| 1 | Characters in ''ComicBook/TeenTitansEarthOne''. |
| 2 | |
| 3 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 4 | |
| 5 | !!Starfire Project Subjects |
| 6 | [[folder:Changeling]] |
| 7 | !Changeling / Garfield "Gar" Logan |
| 8 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/28275198_378897065917101_550405581_o.jpg]] |
| 9 | A young man who develops [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation green skin]] and [[{{Animorphism}} the ability to transform into any animal]]. |
| 10 | ---- |
| 11 | * AdaptationalDyeJob: In the normal universe, pre-Beast Boy Garfield Logan originally had brown hair before it was retconned to blond a few issues later. Here he is a brunette again before his powers activate. |
| 12 | * AdaptationalNameChange: He's not identified as Beast Boy. Not yet anyway. |
| 13 | * AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: His skin turns green when he develops his powers. |
| 14 | * AntiClimax: His reaction to the activation of his powers. |
| 15 | --> '''Gar''': Also, I'm a cat now. A green cat. |
| 16 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: He's usually played as the youthful comic relief like in most adaptations, shrugging off angst even when the gang reaches the lab. When he sees [[spoiler:Steve's body]], however, he goes berserk, growing claws to slash at [[spoiler:Dr. Stone]] and screaming that he'll kill her |
| 17 | * {{Animorphism}}: His powers. |
| 18 | * HappilyAdopted: He's probably the only child to have a good relationship with his parents. And he's adopted no less. Heck, he's the only one of the team whose opinion of their parental figure ''isn't'' mired by the revelation of the teenagers being raised as experimental weapons. |
| 19 | * MythologyGag: |
| 20 | ** His red and white hoodie is a reference to his original costume. |
| 21 | ** When he sees Vic's liquid metal, he blurts out, "[[CharacterCatchphrase Dude]]," a word he constantly says in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003''. |
| 22 | * PromotedToLoveInterest: It is heavily implied that he and [[spoiler: Kole]] kissed when they were alone. It's also note worthy that in the last page of issue 2 they are seen holding hands. |
| 23 | * SmarterThanYouLook: He's the youngest member of the kids, but yet is in the same grade as them. Yeah, Garfield Logan skipped a couple grades. |
| 24 | [[/folder]] |
| 25 | |
| 26 | [[folder:Cyborg]] |
| 27 | !ComicBook/{{Cyborg}} / Victor Stone |
| 28 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/28278385_378897602583714_1772218884_o.jpg]] |
| 29 | Son of [[EvilMatriarch Elinore Stone]] who begins developing [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting liquid metal over his body]]. |
| 30 | ---- |
| 31 | * AndIMustScream: As the metal spreads over his body, he worries that he will either be trapped in this state or suffocate. |
| 32 | * BodyHorror: How he views the liquid metal consuming his body. He's terrified of not being able to breathe when it reaches his face. |
| 33 | * BrokenPedestal: He didn't have that good of a relationship with his mother to begin with, but as volume 1 progresses, her actions mount up more and more to the point that he can't even acknowledge she's his mother. |
| 34 | * EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: After the first two volumes of losing his senses and his humanity, he is allowed his freedom by gaining Rover, allowing him a sense of normalcy.]] |
| 35 | * FeelNoPain: |
| 36 | --> '''Victor''': I'm sorry, Tara, but I don't really feel...'''''anything.''''' It's better this way...if I just let go. |
| 37 | --> '''Tara''': You need to '''''fight''''' it! |
| 38 | --> '''Victor''': I don't '''''want''''' to. |
| 39 | --> '''Tara''': '''''How can you say that?!''''' |
| 40 | --> '''Victor''': Because now it doesn't hurt anymore. |
| 41 | * InvoluntaryShapeshifting: Unlike most versions of Cyborg, his is not a set of mechanical parts, but rather a liquid metal that is slowly covering his entire body. |
| 42 | * PoweredArmor: [[spoiler: During the battle between the protagonists against Blackfire and Jericho, the liquid metal that's been encasing him merges with Starfire's ship and transforms into a gigantic suit of armor that Vic must be in constant contact with.]] He calls it Rover. |
| 43 | * PromotedToLoveInterest: Victor Stone and Tara Markov are portrayed as a high-school couple here, despite never having been shown to have any interest in each other in other continuities. |
