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    Slade 

Slade

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    Terra 

Terra

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    Trigon the Terrible 

Trigon the Terrible

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Voiced by: Keith Szarabajka ("Nevermore"), Kevin Michael Richardson (all other appearances) Other voice actors

Powers/Abilities: Physical God - a list of powers he doesn't have would be shorter

He's the incarnation of evil - the source of all darkness...

An extremely powerful demon lord, and Raven's father, who intends to use her as the key to a portal that will allow him to enter and devastate Earth. Unlike the majority of the characters from the comics that were featured in the series, he's more or less the same as his comic counterpart.


  • Abusive Parents: Season 4 was one long nightmare for Raven because her father tormented her mentally and then turned her into a portal.
  • Adaptational Jerkass: While all versions of Trigon treat Raven horribly, most versions do at least care for her on some level (even if it is extremely unhealthy) and genuinely want to be with her. The animated version, however, cares nothing for her and even casually tries to kill her once he has no use for her.
  • Adaptational Late Appearance: In the comics, he appeared early on during Marv Wolfman and George Perez' New Teen Titans and it was established that Raven brought this iteration of the Titans together to fight her father. In this continuity, Beast Boy and Cyborg first see him as a manifestation in Raven's mind in "Nevermore" and he isn't confronted by the Titans directly until Season 4, with the Season 5 Origins Episode "Go" showing that the Titans' founding in this continuity had nothing to do with Trigon.
  • Aim for the Horn: In his final battle, he's dishing a Curb-Stomp Battle on the Titans until Slade, post-betrayal, pulls an Enemy Mine and severs one of Trigon's horns, allowing the Titans to turn the fight around.
  • Archnemesis Dad: To Raven. Ever since she was a kid, he's been causing trouble for her.
  • Arc Villain: For Season 4. His Evil Plan is to use Raven to bring about The End of the World as We Know It, and even brings back Slade as The Dragon to accomplish this.
  • Ascended Extra: Went from being the Villain of the Week very early on in the series to being the Arc Villain of the fourth season.
  • Bad Boss: Betrays Slade after he delivers Raven. Slade is smart enough to anticipate this possibility, and made his own preparations. He's also this to his 2013 counterpart and has equally disastrous results.
  • Because Destiny Says So: He believes that he's destined to conquer "the world of mortals" and that nothing can stop him. But he is defeated by Raven two episodes after his debut.
  • Big Bad Duumvirate: He and his Teen Titans Go! counterpart are the main villains of the crossover movie Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans.
  • Big Red Devil: The form he assumes upon entering the mortal world. Emphasis on the big.
  • Breath Weapon: Being a demon, it is fire, of course.
  • Card-Carrying Villain: It's understandable, given that he's an eight-story-tall red demon.
  • Cannibalism Superpower: On the receiving end of this from 2013 Trigon due to pushing him too much.
  • Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Slade and Brother Blood were both human, with the former's goal involving finding an apprentice, and the latter generally sought after power. Trigon is a literal demon, being far outside the power scale of almost every other character in the series, and unlike Slade and Brother Blood, lacks any sort of sense of humor.
  • Curb Stomp Cushion: Surprisingly, the other Titans (sans Raven) and Slade are able to land several hits against him that actually cause him pain, Slade even manages to slice off both of his antlers. He quickly overpowers all of them once he gets ticked off enough. This demonstrates to Raven that her father isn't quite as undefeatable as she thought.
  • Deal with the Devil: As the Devil to Slade's Faust, he offered to give Slade his body back in return for him delivering Raven. Naturally, he screwed Slade over afterward.
  • Dimension Lord: Of Fire and Brimstone Hell, but the word "Hell" is never used.
  • The Dreaded: Even the citizens of Tamaran have heard of and fear him.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: He appeared (unnamed) in the first season episode "Nevermore".
  • Enemy Without: He creates these for the Titans when they try to distract him.
  • Eviler than Thou: Pulls this on Slade. Slade, however, had contingencies.
  • Evil Is Burning Hot: He comes from a fiery plane, and many of his attacks involve fire.
  • Evil Is Hammy: "Subtle and restrained" doesn't really work when you're a skyscraper-sized demon lord, and so it's small wonder Trigon doesn't bother.
  • Evil Overlord: Again, he's already the ruler of Hell and has designs on Earth.
  • Evil Plan: Use his daughter to enter "the world of mortals" and lay waste to it.
  • Evil Sounds Deep: His voice is vast, deep, and guttural- Slade's sounds downright pleasant next to it.
  • Eye Beams: One of the most common ways he manifests his magic is with zig-zagging red bolts out of all four eyes.
  • God of Evil: Consistently billed as the ultimate incarnation of all evil; his power level backs up the claim.
  • Incoming Ham: After spending his first few appearances as either a manifestation of Raven's psyche ("Nevermore") or a spooky disembodied voice (the first few episodes of the Season Four arc) he marks his first physical appearances in "The End, Part I" with a thunderous shout of "the Earth is mine!" and never lets the ham up from there.
  • Jerkass: He betrayed his own daughter, and everyone he's ever worked with, including his 2013 self. Then again, he's called "The Terrible" for obvious reasons.
  • Killed Off for Real: Either that or he was banished; regardless, he never came back given the show never properly concluded. If truly dead, he holds the distinction of being the only character killed off during the series that stays dead, with his depictions in the Titans Go! comic and cartoon being non-canon. It sticks for real at the end of Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans due to losing his daughter's 2013 counterpart's powers.
  • Knight of Cerebus: Even more than Slade. If Trigon's involved, bad, bad things are in store. To put things in perspective, he only appeared in five episodes (six, if you count "Nevermore" where it's debatable if the manifestation of him that appears in Raven's mind is the real deal or not) and all of them were among the show's darkest, creepiest, and most intense.
  • Made of Evil: His comic origins stated that he came into being when the inhabitants of Azarath expelled the evil within them, and that coalesced into a being that came to be Trigon.
  • The Magnificent: Trigon "the Terrible".
  • Manipulative Bastard: So good that he was able to dupe Slade into thinking that he was being sincere. However, as it turned out, Slade had second guesses.
  • Names to Run Away from Really Fast: He's called "The Terrible" for a very good reason.
  • Never My Fault: Gets tricked by both Ravens into getting a drink and allowing them to escape and blames his 2013 version for his own idiocy.
  • Not So Invincible After All: Nothing the Titans do does more than hurt his pride. It takes Raven's return in "white mood" with a "No More Holding Back" Speech to stop him.
  • Obviously Evil: He's a horned, glowing-eyed red demon the size of a skyscraper. When you're the embodiment of cosmic evil, why shouldn't you show off what you are?
  • Omnicidal Maniac: "He comes to claim, he comes to sire; the end of all things mortal."
  • Orcus on His Throne: Once he arrives, he does little besides sit on his throne (A defaced Titans Tower) and act smug.
  • Physical God: Barring Raven's White form and possibly Larry, he's far and away the most powerful thing in the show, and not at all shy about letting you know it. He devastated the world and petrified its entire population with a gesture.
  • Playing with Fire: He breathes fire.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: All four of his eyes glow red; before he manages to enter the mortal world, those eyes are all that's visible of him when he talks to Slade or Raven.
  • Satanic Archetype: A big red devil from a world of fire and brimstone that dupes mortals into working for him.
  • Sealed Evil in a Can: In season four, where his daughter Raven becomes his portal into the world, allowing him to turn every creature in the biosphere into stone and cover the planet in lava.
  • Smug Super: His power is matched only by the sheer force of his ego.
  • Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Given that he's a monstrous-looking demon, this is the most likely result with any human woman, but Arella is quite a beauty.
  • Uncertain Doom: Whether Raven vaporized him or just banished him with her magic is unclear, but either way, he never appears again after Season 4.
  • White Hair, Black Heart: His hair is white and is the supreme embodiment of evil.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: To Slade. This doesn't go so well for him, as Slade is prepared for a betrayal, and gives the Titans the information they need to recover Raven, leading to Trigon's defeat. He also cuts off both of Trigon's horns. He's on the receiving end of this after pushing his 2013 self to his limit he gets devoured for it.

HIVE Academy

Leadership

    H.I.V.E. Headmistress 

H.I.V.E. Headmistress

Voiced by: Andrea Romano Other voice actors

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The former principal and coordinator of H.I.V.E. Academy


  • Bad Boss: Judging by her reaction to Gizmo, Jinx, and Mammoth's failure, she's likely no better than Brother Blood in this regard.
  • Canon Foreigner: Was created for the show.
  • Descended Creator: Her voice actress did the series' voice directing

  • Face on a Milk Carton: With Brother Blood replacing her, her only appearance during the episode "Deception" is when her face appears in a missing photo on a milk carton.
  • No Name Given: She's only known as "H.I.V.E. Headmistress".
  • Prim and Proper Bun: She's a serious principal who wears a high bun.
  • Sadist Teacher: Doesn't tolerate failure from her students, and punishes them severely for doing so.
  • The Unfought: Despite being one of the highest-ranking members of the HIVE Academy, she never directly confronts the Titans herself. The closest we see is her running into battle into the Brotherhood of Evil's base, but she's never actually seen fighting anyone.
  • You Have Failed Me: After her students get defeated by the Titans, she promises Slade that she will "strictly discipline" them for their failure.

    Brother Blood 

Brother Blood

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Voiced by: John DiMaggio Other voice actors

Powers/Abilities: Mind Control, telekinesis, teleportation, superstrength, photographic memory, energy blasts. As a cyborg, gains all of Cyborg's powers as well.

Head of the HIVE in season three, and Cyborg's Arch-Enemy. A powerful psychic with a flair for Mind Control.


  • Adaptational Superpower Change: Brother Blood's powers are fairly different to what they were in the comics, who possessed invulnerability and super strength due to his mystical shawl, while here he is a powerful psychic who mind controls his students to keep them under his thrall.
  • Adaptational Wimp: Downplayed. Blood here is by all means a serious threat, but his comics counterpart was probably the Titans' second most dangerous recurring villain after Trigon, was the main antagonist of multiple storylines, and once came within a hairsbreadth of becoming God-Emperor of the world. The Brother Blood of this continuity, by contrast, is probably the least consequential of the show's antagonists, since he's never heard from again following his defeat at the end of season three.
  • Arc Villain: For Season 3. He's the leader of the H.I.V.E. Academy, and becomes Cyborg's Arch-Enemy, with the enmity between them growing more personal as the season progresses.
  • Arch-Enemy: His relationship with Cyborg is comparable to Robin/Slade; deeply personal and involves one becoming like the other.
  • Bad Boss: Yells at Jinx, Gizmo, and Mammoth for failing him and threatens to send them to their doom if they fail him again.
  • Card-Carrying Villain: He teaches a supervillain school that includes courses on doomsday threats and "Theory of Mayhem".
  • Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He's last reported to be in jail and isn't even mentioned after the third season. He doesn't even get to join the Brotherhood of Evil.
  • Composite Character:
    • With his Psychic Powers, role as the superior of the show's equivalent of the Fearsome Five, and the straightforward supervillainy of most of his plans, he resembles the comics' Psimon at least as much as he does the comics' Brother Blood.
    • As this Brother Blood is the leader of the HIVE, the show's version of the HIVE is also composited with the Church of Blood from the comics (where they were entirely separate villainous organizations).
  • Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Explicitly written as one to Slade. In appearance, Slade cloaked himself in black whereas Blood first appears draped in white. In behavior Slade is stoic and secretive where Blood is demonstrative and a Large Ham. Slade turns people to his side through force and blackmail, whereas Blood uses suggestive mind control. Even their tactics are complete opposites: Slade's goal is to transform Robin into a smaller version of Slade, whereas Blood's goal is to turn himself into Cyborg. The writers have said that writing Blood was a challenge because they wanted him to be so thoroughly different from their previous Big Bad but still be a menacing threat.
  • Cool Old Guy: Blood's age is never explicitly stated, but if his physical appearance is anything to go by, he's at least in late middle-age. He's also one of the deadliest hand-to-hand combatants on the show.
  • Cyborg: He becomes partly mechanical in his quest to become more like Cyborg and better control others.
  • Diabolical Mastermind: In his second appearance, where he goes to great expense to build and use a doomsday device.
  • Doppelgänger: He becomes obsessed with Cyborg to the point of wanting to be him. At first he just wants to dissect Cyborg to figure out why he can resist mind control, then he wants to steal Cyborg's technology to use it as a weapon, duplicates Cyborg's tech to create an army of robots, and finally he undergoes automation so that he can literally become Cyborg himself. It's very unsettling, to say the least.
  • Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: When losing to Cyborg, he furiously asks what it is that enables Cyborg to resist him.
  • Evil Counterpart: Actively seems to become one for Cyborg including making himself into a cyborg.
  • Evil Mentor: Professionally, too; he runs HIVE Academy and therefore serves as mentor for a whole rising generation of supervillains.
  • Evil Old Folks: Though exactly how old isn't specified; his face isn't lined, but his grey hair and general demeanor point towards an older man.
  • Faux Affably Evil: He presents himself as polite and charismatic. But he's a ruthless and sadistic supervillain who has no problem with trying to flood a city or threaten his students' lives if they displease him.
  • Final Boss: He serves as the last boss in the first Game Boy Advance game.
  • Flanderization: He was in his first appearance a cool-headed, charismatic leader who only overacted when playing to an audience; later appearances made him a straight Large Ham.
  • Flock of Wolves: He gets frustrated with how many times one of his students turn out to be The Mole.
    "Was anyone at my school actually there to LEARN?"
  • Glowing Eyes of Doom: They kick in whenever he's actively using his powers.
  • Greater-Scope Villain: At some point, he usurped the H.I.V.E. Headmistress and was the unseen leader of the H.I.VE. Academy, specifically the initial Trio, until he became the Big Bad of Season 3.
  • I Just Want to Be You: Brother Blood becomes so obsessed with Cyborg during the events of Season 3 that he goes from trying to recruit Cyborg to his cause, to literally becoming a Cyborg himself.
  • Interim Villain: After Slade's death at the end of Season 2, Brother Blood picks up the reins as main villain for Season 3's Story Arc. After Blood's final defeat, Slade returns in the following season.
  • In Name Only: To put it bluntly, this Brother Blood is borderline unrecognizable from the comics version. This is likely due to the fact that the one from the comics is far from being appropriate for children, what with being an immortal cult leader who habitually murders followers showing the slightest sign of dissenting with him and is periodically killed and usurped by his son to become the new Brother Blood (one incarnation of him even feeding on blood to gain strength).
  • Klingon Promotion: It's implied he may have killed the previous headmistress of H.I.V.E. to take her place in running the academy; look closely in "Deception" and you'll see her missing portrait photo on the side of a milk carton. Subverted later when the old headmistress is among the villains gathered by the Brotherhood of Evil.
  • Large Ham: He was deliberately written as an expressive and high energy villain to contrast with Slade.
  • Lean and Mean: Another contrast to Cyborg, Blood has a narrow build.
  • Light Is Not Good: Mostly wears white and gold robes and manifests most of his Psychic Powers with light of some form, but is the third season's Arc Villain.
  • Manipulative Bastard: Especially in his first appearance, when he uses a combination of his mind control and manipulation to control his students, and even Cyborg - or rather, it would have worked if Cyborg's cybernetics didn't reject Blood's psychic influence.
  • Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: In the comics, Blood was a cult-leading Evil Sorcerer; here, the source of his abilities is more vague, but since he's never shown using any of the same trappings as the explicitly magical characters, it seems at least as likely that he's just a natural-born telepath.
  • New Powers as the Plot Demands: Blood has a wide range of psychic powers and seems to be able to do whatever the current plot calls for. It's not just "mind control".
  • Pick on Someone Your Own Size: Like Slade, his chief enmity is with a teenager - Cyborg, in Blood's case. Interestingly, Cyborg is bigger than Blood.
  • Psychic Powers: Including mind control, energy manipulation, telekinesis, and teleportation.
  • Red and Black and Evil All Over: Under his white gown, Brother Blood wears red and black clothing. He also has red and black cybernetics when he makes himself a cyborg like Cyborg.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: His eyes glow bright red when using his powers; people under his control also sometimes demonstrate glowing red eyes.
  • Sadist Teacher: It's obvious that his students are terrified of him and do anything they can to avoid getting on his bad side.
  • Smug Snake: Blood's good at what he does, but his ego far outstrips his capacities.
  • Strong and Skilled: Stronger than Cyborg and trained in martial arts (the fights are never in Cyborg's favor).
  • Villainous Breakdown: It can be argued that his entire arc after the first episode is one drawn-out breakdown. As Blood himself notes, Cyborg is the only person to completely No-Sell his mind control, and it really irks him; enough that he enhances himself with cybernetics to become just like Cyborg. He also doesn't take it very well when Bumblebee reveals herself to be yet another mole in his academy.
  • You Are What You Hate: He becomes so obsessed with Cyborg that he gives himself cybernetic upgrades in order to compete with him and figure out what it is in Cyborg's cybernetics that allows him to resist his mind control.

The HIVE Five

    In general 
  • Academy of Evil: The academy is about teaching teenagers to become mercenaries and Card Carrying Villains (with subjects like "Theory of Mayhem").
  • Composite Character: The H.I.V.E Five are an amalgamation of the H.I.V.E. and the Fearsome Five.
  • Evil Counterpart: To the Teen Titans, being a team of teenage villains rather than heroes.
  • Numerical Theme Naming: The HIVE Five.
  • One Extra Member: The HIVE Five started with five members in "Mother Mae-Eye". By "Lightspeed", one had left (Private HIVE) and two more joined (Billy Numerous and Kyd Wykkyd), causing Kid Flash to ask why they still call themselves the HIVE Five when they have six members.
  • Physical, Mystical, Technological: For the HIVE trio Mammoth is Physical, Jinx is Mystical, and Gizmo is Technological.
  • The Remnant: The actual HIVE Academy was destroyed in the third season premier, and Brother Blood was prevented from recreating it. Its members continued being supervillains, both as individuals and as part of the HIVE Five.
  • The Rival: Have this sort of relationship with the Titans rather than being their outright Arch-Enemy.
  • Sixth Ranger: Billy Numerous, See-More, Private Hive, and Kyd Wykkyd all join the team later on.
  • The Smurfette Principle: Jinx has been the sole female member of the team throughout the whole series.
  • Villainous Friendship: They don’t just work together, they also enjoy hanging out with each other. In "Lightspeed", the boys play video games together, watch TV together, and build a fort out of sofa cushions together.

    Jinx 

Jinx

Voiced by: Lauren Tom (most appearances), Tara Strong ("Titans Together") Other voice actors

Powers/Abilities: Hex blasts which can cause bad luck or general destruction, acrobatic and martial-arts skills

"I'm bad luck. Good was never an option for me."
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Field leader of the HIVE. A minor Reality Warper who only creates bad luck.


