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Core Team

L-to-R: Starfire, Robin, Beast Boy, Terra, Raven, and Cyborg

General

• Adaptation Expansion: The Teen Titans Go! comics gave more screentime to Terra as a member of the team.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: This continuity has Cyborg, Beast Boy, Starfire and Raven as founding members of the team alongside Robin, when in the comics they did not join the team until Marv Wolfman and George Perez's New Teen Titans run. In contrast, the founding Titans besides Robin in the comics canon (Aqualad, Kid Flash, Speedy and Wonder Girl) would all have their debuts occur later.
• Age Lift: They've all been de-aged. Robin, Starfire, Cyborg, and Raven were all 18 or 19 during The New Teen Titans but now all appear to be between 15-17. Beast Boy (know as Changeling at the time) was 16 in the comics but appears to be around 13 or 14.
• Alternate Self: All five members of the team have many in The Multiverse that they team up with in Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans, with the most noticeable examples being the versions from the 2013 show, the DCAMU, the Tiny Titans comics and The New Teen Titans comics.
• Arc Hero: All of the Titans, sans Starfire, take turns being this for a season.
  • Robin for Season One, where the story is focused on his battle with Slade and foiling the mysterious mastermind.
  • Terra for Season Two, where she's the central character being the newbie on the Titans and eventually revealed to be a Sixth Ranger Traitor.
  • Cyborg for Season Three, where the main plot is him going up against Brother Blood and the HIVE Academy.
  • Raven for Season Four, with the overall story arc being the prophesy of Trigon entering the mortal realm using her as a portal.
  • Beast Boy for Season Five, where his past of being in the Doom Patrol and their enemies the Brotherhood of Evil takes center stage.
• Badass Crew: They may be teens, but they are more than capable of making villainous grown men cry.
• Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: Starfire, Raven & Terra respectively
• Big, Thin, Short Trio: The male Titans - Cyborg, Robin, and Beast Boy are this respectively.
• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Terra, Raven & Starfire in respective order.
• The Bus Came Back: After 12 years since their final appearance, this version of the Teen Titans makes a surprise reappearance in the direct to video movie, Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans, a crossover with Teen Titans Go!.
• The Cameo: This incarnation of the Titans makes a surprise appearance in The Stinger of Teen Titans Go! To the Movies, stating they've "found a way back".
• Color-Coded Characters: Robin - Red. Cyborg - Blue. Beast Boy - Green. Raven - Purple. Starfire - Orange. Terra - Yellow to complete the 6 primary and secondary colors for the brief time she was on the team.
• Expy: Of the Breakfast Club. Right down to their colour motifs, each Titan is based on one of the five students in detention. Robin is clearly Bender (being the “leader” of the team and wearing red), Cyborg is Andy (athletic, Big Eater, has a blue motif and is The Lancer to Robin), Starfire is Claire (comes from a wealthy background, has red hair, and is the Love Interest of Robin), Beast Boy is closest to Brian (green motif, the smallest of the group, and arguably The Heart), and Raven is Allison… for obvious reasons.
• Five-Man Band: Robin is the intense team Leader, Cyborg is a Big Fun Gadgeteer Genius, Beast Boy is The Funny Guy, Starfire is a Naïve Newcomer Girly Girl and Raven is the stoic goth. Further, Robin and Star are love interests, and Beast Boy and Raven are a subtle Beta Couple, while Cyborg's romances are mostly outside the team. Star and Raven are Light Feminine and Dark Feminine pair, Cyborg is a laidback Blue Oni Number Two to Robin's determined Red Oni leadership style, with BB on the outs. On a scale from fun to serious, Beast Boy, Cyborg, Star, Robin, Raven, where the former two love to party, the latter two prioritize work, and Star just wants everyone to get along.
  • Terra was the Sixth Ranger for the brief time she was in the team.
• I Believe I Can Fly: While Cyborg and Robin typically can't fly, Cyborg has some form of rocket-propulsion that he just doesn't usually use and Robin has rocket boots and his cape turns into a pair of wings. and he doesn't use them either.
• Minor Living Alone: All of the Teen Titans live without parental supervision in their island headquarters and they fight crime. There's a reason for this: two of them are orphans, one of them is a runaway, while another two have parents residing somewhere other than Earth. Cyborg is the only one who can readily access his father. Presumably the "super hero" thing credits them with responsibility to do this.
• Morality Chain: The rest of the Titans in general ground Robin, especially Starfire.
• More Deadly Than the Male: A bit of a downplayed and Zig-Zagged Trope, but very much still notable. While killing is rare, the only confirmed kills in this group are Terra killing Slade and Raven killing Trigon. However, this is played completely straight in terms of where everyone ranks on the Super Weight scale. Cyborg, significantly more powerful than Robin or Beast Boy, is much weaker than Starfire, and not only is Raven is the most powerful Titan not just in the Core Group, after Trigon is dead, she is very likely the most powerful character in the show, period. On the other hand however, Robin is significantly more cunning and a much more skilled fighter than anyone else in the team.
• Physical, Mystical, Technological:
  • Robin is the Physical as he relies on his martial arts. Beast Boy and Starfire are also Physical.
  • Raven is the Mystical as she knows sorcery. Terra is also Mystical due to her geomancy.
  • Cyborg is the Technological as he is half machine and can build gadgets for himself and others.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The team consists of a Circus Brat and former sidekick of Batman, a half-man/half-machine, a sorceress with demon heritage, a green-skinned changeling, and an alien princess.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Downplayed. While they tend to spare their enemies after beating them most of the time, some exceptions are witnessed, such as a redeemed Terra killing Slade and Raven killing Trigon.
• True Companions: Downplayed at first and then later played straight with Character Development. They actually have a lot of internal strife early on, but their bond ultimately sees them through it all and they all grow much closer to each other as the show goes on.
• Two Girls to a Team: Starfire and Raven. It's more of a Red Oni, Blue Oni dynamic than a straight up Tomboy and Girly Girl situation. The second season added a third girl, Terra, but she was The Mole and didn't last beyond that.
• Vague Age: Played straight as we never learn their specific ages. Even when Raven has a Birthday Episode its an Ageless Birthday Episode. We can only surmise that Cyborg is the oldest and Beast Boy is the youngest.
• Younger and Hipper: In the Wolfman/Perez run of the comics, the Titans were young adults. In this cartoon, they're all minors

Robin

Robin / Richard John "Dick" Grayson

Voiced by: Scott Menville ^{Other voice actors}Takashi Onozuka (Japanese), Ezequiel Serrano (Latin American Spanish), Alessio De Filippis (IT), Mathias Kozlowski (FR), Manolo Rey (PT-BR)

Powers/Abilities: Charles Atlas Superpower, Martial Arts, Weapons and Devices

"Titans! GO!"

"As much as I hate to admit it, he and I are kind of alike. But there's one big difference between me and Slade: he doesn't have any friends."

Robin is The Leader of the team. Trained by Batman, he manages to keep on an even keel with a team of metahumans through his intelligence, tactical skills, martial arts prowess and, when it all boils down to basics, enough pure crazy to frighten the four of them if he really cuts loose. Robin left his position as Batman's sidekick and moved all the way to Jump City to start working solo, only to end up taking charge of the Teen Titans on his first night there and deciding, afterwards, that heading a team might not be so bad after all.

Robin is, at heart, a fairly normal teenager, enjoying hanging out and chilling as much as his comrades do. However, he's Batman's ex-sidekick, and this means he shares his mentor's fixation on discipline and hard work, which can put him at odds with his more relaxed teammates. He's also got issues of his own, namely a tendency to fixate on problems to such an extent that he stops paying attention to anything but "the mission", which has damaged his friendships on more than one occasion. Despite this, he is loyal to his team and takes threats against them seriously indeed.

The creators are ambivalent about which incarnation of Robin he's supposed to be, with invoked Word of God stating that he represents "Robin in general" rather than a specific member of the Batclan. However, a number of Mythology Gags and several other hints point to him being Dick Grayson, the first Robin; this is explicitly revealed in the Teen Titans Go! comic.