| 44 | * SuperpowerDisability: By the beginning of Volume 2, the metal has covered most of his body, and he struggles with the equivalent of chronic pain and numbness. |
| 45 | --> '''Victor''': No, '''''look''''' at me. The metal's spread all '''''over'''''. Hurts just to '''''move''''' now...I can't cry, Tara. I want to--but I can't even cry! Not anymore. And I can barely feel your hands on my face. Soon, I'm not even gonna be... |
| 46 | -->(Later) |
| 47 | --> '''Tara''': He says he can't feel things like he used to...that it's just '''''cold''''' now. Cold and '''''numb'''''. |
| 48 | * UnableToCry: Due to the spreading metal. See SuperpowerDisability. |
| 49 | [[/folder]] |
| 50 | |
| 51 | [[folder:Jericho]] |
| 52 | !Jericho / Joseph Wilson |
| 53 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/28278849_378881349252006_1355393608_o.jpg]] |
| 54 | Son of ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}}[=/=]Slade Wilson. |
| 55 | ---- |
| 56 | * AbledInTheAdaptation: Zig-zagged. He is introduced as able to speak when his standard incarnation was rendered mute as a result of having his throat cut at a young age, but he later sticks to using his body-surfing ability to communicate through his hosts after his father accidentally slashes his throat. |
| 57 | * AdaptationalVillainy: A major villain in the series, even above his father. Even serves as the enemy in a major fight at the end of Volume Two. |
| 58 | * AndIMustScream: His father accidentally slashed at his throat, meaning that he must possess somebody else or else he'll bleed to death. Just like in canon he can only talk through those he possesses. |
| 59 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: A male example. |
| 60 | * BodyAndHost: the Guest to those he possesses, [[spoiler:especially Slade]] |
| 61 | * BodySurf: Spends most of Volume Two doing this. It backfires when he tries to possess Raven, whose psychic abilities can contain him fairly easily. |
| 62 | * BrightIsNotGood: His ColorMotif is yellow/white but primarily blue. [[spoiler:The most vile of the kids.]] |
| 63 | * CassandraTruth: When he was still with the other kids, whenever they tried to make a plan, he would make the suggestions nobody listened to. [[spoiler:It didn't take them long to figure out he was TheMole.]] |
| 64 | * FlipPersonality: [[spoiler:When he's sharing a body with Slade, he stutters, and his speech balloons have wavy outlines, while Slade's personality has no such variation]] |
| 65 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: {{Justified}}. He just moved into town, so he hasn't been considered a good friend yet. But he does make suggestions nobody listens to, stating it sounds like something Elinore would want. [[spoiler:Then we find out he's a mole.]] |
| 66 | * GlowingEyesOfDoom: When he possesses people, their eyes glow blue. |
| 67 | * GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:At the end of volume 2, he's taken over Blackfire's body.]] |
| 68 | * MeaningfulAppearance: His long bleach-blond hair obscures his eyes for most of the first volume. [[spoiler:Justified, since his ability to possess people is controlled by eye contact. When the characters and readers finally see both of his eyes head-on, it's just in time for TheReveal that he's TheMole.]] |
| 69 | * TheMole: [[spoiler:Jericho was secretly acting on Elinore's orders the whole time.]] |
| 70 | * SharingABody: [[spoiler:With Slade in Volume Two]] |
| 71 | * TwoBeingsOneBody: [[spoiler:At the end of Volume One, he jumps into Slade's body because his throat was slit. Throughout most of Volume Two, the two of them are locked in a power struggle, using each others skills and arguing out loud.]] |
| 72 | [[/folder]] |
| 73 | |
| 74 | [[folder:Starfire]] |
| 75 | !Comicbook/{{Starfire}}[=/=]Koriand'r |
| 76 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/28233517_378902292583245_1534119559_n.jpg]] |
| 77 | An alien who landed on Earth, setting off the plot. |
| 78 | ---- |
| 79 | * AdaptationOriginConnection: [[spoiler:With the exception of Raven, Starfire is the source of all of the superhuman powers due to S.T.A.R. Labs' experimentations.]] |
| 80 | * AdaptationalModesty: She dresses even more modestly than her incarnation in [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003 the 2003 cartoon]], which may have something to do with her being 16 in this continuity. |
| 81 | * AdoptedToTheHouse: Taken in by Raven and her grandfather who makes it clear that she's family. |