  • Adaptational Attractiveness: She’s not bald like her comic book counterpart.
  • Adaptational Hairstyle Change: In the comics, Jinx is completely bald. Here, she sports a full head of pink hair.
  • Adaptational Superpower Change: Jinx has the ability of manipulating probability instead of magically commanding various natural elements and magical/mystical energy just like her comic book counterpart.
  • Affably Evil: Yes, she's a professional villainess but she can also be so friendly that she eventually does a Heel–Face Turn.
  • Airplane Arms: Her preferred way of running, when she's not cartwheeling everywhere is to spread her arms wide.
  • Amazing Technicolor Population: She has grey skin.
  • Ambition Is Evil: Subverted. The only member of the HIVE Five who has any ambition, and it's part of what triggers her Heel–Face Turn. She wanted to eventually be on Madame Rouge's level and couldn't stand working with lazy villains.
  • Animal Eyes: She has cat-like eyes.
  • Anime Hair: She has big, pink hair that’s shaped like a pair of horns.
  • Bad Powers, Bad People: Debated and deconstructed when she met Kid Flash. When you are walking bad luck, it's a lot easier to be a villain than a hero because others will think you're a villain, anyway.
  • Bad Powers, Good People: Post Heel–Face Turn it turns out that "good luck" is an option after all.
  • Battle Couple: With Kid Flash, her boyfriend and fellow superhero.
  • Blush Sticker: She has pink spots on her cheeks.
  • Broken Pedestal: Madame Rouge becomes one to Jinx; after meeting her in person during "Lightspeed", she decides she's not worth idolizing. That plus Kid Flash's overtures equals Heel–Face Turn.
  • Characterization Marches On: In the beginning, she wasn't shown to be that different from Gizmo and Mammoth. "Lightspeed" is when she really shows her distinction as being more passionate and ambitious.
  • Composite Character: A very unusual case.
    • The basis of her powers comes from an obscure Dial H for Hero villain named Jinx (who is male)
    • Her gender and role in opposing the Titans come from the more well-known villain sorceress named Jinx.
    • She also shares the general themes and character arc of the Titans ally/Flash rogue Magenta (Frances Kane), in that she has unusual hair, pink aura, and is considered cursed, but is helped by Kid Flash.
    • Finally, she takes Raven's role as Kid Flash's love interest.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: Thanks to her Redemption Promotion, delivers one to both her old team and Madame Rouge in the finale.
  • Curtains Match the Window: Her hair and her eyes are both pink.
  • Cute Bruiser: Slender, pretty, and acrobatic, but she still hits pretty hard.
  • Cute Witch: She's a pretty, young girl with magic powers.
  • Dark Action Girl: On the H.I.V.E., she is the only female member and embodies the girly qualities such as compassion the most.
  • Dating Catwoman: She's had relationships with heroes such as Kid Flash, who becomes her boyfriend, and Cyborg when he was a H.I.V.E. Academy student.
  • Defecting for Love: Becomes a heroine because of Kid Flash.
  • Devilish Hair Horns: Jinx styles her whole mass of hair like a giant pair of horns.
  • Dude Magnet: Three guys have been attracted to her over the course of the show (Cyborg, See-More and Kid Flash). The tie-in comics reveal she also has an ex-boyfriend, Kid Kold, who still has the hots for her.
  • Everyone Calls Her "Barkeep": She can cause bad luck, she's called Jinx, and her real name is never revealed.
  • Evil Counterpart: To Raven; both use dark magic, both have issues with their abilities, but where Raven (mostly) keeps them under control, Jinx seems to think that she's supposed to be as 'bad' as her powers are.
  • Expy: Of Scarlet Witch, whose powers hers are nearly identical to.
  • Fangirl: In "Lightspeed", she’s revealed to be a big fan of Madame Rouge. Though she stops being her fan after Rouge treats her like dirt.
  • Goth: She has the fashion style and depressive outlook down.
  • Goth Girls Know Magic: Jinx has the general style of goth (dresses in black and purples, very pale, etc.) and a gloomy outlook on life, and can use magical hexes that cause bad luck.
  • Heel–Face Turn: Lampshaded when she mockingly asks Kid Flash if he is trying to convert her and make her see the error of her ways. That's exactly what happens.
  • Hidden Depths: She’s only a typical supervillain until "Lightspeed", where it’s revealed she only became a villain because she thought that was the only thing she could be with her bad luck powers. On a lesser note, it’s also revealed she likes to draw unicorns.
  • High-Heel–Face Turn: The sole female of the HIVE Five group ends up joining the Titans in the end.
  • In Name Only: The Villainous Harlequin of the cartoon has only a vague and superficial resemblance to the Vain Sorceress of the comics—they share a name, they're on roughly the same team (the Fearsome Five in the comics, the HIVE Five in the cartoon), and the cartoon version's Devilish Hair Horns vaguely recall the ram's horns on the comic original's hood in the latter's earliest appearance.
  • The Jinx: Has the superpower of making things go wrong; in other words she has weaponized this trope.
  • Kung-Fu Wizard: While she mainly makes use of her powerful hex blasts and bad-luck magic, she is an excellent acrobat and hand-to-hand combatant too.
  • Love Redeems: Hooking up with Kid Flash turned her into a superheroine.
  • Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: From being the only one in her Hive Five team who puts actual effort into getting accepted into the Brotherhood of Evil while the rest slack off and/or mock her, and Madame Rouge never being satisfied of anything she does to earn her favor and even hitting her, she finally quits villainy and joins the heroes.
  • Mysterious Past: As with majority of the characters in this series, nothing is revealed about her background and the origin of her powers (along with how she received them in the first place).
  • Nerd Nanny: She has to put up with the bratty Gizmo, and the muscle-brained, snack-happy Mammoth. Later, she also has to put up with the dimwitted and immature Billy Numerous, See-More, and Kyd Wykkyd.
  • Nice Girl: Post High-Heel–Face Turn in the Titans Go! comics.
  • Official Couple: Eventually becomes Kid Flash's girlfriend.
  • Only Sane Woman: In the Hive Five. It's part of what drives her to perform a Heel–Face Turn because she can't stand them anymore.
  • Perky Goth: She has a goth-like appearance, but has a rather cheerful personality.
  • Race Lift: She was Indian in the original comics although it's impossible to tell what her race is here since it's never revealed if her chalk white face, shoulders, and hands is due to heavy makeup, is some side effect of her powers, or if that's just her natural skin color.
  • Recurring Boss: She is fought as a boss twice in the first Game Boy Advance game.
  • Redemption Promotion: Goes from being a standard recurring villain to effortlessly beating her old team, and repeatedly being the only one to seriously damage Madame Rouge.
  • She-Fu: She often does backflips when she fights.
  • Slasher Smile: In her early appearances when she was in full "evil bad luck witch!" mode.
  • Swiss-Army Superpower: Her "luck-based powers" seem to be able to allow her to do anything she wants.
  • Token Wizard: Jinx is often referred to as a "sorceress", implying that her powers of probability are magical in origin. This makes her the only member of the Hive with explicitly magical abilities.
  • Tomboy with a Girly Streak: She’s tough and doesn’t seem very feminine, but she loves clothes and it’s revealed in "Lightspeed" that she draws unicorns.
  • Villainous Harlequin: Jinx dresses in motley and in earlier fights was prone to cartwheeling around the battlefield.
  • Winds of Destiny, Change!: Jinx's powers allow her to manipulate luck.
  • Woman Scorned: In the tie-in comic, she's not happy to see her boyfriend Kid Flash flirt with other girls and she makes sure he knows it.

    Gizmo 

Gizmo

Voiced by: Lauren Tom (most appearances), Tara Strong ("Revved Up" and "Titans Together") Other voice actors

Powers/Abilities: Gadgeteer Genius, plus a suit that contains his latest weapons and gadgets.

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The HIVE's resident genius, at least as smart as Cyborg but with a thoroughly unlikable personality.


  • Adaptational Attractiveness: Considering he went from a bald adult dwarf to a short boy.
  • Age Lift: Gizmo was originally a diminutive adult rather than a young boy. Though a Ret-Canon later established this Gizmo was the son of the original Gizmo.
  • Bald of Evil: He doesn't have any hair on his head and he’s a supervillain.
  • Bratty Half-Pint: He's a tiny kid who's also rather ill-behaved.
  • Canon Immigrant: This incarnation of Gizmo was later imported to the comics as the son of the original Gizmo. This makes him Gizmo II.
  • Child Prodigy: In spite of his age, he's able to invent all sorts of devices.
  • Enfant Terrible: He's a child and acts like it, but he’s also a villain through and through.
  • Evil Counterpart: To Cyborg in practice and Beast Boy in personality. Like Cyborg, he uses technology to fight his enemies, while he's an immature jokester like Beast Boy. Unlike either of them, he's an unrepentant, self-serving criminal.
  • Evil Genius: The smartest member of the H.I.V.E. Five.
  • For Science!: He'll stop at nothing to see what fiendish things he can do with the technology he steals from Cyborg.
  • Gadgeteer Genius: His most common inventions include a set of spider-like legs and a game controller he uses to take control of machines.
  • Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Gizmo's a master at this. He swears a mile a minute, but it's all childish swears. For example, he loves calling his opponents "barf brain" or "crud-muncher", accuses things he doesn't like of being "snot", and at one point he even swears, "What the hairball?!" He uses this pseudo-swearing so often in his lines that he successfully gives off the same foul-mouthed impression that he'd give off if he were swearing for real.
  • Heel–Face Door-Slam: When he was given a communicator by Robin after the defeat of the Master of Games along with the other contestants, he seemed to be genuinely enthusiastic and excited about becoming an honorary Titan, but much to his dismay gets his communicator and title immediately taken from him by Cyborg, shattering any possibility of Gizmo turning a new leaf and becoming an ally of Teen Titans.
  • Insufferable Genius: Gizmo is very smart and won't hesitate to insult those who fail to understand the things he does.
  • Jerkass: Aside from being a supervillain, he’s also a loudmouthed, disrespectful Troll.
  • Monochromatic Eyes: His eyes are completely white with no pupils.
  • Mysterious Past: As with the other members of the H.I.V.E. Five and the other villains of the series, we never learn anything about his early life.
  • Not Me This Time: Raven and Starfire once come across him coming out of a convenience store, and he panics when he sees them, shouting that he had done anything wrong... today.
  • Recurring Boss: He gets two boss fights in the first Game Boy Advance game.
  • Sir Swears-a-Lot: Of the Unusual Euphemism variety. There's a ton of them.
  • Spider Limbs: He has mechanical spider-like limbs that can emerge from his backpack.
  • Token Evil Teammate: In a fairly loose sense of "teammate"; he was the only villain invited to participate in the Tournament of Heroes and was offered honorary membership in the Teen Titans, but Cyborg declared him ineligible on the grounds that he wasn't actually a good guy.
  • Troll: He takes smug pleasure in mocking people, especially Cyborg.
  • Unusual Euphemism: Technically Gizmo swears quite a great deal for his age; it's just that his swearing tends to be words like "snot" or "crud".
  • Younger and Hipper: This Gizmo is a Child Prodigy as opposed to an adult dwarf like in the comics. He would end up in the comics as the son of the latter, the original Gizmo.

    Mammoth 

Mammoth

Voiced by: Kevin Michael Richardson Other voice actors

Powers/Abilities: Super strength

"Mammoth's gonna make you extinct!"
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The HIVE's muscle.


  • Adaptational Intelligence: Not by much, but he actually was even stupider in the comic, while this incarnation, despite still being dumb, at least is smart enough to speak like a normal person.
  • Adaptational Nationality: Judging by his accent, he's most likely not Australian like his comics counterpart.
  • Baritone of Strength: Has a deep, powerful voice, courtesy of Kevin Michael Richardson.
  • Beard of Evil: He has a small beard that makes him look a little like his villain code name.
  • Big Eater: In the first episode featuring him, he cleans out the Titans' entire fridge! Even the blue, furry stuff.
  • The Brute: He serves as the H.I.V.E. trio's muscle.
  • Dumb Muscle: He's incredibly strong, but also stupid.
  • Evil Counterpart: To Cyborg (Big guy who's a Big Eater) and Beast Boy (The team's muscle).
  • Extreme Omnivore: He has demonstrated a willingness to eat anything, even the Titans' "blue, furry food".
  • Monochromatic Eyes: Like Gizmo, he also has blank, white, pupil-less eyes.
  • Mysterious Past: His origin and early life are unknown.
  • Recurring Boss: He is fought as a boss twice in the first Game Boy Advance game.
  • Strong as They Need to Be: Whether or not his Super-Strength is superior to Cyborg’s or Starfire's varies from episode to episode.
  • Super-Strength: He is strong enough to overpower Cyborg and Depending on the Writer, even Starfire.
  • Villainous Glutton: He’s a supervillain and he’s constantly eating.
  • Villain Has a Point: Like any other villain, Mammoth trash-talks heroes, but, just one of those times, he's actually right in one of his critiques. When Kid Flash was messing with the Hive FIVE in "Lightspeed", one of Kid Flash's tricks was to take a candy bar from Mammoth as he passed him... but Mammoth shouts that he actually paid for the candy bar!

    Billy Numerous 

Billy Numerous

Voiced by: Jason Marsden Other voice actors

Powers/Abilities: creates copies of himself, including whatever he's holding.

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A metahuman criminal who can create copies of himself. Joins the HIVE Five in their second appearance.
  • Affably Evil: He's more of a thrill-seeking thief than an all-out villain. Also, he's not above complimenting the Titans when they create duplicates of themselves.
  • Canon Immigrant: Created for the cartoon, he made his comics debut fighting Catwoman in 2008.
  • Conservation of Ninjutsu: Double Subversion; normally, all his duplicates are each as strong as the original (which admittedly seems to be average), and work together for tremendous effect. However, if he makes too many, they do start to get weaker, and if he makes even more than that he'll eventually suffer Power Incontinence that makes all his duplicates disappear.
  • Doppelgänger Attack: His modus operandi, considering his duplication powers.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: Like the other HIVE Five members below, he appears in the crowd shots of “Deception” before becoming a minor villain.
  • Expy: Of Multiple Man from Marvel Comics X-Men.
  • Genius Ditz: Is a very redneck villain, but is capable of fighting well.
  • Me's a Crowd: He can create a ridiculous number of duplicates at once (at least several hundred), which can work together to do things like stealing an entire bridge.
  • Mysterious Past: Nothing is known about Billy Numerous' origin or early life. However, his accent suggests he was born or raised somewhere in the Southern United States.
  • Self-Duplication: His entire gimmick, and in his hands it's a surprisingly dangerous one (he even manages to give Kid Flash a tough fight with it).
  • Talking to Themself: His duplicates converse with each other constantly, even getting into fights with himself a few times. He'll even make duplicates simply to repeat what he's saying.
  • Villain Decay: Hardly as threatening when he makes a comeback in season 5, compared to his debut.
  • Zerg Rush: By virtue of his many clones, he can dogpile someone to defeat them.

    See-More 

See-More

Voiced by: Kevin Michael Richardson Other voice actors

Powers/Abilities: Helmet includes various powers and weapons, all with an eye theme.

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A HIVE member who wears a helmet that provides him with a variety of vision-based powers.


    Kyd Wykkyd 

Kyd Wykkyd

Powers/Abilities: Teleportation, passing through walls, speculated to be psychic.

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A mysterious HIVE member.


    Private HIVE 

Private HIVE

Voiced by: Greg Cipes Other voice actors

Powers/Abilities: Badass Normal

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A militaristic HIVE member with no superhuman powers, yet is a formidable hand-to-hand combatant and is armed with a shield he uses with dangerous skill.


  • Affably Evil: Although he’s a supervillain, he acts polite to other villains, always addressing other male villains as “sir”.
  • Ascended Extra: Though a minor character in the series itself, he got his own character arc in the comic series that was based off the cartoon.
  • Badass Biker: In his first appearance, he rides a motorcycle.
  • Badass Normal: He has no natural superpowers or any equipment that would give him powers, not even an outlandish weapon with strange abilities, but he's dangerous anyways due to his great physical fitness and hand-to-hand combat skills, plus a shield that he turns into a deadly weapon.
  • Canon Foreigner: Another villain created exclusively for the show.
  • Corrupted Character Copy: If it wasn't already obvious with him being being a shield-wielding Badass Normal with an apparent military background, he's basically what Captain America would be if his devotion was for an Academy of Evil instead of his country, right down to his codename partially being a military rank. He also bears some resemblance to an obscure DC Comics hero called the Guardian because of using a shield as his weapon and wearing a costume accented with yellow.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: He makes a background appearance in "Deception" before he is properly introduced as one of the H.I.V.E. Five.
  • Expy: He is essentially an evil teenage Captain America.
  • Mysterious Past: Nothing is revealed about his origins and background.
  • Shield Bash: He uses his shield as a weapon.
  • Southern-Fried Private: He speaks in a Southern accent.
  • Spanner in the Works: In "Titans Together", Beast Boy's original plan was for Jericho to possess Cinderblock and then have Cinderblock escort the Titans as "prisoners". The possession part worked, which is how they found out the Brotherhood of Evil's base was in Paris... but Private HIVE messes up the "escort inside the base" part when he praises Cinderblock for making a nice catch, causing Jericho-as-Cinderblock to say "Thanks" and thus cause Private HIVE to realize something is wrong since normally, Cinderblock can't talk.
  • Throwing Your Shield Always Works: He often fights by throwing his shield.

Others

    Steamroller 

Steamroller

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A cybernetic villain who attacked a steel mill and was defeated by Titans East.


  • Canon Foreigner: Created for the show.
  • Construction Vehicle Rampage: One based on a steamroller.
  • Cyborg: Part human and part robotic steamroller.
  • Mind-Control Eyes: They glow red once Brother Blood takes control of him.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: While he's quickly defeated by the Titans East, he succeeds in using a probe on Cyborg to transfer security codes for their tower to Brother Blood.
  • Super-Strength: Strong enough to fight all the Titans East; his body can also withstand molten metal.
  • The Voiceless: Never speaks, but he does growl when Brother Blood chains him up.

    Angel 

Angel

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    XL Terrestrial 

XL Terrestrial

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    I.N.S.T.I.G.A.T.O.R. 

I.N.S.T.I.G.A.T.O.R.

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  • Canon Foreigner: Created for the show.
  • Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: His eyes have black lines around them.
  • Cyborg: He's some type of human/robot fusion.
  • Expy: He's very similar to Marvel's M.O.D.O.K., being a partially technological villain with an enormous face whose name is an acronym.
  • Extendable Arms: Uses these to capture Thunder.
  • Flat Character: He doesn’t have an important role in any episode. He doesn’t even have any lines.
  • Fun with Acronyms: Integrated Neural System Techno-Intelligence Gyroscopic Atomic Tactical Organic Robot.
  • Gonk: He has nostrils but no nose, Creepy Shadowed Undereyes, black lips, an oversized mouth, and wrinkles on his face.
  • Super-Strength: Strong enough to capture Thunder and send Pantha (who is strong enough to overpower Cyborg, Mammoth, Atlas, and Adonis) flying.
  • Top-Heavy Guy: His giant upper body is disproportionately huge compared to his tiny legs.
  • The Voiceless: Never speaks onscreen, though at one point he yells when fighting Thunder.
  • Your Size May Vary: He's about 10 feet tall when introduced. When teaming up with Steamroller, who's about 20 feet tall, they were the same size, but then he appeared to be smaller after Thunder blasted him.

    Wrestling Star 

Wrestling Star

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  • Canon Foreigner: Created for the show.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: He never stood a chance against Pantha.
  • Fat Bastard: He’s a fat supervillain.
  • Flat Character: He’s just a non-speaking background character.
  • Masked Luchador: A bad guy version.
  • No Name Given: He's never named on screen, nor mentioned in any credits. "Wrestling Star" has been bestowed on him by the fandom.
  • Stout Strength: He’s strong, despite his flabby body.
  • Super-Strength: Strong enough to fight Pantha.
  • The Unmasking: Pantha does this to him once she wins their fight.
    • The Unreveal: We never see how his face actually looks like in the show. After Pantha removes his mask, he uses his hands to cover his face in shame.
  • The Voiceless: He doesn’t have any lines. Though he grunts whenever Pantha hits him, and growls while charging at her.

