History Fridge / TeenTitans

Ok, one of your team-mates is a key to gate of hell dimension prison. Her own father is inter-dimensional space demon whose release from aforementioned prison would cause the EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt on universe scale. You have a few months to prepare. The whole team comes with a perfectly safe room, in which Father cannot get. You are well aware that the demon has an army of lesser demons on his disposal. The team is consisted of former member of Doom patrol and a FlyingBrick princess of the whole planet of flying bricks. What do you do?

* In the last episode, Slade talks to Beast Boy through a robot about the girl that resembles/is Terra. Based on information that's established, [[OhCrap Slade is never far behind from Terra]].

* In the episode "Employee of the Month", the Titans face an evil alien tofu overlord. Beast Boy threatens to eat the tofu creature as part of an interrogation, then saunters off to save the day. At the end of the episode Robin asks Beast Boy where he left the alien, and he says "in the fridge". This is right after Cyborg had announced that he was going to get something to eat. The team then has a moment of literal FridgeHorror.

* In Season 2 Slade emotionally manipulates, uses, abuses, and betrays Terra. Come Season 4, what does Trigon do? The exact same to him. It's karma!

** Pretty sure that's comics-only (where all the Titans are at least somewhat older). I don't think there's any indication that Raven in the show is anything but the teenager she appears to be (or whatever the teen-equivalent for quasi-divine half-demons is).

* In season two, when the Titans first meet Terra, they're quick to offer her a place on their team, but in later seasons they ''never'' do anything more than make allies honorary Titans by giving them communicators. Why aren't they recruiting new core members? After what went down with Terra, they don't want to get burned again.

** In "Birthmark", pretty much the entire city, frozen in time mind you, becomes Raven's weapon. She used two buildings and numerous cars to try to crush Slade, who had superpowers at the time and survived unscathed. Who's to say that half the cars or even the buildings didn't have innocent people in them?

* In Season 2 Slade emotionally manipulates, uses, abuses, and betrays Terra. Come Season 4, what does Trigon do? The exact same to him. It's karma!

** Speaking of "Troq," I knew many people who thought, when asked if he faced prejudice, Cyborg saying that he was "Half Robot" a cop-out from saying that he was black. However, when thinking about it, race isn't the only source of discrimination as what Cyborg could've been referencing is that the handicapped (cripples, amputees) are often discriminated as well. So it wasn't Cyborg copping out of referencing himself as part of the more-expected minority group rather than referencing a more-overlooked one. -//Tropers/{{LLSmoothJ}}

** In "Birthmark", pretty much the entire city, frozen in time mind you, becomes Raven's weapons. She used two buildings and numerous cars to try to crush Slade, who had superpowers at the time and survived unscathed. Who's to say that half the cars or even the buildings didn't have innocent people in them?

*** Note that, in all the time Slade's mentally and almost physically raping Raven, he's doing so as a proxy of Trigon. Her ''biological father'' put him up to that, and might even have been mystically tapping into Slade's psyche while he's doing it.

*** The same can be said between [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty Slade and Terra]] during "Aftershock".

* For the animated series, the MindRape-drug that Slade used on Robin to trigger the events of "Haunted" is bad enough on its lonesome, but if you stop to think about where it came from, you'll realize that Robin only ever captured ''one'' intact Slade mask (in "Masks", appropriately enough- Slade lost masks in "Apprentice" and "Aftershock" as well, but the former was completely shattered and the latter was melted in lava). Now that was back when the Slade/Robin enmity was just starting to get personal, so Slade had prepped that trap for someone he ''barely knew''. Now, he probably intended to use it much later, since it had to be remotely activated, but still- it really hits home just how cold blooded and cruel this guy is.

