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Season 1 lineup ^note

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Season 2-3 lineup ^note

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A team of superheroes and the main characters of the show. Started by Dick Grayson along with some other heroes, the team has been disbanded for several years by the time he meets Rachel Roth. Together they formed a new team with Kory Anders and Gar Logan in order to fight the cult chasing after Rachel, with several more characters joining as the team battle all kinds of threats.

Action Girl: Any woman who is part of the team, can and will kick your ass, whether they are an alien Warrior Princess, an Amazon, a McNinja metahuman, an human-demon hybrid or a Badass Normal.
Age Lift: Unlike in the comics, the team was founded by five adults in their mid 20s and many of it's members are also adults. The only characters to be part of the team while teenagers like in the comics are Rachel, Gar, Jason, Jericho and Rose.
Adaptational Name Change: The show drops the "Teen" part of the Titans, which makes sense considering many characters are older than usually depicted when part of the team.
Animal-Themed Superbeing: Dick (Robin, a bird), Rachel (Raven, another bird), Gar (any animal he wants, but initially mostly a Tiger), Jason (Robin II), Conner (his name means lover of wolves/hounds), Hank (Hawk, yet another bird), and Dawn (Dove II, yet another bird).
Aristocrat Team: Downplayed, as Dick and Jason were taken under the wing of wealthy Bruce Wayne, same with Gar and Doctor Caulder; Donna was adopted into amazonian royalty; Rose is the illegitimate daughter of Deathstroke, who is also morbidly rich and cultured. Played straight by Kory and Rachel; the first one is an alien princess destined to rule an entire planet, while the latter is the daughter of a god (albeit an evil one). Of course, they have at their disposition a fancy base operation, latest technology, training facilities and whatever they need for crime fighting.
Badass Crew: To nobody's big surprise, when the team is formed by superbeings and Badass Normals.
Blue Is Heroic: The only exceptions from the usual Red Is Heroic motifs of the team, are Nightwing, Dawn and Rose who have all blue accents on their hero costumes and Rachel who has dark bluish hair.
Breaking the Fellowship: It happens several times.
- In "Jericho", The OG Titan team falls apart after Jericho's death. They go separate ways for a few good years.
- Season 2; Slade's return regroups both generations together but it doesn't last and everybody goes on a separate path once again when the lies of the past catch them on. They get back together by the end of the season.
Combat Stilettos: The female members in both incarnations except Rachel and Rose have no trouble fighting in heels.
Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Kory, Rachel, and Gar are not initially addressed as Starfire, Raven, and Beast Boy, but they will be by season four.
Deadpan Snarker: Every member had at least one moment of caustic humor, where they roasted each other.
Dysfunction Junction: Just about everyone has a personal trauma that messed them up, NO EXCEPTION.
Four-Philosophy Ensemble:
- The Cynic: Dick, a reclusive jaded veteran superhero.
- The Realist: Kory, willing to adjust on her/the group's current situation in spite of the on-going problems.
- The Apathetic: Rachel, an Emo Teen consumed by her problems and issues.
- The Optimist: Gar, always tries to see the good in anything/everything and is the most upbeat of the group.
Four-Temperament Ensemble:
- Melancholic: Dick, a jaded veteran superhero who is always detailed and analytical.
- Choleric: Kory, the most opinionated of the bunch.
- Leukine: Rachel, who is personable despite her withdrawn demeanor.
- Sanguine: Gar, the most people oriented of the bunch.
Gender-Equal Ensemble: The original main Titans are Dick (M), Kory (F), Rachel (F), and Gar (M). Season 2 saw the Promotion to Opening Titles of Dawn (F), Hank (M), Jason (M), and Donna (F), plus the additions of Rose (F) and Conner (M).
Meaningful Name: The eponymous team has quite a name, as Mr. Wintergreen would like to explain you: "The Titans were tragic Greek Figures who got their asses handed to them by Zeus. Who names themselves after losers?" The team is composed of very messed-up people with rather tragic stories to tell.
One-Steve Limit: The Team has had the similarly sounding Dawn and Donna, and at different points, Gar and Garth.
Plot Armor: All the Titans, naturally. There’s a bunch of scenes where the villains noticeably have a habit of asking questions first, and shooting later, even when someone is obviously in a super hero outfit. Robin in particular seems to benefit from villains not taking head shots (where he doesn’t have armor).
Poor Communication Kills: The Titans are not the best at communication; they have trust issues, keep secrets from others, fight among themselves and bring unfounded accusations against each other (most notably Jason Todd and Dick Grayson).
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The first season of Titans deals with the assembly of 4 total strangers who couldn't be more different from each other to fight Trigon, a Satanic Archetype. We have a jaded veteran superhero who was a Sidekick to an even more experienced superhero, an alien refugee with Super-Strength, a Half-Human Hybrid Emo Teen, and an orphan who can transform into any animal.
- Season 2 reveals the existence of a previous Titans team: the OG Titans, which was formed by same bird-themed veteran superhero, two half of a bird-themed couple, former Wonder-Woman protegee and an Atlantean.
- In Season 2, Superman and Lex Luther's clone, another bird-themed Badass Normal sidekick and Deathstroke's metahuman daughter joins the roster.
- Season 3 has a Tagalong Kid Detective join the team.
Red Is Heroic: Most predominant color in the team is red, whether is their gear color or hair color, in Kory's case.
Sidekick Graduations Stick: Some members of the team, used to be trained by or live with older vigilantes. Namely Dick Grayson and Jason Todd were trained by Batman, Wonder Girl by Wonder Woman, Aqualad by Aquaman, Garfield and the Doom Patrol. Rose is a darker example, as her father is an Professional Killer who used to train her to be an assassin, but she chose to be on the good guys side instead.
Super Team: The Titans is a collection of misfits that can range from former sidekicks to the most unexpected super powered beings, and very dangerous on their own.
Team Title: They are the eponymous Titans.
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: There is always a conflict within the group due to clashing personalities, personal agendas and Poor Communication Kills. Dick and Hank barely stand each other thanks to Dawn, who started a Love Triangle in the past; Kory and Dick had a lot of disagreements when they first met, though they work quite well in the present; Rachel has a nasty habit of Kick the Dog whenever she gets angry; Jason is reckless and belittled for it at every turn even when it's not his fault; and Rose is kinda there, not very willing to participate. Shortly, they will fight among themselves before fighting the bad guy. They finally get better by the end of Season 2.
The Fellowship Has Ended: In the Grand Finale, the remaining members of the team decide to go their separate ways: Rachel chooses to apply to a community college in Bludhaven and live a normal life, Gar believes he needs to learn more about the Red, Conner has finally spoken to Superman and has arranged to spend more time with him, Tim decides to fight crime as Robin in both Gotham and Metropolis part time, while Dick and Kory acknowledge their feelings for each other and become a couple.
Two Girls to a Team: In Season 1, the team included only two women, Starfire and Raven. The original incarnation also had just Donna and Dawn.
Vitriolic Best Buds: They will always fight for the greater good, while fighting among each other in the same time.

Current Members

Dick Grayson / Robin I / Nightwing

Richard John "Dick" Grayson / Robin I / Nightwing

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Species: Human

Played by: Brenton Thwaites, Tomaso Sanelli (young, Season 1), Viktor Sawchuk (young, Season 3)

Voiced by: Luis Navarro (Latin American Spanish), Ivan Bastidas (Latin American Spanish/teen), Yūki Kaji (Japanese)

Powers/Abilities: Martial Arts, Leadership skills, Master Acrobat, Master Combatant, Weapons and Devices

Batman's first and former sidekick, and The Leader of the Titans.