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• The Ace: Talented at everything within normal human capabilities such as martial arts, leadership, detective work, manipulation, inventing, etc.
• Action Hero: Robin is a top martial artist who was trained by Batman, the Action Hero.
• Adaptation Personality Change: Comic Robin was easy going and idealist, and as Nightwing he is considered The Heart of DC Universe, for being charismatic and personable. Here, he's more strait-laced and serious compared to his New Teen Titans incarnation, while as Nightwing he is a loner hiding in shadows with none of his friends beside him, the complete opposite of The Heart and Friendly Enemy he is the comics.
• Adaptational Badass: One of the coolest, smartest, strongest, and most competent versions of Robin. He is the one who is inspired by Batman, a One-Man Army, and a respected leader of the Titans.
• Adaptational Curves: Inverted, both his current and future self are leaner than most of his comic iterations.
• Adaptational Hairstyle Change: His Nightwing persona has longer hair than any of his comic personifications.
• Adaptational Jerkass: In the comics, Dick Grayson is a snarky Nice Guy and Fun Personified. Here, he is prone to taking his anger out on his friends when things don't go his way.
• Adaptational Seriousness: From someone who has the biggest Silver Tongue in DC Comics, to someone who is Batman level of seriousness and work alcoholic who never delivers a single sardonic line. He is still The Comically Serious though.
• Aesop Amnesia: Robin struggles with not being a Jerkass to his friends throughout the series, especially if Slade is the reason.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg:
  • During the "Apprentice arc", Robin provokes Slade to a violent fight, but loses the fight. Hopeless and seeing there is no way out, he finally crumbles under Slade's threats to kill his friends and tells him he will do whatever he wants from now on, as long as he spares his friends' lives. Luckily for Robin, the Titans were on their way to free him from Slade's yoke.
  • "Slade, stop!", said by Robin when he got poisoned after inhaling Slade's hallucinogenic dust hidden in one of his masks. Worth noting that is the only time Robin does this, and he is not even begging the real Slade, but a figment of his imagination induced by the dust .
• Alternate Self:
  • Larry is a chibi version of him with Reality Warper powers from another dimension. His real name is Nosyarg Kcid.
  • In the tie-in comics, he meets his older version from the alternate future Starfire traveled to by accident.
• Almost Kiss: Though the entirety of the show, there are many moments where he and Starfire are about to kiss only to be always interrupted by something. This becomes a Running Gag during Trouble in Tokyo until the end of the movie where they finally kiss.
• Amazon Chaser: Some of the things he likes the most about Starfire are "the way [she] shoots starbolts, that [she is] brave, and the strongest girl ever."
• Animal-Themed Superbeing: Well, he is "Robin". Also, it's strongly implied that in his adulthood he will become Nightwing.
• Anti-Hero: He may be the leader of a team of superheroes, but he even admits to himself that he is too dogged in his pursuit of villains, and is not above lying to his friends if it helps his plan.
• Arch-Enemy: He’s arch-enemies with Slade, naturally, just like his comics-book counterpart is with Deathstroke.
• Backported Development: Much like the Batman of the DC Animated Universe in Justice League vs. The Fatal Five, this version of Robin used a glider cape inspired by The Dark Knight Trilogy and Batman: Arkham Series in Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans.
• Bad Guy Bar: He visits one in the movie, in order to learn some information about Brushogun.
• Badass Biker: Sometimes rides a motorcycle when chasing criminals.
• Badass Cape: That cape of his is made with titanium! That's right. Titanium! And it's a high density polymer that's ten times stronger than steel!
• Badass Longcoat: Robin wears a white trench coat with Cool Shades in Trouble in Tokyo, when he is prosecuted by the Japanese authorities.
• Badass Minds Think Alike: He and Slade perfectly synchronize their movements without any planning while fighting Trigon's demonic creatures.
• Badass Normal: Keeps up with a team of metahumans despite having no powers himself.
• Battle Trophy: He has one of Slade's many masks in his store room, and other objects taken from villains he defeated.
• Batman Gambit: Robin pulls these several times through out the series, a notable example being during the " Apprentice" story arc, when he tells Slade that if he kills his friends, he will lose his apprentice too, gambling that Slade hates losing, just like he hates losing.
• Batman Can Breathe in Space: Played for Laughs. Robin can breathe in space when he is angry that Starfire gets married to someone she doesn't even know. He does start to suffocate after several seconds and goes back to his cabin in the T-sub.
• Battle Couple: With Starfire. Their combos in battle were seamless even before they became a couple.
• Battle in the Rain: He thinks he fights the real Slade in the forest, while it's raining like crazy.
• Berserk Button: He does not like being compared to Slade. At all. This is most noticeable in the Apprentice episodes; he manages to get over it, but it's still a sensitive issue for him. Deep down Robin does acknowledge their similarities, and his obsession stems from the fact that Slade is always several steps ahead of him.
  • Also, God help Beast Boy in "The Beast Within", when Robin doesn't take too kindly at all to his behavioral change and being a suspect in Raven's attack.
• The Big Damn Kiss: With Starfire in The Movie.
• Blackmail: Slade does this to him in the Season 1 finale. Become my apprentice or I will kill your teammates.
• Blue Is Heroic: His gear as Nightwing has blue accents.
• Brainy Brunette: He has black hair and is one of the most intelligent iterations of the character.
• Bring It: Robin has a habit of doing the beckoning sign when he provokes someone to a fight.
• Broken Ace: Everyone looks to Robin as a great leader that's skilled at everything. But on the inside he's dealing with an internal struggle, especially in Season 1 and 3 regarding Slade and his failure in stopping his nemesis. In the Bad Future, he's the only Titan who's become more badass, but at the cost of becoming utterly devoted to his work without any teammates. ^note Which, it should be noted, is the opposite of how Nightwing usually works, as he's usually the hero with the most allies in the DCU.
• Broken Pedestal: By the end of Season 1, his obsession to catch and imprison Slade greatly disappoints his teammates, especially when he constantly lies and deceives them.
  • It's also implied that he left Batman's side for this very reason.
• Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Brooding Boy to Starfire's Gentle Girl; always serious and plotting while his not-girlfriend is a perpetual ray of sunshine.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: He can be standoffish and violent at times, but he always had a soft spot for Starfire.
• Burning with Anger: He was flaming in "Betrothed" when Blackfire spitefully engages Starfire to an ugly blob of an alien.
• Byronic Hero: Unlike his Fun Personified and well adjusted iteration from the comics, this Dick Grayson is the hallmark of broodiness and obsessiveness with all the serious elements that were borrowed from Batman and the other Robins. He is handsome, a great leader, intuitive, intelligent and skilled at everything a Badass Normal could be, but for every quality he has, there are his anger issues buried under the mask of stoicism and tendency to lash out on his friends, his rigidness and demanding of others to be workaholic like him, distrustful and even manipulative (as seen in "Masks"), self-centered and competitive, and the worst of them, his obsession with catching the bad guys, especially Slade who always brings out the worst in Robin. No wonder that when Starfire travels to the future, the older Dick became The Cowl, and a loner with no friends like Bruce Wayne from Batman Beyond.
• The Cape: Besides wearing one as Robin and being a bit brooding, many heroes look up to him.
• Captive Date: Killer Moth threatens the city with destruction unless Robin takes Killer Moth's Bratty Teenage Daughter, Kitten, to the prom. Robin has no other choice but to comply, much to his chagrin.
• Catapult Nightmare: Robin wakes up scared and covered in sweat from a nightmare involving Slade in "Apprentice Part 1", showing that his determination to catch Slade slowly turns into an obsession for him.
• Celibate Hero: He refuses to be "something more than a hero" regarding his relationship with Starfire until the end of the Trouble in Tokyo movie. Probably a holdover from his mentor.
• Character Catchphrase: "Teen Titans, GO!" Usually just shortened to "Titans, GO!"
• Character Development: In the prequel episode before the Teen Titans were first formed, he worked alone. After meeting the soon-to-be core members, he has learned a lot about the importance of teamwork and a team itself.
• Characterization Marches On: Minor, but he didn't show a hint of jealousy when Starfire found Aqualad very handsome in "Deep Six". Admittedly, there was a villain to stop and he didn't interact with Aqualad as much as Beast Boy did, but it's surprising since he'd later show the slightest hints of hostility when Starfire showed interest in other guys.
• Character Tics:
  • Robin's habit of punching his palm whenever he gets angry. He does this so often that if he took his glove off, viewers might see permanent knuckle prints there. This was taken from Burt Ward's interpretation in the 1966 tv series.
  • He also grits his teeth whenever he charges into battle.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: Shown to be capable of beating down large superpowered beings with his bare hands due to his intense martial arts training.
• Chest Insignia: Wears an R badge over his uniform. Later, when he is forced to become Slade's lackey, he wears an S-shaped insignia, and hates every moment of it. No wonder first thing Robin does to defy Slade is to rip it and throw away that insignia.
• Chick Magnet: Over the course of the show, Kitten, Blackfire and Starfire, whom he hooks up with later, have all been attracted to him.
• Circus Brat: When Raven reads his mind, she sees an image of trapeze artists falling to their deaths, a strong hint that this Robin is Dick Grayson. Confirmed in the comics when Robin is clarified to be Dick Grayson.
• Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Inverted. Recently-deceased villain Slade returned to beat the living crap out of Robin... or so Robin thinks. Turns out, he'd been exposed to a drug that makes him see Slade, and his body reacts as if he's been struck. He is able to disbelieve in his opponent just in time to save himself from the killing blow.
• Clint Squint: He often narrows his eyes.
• Cloak of Defense: Robin's cape is made of a special polymer ten times stronger than steel. He sometimes uses it to shield himself against enemy attacks. In "Winner Take All", it proved strong enough to protect Robin from Hot Spot's fire blasts.
• Clothing Damage: Played for drama. Robin's outfit got torn apart in "Haunted" when he was fighting with what he thought was Slade.
• Collector of the Strange: He owns a Trophy Room full of newspapers stuck on the wall, gadgets and other objects he took from villains. He spends sometimes unhealthy amounts of time obsessing over his missions, especially if they involve Slade.
• Combat Parkour: He is very flexible and pulls some impossible stunts.
• Combat Pragmatist: Robin will use whatever skills, tactics, or advantages he can find to defeat his adversary. He was able to single-handedly defeat his own team when he worked under Slade.
• The Comically Serious: Unlike Raven, he is not even snarky, all the fun comes from his seriousness and annoyance at his goofy teammates.
• Competition Freak: Robin is competitive to the point where it backfires horribly. As Cyborg puts it into words: "Crazy, paranoid, hyper-competitive, spiky-haired little..."
• Composite Character:
  • While he's clearly meant to be Dick Grayson as seen in his relationship with Starfire, future as Nightwing, and backstory as a circus brat, he has Jason Todd's anger problems and Tim Drake's bo staff and introverted personality.
• The Confidant: While he doesn't show it very often, he's one of the more understanding members of The Titans. In "Birthmark" Raven shared some of her past with him.
  • He tries to be this with Terra. It backfires, inadvertently making her believe that Beast Boy told Robin about her inability to control her powers, and starting her down the road to working with Slade and betraying the Titans.
• Control Freak: Of all the things Robin has in common with Slade, it's how controlling and rigid he can be, especially when it comes to missions involving Slade. He is demanding and cannot accept not even the slightest mistake. When he hallucinates Slade telling him about planting bombs all over the city, he sends his teammates to find the nonexistent bombs. He is convinced they exist, and cannot accept the truth when his teammates tell him they couldn't find the so called bombs and question their existence.
• Cool Bike: He owns a red and green one.
• Cool Mask: He's got the baddest mask and it makes him feel cool, ok?
• The Cowl: At least in the timeline Starfire travels to, his adult version is a loner, lurking in the shadows and owning a dark secret lair not different from Slade's.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: Doesn't like it when Starfire shows interest in other guys, or other guys in her.
• Crazy-Prepared: Downplayed in that he has a very specific range of gadgets, instead choosing to apply them in creative ways...but when he made the Red X suit, he included a lot of anti-Titan gadgets, a fact that gets lampshaded when someone steals the suit and uses it on them. The "downplayed" comes from the fact that he didn't have any anti anti-Titan gadgets and thus no way to prevent the Red X suit from being turned against him.
• Dark and Troubled Past: His tragic backstory is left largely untouched by the show, but in "Haunted", we get a glimpse of his past, including his parents falling to their deaths. The tie-in comics have an entire issue of him mourning the deaths of the Flying Graysons.
• Dark Is Not Evil: As the famous Nightwing. His gear is mostly black with blue accents, but stays just as heroic as his teenage self.
• Determinator: He never gives up, especially when it comes to finishing his missions. Never.
• Did Not Get the Girl: His Nightwing persona from the future Starfire travels to never got to be with her because she went missing for two decades.
• Distracted by the Sexy: He is struck quite speechless when he sees Starfire in a prom dress.
• Domino Mask: His default mask.
• Don't Call Me "Sir": Robin doesn't like being called sir by Beast Boy.
• Dramatic Irony: When he creates his villainous alter ego, Red X, Robin doesn't tell his teammates about it. When Slade forces him to becomes his apprentice and everyone believes he became evil out of free will, he wants to warn them, but can't, because Slade would kill them.
• Dual Wielding: Just like his comic counterpart.
• Eating the Eye Candy: When Starfire makes her appearance in a long violet dress at the prom, Robin is so taken aback that he sees her in a Gaussian Girl filter.
• Enemy Mine: He teams up with Slade in order to save the world from Trigon.
• Et Tu, Brute?: In "Haunted" when Starfire shoots him in the back because he is haunted by hallucinations of Slade and threatens to take down anyone who gets in his way.
• Everyone Can See It: His UST with Starfire.
• Everyone Has Standards: Despite his flaw being fixation on a goal, even he didn't approve of Mento's stern treatment of Beast Boy.
• Evil Costume Switch: After becoming Slade's apprentice, he wears a black and orange uniform.
• Experienced Protagonist: He already was a vigilante years before meeting the Titans, serving under Batman's wing.
• Expressive Mask: His masks widens and narrows with emotion.
• Fatal Flaw: He's hypercompetitive and prone to complete fixation on his goal, no matter how important, and this repeatedly proves his undoing.
• Female Gaze: Of course it's the butt. He is Dick Grayson after all, DC's most famous butt.
• Finding Judas: Robin became Red X with good intentions, but his teammates don't think he was justified in tricking them.
• First Kiss: Presumably with Starfire.
• Follow in My Footsteps: Slade tries to force Robin to follow his villainous ways.
• Force and Finesse: Robin, who is a nimble Combat Parkourist, has this dynamic with Cyborg and Starfire.
  • Cyborg being the Big Guy, whose relies on his Super-Strength.
  • Starfire has her starbolts, flying and her main fighting style is kick boxing.
• Forced to Watch: Slade forces Robin into submission, after torturing his friends nearly to death.
• Forced into Evil: Robin briefly joins forces with Slade because the latter injected his teammates with lethal nanobots that he could trigger and kill his friends.
• Forceful Kiss: He is on the receiving end from Starfire when they meet from the first time. Not knowing any Terran language, she grabs Robin and kisses him in order to absorb his language knowledge. As for Robin, he certainly enjoyed himself.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Choleric, as his priority is always on the mission at hand, but still has to lead the team.
• The Friends Who Never Hang: Him and Beast Boy. Sure, they interact, but their relationship is never the focus of an episode. Despite their opposite personalities, they are both Experienced Protagonists who served under stern teachers from a young age, yet this is never brought up.
• Funny Bruce Lee Noises: Being the resident martial artist, he often does this sort of thing.
• Future Badass: As Nightwing in "How Long is Forever?" He shows interest in his future identity upon Starfire's return to the present timeline.
• Genre Blindness: If Robin wasn't so good at improvising (and so well-trained), he would've been dead a long time ago. The boy simply has no concept that things may not be what they appear to be. He gave a frickin' communicator to a villainess who was masquerading as one of his own team, which was how the season's Big Bad and his Evil Minions captured most of the extended Titans roster. There may be nothing wrong with giving a communicator to someone you think is a friend of yours and who you think might be in trouble soon... but there is after you just spent the whole episode fighting a shapeshifting villainess.
• Genius Bruiser: He is the smart leader of the Titans and possibly builds his own gadgets.
• Goomba Springboard: Robin does it often against the mooks.
• Guilt Complex: Quite a lot when it comes to his past mistakes involving Slade, shown the most in the episode "X".
• Hair-Trigger Temper: For an usually laid-back guy, he's not good at keeping his anger in check once his buttons are pushed, and can be difficult to talk down when he's angered.
• The Hero: The super skilled leader of the Titans is the closest thing the show has to an individual protagonist. He is also very selfless and determined.
• He Cleans Up Nicely: Robin in a black tuxedo is a sight to be seen. In Trouble in Tokyo, he changes his clothing to look like thug.
• He Who Fights Monsters: He is dangerously close to crossing the Moral Event Horizon whenever Slade is involved. And Slade himself points out that what makes them alike is Robin's desire for vengeance, destruction and revenge.
• Hot-Blooded: Downplayed. He has tremendous intensity in battle, but it's (usually) a focused intensity and he is not given to excessive risk taking.
• Humans are Leaders: Robin is a human Badass Normal leading a Five-Token Band.
• Inspector Javert: In "The Beast Within", when Beast Boy undergoes a change and is found near an unconscious Raven, he thought Beast Boy was the culprit and an immediate Broken Pedestal Fallen Hero and another unrepentant super villain to him and his mates.
• In the Back: In "Haunted", Robin is shot in the back by Starfire with a starbolt, because she cannot bear anymore seeing him hurting himself for his obsession with Slade.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: Robin can hit a bull's-eye with his birdarang thingie from at least a hundred feet (30 meters).
• Imposed Handicap Training: Robin fights the snake being blindfolded on his quest to find the one True Master.
• The Infiltration: Robin tried to pull one when he was the villain Red X. He didn't tell anything to his teammates in order to make Slade believe everything is genuine, except, Slade knew all along Robin and Red X are same person.
• Interspecies Romance: With Starfire, a Tamaranian.
• Irisless Eye Mask Of Mystery: Robin wears his black mask with white lenses all the time, and the show goes to ridiculous lengths to keep his eyes a mystery. He apparently wears the mask when no one could see his face, even while showering. The only time his eyes are shown is in Troubles in Tokyo, while almost being caught kissing Starfire. his eyes turn into Black Bead Eyes for the comedic effect, but we still don't get to see the real shape of his eyes.
• Irony: In the final episode of Season 1, he finally acknowledges that he and Slade are alike in many regards except one crucial aspect: unlike Slade, he will always be surrounded by his friends. Season's 2 first episode deals exactly with what kind of person Robin would become without friends. Starfire travels two decades into the future, where Robin became a loner lurking in shadows after the Titans split up, even owning a dark lair. He became exactly like Slade, if a Good Counterpart.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He may seem abrasive to his teammates and does have a temper, but he does deeply care about them and his heart's in the right place. He's a nice guy most of the time, he just sometimes lets his impatience and stubbornness get in the way of it.
• Junior Counterpart: Much more than his comic counterpart. This Robin behaves like he is mini Batman.
• Kid Hero All Grown-Up: In the dark future where Starfire travels to, Robin is the only one who is still a superhero. As Nightwing, he is more mature and calm, but becomes a loner like Batman.
• Kind Restraints: The Titans had to tie Robin to a bed to keep him from hurting himself. He was violent and mentally unstable from having hallucinations of Slade.
• Knight in Sour Armour: When he met the Titans for the first time, he was quite brooding and aloof. He is more relaxed in present day.
• Lipstick-and-Load Montage: A male version. Robin changes from his clothing to Slade's uniform, with the creepy implication that Slade was there watching him from the shadows.
• The Leader: At times he can seem a Mastermind type, but when in battle, he's a Level Headed type.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: When Starfire travels to the future by accident, she meets Robin as an adult. As Nightwing he is tall, lean, and has long shiny black hair.
• Love at First Punch: When he and Starfire first met, she beat him up and then kissed him to learn the English language.
• Made of Iron: Despite training under Batman, he's still a teenage human boy, but can take frankly inhuman amounts of punishment from supernatural or empowered fighters like Slade. Perhaps best illustrated in the first season when Robin at the height of his anger beats and hurls around Cinderblock within an inch of his life without any strain or harm to himself.
• Magical Girlfriend: Downplayed: Robin is Badass Normal who fights demons, aliens and psychos daily, but sometimes he needs Starfire's super natural powers to finish them off. They fight side by side often.
• Manly Tears: Robin is stoic and brave, rarely showing any sign of emotional vulnerability. In the tie-in comics, Starfire encourages him to cry when he is mourning his parents.
• Married to the Job: His reason for being a Celibate Hero is that he's too focused on fighting crime.
• Master of Disguise: Depending on who is he trying to fool. His Red X persona worked too well with the Titans yet it went South with Slade, and in Tokyo, his disguise as a crook helped him to mix with the criminal underworld of the city.
• Meaningful Name: Robin's real name is "Richard", which is derived from the old Germanic elements " rík, rīc" (ruler, leader) and "hard" (strong, brave).
• Mind Rape: Suffers a PTSD mental breakdown after inhaling a drug that makes him hallucinate Slade, to the point of not being able to tell the difference between reality and hallucination.
• Mr. Fanservice: As Nightwing, his costume is more form fitting and he has much longer hair.
• Mugged for Disguise: In Troubles in Tokyo, after being falsely accused of a crime, he's being hunted by the police, and he needs a disguise. He ducks into an alleyway... and comes across a guy with a gun who demands that Robin hand over his money. Robin beats him up and takes his clothing.
• My Greatest Failure: Red X. More specifically, attacking the Titans under the guise of Red X. Not only does Slade figures it out immediately, but he really damaged the trust of his team. When the costume gets stolen and another person takes on the identity, Robin gets obsessed with catching him because he is a living reminder to Robin of how he betrayed his friends.
• The Napoleon: Robin is a short teenager, is very hot-blooded, and has a quick temper. And ho boy, he does hates when someone makes fun of his height (namely, Cyborg).
• No Mere Windmill: In the episode "Haunted", Robin is plagued by thoughts of evil villain Slade, and if he is still out there somewhere. Robin pushes his friends away, as his determination to find Slade is getting obsessive and the other titans have a hard time convincing him Slade is no longer an issue. At one point, Robin actually starts to see Slade moving around. It's just that, even while Robin catches up with him, no one else can see the villain. It gets so bad they actually have to restrain Robin later on. It turns out though that imaginary enemies don't tend to do physical damage to their victim, and that Robin might actually be fighting something more than anyone else is assuming. It ultimately turns out to be a subversion: Robin is under the influence of a hallucinogenic drug, and the physical damage is partially self-inflicted, partially psychosomatic.
• No Sympathy: Due to being around Season 3 where he Took a Level in Jerkass, Robin never really expresses concern over Beast Boy's grossly uncharacteristic behavior in "The Beast Within", apparently convinced that Beast Boy should remove himself if he won't drop his attitude. After the situation reveals itself to be a matter of Beast Boy turning into a monster that apparently assaulted Raven because his DNA might be coming apart, he initially and immediately viewed Beast Boy as a Broken Pedestal, believes that since Beast Boy is now a monster, he is just another super villain to take down and decides to get information by losing his patience and effectively subjecting Beast Boy to Perp Sweating. He deliberately amps up the pressure and inevitably causes the second appearance of the Beast, this seems like Robin was deliberately trying to get Beast Boy to Freak Out as an excuse to attack and probably kill him out of Revenge Before Reason for harming his teammates rather it was physically or emotionally... and nobody ever really discusses this.
• Not Himself: When he has visions of Slade and starts acting crazy.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Has a few problems controlling his anger and has some violent outbursts in Season 1.
• Non-Powered Costumed Hero: Robin wears his famous hero costume while being the only Token Human member of the team.
• Noodle Incident: It's never revealed why Robin left Batman to strike out on his own but it's pretty apparent that the two didn't exactly part on the best of terms.
• Not So Above It All: A straight-laced and serious leader a good amount of the time, but still capable of being as goofy or awkward as the rest of the Titans. Probably the best example being in one episode where he goes away on a personal training mission. While he's gone, the rest of the titans sneak into his room and start messing around with his stuff and dressing up in his uniform, going so far as to call each other Robin. When he returns home to find them all dressed as him, they clearly are expecting him to be mad, but he just casually greets each of them as Robin before sitting down to eat some pizza.
• "Not So Different" Remark: From Slade, though as he notes, he has the one difference that matters: his friends.
• Oblivious to Love: As pointed out under She Is Not My Girlfriend on the show page, he and Star had effectively been on several dates and had several romantic moments by the time he makes his declaration. Apparently, this didn't count. To be fair, most of the audience probably just chalked them up to Ship Tease, meaning we missed it too.
• Odd Friendship: He and Raven gain an oddly close relationship starting with season 3's Haunted when Raven has to mentally possess Robin, causing her to see all of his memories. In a sense, after this she understands him better than anyone else on the team, and a season later, he embarks on an solo trip (initially, Slade joins up too) into the underworld to save her after her father Trigon has been summoned into the world.
• Oh, Crap!: He has this reaction when it comes to Slade.
• One-Man Army: He took down the entire team while he posed as Red X. The Master of Games even literally refers to him as such in "Winner Take All."
• Only Sane Man: With Cyborg and Beast Boy constantly fooling around, and Starfire getting excited with just about everything and misunderstanding the rest, Robin often ends up like this alongside with Raven.
• Opposites Attract: With Starfire, the bubbly and friendly Nice Girl.
• Orphan's Ordeal: He watched his parents fall to their deaths, and an issue from the comics deals with his grief.
• Other Me Annoys Me:
  • In "Fractured", Larry's antics drive him up the wall.
  • In the crossover Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans, unlike the other Titans, Robin remains permanently irritated by his GO! counterpart even during the heartwarming parting of ways between the others. Downplayed in regards to his DCAMU counterpart as they don't really interact, but he naturally dislikes how Starfire is attracted to Nightwing.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: Comes in the territory when you are the only Badass Normal in a team with a cyborg, alien powerhouse, a Black Mage and a shapeshifter.
• The Paranoiac: He shows several traits in missions involving Slade. He becomes grimmer than usual, is angry, has Control Freak tendencies and will resort to violence without caring if said person is innocent or not.
  • The "Haunted" episode is about Robin being paranoiac about Slade's return.
• Parental Abandonment: His parents died falling to their deaths from sabotaged trapeze cords. Years later, he is still greatly affected.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He's a short kid but he's very strong, as he trains like a beast with no days off.
• Prodigal Hero: He left Batman some time before meeting the Titans, and is not pleased whenever someone makes any reference to Batman.
• Rapid Aging: He becomes an old man after getting his youth drained by Mad Mod in "Revolution".
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: He is an attractive pale-skinned teenager with dark hair. It is even more obvious when he becomes Nightwing.
• Real Men Wear Pink: He enjoys cooking and it looks quite nice compared to what Starfire comes up with ("The Beast Within").
• Running Gag: His hairstyle getting destroyed for a reason or another.
• Sanity Slippage: In the episode "Haunted", a drug causes him to go more and more nutso as a Slade hallucination takes over his mind.
• Screaming Warrior: Does a lot of screaming in battle.
• She Is Not My Girlfriend: With Starfire. No one believes him and in one episode it got him in trouble with Starfire herself, which led to him apologizing as if she was his girlfriend and he were in the doghouse.
• Shonen Hair: Lampshaded and parodied in some episodes. Also invoked, since Robin is shown styling his hair and Cyborg points out that he reeks of hair gel.
• Standardized Leader: Varies. He'll often come off like this in episodes that focus on other members of the team, but the ones that focus on him tend to make him a much more nuanced character than this trope implies.
• Sidekick Graduations Stick: When the series starts, he is no longer Batman's sidekick; he is still Robin, but leads his own team.
• The Stoic: His real father figure has rubbed off on him. The result is him expressing little emotion, unless he's in combat.
• Strong Girl, Smart Guy: Starfire is an alien Berserker, while Robin himself was mentored by the world's greatest detective.
• Superheroes Wear Capes: Robin in the only one in his team to wear one, cementing his status as team leader and Batman's protégé.
• Talking Your Way Out: Batman passed this skill onto his protegé, as Robin spends an entire episode convincing Atlas' sidekick, Spike, to turn on his master, who treats him like dirt. He succeeds, helping Cyborg save the day when Spike refuses to give Atlas an unfair advantage in their final battle.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Not quite tall, but he sure is dark and handsome. He fits this perfectly when he becomes Nightwing.
• The Team Normal: The only member of the team that is a standard human with no powers.
• Telescoping Staff: His weapon of choice is a collapsible bo staff.
• Thematic Rogues Gallery: Robin's most personal enemies are always Badass Normal people -or metahumans that Fight Like a Normal person in case of Slade- who are either his Evil Counterparts or Shadow Archetypes that represent what would happen to Robin if he would just give in into his worst qualities one day. And he was close in many occasions.
  • As former apprentices of Slade, Terra is what Robin could have been if he would have allowed Slade to get under his skin and never had the resolve to turn on Slade.
  • Red X is basically Robin with a more ambiguous moral alignment. They have same fighting style, and if is to be believed Red X could be Jason Todd, even same master.
  • Katarou is a Badass Normal ninja villain who is very talented at martial arts, but has none of Robin's discipline.
  • And lastly, Robin's most personal and enduring Evil Counterpart enemy, Slade. Both him and Robin are made of same mold, a stoic and charismatic supreme martial artist driven by their obsessiveness and desire to control everything around them.
• Token Human: The only completely human member of the team.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: He became more aggressive and intolerant towards his teammates in season 3, though it changed quickly.
• Two Rights Make a Wrong: In season one, Robin is so desperate to get to Slade that he decides not only to lead the Titans, but to also attempt The Infiltration to get close to Slade all on his own and without telling anyone. This backfires beautifully when the Titans discover that Red X, the mysterious new thief on the block, is in fact their friend and leader, who has been lying to them from the start. Naturally, it proves All for Nothing—Robin has gained nothing from Slade, who figured him out some time and advance, and only gained the mistrust of his friends.
• Understanding Boyfriend: In the episode where Starfire turns into a chrysalis, Robin chases after her, even after seeing all her weird changes. Later when he meets up with her again, he tells her he would have come for her even if she hadn't changed back to normal.
• Used to Be More Social: Teen Robin, aloof and stoic as he is, has fine social skills, can be laid-back and enjoys hanging out with his friends. As Nightwing, he is an asocial loner and a man of a few words.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: A lot with Starfire. They finally get together in the movie.
• Villainesses Want Heroes: Unbeknown to him, Starfire's evil doppelganger created by Trigon expresses her desire to make Robin all hers after killing Starfire.
• Vocal Dissonance: As Nightwing. While his normal speaking voice is a bit deeper, his shouts are identical to how he sounded as a teenager.
• "What Do They Fear?" Episode: In one of the comics, Robin's greatest fear is his new "family" falling apart and disappearing.
• What the Hell, Hero??: In the first season finale, Robin accosts a random dockworker for information on Slade's whereabouts, and has to be physically restrained by Raven. The rest of the team accuses him of emulating Slade's tactics in his zeal. What makes this worse is that Slade is pretty civil to his informants, which is why he can use them again and again.
• Will They or Won't They?: With Starfire. They do in the movie.
• Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Robin rages every time Slade points out how alike they are.
• Your Mind Makes It Real: In "Haunted", when Robin is haunted by hallucinations of Slade, Raven enters his mind and tries to calm him down by showing there is no one there - only for the hallucination to punch Raven in the jaw.

Starfire

Starfire / Koriand'r

Voiced by: Hynden Walch ^{Other voice actors}Koko Tsukimoto (Japanese), Úrsula Cobucci (Latin American Spanish), Ilaria Latini (IT), Laëtitia Godès (FR), Luisa Palomanes (PT-BR)

Powers/Abilities: Flight, Super-Strength, Starbolts, Language Assimilation

"I am sorry to disappoint you, but I am stronger than I look!"

"The greater the struggle against your power, the more it resists. Embrace what you have inside, let it become you, and you will find who you were meant to be."

Technically the reason the Teen Titans exist in this show, Starfire is the second of the three children of the Royal Family of Tamaran. When her planet was attacked and devastated by the Gordanians, Starfire's elder sister Blackfire made a peace settlement with the invaders by giving them her younger sibling as a slave. Unfortunately for her captors, Starfire, while apparently rather naive and gentle by Tamaranian standards, was too much for them to handle, breaking loose and flying to Earth. There, she had an... interesting meeting with the other future Teen Titans, who came to her defense against the Gordanians. Like all her species, Starfire can fly, is super strong, is extremely durable, and can hurl energy blasts called "starbolts."

Starfire is a strange mixture of personality traits; most of the time, she acts quite gentle and demure, possibly due to expectations of Earth culture and desire to better assimilate in her adopted home, but when the need arises she can be as much the fearsome warrior as any of her comrades. Starfire is deeply fascinated by Earth and enjoys learning new things... perhaps partially because it gives her an excuse to get closer to her leader.