| 82 | * AliensSpeakingEnglish: Starfire speaks English, if somewhat [[YouNoTakeCandle broken]]. |
| 83 | * AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: While in most continuity her skin tones are usually shades of orange, here her skin is a shade of pink. |
| 84 | * HumanoidAliens: As is normal for Tamaranians. |
| 85 | * LastOfHisKind: Very likely. |
| 86 | * NoInfantileAmnesia: Thanks to Raven's powers, Starfire constructs a detailed PensieveFlashback of the day Tamaran was invaded -- which happened when she was a ''baby''. |
| 87 | * PseudoRomanticFriendship: With Raven. They're generally touchy-feely and end the book holding hands. |
| 88 | * RedOniBlueOni: Visually and thematically the red to Raven's blue. Kory is the more direct and aggressive one. |
| 89 | [[/folder]] |
| 90 | |
| 91 | [[folder:Tempest]] |
| 92 | !Tempest |
| 93 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2a1140ca_1d30_472a_8d63_f7343c8f62bf.jpeg]] |
| 94 | A test subject from the Starfire Project who was not integrated into normal society. |
| 95 | ---- |
| 96 | * AdaptationalUgliness: He looks less human and more like a fish-monster in this continuity. |
| 97 | * AdaptationNameChange: Not once referred to as Aqualad. There might not even be an Aquaman. |
| 98 | * AdaptationSpeciesChange: He is normally an Atlantean. Here, like most of the Titans, he is a human genetically enhanced with Tamaranian DNA. |
| 99 | * CuteMute: More or less doesn't speak most of the time, but he's instantly liked by almost all of the other kids. |
| 100 | * FishPeople: How the Tamaranian DNA affected him. |
| 101 | * MakingASplash: Surprises even himself. |
| 102 | * VomitIndiscretionShot: Throws up after eating a lot of Marshmallows. |
| 103 | * WaterIsAir: Tempest must be in constant contact with water, or he'll die in 24 hours. |
| 104 | [[/folder]] |
| 105 | |
| 106 | [[folder:Terra]] |
| 107 | !Tara Markov[=/=]Terra |
| 108 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/28309341_378897095917098_143416839_o.jpg]] |
| 109 | The terrakinetic member of the Titans, and Victor's girlfriend. |
| 110 | ---- |
| 111 | * AdaptationalHeroism: Tara Markov is depicted as a normal (if slightly angsty) teenager before her powers awaken, compare that with the pre-Flashpoint Tara Markov of the main universe who was a ManipulativeBitch, TheSociopath and a ProfessionalKiller. |
| 112 | * {{Angst}}: Her defining trait is that she's always angry. |
| 113 | * AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: [[spoiler:Despite her resentment for her mother, she is upset by the prospect of Rita dying the same way her father did.]] |
| 114 | * CallingTheOldWomanOut: She yells at her mother for being an irresponsible [[AlcoholicMom drunkard]]. |
| 115 | * DishingOutDirt: Her primary superpower. |
| 116 | * GoodIsNotNice: Tara can be a pretty big jerk to a lot of people, especially Garfield. |
| 117 | * GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: She's first introduced taking a puff. |
| 118 | * HeroicBSOD: She's quick to enter this, from the AwfulTruth, to Vic's BodyHorror. |
| 119 | * MythologyGag: The jacket she wears is similar to one she wore in the comics. |
| 120 | * PromotedToLoveInterest: Victor Stone and Tara Markov are portrayed as a high-school couple here, despite never having been shown to have any interest in each other in other continuities. |
| 121 | [[/folder]] |
| 122 | |
| 123 | |
| 124 | !!Starfire Project Parents |
| 125 | [[folder:Deathstroke]] |
| 126 | !ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}}[=/=]Slade Wilson |
| 127 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/slade_4.jpg]] |
| 128 | A killer working for S.T.A.R. Labs, but one who has a soft spot for kids. |
| 129 | ---- |
| 130 | * AbledInTheAdaptation: This version of Slade Wilson has both of his eyes intact. |
| 131 | * ActionDad: As ever, he's a father willing to kick ass who values his offspring. |
| 132 | * AdaptationalHeroism: He still worked for Elinore Stone and has a bloody history, but is far less willing to actually hurt any of the kids and is actually ''less'' antagonistic than [[spoiler:his son Joey.]] |
| 133 | * TheAtoner: Slade becomes this in Volume Two, turning against [[spoiler: Caulder]] to help Joey and the others. |
| 134 | * BodyAndHost: [[spoiler:Joey's host for most of Volume Two.]] |