Adaptational Angst Upgrade: While the comics' version of Dick could be brooding at times, this version ramps that factor up by showing how much disdain he has for Batman, and how much more violent he is. He apparently grows out of it starting in Season 2.
- Inverted in terms of his reaction to Donna's death. In the comics, Donna's death had a huge impact on Dick, resulting in him disbanding the Titans, pulling away from all his friends and family, and agreeing to lead the Outsiders with the goal of treating them like coworkers, rather than the family the Titans had been. Here, he experiences a brief sadness that does not impact his behaviour in the slightest.
Adaptational Dumbass: While not stupid, Dick is not nearly as smart as his comics counterpart, who is a genius and exremely capable detective, especially in the context of the Titans. Here, he relies on the team far more to solve problems.
Adaptation Personality Change: Comics Dick is usually The Social Expert and a premier example of Nice Guy within DC, while here he is awkward socially and very aloof. He is also deeply flawed; in terms of demeanor he borrows the grimness, obsessive drivenness and loner tendencies from the Teen Titans counterpart, whereas his other counterpart was always praised by Batman for being the most well-adjusted of his kids.
- In Season 2, he starts to develop more into the lighthearted, idealist, altruistic, magnetic Dick Grayson everyone is used to.
Affectionate Nickname: Donna teasingly calls Dick as "Boy Wonder" and "Bird Boy".
Age Lift: Dick is 28 at the start of the show and it's not until Season 2 that he becomes Nightwing. Typically, Dick becomes Nightwing in his early twenties or even his late teens, though it's not that unusual for the character to be that old.
Aloof Big Brother: In season 1, he acts very cold toward the newest addition to the Batclan, Jason Todd, resenting the boy for replacing him. By Season 2, he made peace with the fact he is no longer Robin, and slowly gets into the Big Brother Mentor role for Jason.
Amazon Chaser: According to Donna, he has a thing for dangerous women, namely Kory.
Animal-Themed Superbeing: He get his inspiration to become the well-known Nightwing, after hearing a legend about a heroic mythological bird called Alazul from his cell teammates.
Awesomeness by Analysis: Dick identifies a killer solely through analysis of the audio of a murder.
Back from the Dead: after being shot in the neck, Dick is resurrected using the Lazarus Pit.
Badass Normal: No powers here, just a supremely skilled martial artist, acrobat, and has his own weapons and gadgets.
Battle Couple: Briefly with Starfire against Deathstroke.
Blue Is Heroic: His new gear has blue accents, probably inspired by the mythical creature Alazul, a blue bird.
Broken Ace: He's smart, good looking, charming, and an excellent fighter, but he also is filled with self hatred and Parental Issues that don't go away, even when he makes conscious steps to put them behind him.
Broken Pedestal: Implied; he used to admire Batman when he was Robin, but now that bridge had burned. Jason Todd's fanboying reminded him too much of his past self.
Bruiser with a Soft Center: He has his warm moments towards kids and later towards his new partner.
Burn Baby Burn: He eventually burns his Robin costume.
Byronic Hero: Quite an unusual characterization for Dick Grayson, but in this show, he is far more angsty and broody, is prone to violent outbursts, struggles with his own integrity, hates himself, resents Batman for turning him into a violent man, and is in general a Knight in Sour Armour with loner tendencies. He is also handsome, smart and charismatic. In season 4, Jynx even compares him to Lord Byron.
The Charmer: Though initially standoffish, he quickly endears himself to Amy when they start actually talking.
Chick Magnet: In 1x05, both Kory and the owner of the motel they stay in, express attraction to him. His past relationships include Dawn Granger, Barbara Gordon and Jynx.
Chronic Hero Syndrome: Or in Dick's case, is more 'Chronic saving and adopting children syndrome'.
Dawn: You do have a saving-people problem, Dick Grayson.
Circus Brat: Raised in a circus by his late parents, who were performers there.
Combat Parkour: He is very agile thanks to his circus background.
Combat Pragmatist: Uses whatever he can find as makeshift weapons, including a frying pan and the case containing his Robin suit.
Dark and Troubled Past: Aside from his parents' tragic death and people dismissing it as an accident, he's adopted by a renowned vigilante who made Dick his Sidekick. He eventually left in disgust and anger towards his mentor, and founded his own team.
Dark Is Not Evil: Played straight after taking the mantle of Nightwing.
Deadpan Snarker: Dick makes a few sarcastic quips; by season 2, as he is defrosting his banters are more friendly and less bitter.
Deconstructed Character Archetype:
- Of the young sidekick taken in by the vigilante. Dick's behavior in costume shows exactly what happens when an adolescent is taken in by an emotionally troubled vigilante who has to use a certain level of brutality to be effective. Dick showcases emotional issues of his own and struggles with Becoming the Mask concerns, outright saying that his work with Batman was Harmful to Minors and feels that he was made into a Child Soldier in service to his mentor's crusade.
- This all gradually becomes Reconstructed as Dick begins to believe that he was using Bruce as a scapegoat for his own insecurities. Dick's mental image of Bruce also acts as a positive influence which convinces him to start coming clean to his fellow Titans and motivates him to become better version of himself. This all culminates in Dick finally graduating to the Nightwing persona in the second season finale and reconciling with Bruce.
- This is deconstructed again in season three, where Dick goes to Gotham and we learn more of the specifics of how Bruce behaves and the impact this has had on both Dick and Jason.
Determinator: Works through any number of obstacles with nothing but his own will power.
A Dick in Name: Richard "Dick" Grayson...
Domino Mask: His default mask.
Dual Wielding: Doubles as Shock and Awe after his badass graduation.
Even the Guys Want Him: One of the men at Donna's gallery tries to flirt with him, not that Dick notices.
Experienced Protagonist: Dick is a vigilante since his childhood, he served first under Batman, then 5 years prior to present events he was the leader of the original Titans. When we first meet Dick in season 1, he is also a cop.
Fair Cop: A police officer who also works as a vigilante.
Follow in My Footsteps: Defied; he claims he left Batman's tutelage because he was becoming "more like him". He can't walk away in season three when Batman leaves him Gotham, though.