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• Abdicate the Throne: The first thing Starfire does after winning the throne of Tamaran from her sister, is to abdicate and give the crown to her male nanny, Galfore.
• Action Girl: A Tamaranean warrior princess who can annihilate her foes with her Super-Strength and endless barrage of Starbolts and eye beams.
• Action Girlfriend: Becomes this in time for Robin.
• Adaptation Personality Change: In contrast to her comic book counterpart (who is more forceful and hot-tempered), Starfire in this cartoon is naive, innocent, and somewhat insecure.
• Adaptational Curves: Inverted. Starfire was the curviest female Titan in the Wolfman/Perez run, but here she was radically toned down to look more like a teenager rather than a young adult.
• Adaptational Hairstyle Change: Starfire in the comics, until the existence of the cartoon, had rich, curly hair that was long beyond her waist. Cartoon Starfire has straight long hair with short bangs.
• Adaptational Modesty: Currently the trope picture. Starfire's outfit is tight and shows her midriff, as well as some Zettai Ryouiki, but it's positively tame compared to the beyond-Emma Frost-level Stripperiffic outfits of her comic book counterpart. In a prior New Teen Titan short for DC Nation, Mad Mod transformed the Titans back into their 80s incarnations. Starfire's outfit was once again more modest than what she actually wore in the comics, but was still skimpy enough that she covered herself up in embarrassment.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: While she was also nice in the comics, this version is less of a hothead than her comic counterpart.
• Adorkable: Her naive, socially awkward personality makes her cute and endearing.
• Alien Blood: It's yellow, as seen in one episode where she blushes. However, in another Mae-Eye, her cheeks turned red when she blushed.
• Alien Princess: Starfire is one of the most famous examples ever.
• Aliens Speaking English: Justified in both Season 5 and the Trouble in Tokyo TV movie. She can instantly learn any language by kissing someone who speaks it.
• Aloof Archer: In the episode "Stranded", Starfire was shown being very proficient with the bow. Unusually to her, she was aloof and collected.
• All There in the Manual: It is the Teen Titans Go! comics that reveal why she was a Gordanian prisoner and the existence of her younger brother.
• Almost Kiss: Though the entirety of the show, there are many moments where Starfire and Robin are about to kiss only to be always interrupted by something.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: She has bright orange skin.
• Ambiguously Bi: Starfire is very touchy-feely with the female characters. In the tie-in comics, when she asks what is Valentine's Day, both Raven and Cyborg explain to her that is a romantic event where people do romantic things. Raven is the first person she asks to exchange Valentine's Day cards, and not the guys, not even the very one she is in love with.
• Amusing Alien: An alien that doesn't get Earth slang or other customs, and has bizarre ones of her own.
• Apologetic Attacker: Often acts regretful when attacking people, such as wondering if she blasted Plasmus too hard.
• Arch-Enemy: Starfire and her evil sister, Blackfire, are arch-enemies.
• Arranged Marriage: Almost went through with one of these. She'd been told it would end a war, but in fact it was a ruse by Blackfire.
• Badass Adorable: A bubbly and naïve girl who is also super strong and shoots lasers from her hands.
• Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: She’s almost always wearing a crop top. Even while the rest of the team are all wearing Robin's costume in his absence, Starfire wears a midriff-baring version (which may be at least partly due to being so much taller than he is). She is generally more cheerful and girly than the brooding goth girl Raven, who always covers up her midriff.
• Barrier Warrior: She can create green energy shields.
• Battle Couple: With Robin. Their combos in battle were seamless before they became a couple.
• Batman Can Breathe in Space: She's able to travel in the deep space to other planets with no equipment.
• Beautiful Slave Girl: Starfire is beautiful, and the tie-in comics make it clear that Starfire was sold to the Gordanians as a slave by Blackfire, just like in the original comics.
• Berserk Button:
  • She dislikes being pranked.
    Starfire: On my planet, we have a name for those who do such terrible things, you are a... a.. (head expands) CLORBAG Varblernilk!!!
  • Don't flirt with Robin.
• Beware the Nice Ones: She's a Nice Girl, no doubt about that, but she'll still kick your ass if you're a villain.
  • Somewhat subtly, she's the only Titan besides Cyborg who never really has any sort of confrontation with Slade, and he never makes an attempt to manipulate her. Considering Starfire's care for Robin and overwhelming strength, he most likely knew that he would've been turned into a pancake if he tried that.
• The Big Damn Kiss: With Robin in The Movie.
• Big Eater: Shows she is this in "Betrothed" when she and her fellow Tamaranians engaged in a feeding frenzy during dinner.
• The Big Girl: As both a proud warrior race girl and the physically strongest Titan, although her preference for playing Flying Firepower over Flying Brick and bubbly disposition make it less noticeable.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: She has 9 stomachs, a three/four meter long prehensile tongue, and the ability to learn a language through oral contact. Also, she underwent a chrysalis phase and apparently has no navel.
• Bizarre Taste in Food:
  • She loves mustard. No, she doesn't put it on food—she likes to drink it.
  • She was the only one who enjoyed Raven's cooking of half-raw half-burnt pancakes.
• Blunt Metaphors Trauma: Can't quite get a handle on Earth slang. For instance, when asked if she "digs this party", she replied that "I didn't know we were supposed to bring shovels."
• Bond Breaker: A rare heroic example, and an unintentional one at that. After Starfire goes through time while fighting Warp, she disappears from the rest of the Titans' lives. What was a few seconds for her was twenty years for the rest of the team, and none of them handled her absence well since she balanced them out.
• Broken Hero: It may not seem at first because Starfire's past is not explored in the show at all, but the tie-in comics explore in depth her Dark and Troubled Past, revealing that behind her general joyfulness and optimism, Starfire herself dealt with a lot of hardships from a young age. Despite losing her parents, a brother, dealing with a nasty evil sister, watching her entire planet suffer from natural disasters to alien invasions and being enslaved, Starfire still manages to stay nice even to her enemies, and to have enough emotional strength to be happy all the time and provide support for her friends when they feel down.
• Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Gentle Girl to Robin's Brooding Boy; a kind ray of sunshine in her not-boyfriend's otherwise gloomy life.
• Brought Down to Badass: In "Stranded", she temporarily loses all of her powers, but she's far from helpless, being a Proud Warrior Race Girl and all.
• Burning with Anger: In "Date With Destiny", she literally burns up until she became a burnt match with eyes when Robin was forced to ask Kitten out.
• Butt-Monkey: Sometimes, Starfire can be a victim of the show's jokes (e.g. being forced to close Beast Boy's mouth with her hand making drool come through it, having a fish in her mouth, sneezing uncontrollably, getting her boot taken by the green dog the Titans were chasing, getting cream splattered in her face, being transformed into a tigress, and being chased by magic gloves).
• Cain and Abel: The Abel to Blackfire's Cain; they fight every time she shows up.
• Car Fu: In the episode "Go", she kicks a car at Robin and sends it into a building.
• Cat Fight: She fights Kitten on the prom's dessert table for forcing Robin to date her.
• Cat Girl: She is turned into a tiger by Mumbo Jumbo, and her people evolved from a species of felines in the comics. She is also shown licking Silkie like a cat mother does with a kitten.
• Character Exaggeration: Starfire was modeled after Foreign Exchange Student stereotypes. Unlike in the comics, she speaks in broken English due to not fully grasping the language or slang. Alas, some writers (including fans) don't seem to understand how to write her way of speaking like the original cartoon did. For example, in both Teen Titans Go! and DC Super Hero Girls she inappropriately overuses "the" a lot more than she does here, to the point where it's a Verbal Tic.
• Childlike Voice: Starfire is given a cute, chirpy voice that highlights her innocence and joyous nature.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She really doesn't like Kitten's interest in Robin in "Date with Destiny".
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Justified; she is, after all, an alien adjusting to life on Earth.
• Clueless Dude Magnet: Starfire would sometimes not realize she's getting hit on by guys.
• Composite Character: This adaptation of Starfire is also pulling double-duty as a Nice Guy and The Heart of the team, which were roles filled by Donna Troy in the original comics.
• Cool Crown: Briefly wears one during her brief period as the Grand Ruler of Tamaran in "Betrothed."
• Combo Platter Powers: Super-Strength, Eye Beams, Flight, starbolts and assimilating other languages by kissing people.
• Cuddle Bug: "I would like to initiate a group hug!"
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Starfire absolutely stomps her sister in their fight for the throne of Tamaran.
• Cute Bruiser: The Cuddle Bug just might crush you.
• The Cutie: A high energy and adorable nice girl that likes to give her friends hugs.
• Defeat by Modesty: In "Mother Mae Eye" while See-More is fighting Starfire, See-More reveals he had "see-through" vision and then gazes intently at Starfire, which prompts her to cover herself up while blushing. This allows her to be an easy target for See-More's next attack.
• Distress Ball: In Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo. She forgets that she can fly and has to be snatched out of the air mid-drop by Robin, who has no superpowers. Her powers are emotion based and it wouldn't be the first time she lost them due to issues relating to Robin.
• Does Not Know Her Own Strength: On occasion, as seen whenever she hugs someone too hard. This is actually a plot point in "Go!", where she's just escaped the Gordanian slave ship with her handcuffs on and tries to break them off by smashing them into things; she isn't aware that things on Earth aren't built to handle people with Super-Strength, so between that and the Language Barrier, she looks like she's just on a rampage and destroying the city.
• Don't Make Me Destroy You: 'If you wish not to be destroyed, you will leave me ALONE.' Starfire's first words in English, ladies and gentlemen.
• Dreadful Musician: In "Only Human", when she sings her "Tamaranean folk song", it consists mostly of screaming and it annoys Cyborg, and in the end, the others appear to be terrified of it.
• Dude Magnet: Robin is only her most consistent admirer. Larry, Control Freak, Mas, and Menos all have a crush on her as well, Glgrdsklechhh wanted to marry her in “Betrothed”, Red X flirted with her in “X”, two guys hit on her in “Sisters”, and she quickly became very popular with the boys in Tokyo.
• Eloquent in My Native Tongue: Her English only sounds childish or broken because it's her second language. On Tamaran, the opposite is true.
• Emerald Power: Her powers glow green.
• Energy Ball: Starfire can constantly theow starbolts from her hands, but their effectiveness depends on the episode.
• Establishing Character Moment: Has two:
  • Starfire's first appearance has her very cheerfully proclaiming that she is stronger than she looks...and proceeding to escape from the grasp of a villain made of cinder blocks.
  • In the episode "Go" she is introduced screaming in rage for being held prisoner by Gordanians, with the guards utterly afraid of dealing with her. Than she breaks and Curb Stomp Battles her captors.
• Et Tu, Brute?: Happens to her in the two-parter episode, "Apprentice", when she discovers that Robin is working with Slade and was stealing the thermal blaster for him.
• Everyone Can See It: Her Unresolved Sexual Tension with Robin.
• Exposed to the Elements: When the other four Titans bundle up when in arctic areas, Starfire still wears her usual outfit with no discomfort. The only piece of winterwear she put on was a hat. This is because Tamarians can survive in space without protection, so Arctic areas are no trouble.
• Extreme Omnivore: With 9 stomachs, is little surprise that she can eat weirdest combinations of foods.
• Eye Beams: Puberty grants her the ability to shot star bolts from her eyes in addition to her hands.
• Fallen Princess: In the tie-in comics, is revealed it was her own sister who staged her kidnapping by the Gordanians.
• Fantastic Light Source: In any episodes where the Titans need to navigate a dark environment, her starbolts can function as an impromptu green torchlight.
• Fantastic Racism: Was a victim of it in "Troq". According to Val-Yor, Tamaranians are seen to a section of the universe as disposable workers for dangerous areas.
• Fantastic Slurs: Is on the receiving end of this when she is called "Troq" by Val-Yor. It means "nothing" or "worthless".
• Far-Out Foreigner's Favorite Food: Mustard. It's her favorite drink.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: She wears a metal band on one arm.
• Faster-Than-Light Travel: While is more of an Informed Attribute, Starfire is apparently capable of achieving faster-than-light speeds by herself.
• Fiery Redhead: She doesn't have the fiery temper (unless you hurt her friends), but she's very passionate and energetic and also loves a good brawl. She even throws her starbolts by feeling "righteous fury!"
• Fish out of Water: She's a Tamaranian living on Earth.
• First Girl Wins: She met Robin first and also ends up with him despite other characters trying to interfere between theme across the show.
• Flight, Strength, Heart: Starfire is a Flying Brick with Super Strength, capable to project energy blasts from her hands and eyes, and the ability to... learn languages by kissing a native speaker.
• Fluffy Tamer: Starfire managed to tame Silkie when he was a giant mutant moth capable of destruction.
• Flying Brick: Standard Tamaranian powers include flight and super-strength.
• Flying Firepower: She's like aerial artillery for the Titans due to her flight and starbolts.
• Foil: Provides a more lighthearted, sympathetic contrast to Robin's Hot-Blooded seriousness. This makes her a frequent partner of Robin's during fights.
• Forceful Kiss: She kisses Robin upon arriving on Earth to learn English and communicate with humans. She also kissed a Japanese boy in Trouble In Tokyo to learn Japanese.
• Foreign Fanservice: She came from another planet, and when she came to Earth, she shucked her partial armor in favor of a mini skirt and crop top.
• Forgot About His Powers: Sometimes, Starfire forgets that she can fly.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Sanguine, being the most compassionate and friendly of all the Titans.
• Genius Ditz: Starfire's understanding of human culture is all over the place, but she is very good at math and knows how to travel faster than the speed of light, mathematically speaking.
• Genki Girl: Justified; all that emotional energy is the source of her super powers. 'Joy' for Flight, 'confidence' for super strength, and general perkiness.
• Girly Bruiser: Her standard attire involves a mini-skirt and tank top, she has a bubbly personality, and can beat down supervillains with super-strength or star bolts. According to the episode "Go", her "girliness" is something she's picked up since coming to Earth; before then, she was more of a Proud Warrior Race Girl.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Starfire is nice, cheery, and wears very girly attires. She is also well-versed in less girly things, like boxing, enjoys to compete with Cyborg for fun and shouts out swears in Tamaranean, and it's implied they are very dirty ones.
• Glomp: Hands out enthusiastic (and often painful) hugs quite readily.
• The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Starfire is the sweet, beautiful, Genki Girl while Blackfire is smart and evil.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: Whenever she fights. It's a Justified Trope because her Eye Beams are charging.
• Gone to the Future: In the episode "How Long Is Forever?", Starfire accidentally travels twenty years into the future. In her absence, the team splits up at some point and everyone is going their own way as adults.
• Good Costume Switch: In Starfire's origin episode, she escapes the Gordanians and comes to Earth. When the Titans meet her for the first time, she wears a black armored costume, invoking Dark Is Evil vibes. Over the course of the episode, the Titans learn she is good hearted and switches to her purple costume by the end of the episode.
• Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Starfire wears a purple top, mini skirt, and boots and is the Femme to both Terra and Raven.
• Granola Girl: As a girl belonging to an entirely different sentient species, Starfire can come off as rather bizarre. She is known for eating strange food and sharing with others her many unfamiliar traditions from Tamaran. She is also cheerful, has no nude taboo and is overly friendly.
• Gratuitous Princess: She's a princess of Tamaran, but this rarely comes up.
• Green-Skinned Space Babe: She is a cute alien girl with orange skin, green eyes, and cherry-red hair who wears a skimpy outfit.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Green eyed and extremely jealous if a girl approaches Robin.
• Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: The aversion among the team, as Starfire is physically the strongest and fastest titan, with Cyborg being a very distant second. As such, she is fully capable of either shooting or smashing.
• Hand Blast: Starfire shoots green starbolts with her hands.
• The Heart: "How Long Is Forever?" establishes that she's the emotional crutch holding the team together.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Graduates to such a stage with Raven during "Switched". Trapped in each others' bodies, they have to learn to understand each other just to access each others' powers.
• Human Outside, Alien Inside: Aside from her decidedly orange skin and her ability to fly and shoot energy from her hands and eyes, Starfire has nine separate stomachs, an Overly-Long Tongue tongue, a temporary but extensive Metamorphosis triggered by puberty, and a nasty allergy to metallic chromium.
• I Am a Monster: In "Transformation", Starfire thinks herself as this during her metamorphosis, fearing that her final transformation will cause her to be too hideous to be seen with anyone else, even her friends. Afraid her friends will view her as a freak, she chose to isolate herself in outer space. Fortunately, she reverts back to her old self. (Mostly.)
• I Believe I Can Fly: One of three titans that can fly. In her case, it's a racial ability. "When you feel the joy of flight, you will fly."
• I Did What I Had to Do: In "Haunted", Starfire had no choice but to knock Robin out with a starbolt to the back when he went as far as to threaten the others that he'll take them down should they get in his way of finding Hallucination Slade.
• The Ingenue: No nudity taboo and innocent when it comes to the deeper meanings of a romantic relationship. She gets very confused when it comes to understanding the complexity of human emotions and bonds, mostly because she comes from people who wear their hearts in their sleeves.
• Innocent Fanservice Girl: She doesn't wear much. This is justified because she doesn’t need clothing for warmth or protection, and when the Titans visited Tamaran, it was revealed that all the women on Starfire’s planets wear equally revealing outfits, so she probably doesn’t realize how skimpy her outfit is by Earth standards.
• Innocent Aliens: Starfire is rather good-hearted and will even apologize for attacking you.
• Interspecies Romance: With Robin, a human.
• Jabba Table Manners: An inverted heroic example. At least on her home planet. Though given the way all of her race eats when at a table (including the use of a battle axe to pulverize all the food into mush), it's required to get any of the food before someone else devours it.
  Robin: I'm guessing you picked up your table manners on Earth?
  Starfire: (shoving food into her mouth with her bare hands) HURRY OR YOU WILL NOT GET ANY!
• Jerkass Ball: Despite her sweet demeanor, Starfire has had some unpleasant moments throughout the show, such as mischievous and wrathful moments.
• Just Friends: Even before their Relationship Upgrade, she considered Robin her best friend, to the point where she couldn't attack him when he was working for Slade.
• Lady Swears-a-Lot: Beside her habit to use Tamaranean insults, in the Teen Titans shorts, she says swear words that seems to be the Tamaranean version of an F-bomb.
• Language Barrier: When Starfire came for the first time on Earth, she could speak only her native language, which made the communication with the others impossible until Robin figured out she just wanted her cuffs off.
• Lethal Chef: At least by Earth standards.
  Cyborg (not in his right mind): Ooh! Ooh! Starfire! Remember that purple Tamaranian pie thingy that was full of bugs?
  Starfire: My stewed grunthmek which made you physically sick?
  Cyborg: YEAH! You gotta cook up some of that!
  • Subverted when Terra first comes to visit and Starfire serves her a dish of glorg (a gelatinous mass with what looks like worms embedded in it):
  Terra: Tastes like sushi mixed with ice cream. (eagerly) Got any more?
  Starfire: I shall go cultivate the fungus!
• Light 'em Up: Her main superpower is firing off green bolts of light.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The Light to Raven's Dark; bubbly, friendly and nice.
• Light Is Good: Her star bolts and glowing eyes are the bane of super villains.
• Lightning Bruiser: Not only is she fast and strong but she can tank a lot of hurt.
• Literal-Minded: Often takes expressions as their literal interpretation.
• Long Hair Is Feminine: She has a feminine personality, and her hair is long enough that it goes down to her hips. She is also much more cheerful and girly than the brooding goth girl Raven, who wears her hair short.
• Made a Slave: She was enslaved by a group of Gordanians before escaping to Earth. The episode "Go!" shows the tail end of this.
• Magic Kiss: Starfire can learn new languages with a kiss, which makes her The Face. Unlike her comic and DCAMU incarnations, she doesn't explain why she kissed Robin when they first met, as she was under the considerable stress of fleeing from slave traders at the time, which is why he's so shocked in the movie when she kisses a Japanese boy to learn his language. (This version also seems to lack her comic counterpart's ability to assimilate languages through any form of touch as opposed to kissing specifically.)
• Magic Skirt: Despite her skirt being a mini and her frequent flying, there are very few panty shots.
• Malfunction Malady: Her chromium allergy causes her to sneeze starbolts.
• Minidress of Power: Starfire wears the midriff-exposing variation.
• Most Common Superpower: Quite powerful in physical sense, and better endowed than the rest of the female cast.
• Ms. Fanservice: She’s a tall, curvy, beautiful girl and her usual outfit is a tight crop top, miniskirt, and thigh-high boots. This is especially apparent next to Raven ^note who was designed similarly curvy, not helped by how the animation design team gives all of the grown-up females almost the same assets, outside of a select few, who is usually hiding her body in her cloak. However, it's much more downplayed in comparison to her comics counterpart, who had an even skimpier outfit.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: She's a lot stronger than she looks. A lot tougher too. Robin's staff shattered against her in "Go!", and in "Betrothed", she's easily able to pick up a massive Tamaranean goblet, while Beast Boy and Cyborg struggle with theirs.
• Naïve Newcomer: From the planet of Tamaran.
• Nervous Tics: She has a habit of playing with her fingers whenever she feels embarrassed or unsure of something.
• Nice Girl: She's constantly friendly, even to the jerkass that calls her a racial slur.
• No Social Skills: Justified with her unfamiliarity with Earth.
• Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: Starfire went on rampage when she arrived on Earth first time, destroying buildings and seemingly attacking everyone in sight. As it turns out, she was just scared and confused, as she'd just escaped from the Gordanians who had enslaved her and just wanted to break the handcuffs.
• Noodle Incident: When Robin has her try cotton candy for the first time in "Sisters", she mentions that she once ate a piece of actual cotton. When and why isn't elaborated on.
• Obliviously Beautiful: Subverted. Starfire's Day in the Limelight episode "Transformation" starts off with the narrator pointing out that she's "very beautiful, but thinks nothing of it". The entire time her transformation (Tamaranian puberty) occurs, she's less concerned with being pretty and more concerned with simply going back to her old self so she can be seen as normal. Eventually she does, with the bonus of having laser eyes now. Also, she sometimes doesn't seem to notice when guys are attracted to her, and in fact responds violently whenever a villain tries to pull the I Have You Now, My Pretty routine on her.
• Omniglot: She can learn any language by a kissing a speaker of it. By extension, this makes her The Face when they go somewhere that doesn't speak English.
• Only One Finds It Fun: Starfire is the only one who finds most of Beast Boy's jokes funny and enjoys things that the others may find boring or disgusting, like Raven's pancakes.
• Operation: Jealousy: She tries to make Robin jealous in the comics by constantly speaking about how handsome and talented is Aqualad.
• Opposites Attract: With Robin; he's serious and gloomy while she's outgoing and cheerful.
• Out of Focus: An interesting variation. She's a main character, obviously, and several episodes do focus on her, but out of the core group, Starfire is the only one who didn't get a season revolving around her^note It's often been speculated that, had there been a sixth season, Blackfire would have served as the Big Bad.
• Pardon My Klingon: For a girl who's supposed to be sweet and innocent, she uses Tamaranian swears frequently.
• Partial Transformation: In "Transformation", Starfire slowly gains these, but reverts back to normal at the end.
• Percussive Prevention: In the episode "Haunted", the team finds a badly-injured Robin claiming that Slade is alive. Despite the team's clear evidence that Slade is not around, Robin angrily proclaims that Slade still is and rants that if they get in his way he'll fight them, forcing Starfire to hit him with an energy blast.
• Perpetual Smiler: She's rarely down and even when she is, she'll try to smile anyways. There's a practical reason for this: her flight powers are based on "joy" and she'll sink like a rock otherwise.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Beside the fact she can destroy entire buildings, she can create starbolts comparable to a small supernova.
• Pet Baby Wild Animal: Silkie.
• Ping Pong Naïveté: On occasion, it seems like she's learning and adapting to earth culture, only to be as naive as ever about it the next episode. Hilariously played with in one episode with a blatant example of Obfuscating Stupidity:
  Robin: Starfire... where's the sofa?
  Starfire: Your Earth ways are strange to me. Please, what is this 'so-fa' of which you speak?
• Please Kill Me if It Satisfies You: "Robin, you are my best friend. I cannot be in a world where we must fight. If you are truly evil, then go ahead, do what you must."
• Plot Allergy: Her allergy to chromium comes up in "Apprentice part 1" and is used to locate a bomb, but is never brought up again afterwards.
• Poirot Speak: Starfire has a habbit of adding articles (usually "the") before the names of villains ("the Cinderblock" or "the Mumbo") and is also an example of Pardon My Klingon with her use of untranslatable Tamaranian words in numerous contexts. The fact that Starfire does this is even more vexing, considering her entire understanding of the English language stems from a direct psychic download from a native speaker, meaning she should have instant and near-perfect understanding of the language. The only words from her own language she should be using are ones without direct translations. By contrast, her sister Blackfire also speaks English and has none of these issues.
• Positive Friend Influence: Starfire served as this for the team. Her ever-present kind cheeriness would help the other Titans through dark days. The episode "How Long is Forever?" reveals a Bad Future where Starfire's absence caused the team to break apart, but her return managed to bring them back together again.
• Power Incontinence: Considering how emotional she is, getting stuck in Raven's body during an episode basically makes her a Walking Disaster Area as windows shatter and cars explode around her as she gets more and more worked up.
• Power-Strain Blackout: In her introductory arc she faints after using her powers.
• Proud Warrior Race Girl: The Whole Episode Flashback "Go!" which was how the team got together, shows this. She's far more angry and prone to violence than the Starfire we're used to (it helps that she's in the middle of escaping a life of slavery) and when she learns English, she says the closest word her race has to "kindness" is "weakness". It's disconcerting, considering that everyone on Tamaran besides her sister is a good-natured Boisterous Bruiser at the worst. Chalk it up to her understanding of English being far from perfect. Or trying to sound tough and intimidating.
• Pretty Princess Powerhouse: A beautiful alien Warrior Princess and a skilled fighter.
• Princess Protagonist: She is a main character and a lot of episodes focus on her, but is the only character left without their own season because the show got cancelled after season 5.
• Psychoactive Powers: Starfire's powers are apparently triggered and/or powered by specific emotions, e.g., joy for flight, rage for Eye Beams etc. Naturally this little factoid first cropped up when she got bodyswapped with Raven, whose powers go haywire without tight emotional control. It comes up again later, when Starfire finds herself unable to fly because she's confused as to the status of her relationship with Robin.
• Psychosomatic Superpower Outage: She needs to feel happy to fly, so when she's depressed, she loses that ability.
• Puberty Superpower: She gained Eye-beams after her "transformation" period.
• Pupating Peril: Subverted in "Transformation". Starfire starts to exhibit all sorts of ugly deformations as a result of Tamaranean puberty that she tries to hide with bulky clothes. Eventually, she's unable to hide them anymore and flies off in fear that her teammates will think she's ugly. She ends up getting captured by a spider alien that feeds on Tamaraneans that go through this process, just as Starfire ends up immobilized in a cocoon. The other Titans show up to save her, with Robin reassuring Starfire that no matter how monstrous she might end up looking after the metamorphosis, she'll still be their friend. It ends up being moot, because Starfire looks just the same after emerging — the only difference being that she now has extra powers.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: She is the red to Raven's blue.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
  • Starfire sadly compares Robin to Slade in "Masks", for not trusting her and the others enough.
  • She gives another one to Raven in "Switched", about how she doesn't let herself feel.
• Rubber-Forehead Aliens: Aside from having cherry-red hair, green sclera, extra-large eyes, and slightly orange-tinted skin, she looks pretty human for an alien and certainly human enough for Earth boys to find her attractive. Note that her sister Blackfire actually looks much more human, with her black hair, white sclera, and normal-sized eyes.
• Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: Energetic Girl to Robin's Savvy Guy. As stated elsewhere, perkiness is her power source and she's just like that anyways.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Though not unattractive in the slightest, she was quite stunning in her purple prom dress in "Date With Destiny". Robin certainly thought so.
• Shoe Size Angst: In "Transformation", she goes through a metamorphosis equivalent to puberty, during which she experiences several physical changes. One of those changes involves the massive growth of her feet. Fortunately for her, this is only temporary.
• Shoo the Dog: Starfire has no choice but to abandon Silkie when he becomes too much of a trouble.
• "Shut Up" Kiss: In "Go!", but mainly just to learn the English language. Played straight in the movie's ending.
  Starfire: Robin.
  Robin: Yes?
  Starfire: Stop talking.
• Sibling Rivalry: With Blackfire. In her introductory episode, Blackfire tried to steal her friends.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Again, with Blackfire who is cruel and sinister where Starfire is sweet and kind.
• Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: Her character design is evocative of this trope. When she's actively using her powers, she has solid green eyes like her comic book counterpart. When she's not, her eyes are more like normal human "green eyes", but the sclera (the "white" of the eye) is also green (a paler shade than the iris).
• Skilled, but Naive: Starfire in a nutshell.
• Spock Speak:
  • A rare version in that she doesn't speak this way due to a fascination with logic/science, but as a sign of her relative inexperience with Earth languages. She's not skilled enough with it yet for informal forms and slang, but it does slip through on very rare occasions.
  • She's also royalty, so it's likely that she's used to speaking formally.
• Stellar Name: Starfire.
• Statuesque Stunner: Downplayed compared to her comic version (who is famously 6 foot, 4 inches tall without her heels), though she's the second-tallest Titan and taller than primary love interest Robin.
• Strange-Syntax Speaker: "We might journey to the mall of shopping" and "Let us kick the butt!", among others.
• Stripperiffic: Her outfit is rather skimpy, but it's winterwear compared to her comic book version.
• Strong as They Need to Be: Starfire is pretty bad about this trope. She can survive extreme environments when the plot calls for it, and be totally helpless when it doesn't. In one episode, Starfire winds up wandering around frozen tundra, apparently in danger of freezing to death. Given her super speed and flight abilities, there was nothing in that episode stopping her from flying out of the area, or back to Titans Tower to get proper equipment if things get too hairy. The weirdest part is that Starfire has been shown to be able to comfortably survive in the vacuum of space several times. Then too there might be an explanation for both her (and Raven's) powers in that they're emotion based, which means that theoretically, a villain could defeat Starfire by getting her depressed enough. But the strangest would have to be in 'Haunted' where Robin (HUMAN!) manages to "hurt" her just by grabbing her arms?! Granted at that moment she is really shocked and confused at the way Robin was acting. But this is an alien that took a blast to her face in 'Troq' where she was also visibly upset at being discriminated by Val-Yor.
• Stronger Than They Look: Sure, she is a cute alien girl, but also physically the strongest member of the team.
  Robin: Hm. Stronger than she looks.
  — ''Go!''
  Starfire to Cinderblock: I am sorry to disappoint you, but I am stronger than I look.
  — ''Divide And Conquer''
• Strong Family Resemblance: Other than her hair color, eye color, and larger eyes, Starfire looks completely identical to her sister.
• Strong Girl, Smart Guy: Starfire is an alien Berserker, while Robin himself was trained by world's greatest detective.
• Super Gullible: Starfire lacks experience with Earth culture and tends to accept explanations without a second thought, since the culture difference is so large that it's hard to tell crazy from crazy.
• Super-Toughness: A natural feature of her species. She can take more punishment than even Cyborg, as she usually gets up quickly after being smashed through buildings and caught in explosions and such.
• Super-Strength: Even beats Cyborg in this regard; she easily hefts a giant Tamaranian goblet that he struggled to budge. In another episode, Cyborg was stand pressing a huge load of weights, struggling a bit and feeling proud when he lifts them up. However, Starfire next to him effortlessly lifts her weights with only one arm, and it's revealed she was pressing at least four times the amount of weights Cyborg was doing.
• Sympathy for the Devil: Starfire looks saddened when the Centuari police arrest Blackfire, even if it's no less than the latter deserves after her actions.
• Tamer and Chaster: Starfire goes from one of DC's top bombshells with a very skimpy leotard to a teenage cutie with a more modest outfit, though she still wears the skimpiest outfit out of all the female characters.
• Thematic Rogues Gallery: Starfire is almost always pitted against alien themed villains; Blackfire, the Gordanians, the Chrysalis Eater.
• Think Happy Thoughts: Having a "joyful thought" is a must for Starfire in order to use her powers.
• Token Nonhuman: She is the only alien in the team.
• Thinks Like a Romance Novel: Starfire feels this way about her teammates, enough to recite novel-length poetry with a brightly-colored floral background.
• Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: When Starfire was undergoing metamorphosis, she retreats into space out of shame. On one of the planets she visits, she gets attacked by a giant alien carnivorous plant. Starfire wasn't able to fight it off and gets eaten... only to be spat back out. The alien plant leaves in disgust, making Starfire feel even more dejected.
• Town Girls: The Femme to Raven's Neither and Terra's Butch. She's the sweet, naive, and girly one of the titans.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: A lot with Robin. They finally get together in the movie.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Only really by comparison, but still is this among the Titans. This is her battle dynamic with Robin, and what keeps her from being a Story-Breaker Power despite being one of the physically strongest characters in the show, but also a contender for the fastest besides Kid Flash. While Robin makes this happen with anyone not named Slade, it's very prevalent with her. She's much faster, stronger, and tougher than Robin (and most of the people around her, hero or villain, for that matter), to the point he really wouldn't have stood any real chance against her if she fought seriously. But she's also not a master martial artist like Robin or her sister.
• Unusual Eyebrows: Her eyebrows are shaped like dots.
• Verbal Tic: She never uses contractions (so she will always say "I am" instead of "I'm" or "Is not" instead of "Isn't"), probably because she basically downloaded the language rather than learned it, only allowing her to process the most necessary elements of communication. (Although, she does say "Let's" instead of "Let us" in "The Lost Episode".) She also has a habit of using "the" in sentences where it's either unnecessary or where another word might sound more natural.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: The prom episode with Killer Moth and Kitten, though it was Fang who felt the brunt of Starfire's protective wrath.
  "Keep your legs off my boy!"
• Waif-Fu: Starfire looks unimpressive most of the time, but she is the muscles of the team.
• Warrior Princess: She's second in line to the Tamaranian throne and the Tamaranian are a proud warrior race culture.
• Warrior Therapist: Starfire may be a ditzy alien girl, but she is very insightful about many things. She helps Red Star to accept his powers and not suppress them.
• "What Do They Fear?" Episode: In one of the comics. Her greatest fear is her friends betraying her and turning her back over to Blackfire and slavery.
• Will They or Won't They?: With Robin. They do in the movie.
• World's Strongest Woman: While Raven is more powerful than Starfire overall thanks to the sheer magic power that her demonic heritage gives her, Starfire fits this trope in terms of physical strength, being by far the physically strongest female character in the series (with only her sister matching her) and is stronger than the majority of the guys too.
• Yandere: Starfire was absolutely ready to kill Kitten for approaching Robin.
• You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry!:
  • In "Go!", Starfire was a raging berserker at first, who nearly took out the other Titans and destroyed a good portion of the city, and that was with her restraints on. She eventually mellowed out.
  • Then there were her jealous rages in "Date With Destiny"...