| 135 | * DysfunctionalFamily: His son's a growing elitist, and he seems like an average dad, with likes including sports and hunting. Seems to fit this bill pretty good. |
| 136 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: While in this continuity he's no villain, he still did some questionable things in the past to earn the name Deathstroke. But no matter what, he's against absolute murder and what's been done to the kids. |
| 137 | * FlipPersonality: [[spoiler:When he's sharing a body with Joey, his speech balloons are smooth and normal, and he doesn't stutter, while Joey stutters and has wavery speech balloons.]] |
| 138 | * HeelFaceTurn: In Volume Two, whenever he's in control of his actual body. |
| 139 | * MythologyGag: [[spoiler:Joey tried to stab him in the eye. If only he got an eyepatch.]] |
| 140 | * OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:Accidentally slitting your own son's throat tends to do this.]] |
| 141 | * OldSoldier: Don't let the white hair fool you, he can still take down whole squads of armed soldiers. |
| 142 | * SharingABody: [[spoiler:Through most of Volume Two.]] |
| 143 | * WillingChanneler: [[spoiler:As Joey was dying, Slade asked him to take over his body so that he wouldn't die. In Volume Two, he and Joey are SharingABody]] |
| 144 | * WouldntHurtAChild: Averted and played straight. While he isn't afraid to rough up a kid in a fight, he is however against the things that Elinore and Caulder had done to the kids for their causes. |
| 145 | * YouDontLookLikeYou: Do you see any orange in his suit? |
| 146 | [[/folder]] |
| 147 | |
| 148 | [[folder:Elinore Stone]] |
| 149 | !Elinore Stone |
| 150 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/439da128_837b_42fd_8799_073f4d408e2d.png]] |
| 151 | Mother of [[ComicBook/{{Cyborg}} Victor Stone]] and leader of the Starfire project. |
| 152 | ---- |
| 153 | * AdaptationalVillainy: In most continuities, she's merely Victor's dead mom. Here, she's the antagonist of volume 1. |
| 154 | * AintTooProudToBeg: She could only say please before [[spoiler: Starfire vaporized her]]. |
| 155 | * AdmiringTheAbomination: Literally the only time she's shown to even like her son. |
| 156 | * ArchnemesisDad: GenderFlip. She's Victor's mother and his first big enemy. |
| 157 | * AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Nobody was really sorry for her when Starfire completely obliterated her.]] |
| 158 | * BerserkButton: Don't mention Project Starfire failing. When Rita mentioned allowing the project to be abandoned, she nearly choked the woman to death. |
| 159 | * BigBad: She is the main villain of Volume 1. |
| 160 | * BigBadWannabe: Despite being the main antagonist, she's not nearly as competent as she likes to think. [[spoiler: Think about it, she had over ten years to plan for the children to get those powers, and she loses Starfire, the kids, the facility, and her life, all thanks to her arrogance.]] |
| 161 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: Doesn't hide it very well. |
| 162 | * BrokenPedestal: She is this to her son. Their relationship was already crappy to begin with, but her actions mount up more and more over the course of volume 1 to the point that Victor can’t even acknowledge her as his mother. |
| 163 | * DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of {{The Sociopath}}ic MadScientist. On paper, she's a brilliant woman who is trying to revolutionize the world and is just ruthless enough to see things through to the end. In reality, she is a short-sighted, unapologetic bitch, and it burns a bridge with everyone she knows. Even people loyal to her abandon her and people she's loyal to use her as an excuse to make a FallGuy. |
| 164 | * DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: As Starfire was about to vaporize her, she was left begging for her life.]] |
| 165 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler: Forget the fact that she should've had a plan for the moment things didn't go her way (which is the kids accepting their change and being loyal like Joey, and for when Starfire started to break free}. She should've run from Starfire the moment she was freed. She'd still be alive at least.]] |
| 166 | * DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: [[spoiler:She gets vaporized by Starfire, when her canon incarnation was killed by an alien creature that also injured her son to the point of needing to be rebuilt as Cyborg.]] |
| 167 | * DysfunctionalFamily: To say the least. |
| 168 | * FallGuy: What's she's made into by Caulder. |