Foregone Conclusion: Dick becoming Nightwing is a Late-Arrival Spoiler for decades and both the show creators and his actor himself have stated that this version is no exception, meaning it's a when rather than an if. It happened in the Season 2 finale.
Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: In Asylum, his younger self does this to him during his hallucination, calling him out for blaming Bruce and Zucco for the violent person he is, stating he is the one responsible for what he has become. Dick eventually agrees, and works to move past his Blood Knight tendencies.
Friends with Benefits: How his relationship with Kory can be summed up. They engage in sex, are the team parents, support each other, fight side by side, but are not involved with each other. On the other hand, they have a solid Ship Tease and expressed desire for a possible romantic relationship in the future. They finally get together in the Grand Finale.
Friend to All Children: He may not make much effort to connect with other adults, but helping kids is important to him.
Genius Bruiser: Dick's a Badass Normal who doesn't struggle physically fighting superhumans, but, like Batman, and to some degrees unlike Jason, he isn't exactly Dumb Muscle. He corrects Jason Todd when he misremembers Frank Lloyd Wright's name as just Frank Lloyd, (though Jason doesn't realise he's being corrected, thinking Dick is just saying 'Right' in agreement). He also quotes Niccolò Machiavelli off by heart when Jason asks who he is when he sees a painting of him in Bruce's safehouse.
Guilt Complex: His case is bad enough to feel guilty even for things he couldn't control.
The Hero: Dick is The Protagonist, has a well-balanced skill-set and is the leader of Titans. On the other hand, his heroic qualities are weighted down by his flaws and past sins. His journey is about becoming more of a traditional hero.
I Hate Past Me: Implied to be a reason why he reacts to Jason Todd's admiration of Batman in the most dismissive and deadpan way ever.
Ineffectual Loner: Wrecked with guilt after the fall-out of his team, Dick tries to isolate himself from others. He also fails epically at it.
In the Back: He's shot at the back by an anti-Titans civilians with one shot grazing his neck in "The Call is Coming from Inside the House".
Knight in Sour Armour: He begins the series in a terrible place, shutting himself off from all relationships.
The Leader: The leader of the Titans.
Lethal Chef: Gar and Rachel do not appreciate his cauliflower crust pizza.
Lonely Together: According to the developers, he gets along well with Raven because of their shared feelings of loneliness.
Meaningful Name: His name,"Richard" is derived from the old Germanic elements " rík, rīc" (ruler, leader) and "hard" (strong, brave). Dick is the "brave leader" of the Titans.
Mr. Fanservice: A given since Dick has always been one of DC Comics' most famous male sex symbols. The show's very first trailer didn't waste time showing him in a Shirtless Scene.
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Has a few problems controlling his anger and violent outbursts in Season 1; he learns how to control it in Season 2.
Oblivious to Love: Has no idea in the episode Donna Troy that the guy at the art gallery is clearly trying to hit on him, nor in the episode Together,that the woman who runs the motel the Titans are staying at, is wanting to get in his pants.
Parental Abandonment: They both died during a circus performance, falling to their deaths from sabotaged trapeze cords.
Platonic Life-Partners: He was once this with Donna. But the baggage revolving around Deathstroke's return and Dick's dubious methods of combating him have put a visible strain on their friendship. By the second half of Season 2, they're no longer on speaking terms.
Prodigal Hero: He had a strained relationship with Batman for a few years; he comes around by Season 2.
The Protagonist: The main character of the first season, to Raven's Deuteragonist and Starfire's Tritagonist.
A Protagonist Shall Lead Them: Dick is the Hero Protagonist and the leader of two generations of Titans.
Rage Against the Mentor: He had a falling-out with Bruce prior to the series. His "Fuck Batman!" serves as an indicator how deeply estranged he is from his mentor.
Red Is Heroic: He's Robin so it's a given. Dick himself doesn't see it that way, though.
Sidekick Graduations Stick: No longer is he Batman's sidekick, instead he leads the Titans. However, he's not Nightwing in this adaptation. Until the Season 2 finale, where he finally adopts the Nightwing mantle.
Socially Awkward Hero: Donna calls him out on his not so good people skills.
Spandex, Latex, or Leather: So far, he's the only one with an actual costume due to years of experience. It goes for a more armored look than the classic comics suit, notably covering up his arms as well as legs, and appears to be a mix of latex and fabric in real life.
Stealth Pun: In his day job, he's a Police Detective, or, in other words, a Police "Dick."
Sugar-and-Ice Personality: He's standoffish, distant, and untrusting of strangers, but is warmer and protective towards Rachel. Around Donna, he displays his lighter side, making jokes and smiling.
Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: As Dick finds out in Season 3, lacking any protection on his head and neck means all someone has to do to kill him is aim in that area.
Tall, Dark, and Handsome: He stands at 6'2, and is definitely a good-looking man.
Tall, Dark, and Snarky: On the other hand, he's not afraid to dish out the snark, especially when dealing with fans of Batman like Jason Todd.
Team Dad: In Season 2, he is mentoring Gar, Rachel and Jason and is always preoccupied about their emotional well-being. This extends even to Rose, whom he tries to take under his wing.
The Team Normal: In a team with a shapeshifter, an alien, and a half demon, he's the only one with no powers.
Underestimating Badassery: Despite having several years worth of experience by now, thugs tend to make the assumption that, without Batman around, Robin isn't particularly dangerous on his own. This ends poorly for them.
Unreliable Expositor: In Season 1, Dick blames his tenure as Robin for nearly all of his personal issues and paints his surrogate father Bruce Wayne as toxic influence. Season 2 calls this all into question by presenting Bruce in a way more positive light while Dick gradually starts learning to accept responsibility for his own actions. Eventually Subverted in Season 3, where Barbara Gordon calls Bruce out on his treatment of Jason leading up to the events of his untimely death. Dick goes through the Bat Computer to find potential recruits, and gives Bruce a What the Hell, Hero? moment.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Dick's decision to use Jericho to get to his father in revenge for Garth, ends up getting Jericho killed, Deathstroke vowing revenge and the old Titans splitting up.
White Male Lead: Dick is a caucasian young man and the Hero Protagonist.