The Brotherhood of Evil

    In general 

  • Adapted Out: This version of the Brotherhood of Evil excludes Mr. Morden/Mr. Nobody, Garguax, Houngan and Trinity as members.
  • Arch-Enemy: To the Doom Patrol, who has been fighting them for a long time pre-series.
  • Awakening the Sleeping Giant: Well, technically they always were evil, but when first introduced, they were only fighting the Doom Patrol. After the Titans came to the Patrol's rescue and foiled his last plan, the Brain decides to focus his effort on the Titans and all other young heroes.
  • Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: After Trigon, a literal demon who sought after the end of the world, the Brotherhood of Evil are a group, much like the previous Brother Blood, but are heavily implied to be much older with more experience, with much of its membership being adults, and the Brotherhood being more fond of playing the long game than Brother Blood, whose grudge against Cyborg resulted in his downfall.
  • Knight of Cerebus: Despite some of them having rather silly concepts (a literal Brain in a Jar, a super-intelligent ape), they are played real serious, especially Madame Rouge.
  • Legion of Doom: They become one by the end of Season 5, having recruited most of the Titans' past enemies into their ranks as part of the Brain's plan to wipe out the world's teenaged heroes.
  • Nebulous Evil Organization: It's unclear what their overall goal is beyond being a club for Card-Carrying Villains, hence their name. They're introduced building a blackhole generator for some unspecified nefarious end, and after the Titans help the Doom Patrol destroy the device, they spend the rest of season 5 trying to take out all the teen heroes across the world. This is presumably so they can continue their evil plots without the Titans' interference, but what those evil plots are exactly is never explained.
  • Putting on the Reich: Their Mecha-Mooks look blatantly like SS troopers (including Stahlhelms, red armbands, and laser MP 40s), and one of their lairs has a large red-and-black banner with the initials "B.E." drawn to look like Germanic runes. This despite one of them being French and another being Russian.
  • Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Played with; in the comic, they are best-known as the main villains of the Doom Patrol, but occasionally clash with other DC heroes, the Titans included. Here, they are introduced as being the Doom Patrol's long-time opponents, but decide to turn their attention toward the Titans after they came to the Patrol's rescue. Furthermore, Beast Boy was part of the Doom Patrol before joining the Teen Titans so they are still his rogues.
  • Team Member in the Adaptation: While the cartoon version does include the Brain, Mallah, Rogue, Immortus, Phobia, Plasmus, and Warp, many of its line-up in the cartoon weren't members in the comics. How much? Slade, Terra, Brother Blood, Trigon, Blackfire, the Cironielian Chrysalis Eater, Glgrdsklechhh, Krall, and the Trouble in Tokyo crew are the only people listed on this page who weren't part of the expanded line-up.
  • Villainous Friendship: While the Brain and Monsieur Mallah are not romantically involved like in the comics, they do still appear to be genuinely fond of one another, as they are often shown playing chess with each other while discussing their plans.
  • Villain Team-Up: They are responsible for the biggest one in the whole series, assembling nearly all the villains introduced in the show, including several one-shot villains.

    The Brain 

The Brain

Voiced by: Glenn Shadix Other voice actors

Powers/Abilities: Chessmaster and Gadgeteer Genius.

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Leader of the Brotherhood, Big Bad of season five. A disembodied brain.


  • Adaptational Villainy: He was never a nice guy, but his comic counterpart had the redeeming quality of his relationship with Monsieur Mallah, whom he genuinely loved. Here, even that is excised, with their relationship appearing to be platonic respect for each other's intellect, and the Brain just becomes pure evil.
  • Arc Villain: For Season 5. He's the mastermind behind the Brotherhood of Evil, and the driving force of the season's ongoing conflict.
  • Arch-Enemy: To Mento. Beast Boy also comes to consider him an Arch-Enemy across the course of season five, but it's one sided- Brain has no respect for him whatsoever, and seems only marginally aware of who he is. This came back to bite him in the ass in the final battle when Beast Boy leads the recovery charge against him and deals the final blow that defeats him.
  • Bond Villain Stupidity: He never finishes off his enemies when he has the chance. This is best demonstrated when his villains ambush the Titans and he has them taken alive and subjected to Harmless Freezing as opposed to just killing them.
  • Brain in a Jar: As his name suggests, he's a disembodied brain inside some kind of tank.
  • Card-Carrying Villain: He puts the word "evil" in his organization's name!
  • The Chessmaster: Carefully plots out every move of his war against the Titans, and is shown to enjoy literal chess as well.
  • Deadpan Snarker: His first meeting with the Titans consists heavily of snark.
    OH LOOK. THE LITTLE GREEN ONE. HOW NICE—A FAMILY REUNION.
  • Diabolical Mastermind: He's the head of one of the most infamous criminal organizations in the world.
  • Evil Genius: According to Mento, he's "intellect personified and evil incarnate".
  • Exactly What It Says on the Tin: He's a Brain in a Jar.
  • Failed a Spot Check: This trope is what eventually causes his plans to unravel. He coordinates a humongous assault against the Titans, Titans East, and Honorary Titans, choosing a supervillain or two to take on each hero. Only some of the supervillains he chooses succeed in beating the heroes they're matched against. Beast Boy manages to beat the Kardiak Monster as well as Brain's robot drones, Pantha beats both Atlas and Adonis, Jericho beats both Fang and Private HIVE, Herald beats both See-More and Warp, and Mas manages to escape Cinderblock and Johnny Rancid because they only noticed Menos in the rubble of their attack. Furthermore, Cyborg recovers from the hole Mammoth knocked him into, Billy Numerous and Gizmo never manage to capture Kole or Gnarrk, Brain failed to send anyone after Red Star, Raven manages to escape Psimon's portal that Kyd Wykkyd knocked her into, Starfire manages to get away from Kitten and Killer Moth, and Bumblebee manages to recover from Angel and Punk Rocket knocking her out of the sky. Needless to say all of these people show up to screw Brain over and unfreeze the heroes he did manage to capture, which Brain would have seen coming if he had bothered to keep as careful track of his villains as he did of the heroes.
  • Fatal Flaw: It never occurs to him that any of his plans could ever fail because he's too convinced of his own genius, so if any do, he's caught off-guard and without a backup plan, forcing him to improvise, which he's not very good at doing.
  • Final Boss: He is the final boss of the second Game Boy Advance game. Being just a disembodied brain in a tank, the key to defeating him is by using Beast Boy to scale a series of walls the Brain resides above and press against every green button while avoiding the red buttons and jolts of electricity that periodically rain down.
  • Machine Monotone: Being a literal brain, his machine pedestal talks for him. It's based on Stephen Hawking, no less.
  • Mad Scientist: Spends his first appearance designing a black hole based weapon. Later appearances focus more on him as a Chessmaster.
  • Non-Action Big Bad: For reasons that should be obvious, he has Monsieur Mallah do his fighting for him.
  • Obviously Evil: It's in his organization's name, for crying out loud.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: The eyes on his life-support pod glow red when he's accessing his technology, and when he just wants to be intimidating.
  • Shout-Out: The lower half of his life-support machine is, per Word of God, based on a Dalek casing.

    Monsieur Mallah 

Monsieur Mallah

Voiced by: Glenn Shadix Other voice actors

Powers/Abilities: Genius level intellect, superstrength, skill with many weapons.

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The Brain's Dragon. An intelligent gorilla with a French accent.


  • The Dragon: He is the Brain's most direct henchmen, sometimes carrying him around, and because Brain is... a brain, Mallah does all his fighting for him.
  • French Jerk: He has a French accent and is the right hand man to an Evil Genius.
  • Gadgeteer Genius: He seems to make most of the stuff Brain designs.
  • Genius Bruiser: A gorilla with his species' level of strength and durability, while being probably the second most intelligent member of the group right after the Brain.
  • Intellectual Animal: Like the Brain, he is very intelligent and has the same pursuits as his master.
  • Lightning Bruiser: He's a gorilla. It comes with the territory.
  • Maniac Monkeys: A gorilla Evil Genius who serves as the Brain's Dragon.
  • Overshadowed by Awesome: He's a super intelligent gorilla. Unfortunately for him he has a knack for getting into fights with characters who much stronger than he is and kicking his ass. This best demonstrated when gets the better of Beast Boy after he turned into a gorilla to fight him, brags about being smarter while matching Beast Boy's strength, only for to turn into a Triceratops and knock him through a wall.
  • Promoted to Love Interest: Inverted; he was in a relationship with the Brain in the comic, but said relationship was Adapted Out (or at least never mentioned) in the cartoon for obvious reasons and he simply appears to be a loyal servant.
  • Recurring Boss: He and General Immortus make up most of the boss fights in the second Game Boy Advance game.
  • Talking Animal: He's a gorilla that can speak. The first episode he appears in plays with this notion by having him not speak for most of the episode, only to talk at the very end in a surprising moment.
  • Wicked Cultured: He is quite adept at chess.
  • Would Hurt a Child: Gleefully attacks the monastery where Melvin, Timmy and Teether are hidden in, and have the three of them forcefully restrained. It's a good thing Raven is still near the monastery and realized something's amiss.

    Madame Rouge 

Madame Rouge

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Voiced by: Hynden Walch Other voice actors

Powers/Abilities: Voluntary Shapeshifting into anything she can imagine, ability to mimic voices, indestructibility

The Brotherhood's enforcer. An incredibly powerful shapechanger with a Russian accent.


  • Adaptational Badass: Comic book Madame Rouge was no slouch, but this incarnation basically is the show's equivalent of the T-1000 when it comes to powers and badassery.
  • Adaptational Jerkass: In the comics, she became a villain when the Brain and Monsieur Mallah performed brain surgery on her to do away with her good side, the Chief attempted to redeem her by restoring her good personality, she permanently shifted back to evil when she betrayed the Doom Patrol by siding with General Zahl and died thanking Beast Boy for liberating her from her life of conflicting morality. There is no indication that this version of Madame Rouge was made evil and she appears to be a villain of her own volition for the most part.
  • Adaptational Nationality: She was French in the comic, but is depicted with a Russian/Slavic accent in this version. Averted for the Latin American dub, where she keeps the French accent.
  • Adapted Out: The second Game Boy Advance tie-in game Teen Titans 2, in spite of having the Brotherhood of Evil as the villains, doesn't feature a boss fight against Madame Rouge and she isn't even mentioned, to the degree that The Brain's vow in the game's ending cutscene that the Brotherhood will have their revenge against the Titans doesn't acknowledge her as a member of the Brotherhood in spite of mentioning Mallah and Immortus.
  • Badass Boast: When Hot Spot runs:
    Madame Rouge: When will the children learn? No one escapes the reach of Madame Rouge.
  • The Baroness: She is attractive, competent, and very sadistic.
  • Broken Pedestal: For Jinx, who admired her until she was burned by her.
  • The Brute: She's clever, but relies on force more than any other member of the Brotherhood.
  • Child Hater: She hates children and thinks they are "useless."
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: Handles most of the Titans quite easily, even the One-Man Army that is Kid Flash. In the final battle Jinx turns it around on her, trashing her easily.
  • Dark Action Girl: A formidable fighter who is also part of a villain team.
  • The Dreaded: Most Titans' reaction to her showing up is to run the heck away if they don't have any ally for back-up. This is for good reasons.
  • From a Single Cell: Despite being frozen by Robin and shattered into pieces, Madame Rouge manages to regenerate from the damage mere minutes later, none the worse for the wear.
  • Genius Bruiser: Not a genius on the same level than Monsieur Mallah or the Brain, but she is still dangerously clever and cunning, and very creative in the use of her power.
  • Hero Killer: While she doesn't technically kill anyone onscreen, she has a spectacular record of hunting down and successfully capturing members of the Titans. Most of them tend to run away when she shows up, aware they will most likely be unable to do more than slow her down.
  • Husky Russkie: Despite retaining her French name from the comic, she has a Russian accent and motif.
  • Implacable Woman: You're not getting away from her easily. Not even unmatchable speed is guaranteed to save you.
  • Jerkass: Is an utter asshole to Jinx, who idolizes her. This ends up driving Jinx to join the Titans and later defeat her.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: In the final battle, Hotspot, Wildebeest, and Jinx, three of the people she was showed directly harassing through the season, band together to pay her back for the grief by launching her into the freezing machine.
  • Lightning Bruiser: Besides being Nigh Invulnerable, she can catch Kid Flash and knock him through concrete.
  • Logical Weakness: It doesn't stop her for long, but her rubber body makes her vulnerable to fire.
  • Nigh Invulnerable: Her shapeshifting allows her to practically heal from anything. She survived being literally blown up by Robin.
  • Psycho for Hire: She's only in on the plan so she can harm a lot of people.
  • Rubber Woman: Her main power is being able to stretch her body.
  • Spared by the Adaptation: Her comics counterpart died in a fight with Beast Boy, while this version survives and only gets frozen.
  • Spy Catsuit: Her default form has her wearing a form-fitting costume not unlike what a spy would wear.
  • Superpower Lottery: Rouge's shapeshifting powers makes her a very scary opponent to go against. She can shapeshift into anyone and mimic their voices catching even the most seasoned of heroes off-guard. Even if they catch on, Rouge is practically indestructible being able to heal from any damage and stretch out her limbs fast enough to catch a literal speedster. It's no wonder that The Brain considers her his best operative.
  • Super-Speed: She can stretch fast enough to match Kid Flash's speed.
  • Talking Is a Free Action: Averted spectacularly in the finale, where she gets tackled or attacked by someone each time she begins a monologue.
  • Villain Takes an Interest: At first she's completely dismissive of Jinx, but when Jinx fights back against her abuse, she seems genuinely impressed and promises to be in touch. Ironically, it's too late by then because Jinx pulls a Heel–Face Turn.
  • Voluntary Shapeshifting: She can use her power to assume the appearance of someone else.
  • Weak to Fire: As shown during her fights with Hot Spot, her rubber body can't successfully touch him directly without being burned, and his heat makes it hard for her to maintain her shapeshifting while near him. This doesn't stop her from beating him via forcing him to overexert himself over the course of the episode until he can't keep his transformation on and then attacking him when he thinks he's beaten her with his final last-ditch attack.

    General Immortus 

General Immortus

Voiced by: Xander Berkeley Other voice actors

Powers/Abilities: Immortality, genius-level intellect.

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The Brotherhood's strategist. An immortal military genius. Seldom speaks.


  • Age Without Youth: He looks like a withered husk because he's older than dirt and has immortality while lacking a means to slow down the aging process.
  • Been There, Shaped History: According to the General, Sun Tzu learned everything he knew from him.
  • The Cameo: He appears in Teen Titans Go! as The Faceless in a corner of the Markov's backstory related by Geo-Force, with the direct implication that he was involved with or even in charge of giving Brion and Tara their earth powers.
  • Immortality: It's in his name. Although it's unclear what kind of immortality he has, it's implied to be Complete Immortality.
  • Informed Ability: He is described as ultimate military genius with unparalleled experience who had fought in countless wars over the centuries (Sun Tzu was purportedly his student). However, over the course of the series, he never displays any above-average tactical intellect (on the contrary) and his troops primarily rely on overwhelming the heroes with their sheer numbers.
  • Living Forever Is Awesome: You don't see him complaining about seeing the same basic battles over and over again. He's Seen It All and thus has a leg up on every other strategist alive. He says it himself:
    The Brain: Persistent, aren't they?
    Immortus: Persistent, yes. But not immortal.
  • Putting on the Reich: His uniform resembles a Nazi's, but he predates them by a long shot. It's probably to underscore his villainy.
  • Really 700 Years Old: More like really thousands of years old, if his flashback montage is accurate. He refers to Sun Tzu as one of his best students, so that seals the deal.
  • Recurring Boss: The majority of the boss fights in the second Game Boy Advance game are against either him or Monsiuer Mallah.
  • The Strategist: He comes up with the battle strategies for the Brotherhood of Evil.

Secondary Antagonists

    Blackfire 

Blackfire / Komand'r

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"I always was the better fighter."

Voiced by: Hynden Walch Other voice actors

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

Starfire's self-absorbed big sister. Cares only about her own comfort and power.


  • Abled in the Adaptation: This version of Blackfire can fly and it is never mentioned she suffered from a childhood illness that prevented her from it like her comic version originally did.
  • Adaptational Villainy: In the comics, Blackfire showed she could be a good queen and at least tried to make up for selling her sister out to the Citadel. They just couldn't repair their relationship because Starfire understandably wasn't going to accept they were cool after the latter sold her into slavery, beat her up when Starfire saved her life, and then forcibly took her claim to the throne. There is none of that here; Blackfire sold out Starfire For the Evulz and she then tries framing her for the crimes that Blackfire committed in the Centauri system. When that failed, Blackfire spent the rest of her screentime in the show and Teen Titans Go comics either attempting to humiliate Starfire in a flying race, force her into an Arranged Marriage so she could get a powerful jewel, and so on. She is also shown to be The Caligula as queen. The Teen Titans Go comics shows that their relationship disintegrated when Starfire believes that her sister sold out their little brother to Madam Rouge so the latter could impersonate him. Blackfire at least looks regretful when Starfire disowns her once and for all.
  • Adaptation Dye-Job: Blackfire has auburn hair in the comics. Here, she has black hair.
  • Adaptation Explanation Extrication: The reason why she holds a grudge against Starfire is that in the comics, Starfire was named the heir over her and Blackfire was The Unfavorite. Blackfire merely references in "Betrothed" that she took over Tamaran "for kicks" and staged a coup.
  • Aloof Big Sister: She mostly acts arrogant and condescending toward Starfire when not pretending to be friendly to her.
  • Arch-Enemy: To Starfire because of the sister thing.
  • Big Sister Bully: Constantly mistreats Starfire, is willing to frame her sister for crimes she committed, and tries to force her into an Arranged Marriage for Blackfire's own benefit, to name a few examples.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She acts like a friendly Cool Big Sis in her debut in "Sisters", but it's all an act to hide that she framed Starfire for her crimes.
  • Blunt "Yes": When Starfire accuses her of framing her for crimes on Centauri, Blackfire simply says, "Oh...well...yeah."
  • Cain and Abel: The Cain to Starfire's Abel because of her schemes and bitchiness.
  • Color Character: Mostly defined by the colors black and purple.
  • Cool Big Sis: Defied. The other Titans think of her as Starfire's charming older sister because she bonds with them at their hobbies, but she's just acting the part. The façade falls at the end of her first episode. She did state at the beginning of the episode, however, that she always rescued Starfire during their younger years.
  • Dark Action Girl: A powerful Tamaranean and very deadly in her own right.
  • Dub Name Change: Becomes "Amalia" in the Italian dub of the first Season.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: The Teen Titans Go comics has her claim this while in Earth prison, when she has nowhere to run or conquer. She tells Starfire that for all their grudges, she would never sell out their little brother to the likes of Madam Rouge and the shapeshifter likes messing with people's heads; Wildfire was an innocent party in their Sibling Rivalry. Starfire doesn't believe her, because Blackfire has lied to her before about having standards.
  • Evil All Along: Seems to be a Cool Big Sis in her debut episode, but turns out to be a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who doesn't care about her younger sister.
  • Evil Brunette Twin: Well, she's not her twin, but she looks exactly like Starfire, except with black hair and eyes.
  • Evil Counterpart: To Starfire, right down to the darker wardrobe.
  • Expy: To X-Men's villain Deathbird, who precedes Blackfire's creation by three years, and just like her is also an evil alien princess driven by hatred for her younger, more heroic sister.
  • Family Theme Naming: Blackfire, her sister Starfire and their brother Wildfire.
  • Femme Fatale: She'll use her looks to her advantage.
  • Flying Brick: Much like her sister, she has flight and Super-Strength.
  • Flying Firepower: Again, like Starfire, she has the starbolts.
  • God Save Us from the Queen!: After breaking out of prison, she gains control of Tamaran as its new Grand Ruler. She's only overthrown when Starfire defeats her in a battle for the throne.
  • Human Aliens: Unlike her sister, she looks almost indistinguishable from a human due to having white sclera, normal-sized eyes, and a normal hair color, compared to Starfire’s big, green eyes and cherry-red hair. She also speaks in a much more casual fashion so she doesn't sound as stiff as Starfire sometimes does.
  • Informed Ability: She claims to be a better fighter than her sister, yet Starfire is able to stomp her in both of her appearances. In their second fight, Blackfire is only able to get the upper hand because she is wearing the Jewel of Charta to make herself invincible; once Starfire rips it off, she wipes the floor with Blackfire in short order.
  • Interspecies Romance: New Teen Titans shows her married to Glgrdsklechhh; this was implied to be her fate at the end of "Betrothed", when Starfire banishes her from Tamaran. She even had four of his kids.
  • Kick the Morality Pet: Maybe. The Teen Titans Go comics reveal that the youngest in their family, Wildfire, was her Morality Pet. Wildfire disappeared a while back, and Starfire gets no leads on what happened to him due to Blackfire selling her out to the Gordanians. If we believe Madam Rouge, Blackfire did a Villain Team-Up with her and told her the exact information needed to impersonate Wildfire. Blackfire claims that she did no such thing because Wildfire is off-limits between her and Starfire in their Sibling Rivalry. When Starfire doesn't believe her and disowns her, Blackfire truly looks regretful.
  • Most Common Superpower: Just as well-endowed as her sister.
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: The Teen Titans Go! comic revealed she was the one who had given Starfire to the Gordanians as a peace offering to keep them from invading Tamaran. If you saw the episode "GO!", you can figure what happened after they left the planet.
  • Properly Paranoid: In "Betrothed", she personally deals with Robin when the latter tries to talk Starfire out of the Arranged Marriage rather than use her guards. Blackfire ambushes him with Hand Gagging just as Starfire suggests he not come to the ceremony if he feels this strongly. Given Robin can fight metahumans to a standstill if not outright defeat them, this paranoia was warranted; in the climax, he reveals to Starfire that the marriage was a ruse by Blackfire.
  • Purple Is Powerful: She wears the same purple metal on her outfit as Starfire.
  • Really Gets Around: An implied G-rated version. Her people learn new languages by kissing, and Blackfire's English is perfect — she probably kissed a lot of boys in order to learn to speak English so well. Further implied by her flirty, seductive nature.
  • Sibling Yin-Yang: With Starfire. Where her sister is friendly and cheerful and endearingly awkward, she is manipulative, smug and blends into new cultures quickly.
  • Significant Double Casting: She shares a voice actress with her sister.
  • The Sociopath: She lacks empathy towards her own sister, Starfire, only incriminating her for Blackfire's own crimes, and trying to kill her in the process. The only person who receives her real empathy is her little brother Wildifire, if we believe her.
  • Strong Family Resemblance: Other than her hair color, eye color, and smaller eyes, Blackfire looks completely identical to her sister.
  • Stupid Evil: Sure Blackfire, why don't you tell your Unstoppable Rage - induced sister that you are using an Amplifier Artifact to fight and cheat against her. It's not like she can just take it off from you and utterly curb-stomp you afterwards...
  • Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: New Teen Titans shows her married to Glgrdsklechhh, a fat and green slime thing, while she is quite the knockout.
  • Unreliable Expositor: In her last Teen Titans Go appearance, she insists to Starfire that Madam Rouge was lying and Blackfire would never have sold out their little brother Wildfire for an Earthling supervillain to impersonate him. The villain also has a habit of lying For the Evulz, as a means of manipulating Starfire and her friends. Starfire doesn't believe her, for obvious reasons.
  • Villainous Crush: Downplayed. She seems interested in Robin in her debut episode, but never shows it again in her subsequent appearance, implying she may have shown romantic interest purely to screw with Starfire's head.

