Line #13 Recap/TeenTitansS5E4ForReal


1	-->''"You sound more like a {{fanboy}} than a nemesis."''
2	---> '''Aqualad'''
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4	With the Titans scattered all over the world, [[CityOfAdventure Jump City]] is left without heroes. At the request of the main team, [[WestCoastTeam Titans East]] goes to the city and encounters ControlFreak seeking the "real" Titans. Disappointed with what he considers to be the poor man's substitute, he sets up a series of tests for them.
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6	!!Tropes:
7	* BadassCrew: Titans East eventually cement themselves as this in Jump City and [[LoonyFan Control Freak's]] eyes.
8	* CoolSword: Remember [[Recap/TeenTitansS4E1Episode297494 Episode 297-494]], with its parody of Franchise/StarWars and a LaserBlade with parallel blades? Control Freak either created or brought to the real world a Darth-Maul DoubleWeapon version of it. Sadly, he doesn't use it in combat.
9	* CripplingOverspecialization: When Control Freak first faces Titans East, he attempts to use all the stuff he prepared for the "real" Titans. But because they were all made to ''specifically'' counter each of the Titans powers, they have little to no effect on the Titans East.
10	* CuttingTheKnot: How Titans East beats most of Control Freak's challenges. Can't shoot a rocket out of the sky with your arrows? Hijack one of the rockets themselves. Giant mechanical shark keeping you from reaching the main valve you need to plug up? Stick the shark in the valve instead. Can't stop a train before a bomb goes off? Short-circuit the trigger of the bomb. Need to be in two places at once to press two buttons at the same time? Use momentum to fling themselves across town at the buttons simultaneously.
11	* DudeWheresMyRespect: Both the heroes and villains get this, ironically enough. Control Freak is upset that he was rated as less of a threat than Puppet King, and Titans East keeps getting mistaken for the original five.
12	* EmbarrassingNickname: Speedy is "Robin," Aqualad is "unitard guy".
13	* EyelidPullTaunt: Control Freak pulls this gesture on the Titans East after bailing on their first battle... via a TV screen.
14	--> '''CF''': I don't want to fight you anymore. Nyeh! [''pulls down eyelid while sticking his tongue out'']
15	* FailedAttemptAtDrama: The episode opens with [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs Control Freak invading Titans Tower]] while making a dramatic speech to the Titans about how their "number-one nemesis" has returned and has prepared the "Ultimate Titans Challenge" for them, before finally realizing they aren't there. He goes to several other rooms looking for them while trying to repeat his speech before finally realizing they aren't home and decides to just wait for them. When the Titans East arrive he once again begins his speech before quickly stopping when he realizes they aren't the "real" Titans.
16	* FanDisservice: During his rundown of the core Titans, the fat and unattractive Control Freak appears dressed as each of them, including Raven and Starfire. His ugly body dressed in their clothes.
17	* FluffyTheTerrible: Control Freak's [[ThreateningShark mechanical shark]] that he sends after Aqualad is named "Glen," after one of the show's producers Glen Murakami.
18	* IdiotBall: After the Titans East successfully complete Control Freak's challenges, he begins geeking out over them and teleports himself in front of them while congratulating them. This leads to them quickly stealing his remote and arresting him. Speedy actually lampshades this as soon as it happens, which immediately gets an OhCrap reaction from Control Freak.
19	-->'''Speedy:''' I can't believe the bad guy just zapped himself in front of us.
20	* ImprovisedWeapon: Speedy's arrows are taken away for his challenge, so he ends up [[CatapultToGlory using himself]] [[AbnormalAmmo as an arrow]], and the bridge cables (plus tow truck to provide tension) as an improvised bow.
21	* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Control Freak gushes at Titans East for defeating his challenges. Of course, they take the opportunity to capture him, though he's a GracefulLoser about it.
22	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: After reading the list of threats to the Titans, Control Freak gets irked that he's rated below Puppet King. He puts it best:
23	--> '''Control Freak:''' They only fought him ''once''! I'm a ''recurring'' villain!
24	* LowerDeckEpisode: This episode has most of the Titans absent, with the focus on the Honorary Titans.
25	* NiceJobFixingItVillain: If Control Freak hadn't set the challenges for Titans East, they wouldn't have earned any respect. Not that he minds, actually.
26	* OpinionFlipflop: As soon Titans East actually begin winning their challenges, the Internet trolls change their tunes.
27	* RidingTheBomb: Speedy's method of completing Control Freak's challenge, by leaping and hijacking his missiles, turning them around mid-flight, and making them collide into each other. It works.
28	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After the Titans East easily defeat all the equipment he brought for the "real" Titans, Control Freak zaps himself out of the tower while sulking.
29	-->'''Control Freak:''' All these woulda worked on the real Titans. It's just, your powers are... stupid! (''zaps himself away and appears on the screen'') I don't want to fight you anymore.
30	* ShipperOnDeck: A forum poster ships Starfire and Beast Boy together, and then later Aqualad and Bumblebee.
31	* SmallNameBigEgo: Despite once again claiming to be the Teen Titans' "number-one nemesis", the Titans apparently don't consider him a big enough threat to even put him on their list of villains. Making it even worse, their villains list even included the Puppet King, a MonsterOfTheWeek who had only fought the Titans once, while Control Freak had fought them twice.
32	* TakeThatAudience:
33	** When Control Freak is speaking to his online friends, the bizarre theories of the people Control Freak chats with ("Starfire and BB forever!") were apparently taken from actual forum posts.
34	** The episode is directed at people who were highly critical of the Titans East. We learn from this episode that no, Speedy is ''not'' useless if he doesn't have any arrows, Aqualad ''is'' physically strong even if he's at an aquatic disadvantage, Bumblebee's powers ''are'' awesome even when she's not in combat, and Más y Menos ''can'' come up with a way to overcome their "have to be touching" disadvantage.
35	* TemptingFate: When Control Freak is explaining his challenges to the Titans East they each state their confidence that they can handle it, right before he finishes explaining one other stipulation that makes it even harder. In Speedy's case though, before he can even say anything Control Freak immediately takes his arrows away.
36	* TranslatorMicrobes: Control Freak uses his remote to translate Más y Menos' Spanish, making them speak English.
37	-->'''Control Freak:''' Spanish language converter.
38	* WolfWhistle: One can be heard when [[MsFanservice Bumblebee]] introduces herself to Control Freak.
39	* WorthyOpponent:
40	** Control Freak is initially unimpressed with Titans East, considering them just a knock-off version of the "real" Titans he knows. After they beat all his challenges though he congratulates them, and says he'll make things even harder for them next time as he is being arrested.
41	** Le Blanc is initially disappointed when he is defeated and arrested by the Titans East, sulking that he thought he had a shot with the Titans out of town. He is later seen watching them in Control Freak's challenges at prison, and when they begin to beat each challenge he voices how they are clever, bragging that that's how they captured him.

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