Kory Anders / Koriand'r / Starfire

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Species: Tamaranean

Played by: Anna Diop

Voiced by: Mariana Ortiz (Latin American Spanish), Yui Kano (Japanese)

Powers/Abilities: Super-Strength, Master combatant, Healing Factor, Fire blasts

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"Where I come from, you come after family, we show no mercy."

An amnesiac woman trying to piece her life together after waking up in a car crash.

The '70s: Kory is a big fan of the '70s music, to the point where the '70 songs are her Leit Motif. In Season 1, she also dons the afro hairstyle and the pimp coat associated with that era.
Action Fashionista: It's more evident in Season 2, where she changes her clothing at least twice an episode. In the final scene of Season 2, everybody wears their heroic gear, except for Kory, who wears a glamorous costume and high heels as if she is parading, not fighting crime.
Adaptational Modesty: Her costume isn't quite as revealing as in the comics.
Adaptation Personality Change: This version of Starfire has amnesia, and thus doesn't know much about her powers, much less that she's actually an alien. Thus the majority of her screen time has her behaving more "human" in comparison to other versions of the character, who were more unfamiliar with Earth.
Adaptational Wimp: Seems to be a deliberately invoked trope as of the start of the series, as Kory has amnesia and doesn't know much about her powers or their origin or even that she's an alien. She does have Super-Strength, but it seems to be much weaker than in the comics, where she can go toe-to-toe with if not win against characters of Wonder Woman's strength level. And whilst she does have her trademark starbolts, here they drain a lot of energy out of her for even a single use and her powers are much weaker at night (to the point she hasn't been able to use them at all at times). Like Beast Boy, this may be because she hasn't mastered her abilities just yet.
- Pre-Amnesia Kory kept a sunbed in her lock-up, implying that Koriand'r needed to use the UV to keep her powers topped up.
- She is also incapable of flying or shooting eye-beams. Season 3 however opens up with her flying.
Adaptation Dye-Job: She has orange skin in the comics and most adaptations. Here, her skin is more similar to that of an African-American, though activating her powers gives her skin an orange glow like that of her original counterpart. Also her hair here is magenta, though like her skin, it turns to scarlet when activating her powers.
Age Lift:
- As with Dick, her actor is in her late twenties. It should be noted that Kory is also an alien, so her society may have a different concept of aging.
- In Season 2, Kory is mentioned to be Blackfire's older sister. In the comics, it's the opposite.
Amazing Technicolor Population: Can pass as a black human woman, but turns a fiery orange when using her alien powers.
Ambiguously Bi: She is implied in the first season to have slept with a woman while in Austria.
Amnesiac Hero: Unlike her previous incarnation, she doesn't know where she came from, what her species or real name is, or even her powers.
Cain and Abel: With Blackfire. Not hard to guess which one Kory is.
Character Tics: Starfire tends to rub the jewelry from her ring-finger everytime she is nervous.
The Confidant: Kory is a very understanding person and a good listener, being always there for Rachel or Garth. She also serves as Dick's voice of reason without judging him.
Dark and Troubled Past:
- Inverted, which is a premier given that even Teen Titans adapted the comic Origin Story for Kory with its darker sides, except the Rape as Drama part. The promotional trailer and first season buildup were made to look like she was gonna have same disturbing backstory as the comics. But this time, no Rape as Backstory, no Beautiful Slave Girl, no Unwitting Test Subject, just an alien princess who lived whatever is considered a decent, normal life on Tamaran. If anything, her present time, not her past, is shitty to some extent.
- The lack of this also makes her an odd duck among the team, given that everyone else have some sort of traumatic backstory.
Does Not Know Her Own Strength: She's surprised when she knocks a guy across a room.
Dude Magnet: As expected from one of DC's top bombshells. Jason had a short lived crush on her and Donna, Dick occasionally sleeps with her and is clearly attracted to her, Konstantin Kovar implied having a relationship with her, had a scandalous affair with Faddei in the past, a secret FBI agent was eyeing her and a random psychologist almost has sex with her.
Expository Hairstyle Change: In season 1 her hair was curly while in season 2 it's straight. The makeover, along with Costume Evolution, reflects her embrace of her superhero identity.
Fantastic Angst: Kory feels like she is belonging nowhere for being an alien princess stranded on Earth.
Fiery Redhead: Kory is usually calm, but she can be very opinionated and surely doesn't lack an ardent temper. Everytime she activates her fighting mode, she even becomes a visual representation of this trope, from her fire blasts to skin and hair.
Flaming Hair: Starfire can make her hair dissolve into locks made of fire.
Foreign Fanservice: She is an alien princess from planet Tamaran, and a big source of Fanservice.
Friends with Benefits: How her relationship with Dick can be summed up. They engage in sex, are the team parents, support each other, fight side by side, but are not involved with each other. On the other hand, they have a solid Ship Tease and expressed a desire for a possible romantic relationship in the future. They finally get together in the Grand Finale.
The Gadfly: She enjoys acting as such to Dick, trying to get him to admit things he doesn't want to share.
Girly Bruiser: Her Majesty in spades; Kory will kick your ass, but not without wearing something elegant, big jewels and some nice make-up.
Going Native: Kory has adapted incredibly well to human culture and life despite its diversity. Though it happened mostly off-screen, in the year she spent researching the prophecy about Trigon and Rachel, she learned to live among humans, many languages and our customs. By the time we meet her, she is fully integrated. She even came to love some parts of our civilization, like the freedom of choice that she doesn't really have on Tamaran, or The '70s' music. By the time Faddei comes after her, Kory feels torn apart between Earth and its freedoms, and Tamaran, her home planet.
Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Kory is an alien princess who enjoys wearing purple and is very feminine.
Human Aliens: She's an alien, but one wouldn't notice that unless she's using her powers, and she herself has forgotten it at the start of the first season.
Identity Amnesia: She wakes up in a car crash not knowing who she is, and being chased by gangsters.
Immune to Bullets: Kory is bulletproof as was shown in fight versus Deathstroke, where she even melted his bullets.
The Lancer: Clearly the secondary authority of the titular team and acts as the de facto leader if Dick's not around.
Meaningful Name: The last name of her human alias is the German word for "different", fitting as she's not from this world, like the other characters.
Mercy Kill: She has no choice but to murder Faddei after he gets mind controlled by Blackfire.
Ms. Fanservice: Despite the Adaptational Modesty, she's still an offering view with a revealing costume and strategic shots of her body.
Not Wearing Tights: At least at first, she wears normal clothes instead of a costume, though they're still purple.
Odd Name Out: The only one of the eponymous Titans to not have a name with Animal Motif. No longer the case by Season 2, when Rose, whose name invokes a plant too, just like Koriand'r, joins in.
Omniglot: Kory can speak several Earth languages, like English, Russian, old Sumerian dialect and German among others. She is also well versed in Kryptonian, a dead language.
Only Sane Woman: Kory is much Closer to Earth and reasonable than the rest of the adults. She is usually the one who knocks some sense into everybody.
Orange/Blue Contrast: Starfire's power makes her body glow orange. Her actual power, activated only when the pyrokinetic power — which was Blackfire's — is removed from her, glows blue.
Parental Favoritism:
- In Season 2, it's implied by Blackfire that their parents always favored Starfire; though it's unknown if it's indeed true or is just one of Blackfire's deluded convictions.
- Confirmed outright in Season 3. Her parents favored Starfire over Blackfire so much that they refused to accept she was born as the "weaker" sibling in Tamaran, because she did not possess the ability to control fire, and instead transferred the latter's powers to the former.
Playing with Fire: Her powers here manifest as powerful blasts of fire instead of energy like in the comics and cartoons.
Power Glows: When she activates her powers, her entire body turns orange. Her actual superpower glows blue.
Power Parasite: Years ago, she unwittingly siphoned Blackfire's pyrokinetic powers to fulfill the requirement as the heiress of Tamaran.
Pretty in Mink: She's a beautiful woman who wears large fur coats.
Pretty Princess Powerhouse: Starfire is the exiled princess of the planet Tamaran. She is both beautiful and one of the strongest fighters in the show.
Princess Protagonist: Kory is an alien princess stranded on Earth. She is the Tritagonist in Season 1, but in the second season, she is given her own subplot and more focus than Raven, making her the Deuteragonist. The arrival of her evil sister in the final episode, implies she is going to be the focus of the main plot in the next season.
Psychosomatic Superpower Outage: Much like her animated counterpart, Kory's powers are directly linked to her emotional state.
Purple Is Powerful: She's wearing a purple dress and seems to have an overall purple Color Motif.
Quest for Identity: She finds that she's entangled with the mob and was looking for a certain girl, Rachel Roth. She's also surprised to learn she has Super-Strength and can shoot fire.
Renamed the Same: Her real, alien name is Koriand'r, but goes by the phonetically similar Kory Anders on Earth.
Rummage Sale Reject: Kory (or possibly the producers) didn't exactly spend much in the sex shop to grab that rubber dress. Notably averted so far in season 2.
Sassy Black Woman: Well, more like sassy female alien who looks like a black woman, is a Fiery Redhead with a good quip at her disposal.
Shipper on Deck: She blatantly asks Gar if he wants to kiss Rachel.
Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: Her magenta hair turns scarlet when activating her powers, while her eyes concurrently turn green.
Statuesque Stunner: Not to the extent of the comic version being 6'4", but her actress is still 5'9".
Super-Strength: Kory is an alien powerhouse.
Tamer and Chaster: In the first episodes of Titans her outfits were rather Stripperiffic, but as the time passed, her clothing started to become less and less skimpy. By season 2, she barely shows any skin. Probably has something to do with a certain fan reaction.
Team Mom: She can make the young Titans easily listen to her. One example is when she ordered Rachel and Garfield to sit and keep quiet when they questioned Dick about Jason Todd being Robin too. They both instantly complied. Her motherly instincts extend even to people she barely interacted with, like Jason, Rose and Conner. She came to the rescue of Jason and almost lost her life battling Deathstroke; argues with the rest of OG Titans for Rose, calling them monsters for wanting to sold her out; and watched over Conner like a mother when he was injured by Mercy Graves.
Thou Shalt Not Kill: Averted, She has no problem with killing people, as she was some sort of Mafia assassin Double Agent before losing her memories. Dick does try to dissuade her from killing... at least until The Asylum.
Token Nonhuman: Though the team is diverse, everybody else still has human and Terran origins, whereas Kory is the only alien member coming from an entirely different species of sapient beings called Tamaraneans. This extends even after Conner joins the team, since he is a human-Kryptonian clone.
Tomato in the Mirror: "The Call Is Coming From Inside the House" reveals that Starfire's pyrokinetic power was not actually hers. Her parents had transferred Blackfire's superpower to her because the heiress of Tamaran had to have the ability to control fire. Starfire was actually born with a different power, but it was simply not acceptable.
Tritagonist: Despite being The Lancer, she's only the third focused character in the first season after Robin and Raven.
Warrior Princess: Kory is the Princess of Tamaran, a planet full of people with a spartan mindset. She even mentions participating in some sort of Olympico-gladiator competition called "Two Moons Race".
Warrior Therapist: Kory is a woman with a lot of emotional intelligence and can easily guess the inner turmoil of a person. She straight up tells Dick he should unbury whatever bothers him, advises Gar he should never be ashamed of defending himself; in Season 2, when Rachel confesses she has no idea what is going on with her, she tells the girl people like them are meant to be special.
Dick: You were a shrink in your past life?
You Don't Look Like You: While she can take a somewhat similar-looking form when using her powers, she normally looks little like the original comic character.