| 169 | * ForScience: She only saw her son as an experiment and put the changes his body was going through over his well-being. |
| 170 | * FourEyesZeroSoul: By far the least moral of the scientists in Volume One, and wears glasses. |
| 171 | * HatedByAll: Absolutely nobody in this series thinks positively of her. She's been called tight-ass behind her back, she's experimented on her own son to the point he refuses to call her mom, Caulder's agent Clay makes snide comments at her incompetence to her face, and her actions disgusted Slade Wilson -- ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} himself. |
| 172 | * HateSink: Seems to be designed this way. The fact she is this InUniverse says something. |
| 173 | * IRegretNothing: In her and Vics words: |
| 174 | -->'''Vic''': Special?! Look at me, mom! Look what you did to me! How can you live with yourself? |
| 175 | -->'''Elinore''': I can live and die knowing that the work I've done is the single greatest leap for mankind since fire. |
| 176 | * JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: She seems very controlling and abrasive towards Victor in the beginning, but she seems to start opening up when she sees that her son is mutating. However, instead of concern, she's actually viewing him like he's a successful test subject. She only gets worse from there. |
| 177 | * KickTheDog: Murders Steve Dayton when he tries to become a DefectorFromDecadence. |
| 178 | * MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: What she's done isn't exactly moral at all. |
| 179 | * NonActionBigBad: The most she gets in terms of action is shooting Steve for defecting. She usually leaves physical work to subordinates. Justified since she's just a scientist. She isn't trained for action. |
| 180 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: She comments to Steve's face that his family isn't real. Not the part where his adopted son is becoming Changeling, but the part that he and his male partner adopted Gar. |
| 181 | * TheSociopath: She shows several signs of this. From her manipulative and dishonest nature and superficial charm to her lack of empathy and remorse. She has a grandiose sense of self-worth that makes her prone to being very impulsive despite her status as a scientist. Interestingly, while it could be assumed that she's high-functioning at first glance, a better case could be made for her being a low-functioning example. |
| 182 | * StarterVillain: The first antagonist faced by this continuity's Titans before Starfire vaporizes her. |
| 183 | * VillainousBreakdown: Happens over the course of Volume 1, being a sort of BreakTheHaughty. She starts off as a smug, arrogant woman whose only care is the project, and other smart people, and by the end, she's begging for forgiveness by Starfire. [[spoiler:She doesn't accept.]] |
| 184 | [[/folder]] |
| 185 | |
| 186 | [[folder:Rita Markov]] |
| 187 | !Rita Markov |
| 188 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rita_0.jpg]] |
| 189 | Tara Markov's mother who was a part of Project Starfire, has since become an alcoholic. |
| 190 | ---- |
| 191 | * AbusiveParents: Verbally, and in one case physically. Both are implied to be partially because of the alcohol. |
| 192 | * AdaptationalWimp: She is this continuity's Elasti-Girl, but is a normal human with no size-changing abilities. |
| 193 | * AlcoholicMom: An AbusiveMom who's DrowningHerSorrows. |
| 194 | * AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: [[spoiler:Just before the kids leave, she and Tara have a heart-to-heart moment. It's the main indicator that either of them really cares for the other.]] |
| 195 | * DisabledInTheAdaptation: Unlike Rita Farr, Rita Markov wears glasses. |
| 196 | * DrowningMySorrows: Her alcoholism seems to be a coping mechanism to deal with the death of her husband. |
| 197 | * EveryoneHasStandards: Has never been really at ease with any of what happened at the facility. It's implied this is why she and her husband got stuck with "babysitting duty", as Stone so sensitively put it. |
| 198 | * KilledOffscreen: We don't actually see her die. |
| 199 | * ParentalNeglect: Rita has been very absent in her daughter's life, leading to Tara having very AgeAppropriateAngst. |
| 200 | * RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:On the verge of being KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade, she gives the kids the name of Caulder, the location of the Blackfire facility in Utah and a helmet to let them escape with Tempest, then leaves to await her fate.]] |