    Cinderblock, Plasmus, and Overload 

Cinderblock, Plasmus, and Overload

Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker (all three), James Arnold Taylor (Overload, first appearance) Other voice actors

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Cinderblock
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Plasmus
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Overload

Three supervillains who frequently work for Slade or other supervillains, providing the muscle for whatever schemes their bosses currently have in the works.


  • Adaptational Heroism: In the comics, Otto von Furth, the man who is Plasmus, is fully in control of his powers and is a murderous sociopath (a sign of this is his being envious of Chemo in Infinite Crisis after Warp warns Madame Rouge's daughter, Gemini, that Chemo could melt her faster than Plasums). In the show, he's not in control of his powers and fears what happens when he's awake and on the loose.
  • Animate Inanimate Object: Overload is a computer chip that's not only animate but somehow capable of drawing in electronic components and electricity to construct itself a body.
  • Asteroids Monster: Plasmus' splits into independent monsters in his first appearance, giving the Titans some trouble as they each have to deal with one alone.
  • Blob Monster: Plasmus is a large monster made out of purple ooze.
  • The Brute: The three of them are powerhouses among the Titans' rogues gallery, and are recruited to become Slade's top minions in "Aftershock".
  • Canon Foreigner: Overload was created for the show and doesn't appear in the comics.
  • Canon Immigrant: Like Overload, Cinderblock is a creation of the show, but he did later appear in the comics, debuting in issue 17 of Titans volume 2.
  • Co-Dragons: For Slade they function, at the very least, as Co-Brutes, with whomever Slade's newest apprentice is being the actual Dragon.
  • Covered in Gunge: It's very messy to go against Plasmus, even worse when he mutates further in a later appearance and gains fluid filled pustules he can fire high-pressure slime out of at will.
  • Cyber Cyclops: Overload has a circuit pattern that resembles a face with a single circle signifying an eye.
  • Energy Being: Overload is a sentient computer chip with a body made of electricity.
  • Flight: Overload can fly.
  • Fusion Dance: All three of them can combine into one being called Ternion.
  • Hulk Speak: Overload talks like this.
  • Miracle-Gro Monster: In Plasmus' first appearance he's shown drinking drum after drum of some kind of likely toxic green substance. He grows with every serving.
  • Mysterious Past: Nothing is revealed about their backstories and origins.
  • The Quiet One: Plasmus never speaks in his monster form. Cinderblock never talks, either. Overload spoke in his first appearance, but not in any subsequent ones.
  • Secondary Color Nemesis: He’s a villain who’s made of purple slime and has green eyes.
  • Shock and Awe: Overload has electrical powers.
  • Starter Villain: Production-wise Divide and Conquer is the first episode of the series, with Cinderblock being the first villain the Titans fight onscreen.
  • Starter Villain Stays: Cinderblock and Plasmus are both introduced in the pilot, and would battle the Titans several times throughout the show (with or without Slade's involvement).
  • Super-Strength: Cinderblock’s power.
  • Third-Person Person: Overload refers to himself in the third person.
  • Tragic Monster: Plasmus's human form. From his only speaking appearance he seems like a regular guy, horrified of being awake because he knows people will get hurt when that happens.
  • The Unintelligible: Cinderblock is able to make sounds, but it seems he's too dense to communicate intelligibly. When Jericho possesses Cinderblock, making Cinderblock speak is the first thing that blows his cover in front of the other villains.

    The Amazing Mumbo 

The Amazing Mumbo

Voiced by: Tom Kenny Other voice actors

Powers/Abilities: Magic wand and hat allow for a variety of mystical affects.

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A mad magician with real magical powers. Usually a nuisance, but can prove a real threat when properly motivated.


  • Achilles' Heel: If his wand is snapped, he's rendered powerless (though he acquired a new one at some point — presumably from wherever he got the first one).
  • Amazing Technicolor Population: He has blue skin. Subverted with his true form.
  • Attention Whore: He treats his robberies like magic shows and ties people up so they’ll be forced to watch him. When he sucks the Titans into his hat, he also insists on destroying them in front of a huge audience.
  • Bald of Evil: He's a villainous magician who happens to be balding.
  • Bank Robbery: Mumbo's entire schtick seems to revolve around using his magic to rob banks. Most of his appearance (including his cameo in "Aftershock pt. 2") have him robbing the Jump City bank before getting interrupted by the Titans (or for his cameo, Terra).
  • Beware the Silly Ones: Laughably Evil he may be, but an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain he is not, as in his first appearance, he faced the entire team of Titans and won.
  • Canon Foreigner: He was created for the series.
  • Captive Audience: When committing crimes, he ties people up and forces them to watch him.
  • Cloud Cuckoolander: He acts a lot like a Silver Age version of The Joker, only focused on showmanship instead of comedy.
  • Domain Holder: Believe it or not; he's the absolute ruler of a tiny dimension that exists inside his hat, which is the main setting of "Bunny Raven".
  • Egopolis: Mumbo's pocket dimension inside of his hat is basically an entire world dedicated to pampering Mumbo's ego. The cityscape itself revolves around Mumbo's personal lair, a theater in which Mumbo is the only act and which the dimension's inhabitants live to watch. Signs boasting about Mumbo's amazing shows are all over the city. And aside from a handful of exceptions, such as living playing cards and gloves, most of the dimension's inhabitants are Muppet-like caricatures of Mumbo himself, complete with an expy of not only Kermit the Frog, but also Waldorf and Statler.
  • Evil Sorcerer: He's a villain with magic powers.
  • Expy: Besides the Silver Age Joker, he appears to be a blue Horatio J. HooDoo. Makes sense, as Tom Kenny has played a HooDoo expy before. He is also rather similar to The Flash villain Abra Kadabra, even sharing a similar naming theme of being named after old-school "magic words", although Mumbo uses actual magic whilst Abra Kadabra uses Sufficiently Advanced Technology.
  • Forced Transformation: In "Bunny Raven", he turns all the Titans into animals except for Beast Boy, who gets turned into a lamp instead and has his ability to turn into animals replaced with one to turn into inanimate objects.
  • I Have No Idea What I'm Doing: Says this word for word to Starfire when he's about to pull the saw-the-beautiful-woman-in-half trick.
  • Large Ham: Whatever else he may be, Mumbo's a consummate showman who revels in his role. He’s also the only villain in the whole show to sing a song.
  • Laughably Evil: His efforts at being evil mostly boil down to using his magic to steal lots of money and put on elaborate shows whilst doing so.
  • Loophole Abuse: He couldn't trap Beast Boy in the form of an animal, due to him already being capable of shapeshifting into animals. So he instead turned Beast Boy into a lamp, cursing him to only be able to shapeshift into various inanimate technological objects instead.
  • Magicians Are Wizards: Dresses like a stage magician, and refers to himself as a magician, but has real magic powers.
  • No Ontological Inertia: Destroying his wand takes away his powers and undoes all the effects of his magic. He even says this is how it works in his debut episode when Robin demands he explain what happened to Cyborg.
    Mumbo: When you broke the wand, you broke all my spells. Even if I had done something, it'd be over now. He could be standing right here!
  • Power Source: His magic wand. If it breaks, he’s powerless.
  • Practically Joker: He's based heavily on the Silver Age incarnation of the Joker, being sillier and campier than the usual Monster Clown he's known as. His appearance also borrows heavily from him: he wears a tux (albeit one of its actual color), his skin is an inhuman color (blue instead of white), the long nose many incarnations are known for, and a similar hairstyle.
  • Reality Warper: Fairly low-level in the "real" world — in the world inside his hat, he's practically a Physical God.
  • Sinister Schnoz: He's a villain with a pointy nose.
  • Stage Magician: Mumbo's entire criminal identity is centered around this archetype; he dresses in the iconic black tailed tuxedo and top hat with a domino mask of an old-school stage magician, and he frames his crimes as performances of stage magic, with his victims as an unwilling audience.
  • Unexplained Recovery: A non-death-related example. In his first appearance, Robin breaks Mumbo’s magic wand, rendering him powerless. By the next time he’s seen, he’s either gotten a new wand or somehow fixed his original wand, regaining his powers.
  • Unholy Matrimony: With Mother May-Eye in New Teen Titans.
  • Villain Song:
    • "Master Of Your Fate"
    • In New Teen Titans, he gets another called "Mayhem at First Sight".
    • Interestingly enough, he's the only villain in the show to get one. In New Teen Titans Slade lampshades this by complaining he never gets a song.
  • With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: According to Word of God, their planned background for Mumbo is that he's a former stage magician who accidentally stumbled across a real magic wand. This gave him the ability to use actual magic and twist reality to his whims, but the power turned him into Mumbo, driving him mad in the process. In the show, it is never stated if his wand had the side-effect of turning him insane or if he committed crimes of his own free will.

    Dr. Light 

Dr. Light

Voiced by: Rodger Bumpass Other voice actors

Powers/Abilities: Holograms, force-fields, lasers... if it involves manipulating light, he can do it.

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"No one defeats Dr. Light! NO ONE!"

A mad scientist and would-be supervillain. Has great skill, but a crippling lack of common sense.


  • Adaptational Nice Guy: He seems less willing to murder his enemies in the cartoon, and he's not a rapist.
  • Big Bad Wannabe: His technology is quite powerful, and every so often he'll use it effectively, only to be shortly thereafter undone by his own ineptitude.
  • Blinded by the Light: Dr. Light weaponizes this trope, using flashbangs to disorientate the Titans.
  • Break the Haughty: He's competent at first, until Raven finds his weakness, and leaves him in shock.
  • Butt-Monkey: He's rarely the primary villain; he just makes appearance as a C-lister and is traumatized by Raven. His final appearance in the series have him about to be gang-banged by thirty superheroes itching for action.
  • Card-Carrying Villain: He'll do a hell lot of boasting about how much of an Evil Genius he is.
  • Dark Is Evil: If his costume being mostly black counts.
  • Deadpan Snarker: "A bit of advice: find shorter magic words."
  • Didn't Think This Through: He makes a flashy attack on an oil rig that the Titans can see from their living room. This led to him getting his ass handed to him (again). He may be a Gadgeteer Genius with very powerful tech, but as Robin points out, when it comes to tactics he's just not very bright.
  • Ditzy Genius: He's great at creating gadgets, but he's not very bright when it comes to planning.
  • Determinator: Raven striking fear into his heart didn't stop him from creating more Evil Plans.
  • Enemy Compassion: After Raven nearly kills Dr. Light, Robin and Starfire go to comfort the villain they had just been fighting, with Robin telling Dr. Light that "Everything will be all right".
  • Evil Gloating: He enjoys taunting his foes over his evil deeds and brilliance.
  • Evil Is Hammy: Just listen to this guy.
  • Evil Is Petty: He's prone to mocking his opponents while fighting them.
  • Harmless Villain: His threat level is considerably lower than other villains.
  • Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Ultimately, he's so pathetic as a villain that you just can't help but feel kind of bad for him.
  • Insufferable Genius: He regularly boasts about his intellect whenever he faces the heroes.
  • Know When to Fold 'Em: When Raven confronts him after traumatizing him in their last confrontation, he tells the Titans that he is surrendering immediately.
    Raven: Remember me?
    Dr. Light: [to the other Titans] I'd like to go to jail now, please.
  • Laughably Evil: He's prone to Trash Talk during a fight, only to get struck in fear by the opponent he just mocked, and it makes him look funny.
  • Light 'em Up: Dr. Light has a lot of light based weapons.
  • Lightning Lash: One of his many weapons, made of light energy. It snapped Robin's metal staff in it's first appearance.
  • Light Is Not Good: As his Meaningful Name suggests, he uses technology to control and manipulate light...which he does for the purpose of robbing banks and general villainy.
  • Mad Scientist: He made all those light based weapons and is hammy in their use.
  • Not-So-Harmless Villain: Proved that he wasn't so harmless in "Kole". Even in his first appearance, he held his own against the Titans, but didn't count on Raven's demonic powers.
  • Pungeon Master: He tends to make puns revolving around the word "light", especially in his first appearance on the series.
  • Small Name, Big Ego: He considers himself the strongest and most brilliant supervillain in town, when he's humiliated every time he faces the Titans.
  • Smug Snake: He's pretty overconfident, until his fear of Raven's powers gave him one big humiliation.
  • Took a Level in Badass: In "Kole"; he singlehandedly fends off the entire Titans team and Gnaark for most of the episode, and even proves he's gotten over his terror of Raven.
  • Trash Talk: Always talks some to his enemies right before getting a humiliating lesson from it. For instance:
    Dr. Light: What's the matter? Afraid of the light?
    Demonic Raven: What's the matter? Afraid of the dark?

    Red X 

Red X

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Voiced by: Scott Menville Other voice actors

Powers/Abilities: Badass Normal, various anti-Titans weapons in the suit, low-powered flight and cloaking

Not everyone likes to play the big villain, kid. I'm a thief. I'm not threatening your precious city - just looking out for number one.

A mysterious thief who stole a suit and identity Robin had previously used to get close to Slade. On no one's side but his own.


  • Above Good and Evil: He says that he doesn't want to be a super villain or threaten the city, but he also doesn't want to use his gadgets for good either. That said, his interests fall more in line with the good side of the spectrum than evil.
  • Affably Evil: It's downplayed to Affably Morally Ambiguous. He's pretty friendly and polite while kicking your ass.
  • Aloof Ally: He joins the Titans against large threats, and respects Robin as a rival, but he's a thief and therefore isn't really on their side either.
  • Ambiguously Human: His mystique starts to make you wonder if he's actually even human.
  • Ambiguous Situation: How exactly he managed to infiltrate the Tower without triggering the security systems and steal the suit is never explained.
    • Also, it's never made exactly clear when the suit got stolen, though it likely had to have been some time after Terra's betrayal, as Robin likely would've checked the vault to make sure Slade's robot commandos didn't take it. note 
  • Anti-Hero: He has some baseline heroism, but he's really working for himself. He puts it best himself: he's neither hero nor villain; he's just doing whatever the hell he wants, wherever that happens to fall.
  • Anti-Villain: Heavily discussed by Robin as when it comes to Red X, the line between Good and Evil becomes blurred. Red X is a self-proclaimed thief, but that's as far as he goes. He isn't out to play the big bad villain, having standards and his own code of honor, and will even step in to help when someone truly evil shows up.
  • Arch-Enemy: Robin's secondary nemesis next to Slade, due to him stealing his former persona. That said, he's decidedly friendlier than one would expect.
  • Back-to-Back Badasses: With Robin, after siding with him.
  • Badass Cape: Obvious as he's the counterpart of Robin, he wears a cool cape himself.
  • Badass Normal: Like Robin, his abilities are martial arts and his suit (that he stole from Robin). When he fights the various meta humans of the verse, it's clear he has the advantage.
  • Blank White Eyes: From the mask that he never takes off.
  • Breakout Villain: The character himself starts out as Robin's alter ego, but gets more fleshed out as a separate character who stole the suit from Robin, providing an opposite motivation not only to the heroes but the villains as well.
  • Canon Immigrant: An original creation to the show, who 17 years later would debut proper in DC comics.
  • Card-Carrying Villain: He proudly admits he's a thief, but that doesn't make him the big villain and he has no intention of harming innocents.
  • Charles Atlas Superpower: Again, presumably. Despite the lack of any evident superpowers, he shares Robin's inhuman fighting skills.
  • Combat Pragmatist: He'll do whatever it takes to win.
  • Cool Bike: He has one and is just as skilled at riding it as Robin.
  • Cool Mask: It's part of an "anti-titan" suit, all black, and marked with a red "X".
  • Creepy Monotone: Whether it's Robin in the suit or the current Red X, both of them used a low monotone to highlight their mysteriousness.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: He easily takes out about ten supervillains in their high-tech vehicles in only a few seconds.
  • Dance Battler: His fighting techniques resemble dance moves.
  • Deadpan Snarker: He has a dry sense of humor intermingled with shades of sarcasm.
  • Default to Good: While on the whole an unrepentant thief and a Chaotic Neutral character who is on his own side, whenever it really counted, Red X chose to side with the heroes rather than the villains. Especially notable considering the fact that in both cases he did have the option to just walk away and choose neither side.
  • Enemy Mine: Both times he's appeared, he eventually joins with Robin.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Despite being a petty thief, he forms an Enemy Mine with Robin and the Titans because he is disgusted with the more villainous characters. He also stops trying to steal Robin's suitcase when he realizes just how valuable it is to him (and of course due to Robin saving his life).
  • Evil Counterpart: Rather, Morally Ambiguous Counterpart. To Robin for being a Badass Normal with cool gadgets that steals instead of fighting thieves. Most evident when they team up in "X", where they mirror each other in fighting style.
  • Evil Sounds Deep: The mask modulates his voice into something deeper.
  • Evil Versus Oblivion: He will assist the heroes without hesitation if a bigger threat emerges and endangers the lives of everyone in the city. Can't be a thief who steals for a living if there's no city to steal from.
  • Expressive Mask: Again, like Robin he has impressive expressions in his mask.
  • Expy: Red X has a lot in-common with Red Hood; a red-colored Anti-Hero Secret-Identity Identity taken by Robin (in this case, Dick Grayson instead of Jason Todd) created to hunt down villains in ways that their mainstream Bat-family persona could not. In this case, while Red Hood was originally a villainous persona that was taken by a hero (the original Red Hood having turned into The Joker), here it is the other way around (the Red X suit stolen by a thief from Robin's storage).
  • The Faceless: Lampshaded and parodied in this animated short. His identity is still the series' best-kept secret.
  • Flash Step: His signature technique; the Applied Phlebotinum powering the suit allows him to seemingly teleport short distances instantly.
  • Friendly Enemy: He parts on somewhat good terms with the Titans at the end of his second appearance, though he promises they are "even now."
  • Fuel Meter of Power: The Red X suit runs on "Xenothium." In his first appearance, Red X's supply is running low and he needs to refill it.
  • Gentleman Thief: Red X doesn't go after innocent people or put them in harm's way. He also seems to care about whether or not a city full of people is going to be disintegrated because of a psychotic villain, as well as whether or not Robin is going to fall to his death.
    Robin: I thought you didn't like to play the hero.
    Red X: Doesn't mean I don't know how.
  • Grey-and-Gray Morality: He's neither The Cape nor the Card-Carrier. He's just making a living through petty crime.
  • Heroic Neutral: While he will rob banks and businesses, he will repay his debts, and when a city was threatened with disintegration due to a villain's scheme, he interfered, even when he could have made a clean getaway if he hadn't.
  • Honor Among Thieves: He's a thief and has no shame of it, but he's ready to help out when truly evil villains are threatening the city.
  • It's All About Me: Cares for little else than himself and admits as much, although him forming an Enemy Mine with Robin implies he cares for more than he lets on.
  • Legacy Character: The first Red X was Robin's alter ego used to get closer to Slade. Then an unknown individual got a hold of the suit, and uses the identity as a thief.
  • Leitmotif: The new Red X who's not Robin has one starting in his debut episode, "X".
  • Let X Be the Unknown: Red X was initially a phony supervillain identity Robin used in an attempt to get close to Slade, but someone else came along and stole the gear for himself. His identity is a total mystery.
  • Lovable Rogue: He's a thief, but he DOES have a good side, and he helps the Teen Titans, sometimes.
  • Meaningful Name: In American homework grading, a red x indicates a mistake. Red X is Robin's.
  • Noble Demon: He makes himself out to be a petty thief that cares for nothing but himself, but in both appearances he's helped the Titans, even when it wasn't in his self-interest to do so.
  • Noodle Incident: Come his return in Season 5, he has somehow stolen back his Xenothium belt without any explanation.
  • No Name Given: Red X's real identity has never been given. The primary suspect from both the show and the fandom appears to be Jason Todd, the second Robin, with Beast Boy even theorizing this.
  • Out-of-Character Moment: He's seen among the group of villains who the Brotherhood of Evil recruit to eliminate the Titans. Kind of strange for someone who doesn't like villainy beyond thievery, and who doesn't truly have any malice against the Titans. To be fair, he didn't actually take part in the capture of the Titans or the final battle against the Brotherhood.
  • The Real Remington Steele: The original purpose for Red X was as a second secret identity for Robin so he can infiltrate Slade's latest Evil Plan, only for this guy to take up the suit and name as his official identity.
  • Riddle for the Ages: Who he is and what he looks like. As he put it himself in his debut appearance, "If I wanted you to know that, would I be wearing a mask?"
  • Shadow Archetype: To Robin. He's essentially a more amoral version of Robin.
  • Skull for a Head: His mask has a skull where the face would be.
  • The Stoic: He speaks in a monotone, and usually reacts to pain with mild sarcasm.
  • Ungrateful Bastard: Subverted. After Robin saves him, he initially tells Robin in a smug voice that he would regret doing so. Barely a moment later, he drops this completely and decides to help Robin.
  • The Unreveal: Who exactly is the second Red X you ask? Unfortunately, we never found out before the series got canceled.
  • Vague Age: Given how he's slightly taller than Robin (who's estimated to be around 15-16) and keeps calling him "kid" suggests he's at least somewhat older than him, though it's unclear if he's actually a teenager or in his early 20s.
  • Vocal Evolution: While the new Red X's voice still sounds exactly the same, he speaks with a more jovial tone of voice compared to Robin's more robotic and ominous-sounding tone.
  • Villain Respect: To Robin. He respects him as a rival, helps him out if he feels he might need it, and even calls him "kid" in a good-natured way.
  • Wild Card: Could help the villain, could help the hero, or could screw both of them over if it benefits him.
  • Worthy Opponent: He sees Robin as one. Despite their conflict, a part of Red X seems to like Robin enough to help him on occasion.
  • "X" Makes Anything Cool: Not just his name and mask, his entire weapon arsenal features X motifs.
  • You Fight Like a Cow: At one point, he taunts the Titans by pointing to the X insignia on his chest and quipping "X marks the spot".