Rachel Roth / Raven

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Species: Human-Demon Hybrid

Played by: Teagan Croft

Voiced by: Verania Ortiz (Latin American Spanish), Chiaki Omigawa (Japanese)

Powers/Abilities: Astral projection, Illusion casting, Empath, Healing Hands, Telekinesis, Magic

Appearances: Titans | Crisis on Infinite Earths: Hour Five^notearchive footage

"Sometimes, when I feel the darkness, it feels... good."

A troubled empath who's the daughter of the demon Trigon.

Accuser of the Brethren: The one who kick starts it against Jason in season 2 episode 7. The only justification she'd have to think it's him is that they don't get along very well (mainly due to her powers nearly killing him in a previous episode). Otherwise she has absolutely zero evidence that he was near her room to begin with.
Adaptational Backstory Change: Her past being raised in the dimension of Azarath is Adapted Out and given a more ordinary backstory of being raised by her adopted mom in a normal American town.
Adaptation Dye-Job: She has a natural skin tone like in the classic comics, but turns grey as in the cartoon (and the comics it since influenced) when tapping into her demonic powers.
Adaptational Modesty: A Justified Trope. Considering she's played by a minor, this version is Not Wearing Tights instead of wearing the leotard costume in the comics. This is changed in Season 4 with her White Raven costume, by which point Croft had turned 18.
Adaptational Name Change: Raven is her birth name in the comics, while here it's a codename and Rachel Roth is her real name, which was simply an alias she adopted later in life.
Adaptational Nationality: Downplayed. In the comics Raven was born in America, but raised in the dimension of Azarath. Int this version she was raised in America her entire life, but it's implied that she was born in Russia.
Adaptation Personality Change: Her 1980s iteration was The Stoic, bordering on Emotionless Girl; here she makes a lot of witty quips and shows a wide spectrum of emotions, despite being an aloof and introverted goth girl.
Age Lift: In this depiction, Raven is the youngest of the initial assembled Titans, being only 13 like her actress.
Alliterative Name: Rachel Roth, later known as Raven.
Amazing Technicolor Population: Her skin turns grey when using her demonic powers.
Anti-Anti-Christ: She said 'no' to destroying the world, as always.
Back from the Dead: She has her heart torn out by her father Trigon, but he immediately resurrects her using occult magic.
The Baby of the Bunch: She is the youngest of the Titans in its second incarnation.
Big Eater: Becomes especially apparent in episode 3.
Black Eyes of Evil: When she taps into her powers, her eyes start looking like this. Subverted in that she's not evil, but she's afraid she will be.
Black Magician Girl: Rachel is younger than everyone and an inexperienced wielder of dark magic. But she has the Dark and Troubled Past and Sugar and Ice personality that come with this archetype.
Break the Cutie: Her father is a Satanic Archetype who created her for the sole purpose of bringing him on Earth dimension to install Hell on Earth. But in order to do that, he has to break her heart, which he does, with the help of her mother and an almost dead Garfield.
Casting a Shadow: Her magic manifests under the form of some dark energy that she barely can control.
Cain and Abel: She is the Abel to Sebastian Sanger/Brother Blood's Cain.
Curtains Match the Window: Has icy blue eyes and dark bluish hair.
Dark and Troubled Past: The daughter of Trigon, a powerful, evil demon. Here, she was implied to have been put in a religious institution because of her supposed instability and oddness, given that her bedroom is sparsely furnished with a Catholic cross above her bed.
Dark Is Not Evil: Rachel wear mostly black, her powers are a form of dark energy of demonic heritage; she is also one of the good guys.
Deadpan Snarker: Rachel seem to enjoy dashing out some good snark at the expense of Jason and Dick, in a similar manner to her animated counterpart.
Demonic Possession: She often gives off this appearance with blackened eyes.
Deuteragonist: She's the secondary focus of the first season after Dick, with her Evil Me Scares Me arc driving it along with Dick's PTSD.
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: In the first episode of Season 2, Rachel single-handedly destroys/banishes Trigon after breaking free from his control. Unfortunately, this has done nothing to quell the evil influence of her demonic half who nearly kills Jason during a training session after they relocate to San Francisco.
Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Whenever she goes "evil side" mode, her already pale complex goes to ghostly grey and her eyes start to glow red, making Rachel to look very unsettling.
Emo Teen: Her life seems to be unpleasant before the events of the series due to her visions. Her adoptive mother's death just made things From Bad to Worse.
The Empath: When Rachel touches people, she can sense their emotions, and even see glimpses of their memories.
Evil Feels Good: In her character teaser, after magically shaking up her room, she whispers her above folder quote in a frightened tone, while she shows off blackened eyes and a creepy smile.
Evil Me Scares Me: Implied to be afraid of her demonic heritage and how she might enjoy it, as she worriedly admits that she feels "good" when she feels "the darkness".
Functional Magic: As always, Raven uses magic.
Glass Cannon: Rachel is capable of very powerful magic, but cannot fully control it, and her body is just as vulnerable as any other human being.
Goth: Rachel is a moody pale blue-haired girl with a lot of dark aesthetic around her. Her Halloween promotional photo even implies she buys stuff from a goth store.
Goth Girls Know Magic: Downplayed. She is a typical goth, has magic powers, but cannot properly use them.
Half-Human Hybrid: The daughter of a demon and a human. It shows up in completely blackened eyes and gray skin.
Hate Plague: Word of God is that Raven's uncontrollable power outbursts throughout Season 2 is the cause of everyone's (including herself) negativity, as it amplifies people's negative emotions. The scene explaining this was cut for time constraints.
Healing Hands: While it goes unnoticed by her, after Rachel connects empathically with an injured deer, the bullet wound in it's side closes up, and the deer opens it's eyes.
Hypocrite: Her argument with Gar in the fifth episode of season 2 has her dive headlong into this with her anger at him for "keeping secrets" and her claims that her powers are "more useful" than his. 1) Despite having nearly killed Jason and hurting Gar's arm she has completely failed to let any of the adult who aren't Kory (the one adult who isn't there), even Dick (the person she trusts the most in the tower), know that something is going on with her powers. 2) Given the fact that her powers are hard to control and go berserk every time she has a temper tantrum, her claims of being more useful than Gar become void. It's hard to be any use when you can barely control yourself, after all.
Idiot Ball: In episode 7, Dr. Adamson reveals that Rachel's biological mother, Angela, is still alive and tells her the location of where she is kept. Rachel immediately wants to go to her mother, but Dick forbids it because he thinks they are being Lured into a Trap. Rachel and Garfield go anyway, and unlike Dick and Kory, they don't have a plan or check the perimeter, and immediately get caught. Worse, Dick and Kory try to get them back, and are caught too when Gar's life is threatened.
In the Hood: She wears hoodies from time to time.
Jerkass Ball: Her status as having taken a level in jerkass during season 2 is nowhere as obvious as in the scene where she blindly accuses Jason in episode 7 of graffiti-ing her room with crucifixes and then viciously turning Hank, Dawn, and Donna against him despite having absolutely zero proof that Jason even went near her room.
Kick the Morality Pet: Her verbal assault on Gar in the fifth episode of season 2 can be viewed as this.
Kung-Fu Wizard: Season 2 shows her training with Jason and Gar to be more adept at physical combat.
Like Brother and Sister: Gar and Rachel are very close and characters have made jokes about them getting together in the first and second seasons, however they see each other as siblings. This has been confirmed by the showrunner and by the actors.
Light Is Good: Wears white clothing and has white hair in Season 4 after her connection to Trigon is severed.
Lonely Together: According to the developers, she gets along well with Dick because of their shared feelings of loneliness.
MacGuffin Super-Person: Rachel is an Apocalypse Maiden with dark magical powers, hunted by both good and bad guys, driving the plot in Season 1.
The Man in the Mirror Talks Back: Her reflection has spoken to her. This has at times been helpful.
Meta Twist: Unlike most versions, she is certainly not a Child by Rape in this one.
Mind over Matter: She manages to make her bedroom shake violently while she screams in her character teaser.
Mystical Waif: Rachel is this to Dick in first season. She is a teen girl with demonic magical power, appearing in his life seeking his help, kicking a Call to Adventure, after some strange cult is trying to capture her. Her origins and powers drive the plot of Season 1, as her father is a interdimensional demon who wants to turn her into an Apocalypse Maiden. She also has the unusual physical appearance that comes with this trope.
Necromancer: In "Souls", it is revealed that Rachel has been staying at Themyscira for months to harness her powers so she can somehow bring Donna back. They ultimately don't work, but Donna gets resurrected through other means.
New Powers as the Plot Demands: Rachel is once again blessed with largest set of powers, some of which she is not even aware exists. She manifested powers such as: astral projection, illusion casting, telepathy, empathy, healing, telekinesis and others.
Not Wearing Tights: At least at first, she wears normal clothes instead of a costume, though they're still dark. Notably, her hooded jacket evokes the hooded cloak or cape she wears in the comics and cartoons.
Ordinary High-School Student: Rachel used to lead a civilian life, going to high school and all. In reality, she was always a girl with incredible dark powers, of which origins she never knew( until Season 1's final), and given the abusive reactions her neighbors and students had to her, it affected her personal life too.
Platonic Declaration of Love: In the third season she confesses to Gar in a platonic way that she loves him
Power Incontinence: Rachel's biggest weakness is that her powers are unstable since she can't control them all most of time. Having an evil side fueled by her demonic heritage doesn't help her case at all.
Put on a Bus: She departs for Themyscira in the season 2 finale and doesn't appear for much of season 3, only returning in the ninth episode.
Rei Ayanami Expy: Rachel is an Emo Teen, with bobbed dark bluish hair, quite pale and was created by her evil father to become an Apocalypse Maiden.
Related in the Adaptation: She is the younger half-sister of Sebastian Sanger / Brother Blood in this show, whereas they had no such relation in the comics.
Sensor Character: As a psychic, she can detect people by sensing their inner life force.
The Snark Knight: She is not the most social person and often makes snide remarks at her team's expense.
Superpowered Evil Side: Rachel has a demonic side that manifest under the form of uncontrollably dark energy that torments her for most of season 2.
Took a Level in Jerkass: As of Season 2, whether it stems from her new powers or not, she is prone to being a total bitch. Chewing out Gar for being reckless, even though she's barely doing anything to control her "inner demon", and blindly accusing Jason for doodling crucifixes over her bedroom and mercilessly turning the others against him.
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Very much so. She's literally described as the "destroyer of worlds" in "Origins."