| 201 | * ResentfulGuardian: She's Tara's adoptive mother, and by the time the story proper starts, she's left her job at S.T.A.R. Labs to take a job at a restaurant, her husband was killed to uphold the masquerade, and she's a substance-abusing wreck. She blames Tara. |
| 202 | --> '''Rita''': You think any of this was '''''my choice'''''? It was '''''forced''''' on me! I never '''''wanted''''' any of this. I never '''''wanted''''' you! |
| 203 | * TroubledAbuser: Her mistreatment of her "daughter" is implied to stem from the [[HeKnowsTooMuch death]] of her husband, as well as possible guilt over her inability to explain to Tara what's actually happening. |
| 204 | [[/folder]] |
| 205 | |
| 206 | [[folder:Steve Dayton]] |
| 207 | !Steve Dayton |
| 208 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/28339946_379380969202044_1638979152_o.jpg]] |
| 209 | Gar's adopted father. Although they aren't biologically related, they have the most loving father-son relationship. |
| 210 | ---- |
| 211 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: While the mainstream continuity is heroic, he was more of JerkAss and unhinged by his powers. Here, he's a normal guy who cares about his family. |
| 212 | * AdaptationalSexuality: In the original continuity, he was married to Rita Farr. Now, he's a homosexual man in a relationship with a man named Richard. He's still Gar's adopted father. |
| 213 | * AdaptationalWimp: In the original continuity, he's a superhero with a special helmet that gives him mental powers. Now, he's a normal human. |
| 214 | * BerserkButton: Don't say his family isn't real to his face, Elinore got a ReasonYouSuckSpeech from him. |
| 215 | * DeathByAdaptation: He gets killed when Steve Dayton in the standard continuity still lives. |
| 216 | * DefectorFromDecadence: Worked with the Starfire project loyally, but after his family started to get affected by the project in a way he never intended, he was ready to blow the whistle… [[spoiler: It did not go well.]] |
| 217 | * StraightGay: Couldn't even tell based on his behaviour. |
| 218 | [[/folder]] |
| 219 | |
| 220 | !!Blackfire Project & Titans |
| 221 | [[folder:Niles Caulder]] |
| 222 | !Niles Caulder |
| 223 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/niles_caulder_earth_1_001.jpg]] |
| 224 | The leader of both the Starfire and Blackfire programs, and the Titans' [[ArtificialFamilyMember "father"]]. |
| 225 | ---- |
| 226 | * AbusiveParents: His "children" are completely terrified of offending him. |
| 227 | * AdaptationalVillainy: Though he is sometimes rather amoral, Niles Caulder is rarely ever a true villain in the main DC continuity. |
| 228 | * AffablyEvil: He's charismatic, manipulative, and friendly. His ChildSoldiers see him as a perfect father figure. He's also willing to experiment on unknown numbers of innocent children, shape the survivors into a private army of child soldiers, and overthrow the government. |
| 229 | * BeardOfEvil: Has a much thicker beard than in canon. |
| 230 | * BigBad: He is the main antagonist of Volume 2. |
| 231 | * CompositeCharacter: Niles needs to wear a "Robot Man" exoskeleton to walk. Overlaps with DecompositeCharacter, as Cliff Steele exists in this continuity as a normal human. |
| 232 | * EvilCripple: He needs a "Robot Man" prototype exoskeleton to walk. |
| 233 | * EvilOldFolks: The oldest man other than Raven's Grandfather, and easily the most vile of all the characters. |
| 234 | * FauxAffablyEvil: While he is charismatic and a perfect father figure in the Titans' descriptions of him, his destructive and frequent bouts of explosive anger show how much of his kind and fatherly behavior is simply a front to better manipulate the children. |
| 235 | * GreaterScopeVillain: Only referenced in Volume 1, he becomes the BigBad in Volume 2. |
| 236 | * HairTriggerTemper: While he usually tries to at least [[FauxAffablyEvil appear friendly]], he becomes enraged at any sign of disrespect or insubordination, to the point where his "children", the Titans, are terrified of arguing with him. |
| 237 | * KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:S.T.A.R. Labs is under scrutiny after the fight at it's front door, but he and Joey are nowhere to be found.]] |
| 238 | * MadScientist: The heroes' abilities are almost all his handiwork. |
| 239 | * ManipulativeBastard: He can go from a father figure to the Titans to complete monster in an instant. |
