History WesternAnimation / TeenTitansGo

The series premiered on April 23, 2013 alongside ''WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman'', replacing ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' and ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries'' on Cartoon Network's DC Nation block, though it proved successful enough to receive a primetime slot in addition to its Saturday morning one. Following DC Nation's cancellation [[note]]though by that point, ''Beware the Batman'' was cancelled, with ''Teen Titans Go!'' being the sole show running on the block[[/note]], ''Teen Titans Go!'' was integrated into the regular Cartoon Network lineup, becoming one of, if not, the most popular series on the network. This, however, would lead to it being [[AdoredByTheNetwork/TeenTitansGo milked by Cartoon Network]] several times. In early 2021, it was announced the series would be getting its own spinoff, ''The Night Begins to Shine,'' based off of the episode "40%, 40%, 20%", and its subsequent two-sequel miniseries. As of April 23, 2023, the series is now 10 years old. This makes it both the [[LongRunners longest running Warner Brothers-produced animated series]] based on a DC franchise airing on Cartoon Network of '''all time''' [[note]]''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' still remains the longest running ''Cartoon Network'' production[[/note]]. The series has its own host of tie-in media including:

* ''Teen Titans Go!/WesternAnimation/{{DC Super Hero Girls|2019}}: Exchange Students! (2022)

** A censorship made by the creators themselves: The episode "Little Elvis" focuses around the Titans teaming up with ComicBook/{{Shazam}} in order to stop Mr. Worm from unleashing the "[[SevenDeadlySins Seven Deadly Enemies of Mankind]]", which includes Pride, Envy, Greed, Hatred, Laziness, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Selfishness, and Injustice]].

[[caption-width-right:350:''"Titans, GO!"'' [[note]]Clockwise from top: [[GloryHound Robin]], [[AmusingAlien Starfire]], [[TheSlacker Beast Boy]], [[TeamPet Silkie]], [[TheBigGuy Cyborg]], and [[DeadpanSnarker Raven]].[[/note]]]]

In contrast to its {{animesque}} action/adventure predecessor, ''Teen Titans Go!'' is a DenserAndWackier and {{zany|Cartoon}} GagSeries revolving around the titular superhero team and their comedic misadventures as they mill about Jump City or hang out around Titans Tower. Oh, and fight crime if they ever feel like it. Whereas the 2003 Titans were heroes regularly looking to do good and help those in need, the ''Go!'' Titans are portrayed more like a self-absorbed group of teenagers who are often mocked by both villains and fellow heroes alike for their tendency to goof off rather than fight crime. Think of it as being in the vein of ''Manga/RockLeesSpringtimeOfYouth'' or ''WebAnimation/RWBYChibi'', where the idea is to take established characters and put them in increasingly outlandish situations that wouldn't be possible in their more serious, plot-driven forms. Be prepared for ''large'' doses of ComedicSociopathy and SelfDeprecation, oh, and a little bit of satire here and there in the vein of WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy.

* BlessedWithSuck: In "Super Robin", Raven [[{{Superempowering}} gives Robin superpowers]] to show him that powers are a curse. Robin is ecstatic at first, solving all the world's problems in three seconds. However, [[spoiler[[VictoryIsBoring this leaves the Titans with no purpose and they disband]]]].

* BlessedWithSuck: In "Super Robin", Raven [[{{Superempowering}} gives Robin superpowers]] to show him that powers are a curse. Robin is ecstatic at first, solving all the world's problems in three seconds. However, [[spoiler:[[VictoryIsBoring this leaves the Titans with no purpose and they disband]]]].

** The European and Asian airings of "Hey You, Don't Forget About Me In Your Memory", cut out any mention of the Crane Kick including the music video at the end, meaning the episode ends in those countries with [[spoiler: Beast Boy reading a letter he wrote]] instead of said video.

** Throughout "Parasite", Robin constantly believes that "Parry" is going to mutate into a giant spider alien that the Titans will fight at the end of the galaxy. [[spoiler: Then at the end, it looks like Parry is a nice guy. However, just as Robin thought, Parry mutates into a giant spider alien and the Titans get pulled with it through a portal to the end of the galaxy.]]

* DetonationMoon: [[spoiler: What Starfire does to truly prove her villainy in "Starfire the Terrible."]]

* DistantFinale: "The Night Begins To Shine 2" begins with the elder Titans deciding to take one last look around the old Titan Tower before it is scheduled to be demolished. Just for old-times sake, they decide to give one last listen to the song, which starts off the plot. At the end, [[spoiler: instead of returning to their elder bodies in the real world, the Titans decide to stay there and make it their new home]].

** [[spoiler: Raven was even about to marry Beast Boy at one point, until they found out that Cyborg's computer had a glitch.]]

* LikeBrotherAndSister: [[spoiler: How Starfire sees Robin.]]