Garfield Logan / Beast Boy

Garfield "Gar" Logan / Beast Boy

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Species: Metahuman

Played by: Ryan Potter

Voiced by: Memo Aponte (Latin American Spanish), Mark Ishii (Japanese)

Powers/Abilities: Animorphism, Precognition, Martial Arts

A teen with shapeshifting powers who can take the form of anything that has DNA.

Adaptational Attractiveness: This version of Beast Boy is much prettier than in the comics.
Adaptational Badass: This version of Beast Boy is more adept at fighting in his human form. Season 4 reveals that he is the true chosen protector of the Red, having a much stronger connection to it than other heroes. This gives him a connection to all animal life in The Multiverse, and allows him to be a Dimension Traveller on the same level as characters like the Flash. While Gar's powers have a connection to the Red in the comics, it's not at the same level shown in this version.
Adaptational Wimp: Downplayed initially. This Beast Boy can transform into a tiger and initially only a tiger. Though he says tigers are his favorite animal, it may be because he hasn't mastered the full extent of his powers. In Season 2 thankfully he is able to turn into a snake as well, and later seasons show him gaining more control of his powers.
Adaptation Dye-Job: Downplayed. While he turns green when using his powers, when in his regular form he has a normal human skin tone.
Adaptation Personality Change: In the comics Gar is an immature Sad Clown, with Attention Whore tendencies and a Lovable Sex Maniac. Here, he is more of a Chaste Hero. Even so, both versions of the characters still have in common the endearing sweet personality, awkward nerdiness and a good crack-wising.
Affectionate Nickname: The Doom Patrol call him "Gar". Soon, the rest of the Titans adopt this nickname for him.
Age Lift: Beast Boy is usually the youngest by a few years. Here, he's older than Raven.
Amazing Technicolor Population: His skin turns green when using his powers, and the animals he turns into are green as well.
Ambiguously Bi: He was implied off screen by his actor to be bisexual, though there hasn't been any actual confirmation that this is true.
Animorphism: he can shape-shift into animals and even basic forms such as viruses. So long as it has DNA.
Audience Surrogate: Gar is the most "mundane" Titan. He has the most normal preoccupations, like playing video games and watching movies and is very cheerful and pleasant, actually acting like a normal teenage of his age. Hell, he turns into a tiger just to steal video games. Despite his own abnormal upbringing he doesn't have any angsty burdens about it, in fact, he is the most mentally stable Titan. Now, this doesn't mean the show runners won't torment Gar too.
Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: His powers give him a powerful connection to the Red, a mystical plane of existence that connects all animal life in all universes. In the Grand Finale he decides to return to better protect it, though he promises to be there if his friends need him.
Back from the Dead: was beaten to death in Trigon, but resurrected due to his powers.
Badass Adorable: An adorable nerd who can turn into a mighty tiger.
Beast Man: Sometimes, the animals instincts take control over Gar. Lampshaded by Trigon of all creatures: 'Man or beast?'
Beware the Nice Ones: He's a sweet-natured goofball most of time, and nice to everyone, but he can turn into lethal animals like tigers and snakes. If provoked enough, he will gut you, just ask the crazy scientist who thought is a great idea to abuse Gar.
Brainwashed and Crazy: Cadmus experiments on Gar include randomly killing people.
Break the Cutie: In episodes 4 & 5, Garfield cheerfully mentions that he's never even bitten anyone while transformed, let alone attacked anyone. Come episode 7, Garfield acts on animal instinct and mauls an asylum doctor to death after said doctor attacks Rachel. Once he's back in his human form, it's obvious that Garfield is understandably traumatized by what he did.
- Gar's plight ends up getting considerably worse in Season 2 where he is forced by Mercy Graves to cold-bloodily murder civilians at his favorite cafe. The second he snaps out of his hypnosis and realizes what he's done, Gar visibly has a mental breakdown over his actions.
But Now I Must Go: In the final episode he's the first to announce that he's leaving, believing that he needs to return to the Red to better protect it. However he promises to return if his friends need him.
The Chew Toy: Despite being Out of Focus the writers find plenty of room to torment poor Gar, namely, if there is a plotline involving torture or painful experiments, there are 90% changes of Gar being the victim.
The Chosen One: Freedom Beast reveals that Gar is the Red's true protector, having a much stronger and unique connection to it compared to others. He even points out that the fact that he turns into green animals is a sign of this since green is his favorite color, and later when Gar acknowledges this while in the Red it turns from red to green, showing how connected he is to it.
Civvie Spandex: His outfit is the most casual-looking of the four Titans, but his red and white jacket resembles his 80's costume from the New Teen Titans era (when he went by "Changeling").
Composite Character: With Animal Man, who was the Red's avatar before later comics made it his daughter. In this version Gar is the Red's true protector with Freedom Beast explaining that he has a stronger connection to the Red than Animal Man.
Conveniently an Orphan: His parents died in Congo, and Garfield only survived because Chief found him.
Dimensional Traveller: In "Dude, Where's My Gar" his connection to the Red causes him to explore The Multiverse, seeing visions of the Flash and Shazam before travelling to Earth-2 to meet Stargirl.
Endearingly Dorky: Because of his isolated upbringing, he is naïve to a fault and kind of awkward. His child like enthusiasm upon meeting new people and showing them his favorite stuff are one of the things that attracted Rachel to befriend him. She even calls him a 'geek'.
Full-Frontal Assault: His power is transforming into animals, and he has to take off his clothes before doing so because they will rip.
- Lampshaded by Bernard Fitzmartin after finally giving Gar a suit, who jokes that Gar's days of stripping down in public are over.
Geek: His first introduction shows him stealing video games as a tiger. When Rachel points out that he's a geek he happily proclaims he's a geek of "classic films, vinyl, and video games". He also gets protective of one of his things when Rachel plays with it, stating that it was vintage.
Genre Savvy: Classic films, vinyl, and video games. In "Ghosts", when Jason has the bright idea of splitting up, in a form of a tribute to the animated series he even says:
Gar to Jason: Have you never seen an horror movie before?
Good Thing You Can Heal: It's heavily implied that the Trigon-possessed Titans beat him to death but his nature as a shapeshifter gave him the ability to heal himself with only a few bruises left over. Notably he turned into a snake for the first time in this scene, and snakes/serpents are often connected to the concepts of "rebirth" and "regeneration".