    Mad Mod 

Mad Mod

Voiced by: Malcolm McDowell Other voice actors

Powers/Abilities: Master of Illusion (tech-based), cane can cause Vampiric Draining, "hypno-screens" induce Mind Control

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A humorously over-the-top Evil Brit Master of Illusion. Actually an old man, but uses holograms to appear young.


  • Adaptational Early Appearance: The Titans fight him long before they fight Ding Dong Daddy in this continuity, when in the original comics the first roster of the Teen Titans encountered Ding Dong Daddy before they faced Mad Mod.
  • Adaptational Villainy: In the comics, he eventually pulled a Heel–Face Turn. This version remains a villain throughout the show's run.
  • Affectionate Parody: Of British pop culture as well as the U.K.'s culture as a whole. It's clear that his character makes fun of Brits that are meaninglessly hostile towards Americans, but everything else about him stems from a love towards British pop culture, as nearly everything he does is a reference towards it, ranging from things like The Beatles and Monty Python. The fact that he's voiced by Malcolm McDowell and specializes in the use of brainwashing is also a clear reference towards his role as Alex in A Clockwork Orange.
  • Antagonist Title: His debut episode is titled after himself.
  • Attention Whore: In "Revolution", after taking over Jump City, he throws himself a parade and makes all his brainwashed subjects watch him.
  • Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: His idea of “misbehaving” is fighting crime and saving lives.
  • Badass Normal: He doesn’t have any powers, but he’s a Gadgeteer Genius and one of the most cunning and dangerous villains in the show.
  • Bald of Evil: As an old man, he’s got no hair left on top of his head. Subverted with his young form, which has a full head of hair.
  • Beware the Silly Ones: He may seem silly with his Large Ham personality and comedic illusions, but the Titans have a hard time beating him.
  • British Teeth: He fits this British stereotype. He’s got crooked teeth and an overbite. In his elderly form, his teeth are also yellow.
  • Card-Carrying Villain: "Fighting crime, saving lives, interfering with the plans of hard-working villains. Why, you lot are nothing but a bunch of troublemakers!"
  • Child Hater: In his first appearance, he tries to destroy the Titans just because he says he hates “misbehaving children”. His hatred of children also seems to be partly based on envy for their youth, after The Reveal that he’s an old man.
  • Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: He has black lines under his eyes.
  • Dirty Coward: In both episodes with him as the main villain, he uses death traps and robots to try and kill the Titans as he mocks them while watching from a safe distance. Then he panics once the Titans finally get their hands on him.
  • Disco Dan: "Mods" haven't been in fashion since the 1970s. Implying that he's a tad older than his appearance would suggest.
  • Evil Brit: Played to the hilt for comedy purposes with every sort of British stereotype involved in his evil plans.
  • Evil Laugh: He does a really over-the-top evil laugh in his debut episode, after telling the Titans they’ll have to repeat the entire lesson.
  • Evil Old Folks: He's a frail and feeble old man who likes pretending to be young.
  • Evil Reactionary: In "Revolution", he wants to impose Victorian England on people.
  • Evil Redhead: His young self (which he bases his holograms on) has red hair, and he's a Card-Carrying Villain.
  • Expy: His heavy redesign from the comics version has left him far more similar to Marvel's Arcade both in appearance and in MO with his own Murderworld-like HQ.
  • For the Evulz: In his first appearance, he kidnaps the Titans, torments them, and tries to kill them just because he’s a Card-Carrying Villain who’s annoyed by their do-gooding.
  • Fountain of Youth: His second appearance have him stealing Robin's youth before taking over Jump City.
  • Gadgeteer Genius: He can build all kinds of things: robots, death traps, hologram projectors, hypno-screens, a device that lets him steal other people’s youth.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: He envies the Titans, and all teenagers in general, for their youth. In his second appearance, he claims he always says that youth is wasted on the young.
  • I Reject Your Reality: In "Revolution", he not only takes over the city and brainwashed everyone into acting British, but he claims that the American Revolution was a hoax, the Declaration of Independence is a tissue of lies, and that George Washington never existed, and he forces his brainwashed subjects to agree with his lies.
  • Large Ham: Every word out of his mouth is loud and his actions fill the screen. "They're not "cookies", they’re BISCUITS! Say it with me: BIIIII-SCUIIIIITS!"
  • Laughably Evil: He comes off as rather silly because of his bizarre illusions and generally being a very eccentric and outlandish British stereotype.
  • Lean and Mean: He’s a supervillain and he’s skinny as a rail in his young form. Subverted with his old form, which has a paunch.
  • Light Is Not Good: His outfit is mostly made of bright colors, including white, and he has bright red hair, but he’s a Card-Carrying Villain.
  • The Ludovico Technique: He has the Titans strapped to chairs that keep their eyes open to prevent them from avoiding the hypno-screens. Bonus points for being an Actor Allusion.
  • The Man Behind the Curtain: He's truly a frail, pathetic old man hiding behind holograms to make himself seem young, cool, and awesome.
  • Master of Illusion: His "Reality Warper" powers are actually illusions and devices meant for that effect.
  • Mind Control: Via his hypno-screens, which can induce effects as varied as reducing the victim to a mindless vegetable or convince them that they're really British.
  • Motive Decay: In his first appearance, he wants to kill the Titans because he’s irritated by them fighting crime and saving lives. In his second appearance, he wants to “reclaim” Jump City in the name of England and hypnotize everyone into acting British.
  • Non-Action Guy: As his old self, he stays away from combat. When he steals Robin's youth, he's more actiony.
  • Orcus on His Throne: In "Revolution", he barely does anything after he's stolen Robin's youth and set his plan into motion. Instead, he just stands by until the Titans figure out how to take him down.
  • Robot Master: In both the episodes where he’s the main antagonist, he uses robot minions to try and destroy the Titans.
  • Sadist Teacher: In "Mad Mod", his first appearance, when he traps the Titans in a VR school with Everything Trying to Kill You.
  • School Uniforms are the New Black: His younger form after stealing Robin's youth has one of these on.
  • Scooter-Riding Mod: The crux of his villainous gimmick. He actually rides a scooter to get away from being pursued.
  • Shout-Out: Everything he does is a tribute to some aspect of British pop culture from Monty Python to Yellow Submarine.
  • Stronger with Age: Averted, as Mad Mod is only a physical threat when he can suck out someone else's youth; everything else he does turns out to be either the result of machines he controls or purely fake.
  • Stupid Evil: In his first appearance, he successfully knocks out the Titans with knockout gas, but instead of just killing them while they’re unconscious, he takes them to his lair and waits for them to wake up so he can “teach them a lesson” before he finishes them off.
  • Troll: He enjoys mocking the Titans. In "Revolution", after using his cane to turn Robin into an old man who’s too weak to stand up, he mockingly holds his cane just out of Robin’s reach and tells him to try and take it.
  • Unexplained Recovery: A non-death-related example. After "Revolution", he’s somehow become young again with no explanation. It’s never stated if he stole another person’s youth like he did to Robin, or if he found a way to become young again without stealing someone else’s youth.
  • Vampiric Draining: Steals Robin's youth in "Revolution".
  • Villain Decay: He went from the main villain of two episodes to another Brotherhood mook.
  • Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: In his first appearance, he knocks out the Titans with knockout gas, but instead of killing them while they’re unconscious, he takes them to his lair and waits for them to wake up so he can have some fun with them first.
  • Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: As an old man, his eyes are yellow instead of white, and he’s a supervillain.

    Control Freak 

Control Freak

Voiced by: Alexander Polinsky Other voice actors

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A geeky villain wannabe who is obsessed with TV, video games, and everything else geek culture-related.


  • Acrofatic: He's quite skilled with martial arts despite that couch potato physique he's got going on.
  • Affably Evil: He has a few moments, like bonding with Beast Boy over movies and excitedly congratulating Titans East for overcoming the challenges he set up for them.
  • Arch-Enemy: Sees his relationship with the Titans as this. However, he's the only one to believe it.
  • Ascended Fanboy: Though a villainous version, it's quite obvious he's a big fanboy of the Teen Titans; the Titans East even lampshade it.
  • Awesome by Analysis: He attempts this in his third appearance, where he reveals he has passed his time in jail analyzing the Titans' powers, then developing exactly the weapons and gadget required to counter them. Unfortunately for him, he comes back right when they're absent fighting the Brotherhood of Evil, leaving to replace them the Titans East, whose powers and weaknesses don't match Control Freak's gadgets at all. He then takes some time to analyze the Titans East's weaknesses, and devises new challenges based around them.
  • The Bad Guy Wins: As revealed in the Teen Titans Go! episode "The Fourth Wall", he used his reality-warping powers to rewrite the Titans' entire universe. However, it should be noted that Teen Titans Go! has been known to have a decidedly inconsistent canon and that it is explicitly shown as a separate universe from the 2003 cartoon in Teen Titans Go! To the Movies and Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans.
  • Baddie Flattery: Taken to a disturbing extent in "For Real" — when questioning the replacement Titans where the originals were, the satirical, nerdy villain went into a lengthy montage describing the characteristics of (and dressing as) each and every Titan. He later goes fanboy-crazy over the Titans East, so much so that he can't resist teleporting himself in front of them to compliment them after they just survived all his "tests" and attempts to blow up the city.
    Aqualad: You sound more like a fanboy than a nemesis.
  • Beware the Silly Ones: The guy has some serious tech, and even Cyborg acknowledges that. His remote even makes him a low-level Reality Warper. That the Titans don't take him seriously likely has nothing to do with his abilities and everything to do with his personality.
  • Big Bad Wannabe: He believes himself to be the Titans' archenemy and tries hard to be a great supervillain, but they don’t even acknowledge him as a villain. When leaving a list of all their enemies to the Titans East's attention, they don't even bother putting him on it (despite Puppet King, a one-shot villain, being listed).
  • Canon Foreigner: He was created for the series.
  • Card-Carrying Villain: He is possibly the funniest example of this: A fat representation of an overly-obsessed fanboy who's only motivation is being seen as the Titans’ nemesis by the Titans themselves! He's rarely a threat because of this, but because of his reality-warping powers he'd probably be one of their most dangerous foes if he just got serious and had a firm goal in mind rather than just getting the Titans’ attention.
  • Dude, Where's My Respect?: In "For Real", he’s outraged at learning the Titans think so little of him that they didn’t even include him on their list of enemies. Especially when he sees that they included the Puppet King, a villain they only fought once, when Control Freak had fought them twice.
  • Evil Is Petty: He once attacked a woman for not knowing a thing about a TV show that he enjoyed watching.
  • Evil Redhead: His hairline is receding, but what's there is red.
  • Fanboy: Of various TV shows and movies, that he takes quite seriously. As the Titans East point out in "For Real", he also acts like a fanboy to the Titans, excitedly ranting about their abilities. At the end of the episode he also geeks out over how impressive the Titans East are.
  • Fat Bastard: As part of his stereotypical nerd character, he is a jerkass with a lot of body fat.
  • Gadgeteer Genius: He's smart enough to develop machines that grant him limited Reality Warper abilities and allow him to enter the realm of television.
  • Geek: He is fascinated with science-fiction shows, collectible toys, etc.
  • Improbable Weapon User: His main weapon is a super-advanced TV remote which can manipulate reality.
  • Inexplicably Awesome: He has absolutely no backstory whatsoever, and there's zero explanation as to how he gets the materials and resources to create the reality-warping inventions he makes, as well as how they even work.
  • Large Ham: He delivers most of his lines in a loud, hammy voice.
  • Laughably Evil: While he can be a genuine threat, his general hamminess, obsession with pop-culture, and hopeless attempts to get the Titans to take him seriously make him absolutely hilarious.
  • Lethal Joke Character: He’s a fat nerd who uses a high-tech TV remote for a weapon, but he can still be a threat.
  • Mysterious Past: Absolutely nothing is revealed about his backstory.
  • Not-So-Harmless Villain: He's quite the competent Gadgeteer Genius who can turn out to be a real threat, as shown in his second appearance and during his second confrontation with the Titans East. This is especially the case in the Trapped in TV Land episode, where he's pretty much a Reality Warper with complete control over the dimension and utterly thrashes the Titans where he was previously incompetent. If GO is to be believed then he accomplished what no villain ever could and defeated the Titans, by canceling the series.
  • Offended by an Enemy's Indifference: He gets upset when he finds out that the Titans didn't put his name on their Enemies List, even though Puppet King, who made far fewer appearances than him, is on it.
  • Screams Like a Little Girl: In "For Real", when he breaks into Titans Tower, he gets startled by Silkie and humorously screams in a womanly, high-pitched voice.
  • Translator Microbes: He uses his remote to make Más and Menos speak English instead of Spanish.
  • Unknown Rival: In his introduction episode, he immediately addresses the Titans as his long-time nemeses... only for Beast Boy to turn around and ask the others who the hell he is.
  • Villain Respect: Even though they’re his enemies, he comes to greatly admire the Titans, and later the Titans East as well.
  • Villainous Crush: He thinks Robin will never appreciate Starfire.

    Killer Moth 

Killer Moth

Voiced by: Thomas Haden Church ("Date with Destiny"), Marc Worden ("Can I Keep Him?") Other voice actors

Powers/Abilities: Flight, enhanced strength, genetic engineering

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A Mad Scientist who schemes to take over the city, who would likely succeed if he had a better gimmick and if he wasn't wrapped around the finger of his daughter. As is, they're comic-relief villains.


  • Adaptational Badass: This is the most threatening incarnation of Killer Moth throughout the various DC Universes and since he's still kind of bumbling, that's saying something.
  • Affably Evil: He seems to be very polite. He's also a good father to Kitten, and takes care of her while still about to create his Evil Plan. He also feeds his moths, and makes sure their health is good.
  • Ambiguously Human: It's not exactly clear if he's wearing a costume or he really is some kind of moth creature. If he is the latter, the fact that he has a human daughter could imply he used to be human himself.
  • Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In "Date with Destiny", he threatens to destroy the City unless the following three demands are met:
    "The city will declare me ruler, the Teen Titans will surrender and Robin... will take this lovely young lady to her junior prom."
  • Bad Boss: To Silkie. He repeatedly whipped him and called him a worthless maggot.
  • Badass Boast: "Patience, my children. Soon, you shall wreck the havoc you crave. Soon, I shall have the power I deserve. Soon, the city shall bow down to its new master. Killer Moth! (Evil Laugh)".
  • Big Bad Wannabe: He tries to be a threatening villain, and mostly fails at it due to his unwillingness to discipline his daughter, and being overshadowed by her. Then again, this gets subverted, as it is shown that he is not one to underestimate. He has taken out the Teen Titans by himself, and was damn close at succeeding in his plan, even with his daughter getting in the way.
  • Composite Character: Whether it's a costume or not, his appearance and traits that are even the least more intimidating bring his other alter-ego Charaxes to mind.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: For what it's worth, he cares about Kitten. He also seems to care about his moths, feeding them to make them stay in shape.
  • Evil Genius: He created both his army of moths, and his plan to rule the city, which would have succeeded, if not for a few incidents.
  • Evil Is Hammy: Definitely! He'll Badass Boast during his near-successful schemes.
  • Evil Plan: He formulates the plan to conquer the city with his army of mutant moths in "Date with Destiny", although Kitten intervenes with her desire for a date to the prom.
  • Flight: Thanks to his wings.
  • Large Ham: In his first episode, he goes on melodramatic evil rants like a typical cartoon supervillain.
  • Lightning Lash: He used a laser whip to whip Silkie while riding him.
  • Macabre Moth Motif: He has the appearance of a moth, though it's debatable over whether or not it's a costume, and utilizes an army of mutant moths in his plan to take over the city.
  • Mad Scientist: He created his mutant moth army himself.
  • Moth Menace: He has an army of vicious mutant moths as his henchbeasts.
  • No Ontological Inertia: His moths revert to larvae at the end of the episode, of their own accord.
  • Not-So-Harmless Villain: He may see ridiculous with his moth motif and the way he lets his daughter order him around, but he can put up a fight and his mutant moths are dangerous.
  • Rogues' Gallery Transplant: He was a Batman foe in the comics, though it is worth noting that his scheme mostly targeted Robin.
  • Shout-Out: His design in this show owes just as much or more to Kamen Rider as it does to his comic book counterpart.
  • The Stoic: Tends to be the strong silent type.
  • Super-Strength: In “Date With Destiny”, he breaks down the door to Kitten’s bedroom, and in “Can I Keep Him?”, he punches through the roof of a building.

    Kitten 

Kitten

Voiced by: Tara Strong Other voice actors

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The spoiled daughter of Killer Moth, who would be your perfectly typical Alpha Bitch if not for her active participation in her father's villainous schemes. However, she seems less interested in actually taking over the city and more in just getting whatever she wants.


