History Recap / TeenTitansS2E1HowLongIsForever

** Robin growing his hair out is Nightwing invokes him doing the sam in "WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries." Glen Murakami designed both.

* ShipTease: Starfire and Nightwing's interactions in this episode are semi-romantic. (Well, kind of blatant actually. And just a little awkward [and not to mention confusing] considering Nightwing is somewhere around his mid-thirties.)

* GondorCallsForAid / PuttingTheBandBackTogether: Nightwing summons the former Titans for help by using one of their old communicators.

* HannibalLecture: Warp [[BreakTheCutie tries to crush Starfire's already-shaken spirit]] by telling her [[YouCannotFightFate that the future cannot be altered]].

* FutureLoser: Arguably all the Titans to varying degrees, but most glaringly Beast Boy, given that he's in a rundown zoo and has become an old, fat, badling guy who's regularly bullied. Robin is still active, but he's flying solo as Nightwing, and no longer is in contact with his fellow Titans, so while he's much less of a "loser" in terms of capability, he was still heavily affected by Starfire's disappearance. And whatever Raven was going through, on the other hand, doesn't bear thinking about.

* SelfRestraint: Both Beast Boy and Raven are able to leave the places they're confined with relative ease, suggesting this Trope.

* FutureLoser: Arguably all the Titans to varying degrees, but most glaringly Beast Boy, given that he's in a rundown zoo and has become an old, fat, badling guy who's regularly bullied. Robin is still active, but he's flying solo as Nightwing, and no longer is in contact with his fellow Titans, so while he's much less of a "loser" in terms of capability, he was still heavily affected by Starfire's disappearance.

->''"Please... must this really be our future? Is there nothing I can do to change it?"''

-->'''Nightwing:''' So it's impossible. Good. If memory serves, we've done the impossible before.
* FountainOfYouth: How Warp is defeated-when his vortex generator gets sufficiently damaged, it begins breaking down, reverting Warp to a baby in the process.

* FutureLoser: Arguably all the Titans to varying degrees, but most glaringly Beast Boy.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Raven. She gets better, though.

* ScrewDestiny: Starfire delivers a speech that sums this up.
* SelfRestraint: Both Beast-Boy and Raven are able to leave the places they're confined with relative ease, suggesting this Trope.

* SnowMeansDeath: Starfire finds herself in a snowy environment when she discovers the Teen Titans had collapsed in her absence.

* WhiteVoidRoom: Raven's chamber.

* FutureBadass: Robin is the only Titan to get ''more'' badass, but at the cost of his relationship with his friends.

* Played for laughs when Beast Boy learns that he’s going to go bald and tears his own hair out.

* FountainOfYouth: How Warp is defeated-when his vortex generator gets sufficiently damaged, it explodes, causing Warp to revert to a baby.

-->'''Starfire:''' (threatens to destroy the modulater) If you wish to return to your future, you will repair the damage you have done to my past!

-->'''Starfire:''' (threatens to destroy the modulater) If you wish to return to your future, you will repair the damage you've done to my past!
-->'''Warp:''' Damage? Silly girl, there's nothing wrong with your past. One cannot damage history because history cannot be changed. (holds up the clock) I went back in time to steal this because history says it disappeared and history says it disappeared because I went back in time to steal it. Past, present, future. It's all written in stone, my dear. And nothing you do can ever change it.

** Starfire when she comes back tells the Titans everything. Robin ends the episode by saying, "So Nightwing, huh?"

->'''Starfire:''' On my planet, Rekmas means "The Drifting," the point in which close friends begin to drift apart... and their friendship begins to die...

* YouCantFightFate: Warp tells Starfire that the BadFuture she's seen is inevitable. She realizes it isn't necessarily so when she returns to the present with the device (which Warp's history records as vanishing permanently at the time he stole it).

! Tropes:
* BadFuture: The future Starfire travels to is undeniably this.

* GoneToTheFuture: What happened when Starfire time traveled.

** Starfire's fear of the Titans potentially breaking up actually happens after her disappearance to the BadFuture. This fear spreads to the Titans in the present, who quickly celebrate Blorthog.

* JailBait: Averted, but a lot of fans pointed out that Nightwing seemed to be acting a little ''too'' intimate towards Starfire here.