Beast Boy

Beast Boy / Garfield Mark Logan

Voiced by: Greg Cipes ^{Other voice actors}Kōki Miyata (Japanese), Ezequiel Serrano (Latin American Spanish), Leonardo Graziano (IT seasons 1-4), Gabriele Patriarca (IT, Season 5), Herve Grull (FR), Charles Emmanuel (PT-BR)

Powers/Abilities: Animorphism

"I'm not a man... I'M AN ANIMAL!"

The son of two scientists studying wildlife in Africa, Beast Boy was infected as a child with a mysterious disease, the experimental cure for which gave him the ability to turn into any animal, but permanently dyed him green. His parents drowned in a boating accident — Beast Boy being too inexperienced to save anyone but himself — and he was subsequently adopted by the Doom Patrol. It wasn't a stable family, and Beast Boy subsequently ran away after he hit puberty.

Beast Boy is the unofficial comedian of the team, though most of his teammates consider his typical array of jokes and pranks to be pretty groan-worthy, and it's implied that, like his comics counterpart, he's one of the "jokes to hide the pain inside" types. Whether he is or isn't, he is the youngest, in terms of behavior, of the team, obsessed with video games and goofing off, which means he's often chewed out by Robin. A devout vegetarian: as he has been just about every animal under the sun, he finds eating any kind of meat to be too similar to cannibalism for his liking. (Though it might be more accurate to a call him a vegan- he eats tofu eggs rather than regular ones in "Nevermore"- but the show always refers to him as a vegetarian.)

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• A Birthday, Not a Break: In the comics, when The Teen titans and the Doom Patrol are about to celebrate Beast Boy's birthday, they are interrupted by an alert and have to go in mission to catch the criminal.
• Actor Allusion: Beast Boy talks in stereotypical surfer lingo and won't touch meat. His VA, Greg Cipes, is a professional surfer and has lived on a vegan diet since he was a kid. Also, "You're just jealous 'cause I sound like a rock star."
• Adaptational Personality Change: Beast Boy in comics prior to this was more of a Sad Clown character, with a long list of personal tragedies that would make Batman green with envy. This incarnation seems to have none of that, with a lot of his joking just him being dumb. This incarnation would in turn influence a lot of the comics afterward.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: In the comics, Beast Boy has many powers including his base power, to the point the writers tend to forget this. Even without this, Beast Boy's powers in this continuity seem to be limited to just becoming animals with no real ability to talk while transformed.
• Adaptational Wimp: Beast Boy's powers in this continuity seem way weaker than his comics counterpart. While his comic version's powers haven't been really hammered down, some of the key factors include turning into animals, talking while turning into animals, and being able to use said animals' abilities with great proficiency. Sometimes the animals' capabilities are actually stronger than normal, they're larger than normal, and sometimes they aren't even animals at all. In some comics it is even implied or outright shown that Beast Boy can turn into a swarm of beings or even divide himself infinitely if he applied himself with his powers more. This Beast Boy is at the bare minimum of his powers, turning into animals.
• Alliterative Name: A variation, as it's his superhero codename Beast Boy, that is being alliterate.
• Alternate Company Equivalent: In "The Beast Within", Beast Boy turns into the Man-Beast with Unstoppable Rage. As he's green, it's most likely a reference to the The Incredible Hulk.
• Always Save the Girl: Twice he's had to choose between saving his team or shutting down a Doomsday Device by the Brain. He always chooses his friends. Mento chews him out for it, while Robin and the Titans are grateful.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: His skin is green.
• Amazon Chaser: Beast Boy falls for Terra after witnessing her defeating a huge scorpion.
• Animorphism: Name any animal, and chances are he's been it at least once, either before or during the run of the series.
• Ascended Fanboy: His favorite superhero when he was with the Doom Patrol was Robin.
• Attack! Attack! Attack!: The nature of his powers means he usually resorts to galloping or flying at the enemy, transforming into something brutish and wailing on whatever he can reach. He spends many battles rapidly shifting forms to alter his approach and keep his foes from getting comfortable.
• Audience Surrogate: The youngest and the most immature member of the team and displays interests and level of intelligence normal for his age. He is the only character who tries to do something as mundane as a waiter job.
• The Baby of the Bunch: The youngest member of the Doom Patrol, before he left.
• Backported Development: Nothing in the first four seasons so much as hints at Beast Boy secretly being a Military Brat from the Doom Patrol, and it's a surprise when the Titans discover it at the start of season five. This doesn't stop the origin story seen in "Go!" from depicting Beast Boy in his full uniform, complete with mask and militaristic behaviors.
• Badass Adorable: The cute and endearing kid can become a legion of mighty animals.
• Badass in Distress: When he gets kidnapped by Soto and held captive as his pet.
• Battle Couple: Briefly with Terra before learning she works for Slade.
• Beast Man: Because of his time being shape-shifted into different animals, he sometimes displays animalistic behavior. On one occasion, he even tries to name himself this but it's vetoed.
• A Beast in Name and Nature: Beast Boy, who can turn into animals.
• Berserk Button: Don't talk to him about Terra's betrayal.
• Berserker Tears: He doesn't take well at all his evil doppelganger talking about Terra in from of him. He becomes enraged to tears during their fight.
  Evil Beast Boy: Aw! Did I hurt your feelings?
• The Berserker: Beast Boy is usually the most bull-headed of the team when it comes to fighting as he usually charges into combat with brute force. Although that's when he's tamed and angering him will is possibly when Beast Boy is at his most dangerous state as he will usually act out in a literal animalistic fury. With his best example being his Werebeast form where he becomes more aggressive and is more prone to being uncontrollable.
• Beware the Nice Ones: As goofy and playful as he is, he still manages to be effective.
  • He was able to take on Slade single-handedly when sufficiently enraged. Never cross a guy who can turn into the most dangerous animals ever to walk the earth at will.
  • He caused Trigon a bit of pain with a wet-willy-inspired attack. OK, he had actually changed into a whale inside his head, but he still got the idea from the wet-willy and called it his 'patented wet-willy maneuver'.
  • The Brotherhood of Evil didn't take him seriously which is why he wasn't captured and why they failed in the end.
  • It should be noted that Beast Boy is the only Titan who has tried to kill someone, as we see with his fight against the Slade-bot in “Things Change”. He had no idea this wasn’t the real Slade, and still attempted to brutally kill him in T. rex form.
• Beware the Silly Ones: When he gets serious he's very competent.
• Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: One of his animal forms is a Sasquatch.
• The Big Guy: Variation. He's the shortest and skinniest member on the team, but he often relies on brute force.
• Big Guy, Little Guy: Beast Boy is the shortest member of the team, while Cyborg is the tallest. They work incredibly well together.
• Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Doom Patrol was not exactly the most stable or caring environment. Still, when he gets a distress signal from his old team, he goes to rescue them without a second thought.
• Blessed with Suck: His powers would be amazing for certain types of espionage missions if it weren't for the fact that any animal he changes into is green.
• Boisterous Bruiser: Beast Boy is easily the most energetic and excitable member of the team who enjoys having fun and throwing himself into the action more than anyone.
• Book Dumb: It pops up from time-to-time, justified in that he wasn't properly educated. In "Revolution" he gives a very fanciful, inaccurate recount of the "Boston Tea Party", leading Raven to ask if he learnt history from a cereal box. Turns out he did.
  Beast Boy: Now I know how George Washington felt when Napoleon beat him at Pearl Harbor.
• Brainwashed: Whilst the other four core members have also fallen victim to this special mention goes to Beast Boy who tends to fall victim to it more often and far more easily, which in itself became a Running Gag in the first Mad Mod episode.
• Broken Hero: Beast Boy is cheerful and tries to make everyone laugh, despite his own hardships.
• Butt-Monkey: His laid back attitude, lack of intelligence and incompetence generally make him the least tolerated Titan. Poor guy even suffers in the Downer Ending. No wonder he's embarrassed that his first name is the same as that of a certain well-known cat.
• Cannot Tell a Joke: His sense of humor is often infantile and tends to make the rest of the Titans groan, especially Raven.
• Character Catchphrase: "Dude!"
• Characterization Marches On: Originally Beast Boy was written without reference to his history from the original comics, so the most he ever had to angst about was his disastrous relationship with Terra and sometimes disrespect from the other Titans. Then the Post-Script Season started and, strapped for material, the creators decided to bring the Doom Patrol in, which required them to alter Gar's past and history into the show^note compare Cyborg, who at least had a handful of lines over the course of the show describing what life was like before he became what he is today. The show's spinoff comicbook took this even farther by also making canon the earliest part of his comic origin story (his birth parents died in a flood in Africa when he was a boy). The end result is a Beast Boy who is substantially more complex than the show ever intended.
• The Chew Toy: Beast Boy just can't catch a break. He spends as much time being the butt of the joke as he does trying to make his own, his pranks backfire, and many are the action scenes that subject him to slapstick or have him bounced off of the walls.
• Chick Magnet: In the movie, he gets his own legion of Japanese fangirls, and enjoys it very much. He also attracts Terra, and has a lot of Ship Tease with Raven in the tie-in comics.
• Child-Like Voice: Beast Boy is the youngest of the Titans, and easily one of the dorkiest. His goofy demeanor and overall child-like stature are well-complemented by a boyish tenor.
• Chivalrous Pervert: Despite wanting attention from the opposite sex, Beast Boy doesn't push his boundaries.
• Close-Range Combatant: It's worth noting that he's the only Titan that is technically required to get up close and personal when fighting. The PS2 game fakes a few projectiles by letting him throw bananas as a monkey and letting him turn into a werewolf with ferociously nasty breath.
• Clothing Damage: In "The Beast Within", his suit is ripped off by the end of the episode, first time when something like that happened to Beast Boy.
• Composite Character: This adaptation of Beast Boy is also a high-energy, impulsive Kid-Appeal Character, much like Impulse of Young Justice.
• Conveniently an Orphan: His parents died in a flood in Africa.
• Cool Bike: Beast Boy saved the world once from tofu aliens with a moped.
• Cool Mask: Continued to wear his Doom Patrol mask until the formation of the Titans where Raven pointed out that there was little point concealing his identity when he was so easily distinguishable due to his green skin.
• Create Your Own Villain: After learning of Terra's betrayal, Beast Boy rejects her excuses and apologies. But he is right, after all, Terra allowed Slade to almost destroy the city, the tower and send his minions to kill his friends, and she was expecting Beast Boy to be ok and remain her friend no matter what. Unfortunately, Beast Boy's rejection pushes Terra right back to Slade when she was still trying to leave him.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass:
  • He really gets to show how badass he can really be in Season Five. Despite being the Plucky Comic Relief, he's quite possibly the least inhibited of all the Titans. He managed to foil the Brotherhood's plot to capture him, then successfully organized a counterattack against them with only a handful of people before the rest of the Titans came through in a Big Damn Heroes moment.
  • It's worth pointing out that he and Robin are the only superhero veterans on the team.
  • It's also worth noting that besides Raven, Beast Boy is not only able to fight Slade one-on-one, but he's also capable of actually scaring Slade. Which is probably a good explanation for why Slade sent a robot after Beast Boy in "Things Change", rather than going himself. Had he gone himself, Slade probably would've been killed.
• Crying Wolf: The second issue of Teen Titans Go!, which is even titled "Cry Wolf!" revolves around Beast Boy pranking his friends until none of them believe anymore his cries for help, even when the danger is real. And no, he doesn't learn his lesson.
• Curtains Match the Window: He must have had green eyes before the mutating. It matches with his green hair.
• Cute Bruiser: Beast Boy is an odd example. He himself is cute but the forms he takes to do the bruising seldom are, unless of course, you think the T. rex or gorilla morph etc. are cute.
• Cute Little Fangs: His default form has tiny fangs.
• Cute Monster Boy: Covers this with his green skin, pointed ears, and Cute Little Fangs.
• The Cutie: Especially in his childhood. As a small child, Beast Boy would turn into a frog and wouldn't go to sleep until Rita gives a good night kiss to turn back into his human form.
• Deadpan Snarker: A rarity of Beast Boy as he makes sarcastic comments only when he is irritated. More obvious in the tie-in comics.
  Aqualad: We Atlanteans try to keep a low profile.
  Beast Boy: Good job. Don't think anybody even noticed you.
• Did Not Get the Girl: Twice! Terra's Heel–Face Turn resulted in her death, and when Beast Boy believes he found her again in the flesh, she doesn't remember him.
• Does Not Like Spam: Beast Boy refuses to eat meat in general since, as an animal-based shape-shifter he has "Been most of those animals" and the thought of eating them squicks him out (it isn't explained how his dietary choices aren't influenced by the fact that many of the animals he turns into are naturally carnivores anyway).
• Dogged Nice Guy: Towards Terra. He tries to win her affections even after she betrayed the Titans and apparently lost her memories and chose to live a normal life.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: Deconstructed in "The Beast Within", where it's clearly shown during the fight against Adonis that Beast Boy has deep anger issues because of the lack of appreciation from the other Titans, and during the fight all of his repressed anger goes out and he totally curb stomps Adonis, much to the shock of the other Titans.
• Dumbass Has a Point: Even Beast Boy is capable to observe when Robin starts to act like Slade.
• Embarrassing First Name: It's Garfield.
  Raven: I'm gonna get a loooot of mileage out of this one.
• Emerald Power: Beast Boy is a shapeshifter with green skin.
• Endearingly Dorky: Terra takes a liking into Beast Boy because she finds his geekiness and awkwardness adorable. and Cyborg believes his name, Garfield, is quite dorky. Starfire finds Rita's stories about Beast Boy's childhood very precious.
• Enemy Within: Beast Boy develops one in the episode appropriately titled "The Beast Within". After getting exposed to strange chemicals, he starts acting rude and confrontational, then develops a super-powered feral "were-beast" form that he couldn't completely control, and it would trigger Beast Boy's transformation every time he got angry.
• Et Tu, Brute?: In the episode, "Betrayal", when he learns that Terra was Slade's apprentice.
• Expressive Ears: Beast Boy's pointy ears flip downward whenever he's upset.
• Experienced Protagonist: Just like Robin, Beast Boy himself has several years of fighting villains because he was part of Doom Patrol.
• Falling-in-Love Montage: Beast boy has his own montage with Terra falling in love on their first date at a fair. They take photos, have fun on roller coasters and eat pancakes together. Everything takes a darker turn when is revealed she was Slade's spy all along.
• "Fantastic Voyage" Plot: Beast Boy had to turn once into a bacterium to fight a computer virus that has taken over Cyborg.
• Fatal Flaw: His immaturity. The fact that he doesn't take all that much seriously means the other Titans resist putting their trust in him and are sometimes willing to believe the worst about him. He also tends to outright ignore social cues and as such has more than a few Innocently Insensitive moments, mostly with Raven.
• Ferris Wheel Date Moment: Not the only one in the show, but Beast Boy and Terra's stands out because Slade was with them in the cabin the whole time and they had no idea. And he interrupts them when the two love birds were about to have their First Kiss.
• Flanderization: Beast Boy is already a high-energy crouching moron; it really doesn't take a lot of sloppy writing to turn him into an outright pest. Trouble in Tokyo and the spinoff Teen Titans Go comics (along with the quasi-Spin-Off of the same title) are good examples.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Sanguine, As he's very sociable, carefree, and actively seeks out the company others.
• Freudian Excuse: It's implied his immature and carefree attitude was the result of being brought up as a Military Brat by Mento. Notably, in "Go!" (which takes place shortly after he left the Doom Patrol), he's much more uptight, even calling Robin "Sir."
• Friendlessness Insult: He gives a stonehearted one to Terra after learning she has been working for Slade the whole time.

  Terra: You said you'd be my friend, no matter what, remember?

  Beast Boy: Slade was right — you don't have any friends.