  • Abhorrent Admirer: She acts as one to Robin in her debut episode, being the one to force her father to blackmail Robin into going as her date for the prom and actively flirting with him. Although, she immediately loses interest in him when Fang asks her to get back together with him. In the tie-in comic series, she says that she and Fang are on a break, and she goes back to throwing herself at Robin.
  • Alpha Bitch: She's a Spoiled Brat who always wants to get her way, has her father under her thumb, and is even blonde to boot.
  • Ambiguously Human: She looks like a normal teenage girl and doesn't seem to have any powers, but her dad being Ambiguously Human himself calls what exactly she is into question.
  • Attention Whore: She yells out her conversation with one particular person just to get everyone else's attention.
  • Berserk Button:
    • Getting dumped.
    • Someone ruining her dress.
  • Bratty Teenage Daughter: She's introduced as throwing a tantrum towards her father about the terrible ordeal of having to go to the prom on her own after Fang dumping her, establishing her character and their relationship right off the bat.
  • Bullying a Dragon: She's a normal human being who attacks Starfire, a Tamaranean with super strength, the power of flight and starbolts, with no weapons on hand and does it again when Starfire ruins her dress. It can be safe to say that she was lucky Starfire didn't use any of these powers on her other than to shoot the moth trigger out of her hand. She also yells at her father and makes demands of him, despite the fact that he’s a dangerous supervillain with super strength.
  • Canon Foreigner: She was created for the series; Killer Moth does not have any children in the comics.
  • Color Motif: Pink. She wears a pink hair and, she wears pink pajamas in her room, her prom dress is pink, her bedroom and everything in it is pink, she drives a pink limo in “Revved Up”, and in issue 41 of the comic series, two of the villain identities she uses are Marionette, who wears a pink-and-black costume, and Pink X, a female version of Red X with pink hair and pink X’s on her costume. She also uses a pink controller as Marionette and a pink energy whip as Pink X.
  • Costume Inertia: She wore a prom dress for a dance in her first appearance, but is still wearing it in all her appearances after that. Subverted in the comic series, where she wears other outfits.
  • Daddy's Little Villain: She doesn't surpass her father in ambition or power, but in jerkass-ness. This is a girl who put the entire city in danger of being eaten alive by giant bugs to get her boyfriend to take her back.
  • Expy: In the tie-in comics, she becomes one of Duela Dent by masquerading as the daughters of numerous villains.
  • Faux Affably Evil: In comparison to her father, who's much more Affably Evil, she is only pretending to be nice when everyone around her is paying attention to her.
  • Freudian Excuse: Go! shows that Kitten became more and more spoiled by demanding more and more from her father all because he never gave her the thing she truly wanted: time to spend with her as a father. She hilariously then says the Titans could never understand, as "All you goody-goody superhero types probably come from lovey-dovey, well-adjusted, perfectly normal families!" Cue looks of disbelief from the Titans.
  • Gag Lips: She gains these when she puckers up to kiss Robin. They resume their shape once Robin blocks her lips with his finger.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: She constantly gets ticked off.
  • Half-Human Hybrid: If Killer Moth's appearance isn't solely from a costume, then Kitten would be this, though she doesn't look it in the slightest. Also, Fang has a Giant Spider for a head.
  • Hate Sink: A Spoiled Brat and Attention Whore who is demanding towards her father, creepily possessive towards Robin, and is just an overall unpleasant person. Averted in the Go! sequel comics, which humanizes her slightly more.
  • Hidden Depths: One issue of Go! mentions that despite her Alpha Bitch trappings, Kitten is a ballet dancer and plays the piano, and that she's angry and hurt that her father missed her recitals, plus various other events like her birthday.
  • Interspecies Romance: If you don't count Trouble in Tokyo, she and Fang (though nobody can be completely sure on what either of them actually are) are the only characters in the show who kiss onscreen.
  • It's All About Me: In her debut episode, she doesn't care about her father's evil plans and only uses them because she wants a date for the prom.
  • Jerkass: Practically every line of dialogue from her is either a selfish demand, a threat, or a whiny complaint.
  • Leitmotif: She has a bumblegum pop/techno theme as befits her disgustingly perky Alpha Bitch nature.
  • Lightning Lash: She uses a laser whip just like her dad to attack Starfire in “Calling All Titans!”. She uses a pink laser whip as Pink X.
  • Limited Wardrobe: Her primary outfit is her prom dress, which she continues to wear after prom.
  • Missing Mom: She seems to live only with her father, making the status of her mother ambiguous.
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: If she hadn't insisted on taking Robin to the prom as her Captive Date, the Titans wouldn't have had time to find "Daddy" and his moths, thus stalling the destruction.
  • Nightmare Fetishist: She loves Fang to the point where she forces Robin to go to the prom with her to make him jealous enough to try and take her back. Fang has an entire giant spider for a head.
  • Operation: Jealousy: She forces Robin into taking her to the prom so that Fang will get jealous enough to intervene. He does and they kiss.
  • Outlaw Couple: She and Fang are seen together in a cameo participating in Ding-Dong Daddy’s race in "Revved Up".
  • Pink Means Feminine: She wears pink outfits, her bedroom and everything in it is pink, she drives a pink limo, and she has stereotypically girly concerns like getting a date to the prom.
  • Scarpia Ultimatum: She offers one to Robin in "Date with Destiny": Kiss her or the moths eat the city. Naturally, he refuses.
  • Spoiled Brat: She gets her father to give her whatever she wants, even if it means having to modify his Evil Plan to accommodate her Operation: Jealousy gambit to get Fang to take her back.
  • Took a Level in Badass:
    • She takes one in her brief appearance in "Calling All Titans"; she gets to control moths and fight with a laser whip like her father.
    • Takes an even bigger one in Go!, where she's developed physical combat skills to the point of holding her own against Robin (as "Pink X".)
  • Took a Level in Kindness: In her second-to-last appearance in the Go! comics, the Titans help her resolve some issues she has with Killer Moth. She seems grateful, and in her final appearance, she's shown to be a civilian contact to the Titans on their communicators, indicating she's pulled a Heel–Face Turn or at the very least respects them a little now.
  • Ugly Guy, Hot Girlfriend: She looks like a moderately attractive, ordinary teenage girl, while Fang has a spider for a head.
  • The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter: She looks nothing like her father, although it's possible her father is wearing a costume and could resemble her under it.
  • Villainous Crush: She forces Robin to go on a date with her, calls him "Robbie-poo", and actively flirts with him, but she drops her crush when asks her to take him back. She resumes her crush on Robin in the tie-in comic series, claiming that she and Fang are on a break. In issue 15, she pretends to be kidnapped by Kwiz Kid so Robin will save her and she can woo him, though it doesn’t work. In issue 41, she flirts with him while fighting him as Pink X.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: Her appearance in "Calling All Titans" is left on a cliffhanger note for Starfire... and it's never seen how that's resolved or where Kitten went. note 

    Fang 

Fang

Voiced by: Will Friedle Other voice actors

Powers/Abilities: Giant spider for a head, which allows him to crawl on walls and shoot webbing and paralyzing poison.

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The boyfriend of Kitten, who's equally villainous as she is.


  • Body Horror: His head isn't even a spider's head—it's literally a full bodied spider. He can use it to quickly run up buildings, body dangling limply beneath it.
  • Canon Foreigner: He was created for the series.
  • Crazy Jealous Guy: His response to seeing Kitten with Robin is to attack him and tell him to keep his hands off her. Robin is more than happy to oblige.
  • Forgot About His Powers: Oddly enough, Fang only uses his paralyzing beams in the episode he debuts in, with his subsequent appearance in season 5 having him blasting webbing or using his spider-limbs. Despite how said attack could've subdued Jericho instantly and / or help him take down several of the Titans' allies in the final episode's big battle scene.
  • Four-Legged Insect: His spider head only has four legs.
  • Giant Spider: His head is nothing but a huge spider, legs and all.
  • Interspecies Romance: If you don't count Trouble in Tokyo, he and Kitten (though nobody can be completely sure on what either of them actually are) are the only characters in the show who kiss onscreen.
  • Non-Human Head: His body is human, but he has a spider for a head—not just a spider's head, an entire spider for a head.
  • Outlaw Couple: He and Kitten are seen together in a cameo participating in Ding-Dong Daddy’s race in "Revved Up".
  • The Paralyzer: One of his powers is shooting a beam-like shot of venom from his mouth, freezing victims on the spot in contorted positions.
  • Projectile Webbing: Has the ability to spit sticky webbing from it's mouth to subdue his opponents.
  • Satellite Character: He only shows up when he's with Kitten and makes no appearances outside of their relationship otherwise.
  • Super Spit: Can shoot massive globs of sticky webbing from his mouth.
  • Ugly Guy, Hot Girlfriend: He has a spider for a head, while his girlfriend is a moderately attractive, ordinary teenage girl.

    Professor Chang 

Professor Chang

Voiced by: James Hong Other voice actors

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An old Chinese criminal scientist who lives on the outskirts of the city. When first seen, he appears to be a retired villain, but he soon reveals that his diabolical desires never truly went away.


  • Brainwashed: By Brother Blood during the Titans East arc, as evidenced by his Mind-Control Eyes.
  • Corrupted Character Copy: Chang is very obviously Hannibal Chew. He has the same outfit as Chew, he's played by James Hong, and he's a scientist who works on villains. The difference is Chang is evil and legitimately dangerous.
  • Gone Horribly Wrong: He was hired by the Soviets to produce a super soldier, with the result being Red Star. Red Star turned out to be radioactive, which was unintended, and Chang was shown fleeing in horror along with his Soviet superiors when Red Star lost control of his powers for the first time and accidentally blew up a Russian city.
  • Greater-Scope Villain: Professor Chang was responsible for several important events - the experiments on Red Star that gave him his powers, Robin becoming Red X and subsequently the rise of the new Red X, Brother Blood becoming a cyborg, and the construction of the Brotherhood of Evil's freezing machine they intended to use on all the young heroes.
  • Greed: His chief motivation for his scientific work is selling it off to the highest bidder.
  • Mad Scientist: Not as much mad in terms of insanity but in sheer amorality.
  • Retired Monster: He appears this way early into his debut in "X", but then subverts it by becoming the episode's real villain.
  • Tuckerization: He's named after episode director Michael Chang.

Other Antagonists

    Wintergreen 

Wintergreen

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Slade's loyal butler.


  • Adaptational Wimp: In the comics, Wintergreen was Slade Wilson's mentor and an expert combatant. In the show, he's nothing more than his butler and doesn't seem to have any fighting skills. While he's seen running into battle at the Brotherhood of Evil's base, he's never actually seen fighting anyone.
  • Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He serves as Slade's butler in the first episode, but he almost never appears afterwards, aside from a few background cameos in Season 5 and "The Lost Episode".
  • Demoted to Extra: In the comics, he was the Alfred to Deathstroke's Batman. Here, he only has a few visual cameos.
  • Evil Old Folks: He’s an old man and he joins the Brotherhood of Evil.
  • Flat Character: He never has any lines or a significant role in any episode. He only serves Slade tea in the first episode and then makes non-speaking cameos as a member of the Brotherhood of Evil.
  • Personal Mook: To Slade. He serves him drinks and cleans up behind him.
  • The Voiceless: He never speaks onscreen.

    Puppet King 

Puppet King

Voiced by: Tracey Walter Other voice actors

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An evil, enchanted marionette who tried to trap the Teen Titans' souls in puppets and enslave their bodies so he can conquer the city.


  • Big "NO!": He yells a couple when his control is destroyed.
  • Creepy Monotone: He delivers most of his lines in a creepy, emotionless voice.
  • Evil Laugh: He can be heard laughing evilly when Starfire wakes up and decides to investigate what is going on.
  • Expy: He is loosely based on the Puppeteer, a minor Green Lantern villain who once attempted to get the Teen Titans to kill each other by taking control of Kid Flash, Cyborg, Starfire, and Wonder Girl.
  • Killed Mid-Sentence: Happens once his controller is destroyed and the magic giving him life wears off.
    Puppet King: "NOOOOO! The magic! Without it, I'm just a-" (falls to the ground lifeless)
  • Knight of Cerebus: His episode was pretty dark for one of the early episodes, with him trapping the Titans' souls in his puppet replicas and planning to kill them by destroying the puppets with their souls inside so that their bodies would be his to command forever. Bonus points for him enacting his evil plan at night.
  • Lorre Lookalike: His voice and giant eyes mark him as a caricature of Peter Lorre.
  • Marionette Master: When holding the puppets of Robin, Cyborg, and Beast Boy, Puppet King can control and command them as his minions.
  • Muscles Are Meaningless: While he is little more than a small living puppet, he is at least strong enough to fight and pin Kilowatt.
  • Mysterious Past: Absolutely nothing is known about his backstory.
  • The Napoleon: He’s a small, power-hungry puppet who has issues with being ordered around.
  • Perverse Puppet: He's an evil, living marionette.
  • Soft-Spoken Sadist: He speaks in a soft monotone, which makes him all the more sinister.
  • Take Over the City: He wanted to control the Titans’ bodies so he could do this.
  • Unexplained Recovery: He was rendered a lifeless puppet at the end of his first appearance, yet he returned in Season 5 as a member of the Brotherhood of Evil.
  • Villain Decay: From a major villain who has a Near-Villain Victory to a Brotherhood mook who can't even fight a depowered Mas.

    Trident 

Trident

Voiced by: Clancy Brown Other voice actors

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  • Adaptational Backstory Change/Adaptational Species Change: In the comics, Trident was three separate human criminals with no connection to Atlantis.
  • Adaptational Skimpiness: The Trident in the comics wore red-and-yellow costumes; this one wears nothing.
  • Atlantis: Where he's from.
  • Clone Angst: Beast Boy uses this to trick him and his clones into destroying each other.
  • Evil Sounds Deep: Courtesy of Clancy Brown.
  • Fatal Flaw: His Pride. He made an army of clones of himself because he thought there's no such thing as too much of a good thing. Beast Boy realizes the best way to deal with the army is to ask which one is the best, with all of the clones declaring themselves, individually, as the best. When Aqualad points out they can't all be the best and one has to be better than the others, they army knocks itself out in a quick brawl to determine the winner.
  • Fish People: A fish-man villain.
  • Full-Frontal Assault: He doesn't wear clothes.
  • A God Am I: He views himself as a perfect being, and thus plans to rule over everyone else.
  • Me's a Crowd: He uses toxic waste to create clones of himself.
  • Prongs of Poseidon: Much like his namesake, he uses a trident as his weapon.
  • Unexplained Recovery: Somehow survived his cave collapsing.
  • Villain Decay: He's demoted to a Brotherhood lackey in the final season.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: The last time we see Trident, he's made multiple copies of himself to overwhelm Beast Boy and Aqualad. While the original returned in season 5, no word on what happened to those clones.

    Warp 

Warp

Voiced by: Xander Berkeley Other voice actors

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A thief from 100 years in the future who travels back in time to steal priceless artifacts.


  • Adaptational Nationality: Judging by his accent, it's safe to say he isn't French like he was in the comics.note 
  • Adaptational Superpower Change: His comics counterpart made portals that allowed travel to different locations but not through time.
  • Composite Character: He has far more in common with the DC comics villain Chronos than the Warp he's based on.
  • Conqueror from the Future: Technically he's more of a Thief From The Future, but hey, close enough.
  • Dimensional Traveler: Not only is he able to travel through time, but he can also travel through dimensions, as seen when he goes to Herald's dimension in Season 5.
  • Evil Genius: Smart enough to make a time-travelling battlesuit.
  • Fountain of Youth: He's reverted to an infant at the conclusion of his debut episode.
  • Greed: He's a time-travelling thief after artifacts that are even more valuable in his time.
  • Lean and Mean: He's a rather skinny supervillain.
  • Powered Armor: His battesuit equipped with a force-field generator, numerous futuristic weapons, and time travel.
  • Time-Traveling Jerkass: Mocks Starfire for assuming that history can be changed, and that he's doing anything wrong by going back in time to steal an artifact that disappeared anyway. Turns out he's wrong.
  • Unexplained Recovery: He was defeated 20 years in the future when his suit malfunctioned and turned him into a baby. How he returned to his original age is anyone’s guess.
  • Villain Decay: He's competent enough to take down the Titans in his first appearance, and it takes the future version of Robin to finally defeat him. When he returned in season 5 he's another Brotherhood lackey who can't even defeat Herald, who's fighting alone.
  • Wrong Time-Travel Savvy: His utter belief that time travel works by Stable Time Loop logic turns out to be completely wrong as Starfire returning to her time undoes the Bad Future her disappearance created.
  • You Can't Fight Fate: He firmly believes in "predestination", the idea that history is something that cannot be changed, and any attempts at altering history are simply meant to occur in the first place. He uses this reasoning to temporarily break Starfire's spirits, but she snaps out of it thanks to Nightwing, then manages to prove him wrong by stealing the device back and returning it to the past.
    Warp: One cannot damage history, because history cannot be changed. I went back in time to steal this because history says it disappeared. And history says it disappeared, because I went back to steal it. Past. Present. Future. It's all written in stone, my dear. And nothing you do can ever change it.

    Soto 

Soto

Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker Other voice actors

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  • Abhorrent Admirer: Towards Beast Boy in a non-romantic/sexual way.
  • Canon Foreigner: Created for the show.
  • I Just Want to Be Loved: All he wants is a pet, or at least some company.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: He enslaves Beast Boy as a pet and forces him to randomly change into various animals via a shock collar. Once freed, Beast Boy lays a beatdown on him as payback.
  • Made of Iron: He shows immense resistance to the Titans' attacks. Even after a successive attack by all five Titans at the end, his feelings seemed to be the only thing hurt (because Beast Boy abandoned him).
  • Super-Strength: Strong enough to use a tree as a weapon and overpower Cyborg with ease.
  • Tuckerization: He's named after series director Alex Soto.
  • Vague Age: It's unclear exactly how old Soto actually is. While he has the voice of a grown man and is smart enough to pilot a space ship, he has the emotional intelligence of a toddler, with his ship's controls even resembling various baby toys, and his suit resembling a onesie, buttflap included. So he's either an alien manchild, or a really deep voiced alien baby.

