Beast Boy''': ('to Kalibak')You see, I’m a shapeshifter. I can transform into any animal, from both zoos and fairy tales, and from any planet. So, you’re not just up against one enemy – you're up against BILLIONS!!! And you have no idea which one is gonna come next!
-->'''Raven''': ('to Darkseid')You call yourself a god? My father was a real god. Conquered his universe, then my mother’s, and then tried this one. He could destroy an entire planet just by setting foot on it. But thanks to my friends, I got over my fear of him, and destroyed him. And that was BEFORE I became this! You want fear? You want power? I’ll give you both.

* EthicalSlut / GoodBadGirl: Supergirl is a peeping tom, thinks mostly dirty thoughts, has had sex every day since losing her virginity, uses her super-senses to make the act perfect every time, her list of partners includes every other sidekick and most Honorary Titans, and she’s gladly unapologetic about all this. \\ Yet she’s still a sweet, kind-hearted, inspiring superheroine who won’t hesitate to rush into danger or comfort the hurting.
- Wonder Girl as well (often accompanying Supergirl) until she and Speedy become a couple
- While off-planet, Wonder Woman banged the entire Justice League. Steve Trevor is unfazed by this.
Exotic Extended Marriage: All Tamaraneans (except royalty) have intermingling group marriages, uniting the whole species together in love
Falsely Reformed Villain: (spoilers) Lex Luthor seems to have gone clean, but only because Oracle is blackmailing him. He also agrees to play a part in Blackfire’s plan.
Foil: The origins of Wonder Girl and Cheshire are this
For The Evulz: (spoilers) Blackfire was only sent to Earth to find the Anti-Life Equation; everything she does to her sister and her native people is all for fun.
Friends With Benefits: Supergirl has this relationship with every other age-appropriate hero who isn’t in a serious relationship.
From Nobody to Nightmare: (spoilers)
- While Scarecrow is normally a C-list villain, here he manages to take over the mind of an overpowered half-demon whom he almost turns into a God of Evil
- Blackfire has gone from a two-episode villain to … well, everything about her
- Cheshire’s story has her going from third world village girl to master assassin to leader of a terrorist organization to triggering a xenothium bomb in Dubai.
Heel-Face Turn: Red X once he learns the full scope of the Big Bad’s plan. (spoilers) He later becomes a law-abiding citizen and marries Terra.
Hero of Another Story: During the Teen Titans series, the Justice League was off-planet to aid in the war effort against Darkseid, while Supergirl and Wonder Girl had their own adventures as a Battle Couple, and Oracle kept tabs on LexCorp. Also, Static and Shazam are both briefly mentioned as the defenders of Dakota City and Fawcett City respectively.
Hotter and Sexier: The main story and the origin flashbacks aren’t shy about discussing the young heroes’ sex lives (to the point where it can be awfully disjointed from the rest of the story)
I Just Want To Be Normal: Starfire’s ultimate desire, which is the reason she starts a modeling career. Robin shares her dream, which is why he decides to retire from hero work and proposes to her.
- Once Wonder Girl finds out she’s pregnant, she asks Speedy to have a normal life with her. He agrees.
Legacy Character: Scarecrow is one to Dr. Poison, and Cheshire sees herself as this to The Joker
- (spoilers) At the end of Justice Returns, the new female Titans are following their parents, and Donna’s son Robert has the Blue Beetle mantle. On the villain side, Damian Wayne is the new Red X, while Ravager and Gemini are taking over the roles of their parents.
Let’s Play: Beast Boy has started doing these
Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex: Discussed and averted in Unlikely Alike
- Raven: Yes, and don’t forget your habit of making love every new young hero that comes along.
- Supergirl: Hey, just to be clear, I instruct them in making love to me, otherwise they’d all snap like twigs!
- Raven: Yes, well, I could never indulge myself like that, unless I wanted to trade my virginity for blowing up the whole planet.
Meta-Origin: A Brief History of Superheroics begins by explaining how in this version of the DC Universe, all the Amazons left Themyscera to aid the Allies against Ares and the Nazis. After the war, the surviving Amazons became the ancestors for all the magic-based heroes and villains, while super-science was derived from studying magical artifacts used during the war.
Police Brutality: A big part of Bumblebee’s origin
Polyamory: The norm in Tamaranean culture, to the point where all Tamaraneans (except royalty) have intermingling group marriages, uniting the whole species together in love. This is why Starfire is actually happy at the possibility of sharing Robin (spoiler) and ultimately does with Barbara and Raven.
- Amazons and Atlanteans are also like this. With their respective others away, Steve Trevor and Mera fall in love, (spoilers) and Wonder Woman accepts them both when she returns.
- (spoilers) When Raven achieves godhood, she sets up a physical presence on every world with civilization. On each of these worlds, she finds new friends and lovers (which includes Starfire, Nightwing, and Barbara on New Tamaran), even though Beast Boy will always be her truest true love.
Reality Ensues:
- Wonder Girl, like her parents, is a soldier, and thus doesn’t have a No Killing rule
- After returning to Earth, the surviving Justice League members are so exhausted, physically and mentally, from intergalactic war that they retire from hero work.
- Likewise, many Titans have to retire or semi-retire to raise their children. Thankfully, new young heroes take their place.
Reason You Suck Speech: President Steve Trevor delivers a two-parter (chapters 30 and 34) to Wildfire:

Related in the Adaptation:
- Wonder Girl (Donna Troy) is the daughter of Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor, making her a Composite Character with Fury of Earth-Two
- In Aqualad’s origin, (spoilers) Tula is the daughter of Mera
- Red X is revealed to the reader to be (spoilers) Jason Todd, but in Justice Returns he changes her surname to Sandsmark and marries Terra, implying they’ll have a daughter named Cassie
- While Argent is still half-alien, her human genes came from The Ray
- (spoilers) At the end of Justice Returns, the next group of young heroes is the Kingdom Come Titans, but only Nightstar and Red Hood have the exact same parentage. Kid Flash’s mother is Jinx, Aquagirl’s mother is Bumblebee (now called Dolphin), and Donna’s son Robert is the biological son of Shazam and stepson of Speedy.
Royal Inbreeding: Starfire unashamedly admits coming from eight generations of brother-sister marriage; one could imply that Blackfire’s “defects” are a result from this.
Self-Insert Fic: In Chapter 34, Robin and Starfire read a letter from Saberlord Oboeshoes, in which he explains why he loves the Teen Titans, how much them mean to him, and reminding them of what makes them heroes
Sex Is Good: The stories definitely have a sex-positive message. As Wonder Woman tells her daughter in Amazon Origin:
- “First of all, it can involve a boy and a girl, two boys, two girls, or a combo of three or even four. Second, sex is all about the joining of the most sensitive parts of the body, soul, and mind all together at once. During the process, the physical, spiritual, and mental parts of everyone who does it join together into one, becoming an intense array of passion that makes you lose yourself as you fly through the air! As Amazons, before and after every battle, we offer to have sex with our fellow warriors, strengthening the bond of love between us all!”
Shout-Out: The future revealed at the end of New Tamaran has characters from Kingdom Come, the Batman Beyond episode “The Call”, and Earth Two
- The end of Justice Returns is one to the beginning of Divide and Conquer, the first Teen Titans episode
Spiritual Antithesis:
- In The Killing Joke movie, Barbara Gordon was infamously portrayed as acting out of pure selfishness, while also being reckless, impulsive, and hot-headed. By contrast, the Barbara in these stories still doesn’t make the most ethical actions, yet she does them because she truly believes they are in the best interests of the people she cares about. She also takes time to plan out her actions, and ultimately does succumb to criticism.
- In her origin, Karen Beecher can be seen as this to Riri Williams. While they’re both super-intelligent black teen girls, Riri Williams has a victim complex, steals from a university, replicates the work of Tony Stark, is self-centered, and doesn’t accept mistakes. This version of Karen Beecher has her be an actual victim of racism, gets her materials legally, vastly improves on her grandfather’s work, puts others first, and learns from her mistakes.
Take That!:
- In chapter 37, Control Freak is a piss-take at Adam Conover
- Wonder Woman and Wonder Girl both at one point say, “Sometimes we need to destroy what we hate to protect what we love” – a blatant inversion of a line by Rose Tico
- Justice Returns has jabs at Teen Titans Go! And Titans
- Abner Smith from Wonder Girl’s origin is a middle finger to Bradley/Chelsea Manning and Wikileaks
- Conversely, Cheshire’s origin begins as a condemnation of drone strikes and civilian casualties
- In Bumblebee’s origin, her followers devolve into a parody of Black Lives Matter and Antifa
- Kid Flash’s origin involves a school shooting, and contains some harsh commentary on how modern society responds to mass shooters:
- “Then it was just me and the shooter. I knew I should have just left him bound for the authorities. But this was hardly the first school shooter in my lifetime, and I recalled what had happened to the others. All given life in a luxurious prison cell, three square meals a day, letter correspondence with their admirers, and voting rights. I didn’t want that scum to get off so easy.”
- “The nation couldn’t stop talking about the shooting. Gun control advocates used it to push for stricter gun bans (even though the shooter was too young to legally purchase any firearm, and anyone who pointed that out was accused of hating children). On the flip side of the spectrum, alternative radio hosts accused the shooting as a government set up, and the grieving families were crisis actors who needed to get summer jobs.”
- “Thankfully, Aunt Iris finally shut the media off. She knew what we needed was time to grieve. To realize that we couldn’t save everyone, and how rage can easily take us over.”
- And this line directed towards the security guard at Parkland:
- “This man … whose sole job was to protect the students … failed to do so … acted like a coward … and was showing no remorse for it. A second later, Uncle Barry was standing where that coward was - right leg sprawled out in front of his left, his right arm punching forward – and the coward was replaced with a blood explosion.”
The Mafia: (spoilers) Blackfire meets Lex Luthor while dressed up like a member.
The Power of Love: (spoilers) How Starfire defeats Blackfire, and why Raven becomes a benevolent deity