  • This gets cast back at him several episodes later when the team tries to redeem her, only for her to angrily retort "I don't have any friends, remember?"
• Future Loser: Beast Boy is the most prominent example. His future self tells to Starfire, that after the team disbanded, he tried for a while a solo carrier, but failed because he constantly got his ass kicked.
• Genius Ditz: Clearly not the most book smart of the Titans, but he can be an effective leader when he gets serious. Also, he's very smart when it comes to comic books which is essential when fighting Control Freak. He also has a near encyclopedic knowledge of animals, since he is aware of things like amoeba and knows about less popular dinosaurs (he transforms into several prehistoric animals that most teens wouldn't know even existed).
• Genre Savvy: He spends his free time playing games and watching TV.
  • It saved the day once against Control Freak because he knew the Weaksauce Weakness of the fictional character that empowered Control Freak.
  • In "Fear Itself", he knows full well that splitting up when horror-movie stuff has happened is the absolute worst thing you can do, and that the comic relief guy is always the first to go. Fittingly enough, he is the first one taken, although thankfully it's not Death By Genre Savvy.
• Global Ignorance: As part of his Book Dumb persona. He believed the Great Wall to be in Japan.
• Ground Pound: One of his more effective tactics is to fly high over an opponent as a bird or pterodactyl and then morph into a whale or something equally gargantuan. Gravity does the rest.
• Growing Up Sucks: He tends to act very immature for the most part, but he starts to learn the importance of maturity in the fifth season.
• Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: His future self is a demoralized and bald sideshow exhibit. Present Beast Boy doesn't like at all his future self.
• The Heart: To a lesser extent than Starfire. When things gets tense, he's the first to break the ice with his jokes, and goes to great lengths to see Raven laugh or smile. Then there's this beautiful exchange with Raven from Spellbound.
  Beast Boy: I'm sorry he broke your heart.
  Raven: I know it was all a lie. And he was the only person who made me feel like I wasn't... creepy. And don't try to tell me I'm not.
  Beast Boy: Okay. Fine. You're way creepy. But that doesn't mean you have to stay locked in your room. You think you're alone, Raven, but you're not.
  (Raven walks out of her room and hugs Beast Boy)
• Heartbroken Badass: He never got over losing Terra.
• Hero-Worshipper: To Robin in "Go!". Despite both of them being veteran superheroes, it's clear he believes Robin is the real deal.
• Heroic Rematch: It's guaranteed that Beast Boy fares substantially better the second time a villain faces the Titans.
  • Useless in the "Mad Mod", critical in "Revolution".
  • First to disappear in "Fear Itself", the one to beat Control Freak in "Don't Touch that Dial".
  • Slade neutralizes all of the Titans except Robin in Season 1? Come Season 2, he can take Slade on himself.
  • Brotherhood of Evil. It should be noted that his fight against the Brotherhood is actually the umpteenth time he's kicked their ass, with the last two that we see both being times he took them down on his own.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Beast Boy is skilled in origami.
  • "The Beast Within" shows during the fight against Adonis that he has deep anger issues because of the lack of appreciation from the other Titans.
  • As mentioned under Sacrificed Basic Skill For Awesome Training, he's also a Playful Hacker.
  • As a small child, his favorite fairy tale was "The Princess and the Frog".
• How Do I Shot Web?: During his time with the Doom Patrol, he couldn't change into animals much bigger than his base form. His last act before leaving the group was overcoming this by turning into a T-Rex.
• Hulking Out: The Beast Within is really Beast Boy's answer to the Hulk more than anything else, being Beast Boy's enormous green rage monster, as it were. Just furry and clawed.
• Human Pet: In "Every Dog Has His Day", Beast Boy is captured and kept as a pet by an alien, who constantly forces Beast Boy to turn into different animals for his entertainment.
• Hypno Fool: Whenever Mad Mod uses hypnoscreens, chances are the Beast boy will be left on a mindless state and drool over himself.
• Idiot Hero: "I may not be smart enough to do everything, but I'm dumb enough to try anything!"
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Although Beast Boy is a very vivacious social being, in the episode "Go!" when the Titans first meet, Beast Boy wants to hang out with the other Titans and befriend them mentioning that he hadn't hung out with anybody since the Doom Patrol. This implies that he has been a bit of a loner for a while and likes making friends. In the episode, "Every Dog Has His Day", Beast Boy became depressed when nobody wanted to hang out with him.
• Insulted Awake: best way to wake up Beast Boy from hypnotism is to insult his intelligence. 'Beast boy has a brain?'
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: In "Things Change", Beast Boy decides to let Terra go so she can enjoy a normal life.
• Iconic Item: Has a snaggle tooth that carries over into every animal form he assumes.
• In-Series Nickname: B.B., used by Cyborg and Terra.
• Insulted Awake: In one episode, the Titans repeatedly tried to snap Beast Boy out of Mad Mod's hypnotism by making him laugh. In the end, it looked like he'd finally succumbed for good — until Raven made a cleverly barbed joke about his intelligence. It was laughter that awoke him, but then he realized what she'd said and was promptly insulted.
• Jekyll & Hyde: He endures a case of this in one episode. He comes in contact with a chemical, which intensifies his anger. If he's provoked at all, he goes into an Unstoppable Rage and turns into a giant hairy monster. Throughout the episode, he and the rest of the team believed that he hurt Raven. Actually, he was protecting her from a criminal who was also affected by the chemical.
• Keet: Kid's got a lot of energy.
• Kid-Appeal Character: Clown type. He's always trying to be funny and is clearly the least mature, and he usually seems to be the weakest fighter on the team.
• Killer Gorilla: When he needs a comparatively compact fighting form, he tends to go with the gorilla, although he's also taken on a surprisingly Sasquatch-like form at least twice^note in "Red X" and "Stranded".
• The Lancer: Lost this role to Cyborg as time went on, but in early episodes especially Beast Boy was the quickest to oppose Robin on an issue or doubt him.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: Since he can't speak while shifted (unlike in the comics), it comes across that when he's in his animal forms, the jokes are over and he means business. And by "business", we mean kicking your ass.
• Lightning Bruiser: Strong, agile and can tank a LOT of hurt; this extends to many of his animal fighting forms, such as big cats, gorillas, elephants, rhinos, bulls and bears.
• Like an Old Married Couple: He and Raven sometimes come off as this whenever they get into squabbles.
• Like Brother and Sister: The intention of the writers was that Raven thinks of Beast Boy as the annoying little brother she hates and adores at the same time, while Beast Boy thinks of her as the grumpy big sister he has to cheer up.
• Little Bit Beastly: If his pointed ears and protruding tusk aren't enough of an indication, the show briefly indicates he has claws and chimp-feet under his clothes.
• Locked into Strangeness: His green skin, hair, and eyes are a side effect of the serum that gave him his shape-changing abilities.
• Logical Weakness: He inherits any biological limitations of the animals he turns into. Also, he can't turn into animals he's never seen or heard of before.
• Love at First Sight: When he first met Terra, he became quite infatuated with her.
• Magic Pants: The question of what exactly happens to Beast Boy's uniform whenever he changes into an animal is never explained, or even attempted to be explained. In an episode where he is infected with a virus that turns him into a werebeast his clothes are shredded — in fact the second time he transforms into the monster he completely tears off his clothes (pants included) and yet when he changes back his pants are intact.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Beast Boy's more sensitive, free-spirited nature alongside Raven's more serious, tomboyish nature makes him the Feminine Boy to her Masculine Girl.
  • Has same dynamic who Terra, who is a Tomboy Princess who is not afraid of horror themed parks, while Beast Boy is.
• Mellow Fellow: Often tends to be very laid back.
• Military Brat: How the Doom Patrol, especially Mento, raised him. To the point that when he first met Robin, he recognized the other superhero as his superior and called him "sir" until Robin told him to stop.
• Moment Killer: He actually manages to kill his own moment with Raven by suggesting she call him "Beast Man." Raven even lampshades it.
• Morphic Resonance: Any animal form he turns into is green and will often show a protruding lower tooth like his.
• The Movie Buff: He's a major fan of various movies, especially science fiction ones. In Control Freak's second episode, this provides him with a piece of trivia that enables him to turn Control Freak's TV-based powers against him, as he had picked up an obscure weakness in the process.
• Must Make Her Laugh: He puts immense effort into getting Raven to smile.
• Mutants: Downplayed. Beast Boy never explicitly identified as one, but he matches the profile, what with his Unstable Genetic Code and superpowers.
• Mysterious Past: Unlike the other members of the Titans (who have had their origins and/or backstories either referred to or featured in flashbacks) and just like all of the other characters featured on the show, we never learn about the type of life Beast Boy had before joining both the Doom Patrol and the Titans along with how he received his powers in the first place.
• My God, What Have I Done?:
  • Though understandably emotional, he makes the grave error of giving Terra a Heel–Face Door-Slam after learning that she betrayed them. He spends most of "Aftershock Part 1" agonizing over this decision and trying to make things right. He fails... at least until the next episode.
  • He's also horrified in "The Beast Within" when the Titans accuse him of attacking Raven.
• Mythology Gag: Beast Boy being referred to as a "changeling" in "Winner Take All". In the comics, for many years his alias was Changeling.
• Nice Guy: As in The Heart, he likes to make his teammates happy. Even the practical jokes are in good fun he and he felt really bad about Starfire getting caught in the crossfire... even if it took him a while to actually work up the apology.
• The Not-Love Interest: Beast Boy really is supposed to be just a surrogate brother to Raven, except their interactions come off as Belligerent Sexual Tension in nature and are very touchy-feely with each other through the show. The comic sequel goes directly into the Ship Tease territory sometimes.
• No Name Given: Beast Boy's ferocious mutant form is never actually given a name beyond "that beast". (For what it's worth, the Cartoon Network episode guide calls it a Man-Beast).
• Noodle Incident: It's never revealed why he left the Doom Patrol, but it's heavily implied he got tired of Mento's brutal leadership.
• Objectshifting: Season 3 episode ""Bunny Raven... or ...How to Make A Titananimal Disappear" sees the Titans trapped inside the Amazing Mumbo's magical hat, where he transforms them all into various animals. Beast Boy's existing ability to transform into animals lets him instantly reverse it, prompting Mumbo to mess with BB's powers. For the rest of the episode, Beast Boy can only transform into various inanimate objects, though he does still make himself useful in defeating the villain (and can talk by turning into appliances that transmit sound).
• Occidental Otaku: Beast Boy he knows a lot of his sci-fi references, and he is an avid reader of manga. And yet, he has no idea what Otaku means when is referred as one in "Trouble in Tokyo".
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • Anytime Beast Boy stops making jokes and acting dead serious, there's something big going on (i.e., dealing with Terra's betrayal, getting a distress message from the Doom Patrol).
  • "The Beast Within" is a rather extreme example. After getting doused in unknown chemicals during a fight with Adonis and having a "good Freak Out", as Raven puts it, Beast Boy proceeds to Take a Level Or Two in Jerkass, consume an entire plate of meat and eggs, rampage and wreck the gym twice, and attack Cyborg. He's in the middle of losing his temper with Raven for all her insults and her bad attitude and just short of attacking her too when the Titans confront him. At the end of that he leaves only having managed to convince the group that he's got a serious attitude problem that only Cyborg bothers to question; Robin merely tells him to take his attitude and buzz off. When he finally gets to his room, BB rampages through his room until he finally mutates into The Beast. Nobody actually acknowledges that he was Not Himself until the last two or three minutes of the episode.
• Outdated Name: When he debuted in 1965, "Garfield" was a perfectly acceptable name for a boy. Since the introduction of Garfield, everyone associates it with the lazy orange tabby. This is why Beast Boy in the 2003 cartoon finds his name to be an Embarrassing First Name.
• Partial Transformation: He occasionally demonstrates the ability to transform just his hands into tentacles or pincers, without changing the rest of his body. It's more prevalent in the spin-off comics than in the show however.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Beast Boy is the shortest member, but he can turn in animals hundreds of times bigger than him.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Raven. She's probably the team member closest to him besides Cyborg, but they aren't in a relationship and really don't seem interested in being in one, although this is open to interpretation.
• Plucky Comic Relief: He's often causing jokes or being the butt of one, like the mind control thing.
• Pointy Ears: Chicks dig 'em. Or at least they do in Japan.
• Pop-Cultured Badass: He can defeat villains while reciting pop culture or, in the case of Control Freak, do it with pop culture.
• The Prankster: Has a love for playing practical jokes, which lands him in hot water in "Forces of Nature" when his attempt to get Cyborg back for pranking him accidentally hits Starfire instead.
• Raptor Attack: He'll sometimes take the form of a dromaeosaurid, which resembles a scaly and oversized Velociraptor with quill-like feathers on the head and back. In "Switched", his possessed body took the form of another type of dromaeosaurid, which resembles an also scaly and oversized Deinonychus (no feathers, though).
• Real Men Eat Meat: Inverted; while he sometimes tries to act especially tough, being able to turn into any animal, even carnivores, leaves him perceiving eating any meat as cannibalism. Funnily enough, in "The Beast Within", when some chemicals make him more aggressive, he says "real men don't eat tofu" and devours Robin's ham-and-eggs breakfast.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives one to Terra in "Aftershock Part 2" after she moans about having no choice but to help Slade.
  Beast Boy: That's a lie! You've always had a choice! It's all been your choice! You chose to work for Slade, you chose to betray us, and now you've chosen to give him control. Slade isn't doing this, Terra, you are!
• Personality Remnant: After Beast Boy is exposed to some chemicals, he changes into a werewolf-like monster and seemingly attacks Raven. Later it turns out he rescued her from Adonis, who was also exposed to those same chemicals.
• Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training: Very, very downplayed. Beast Boy's got the skills to penetrate Titans Tower security (so he can figure out when Raven's birthday is) and to operate a Brotherhood of Evil black hole generator on the first try, and yet he learned American history from the backside of a cereal box.
• Sad Clown: He is an insecure and vulnerable kid who constantly uses humor as a defense mechanism.
• Sarcasm-Blind: He can be incredibly blind to Raven's and Cyborg's sarcastic remarks. "The Beast Within" indicates this is actually Invoked on Beast Boy's part—he is well aware of the abuse and it's making him The Resenter.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: It's not outright stated, but it's heavily implied that Beast Boy left the Doom Patrol because he had enough of Mento's abusive leadership.
• Secret Identity: Averted. Aside from his name Garfield Logan, his secret identity is virtually non-existent due to his skin and hair pigmentation, a fact Raven points out when talking about his somewhat goofy looking mask.
  Beast Boy: But... what about my secret identity?
  Raven: What secret identity? You're green.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Beast Boy is an insecure Badass Adorable who loved fairy tales as a young boy, while Cyborg is a Hot-Blooded Hunk, ready to Booyah anything in his path.
• Shapeshifter Baggage: Apparently he had something of a mental block due to assuming this. When he first started, he couldn't change into anything bigger than himself. It wasn't until Mento got him to think bigger that he could pull out something like a T-Rex.
• Shapeshifter Default Form: Beast Boy stays humanlike when not an animal.
• Shapeshifting Sound: His transformations are usually accompanied by a vaguely slurp-like sound.
• Sidekick Glass Ceiling: The episode "The Beast Within" lets Animorphism-powered Beast Boy get more Beast and less Boy. Even while it lasts, his suggestions that his name be changed to Beast Man fall on deaf ears.
  Raven: We're having a moment here, don't ruin it.
  Beast Boy: ... Beast Dude?
• Smart Ball: During his reunion mission with the Doom Patrol, he comes up with the plan to Storm the Castle entirely on his own, despite the mission team in question having been reduced to a meager two members from its original five.
• Spanner in the Works: Singlehandedly foils the Brotherhood after they drove the Titans to the brink of destruction.
• Status Quo Is God: Beast Boy is saddled with the most extreme case of this, as the writers were very unwilling to have him escape from his Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass baseline. Most of his serious episodes are ignored once they're over (such as when he was nearly Made a Pet or the entire Terra debacle), but the biggest example is "The Beast Within" which is one of his darkest experiences in the entire show, and he's made to end it by being silly and immature even to the point of Moment Killer.
• Still Wearing the Old Colors: Beast Boy wears the outfit of his old group, sans the mask that he ditched after he met the Titans for the first time.
• Straw Vegetarian: Averted; despite being devoutly vegetarian and nearly vegan (he uses substitutes for dairy and eggs whenever he cooks, but frequently shares a cheese pizza with the other titans) and often pointing out that he only eats meat replacements, he is not hypocritical, preachy or really any of the stereotypes of this trope. In fact, whenever he offers his friends tofu, he takes their rejections in stride, and meat-loving Cyborg is his best friend.
• Superpowered Evil Side: Gains one in "The Beast Within," to an extent- the Beast (an homage to An American Werewolf in London, according to invokedWord of God) is certainly his most powerful form, but isn't "evil" so much as amoral and uncontrollable- more like the Hulk than Raven's inner demon.
• Tempting Fate: On several occasions and particularly likely to subvert a Badass Boast.
  B.B.: That demented doofus is never hypnotizin' me again! (hypnoscreen pops out of a wall) Duuuuuuhhhh...
• Trademark Favorite Food: Tofu everything.
• Transforming Conforming: Beast Boy can transform into any animal, but he is bound by the rules of whatever form he takes. The most inconvenient and noticeable being that he can't speak in animal form. And while he can fly if he becomes a bird, he does tire from the exertion of flapping his wings.
• Unknown Rival: To the Brain in Season 5 — he treats the Brain with almost as much seriousness as Robin does with Slade, but the Brain barely seems to know who he is. This partly proves to be the Brain's undoing, as he greatly underestimates Beast Boy's capabilities when it comes to launching his master offensive, and Beast Boy is later able to lead an ambush on the villain base that results in the Brain's defeat.
• Unstable Genetic Code: He got sick as a kid in Africa and the (experimental) cure threw his genetic code out of whack, turning him green and granting him the ability to turn into animals.
• Voyage Through The Body: Through Cyborg as an amoeba to stop a computer virus from taking over his friend.
• Virtuous Vegetarianism: Reconstructed. Beast Boy is vegetarian because he has personally transformed into many creatures normally considered "meat" animals, and thus has gained empathy for them.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Raven. Their relationship goes like "Slap Slap Support" (for Beast Boy) "Slap Slap Commiserate after Raven gets used as a pawn for ancient evil magic." (for Raven)
• Vocal Evolution:
  • In the episode "Go!", we get to see Beast Boy fresh from the Doom Patrol, and his voice starts out notably higher-pitched, almost nervously squeaky. The voice evens out over the rest of the episode into the usual tone Beast Boy has for the rest of the series. Notable in that this was an episode done late into the series as the origin story for how the Titans came together in the first place, technically making it an Inverted Trope that centers itself back out into being played straight.
  • Beast Boy's voice was a bit deeper in early episodes.
• Was It All a Lie?: He angrily asks Terra if it was all game, while pretending to be his ally.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: To Mento. One of the reasons why he left the Doom Patrol is that his father-figure leader was too tough on him. Despite this, Beast Boy still shows a measure of reverence towards Mento, even after years of gaining his independence while being with the Teen Titans. This is most likely because Beast Boy still wishes for Mento to appreciate him for what he is.
• "What Do They Fear?" Episode: In one of the comics. His greatest fear is the Doom Patrol fully disowning him.
• Willfully Weak: Downplayed. Beast Boy has access to a lot of lethal powers that he doesn't use in a fight. Given his goofball disposition it can be easy to forget how deadly his powers actually are... right up until he reminds you he can turn into lions, tigers, and bears.
• The Worf Effect: The guy that can turn into a T. rex is useful for demonstrating the power of villains when they smack him aside despite the power of this form. For reference, the T. rex weighs about nine tons. That's a whole lotta Worfing going on.
• Your Size May Vary: While Beast Boy has always been the shortest of the Titans, exactly how short she is varies per episode. He's slightly shorter than Terra in a few scenes. However he's taller than Terra in others. He is also seen to be up to Raven's nose most of the time, but sometimes is only up to Raven's chin. Similarly, when Raven hugs Beast Boy in "Spellbound", they are the same height. This could be a result of his animal transformations, which may tamper with his body even after he returns to his humanoid state.

Raven

Raven / Rachel Roth

Voiced by: Tara Strong ^{Other voice actors}Yuki Kodaira (Japanese), Anabella Silva (Latin American Spanish), Monica Bertolotti (IT), Karine Foviau (FR), Mariana Torres (PT-BR)

Powers/Abilities: Flight, Telekinesis, Teleportation, Healing Hands, Empathy, Magic

"Azarath... Metrion... ZINTHOS!!!!"

"I don't do fear."

The half-human daughter of Arella Roth, a human woman who managed to find her way to the other dimension of Azarath/a native of Azarath (the show isn't clear) and Trigon the Terrible, a dread and powerful demon lord who intended to use Raven to open a portal that would allow him to enslave Earth. As a result of her race, Raven has powerful telepathic and psychokinetic abilities that are destabilized by her emotional level — in other words, if she fails to keep her negative emotions (positive feelings are okay or else her friends would have been the source of about six Apocalypses throughout the show's run) tightly in check, her psychic power runs rampant, breaking and destroying her surroundings until she calms down. Presumably due to her birthplace, she is also versed in a wide variety of occult lore and a skilled practitioner of magic. She also has the power to astral project, dispatching her soul from her body to teleport herself or others, and to heal, though it's left unclear if these are Psychic Powers innate to her or mystical powers she has learned from her studies.

Because of her background and powers, Raven is a solitary, quiet individual who prefers to avoid interacting with others much, but displays a biting, acerbic wit and a love for sarcasm when she does.

