History YMMV / Titans2018

** Dick Grayson. He's either an interesting take on the character whose troubles of being the protege of a more brutal Batman and trying to heal from that pain, or a very dull take on him that repeats plot points throughout the first season and doesn't offer enough to be particularly likable. Even transitioning into Nightwing, his actions in Season 3 where he took [[SpotlightStealingSquad much of the spotlight away from other characters]] and committed further morally questionable acts like [[spoiler:knocking out Krypto and Connor with Kryptonite]] has caused more turmoil, but whether or not Season 4 walks things back enough is equally as big of a debate.

* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: From the second the trailer was released and the infamous "fuck Batman" line was heard, the show was a subject of constant ridicule and hatred with many considering it an overly edgy interpretation of a usually fun teenage superhero team that perpetuates the idea that DC is dark and violent. While it had its critics and never shook off this original impression for some, the show did gain a fan base and went on to last four seasons before ending.

* KarmicOverkill: At the end of season 3, [[spoiler: while Scarecrow is already locked up and helpless, Dick allows Raven to overflow his mind with unspeakable horrors, perpetually trapping his psyche in what is practically a bad acid trip for eternity. As he screams in hysterical terror, [[SmugBastard Dick]] and Raven walk away happily. Though, he probably deserved it, it still seems unnecessarily unheroic.]]

** Amy Rohrbach, Dick's new partner at the Detroit Police Department, gets brutally murdered by the Nuclear Family in the second episode.

* WTHCastingAgency:
** Raven being played by thirteen-year-old Creator/TeaganCroft has gotten this reaction, as people feel she's ''too'' young for the character who is traditionally around sixteen, especially given the age gap with her fellow cast members. Keeping her romantic tension with the significantly older Beast Boy also creates a fair amount of {{Squick}} in their interactions that could have been completely avoided with either casting an older actress or cutting that aspect of their relationship out, with little effect on the overall narrative.
** Anna Diop as Starfire has gotten significant backlash too, even by people who don't mind her skin color, noting that Starfire has been depicted with darker skin in comics before. Sadly, this doesn't negate the fact that the actress had to deal with months and months of brutal racist, colorist and sexist online harassment (leading her to temporarily deactivate her social media accounts) because of the fandoms displeasure with her race and ethnicity, as well as her wig and outfit, all aspects she had no control over but was instead the fault of costuming (see below).
** A partial case with Creator/IainGlen as Bruce Wayne. He was eagerly welcomed as a great choice upon being announced, but then the Season 2 trailer revealed he was NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent, meaning we now have to deal with an inexplicably Scottish-accented Bruce.

** Though reception is split and there's plenty who defend it, after much hype the Nightwing suit falls into this for some, due to the bulky plated armour. Putting aside how this design trend [[FollowTheLeader has became very overused]] [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny to the point of backlash]] [[RealityIsUnrealistic for being very impractical in real life]], but it's generally agreed to be out of character with Dick Grayson to ''wear'' heavy armour due to his lithe fighting style.

* EvilIsSexy:
** Angela Azarath, Rachel's ManipulativeBitch of a (biological) mother, as played by the gorgeous Creator/RachelNichols. Quite appropriately, Angela is wearing a plunging blouse in contrast to her usually modest attires during TheReveal that she's really EvilAllAlong.
** On the male side, we have ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}}, played by Creator/EsaiMorales. Since his introduction, Slade garnered a lot of fangirls. The fact he was shown flexing his muscles several times certainly doesn't hurt.

* HesJustHiding: What some fans theorizes about [[spoiler:Deathstroke's demise]] in the season 2 finale. It doesn't help that he was [[WhatCouldHaveBeen supposed]] to be shown [[spoiler:alive, on a hospital bed]]. Alas, [[spoiler:while he did return in season 4, it was as a zombie reanimated by May Bennett, confirming he had indeed died after plans to show his survival were scrapped]].