| 240 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: He genuinely believes his plans will improve the world. |
| 241 | * WouldHurtAChild: He led the Starfire and Blackfire Projects. Everything that the parents and scientists at the Starfire Project did, the unethical experimentation that caused all the conflict in Volume One? That all went through him if it wasn't his brainchild to begin with. |
| 242 | [[/folder]] |
| 243 | |
| 244 | [[folder:Impulse]] |
| 245 | !Impulse[=/=]Wallace "Wally" West |
| 246 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/28275684_378903592583115_613466187_o.jpg]] |
| 247 | The oldest member of and leader of the Titans, and the team's speedster. |
| 248 | ---- |
| 249 | * BigBrotherInstinct: He's affectionate and nurturing to Cassie, Kole, and later the Starfire Project kids. |
| 250 | * BigBrotherMentor: He mediates fights between his siblings, helps comfort them, and generally keeps them under control in a nearly parental role. |
| 251 | * BrokenPedestal: His reaction to finding his "father" has a morgue's worth of failed test subjects. He's ready to kill Caulder on the spot. |
| 252 | * ChildSoldier: What he and the other titans were raised by Caulder to be. |
| 253 | * CompositeCharacter: He's Wally West with Bart Allen's original codename. |
| 254 | * EvilRedhead: Initially. After his HeelRealization, he mellows out. |
| 255 | * HeelRealization: Initially a major {{Jerkass}} to the children; after seeing the morgue of failed test subjects, he becomes their ally and friend. |
| 256 | * PromotionToParent: Although their adopted father is alive and takes an active role in their lives, he serves as the most immediate parental figure in the mediocre day-to-day problem solving, mediation, and parenting of Kole and Cassie. |
| 257 | * SuperSpeed: He naturally ends up with this power despite his different origin. |
| 258 | * TeamDad: Of the Titans. |
| 259 | [[/folder]] |
| 260 | |
| 261 | [[folder:Kole]] |
| 262 | !Kole |
| 263 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/28275151_378897105917097_1058188339_o.jpg]] |
| 264 | The sweet middle child of the Titans, with power over crystals. |
| 265 | ---- |
| 266 | * AdaptationalDyeJob: As per her RaceLift, her hair is black, instead of red. |
| 267 | * ChildSoldier: What Caulder raised her and the other Titans to be. |
| 268 | * CrystalPrison: In one fight, she traps Tempest's hands in a block of crystal. Generally, she uses her powers defensively to trap her opponents instead of directly attacking them |
| 269 | * GemstoneAssault: Her power is creating crystals, although she doesn't use it as much as her "siblings" |
| 270 | * RaceLift: She is Asian in this comic, rather than Caucasian. |
| 271 | * PromotedToLoveInterest: It is heavily implied that she and [[spoiler: Beast Boy]] kissed when they were alone. It's also note worthy that in the last page of issue 2 they are seen holding hands. |
| 272 | * ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Is the most sympathetic of the Titans to the other kids. She even frees them even before the reveal of the morgue's worth of failed test subjects. |
| 273 | [[/folder]] |
| 274 | |
| 275 | [[folder:Wonder Girl]] |
| 276 | !ComicBook/WonderGirl / Cassandra "Cassie" Sandsmark |
| 277 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/28275641_378902289249912_10427637_o.jpg]] |
| 278 | A little girl who likes fighting and is the youngest member of the Titans. |
| 279 | ---- |
| 280 | * AdaptationalDyeJob: As per her RaceLift, her hair is black, rather than blonde. |
| 281 | * AdaptationalSpeciesChange: She is another enhanced human, rather than a demigod. |
| 282 | * AfroAsskicker: Her hair is in a compact afro, and she's one of the most powerful direct grapplers in the comic. |
| 283 | * BigBrotherBully: {{Inverted}}. She bullies Kole, who is clearly older. |
| 284 | * BloodKnight: Enjoys a good fight. |
| 285 | * CharacterDevelopment: Practically RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap. |
| 286 | * CuteBruiser: She's a tiny, immature child who is the BigGuy on the Titans. |
| 287 | * ElectricBlackGuy: Surprisingly averted. Despite being a black version of a character that normally has ShockAndAwe powers this version of Cassie is limited to super-strength and has no hints of electrical manipulation powers. |