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• Action Girl: A powerful sorceress who regularly saves the day using her vast arsenal of dark magic.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: Raven's hair was black in the comics (and very long). Here it is purple (and short).
• Adaptation Personality Change: In the 1980s comics, Raven was genuinely The Stoic, always looked neutral, and rarely emoted. In the cartoon she is more witty and much more emotional, though she still keeps herself from being too emotional.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: Depends on the version, but some depictions of comic Raven gave her long cheekbones and were overall much less attractive than how she appears in the show.
• Adaptational Badass: When Raven made her debut in the comics, her powers are limited to teleportation, empathic healing and manifestation of her soul self, so she mostly acted as the team's Support Party Member and usually needed to be saved herself. Here, she has all those abilities in addition to telekinesis, flight and various forms of sorcery, making her not only a much more effective fighter, but also the most powerful member of the team.
• Adaptational Hairstyle Change: Raven has long black hair in the comics the cartoon draws inspiration from. Here, she has short purple hair.
• Adaptational Heroism: Her comic book counterpart is a heroine, but has a bad habit of being in a Heel–Face Revolving Door due to Trigon taking over her on a regular basis. This incarnation still has issues with her darker side, but never actually turns evil over the course of the whole show (at her worst, she snaps and inflicts a Mook Horror Show to villains), and when she does help her father in his plan, it's more as a very reluctant pawn who has given up rather than as a gleeful traitor Drunk on the Dark Side.
• Adaptational Skimpiness: A very minor example. With her blue dress being replaced by a leotard.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: While she does maintain her comic counterparts powers, in keeping with her Adaptational Badass, she can fly, use telekinesis, and cast spells.
• Airplane Arms: Raven's pink emoticlone, embodying her happiness has a tendency of running like this.
• All-Encompassing Mantle: She wears a hooded blue cloak nearly everywhere she goes. It covers her entire body from the shoulders down, and with the hood up, only her eyes and the bottom half of her face can be seen.
• Ambiguously Bi: Raven is implied but never confirmed to have feelings for Beast Boy (though Word of God says it's unintentional) and gets ship tease moments with Robin but also has ship tease moments with Terra and Starfire. However, the extreme emotional reactions she has towards Terra (when she betrayed her and her team) and Starfire (whenever she's hurt or has vanished) could also be because she's an emotionally repressed half demon who is very close to her friends and treats them like family.
• Animal Battle Aura: Has one in the form of a giant spectral bird.
• Animal Motifs: Unsurprisingly, she's associated with ravens. A perfect fit and not just for their name—ravens are often associated with darkness, magic and being prophets of doom, fitting with Raven's darkness motif, ability to use magic and the fact that she was created to end the world.
• Anti-Anti-Christ: Her dad wants her to help him end the world. She said 'no'.
• Anti-Hero: She may not be the most social person you'd come across, but she is most certainly heroic and on the side of good.
• The Anti-Nihilist: Played With. She's naturally distant and usually deems certain things pointless, but ultimately cares for the Titans and enjoys her time with them.
• Apocalypse Maiden: "The gem was born of evil's fire. The gem shall be his portal. He comes to claim; he comes to sire, the end of all things mortal." She's the gem.
• Bad Powers, Good People: Raven choses to use her demonic powers to do good.
• Badass and Baby: Raven fighting Monsieur Mallah while talking care of Teether.
• Badass Bookworm: She studies magic tomes and seems to like reading in general. This is where her fringe powers come from.
• Barrier Maiden: In Season 4 her will is all that's keeping Trigon out of the humans' dimension.
• Barrier Warrior; She can form dark energy shields.
• Beneath the Mask: Raven keeps her emotions largely in check, rarely expressing any sentiment more passionate than a sarcastic quip. Then the episode "Nevermore" gave her a Journey to the Center of the Mind, where we got to see all the different sides of her personality. One side is perpetually depressed and endlessly apologizes for all the mean things she's said. Another side is a Blood Knight who just loves to fight. Another is a gigantic demon made of pure rage. And, most disturbing of all: a perky, giggling Raven who loves the color pink and thinks Beast Boy is funny (something Raven would normally rather swallow her own tongue than admit to). Another side of her is a protective side towards her friends.
• Because Destiny Says So: In season four, Raven is troubled by her destiny to destroy the world and, along with Slade and her father Trigon, repeatedly insists that no matter what she does, there's nothing she can do to prevent it. She fails to realize that the only way the prophecy can come true is if she willingly goes along with it, as the destruction of the world is completely dependent on the conscious actions she makes of her own free will.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: The main reason that she considers the team her friends and the only reason she opens up to them more than most people. They consider her a friend instead of a freak.
• Berserk Button:
  • "No one should ever go into my room.”
  • Harming her friends in any way. While it can be argued it's one for every member of the Titans, with Raven it can yield particularly cruel results should it be pushed. Best case scenario you’ll end up severely traumatized, worst case scenario you’ll end up dead, or nearly dead, as Dr. Light, Slade, and Trigon all learned the hard way.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: Most of the time, she's usually reserved and sometimes snarky. But if she's genuinely pissed off, our only advice is this: Run. For. Your. Fucking. Life.
  • She strikes fear into some of the most powerful villains. Even Slade. She might just be the biggest badass of the group. When Trigon took on all other titans and Slade, Raven destroys him without the need of any effort.
• Big Damn Hug: At the end of "Spellbound", in a rare show of emotion, Raven hugs Beast Boy after he emphasizes that her dark and creepy nature doesn't mean the other Titans don't care about her.
  Beast Boy: You think you're alone, Raven. But you're not.
• Bigger on the Inside: Her cloak, to an extent. It's implied that it hides a portal to another dimension. She was able to drag Dr. Light into it, and he came out traumatized.
• Birthmark of Destiny: Long and creepy looking red ones that form demonic script all over her body. They're a sign that Trigon is coming to fulfill her destiny.
• Birthday Hater: Raven hates so much her own birthday that she gets angry and destroys the surprise party from her friends.
• A Birthday, Not a Break: The Apocalypse comes in the day she was born.
• Black Cloak: Raven is rather anti-heroic than evil, but her father is a demon lord.
• Black Mage: Raven serves this role to team, attacking by firing blasts of black magical energy.
• Black Magic: Raven is taught 'dark magic' from her Unseen Pen Pal Malchior, and experiences no negative effects until she loses control of a spell and endangers a child. Then she releases Malchior from his can, and seeing that he up not so good, so for the rest of the show she didn't use nearly as many spells as she did in that episode. The negative consequences were mostly a matter of application, and control always was a big issue for Raven, though her being half-demon could have been a factor.
• Body Surf: Raven uses this ability only once in the show, in the episode "Haunted", when she transfers her consciousness in Robin's body to see if the Slade he is seeing everywhere is real or a hallucination for some reason.
• Bound and Gagged: If Raven is gagged, she cannot connect with her powers as they are dependent on her incantation, "Azarath Metrion Zinthos". As Red X, Robin incapacitates Raven by gagging her with a large adhesive 'X'.
• Breakout Character: Raven's breakout popularity on the show has affected how she is written in the comic, with the intent of bringing her closer in line with Tara Strong's portrayal.
• Brick Joke: Remember the emo guy she met at disco party? Raven dated him for a while in the Teen Titans shorts and the comic-sequel.
• Broken Bird: The nature of her birth and childhood have left her with a lot of sorrow and little self-esteem. She gradually opens up in the last two seasons.
• By the Power of Grayskull!: Raven uses sometimes her spell "Azarath Metrion Zinthos!", to activate and control her powers. It gets lampshaded in the episode "Nevermore", when Dr. Light attacks her mid-spell and gives her the advice to "find shorter magic words".
• Car Fu: Raven has a tendency to use her telekinesis to throw cars and trucks at enemies.
• Casting a Shadow: She can manipulate dark energy, which plays part of her Dark Is Not Evil motif. It can then extend to a variety of other effects such as telekinesis, teleportation, shields, portal generation, interdimensional travel, etc.
• Catchphrase Interruptus: There are several occasions where she gets caught short.
• Character Catchphrase: "Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" is the Invocation for her powers so she says it a lot.
• Claimed by the Supernatural: In Season 4, glowing red birthmarks in the shape of occult-looking symbols start to manifest all over Raven's body as a sign that she is the daughter of/portal for the demon lord Trigon. However, these marks are normally invisible and only appear when Trigon is stirring.
• Clothing Damage: During her Mind Rape with Slade, he ripped up her leotard to exposes her Birthmark of Destiny. As much as it was creepy, it looked as though she was in a bra and underwear.
• Character Development: Here's a big indicator of how far she's gone. In the earlier episodes, she's seen with her hood up nearly all of the time, even when she's with her friends. As the seasons go by, she wears it less and less.
• Child by Rape: Downplayed, considering this show is for children. Her mother was manipulated into conceiving her by Trigon in a human disguise, which is a very fantastical type of rape.
• Combat Medic: Raven is revealed to have healing powers, thus giving her this role.
  Beast Boy: Who knew we had a doctor in the house?
• The Comically Serious: Because she tends to have a stoic demeanor, she sometimes provides humorous moments through her snarky remarks and expressing annoyance at Starfire's exuberance.
  Raven: (in a complete deadpan) Evil beware. We have waffles.
• Composite Character:
  • She has her comic book counterpart's powers and backstory in addition to taking Donna Troy's role as Starfire's Heterosexual Life-Partner.
  • Furthermore, she also has elements of Danny Chase, inheriting his telekinesis abilities as well as his snarky, rude personality (albeit not quite to the extent he was).
• Creepy Crows: Ravens are used as a symbol for (take a wild guess) Raven. Given Raven's demonic nature and all-around creepiness, that definitely results in this trope.
• Creepy Good: There have been several instances where she has been openly called "creepy" by others, especially Beast Boy. However she remains firmly aligned to good. Beast Boy also helps her see that there is nothing wrong with being creepy, and the important thing was she wasn't alone.
• Creepy Monotone: Her stoicism comes across as this due to her demonic image.
• Cross-Popping Veins: Happens very frequently with her, especially when being annoyed by Beast Boy.
• Curtains Match the Window: Both of them a purple/indigo color.
• Daddy's Girl: Invoked by Trigon himself, but greatly defied by her. Trigon mockingly calls her 'dear daughter', but Raven hates him and refuses to submit to the destiny she has been bestowed upon.
• Dangerous 16th Birthday: The End of the World as We Know It could happen on her birthday. She spends this one staring at a clock and willing it forwards.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Having to live your whole life knowing you'll bring about the world's end is very troubling.
• Dark Is Not Evil: She dresses in dark clothing, her powers are tinted black and she's half demon, but she's not evil. She's the polar opposite to Light Is Not Good. See Dr. Light.
• Dark Magical Girl: A lonely girl with father-angst that develops a close friendship with a sunny and perky girl. Even their powers are foils; Starfire uses her powers through fully embracing her emotions while Raven has to suppress her to keep them under control.
• Dark Secret: Raven knew the Titans for at least a year and did not have the courage to tell them she was an Apocalypse Maiden whose destiny was to destroy the world, because she was the daughter of Trigon. Luckily, Slade was there to help.
• Deadpan Snarker: There is plenty to snark at in Titans Tower, such as Beast Boy's "fake meat" and Robin's attempts to stop yelling with more yelling. This is even more accentuated in the Venezuelan Spanish dub, as her voice actress struggled to get her charaterization right at first.
• Death Glare: Raven's glares will make you crap bricks.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: For a good part of season 1, she's always seen with her hood up. As her defrosting progresses, she starts having her hood down not only amongst the Titans, but often when she's alone in public as well.
• Dislikes the New Guy: Instantly suspicious of Terra joining as a Sixth Ranger. After a Fire-Forged Friends outing she finally warms up to her. It's relatively short lived as Terra turns out to be a mole after all. Second to only Beast Boy, who had a crush on her, Raven is the most hurt by Terra's betrayal after going through a whirlwind of emotions with her.
• The Dreaded: Mostly to Dr. Light, as part of a running gag. She has also managed to do this with Slade and all the other members of Teen Titans at some point, and it's enough to know that they fear her.
• Dude Magnet: Not as much as Starfire, but she’s attracted a few admirers. A goth boy in “Sisters” liked her, Adonis hit on her in “The Beast Within”, and Kid Flash flirted with her in issue 34 of the tie-in comics.
• Dull Surprise: In earlier seasons, would react deadpan to everything.
  Raven: A couch-potato with a souped-up remote. I'm petrified.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: She's pale as a ghost and half-demon.
• Emotionless Girl: Subverted. She certainly has emotions and very powerful ones, but she has to keep them repressed to control her powers.
  Raven: Maybe you haven't noticed, but my emotions are dangerous. I can't afford to feel anything.
• Emotion Suppression: Raven has to constantly suppress her emotions lest she lose control of her powers completely. Hence the meditation.
• Enemy Within: Raven deals with something like this, being half-demon. If she gets angry enough, her demon side physically manifests in four glowing red eyes.
• The Empath: One of Raven's powers.
• Face Framed in Shadow: When wearing her hood, her face above the mouth is completely cast in shadow with only her eyes left visible.
• Fatal Flaw: Her reluctance to open up to others. Her tendency to clamp down on her own emotions means that she won't confide in them when something's bothering her and that well meaning actions can set her off rather badly.
• Fear Is Normal: One of Raven's lessons is learning that being afraid and acknowledging it is completely normal. When Beast Boy rented a horror movie for the team to watch, Raven denies being afraid, while everyone else admitted their fear and laughed together at the fact. However, due to her denial of being afraid, monsters manifest in the tower, and only after the team is picked off one by one until only Raven is left, she comes to accept that she is afraid, but that doesn't mean she can't fight back and defeats the monsters, which were manifestations of her own powers.
• Foil: Raven and Terra have a unique dynamic. Both are young female teen superheroes with Power Incontinence issues and public image problems — Raven due to her half-demon nature making her come off as Creepy Good and her prophesied role to end the world, Terra due to the massive damage she leaves in her wake. However, their reactions to this issue are mirror images of each other. Raven accepts her flaws and works to overcome them; she works tirelessly to bring her powers under control and strives to be a hero in hopes of making up for the evil in her blood. Terra, on the other hand, runs away from her problems, both literally and metaphorically, by blaming others, making excuses for herself, and wallowing in self-pity. Whereas Raven constantly meditates and represses herself to establish her control, Terra fell in with Slade because he promised a quick and easy way for her to get the control she always wanted. Raven is incredibly loyal to her teammates, who she is implied to view as a surrogate family, whilst Terra happily betrayed the Titans to Slade in exchange for his "help". The end of their respective character arcs further highlights their similarities and differences. Both hit the Despair Event Horizon, but Raven claws her way back from it, with a little encouragement from her friends, and continues fighting crime, whilst Terra literally declares That Man Is Dead and turns her back on her powers so she can enjoy a normal life.
• Flat Joy: Raven occasionally indulges in the Deadpan Snarker version of this trope:
  Cyborg: I know what we should do! Lets go get some waffles! Raven you like waffles, don't you?
  Raven: More than life itself.
• Fountain of Youth: She regresses to a child in "The End Part 2" while she's in the underworld.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Alternates between Melancholic and Phlegmatic. She is mainly Melancholic early in the series where she shut everyone out and kept to herself. As she warms up to her friends she switches to Phlegmatic, albeit still being quiet and shy.
• Freakiness Shame: When she met the titans for the first time, Raven was reluctant to befriend them because she felt she was a freak. It took Cyborg point out to her how weird are the others too to make her feel better.
• Freudian Excuse: Her destiny to bring about the end of the world and her emotion-based powers both make her extremely afraid of being a danger to others. As a result, she keeps a tight rein on her feelings and keeps people at a distance.
• Ghost in the Machine: The episode "Nevermore", with color coding for your convenience - the pink, giggly Raven, the grey, shy and apologetic Raven and the green, energetic, Cute Bruiser Raven. In a later shot, there are also brown, orange and yellow versions, which combine to form a white Raven, and when her inner demon is defeated it turns into a red Raven.
• Glass Cannon: She is arguably the most powerful member of the Titans overall, as her Swiss-Army Superpower has undoubtedly the most destructive capability and creative ways to be used. Case in point; she was able to defeat Trigon by herself, who the other Titans couldn't handle together. However, she's the only Titan without Super Strength (or a Charles Atlas Superpower in Robin's case), and she can't take quite as much punishment as them either.
• Good Is Not Nice: She's just as heroic as the other titans, but not very sociable. In addition she can also be very brutal and ruthless towards her enemies, though this is usually only when she has been pushed. She’s also come the closest to breaking Thou Shalt Not Kill, or actually has broken it, if one believes she actually did kill Trigon at the end of Season 4.
• Goth: Presented as a bit of a character gimmick for her in the early episodes (most noticeably "Sisters" where she compliments Blackfire's poetry as "surprisingly dark"), then later downplayed.
• Goth Girls Know Magic: She fits the typical traits of a Goth with her reclusiveness and taste in dark things in general, and can use demonic and magical spells.
• Hates Being Touched: If it's from Slade but slowly grows out of it for everybody else.
• Hates Everyone Equally: Downplayed. Lampshaded in "Titans Rising", in which Beast Boy then explains that she eventually gets used to the people she meets, in this situation, Terra.
• Healing Hands: She heals Beast Boy's legs in "Final Exam".
• Hellgate: She is the "gem" through which Trigon and his legions of demons will leave their dimension and enter Earth.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Forms a close bond with Starfire, despite their differing personalities. 'Switched' was the key episode in which they bonded.
• Hidden Depths: During Cyborg and Beast Boy's field trip into her mind, they discover that she's got a lot going on under the surface.
  • She actually thinks Beast Boy is hilarious. But she also secretly suspects that he doesn't like her.
  • She has a huge amount of repressed anger at her father, to the point where she goes into a homicidal rage when it slips out.
  • She gets a huge kick out of battle, approaching Blood Knight levels.
• Hot Witch: Raven is a beautiful teenage girl with a voluptuous body and nice legs. She's also the team's resident magic user.
• Human-Demon Hybrid: Her mother was human and her dad's a demon lord.
• Humanoid Abomination: Her demonic heritage manifests as four glowing red eyes and shadowy tentacles growing from underneath her robe.
• I Am Not Pretty: She’s implied to believe this. In "Spellbound" she’s surprised when Malchior calls her beautiful.
• In the Hood: Her mantle has a hood to hide herself further.
• Intangibility: She can phase though objects like solid walls.
• Interspecies Romance: Had a short-lived one with the dragon-disguised-as-a-mage Malchior. However, she didn't know he was a dragon and he was just using her to be released from the book.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She is very snarky, introverted and pessimistic. As the series goes on however, she starts to open up more and she shows that she is actually fairly nice, deeply protective and caring of her friends and views them as her family and will always do the heroic thing no matter what.
• Kick Chick: In the very rare instances that she decides to resort to physical combat, she primarily makes use of swift kick attacks.
• Lady of Black Magic: She's aloof and Wise Beyond Her Years, and uses spells both demonic and magical in nature.
• Leg Focus: Her regular outfit is a legless leotard. Several shots of the show emphasize her shapely legs.
• Leotard of Power: This is a change from the comics version, who's a bit older. The animators changed her dress with long, narrow skirt to a leotard to avoid getting too... revealing in action poses with a teen character.
• Lethal Chef: In "The End, Part I" she tries to make the Titans' breakfast. Starfire is the only one who enjoys it.
• Levitating Lotus Position: She does this when mediating because it helps her regulate her powers.
• Like Brother and Sister: Raven and Beast Boy act a lot like a grumpy big sister and her annoying little brother.
• Literal Split Personality: Not only did she occasionally split into lots of different personalities, their cloaks were even color-coded for convenience. They include: Pink Raven (Happy), Grey Raven (Timidity), Green Raven (Bravery), Orange Raven (Rudeness), Purple Raven (Passion), Yellow Raven (Knowledge), Brown Raven (Laziness), and Red Raven (Rage).
• Loners Are Freaks: She thought this of herself in the origin episode, "Go!". Cyborg responded appropriately:
  Cyborg: He's [Beast Boy] green, half of me is metal, and she's [Starfire] from space; you fit in just fine.
  • The quote serves as a Mythology Gag, because in the first issue of The New Teen Titans (by Marv Wolfman/George Perez in 1980), when we're first introduced to Cyborg and Raven, we get this exchange...
    Cyborg: [The coach] said I don't belong here anymore. Then where in blazes do I belong?
    Raven: With me, Victor Stone. With others of your kind.
• Loner-Turned-Friend: She was a lone wanderer before she settled into Titans Tower.
• Magical Accessory: The Power Crystal on her forehead, which is a chakra jewel. According to invokedWord of God, she was born with it.
• Major Injury Underreaction: In "Masks" when her mouth is duct taped shut, Cyborg grabs on to the edge and pulls. Starfire and Beast Boy cringe awaiting for Raven's response. After a delayed moment, in which spectral images of Raven are shown howling in pain, she ultimate responds with a very soft "Ow."
• Mama Bear: For Melvin, Timmy, and Teether. She wrecked the abductors who messed with "her kids".
• Mark of the Beast: Raven gets her father's demonic hieroglyphs in the "all over the body" variety in season 4, apparently heralding the end of the world.
• Marked Change: In the form of her cloak turning white.
• Mental Monster: In "Fear Itself", the Titans watch a horror movie, "Wicked Scary", which scares every single one of them. At the end of the movie, everyone shares their experience, except for Raven who refuses to admit that she was scared. Immediately after, the Wicked Scary monster appears and kidnaps every Titan one by one every time Raven refuses to admit she is scared too, because the monster is her own creation, albeit unintentional. Only when she decides to confront her fears, the monster is gone and the Titans return.
• Mind Rape:
  • Victim of Slade who caused her all manner of mental trauma when he returned as her dad's messenger.
  • Perpetrator against Dr. Light. As a Continuity Nod, the first time he reappears, all she has to say is 'remember me?' when he causes trouble and he'll volunteer to go back to prison. Though he apparently gets over it off-screen, as he shows no such sign of being scared of her in his fifth-season appearances.
• Missing Mom: Zigzagged. When Raven sought her advice to deal with the prophecy, all she had to do was create a portal and go home. She talked with her mother there but it turned out be an illusion. Arella died when Azarath burned, years ago. Then in the story Red Raven, Raven seeks her out again in a restored Azarath.
• Most Common Superpower: Her skintight leotard shows that she is quite buxom. At times, her bust seems to be larger than Starfire's.
• Ms. Fanservice: In contrast to Starfire, who has the tall and thin physique of a model ^note though they both have the same bust size, which isn't helped by the animation team designing most of the grown up females with the nearly same assets, Raven has a shorter, but curvier, figure, with her skintight Leotard of Power drawing attention to her large chest, hips, and especially her legs, which are very shapely and fully exposed.
• Mundane Utility: In "Haunted", she demonstrates that she can use her Animal Battle Aura as an umbrella.
• Mysterious Purple: Raven is the brooding Dark Magical Girl on the team with a Dark Secret that she works to keep from everyone, i.e. that she's a Human-Demon Hybrid and an Apocalypse Maiden who is destined to usher her demon father Trigon into the human world to take it over. She has short, dark purple hair in this adaptation, which is notable as in the original comic where her origins are conveyed more directly to the audience, she has long jet black hair.
• New Powers as the Plot Demands: Her list of one-off powers is quite extensive. As are all the times they would have come in handy had she remembered she had them. This is lampshaded in the Trapped in TV Land episode; "Blue Zinthos; what you need, when you need it".
• Nightmare Fetishist: She collects some creepy-looking things in her room, though presumably these are magic-based;
  • "Fear Itself" has her wake up from a nightmare and note she should consider redecorating.
  • In "Fractured", she finds the world redecorated by a Reality Warper Johnny Rancid to be "cool".
• Nightmare Hands: Raven has the ability to conjure these in tandem with her intangibility powers to drag enemies away.
• Not Afraid of You Anymore: Raven tells this word by word to Slade in Season 4, after attacking him ruthlessly. He doesn't care nor he is impressed by her resolve, and points out that the only thing she acquired is to scare her friends instead.
• Not So Above It All: As part of her Character Development, she becomes more willing to stoop to the juvenile antics of the other Titans.
  • At the end of the episode featuring Malchior, she decides to get involved in a game of "Stankball", using her Mind over Matter to mercilessly pummel Cyborg (off-screen) with a gross ball of stinky old socks.
  • After Cyborg's stint as The Mole in the third season, she's an active participant in making him redo his humiliating Titans initiation.
  • In "The Quest", she joins the other Titans in dressing up in Robin's spare costumes.
  • While their canonical connection is dubious, the "New Teen Titans" comedy shorts take this to the extreme in the episode "The Burping Contest" where, after initially being grossed out, an irritated Raven uses her powers to create a city-shaking belch that leaves the other Titans covered in soot after even Starfire joins in the titular contest.
  • In "Homecoming," she positively relishes the thought of being able to tease Beast Boy no end over his Embarrassing First Name (Garfield).
• Odd Friendship: She and Robin gain an oddly close relationship starting with season 3's Haunted, when Raven has to mentally possess Robin, causing her to see all of his memories. In a sense, after this she understands him better than anyone else on the team, and a season later, he embarks on an solo trip (initially, Slade joins up too) into the underworld to save her after her father Trigon has been summoned into the world.
• Omniglot: In Trouble in Tokyo she listed off a series of languages that she was fluent in. She did this because Japanese isn't one of them.
• Only Sane Woman: When put alongside the likes of immature Beast Boy and Cyborg, and ignorant Starfire, she's frequently put in this role.
• Parental Title Characterization: Raven calls her mom by her name when they meet. She switches to "mother" in the next sentence.
• People Puppets: Raven can telekinetically seize control of her enemies' bodies and make them move against their will, though she noticeably refrains from doing so for most of the series. In "The Prophecy", when Trigon and Slade push her too far, she uses her power to repeatedly smash the latter against a wall, torturing him while he is helpless to do anything about it, and only stops when she realizes her own friends are shocked by her rage.
• Perpetual Frowner: It appears she actually has difficulty smiling, as shown by her attempt in "The End - Part 1" that results in a creepy Cheshire Cat Grin, to the point that when she does, that they're a sign of impending doom and she's trying to make everyone's last moments together pleasant.
• Platonic Life-Partners: She is very close to Robin (the two of them have a psychic link as of "Haunted" and season 4 focuses heavily on their relationship), but isn't in a romantic relationship with him. A bit more blatant with Beast Boy, despite the occasional Ship Tease.
• Power Incontinence: She can manage to keep her powers under control when she's in control of her emotions. When her emotions are unstable, she has to struggle to her powers in check.
• Power Makes Your Hair Grow: In "Birthmark" and the final part of "The End", she reaches into greater power than usual and her hair grows as a result. On both occasions, she cuts it.
• Pretty in Mink: Her winter wear is trimmed with white fur.
• The Quiet One: She sometimes speaks less than ten lines in a couple of episodes.
• Rei Ayanami Expy: Although the character of Raven from the comics came at least 15 years before Rei Ayanami, it's pretty clear this animated Animesque incarnation of the character follows the archetype. Quiet and seemingly emotionless? Check. Bobbed bluish hair? Check. Pale? Check. Created by her dad to cause an apocalypse? Check.
• The Resenter: Initially, Raven appears to be this character in regards to Terra — angry that Terra has apparently managed to control her powers so easily, while Raven still must meditate constantly to keep hers in check. However, since it turns out that Terra got her control from working with Titans' Arch-Enemy Slade, the resentment turned out to be reasonable suspicion.
• Rise of Zitboy: Even Raven is pre-occupied with her looks. She stresses herself over acne problems in the comics, and she eventually turns the zit into a demon.
• Screw Destiny: Robin points it out to her when she's having a moment of doubt: despite being raised with the notion that she was evil and would cause an apocalypse she decided to be a super hero.
• Self-Made Orphan: She destroys Trigon at the end of the fourth season, and he's never seen again since then.
• Semi-Divine: The daughter of the human woman Arella and the arch-demon Trigon, who inherited a degree of her father's vast magical powers. Destined to be the harbinger of the end of the world; Raven spends most of her time trying to thwart her fate.
• Smart People Play Chess: Cyborg's daily routine includes a chess match with Raven, in which she crushes him.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: The first guy she seemed romantically interested in was a heroic sorcerer who was quite nice and supportive to Raven. Too bad he was actually an evil dragon.
• The Smart Girl: When it comes to magic, she has the expertise. Multiple episodes also shown her to be very skilled with computers and she's generally quite bookish.
• The Snark Knight: She's not very social and dishes out snide remarks about all her teammates.
• Sour Outside, Sad Inside: On the surface she's a stoic snarker. Beneath the surface, she's a lonely and fearful girl with Daddy Issues.
• Squishy Wizard: Not hugely squishy — she has some martial arts moves — but she's still the most fragile of the Titans in direct physical combat (barring Beast Boy's base form, which he doesn't fight in anyway) and tends to hang back to cast magic rather than jumping into the thick of things.
• Stepford Snarker: She's even snippier than usual when upset.
• The Stoic: Reluctantly, on her part. It's necessary to keep her powers under control.
• Strong Family Resemblance: With her mother.
• Stylish Protection Gear: Her fur-trimmed winter wear.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: The poster girl for the Anime Fan Speak term Kuudere. She acts coldly towards everyone, partly due to attachment issues but mostly because her powers are tied to her emotions, and if she doesn't keep iron control over them at all times, she could get a dangerous case of Power Incontinence. However, she's willing to go to almost any lengths for her friends, and we occasionally see glimpses of her softer side. Also a rare case of one doubling as a Tsundere.
• Supernatural Floating Hair: Visible in rare instances when she's using her powers and her hood is down.
• Superpowered Evil Side: Raven's immensely powerful, frightening, demonic side. Fortunately, it only slips out a handful of times.
• Superpower Lottery: Raven basically has a lot of powers. New Powers as the Plot Demands and Deus ex Machina, for example. The Teen Titans Wiki lists her as having the following: Telekinesis, astral projection, levitation, telepathy, umbrakinetic dark energy manipulation (into energy blasts, a variety of constructs ranging from walls to claws to shields to flying platforms and effective telekinesis), biological manipulation, short-distance teleportation, uncontrolled time manipulation, limited physical healing, limited precognition, transformation into White Raven in the realm of her mind, ability to transfer power to others and cause them to lose consciousness, control over Trigon's lesser demons, and the ability to rapidly age self back to normal age (in "white" form). She's by far the most frequent target for depowering or The Worf Effect, but when she's not either, the result is epic.
• Swiss-Army Superpower: Demonic heritage and magic from tomes have a wide range of uses.
• Talking Is a Free Action: Subverted as often as it's played straight; she actually has been hit several times in the middle of reciting one of her spells.
• Teacher/Student Romance: Falls for Malchior, who teaches her all kinds of new magic.
• Team Mom: "Nobody messes with my kids!"
• Technicolor Eyes: She has these eyes when they aren't glowing black from Psychic Powers or red from demonic rage. This is the baseline because Purple Is Powerful.
• Tendrils of Darkness: She has powers similar to those of Green Lantern and can cast objects and body parts made of pure darkness. But when black tendrils come from under her robe, that's a sign that things are getting dangerous.
• Thinking Up Portals: She can conjure up dark portals to transport herself and others or to travel to other dimensions like Azarath.
• Terror Hero: She ordinarily stays emotionally detached while fighting evil. If her control slips, you may still see a hero, but you'll definitely see some terror.
• Through His Stomach: In "The End", she tries to do something nice for her friends by making them breakfast. Unfortunately, she's a Lethal Chef. Starfire is the only team member to enjoy it, and Starfire is the one who cooks dishes that involve cultivating fungus.
• Token Wizard: Raven is the only member of the team whose powers are arcane in nature, possessing a modicum of magical knowledge from her upbringing.
• Took a Level in Kindness: She becomes more open and friendly in the episodes after The End.
• Town Girls: The Neither to Starfire's Femme and Terra's Butch. She isn't even remotely girly, but at the same time she doesn't act that masculine.
• Tsundere: When her emotions are more visible, she's actually more like this than Kuudere. She lacks a lot of the blushing or the sideways glances, or any of the typical stuttering, so it's hard to notice at first.
• The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter: More specifically, she's the daughter of Trigon, a giant red demon with horns.
• The Unsmile: Once in "The End." She has little practice with such things so it looked odd.
• Unwillingly Girly Tomboy: Mother Mae Eye forces Raven to wear a yellow Shirley Temple styled dress with a large white bow in the back and her hair tied into Girlish Pigtails tied with matching yellow bows. Because Raven is being mind controlled, she raises no complaints and even giggles when Mae Eye puts her in it and proceeds to pinch her cheek while telling her she can still dress pretty. After the spell is broken however, Raven is furious to find herself in a little girl's dress with her hair done up so girly, and uses her powers to change back to her usual looks.
• Vapor Wear: When she has most of her clothes torn off in "Birthmark," there isn't a bra to be seen. This is Truth in Television; wearing a bra with a leotard would be redundant, as they're made to cover the "underwear" aspects that would otherwise be unseemly in a skintight outfit.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Beast Boy. Their relationship goes like "Slap Slap Support" and "Slap Slap Commiserate post-after an evil magician tries to use Raven as a pawn."
• Vocal Evolution: She originally had a higher pitched voice.
• "What Do They Fear?" Episode: In one of the comics. Her greatest fear is her and the Titans' triumph over her father not sticking and becoming a portal for him again.
• When She Smiles: She doesn't smile often as a way of self-control, but when she does, it's truly heartwarming.
• Willfully Weak: In terms of raw power, Raven has the potential to be more powerful than all of the other Titans combined. However, she is (with very good reason) wary of using her powers to their fullest extent.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: A rare non-villainous example. She is a literal case of the trope name, as the reason for her birth is to let Trigon onto Earth and destroy it, something which eventually happens in season 4.
• World's Strongest Man: Or teenage girl, in this case, but by the end of the show, it is likely there is nobody alive more powerful than Raven in terms of sheer power.
• Wrench Wench: It's easy to miss, as it only comes up once, but she helps Cyborg rebuild the T-Car.
• You Can't Fight Fate: Her attitude for most of Season 4. As much as she'd love to ignore her father's plan to bring about The End of the World as We Know It, she genuinely believes that she's powerless to stop it. At least, until the ending.
• You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry!: The reason she forces herself to be an Emotionless Girl is that her anger makes her demon half come out.