* MarriedInTheFuture: In "Staring at the Future," [[spoiler: Robin (now Nightwing) and Batgirl are this.]]

** Raven does it to Cyborg in "Meatball Party" when he promises that he'll stop forcing her to do things that he wants to do. [[spoiler: It only lasts 5 seconds.]]

** "The Fourth Wall", in which Control Freak reveals to the Titans that he's been broadcasting their entire lives to audiences around the world and then proceeds to tell them that his plan to get an award for it has fallen through [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech because of how bad the show is.]] To rectify this, he thought about ''rebooting the entire show'', [[spoiler: which he is revealed to have done to the 2003 cartoon (he admits it's one of the biggest mistakes he's ever made)]]. It's also worth noting that Control Freak (a massive JokeCharacter among Titans villains) is the creators' stand-in (calling Teen Titans Go his supposed MagnumOpus).

** Robin and Starfire get in on this, which has also been carried over from the other series. Only this time it's decidedly one-sided; a couple of the plots revolve more around Robin trying to show his affection for Starfire, who seems to be particularly [[ObliviousToLove oblivious]] to his actions this time around. One episode even has [[spoiler: Robin stealing Speedy's look and costume so that he'll make sure Speedy looks bad and so she'll be with Robin. When Robin finally comes clean due to that voice in his head nagging him. Upset doesn't come close to describing Starfire's attitude to him, [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom and Robin gets his comeuppance.]] Then she leaves with that voice mentioned earlier.]] Starfire even admits that she loves him like a sibling and nothing more. Despite Robin's future repeated, if not forced attempts to get with her, it's official that this ship has been sunk. Although, DependingOnTheWriter, the ship may not be TOTALLY dead, as some episodes have shown that Starfire may like Robin romantically after all.

* SoccerHatingAmericans: In "Kicking a Ball and Pretending to Be Hurt", it is revealed that [[spoiler:people only like soccer because they are being mind controlled by the soccer trolls.]]

** Luckily, some of the minor inconveniences that occur in the series, like [[spoiler: Starfire learning to lie or the death of the entire team or the moon blowing up]], doesn't stick.

* TwistEnding: In "Double Trouble," the Titans are put in a bind when countless clones of Beast Boy and Cyborg overrun them. It seems like the episode is leading up to AnAesop about how "more is not always merrier," only to reveal that [[spoiler: the Cyborg and Beast Boy with them are also clones. The real Cyborg and Beast Boy having been slacking off in seclusion for several months until this point.]]

** ''Gloriously'' done with [[spoiler: Weird Al's]] take on Darkseid. Once they realized that he sounds just like him, he just didn't sound threatening anymore.

* CheatersNeverProsper: In "Artful Dodgers", the Titans decry the H.I.V.E. Five using hostages strapped to a bomb as cheating, then stop them and disable the bomb. Later, when the H.I.V.E. Five enter the dodgeball tournament and handily beat them, the Titans decide to cheat to win. They lose anyway, [[SubvertedTrope then get the H.I.V.E. Five arrested so they win by default]].

* FantasticVoyagePlot: "Body Adventure" has Robin trying to convince Cyborg to let him shrink down into Cyborg's body to cure his cold. Once he finally manages to do so, they discover that [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome it's a lot more disgusting than people think]].

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: In "Justice League's Next Top Idol Star: Second Greatest Team Edition", the Titans won the contest... because of Beast Boy switching the envelopes (something they changed their mind about after seeing Starfire's performance). Birdarang, after seeing the real envelope, finds out that the Titans actually did win, but are still disqualified because of said cheating. The H.I.V.E. ended up winning the contest.

* CloningBlues: The plot of "Double Trouble".

* SnapBack: Many episodes end with characters in an irrevocable predicament([[TheyKilledKennyAgain usually death]]), but all will be restored to normal the next episode. Examples include "Ghost Boy", "Super Robin", "Tower Power", "Parasite", "Nose Mouth", "Breakfast Cheese" and to an extent, "Gorilla", all ''season 1'' episodes.

** In "Two-Parter", when Robin is asked by the other Titans if Darkseid is able to defeat Franchise/SpiderMan, Robin begins to explain that Spider-Man wouldn't fight Darkseid, implicitly acknowledging that he is a hero from [[Creator/MarvelComics a certain rival of DC]]. The other Titans, however, assume that Spider-Man wouldn't fight Darkseid because he is a coward, with Raven even stating that Spider-Man's inability to fight Darkseid has negatively affected her opinion on him.

** At the end of "Orangins," it's revealed that Beast Boy is green because all this time he was a Franchise/GreenLantern construct created by John Stewart.