| 288 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: leaping out of a helicopter, grinning, fists in position to fight (contrasted with Kole and Wally, who are in a landing pose), shouting "I wanna beat up the green one!" |
| 289 | * KidHero: Becomes the youngest to join the teams. |
| 290 | * OddFriendship: Seems to be developing one with Tempest. |
| 291 | * PintsizedPowerhouse: Tiny, but still super-strong. |
| 292 | * RaceLift: Reimagined as Black. |
| 293 | * SociopathicHero: Justified in that she was manipulated by Caulder and too young to really understand what she was doing. |
| 294 | * TykeBomb: She's extremely powerful, but very young and immature. She was raised from creation to be a child soldier. |
| 295 | [[/folder]] |
| 296 | |
| 297 | [[folder:Blackfire]] |
| 298 | !Blackfire |
| 299 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/f50e205e_3fa9_4388_a35f_f64a48be5424.jpeg]] |
| 300 | A second Tamaranian aside from Starfire. Is eventually revealed to be a clone of Starfire. |
| 301 | ---- |
| 302 | * AdaptationalHeroism: In the main continuity Blackfire is Starfire's AlphaBitch [[CainAndAbel evil big sister]], a CardCarryingVillain and her sister's ArchEnemy, with her only redeeming quality being the FreudianExcuse of being treated as a monster unfairly and losing all her royal honours to her sister because she couldn't fly (though this is [[DependingOnTheWriter prone to variation]], naturally). ''This'' Blackfire comes off as a NonMaliciousMonster and has the mentality of an innocent child (if an unhinged one). |
| 303 | * AdaptationalUgliness: Usually she's depicted as being at least as attractive as Starfire. Here, Blackfire is a deformed clone of Starfire with a hump, so it goes without saying that she looks worse than her standard incarnation. |
| 304 | * BerserkButton: Don't call her ugly. |
| 305 | * CloneDegeneration: In this continuity, Blackfire is an imperfect clone of Starfire rather than her sister. |
| 306 | * CompositeCharacter: Take Blackfire, Bizarro, and Quasimodo, mash them together and you have this Blackfire. |
| 307 | * {{Expy}}: In many ways her origin and personality are similar to that of the Franchise/{{Superman}} AntiVillain Bizarro. |
| 308 | * GirlishPigtails |
| 309 | * PsychopathicManchild: Not malicious, has a childish hairstyle, apparently plays with a doll, has a backpack she wears on her front, is most sensitive to being made fun of… checks out nicely. |
| 310 | [[/folder]] |
| 311 | |
| 312 | !!Ramah Navajo Reservation |
| 313 | [[folder:Raven's Grandfather]] |
| 314 | !Raven's Grandfather |
| 315 | |
| 316 | A relatively nameless man who is helping his granddaughter through her growing powers. |
| 317 | ---- |
| 318 | * BadassNormal: When S.T.A.R. Labs sends Deathstroke and a team of soldiers to capture Starfire and Raven, he takes up a rifle and tells the girls to run. |
| 319 | * CoolOldGuy: He is a good man helping his granddaughter to master her powers, and he’s willing to protect her and her friends. |
| 320 | * DeadpanSnarker: Has his moments. |
| 321 | * EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Everyone, including non-relatives like Starfire, calls him Grandpa. |
| 322 | * PapaWolf: Takes up a rifle to protect his family from S.T.A.R. Labs. |
| 323 | [[/folder]] |
| 324 | |
| 325 | [[folder:Raven]] |
| 326 | !ComicBook/{{Raven}} |
| 327 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/28278353_378879945918813_557613592_o.jpg]] |
| 328 | |
| 329 | A Navajo teenager who has recurring {{dream|ingOfThingsToCome}}s about those who will become the Teen Titans. |
| 330 | ---- |
| 331 | * AdaptationalSpeciesChange: Raven is usually half-demon in most continuities, but here she appears to be entirely human albeit with supernatural powers. |
| 332 | ** RaceLift: From a pale-skinned Caucasian in most continuities to a Navajo here.. |
| 333 | * DreamingOfThingsToCome: Her involvement starts when she starts having recurring dreams about the Titans. |
| 334 | * MagicalNativeAmerican: A Navajo with prophetic dreams. |
| 335 | * MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Is she psychic or a navajo witch? |
| 336 | * PseudoRomanticFriendship: With Starfire. They're generally touchy-feely and end the book holding hands. |
| 337 | %%* PsychicPowers: How Caulder theorizes her powers come from. |
| 338 | %%* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Starfire's red. |
| 339 | * SuperpowerfulGenetics: Her grandfather had similar powers but they faded when she was born. |
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