* Okay, ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': "Things Change". Season 5's big idea is that Beast Boy has to learn to grow up. We all thought the Brotherhood of Evil, his old nemeses, would do it. We thought his early days with the Doom Patrol would handle it. Nope, by the end of the Doom Patrol cameo, we learned his first name. By the time the Brotherhood was beaten, he made a brain freeze joke (all the Titans groaned at that one). No, the point of the last episode wasn't to [[ShipSinking sink ships.]] It wasn't a desperate attempt to write off Terra. It was there to remind you there are more things than heroes and villains out there. Terra lost her powers and she was glad for it; she couldn't handle being a hero or villain. In the last scene, Beast Boy finally gets it through his head that there is more than Black or White morals out there and is finally ready to move onto the next stage of his life. The ep is quite a bit of CerebusSyndrome from normal (and I expected a Batman cameo based on the title), but here we are. - @/{{Chadius}}
** Another ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' example for me is the much-maligned episode "Troq", usually accused of being {{anvilicious}} about how racism is bad. And it really is, but there are two subtler, much braver {{aesop}}s hidden within it. One is that racism isn't always confined to {{Card Carrying Villain}}s and {{Complete Monster}}s. Val-Yor's presented as a genuine hero who really is (all {{Alternate Character Interpretation}}s about the Locrix being innocent victims aside) trying to save the galaxy. At one point, he even orders Starfire to leave him behind and save herself - and yet he's also a racist bastard toward Starfire. Now usually, in a television show where an otherwise sympathetic character is a racist, he'll learn his lesson by the end of the episode, which leads to the BrokenAesop that it's somehow up to the victim to win over racists. But Val-Yor doesn't change, and the Titans instead accept that there will always be people like him, and simply refuse to tolerate his behavior and tell him he has to leave. This is actually a much more subdued and realistic aesop than the usual message that either only complete monsters can be racists, or that any racist who's not a complete monster can always be redeemed by the victim working hard enough to prove herself. - [=BritBllt=]
** When you stop to think about it, the episode "Stranded", despite being a (very fun and cute) filler episode, has this incredibly well done subtle theme of miscommunication and breakdown in communication running all throughout it. The Titans are in space because a satellite space station stopped broadcasting. The [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monster of the Week's]] power is a sonically disruptive scream that breaks up radio waves (among other things), directly leading to the Titans mistakenly separating and being scattered on the alien planet, out of contact from each other. All three conflicts of the episode involve mixed signals regarding communication - Starfire and Robin's misunderstanding of their feelings and the nature of their relationship, Cyborg's feeble attempts to instruct the mechanically inept Beast Boy on how to fix the T-ship, Raven's inability to convey her annoyance to the miniature egg-people following her. The symbolism is particularly noticeable when Robin and Starfire are discussing the definition of 'girlfriend'; not only does obscuring fog spring up concealing the two from each other, but then they discover a wide chasm has appeared between them. It's pretty freaking brilliant.
** Woah. At the start of ''Trouble In Tokyo'', when Saikotech kicks open the sprinkler systems and just vanishes right in front of Robin, Beast Boy's joking and immediately dismissed possibility for his disappearance is that Saikotech "just wasn't waterproof". As we learn later, [[spoiler: he's made out of paint]], so he really ''wasn't''! BB was ''right''!
*** Think about it further. Saikotech is technically Japanese. Turning on the sprinkler system while being an ink drawing is like suicide. What did samurai do when they get captured by the enemy/fail their master? They commit seppuku, a form of suicide special only in Japan. Saikotech failed Brushogun. Yeah.
** In "Snowblind", the team meets the radioactive hero Red Star. The character who spends the most time with Red Star and forms the greatest bond with Red Star is Starfire. Random choice? Probably not. See, Red Star is the hero's second identity. His original hero name in the comics, from his first stint in the Teen Titans comic was ''Starfire''.
** Also, this is probably a coincidence, but 5 in Japanese is "Go". The theme song says ''One, Two, Three, Four, Go! Teen Titans!''
*** And who sings the theme song? A pair of ''Japanese'' pop stars.
** In the episode "Overdrive", this troper initially considered the ending where Cyborg and the rest of the Titans to use a series of incredibly realistic holograms to beat the villain Billy Numerous a bit of a BigLippedAlligatorMoment that came out of freakin' nowhere. Then he realized two things: first off, Robin had used a hologram in "Masks", so that technology is not beyond the Titans. Secondly, the way the Titans beat Billy Numerous is the same way Billy had managed to keep the upper hand on a supercharged Cyborg throughout the episode: by tricking him into overtaxing his abilities. After Cyborg spent most of an episode convinced that he was a OneManArmy and nearly killing himself in the process, this final battle was about him stepping back and letting Billy exhaust himself. It fits nicely with the episode's theme of realizing [[AnAesop you're an individual and can only do so much in a day.]] ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' has some pretty damn good writing. -@/RomanticistCaveman
** At the start of Season 5, the Brotherhood of Evil inducts into their ranks most of the villains the Teen Titans had fought up to that point in time, including a couple who had actually ''died'' in their earlier appearances. This seems like a PlotHole until you remember: at the end of Season 4, Slade broke open the gates to Hell. When that happened, we saw several beams of light shoot out of the gateway; one of these went into Slade's body, restoring the flesh that he lost when he became undead, but we never saw where the other beams went. If we assume those were the souls of dead villains escaping from Hell, it all makes a lot more sense. -@/RavenWilder
*** Speaking of Slade and The Brotherhood of Evil, some fans were complaining how the newly resurrected Slade wasn’t in the Brotherhood, but his butler Wintergreen was. This could’ve been done for the sake of a cameo and cramming as many villains as they could into the Brotherhood, but there’s also that Jericho, one of the Titans being hunted down, is Slade’s son in the comics. Perhaps Slade sent Wintergreen to save his son from the Brotherhood when he couldn’t for whatever reasons; also in his very, very few appearances, Wintergreen's solely been Slade's assistant and never directly fought the Titans until Season 5. -GlassOwl
**** Wouldn't that be more at home on the WildMassGuessing page for [[WMG/TeenTitans Teen Titans]]? I figured that the reason Slade wasn't in the Brotherhood was because he's just too arrogant. He probably considers himself above them, and wouldn't want to take orders from the Brain (orders from Trigon were acceptable...because, c'mon, he's a ''frickin' demon''). Wintergreen was in the Brotherhood because he'd broken away from Slade's service (we hadn't seen him with Slade since his first appearance as his butler). - [[Tropers/GracieGeek Gracie Geek]]