* SoOkayItsAverage: How fans feel about the series overall. It's got great acting and costume values, it's mostly respectful to its source material, and it has some interesting villains, but it's far too inconsistent with its writing and characterization to where it's "[[DesignatedHero heroes]]" can come off looking far worse than the bad guys, some of its special effects are shoddy, and some characters (especially Beast Boy) get overlooked in favor of Nightwing and Starfire.

** Because of his status as the ChewToy and being OutOfFocus, Gar tends to suffer the most trauma but rarely speaks about it. In Season 1 he is tortured by scientists and ends up violently eating one to escape and in the season final he's [[spoiler:beaten almost to death by his mind controlled friends]]. In Season 2 while he brings up these two things, the writers don't do anything and instead he ends up being tortured again [[spoiler:by Cadmus who brainwash him into being a weapon and killing innocents]]. Also it's never acknowledged that he essentially left his surrogate family to help Rachel, Kory and Dick which is what led to all those other traumatic events, and he never seems to express any regret over leaving the Doom Patrol.

** Trigon, the ancient demon so dangerous that an entire alien race devoted themselves to preventing his return by any means necessary, and achieved an apparent TheBadGuyWins at the end of Season 1... is easily disposed of in the Season 2 premiere with Raven simply [[AssPull pulling a new power out of her ass]] to send him back to his own dimension, or maybe even kill him, it’s really not clear. The show runners revealed this was actually intended to be the Season 1 finale until they decided to go with a cliffhanger ending instead. But still, fans rolled their eyes 9 months for such an obvious conclusion.

** Dick Grayson. He's either an interesting take on the character, or a very dull take on him that repeats plot points throughout the first season and doesn't offer enough to be particularly likable.

* CreatorsPet: This accusation has been thrown at Dawn/Dove II starting in season 2. The writers portray her as a [[CharacterShilling pinnacle of morality]], Dick and Hank [[RomanticPlotTumor are both deeply in love with her,]] and she keeps [[CharacterFocus getting inserted into plotlines that have very little to do with her,]] often at the expense of other characters getting screen time during scenes that they should logically be in. Her being portrayed as a MoralityPet to Dick and Hank has been met with eyerolls, due to her characterization coming off far more like an example of ToxicFriendInfluence who encourages them to do questionable things (such as encouraging Dick to "be Batman") only to backtrack when things don't go her way and act like [[NeverMyFault they're the only guilty parties]] despite having [[{{Hypocrite}} previously encouraged their actions or behaviors.]] Tellingly, Season 3 sees this behavior land her in big trouble when her actions [[spoiler: results in Hank's death, which causes her to leave the team almost immediately afterwards]].

* DesignatedHero: Most of the Titans that aren't Gar and Conner tend to fall into this, as many of the characters are often [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic unsympathetic]] due to blaming others for their problems and treating each other unfairly. It doesn't help that despite being a superhero team, they are rarely shown to do anything actually heroic such as saving people and instead a number of them tend to get away with doing a number of questionable things. Season 3 however does try to avert this, with the first episode showing the team actually fighting crime though some characters are still difficult to like.

* OneSceneWonder: Creator/TitusWelliver only has a few scenes as Lex Luthor before his death but he does a good job at showing Lex's charisma and intelligence and making it clear why he's so feared, even by Batman.

** Trigon, who after a season of build-up is dealt away with after just one episode, leaving close to no impact on much of anything in the series. His [[SpecialEffectFailure horrible special effects]] only make this worse.
** Already [[BaseBreakingCharacter divisive]] in the previous seasons, season 3 saw most of the fandom turn against Dick Grayson/Nightwing. Not only the character is disliked for being a SpotlightStealingSquad, but his CharacterArc is also considered one of the worst parts of the show, with [[ArcFatigue each season]] being about Dick fighting against his inner darkness, treating his team like crap and learning how to be a better person, [[AesopAmnesia just to forget about it at the start of the following season.]] His many KickTheDog moments, like constantly leaving the team when the others need him the most and [[spoiler: using kryptonite to knock out Superboy and Krypto because he didn't want their help]] only increased the hatedom, with many wondering [[DesignatedHero why or how he should be considered a hero.]]