Cyborg

Cyborg / Victor "Vic" Stone

Voiced by: Khary Payton ^{Other voice actors}Ken Uo (Japanese), Adolfo Nitolli (Latin American Spanish, Episodes 1-36), Ángel Balam (Latin American Spanish, rest of the series), Roberto Draghetti (IT, seasons 1-4), Luigi Ferraro (IT, Season 5), Daniel Lobé (FR), Eduardo Borgerth (PT-BR)

Powers/Abilities: Super-Strength, Armor, Built-in Weapons and Devices, Science Expertise

"When there's trouble, you know what to doooo! Call Cyborg! He can shoot a rocket from his shoooe! 'Cause he's Cyborg!"

As a teenager, Cyborg was hideously mutilated in a car accident. Fortunately, his parents were foremost experts in cybernetic enhancements, so they integrated their son with a variety of advanced robotic components in order to save his life. For quite some time afterward, he was despondent about his change, and even in the series he remains somewhat unhappy with the loss of his normal life. But he retains a strong zest for life and devotes himself to making the best of his situation, to the extent he usually appears much happier than Robin does. As a cybernetically augmented human, Cyborg has several built in weapons (mainly a sonic cannon), the general resilience you'd expect of someone who's only partly squishy flesh and covered in armor, and super strength, as well as a considerable IQ that he puts to use as a Gadgeteer Genius.

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• 10-Minute Retirement: Cyborg quits the team in the very first episode after a disagreement with Robin, and again in the third season finale because he wanted to become the leader of his own team. He returns back both times.
• 20% More Awesome: A Double Subversion in the episode "Only Human". Since Cyborg is, well, a cyborg, the machine part of him can measure how much effort he is actually putting in. Part of the episode was Cyborg lamenting that he cannot give 110%... until he finally does it in the final battle by focusing on his humanity. The gauge tops out at 130% before it breaks.
• 24-Hour Armor: Cyborg is basically walking armor. Justified, since becoming half robot keeps him alive since his accident.
• Abnormal Limb Rotation Range: Because Cyborg can detache his limbs, he can rotate them at even 360 degrees.
• Academic Athlete: He played football in high school and is also the smartest of the Teen Titans.
• Achilles' Heel: Cyborg has 35 weak spots.
• Achilles in His Tent: Cyborg quits the team during a fight with Robin, after both failed at teamworking, then returns just in time to save Robin from getting killed by Plasmus, and then they save everyone else.
• Achilles' Power Cord:
  • In a Bad Future where the titans ended up splitting. Cyborg was the only one who stayed on the tower because he had long since burned up all of his internal batteries, so he had to be constantly plugged to a large machine to keep functioning, and couldn't go anywhere. He repairs them at the end of the episode, and Starfire returns to her time, possibly preventing said future from happening in the first place.
  • In "Cyborg the Barbarian", he has a limited time left to live due to there being no way to charge his robotic parts 5000 years in the past.
• Adaptation Personality Change: He is more easygoing than his comic book counterpart, who started out as a temperamental bully.
• Adaptational Backstory Change: In the show, Cyborg was an athlete who used to love racing cars but one day got into an accident. He was saved but only by replacing his damaged body with cybernetic parts. In the comics, Cyborg was a football player injured in a science accident that also killed his mother.
• Adaptational Hairstyle Change: Cyborg had curly short hair in the '80 comics. Here, he is completely bald.
• Aesop Amnesia: Most of Cyborg's episodes revolve around him accepting, again and again, that he's human, though from different perspectives (not being robotic enough, not being human enough, etc.).
• Affectionate Nickname: He is referred as "Cy" from time to time by Beast Boy.
• Arm Cannon: Type 1 example with his right hand, which can morph from regular limbs to a powerful sonic cannon. In later seasons however it appears both his hands can be converted to cannons.
• Amazon Chaser: In "Cyborg the Barbarian", he falls in love with the Nubile Savage warrior Sarasim.
• Ambiguous Situation: Cyborg's mother status. In Season 4, the show implies she died a long time ago like in the canon comics, while in the tie-in comics which changed Cyborg's Origin Story, she was not involved in the accident that disfigurated her son, therefore she was fine and alive after the incident. If something bad still happened to her between Cyborg's accident and Season 4, is to anybody's guess.
• Amplifier Artifact: Cyborg installed in himself a super-processing chip named the Max-7 to increase his speed, strength, and intelligence, after being dissatisfied with his own performances. Unfortunately, the biggest problem with the chip is that Cyborg almost lost all of his humanity trying to increase his abilities and intelligence.
• Anatomy Arsenal: He has an Arm Cannon, a Boot Cannon and a Shoulder Cannon.
• Androids and Detectives: The Android to Robin's detective. They often argue about how to do the mission.
• Arch-Enemy: Cyborg is the arch-enemy of Brother Blood and Gizmo. In Brother Blood’s case, the feeling is mutual.
• Artificial Limbs: Almost his entire body is mechanical, with only a bit of his arm and part of his face left.^note And one episode shows the "bits" of his arms are actually flesh-colored prosthetics; he casually pops one out to challenge Raven to a game of ball With My Hands Tied. Even his brain has been partly modified, though not enough to cause any real damage.
• Artistic License – Physics: The character has always had this, considering his main weapon is a sonic cannon. Once you know exactly what sound can do at a certain decibel ranges, you realize anything hit directly by Cyborg's sonic cannon should be a steaming pile of goo... surrounded by the goo from all the things he hasn't hit directly.
• Amplifier Artifact: Cyborg had a super-processing chip named the Max-7 installed to increase his speed, strength, and intelligence, at expense of his own humanity.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Despite Cyborg's constant conflicts with Robin, he is still a great friend to him and is willing to risk his life for Robin.
• Badass Arm-Fold: Cyborg tends to fold his arms when he is confident in his own plans.
• Badass Boast: "It's not in the circuitry, is it? It's not the machine that resists you. It's me. My spirit! That's the part you can't break! I don't need you to make me a man. I already AM one!"
• Badass Driver: He loves to drive his T-car and participate in races. He is so badass that it was a car accident that turned Victor into a cyborg at some point before the show.
• Badass in Distress: When he gets kidnapped by Fixit.
• Bash Brothers: If Cyborg's got the sonic, then Robin's got the boom.
• Beary Funny: In the episode "Bunny Raven, or How to Make a Titananimal Disappear", Cyborg gets turned into a dancing bear, dressed in a tutu.
• Becoming the Mask: Cyborg infiltrates the H.I.V.E. Academy under the guise of "Stone", in order to find out the "big plan" the H.I.V.E. has in the works. While he is able to successfully resist Brother Blood's mind control, unlike the rest of the students, he at one point shows himself to actually be enjoying himself at the school and only manages to focus himself back on the mission due to Robin's insistence.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: He often got into quarrels with Bumblebee that implied a denied attraction to her.
• Berserk Button: Don't steal his blueprints and the use his technology for your own reasons.
• Beyond the Impossible: Cyborg getting in a Brawler Lock with Atlas, who was working at full power. Cyborg won by going farther than full power. His meter was at around 160% before it exploded. This was in fact the aesop of the episode: Cyborg believed it was impossible for him to get any stronger/faster/better etc. because, "I'm a robot; my limits are built in." His human half allowed his mechanical half to perform better than what should have been possible.
• Big Brother Instinct: Cyborg is protective and understanding with the girls, offering them emotional support.
• The Big Guy: He'd be big for his age even without the cybernetics, and consequently he's usually depicted as the Titans' powerhouse. However, though he fulfills the role, he's more typically portrayed as The Lancer, Beast Boy is the most likely to just rely on raw physical force, and his relative strength compared to Starfire is heavily Depending on the Writer.
• Big Damn Heroes: He appears out of nowhere to save Robin from Plasmus when everyone believed he left the team to its fate.
• Big Eater:
  • He nearly put an all-you-can-eat sushi bar out of business. Does he have a second stomach installed or something?
    Cyborg: We just saved the whole dang universe! Who wants French toast?
  • Exaggerated in the episode "Crash", when he gets infected with a nasty computer virus and starts running around eating everything from clothing to money to a telephone.
    Cyborg: My stomach! Feels like I ate a tire!
    Raven: That's a distinct possibility.
• Big Guy, Little Guy: He is a Hunk of a man, while Beast Boy is the shortest and youngest member of the team.
• Big Fun: He's the big guy of the group, and he's extremely pleasant to have around.
• Black and Nerdy: He's the one the Titans turn to when dealing with machinery or computers.
• Black Dude Dies First: Inverted with Cyborg in "Fear Itself". When horror monsters are haunting Titans Tower, Cyborg is the last one that goes down.
• Blue Is Heroic: His cybernetics always glow blue.
• Boisterous Bruiser: Big, all around fun guy to hang out with, and how can he be not with a Character Catchphrase like below, said about 28.5 times ^note The half point was because he said "MOO-YAH!" instead throughout all seasons.
• Breakout Character: Just like Raven above him, Cyborg became very popular and influenced the way he is written in other media. By the time of the New 52, he became one of the founding members of the Justice League. He is also the first member of the Teen Titans to make his grand entrance on the big screen in the DC Extended Universe. And yes, he took his BOOYAH! with him even there.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: Cyborg might be the resident macho man, but he is a also goofball who likes playing video games, is openly affectionate all the time, sings stupid songs while driving his car and will absolutely burst into tears if someone wrecks the sofa.
• Butt-Monkey: Not as much as his Best Friend, but he also is completely humiliated in some episodes just for the sake of it. Cyborg gets almost every episode dismembered, his T-car is constantly destroyed whenever it makes an appearance, was once infected by a computer virus that made him an Extreme Omnivore, almost got turned into a full robot, and his future self is completely dependent on a power generator.
• Butterfly of Doom: Cyborg is worried becoming the source of this when he accidentally travels back in time in "Cyborg the Barbarian", and refuses to move or touch anything...until he sees he's literally standing in-between two Onrushing Armies. The ending of the episode implies it was a Stable Time Loop all along.
• Care-Bear Stare: When Fixit tries to link himself at Cyborg's brain, his own mind is flooded with all the memories Cyborg's cherished. Seeing Cyborg's pleasant memories, Fixit is reminded of his own lost humanity, and decides to release him.
• Career-Ending Injury: He was a star of the American football until his fateful accident.
• Character Catchphrase: BOOYAH!
• Character Development: By the time of his final confrontation with Brother Blood Cyborg finally gets over his angst with being part robot and accepts himself the way he is.
  Cyborg: I always thought I was missing something. Something I needed to become a man. My own team, my own mission...my own skin. So Blood did manage to teach me one lesson: I'm not missing a thing."
• Characterization Marches On: In the early episodes, Cyborg is shown to be particularly irritable and short-tempered with other members of the team. By the halfway point of Season 1, he is far more inclined to be goofy and ends the series as one of the more level-headed members of the team.
• Chekhov's Skill: The aforementioned rocket in his shoe, when used against Brother Blood in "Titans East, Part 1".
• Chick Magnet: He manages to attract several girls: Jinx, Sarasim and has a mild Ship Tease with Bumble Bee. In the tie-in comics, he dates a blonde girl named Sarah Simms.
• Clark Kent Outfit: When he meets the Titans for the first time, Cyborg attempts this by wearing a grey hoodie and black jeans. It doesn't stick.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: As Beast Boy's best friend, Cyborg is always there to explain things to BB when he doesn't understand and keep him out of troubles when he exaggerates with the pranks.
• Comical Angry Face: Cyborg is the most prone, usually whenever Beast Boy or Robin piss him off with something.
• Competition Freak: When challenged he can be considerably competitive and lose sight of reason when pushed enough, actually presented as a major character flaw when it causes him to quit the Titans when his leadership skills are challenged and become overzealous when fighting elusive criminals.
• Cool Car: The T-car that he build from 0.
  Cyborg: She is my baby. 100000 horsepower plasma turbine, all-terrain hover jets, anti-lock air brakes, and an onboard computer that links with my systems so I can literally feel the road. And of course leather seats, power windows and the boom and stereo are all standard.
• Cursed with Awesome: His enhancements, of course. Deep down he wants more than anything to just be human again; But, of course, he wouldn't be who he is today without his cybernetics. Aside from the powers he's been granted, it also helps him in other ways; he's Immune to Mind Control because half of his brain is electronic.
• Curse Cut Short: When Cyborg says to Brother Blood, "You can take your offer and blow it out your—" "INSOLENT CHILD!"
• Dark and Troubled Past: Cyborg's backstory according to the Teen Titans Go! comic book is that he was in a car accident. In order to save him, he was given robotic parts. He had to drop out of school as a result and faces Fantastic Racism.
• Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: Averted. Even though half of his brain has been modified, he completely retained his humanity.
• Cyborg: Obviously; "Half of me is metal". His body is mostly mechanical but there's still some skin and (presumably) organs in there. His brain is stated to be half grey matter and half CPU.
• Dating Catwoman: Briefly went out with Jinx while infiltrating the HIVE. She thought he was the super villain "Stone" at the time.
• Deadpan Snarker: Cyborg is so prone to engage in banter and snide remarks that even villains like Slade of all people started to notice this side of him.
  Slade to Cyborg: "Wow"? That's it? No clever comment? I was looking forward to that.
• Despair Event Horizon: Starfire traveling into the future by accident is this for future Cyborg. When she finds him, Cyborg is completely dependent on the power grid of the tower to survive, but it looks like he is just waiting to die. The fact that he shouldn't be older than 40, and taking him only a few days to find a solution to move completely independent again after her return, implies that he just simply gave up at some moment after disappearance and allowed himself to waste away after the team disbanded off-screen in that timeline.
• Detachment Combat: Cyborg can detach his limbs.
• Did Not Get the Girl: Cyborg and Sarasim share their feelings for each other, but he's transported back into the future never to see her again.
• Distracted by My Own Sexy: After getting his old looks back with the help of his holographic generator rings, Cyborg doesn't lose the chance to admire himself in the mirror. He doesn't even notice Starfire entering in his room.
• Do-Anything Robot: His bionic enhancements have included quite a lot of gadgetry, most notably the sonic cannons in his arms and a radio system in his ear.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: There is no way in Hell to be just a mere coincidence that the African-American member of the team to be the one who understands Starfire's pain of being subjected to Fantastic Racism by Val-Yor.
  Starfire: You know what it is like to be judged simply by the way you look?
  Cyborg: Of course I do. I'm part robot.
  • He is also the one one who understands Raven's fear of being considered a freak by the others when they met for the first time.
• Drunk on Milk: In the episode Car Trouble. "Fourteen milkshakes. Not a good sign..."
• Electronic Eyes: Cyborg has a mechanical eye. This is a plot point where the Titans are facing robots built with the same technology by Brother Blood and Cyborg reveals that his mechanical eye has a weakness that can be exploited to make objects invisible to it, which they use to sneak past the robots.
• Emotional Bruiser: Cyborg is very emotional and even dramatic at times, contrasting Robin's stoicism.
• Empowered Badass Normal: He was a skilled, but ordinary high school athlete, until the car accident that deadly injured him. His parents had no choice but to replace the damaged body parts with cybernetics.
• Eye Lights Out: Everytime Cyborg is about to lose conscience or is severely damaged, his glowing eye will fade, along with the blue lights on mechanical parts.
• Extreme Omnivore: Thanks to a virus, Cyborg goes on a rampage through the town and eats several normally inedible objects in "Crash", such as a stop sign and a little girl's teddy bear.
• Fake Defector: Turns out Cyborg is resistant to Mind Control, and Brother Blood had no idea.
• Fantastic Angst: Cyborg is an unfortunate victim of discrimination for being half-robot. There are situations where he heroically saves people only for them to fear him no matter what, or in other times, children preferring Robin over him to sign their autographs because he is not cool like the Boy-Wonder. Cyborg is affected by this on a deep level, sometimes enough for him to become depressed.
• Fatal Flaw: He actually has two: first, his over-reliance on technology makes underrate his human half; second, his pride makes him unwilling to listen to his friends and lash out at them when he feels humiliated or unfairly challenged. Several story arcs are devoted to him getting over both of these.
• Feel No Pain: Downplayed. It's implied that he doesn't exactly have feeling in most of his body. Upon Brother Blood transforming his arm back into flesh, Cyborg notes that he could actually feel his arm.
• Foreshadowing: Unintentionally. At the end of "Titans East, Part 1" he decides to leave the Titans in order to lead Titans East. As of now, he is the only main Titan in this show who is no longer a Titan in the comics,^note While Dick Grayson is no longer a Teen Titan, he now leads a new team simply called the "Titans" while current Robin Damian Wayne leads the Teen Titans. having been made a member of the Justice League by the advent of the New 52.
• Force and Finesse: Has this dynamic with Robin. Cyborg relies mostly on his huge strength, while Robin is a Dance Battler.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: He alternates between Choleric and Melancholic. As the Number Two second-in-command, Cyborg is also quite task oriented, but is quite open to his friends. He however goes through phases of Melancholic during his struggles with losing his humanity.
• Frankenstein's Monster: Vic was saved by his father via unorthodox ways and in present he suffers existential issues since he is worried he is is no loger a human. Even his name, Victor Stone is a nod the the monster.
• Freakiness Shame: In "Go!", it's shown that Cyborg was extremely ashamed of having to become a cyborg after an accident. However, Beast Boy thought it was cool.
• Full-Conversion Cyborg: Only half of his brain and vascular system seem to be made of biological tissues.
• Fun Personified: When he's not busy being a badass, Cyborg is always up for food, sports, and fun of all kinds. Especially prominent around comic-relief partner Beast Boy.
• Future Loser: In the future timeline Starfire travels to by accident, Cyborg does not fare far better than Beast Boy. His future self is so broken down that he has no choice but keep himself alive by staying constantly connected to the Titan Tower's power grid, and he can never live the Tower.
• The Gadfly: He enjoys teasing Robin about Starfire.
• Gadgeteer Genius: He handles and creates just about all the Titans' technology, including a tricked-out car and a top-tier security system for the Titans Tower itself.
• Genius Bruiser: Not only is he a physically strong cyborg with arm cannons, he's also the Titans' mechanic and IT guy.
• Genre Savvy: 'You start messing with the past, you end up with monkeys ruling the future.'
• Good Thing You Can Heal: He sustains more graphic damage than any of the other Titans partly because of this and partly because said damage is G or PG rated due to his mechanical nature. He's also the only Titan to suffer realistic dismemberment.
• Hates Their Parent: In the tie-in comics, Cyborg confessed to Sarah Simms that he used to hate and resent his parents for turning him into a cyborg even if they had no other choice to save his life.
• He Cleans Up Nicely: We get to see Cyborg as Victor Stone briefly in Season 3. The Titans are impressed by whom he used to be before his unfortunate accident.
• Heroic B So D: He has a moment in the tie-in comics after stopping Cinderblock from robbing a bank. Instead of being thanksful, the people get scared of him and deshumanize him. Cyborg returns to the tower with such a bad mood that he refuses to eat or talk to his friends.
• Heroic RRoD: Overusing his cyborg abilities isn't pretty. It can lead to Power Strain Black Out or acting like a true robot (without emotions).
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: He and Beast Boy are best friends and are seen playing video games and goofing around together a lot.
• Hidden Depths:
  • If given the occasion, he can be a very capable leader.
  • Cyborg can speak Tamaranian, as shown in "Overdrive".
• Hot-Blooded: "BOOOYAH!" followed by running forward and arm cannons blasting.
• Humans Are Special: Despite being a cyborg, he exemplifies this in some ways: When he fights with Atlas, it's his humanity that allows him to push past his theoretical limits and win. Furthermore, when Brother Blood tries to brainwash him, it's the human being in him and not the machine that enables him to resist.
• Hunk: Cyborg is the largest Titan and very well-build, contrasting Robin and Beast Boy. Jinx develops a crush on his alter ego, Stone, who has no cybernetic parts. Needless to say that he is an attractive young man. Who wouldn't be depressed to be half-robot, with a physique like Cyborg's?
• I Am a Monster: Before he met the other Titans, he believed that his cybernetics made him a freak.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: Though it's never explicitly pointed out, he can form his Sonic Cannon from either arm, and in extreme cases both arms at once. He just prefers to use the right, because he's right-handed.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Becoming a cyborg put the kabosh on a normal childhood and he misses the chance. It's seen best when he infiltrated the H.I.V.E and got the chance to experience relatively "normal" high school stuff.
• Immune to Mind Control: Cyborg can't be controlled by Brother Blood because half of his brain is electronic. Or so he thought. Brother Blood then tried to hack Cyborg and still couldn't control him. Turns out he wasn't immune because of his electronics; he simply has too much willpower.
• Impersonation Gambit: In season 3, he uses the alias of Stone to infiltrate the H.I.V.E. Academy to investigate Brother Blood.
• It Only Works Once: In "Titans East Part 2", Cyborg is the only Titan left who can resist Brother Blood's Mind Control. Blood has effortlessly torn Cyborg's limbs off, paralyzed the other Titans, and is ripping Cyborg's circuitry apart, trying to find the component that makes Cyborg immune. Cyborg announces "It's my SPIRIT!", instantly rebuilds himself, ignores Blood's energy blasts (the ones that blew his limbs off 15 seconds ago) and takes Blood out with one punch. They at least lampshade it this time.