    Atlas 

Atlas

Voiced by: Keith David Other voice actors

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  • A.I. Is a Crapshoot: He's an evil robot.
  • Always Someone Better: From a purely engineering standpoint at least, he seems to be speced higher than Cyborg and it wasn't until the latter was able to push past his mechanical limitations that he finally defeated Atlas.
  • An Arm and a Leg: He loses a leg to Bushido in the season 5 finale, taking him out of the final battle.
  • Arm Cannon: One of his equippable weapons is an arm cannon that fired energy blasts.
  • Bad Boss: He treats his mechanic Spike like a slave, and beats him when he disobeys orders.
  • Basement-Dweller: Spends most of his time playing online video games in his underground dwelling.
  • Berserk Button: He really hates losing.
  • Broken Pedestal: He becomes one to Spike.
  • Canon Immigrant: He was created for the show, though as part of Cyborg's Dawn of DC series, he makes his comic debut in issue 3.
  • Combat Pragmatist: When Cyborg corners him in their last fight, he pulls out some electric cables from the ground to stun him and runs over to Spike, ordering to arm him with weapons in what was a straight fistfight.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: He responds to Cyborg beating him at an online video game by breaking into Titans Tower and assaulting him. When the other Titans intervene, he captures them in force field bubbles and refuses to release them unless Cyborg beats him in a proper rematch.
  • Dirty Coward: When Spike turns on him and frees the rest of the Titans, he tries to flee his fight with Cyborg. That said, when the Titans force him back into the duel, he fights fairly to the bitter end.
  • Entitled Bastard: He expects Spike to serve him even though he treats him terribly.
  • Evil Is Bigger: He’s a really big, evil robot who towers over the heroes.
  • Evil Is Petty: He attacked Cyborg and took his friends as “trophies” just because Cyborg beat him at a video game.
  • Evil Sounds Deep: Thanks to Keith David.
  • Exorcist Head: Since he’s a robot, he can rotate his head backwards.
  • Expy: Of the Astro Boy villain of the same name. He also resembles Guts Man.
  • Fantastic Racism: Against humans. Atlas thinks humans are weak and worthless, and he looks down on Cyborg for being half-human, claiming that half of nothing is still nothing.
  • Graceful Loser: When Cyborg wins their rematch, he surprisingly admits defeat and proclaims Cyborg to be the better robot.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: His lousy treatment of Spike backfires on him when Spike decides to quit working for him. Spike sets Robin, Starfire, Raven, and Beast Boy free from their force-fields, and without Spike, Atlas has no clue how to equip himself with his weapons.
  • Hypocrite: He's persistent about all his battles being fair fights. He’ll break his own rules when he's on the verge of defeat, though, such as using weapons in what was supposed to be a hand-to-hand fight.
  • I Lied: He kidnaps Cyborg’s friends and tells Cyborg he’ll release them if Cyborg faces him in a one-on-one rematch with no weapons. After Atlas beats him, he goes back on his promise to free the other Titans.
  • Jerkass: He’s an arrogant, violent bully who treats his loyal assistant like dirt, looks down on humans as being weak and worthless, and attacks Cyborg and kidnaps his friends just because Cyborg beat him in a video game. He also doesn’t keep his promise to set the Titans free, and makes Cyborg face him in a “fair” fight and breaks his own rules.
  • Lightning Bruiser: Cyborg outright admits Atlas is stronger and faster, which led him to believe he couldn't defeat him.
  • Robots Are Just Better: His core belief.
  • Sore Loser: His whole motivation for physically assaulting Cyborg and committing kidnapping is because Cyborg beat him in an online video game.
  • Super-Strength: Strong enough to lift and toss a whale, and overpower Cyborg (at first).
  • Unexplained Recovery: After he's defeated by Cyborg, the Titans and Spike leave him in state of disrepair. How he got fixed and recruited into the Brotherhood of Evil is left unanswered.
  • Ungrateful Bastard: Even though Spike helped Atlas and gave him compliments, Atlas showed him no respect or appreciation.
  • Unskilled, but Strong: While Atlas is a stronger, faster model of robot than Cyborg's technology can keep up with alone. But when he tries to add his own modular weapons when Spike refuses, he clearly can't tell which is which or how to attach them. Not to mention that when Cyborg overcomes his mechanical limits with Heroic Willpower, Atlas is helpless to defend himself against an equally strong but more skilled opponent. At the end of the fight, he's buried in rubble and pleading his surrender.
  • Villain Decay: From a villain who single-handedly defeated most of the Titans to a Brotherhood mook defeated easily by Bushido.

    Spike 

Spike

Voiced by: John DiMaggio Other voice actors

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  • Amazing Technicolor Population: He has grey skin.
  • Ambiguously Human: He's assumed to be human, but his boss is a sentient robot and at one point he condescendingly calls the Titans "humans", implying he might not be human. He also has gray skin.
  • Broken Pedestal: At first, he agrees with Atlas that he’s the best. He ends up changing his mind.
  • Canon Foreigner: Like his master, he was created for the show.
  • Heel–Face Turn: At first, he serves Atlas without question because he's "better than all of us". But Robin points out that he's the one who fixes Atlas, and thus Atlas is dependent on him, and yet he treats him like a slave. This causes Spike to rebel against his master.
  • Jet Pack: He uses one.
  • Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: He finally, finally turns on Atlas after getting abused and mistreated one time too many. Releasing the imprisoned Titans and withholding Atlas' cannons from him is just the first middle finger given to his ex-boss.
  • Monochromatic Eyes: He has these.

    Alien Woman 

Alien Woman/Cironielian Chrysalis Eater

Voiced by: Cathy Cavadini Other voice actors

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A shapeshifting extraterrestrial creature that, as her name would suggest, eats chrysalises, namely the chrysalis stage of a certain number of Tameranians. Unfortunately, Starfire is one of them.


  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: As the "Alien Woman", she gently assures Starfire that the transformation she is going through is a natural process... only so that she could be caught off-guard when she transforms into a "Chrysalis Eater" to devour her.
  • Exactly What It Says on the Tin: She has two identities, though neither of them are very imaginatively-named in the long run.
  • Extreme Omnivore: Implied; after the Titans rescued Starfire the Chrysalis eater managed to capture Cyborg and Raven in her grasp, where she then threatens to eat them in retaliation... despite Cyborg being made mostly of metal.
  • I'm a Humanitarian: She eats other self-aware creatures.
  • Just Desserts: After being defeated she receives this offscreen, courtesy of a Man-Eating Plant. Ironic, all things considered.
  • Killed Off for Real: Is eaten by a giant alien plant. Notably she wasn't recruited by the Brotherhood of Evil.
  • Light Is Not Good: As the "Alien Woman" she's a white-clad mystical woman who seems motherly and helpful.. while in truth, she wants to consume Starfire after she turned into a chrysalis.
  • Milky White Eyes: As the "Chrysalis Eater".
  • Monster of the Week: Appears in only one episode, though this can be forgiven because she appears to be eaten by an alien plant-monster at the end.
  • Mysterious Past: Nothing is revealed about the Cironiellian Chrysalis Eater and whether this is her true racial name along with why she would prefer to consume Chrysalises in the first place.
  • Mystical White Hair: Her humanoid form has white hair.
  • Mythology Gag: As the "Alien Woman", she bears a resemblance to the heroic character, White Witch.
  • One-Winged Angel: Her monstrous "Chrysalis Eater" form.
  • Sadist: As she’s about to eat Starfire, she hopes Starfire will scream, because the sound “whets her appetite”.
  • Terms of Endangerment: She calls Starfire “my dear” several times, both before and after revealing her true form and intentions.
  • Voluntary Shapeshifting: Has the ability to alternate between a large crab/spider-like creature and a humanoid woman with insectoid features.
  • White Hair, Black Heart: Her humanoid form has white hair, and she’s a sadistic predator.
  • White-Haired Pretty Girl: Her humanoid form.

    Master of Games 

Master Of Games

Voiced by: Jim Cummings Other voice actors

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  • Achilles' Heel: His amulet is easily breakable and immediately releases the captured heroes upon shattering, meaning he also loses his stolen powers.
  • All Your Powers Combined: His ruby amulet allows him to trap a hero/villain once they lose a battle, and he gains any powers or gadgets they have as a result.
  • Ascended Extra: He was a major antagonist in the Teen Titans video game.
  • Badass Boast: “Never challenge the master. I always win.”
  • Beast Man: He looks like a cross between a wolf and an ape.
  • Canon Foreigner: Was created for the show.
  • Dimensional Traveller: He can teleport young heroes and villains into his home dimension, and later joins the Brotherhood of Evil in the Titans' dimension.
  • Eviler than Thou: Gizmo the Enfant Terrible Gadgeteer Genius is one of the contestants he dupes into competing in his “tournament” and traps inside his amulet.
  • Expy: Of "The Beyonder" from Secret Wars (1984). Just like the Beyonder, he also teleports heroes and villains against their will to fight one another in a tournament.
  • Evil Sounds Deep: He's voiced by Jim Cummings, so this is a given.
  • Graceful Loser: He admits his defeat once Robin and the others manage to bring him to his knees, though given how he immediately starts another tournament afterward, it's most likely he was faking his sincerity to get the guys to leave.
  • Never Recycle Your Schemes: Averted at the end of his episode, where he starts another tournament, this time with heroines instead. Given how Raven, Starfire and Terra are alright in the following episodes, it's likely the exact same result happened: the girls kicking the Master's ass.
  • Smug Snake: He often gloats that he always wins, even when the odds are very much against him.
  • Villain Decay: From the main villain of an episode to a Brotherhood mook.

    Johnny Rancid 

Johnny Rancid

Voiced by: Henry Rollins Other voice actors

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    Glgrdsklechhh 

Glgrdsklechhh

Voiced by:: Dee Bradley Baker

Powers/Abilities: Shoots sticky green projectile glop

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Glgrdsklechhh is an alien and the ruler of the planet Drenthax IV.


  • Canon Foreigner: He doesn't have a comic book incarnation.
  • Fat Bastard: He is quite large, he also agrees to help carry out Blackfire's plan just as long as he gets a queen.
  • Interspecies Romance: He is shown to be married to Blackfire, much to the fans' surprise.
  • Its Pronounced Tro PAY: His name has a kind of sighing exhale sound at the end that isn't obvious from the spelling.
  • Strong Family Resemblance: To his babies he has with Blackfire.
  • Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: With Blackfire, according to New Teen Titans. He's a fat and green slime thing while she is quite the knock out.

    Malchior 

Malchior

Voiced by: Greg Ellis Other voice actors

Powers/Abilities: Flight, superhuman strength, impenetrable scales, fire breath, vast knowledge of magic, manipulative genius (all but the last two are when released only)

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A Sealed Evil in a Can dragon trapped in one of Raven's spellbooks, who tricked her into thinking he was a Sealed Good in a Can (and falling in love with him) so she'd set him free.


  • And I Must Scream: Malchior was trapped in a book for a thousand years, and is re-sealed within it at the end of the same episode he is introduced. Though he is freed once more in the final season, Herald banishes him to another dimension shortly after.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He pretends to be the good wizard, even showing off a dry wit and charming façade, when he's actually the evil dragon.
  • Canon Foreigner: Just like many of the villains in the series, he does not have a comic book incarnation.
  • Dark Is Evil: He intentionally subverts the Dark Is Not Evil.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Lets off a few, such as saying "ow" when Raven drops his book form on his spine, as well as his critique of Beast Boy's "Stank Ball" game.
  • Does This Remind You of Anything?: His entire character and plot was heavily similar to the dangers of online dating. Like an online predator or manipulator, Malchior doesn't use his real face with Raven. The page with the face of the wizard who imprisoned him was essentially a portrait he used to deceive Raven into thinking he was someone else. He posed as someone who could understand Raven to just get what he wanted, causing her to obsess over him and shut out the friends she had in person. And when he shows his true self and reveals what he really wanted, he immediately discards her, showing he never cared for her.
  • Didn't See That Coming: So damn sure of himself he didn't realise Raven learned how to reverse-engineer the undoing of his curse, not until it was too late.
  • Evil Brit: It's a played with case as he has the accent, but only when he's pretending to be the good wizard. When he goes dragon, the accent is much less noticeable behind the echoes and deepening of the voice.
  • Evil Sorcerer: Far more experience with magic than Raven and far fewer problems with using the dark stuff.
  • Expy: Evil mage that transforms into a purple-and-black dragon by the end? Hi, Maleficent.
    • Oh, hey to you too, Malefor. What's that, you also utilized a girl to do your bidding and were sealed away by someone? How about that.
  • Genius Bruiser: His knowledge of magic is vast as evidenced by he could fill Raven's whole room with the tomes detailing them all. His true form is also a dragon that can take just about everything the Titans throw at him and dish it back.
  • Kick the Dog: After braking Raven’s heart, he mockingly asks her if she’s going to cry.
  • Manipulative Bastard: Played Raven into thinking him a good guy and even exploited her feelings to make her love him.
  • Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The first syllable of his name is mal. As in bad.
  • Nigh-Invulnerability: He tanks out both physical and energy attacks like they are nothing.
  • Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: A dragon Sorcerer who pretends to be a Sealed Good in a Can.
  • Our Dragons Are Different: A shapeshifting dragon who can assume a humanoid form, and imprisoned inside a book.
  • Sealed Evil in a Can: What he really is, an evil dragon sealed in one of Raven's books.
  • Sealed Good in a Can: What he pretends to be, a good wizard sealed in one of Raven's books.
  • Super-Strength: Due to his size, he’s incredibly strong.
  • Trapped in Another World: The last time we saw him, he got sucked into Herald's dimension.
  • Too Powerful to Live: He's one of the most powerful villains in the whole series period with possibly only Trigon beating him. He shrugs off all the attacks that the Titans throw his way, he's an accomplished sorceror who outclasses Raven, and he's got the smarts to use it all effectively and play people like a fiddle. Notably, the only times on record he was defeated involved being sealed away in either a book or thrown into another dimension, since there doesn't seem to be any other way he could be stopped conventionally.
  • White Hair, Black Heart: He's a complicated example. The human image he uses is actually that of the good wizard who defeated him. Thus he is a white hair black heart who is pretending to be a white hair white heart of someone who really was white hair white heart.
  • Unexplained Recovery: How he got out of the book again and joined the Brotherhood of Evil is never answered.
  • Villain Decay: Puts up quite a fight against the Titans in his debut. Goes down almost effortlessly in season 5.
  • Would Hurt a Child: In the Titans vs. Brotherhood battle that ends season 5, Malchior breathes his flames towards Melvin, Timmy, and Teether. Twice. While the first time can be written off as him targeting Raven due to being angry with her over the events of "Spellbound" (Raven notably creates an energy shield around herself and the kids to block the flames), the second time, Raven isn't even near that area and Malchior still tries roasting the kids, anyway.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Gives a speech to Raven that now that he's free of the curse, he no longer needs her... and expects her to cry.

    Kardiak 

Kardiak

Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker

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A large robotic heart which can disguise itself as other machines, allowing it to get close to children so it can abduct them.


  • Canon Foreigner: He was created for the series.
  • Child Eater: He absorbs children into its body using its tentacles.
  • Combat Tentacles: He uses his tentacles to battle the Titans.
  • Flat Character: Kardiak just kind of… exists, and tries to abduct children with no explanation so that the Titans have something to fight.
  • Flight: He has the ability to fly through some technical feature.
  • Invasion of the Baby Snatchers: A child abductor that whisks victims away for an unknown purpose.
  • Mechanical Monster: A large robotic heart.
  • Mysterious Past: Absolutely nothing is revealed about his origins or why he wants to kidnap children. You find that aside from extremely base explanations, there is a lack of info on this villain and a whole lot of fan speculation.
  • Names to Run Away from Really Fast: A name that alludes to the heart can sound sinister.
  • Pulling Themselves Together: Raven rips him apart, but he reassembles after a few days.
  • Remember the New Guy?: When Kardiak first appears in "Spellbound", the Titans are already familiar with him.
  • Save the Villain: Though he can pull itself together, he’s saved by the Titans to avoid Raven's powers consuming the child inside of him at the time. Considering that he puts up no resistance when Raven is stopped and Robin broke its glass to save the kid, it can be assumed that what was happening was worse than it seemed.
  • Super-Strength: His tentacles are really strong.
  • Things That Go "Bump" in the Night: He preys on children, and we never learn why.
  • Villain Decay: Downplayed. Previously he was only ever bested by Raven's powers; by his next appearance, he’s defeated by Beast Boy. The Downplayed comes from the fact that we never saw the full fight, so it could have been a tough fight.
  • The Voiceless: He never talks.
  • Voluntary Shapeshifting: He can transform his tentacles, such as turning the end of one of his tentacles into a jack-in-the-box with a pink bunny in it.
  • Weapons That Suck: Its tentacles comes with suction tubes for sucking children into its core.
  • Would Hurt a Child: It goes hand-in-hand with a child devourer.
  • Xtreme Kool Letterz: Its name is "Cardiac" with the C's turned into K's.

    Adonis 

Adonis

Voiced by: Greg Cipes (human form), Dee Bradley Baker (werebeast form) Other voice actors

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  • Abhorrent Admirer: Towards Raven. In his introductory scene, he pins her to the ground, purrs seductively, and quips, "You're feisty!".
  • The Bully: Adonis acts like a macho bully and enjoys beating people up and making fun of them.
  • Butt-Monkey: He gets beat up every time he fights someone, and he usually gets defeated really quickly.
  • Canon Foreigner: He was created for the show.
  • Chest Insignia: He's got one.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: It seems to be a Running Gag that he's subjected to one in all four episodes he fights someone in. His debut have him being defeated single-handedly by Beast Boy, and later by an upgraded Cyborg with even less effort, he gets beaten by Pantha (even when he had Atlas helping him), and finally a third time when Herald opens a portal that strips him of his suit and taking him down in two seconds.
  • For the Evulz: In "Overdrive", he goes to a beach to attack people just for fun.
  • Freak Lab Accident: During his first fight with Beast Boy, they both got doused in chemicals that turned out to be experimental mutagen, granting both of them the ability to become werebeasts.
  • Gadgeteer Genius: He invented his battlesuit himself. In "Overdrive", he mentions he upgraded it to make it stronger.
  • Jerkass: Aside from being a supervillain, he has the personality of a Jerk Jock and likes to make fun of people for not being as “manly” as him.
  • Lean and Mean: Without his battlesuit or werebeast form, he's just a skinny wimp.
  • Nerdy Bully: He’s a scrawny nerd who uses a high-tech battlesuit to bully people.
  • Our Werebeasts Are Different: What he becomes after his initial fight with Beast Boy.
  • Powered Armor: His battlesuit which grants him Super-Strength.
  • Red Is Violent: Before joining the Brotherhood of Evil, he wears red armor, and he’s a violent supervillain who likes to beat people up.
  • Revenge: His Man-Beast form breaks into the tower to seek Beast Boy's out for a fight, presumably as a rematch following their fight in the chemical facility.
  • Third-Person Person: Adonis talks like this.
  • Tiny-Headed Behemoth: His armoured form grants him an oversized, muscular upper torso, powerful limbs and legs, but doesn't change the size of his head too much, giving off this vibe.

    Punk Rocket 

Punk Rocket

Voiced by: Greg Ellis

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  • Badass Normal: Without his guitar, he can hold his own against Robin, and could withstand being sucked into Herald's portal until Mas kicked him in.note .
  • Canon Foreigner: Was created for the show. Specifically, he was created for a half-length episode that was only viewable on the Postopia website as part of an ad campaign until it was released on the Trouble in Tokyo DVD.
  • Dreadful Musician: Even without the destruction, his sound blasts are unbearable to most listeners.
  • Evil Brit: He leaves England for America to spread his "Sounds of Chaos".
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: Beast Boy goads him into cranking his guitar's volume up to maximum, which overtaxes his sound system and short circuits his instrument.
  • Instrument of Murder: His electric guitar produces sound blasts powerful enough to disrupt Raven's magic and Cyborg's circuitry, and knock down Beast Boy as an elephant. He can also ride his guitar like a hoverboard.
  • Musical Assassin: He causes destruction and chaos with his powerful guitar.
  • No Celebrities Were Harmed: Based on Billy Idol.
  • Punny Name: Of Punk Rock.
  • Rotten Rock & Roll: He's an evil rock guitarist who's weaponized his music.
  • Spiky Hair: Fitting for an evil punk musician.

    Katarou 

Katarou

Voiced by: Keone Young Other voice actors

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  • Badass Normal: He beats Robin in their first fight and succeeds in capturing Bushido.
  • Bald of Evil: He's got no hair.
  • Batman Gambit: He lied about having trained with the True Master so that Robin would seek her out and he could use him to cheat his way up the mountain.
  • Canon Foreigner: Was created for the show.
  • Cheaters Never Prosper: He tries to see the True Master by following Robin up the mountain so he won't have to face the guardians. The True Master refuses to ever train him.
  • Ninja: An evil one.
  • Shout-Out: His outfit is similar to that of Deadman.
  • Villain Decay: His debut requires Robin to train for literally a whole episode to defeat him. In his second appearance he's a Brotherhood lackey taken down almost effortlessly.

    Krall 

Krall

Voiced by: Michael Clarke Duncan Other voice actors

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  • Abhorrent Admirer: To Sarasim; his evil deeds are done in part to win her hand in marriage.
  • Barbarian Hero: Was the champion of his tribe.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Appears to be loyal to his tribe, but is actually scheming to gain power.
  • Canon Foreigner: Was created for the show.
  • Deal with the Devil: He awakens a witch who'd been cursed with eternal sleep and forces her to serve him.
  • Engineered Heroism: He forces said witch to make him look heroic in front of the others and get their veneration through defeating monsters that the witch made herself.
  • Evil Is Petty: Once he's turned into a monster and gains the upper hand against Cyborg, the Witch points out that the portal back to the present time is still open. Krall refuses to send him back and fully intends to kill Cyborg as payback for upstaging him at every battle.
  • Evil Sounds Deep: Thanks to Michael Clarke Duncan.
  • Fake Ultimate Hero: He originally wanted to become one of these through Engineered Heroics, but failed. After he gets turned into a monster, he decides that he’ll just conquer his village instead.
  • Humanoid Abomination: When he asked the witch for more strength, she merged him with several of her monsters, turning him into this.
  • Killed Off for Real: Was permanently killed at the end of a mighty battle, with his demise chronicled in one of Raven's books. He's in fact absent in Season 5, despite the Witch being present.
  • King Mook: His monster form is a larger, humanoid version of the slime monsters conjured by the Witch.
  • Master Swordsman: As expected of warriors of his time.
  • Super-Strength: In his monster form.
  • Then Let Me Be Evil: After being transformed into a monster, he decides that if he can't be his village’s champion, then he'll be their conqueror.