%%Zero Context Example** While Season 3 started off as an improvement, it later fell apart in the second half.

** Trigon looks absolutely ''terrible'', especially while moving.

* HilariousInHindsight:
** It was commonly stated by many that Creator/GregBerlanti would be a better choice to run the [[Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse cinematic universe]] due to his DC shows being considerably lighter. Then the trailer for this series dropped and he was hit with the same accusations of making heroes needlessly darker and grittier. It's arguably even more damning for Berlanti as Creator/ZackSnyder never resorted to having heroes say "fuck" for cheap shock value and his films were visually amazing in contrast to the [[WTHCostumingDepartment other]] [[SpecialEffectsFailure complaints]] against this series.
** Speaking of the infamous "Fuck Batman", it was frequently cited as an example of the series being another humourless DarkerAndEdgier reboot. The full scene, though still being [[BloodierAndGorier brutally violent]], actually starts with a joke of Robin appearing and all the mooks immediately looking up in search of Batman, with Robin giving an exasperated "''Fuck'' Batman" after taking them all down single-handed.
** And then the "even Snyder never resorted to heroes saying fuck" criticism becomes even more hilarious when Snyder revealed that ''Batman'' would drop an F-bomb in [[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague the Snyder Cut]], if it wasn't already noted that he had already had Batman say "shit" in ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice''.
** Rachel calling Dawn "[[Series/GameOfThrones Khaleesi]]" once they bond is this for a number of reasons:
*** Creator/JasonMomoa, the actor who played the husband of said character, plays ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} in the ''Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse'' at the time of the series premiere, a role Creator/AlanRitchson (Hank Hall's actor) himself played on ''Series/{{Smallville}}''.
*** Speaking of ''Smallville'', its version of ComicBook/{{Mera}} was played by Creator/ElenaSatine, who was the runner-up for the "Khaleesi" role.
*** And speaking of Momoa, his female lead as the eponymous ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian2011'' was played by Creator/RachelNichols, who plays Rachel's biological MissingMom in the show.
*** ''[=GoT=]'' cast member Creator/IainGlen is ultimately cast as [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne / Batman]].
** In the Japanese dub, Creator/YuukiKaji's role as Robin is pretty hilarious if you consider his most famous role as Eren Yeager in ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': Leaving aside the sole name of the franchise, his role in this series is a mix between Eren and, ironically enough, Levi, his senior officer in the manga and the anime series, as Levi is also a no-nonsense protagonist with acrobatic abilities who was trained by a brutal man (Batman/Bruce Wayne and Kenny respectively) who have to fight against [[HumanoidAbomination man-eating beings]] named ''[[{{Irony}} Titans]]''. Extra points that, much later in both the manga and the anime, Eren became a Titan.
** Iain Glen plays Bruce Wayne on this show. [[https://youtu.be/hSmoOZ0BhE8 He also played Nite-Owl]] in a 2003 test footage for a ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' movie.
** Deathstroke getting another adaptation has lead to the fandom joking "not Deathstroke again" and how they are gonna pay him to stop appearing everywhere. The thing is, between 2015 and 2020, Deathstroke had a sudden burst of multiple featurings, in no less than 9 adaptations where he had a prominent role, being either TheHeavy or a VillainProtagonist: ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGoToTheMovies'', ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansTheJudasContract'', ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'', ''WesternAnimation/DeathstrokeKnightsAndDragons'', ''Anime/BatmanNinja'', ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls2019'', ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'', and, of course, ''Series/Titans2018''.
** The series exists on streaming services to begin with because Creator/{{TNT}} passed on the series. Then, in July 2021, the channel started airing the show anyway.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation/Titans2018 It has its own page now]].

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Almost every Titan who isn't Gar and/or Conner fall under [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic/Titans2018 this]].