** Virtually the entirety of "Batman v Teen Titans: Dark Injustice" is a giant practical joke on the audience. On April Fool's Day, it appears that all the Titans except Raven end up going extremely overboard in the pranks they play on each other, normally devolving into straight-up physical or emotional abuse. At the end, it seems as if their attempt to prank Raven with a "booger monster" attacking the city was in fact real, and the revelation causes Raven and Beast Boy to confess their love to each other, Robin to move on to his Nightwing moniker, Starfire finally returning his affections, and Cyborg going on to join the [[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League]] (complete with reforming his armor into the model from the [[Film/JusticeLeague2017 live-action film]]). However, it is revealed that the ''entire'' episode has been an April Fool's Day joke on the audience, with Raven even laughing that the viewers fell for her act of pretending to not like pranks.

In contrast to its {{animesque}} action/adventure predecessor, ''Teen Titans Go!'' is a DenserAndWackier and {{zany|Cartoon}} GagSeries revolving around the titular superhero team and their comedic misadventures as they mill about Jump City or hang out around Titans Tower. Oh, and fight crime if they ever feel like it. Whereas the 2003 Titans were heroes regularly looking to do good and help those in need, the ''Go!'' Titans are portrayed more like a self-absorbed group of teenagers who are often mocked by both villains and fellow heroes alike for their tendency to goof off rather than fight crime. Think of it as being in the vein of ''Manga/RockLeesSpringtimeOfYouth'' or ''WebAnimation/RWBYChibi'', where the idea is to take established characters and put them in increasingly outlandish situations that wouldn't be possible in their more serious, plot-driven forms. Be prepared for ''large'' doses of ComedicSociopathy and SelfDeprecation.

* HeightInsult: Robin is sometimes teased for [[TeensAreShort his supposedly short stature]] (despite the fact that [[InformedDeformity he's the third-tallest member of the group]]), especially in Season 2. In "Cool School," for example, Rose calls Robin short and [[HarshWordImpact the impact of her words literally injures him so much that he falls over]].

* ThirtyMinutesOrItsFree: This is the main plot of "Hey Pizza!".

** Very close to this at the end of "Pie Bros", in a PG variant.

* DartboardOfHate: Looking closely at the posters in Robin's room in "The Date" shows that he has a poster of Two-Face and one of The Joker, both of which have several birdarangs sticking out of them.

%%ZCEs* DeadpanSnarker:
%%** ''Raven''.
%%** Jinx has her moments as well

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* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: The "Beast Boy's That's What's Up" event, which had Beast Boy visit the Doom Patrol for four episodes and is almost certainly intended to test the waters for a spinoff starring the Doom Patrol.

* TalkingToHimself: InUniverse, "The Self-Indulgent 200th Episode Spectacular Part 1" has the Titans meeting Creator/ScottMenville, Creator/TaraStrong, Creator/HyndenWalch, Creator/GregCipes, and Creator/KharyPayton, who introduce themselves as their voices. Scott points out the differences between his normal talking voice and Robin's voice right to Robin himself. They meet again in "Creative Geniuses".

* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: The "Beast Boy's That's What's Up" event, which had Beast Boy visit the Doom Patrol for four episodes.

* RatedMForManly: "Man Person" is all about this. After Cyborg mentions how Beast Boy upped his "man factor" by getting a scar over his eye, they both end up going to extreme lengths to be as manly as possible.

* WaxingLyrical: Robin, Cyborg, and Beast Boy do this in "Missing", with (of all things for DC characters to quote) the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' theme song.

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[{{Tagline}} Your]] [[AdoredByTheNetwork/TeenTitansGo new]] [[TakeThatCritics favorite]] [[TakeThatAudience show.]]'' [[note]]Clockwise from top: [[GloryHound Robin]], [[AmusingAlien Starfire]], [[TheSlacker Beast Boy]], [[TeamPet Silkie]], [[TheBigGuy Cyborg]], and [[DeadpanSnarker Raven]].[[/note]]]]

* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: Robotman of the Doom Patrol is still a human brain transplanted into a robot body by the Chief, but rather than having this happen to him after his human body was mangled in an accident (which was later turned out to have happened by the Chief's hand), the context is that the Chief did the procedure to enable Cliff Steele to beat a rival in a dance competition and found putting Cliff's brain in a robot body was a cooler option than simply teaching Cliff better dance moves.

* CompositeCharacter: In an inversion of how [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003 the preceding cartoon]] had Mento replace the Chief as leader of the Doom Patrol, this continuity as the Chief take Mento's role as Beast Boy's adoptive father.

* [[BurgerFool Pie Fool]]: In "Pie Bros", Beast Boy has to wear a ridiculous uniform while working at Mother Mae Eye's restaurant. When Cyborg sees him, he can't stop laughing.

* NakedPeopleAreFunny: In "Laundry Day", Raven snatches the Titans' clothes to clean them, leaving them in the nude.