* For the animated series, in Season 2 Slade emotionally manipulates, uses, abuses, and betrays Terra. Come Season 4, what does Trigon do? The exact same to him. It's karma!

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* For the animated series, the MindRape-drug that Slade used on Robin to trigger the events of "Haunted" is bad enough on its lonesome, but if you stop to think about where it came from, you'll realize that Robin only ever captured ''one'' intact Slade mask (in "Masks", appropriately enough- Slade lost masks in "Apprentice" and "Aftershock" as well, but the former was completely shattered and the latter was melted in lava). Now that was back when the Slade/Robin enmity was just starting to get personal, so Slade had prepped that trap for someone he ''barely knew''. Now, he probably intended to use it much later, since it had to be remotely activated, but still- it really hits home just how cold blooded and cruel this guy is.

* For the animated series, the MindRape-drug that Slade used on Robin to trigger the events of "Haunted" is bad enough on its lonesome, but if you stop to think about where it came from, you'll realize that Robin only ever captured ''one'' intact Slade mask (in "Masks", appropriately enough- Slade lost masks in "Apprentice" and "Aftershock" as well, but the former was completely shattered and the latter was melted in lava). Now that was back when the Slade/Robin enmity was just starting to get personal, so Slade had prepped that trap for someone he ''barely knew''. Now, he probably intended to use it much later, since it had to be remotely activated, but still- it really hits home just how cold blooded and cruel this guy is.

* At ScansDaily [[http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/1362282.html#comments there is a posting about Nightwing and Starfire's almost wedding]] in ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' during the lead up to it Dick Grayson was acting uncharacteristically dick-like and controlling. However his behavior makes scene when you consider he had been {{Bed Trick}}ed into sleeping with Mirage and Kory break up with him because of it, was the catalyst for him proposing. He was probably suffering from PTSD after being raped and having the woman he loved break up with him because of it. He wanted to marry her because that was the only way he could think of to keep her from leaving him.