Guilt Complex: Over Jason's kidnapping in season 2.
The Heart: He is nice and compassionate, and tries to his best to comfort his teammates, just as when he tried to assure Jason he is not a reject.
Kid Hero All Grown-Up: Also something of a Sidekick Graduations Stick, Gar begins as Dick's combat student, but in season 4 is entrusted by Dick to be Tim's mentor.
Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Trigon manages to corrupt all the Titans to the dark side, except for Garfield, who snaps Rachel out of her father's control, leading to his defeat.
Kung-Fu Wizard: Gar is shown to be a proficient fighter both in hand-to-hand combat and using swords.
Like Brother and Sister: Gar and Rachel are very close and characters have made jokes about them getting together in the first and second seasons, however they see each other as siblings. This has been confirmed by the showrunner and by the actors.
Manchurian Agent: After being captured by Mercy Graves in Season 2, Gar is surgically transformed into one of these against his will.
Morality Pet: Heavily implied to be this for Rachel. Most noticeably, in the season two premiere Trigon specifically targeted Gar in his effort to break Rachel. When Gar survived his beating from the possessed Titans he was able to pull Rachel out of her father's thrall by holding her hand and asking her to come back. It's also implied he might be a minor one to Jason, as the other boy is overall more considerate of Gar's feelings than he is of any of the other Titans'.
Mundane Utility: He is introduced at the end of the pilot transformed as a tiger just to steal video games from a store.
Naked People Are Funny: In his character teaser, when he transforms into a tiger and back, he comes back naked. It takes Dick asking if he has to be naked to change and Starfire snickering in amusement for him to register what's going on.
Nice Guy: What makes him unique and outstanding among the team is his friendliness and desire to help people.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He's partially at fault for Superboy attacking the cops, although it's downplayed in that he merely didn't have time to explain it to him (and likely didn't realize he'd have to).
Only Sane Man: Takes on this role in his interactions with Jason, wanting to call Dick for help and avoid splitting up while Jason is in favour of running off alone.
Out of Focus: The first season focuses much more on Robin, Starfire, and Raven. Gets even worse in Season 2 when the cast increases and even the actor notes that Gar doesn't really have a storyline in Season 3. Season 4 gives him more focus by introducing the Red while the previous Out of Focus is brought up as him being a follower, and it's deconsturcted as it's explained that he needs to make decisions himself about what will happen next for him if he wants to reach his full potential.
Panthera Awesome: Tigers are his favorite animal so he prefers to turn into one.
Please, Don't Leave Me: When the other doctors start to leave because of the virus he and the others contracted in Congo, he weakly begs them not to go.
Plucky Comic Relief: The most opening comedic member of the Titans.
Pop-Cultured Badass: He is a shapeshifter who likes vinyl and video games, and wears a lot of t-shirts with pop references.
Race Lift: Generally portrayed as Caucasian (but with green skin), his actor here is half-Japanese.
Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: His rather comedic reaction to seeing Superboy attack the cops. Also seems to be building up to a massive one in Season 3, this time potentially leaving the Titans for good.
Serpent of Immortality: As mentioned above in Good Thing You Can Heal, Gar turns into a snake after having been beaten to death and once he turns back into his human form the most he's got is a bit a bruising.
Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing: Unlike his comics and cartoons incarnations, who can turn into animals and back while still keeping their human clothes on, this incarnation of Beast Boy unfortunately has to deal with the fact that clothing isn't shapeshiftable.
Sixth Ranger: The story of Season 1 largely focuses on Robin, Starfire and Raven while Beast Boy doesn't show up until later.
Tagalong Kid: A Decon-Recon Switch of the trope. After Gar befriends Rachel and meets Kory and Dick; Rita, Larry and Cliff decide is better to let the teen join the Titans in their adventures. He quickly assumes the role of The Heart within the new formed group. But Titans being a TV Series that plays the superhero adventures in a grim and realistic manner, his adventures prove to be less than ideal. The show deconstructs this as the team is actually on a dangerous mission to stop the coming of Trigon in their world, putting Gar in risky situations that involves getting kidnapped by Trigon's followers, stripped down of his clothing and tortured with electric shocks by a Mad Scientist which is far more dangerous than anything the Chief might have done if he had stayed. And this happens in the next episode after he received Doom Patrol's accord to leave the Caulder manor to not waste away like them. Of course, Heroic BSoD ensues because of this especially as the later seasons continue to treat Gar as a Chew Toy. However the reconstruction comes in because despite all of this, Gar remains a kind and heroic young man who grows braver and stronger because of his adventurers, eventually outgrowing this role to become an experienced member of the Titans that others have to look up to like Tim and Conner.
Token Good Teammate: Of a team filled with moral ambiguity, hypocrisies, mental instabilities, negative personality traits, and deep insecurities, Gar stands out as the well-adjusted and kindhearted member.
Took a Level in Badass: Gar began the show unable to turn into anything but a tiger, but by the fourth season can turn into many different forms, even viruses. He also develops other abilities such as precognition.
Two First Names: Per the DC Comics naming tradition. Interestingly, his last name is shared with the rival company's famous animal-themed superhero.
Voluntary Shapeshifter: Can shift into the form of any animal.
You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Attempts to assure Jason that he isn't a "reject," and it might have worked if not for the other boy getting kidnapped.

"Subject 13" / Conner / Superboy

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Species: Kryptonian-Human Hybrid

Played By: Brooker Muir (season 1), Joshua Orpin (season 2 onwards)

Powers/Abilities: Eye Beams, Nigh-Invulnerable, X-Ray Vision, Super-Intelligence, Superpower Lottery, Super-Strength

Subject 13, also known as Conner, is a clone of Superman and Lex Luthor that was created in Cadmus Laboratories. He was created by Eve Watson, who eventually became his handler and mother figure. He has a genetically enhanced canine companion named Krypto.