    Witch 

Witch

Voiced by: Scott Menville

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  • Bug War: Her summoned minions are giant, beetle-like insects, whom she sent to terrorize a barbarian-age village at Krall's behest.
  • Canon Foreigner: Was created for the show.
  • Jackass Genie: Zigzagged. She's a jackass to her master Krall by granting his wishes in ways that go against his favor. But she's generous to Cyborg, offering him a portal back to his own time with no conditions.
  • Literal Genie: Krall asks to be a hero, and she summons more monsters than he can fight. He asks for the strength to defeat them, and she summons Cyborg from the future. He asks for the strength to defeat Cyborg, and she merges him with her monsters.
  • Maker of Monsters: She can conjure monsters made of slime.
  • Outside-Context Problem: Does this by bringing Cyborg from the future to fight her monsters.
  • Pay Evil unto Evil: How she deals with Krall.
  • Power at a Price: States this to Krall.
  • Summon Magic: She can summon hordes of monsters.
  • Thinking Up Portals: Can create these through different time periods. It's presumably how she traveled to the present for her cameo in Season 5.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: Even though she was seen joining the Brotherhood of Evil at the end of "Homecoming - Part 2", she doesn't participate in the fights against the Titans in "Calling All Titans" and "Titans Together".
  • Wicked Witch: Subverted, as her only evil deeds are done in servitude to Krall, and she does them in ways to screw him over.

    The Source 

The Source

Voiced by: Rob Paulsen Other voice actors

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  • Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When Beast Boy threatens to eat him, he begs for his life.
  • Aliens Steal Cattle: Does this to power his technology.
  • Bizarre Alien Biology: He's a block of sapient space tofu, and he can generate "newfu" from his body, and never runs out thanks to his Healing Factor.
  • Canon Foreigner: Was created for the show.
  • Expy: Of Zim.
  • For the Evulz / It's What I Do: Wants to destroy the Earth just because “it’s his way”.
  • Just Desserts: Gets eaten by Cyborg.
  • Large Ham: And a hilarious one at that.
  • Sapient Eat Sapient: Beast Boy uses this threat to blackmail him into thwarting his own invasion. Happens for real when Cyborg eats him by accident.
  • Technopath: Can control his alien technology with his mind.
  • Unexplained Recovery: Despite being eaten by Cyborg at the end of his first episode, he later reappears alongside the other enemies of the Titans recruited by the Brotherhood of Evil.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: Even though he was seen joining the Brotherhood of Evil at the end of "Homecoming - Part 2", he doesn't participate in the fights against the Titans in "Calling All Titans" and "Titans Together".

    Bob 

Bob

Voiced by: Tom Kane Other voice actors

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    Locrix 
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    Mother Mae-Eye 

Mother Mae-Eye

Voiced by: Billie Hayes Other voice actors

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  • Actor Allusion: She's voiced by Billie Hayes, who played the witch Wilhelmina W. Witchiepoo on H.R. Pufnstuf.
  • Almighty Mom: She acts as one as she beats down the H.I.V.E Five.
  • Backstory Invader: Due to her magic, the Titans act like she's always been there to take care of them.
  • Captain Ersatz: She's based on the Wicked Witch from Hansel and Gretel. She also takes inspiration from Mother Grimm of Legends of the Dark Knight.
  • Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are: Says this verbatim while chasing the Titans.
  • Crapsaccharine World: She transforms Titans Tower into a Sugar Bowl that hides the fact that she uses her magic to entrance her victims and make them suggestible to the point of allowing her to turn them into pies.
  • Emotion Eater: She feeds off of unconditional love from her victims.
  • Evil Matriarch: Well, kinda.
  • Faux Affably Evil: She pampers each of the Teen Titans like babies, speaks to them in a motherly tone, tells them that she loves them... and tries to bake and eat them.
  • Glamour Failure: Starfire is able to see through her magic when she gets hit on the head.
  • Good Colors, Evil Colors: Her illusion form has colors of red, white and pink to give it a Mrs. Claus look, while her true form has green skin and dresses in orange, black, and purple.
  • Mind Control: She brainwashes the Titans into blindly obeying her and loving her unconditionally.
  • Mind-Control Eyes: While under her control, the Titans and the Hive Five have pink eyes
  • Mythology Gag: She keeps styling Robin's hair to that of his Golden and Silver Age counterparts.
  • One-Woman Army: She single-handedly defeats the H.I.V.E. Five using only her Handbag of Hurt.
  • Pay Evil unto Evil: Robin decides the best thing to do with her pie is to give it to the Hive Five.
  • Punny Name: Of the children's game "Mother, May I?".
  • Reality Warper: Besides mind control, this is her main magic power.
  • Safety Worst: Before letting the Titans go out to fight the Hive Five, she makes Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Starfire wear ridiculous protective clothing that hinders their ability to fight. She also replaces Robin's gadgets with baby rattles & pacifiers and makes Raven wear a frilly sundress.
  • Soap Punishment: Does this to Starfire after she breaks her conditioning and attempts to tell the other Titans what she's really doing.
  • Third Eye: Her monstrous form has a third eye over her forehead.
  • Uncertain Doom: During the final battle against the Brotherhood of Evil she poofs away at one point. It's unknown if this was to signify her defeat, or if she pulled a Screw This, I'm Outta Here.
  • Villain Decay: She returns in season 5, but barely contributes anything in the final showdown. And dissappears without a trace.
  • Wicked Witch: A supervillain one.

    Andre Le Blanc 

Andre LeBlanc

Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker Other voice actors

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  • Adaptational Wimp: He's more of a threat in the comics, where he often evaded capture and put his pursuers into death traps.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: Titans East defeats him without breaking a sweat in his debut. He's hardly any better in the season 5 finale, fainting instantly after seeing Beast Boy and the other Titans defeat his fellow villains. Which really begs the question of qualifications into the Brotherhood...
  • Expy: Of Bomb Voyage from The Incredibles, being a bank-robbing villain with a French accent and specializing in throwing explosives.
  • French Jerk: He's French and he's rude.
  • Greed: He's a jewel thief, so of course.
  • Harmless Villain: He's captured by Titans East almost immediately.
  • Light Is Not Good: He dresses in white clothes, and his surname means "The White", but he's a master jewel thief.
  • Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Was an enemy of Red Star in the comics.

    Ding Dong Daddy 

Ding Dong Daddy

Voiced by: David Johansen Other voice actors

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  • Adaptational Late Appearance: He was among the first villains faced by the original roster of the Teen Titans (Robin, Speedy, Kid Flash, Aqualad and Wonder Girl) in the comics. In this continuity, he doesn't show up until the fifth and final season. Notably, he and Mad Mod were both villains fought by the original Titans in the comics, but he shows up long after Mad Mod first appeared in this show when he predated Mad Mod in the comics.
  • Alliterative Name: Ding Dong Daddy.
  • Badass Driver: A bad guy one.
  • Beatnik: Talks like he's from the 1950s daddy-o.
  • De-power: Since it would have been easy for Raven and Starfire to win the race by flying, he disables their flight with some kind of energy ray.
  • Disco Dan: He's a hot-rodder stuck in the 1950s.
  • The Dragon: He's got gremlins at his disposal.
  • Fat Bastard: He's an overweight bad guy.
  • Hammerspace: His car is equipped with weapons that when combined seemingly take up more volume than the car itself.
  • No Celebrities Were Harmed: Much like his comics counterpart, he's based on Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, legendary hot rod artist.
  • Offscreen Moment of Awesome: His theft of Robin's secret briefcase is a villainous example.
  • Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: He shoots down Starfire and Raven for flying and tells them that's against the rules for car racing. His gadgets obviously aren't for playing fair either.
  • Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?: He has a mobile pit stop at the ready in case his car gets damaged.
  • X Called; They Want Their Y Back: Uses this insult to taunt Cyborg.

    Cheshire 

Cheshire

Powers/Abilities: Martial Arts, Agility, Acrobatics, Enhanced Speed, Invisibility

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  • Adaptational Nice Guy: Well, her comic counterpart nuked Qurac just because, it isn't hard to be less evil than that.
  • Adaptational Modesty: Cheshire in the comics has an outfit that shows off her ample bosom and cleavage, but here her robe covers up her chest. Justified, as this Cheshire is a younger incarnation.
  • Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the comics, she and Speedy fall in love and have a child together. Here, they just fight.
  • Adaptational Superpower Change: Her poisonous fingernails are replaced with metal claws, and her stealth skills are replaced with invisibility.
  • Arsenal Attire / Prehensile Hair: She uses her sleeves and pony tails as weapons.
  • Cheshire Cat Grin: Her mask, which was popular enough to transfer to the comics and the Young Justice (2010) cartoon.
  • Demoted to Extra: In the comics, she was one of the Titans' deadliest foes. Here, she doesn't even get to speak.
  • Dodge the Bullet: She dodged all of Speedy's explosive arrows with little effort.
  • Dragon Lady: A villainess who ruthlessly kicks ass in a kimono.
  • Flat Character: She has no lines, and nothing is revealed about her personality besides that she’s evil.
  • Invisible Jerkass: She can become invisible except for the eyes and grinning mouth of her mask, and she's a villainess.
  • Leg Focus: Thanks to her miniskirt-kimono.
  • Mysterious Past: We never learn her origin, or anything else about her.
  • Slasher Smile: Her mask has one.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: When the Brotherhood of Evil is defeated, she isn't seen amongst the captured villains.
  • Wolverine Claws: She fights with these attached to gauntlets wrapped around her forearms.

    Psimon 

Psimon

Powers/Abilities: Psychic Projection, Portal Generation, Telekinesis, Teleportation, Flight

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    Phobia 

Phobia

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  • Demoted to Extra: In the comics, she was a significant member of the Brotherhood of Evil. Here, she only has a few cameos and doesn't even get to show off her powers.
    • Ascended Extra: However, she was the main antagonist in the last issue of the tie-in comics.
  • Psychic Powers: She can induce her victims to sleep and create illusions of their greatest fears.

    Trogaar 

Trogaar

Voiced by: Gary Sturgis Other voice actors


  • Adaptational Skimpiness: He wears less armor than his comic counterpart, appearing to wear nothing other than a helmet and a piece of chest armor.
  • Human Traffickers: A sci-fi version, but he appear to be the leader of alien slavers given the number of captives on his ship (one of them being Starfire).
  • Rank Scales with Asskicking: The leader of the Gordanians is also the only one who gives the then newly-foormed Titans trouble. He knocks out Beast Boy, flings Robin aside, held his own against a pounding from both Cyborg and Starfire simultaneously, and even after Raven uses her powers to knock out all the remaining Gordanians, he's the only one standing. Cyborg's sonic cannon is what finally finished him off.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: Trogaar's eyes are red, like the rest of his men, to show he is dangerous.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: While he only appeared in one episode, he is responsible for bringing Starfire to Earth, and the formation of the Teen Titans in general.
  • Starter Villain: Chronologically wise, Trogaar is the first villain the Titans faced when they first became a team.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: After the Titans defeated Trogaar and destroyed his ship, it is never revealed what happened to him and his men after that.

Trouble in Tokyo characters (Unmarked spoilers)

    Brushogun 

Brushogun

Voiced by: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Other voice actors

Powers/Abilities: Can bring his paintings to life.

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The main villain of the movie Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo, or at least, it seems that way at first. In reality, he was captured sometime ago by Commander Daizo, and is being forced to create villains for him to "capture".


  • And I Must Scream: While under Commander Daizo's imprisonment.
  • Art Attacker / Art Initiates Life: His primary power, which Daizo exploits to create his Tokyo Troopers and the "villains" he captures.
  • Be Careful What You Wish For: Back when he was human, Brushogun simply wanted to bring his paintings to life, sadly he failed to realize that using black magic to get the job done wasn't the best idea...
  • Dark Lord on Life Support: As a result of being used by Commander Daizo, he's now a very frail and withered old man.
  • Decoy Antagonist: Brushogun seems to be the major villain at first, but it later turns out that he's a prisoner being used by the real villain of the story, Commander Daizo.
  • From Nobody to Nightmare: He was originally an ordinary artist who gained magical painting powers and became a supervillain. But now he's back to being a nobody, exploited by another villain.
  • How the Mighty Have Fallen: He used to be a formidable supervillain in his own right, until he was taken hostage by Daizo for his own schemes.
  • Ominous Obsidian Ooze: Brushogun used to be a normal artist until he turned to dark magic to make one of his creations alive. The price was his own transformation into an ink-filled, paper-skinned entity with the ability to create inky minions.
  • Peaceful in Death: After being freed by Robin, he thanked the hero for saving him, before fading from existence with a smile on his face.
  • Punny Name: Brushes are used for art, which is his main weapon. Shoguns are Japanese warlords, the most famous of which being the Tokugawa Shogunate which lasted from the reign of Tokugawa Ieyasu (who rose to power in 1603) until Prince Tokugawa Yoshinobu (who gave up his power in 1867).
  • Transformation Horror: According to the story Raven tells, Brushogun's transformation was extremely painful.
  • Was Once a Man: He used to be human until he accidentally cursed himself, turning into a strange being with paper skin and ink blood.

    Saico-Tek 

Voiced by: Keone Young Other voice actors

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One of Brushogun's creations. A warrior with high-tech armor and gadgets. At least two versions of him were created. The first one by Brushogun himself as a way to get the Titans' help, and the second one by Commander Daizo to frame Robin.


  • Abnormal Limb Rotation Range: Being made of ink, he can move his limbs in ways that would be impossible for a normal human being.
  • An Arm and a Leg, The first Saico-Tek loses an arm because of Cyborg's cannon, though it quickly regenerates.
  • Driven to Suicide: The first Saico-Tek deliberately triggered a sprinkler system to wash himself away.
  • Dual Wielding: The second Saico-Tek uses two blades during his fight against Robin, one in each hand.
  • Fashionable Asymmetry: Saico-Tek's original appearance is split between pink and blue.
  • Jet Pack: All versions of Saico-Tek use some jet-packs.
  • Meaningful Name: See Punny Name below: He's a psycho who uses high-tech gear.
  • Punny Name: In more ways than one. His name is a play on "psychotic," "Saiko" is a Japanese word meaning "highest" or "best," and "Tek" is short for "technology."
  • The Mob Boss Is Scarier: When interrogated by Robin, he initially refuses to reveal who sent him because he's terrified of what will happen to him if he talks.
  • Shout-Out: Saico-Tek is similar in design to numerous Kamen Riders, the first one has a split-down-the-middle color scheme that resembles Kikaider.
  • Starter Villain: The first Saico-Tek serves as the villain for the opening scene of Trouble in Tokyo.
  • Weaksauce Weakness: Despite the other Titans deriding him, Beast Boy was right: Saico-Tek wasn't waterproof.

    Nya-Nya 

Voiced by: Janice Kawaye Other voice actors

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One of Brushogun's creations. She is female humanoid feline who is sent to take down Beast Boy.


  • Bilingual Dialogue: She only speaks japanese, much to Beast Boy's irritation.
  • Blood Knight: She takes immense pleasure in toying with Beast Boy during their fight.
    Nya-Nya: "I love to hurt cute little animals. I look forward to tormenting you!"
  • Cat Girl: Though she initially looks much more human until revealing her true appearance.
  • Shout-Out: Her overall design is based on the Puma sisters from Dominion Tank Police.
  • The Smurfette Principle: She's the only girl among Brushogun's creations.
  • Super-Strength: Was able to beat down beast Boy while he was a T-Rex with a single kick.
  • "Take That!" Kiss: Gives one to Beast Boy before kicking his butt.

    Timoko 
One of Brushogun's creations.
  • Chef of Iron: He can turn his hands into kitchen tools and even cooks Cyborg in the middle of their fight.
  • Conjoined Eyes: Justified, as he's some kind of robotic being.
  • Eating the Enemy: Timoko tries to eat Cyborg several times.
  • Extreme Omnivore: He has no problem eating the mechanical parts of Cyborg.
  • The Voiceless: Much like Scarface, he never speaks onscreen.

    Mecha-Boi 
One of Brushogun's creations.

    Scarface 
One of Brushogun's creations.
  • Expy: His appearance is very similar to that of No-Face from Spirited Away.
  • Intangibility: Being a ghost-like monster, he can pass through solid matter easily.
  • Malevolent Masked Men: Not only does his face looks like a scary mask, he also has several other masks hidden under his cloak.
  • The Voiceless: Much like Timoko, he never speaks onscreen.
  • Would Hit a Girl: He certainly doesn't mind fighting Raven.

    Deka-Mido 
One of Brushogun's creations.
  • Breath Weapon: Deka-Mido can vomit some kind of slimy green goo.
  • Expy:
    • Of Godzilla, being a gigantic dinosaur-like monster who attacks the city of Tokyo.
    • His appearance is also very similar to the titular monster of Gorgo.
  • Eye Beams: He can shoots energy beams from his eyes.
  • Kaiju: A giant monster who ravages Tokyo? Yep, definitely a Kaiju.
  • Tail Slap: He tries to crush Robin with his tail on several occasions.
  • Torso with a View: Cyborg uses his cannon to make a hole in his chest at one point, but Deka-Mido quickly regenerates.

    Tokyo Troopers 

  • Mooks: They serve as this to Commander Daizo.

    The Big Bad 

Commander Uehara Daizo

Voiced by: Keone Young Other voice actors

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The true antagonist of Trouble in Tokyo. He is a Tokyo police detective who arrested and detained Brushogun, forcing him to create the Tokyo Troopers (an elite army of fake police officers) along with various fake criminals and monsters, allowing Daizo to take credit for "protecting" the city and rising to power. When the Teen Titans come to his town, he tries to keep them from discovering the truth.


  • Big Bad: Daizo is the real main villain of the TV movie Trouble in Tokyo, pulling the strings behind Brushogun against the latter's will.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He pretends to be an honest policeman on the same side of the Titans, up until The Reveal of his true motives.
  • Corrupted Character Copy: He resembles Detective Zenigata from Lupin III, and initially plays the role of Inspector Javert when Robin becomes a fugitive like Zenigata does in his pursuit of Lupin. The difference is that Zenigata is a good man at heart who upholds the law and will even ally with Lupin to take down a greater evil, while Daizo is a corrupt cop who engineers his heroics for his own gain.
  • Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Zig-zagged. Considering the fact that he somehow managed to defeat and imprison Brushogun in the first place, one would think that he would've been able to fast-track himself to stardom just by announcing Brushogun's arrest. However, his decision to keep Brushogun's capture for himself and force Brushogun to create fake criminals and monsters did allow him to rise to power in a similar if much more villainous way.
  • Dirty Cop: He's a corrupt, self-serving joke of a "law enforcer" who's actually creating more criminals, just to give himself an excuse to rise through the ranks of the police department.
  • Engineered Heroics: Almost his entire shtick. He has a positive reputation thanks to him and his Tokyo Troopers fighting criminals and monsters except he is actually behind the existence of said criminals and monsters.
  • Final Boss: The main villain of the film that serves as the series finale.
  • Frame-Up: He tries to get rid of Robin by arresting him for the "murder" of Saico-Tek.
  • Fusion Dance / One-Winged Angel: He briefly merges with Brushogun's ink and becomes a giant monster, before being defeated and reverting back to a normal human.
  • Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Some time in the past, he managed to defeat and imprison Brushogun, Japan's first supervillain and supposedly one of the country's most dangerous.
  • Shout-Out:
    • He resembles Detective Zenigata from Lupin III.
    • Him jumping into Brushogan's printing press and transforming into an ink monster is a reference to the origin of The Joker as made popular by The Killing Joke.
  • Villain with Good Publicity: He and his so-called "Tokyo Troopers" earn this reputation, just so that Daizo could get some good job promotions.
  • Walking Spoiler: Daizo's role as the true Big Bad is something that isn't revealed until much later in the film, as we are lead to believe that Brushogun is the bad guy.

Alternative Title(s): Animated Teen Titans Villains, Teen Titans 2003 HIVE

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