* EthicalSlut / GoodBadGirl: Supergirl is a peeping tom, thinks mostly dirty thoughts, has had sex every day since losing her virginity, uses her super-senses to make the act perfect every time, her list of partners includes every other sidekick and most Honorary Titans, and she’s gladly unapologetic about all this. Yet she’s still a sweet, kind-hearted, inspiring superheroine who won’t hesitate to rush into danger or comfort the hurting.

* Destructo-Nookie: Robin taking Starfire’s virginity ends with the top floor of Titans Tower reduced to rubble

* EthicalSlut/GoodBadGirl: Supergirl is a peeping tom, thinks mostly dirty thoughts, has had sex every day since losing her virginity, uses her super-senses to make the act perfect every time, her list of partners includes every other sidekick and most Honorary Titans, and she’s gladly unapologetic about all this. Yet she’s still a sweet, kind-hearted, inspiring superheroine who won’t hesitate to rush into danger or comfort the hurting.

* DoubleStandard:Rape,FemaleOnMale: Strongly averted, as it's always done for drama or horror.

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleonMale: Strongly averted, as it's always done for drama or horror.

* DeityofHumanOrigin: [[spoiler:Raven is a mortal who becomes God, although being the daughter of a demon-god definitely helped.]]

* DoubleStandard:Rape,FemaleonMale: Strongly averted, as it's always done for drama or horror.

** [spoiler: Averted with Beast Boy and Raven. Their first-time making love tears open space-time and creates the Green Martians across the multiverse. ItMakesSenseInContext.]]

-**Played straight with Supergirl’s first time.

-->'''Raven''': ('to [[ComicBook/Darkseid Darkseid]]')You call yourself a god? My father was a real god. Conquered his universe, then my mother’s, and then tried this one. He could destroy an entire planet just by setting foot on it. But thanks to my friends, I got over my fear of him, and destroyed him. And that was BEFORE I became this! You want fear? You want power? I’ll give you both.

-->'''Raven''': ('to [[ComicBook/Darkseid]]')You call yourself a god? My father was a real god. Conquered his universe, then my mother’s, and then tried this one. He could destroy an entire planet just by setting foot on it. But thanks to my friends, I got over my fear of him, and destroyed him. And that was BEFORE I became this! You want fear? You want power? I’ll give you both.

** [[spoiler:]]Wildfire/Ryand’r begins as a hero like the comics, but the death of Starfire sends him on a ''Roaring Rampage of Revenge'' that ends in an invasion of Earth.]]

- [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/19284271 Kid Flash and Jinx]]

- [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/19309885 An Offer Luthor Can't Refuse]]: Lex Luthor makes a deal with the [[Main/Big Bad]]

- [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/19309885 An Offer Luthor Can't Refuse]]: Lex Luthor makes a deal with the [[Big Bad]]