13 Is Unlucky: Averted, as Conner is the luckiest of the attempted Superman clones as 01 through 12 were failed cloning attempts.
Adaptational Badass: Where his original comic book power-set was a form of telekinesis that allowed him to simulate the characteristics of a Flying Brick, this Conner has much if not all of Superman's trademark abilities. Such as his Eye Beams, X-Ray Vision, Super-Breath, and Super-Hearing.
Adaptation Name Change: Downplayed. He's only referred to as Conner initially; later on he is referred to as Conner Kent. Kon-El has yet to be established here.
And I Must Scream: In "Nightwing", when Dick manages to reach out to Conner's conscience, it is revealed that Conner is well aware of what Cadmus has done to his body, but is trapped in a black void where he can do nothing but ponder over his actions in silent grief.
Artificial Human: Is a cloning attempt of Superman and Lex Luthor.
The Baby of the Bunch: Despite his appearance, he is chronologically only a few weeks old and this is reflected in his behavior.
Blue-and-Orange Morality: Conner sometimes has trouble understanding moral issues, as he hasn't really had much time to learn about it. He saw nothing wrong with robbing a woman right after he saved her from being mugged at gun point, though to be fair he didn't realise that's what he was doing. He improves thanks to the Titans and by Season 3 understands what is right and wrong.
Born as an Adult: Conner was cloned and "born" as a teenager with some knowledge and memories implanted inside his head.
Brainwashed and Crazy: In the season 2 finale, he is brainwashed by Cadmus and forced to fight the Titans.
Character Development: By Season 3 he has become more aware of how best to deal with situations, while also maturing more to the point he acts less like a child.
Chest Insignia: After escaping Cadmus Laboratories, Conner wears a shirt with Superman's "S" shield on it.
Combo Platter Powers: Like Superman, Conner has super strength, speed, flight, invulnerability, super senses, X-ray vision, Super-Breath, and heat vision. Unlike Superman, he is also incredibly smart, because he inherits Lex's DNA. The only thing that prevents him from becoming an Invincible Hero is that he has the mental capacity of a toddler, so he has yet to fully grasp the things he can do.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Easily defeats the soldiers Cadmus sends after him.
Destructive Saviour:
- When rescuing Krypto from being experimented on, Conner is quite destructive to the scientists.
- While saving Lionel Luthor from Cadmus soldiers, Conner causes a lot of damage to the farmhouse.
- Conner’s attempt to save “good guys” results in police car doors being ripped off and bodies flying.
The Dog Bites Back: Played with. The first thing we see him doing is attacking scientists who were experimenting on him, but it later turns out that he attacked them because they were hurting Krypto.
Eye Beams: Inherited Kal-El's heat vision.
The Faceless: His face isn't shown in The Stinger of Season 1.
Flying Brick: Well, he is a Superman clone. By the end of season 2, he is undoubtedly the strongest member of the Titans.
Genetic Memory: He has residual memories of both Superman and Lex Luthor, which provide some guidance to the world but also messes him up.
Genius Bruiser: Thanks to inheriting both Superman's and Lex Luthor's DNA, he is both the strongest and the smartest Titan. This briefly makes Gar jealous, since he was the erstwhile smart guy, so Conner's existence has rendered his position superfluous.
Go Through Me: Conner frequently uses himself as a Bullet Proof Human Shield to protect people, usually Gar, from attacks.
Half-Human Hybrid: Is half Kryptonian, half human.
Heroes Love Dogs: Well, his best friend is a dog he saved from the Cadmus Laboratories.
Homosexual Reproduction: His DNA was taken from two men, Superman and Lex Luthor.
Hunk: A conventionally muscular and attractive man. Justified as he is a Superman clone; he is probably what Clark looked like as a teen.
Innocent Fanservice Guy: He doesn't have a nudity taboo at first, so he wanders naked out of the medbay at the Tower.
Innocently Insensitive: Since he's fresh out into the world, he has very little idea how it works or how to communicate, with Eve comparing him to a two-year-old. He accidentally robs a woman when he tries to ask for money and scares her instead, cheerfully thanking her when she hands her purse over.
Kryptonite Factor: Like Superman, he is vulnerable to Kryptonite.
Last Episode, New Character: Debuted during The Stinger of the Season 1 finale, Dick Grayson.
Like Father, Like Son: Conner inherited more than just Superman's abilities or Lex's scientific potential. As his titular episode shows he has Lex's anger issues, and just as if not more importantly, much like his namesake Superman, Conner/Superboy's natural inclination in any situation is to help others with his powers. To protect people.
Line-of-Sight Name: He adopts the name Conner from the nametag of a Cadmus uniform.
Meaningful Name: His name has Irish origins and is derived from the word "Conchobhar", which means "Lover of wolves / hounds". Quite fitting when your best friend is a dog.
Mix-and-Match Man: Conner is a clone made of DNA from both Superman and Lex Luthor.
Mr. Fanservice: He's a very attractive young man and is naked a lot during his first few episodes, usually with the camera fixated on his ass. There's also his superhero suit, which is basically just a tight Superman shirt.
Mugged for Disguise: After breaking out of his containment pod in season 2, Conner takes the uniform of a security guard and exits Cadmus .
Naked First Impression: He's introduced to the audience (and formally to Kory, Rachel and Gar) in his birthday suit.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He misinterprets the police arresting someone as an attack, "saving" them and exposing himself to the world.
Nigh-Invulnerable: He's a (half-)Kryptonian clone, what did you expect?
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Despite Eve urging him to not use his powers and lay low to avoid alerting Cadmus, Conner cannot sit idly by while Jason Todd falls to his death and chooses to jump in and save his life. Cue Mercy Graves showing up just a few moments later to shoot Conner with Kryptonite bullets the second he let his guard down.
Pet the Dog: Almost literally with his rescue of a fellow test subject who happens to be a dog.
The Power of the Sun: Like Superman, derives his Kryptonian powers from the absorption of solar energy from the Earth's yellow sun.
Promoted to Love Interest: He never had a relationship with Blackfire in the comics.
Really Was Born Yesterday: Looks like a teenager, but was created only recently.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Just before he uses his heat vision.
Running Gag: Has a habit of ending up naked.
- Conner is seen wandering around naked in Cadmus before he finds a guard's uniform.
- Is naked when Kory and Rachel use their combined powers to heal him from his kryptonite poisoning.
- When he finally wakes up in Titans Tower, he leaves the medbay and greets Gar naked.
The Smart Guy: From season 3 onward, he serves in this role alongside Gar.
Shoo the Dog: He tells Krypto to leave before he goes back to Cadmus, even yelling at him and calling him a stupid mutt when he won't go.
The Stinger: In "Dick Grayson", he escapes from captivity from Project CADMUS, but before he goes, he rescues a dog from a green glowing cage.
Super-Intelligence: Conner inherited Lex Luthor's IQ, but he still remains highly naïve about the world.
Superpower Lottery: Has all of the powers of Superman.
Super-Strength: Since, he is made of Superman's DNA too, he got his incredible strength.
Super-Toughness: Can take a punch from Wonder Girl and keep going.
Two-Donor Clone: Has DNA from both Superman and Lex Luthor.
Unskilled, but Strong: Conner is barely several weeks old, has no training, but he has most of Superman's power set.
The Villain Knows Where You Live: After reveal himself and his powers to the public, Mercy Graves is able to track him down to Titans Tower.
X-Ray Vision: Yet another standard Kryptonian superpower he posseses.
You Are Number 6: At Cadmus he was known as Subject 13.
Younger Than They Look: Looks like a teenager, but is really only a few weeks old.

Krypto

Species: Kryptonian-Dog Hybrid

Played By: Wrigley, Digby, and Lacey