  Beast Boy: So are you, like, magic now?
  Cyborg: Pretty sure that was a one-time deal. Blood was trying so hard to hack into my brain, I guess I sorta hacked into his.

• The Infiltration: Cyborg enters the HIVE Academy under the guise of "Stone" to find out what secrets they're planning next. Later, in a mission against the HIVE with the Titans, he is beset by the HIVE's top agent, Bumblebee, only to find that she is a spy, (though she's more of a Fake Defector, as she has not donned a new identity for the mission). When Brother Blood finds out he rhetorically screams, "Was anyone at my school actually there to LEARN?
• Innocently Insensitive: He calls Starfire "Troq" after she told him it meant "nothing" (without explaining that it meant "nothing" as in "worthless"), meaning he didn't realize how hurtful it was.
• In a Single Bound: Cyborg can leap really high and launch a surprise attack from a big distance. He does it often enough to almost become his signature move.
• Iron Butt Monkey: He's known for taking a TON of punishment in fights and is commonly seen getting thrown, torn to pieces, and smashed by the bad guy at the moment, but usually just gets back up and continues to fight. This is actually weaponized more than once as his endurance usually allows him to withstand much more punishment than the other Titans.
• It's Personal: Originally Brother Blood was just another villain for the Titans to fight. Then Brother Blood hacked into him and stole and duplicated his technology for his own nefarious plans, then it became very personal for Cyborg. On Blood's part not only is Cyborg responsible for destroying his academy twice but Cyborg is also immune to his mind control powers, which drives Blood insane.
• Just a Machine: Most of his inner conflicts come from the fact he is part robot.
• Kubrick Stare: Every time he is serious or enraged.
• The Lancer: He's taller, darker, and more laid-back to contrast Robin's serious-as-a-heart-attack demeanor. He's also Robin's Number Two.
• Last Stand: At the end of "Cyborg the Barbarian" he intends to use the last of his power to go down fighting and take down the demon army. He's stopped by Raven bringing him back to the present day.
• The Leader: He led temporary Titans East Team and was shown being very capable at planning and coordinating the team.
• Leg Cannon: Has a miniature sonic cannon built underneath his sole. It's not as strong as the default one in his right arm, but it's very handy in sneak attacks and getting him out a fix more than once in the entire series.
• Loss of Identity: His main fear is becoming full machine, and losing who he is. Cyborg even has some episodes revolving around overcoming this fear.
• Macross Missile Massacre: One of his main attacks.
• Madness-Induced Omnivore: In "Crash", Cyborg is infected with a virus that gives him Horror Hunger and causes him to see inedible objects as delicious treats. The delusions cause him to spend the entire episode eating garbage, machines and money.
• Make Some Noise: His main weapon is his sonic cannon.
• Master Swordsman: When Cyborg was trapped 5,000 years in the past, he was shown to have remarkable swordsman skills as a warrior during the battle with Krall.
• Meaningful Name: Cyborg's cover identity when he infiltrates the H.I.V.E. Academy: Stone. This is more of a nod towards Cyborg's real name Victor Stone. Also, his name is a Shout-Out to Victor Frankenstein (in German, "Frankenstein" means "Stone of the Franks").
• Mind Rape: Not as bad as most examples, but even Cyborg takes his turn when Fixit tries to "fix" him.
• Mirror Character: Despite all the headbutting, Cyborg and Robin are more similar than they would like to admit. Whenever an episode's focus is their relationship, it usually just highlighting their similarities. First episode of the show shows them being compatible enough to do a combination attack, and when something goes wrong, they fight each other. In Winner Take All, he calls Robin paranoid and hyper-competitive, but guess who else is just as much of a Competition Freak and overzealous. Both of them are great at detective work, are Gadgeteer Geniuses and are incredible proud and stubborn. He often clashes with Robin and even leaves the Titans temporary to lead his own team. His own personal vendetta with Brother Blood is similar to Robin and Slade. He also infiltrates under a false identity, and when he is discovered, his archenemy becomes just as obsessed with making Cyborg join forces with him as Slade was with Robin.
• Missing Mom: Indirectly mentioned in "The End: Part II", when the evil inner Cyborg asks if his good counterpart will run crying to mommy. "Oh, that's right- you don't have a mommy!". A horrible incident caused the death of Cyborg's mother, drawing from a narrative of the original Teen Titans comic.
• The Mole: Infiltrates in the HIVE Academy, as Victor Stone- the villain, to take down Brother Blood and stop his evil plans.
• Moment Killer: Cyborg interrupts intimate moments between BB/Raven and Robin/Starfire so often, to the point of becoming a Running Gag.
• Muscles Are Meaningful: Synthetic muscles at any rate, but he is much bigger than the rest of the Titans, and with the exception of Starfire, he is undoubtedly the physically strongest.
• Mushroom Samba: Cyborg's has food-based hallucinations thanks to the computer virus. Speaking of someone who is a Big Eater.
  Cyborg: You're the nasty egg people who stole all my WAFFLES!
• Never Got to Say Goodbye: With no idea what happened to Sarasim and her tribe after being brought back in the present timeline, all Cyborg managed to do was to say "I didn't even get to say goodbye."
• Nice Guy: While he can be sometimes impulsive, he is more a straight up nice guy than a Jerk with a Heart of Gold. He is friendly, caring, fun-loving and very heroic. He also acts like a big-brother figure for the rest of the titans, especially the girls.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Robin is initially worried about Cyborg's attitude towards Brother Blood since he of course had the same experience with obsession regarding Slade. By the end however, he allows Cyborg to take command since he knows Brother Blood better.
• Number Two: Though it's never officially stated, Cyborg is often considered the second in command of the team, and is always the first to take the lead when Robin is MIA or unable to take the lead.
• Oblivious to His Own Description: In Winner Take All, he calls Robin "crazy, paranoid, hyper-competitive, spiky-haired little...". Except for the spiky haired and little part, since Cyborg is bald and taller than Robin, he perfectly described himself too. He also can get overzealous while fighting crime, is extremely paranoid and angsty because of his identity issues and prone to take it on his friends, and is a bigger Competition Freak than Robin, to the point where he is willing to give up his humanity just to be on top.
• Odd Friendship: With Beastboy, a goofy shapeshifter, who is Cyborg's best friend.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: In the first episode, after having failing to stop Cinderblock and arguing with Robin, Cyborg leaves the team and hunts down Cinderblock offscreen on his own. It must have been one hell of a fight given that Cinderblock is a powerful Dumb Muscle. Cyborg reappears barely at the end of the episode with Cinderblock being chained and arrested.
• One-Man Army: Not as pronounced as Robin, but thanks to his Anatomy Arsenal he can dish take a lot of punishment, while dishing out a similar amount. In "The End - Part 1" he hooks himself to the tower generators and annihilates an entire army of fire demons.
• Only Sane Man: Whenever Robin becomes too obsessed with something, Cyborg usually calls him out on his irrational behavior, acting more mature and level headed.
• Oppose What You Suffered: Everytime there is a form of discrimination in the show, Cyborg is usually the first one to step up and react because he is himself a victim of Fantastic Racism. When Raven feels like she would be rejected by the others for being a freak, Cyborg encourages her by describing how everyone is a freak in some way because of their circumstances. He is also the first one to learn that Val-Yor is mistreating Starfire simply for being a Tamaranean, and takes actions for it by informing the rest of the team what kind of person Val-Yor truly is.
• Ordinary High-School Student: Victor was once a high school students with a shining future ahead as an athlete before his crippling accident. Now he's a cyborg in a team of superheroes with crazy adventures.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: No matter what Cyborg does, Starfire will always be stronger, lift more than him and do more damage than him. In "Overdrive", she was shown lifting with one arm at least triple of what Cyborg was lifting.
• Power High: When Cyborg installs the Maximum-7 processor chip into his systems, he goes "BOOYAH!" as he feels the increase in power.
• Promoted to Love Interest: Downplayed because it never goes anywhere, but Jinx develops a strong crush on him.
• Properly Paranoid: Purposely made sure his mechanical systems had glitches and failings, which came in handy when Brother Blood stole his blueprints.
• Real Name as an Alias: Cyborg infiltrates the HIVE by donning a hologram to make him look human until he "powers up" into a rocklike form. He calls himself "Stone." His real name is "Vic Stone".
• Robotic Reveal: Cyborg in the episode "Go!".
• Running Gag:
  • His T-car always getting destroyed.
  • Getting dismembered.
• Scary Black Man: He is the tallest of the Titans with a deadly weaponry at his disposal, and can look quite scary when he is serious, pulling even a Kubrick Stare sometimes. Otherwise, he is a cheerful and friendly guy most of time.
• Science Hero: He is more adept to inventing and engineering than his comic counterpart.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He leaves the team for a 10-Minute Retirement after a heated argument with Robin, from the first very episode. He returns anyway.
• Sense Loss Sadness: Comes up in "The Sum of His Parts", where he tells Fixit that he isn't keen with having his biological parts replaced with robotics because he doesn't want to go without experiencing fresh air and food.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Beast Boy is an insecure Badass Adorable, while Cyborg is a Hot-Blooded Hunk, ready to Booyah anything in his path.
• Schedule Fanatic: Talking about Robin being too strict sometimes, but Cyborg is not less disciplined than him. Cyborg is used to plan everything he does daily.
• Shipper on Deck: For Starfire and Robin despite all the teasing.
• Shoot Your Mate: When Brother Blood asks Cyborg to shot the Titans in order to prove his loyalty to the H.I.V.E., Cyborg turns around and shoots Brother Blood instead.
• Shouldn't We Be in School Right Now?: Cyborg mentions that he couldn't finish High School because of the accident that turned him into, well, Cyborg.
• The Smart Guy: He is the technical expert and inventor of the titans.
• Smart People Build Robots: Cyborg has an acumen for science, and he is seen several times building robots, and even duplicates of himself.
• Smart People Play Chess: Cyborg is one of the smartest Titans, and plays chess with Raven in one episode. He even puts "Chess with Raven" into his daily Schedule.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: With Sarasim, because they are part of different timelines.
• Strapped to an Operating Table: Fixit does to Cyborg in order to cure him of his "humanity".
• Strong as They Need to Be: Sometimes Cyborg is shown being on equal foot with Starfire's Super-Strength, and sometimes she overpowers him easily.
  • There is also his final battle with Brother Blood who dismembers Cyborg, only for Cyborg to reassemble himself. Cyborg even has to mention this was a one time thing.
• Sue Donym: When he took the identity of Stone to invade the HIVE, Victor Stone here used his civilian surname.
• Super Mode: His ability to merge with Titans Tower and draw on its massive power reserves serves as one of these. In this form he gains a massive Shoulder Cannon which is capable of obliterating an entire army.
• Super-Strength: His most basic power, best shown in "Deception" where he spends the entire episode undercover as Stone, and relies entirely on his strength and toughness, and Only Human, where he's the only one who stands a chance against the massively and incredibly strong Atlas.
• Superpower Lottery: Not as much as Raven, but after her, he has the widest set of super powers: Super-Strength and endurance, the Sonic Cannon, sonic blasters and missiles, detaching body parts and amazing hacking skills.
• Swiss-Army Appendage: His hands can be converted into a variety of tools and weapons. In "Stranded" his arms literally serve as swiss army knives, which he takes out to fix the space station.
• Swiss-Army Weapon: Cyborg's arm can cycle through sonic cannon, blowtorch, and pretty much an entire toolbox.
• Team Chef: While all the main characters are shown cooking something at some point, Cyborg is the one shown cooking for the team most often.
• Techno Babble: In "Stranded" where it annoys Beast Boy, who is unable to understand what he's saying. He resorts to "the red candy cane thingamabob!"
• Techno Wizard: Cyborg has hacking skills and can create different computer programs.
• Teen Genius: Cyborg while being prone to angst derived from his cybernetic limbs.
• Thememobile: Cyborg and the love of his life, the T-Car.
• Telescoping Robot: He has a wide array of gadgets and weapons housed within him, including his Swiss-Army Appendage.
• Thematic Rogues Gallery: Most of Cyborg's enemies represent different aspects of his struggle with his half-robot identity.
  • like Cyborg, Gizmo is The Smart Guy in his team and uses technology to fight his enemies.
  • Atlas is fully robotic and he represent Cyborg's zealous competitiveness and how often Cyborg thinks being human will just drag him down.
  • Brother Blood is Cyborg's biggest enemy, and tried everything from manipulating Cyborg's insecurities and get him on his side, to becoming himself Cyborg.
  • Fixit is what Cyborg would be if he gave up entirely his humanity.
• Toilet Humour: He makes several jokes about it, just like that one time when the Titans had a mission underwater and Beast Boy called himself the Titans' secret weapon. Cyborg answer to that? "Only time you qualify as a secret weapon is after eating a tofu bean burrito".
• Token Robot: The only member of the team who is a cyborg.
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness: When he first met the Titans, Cyborg was a Knight in Sour Armour dealing with his recent accident. After forming a team with the newly met strangers, he warms up to them and becomes happy-go-lucky.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Cyborg's diet seems to consist of two staples. 1: Meat, usually in contrast to Beast Boy's tofu, and 2: breakfast foods in general, waffles coming up most often.
• Tragic Robot: Cyborg used to be a happy kid who loved races and almost died in a car accident. His father saved him by turning him into a cyborg, but also left Victor with deep anger and identity issues. Even in present, there are times when he gets depressed.
• Twofer Token Minority: Sure, everyone in the team is of different ethnicity and skin color, but he is the only multiple amputee.
• Unwilling Roboticisation: He surely didn't ask to be turned into a cyborg the first time, and it almost happens a second time with Fixit, who tried to turn Cyborg into a robot.
• Vanity License Plate: Cyborg once had a red car with CBG — 010 as a license plate.
• [Verb] This!: Booyah this!
• Vitriolic Best Buds: There are times when he gets in serious conflicts with Robin since they both are quite hot-blooded and stubborn.
• Watch the Paint Job: He does not like people messing with the T-Car.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Robin calls out Cyborg for leaving the team suddenly just because he needs "to be a man".
• "What Do They Fear?" Episode: His greatest fear is losing the remainder of his humanity. This is shown in one of the comics and the first season episode "The Sum of His Parts", where a fully robotized human tried to do the same to him.
• The Worf Barrage: He hooks himself up to Titans Tower in "The End Pt 1" and hits Slade and his invading demon army with his most powerful blast yet. All it does is twist Slade's neck, which he quickly snaps back into place.
• The Worf Effect: Cyborg is supposed to be the tank of the team yet seems to always get knocked around on the show, and sometimes by characters that Robin, a Badass Normal, is capable to defeat.
• Worf Had the Flu: His worfing is justified in "Cyborg the Barbarian", where Cyborg is unable to use a great deal of his powers due to being in battery saver mode. After all, there's no way to charge him up 5000 years in the past and he'll die without power.
• Your Days Are Numbered: In "Cyborg the Barbarian", where he has limited battery and no way to charge it and thus limited time left alive to find a portal back home before he dies.