"Things change, Beast Boy. The girl you want me to be is just a memory."
— Terra
The last episode (before the movie).
Also the one where Terra returns, albeit changed forever.
Beast Boy encounters a girl who looks exactly like the long-presumed dead Terra, and there is a very real possibility that it is her. However, she claims to have no memories of being a Titan and lacks Terra's powers.
Tropes:
- Actually a Doombot: The Slade that Beast Boy fights and defeats ends up being a robot duplicate.
- Ambiguous Situation:
- It's not made clear if Terra legitimately has amnesia, is just faking it so she can live a normal life, or happens to be an Identical Stranger to the real Terra.
- However, plenty of lines all but confirm it is Terra and she's choosing to forget.
- Should that be the case, it is unclear exactly how long she's been alive, as well as she was able to remove the neurosuit as it was completely fused to her nervous system.
- Discussed when the others are searching for the White Monster. Robin, Starfire, Raven, and Cyborg, while skeptical of Beast Boy's claims, openly ponder how Terra could've possibly returned (she either freed herself, the petrification effect simply just wore off, or an Earthquake could have occurred while they were gone).
- Starfire wonders why, regardless of how, she never tried locating them. Raven points out that Terra wasn't exactly one of the good guys the last time they saw her, therefore, she probably didn't want to be found.
- It's not made clear if Terra legitimately has amnesia, is just faking it so she can live a normal life, or happens to be an Identical Stranger to the real Terra.
- And the Adventure Continues: "Beast Boy to Robin. I'm on my way."
- Apathy Killed the Cat: While the other Titans wonder how Terra could have recovered, Beast Boy doesn't question it, only caring that she's back.
- Back from the Dead: As it's believed, Terra.
- Bittersweet Ending: The episode ends with Beast Boy accepting that the Terra he knew is never coming back and joining his teammates in battle, showing that he's finally ready to move on, though he's not happy about it.
- Bolivian Army Cliffhanger: Largely downplayed. Though it was never shown exactly how that battle ended, the episode ending with Beast Boy en route to help the Titans fight the creature, as well as Robin's earlier confidence that Beast Boy would be the one who'd be able to take the creature down, does give some assurance that they were going to win that fight.
- Bolivian Army Ending: The episode ends with Beast Boy finally joining in the battle against the new enemy. The resolution is not shown. (The follow-up movie does not address this, although its very existence implies the creature was dealt with in some manner.)
- The Bus Came Back: This is the only episode of the season to feature Slade, and even that's just for one scene. And he's later revealed to be a robot clone.
- Call-Back: Slade sends one of his robotic duplicates to confront Beast Boy, just like how he did the same thing to Robin at the end of "Masks".
- Dénouement Episode: With the season's main story arc having wrapped up with one episode to spare, the actual finale is more of a bittersweet coda.
- Did Not Get the Girl: Beast Boy doesn't get Terra at the end.
- End-of-Series Awareness: Having the Titans return to Jump City to see that Nothing Is the Same Anymore, while Beast Boy has to learn to let go of the past, all points to telling the viewer to accept that the show is over and to watch something else.
- Grand Finale: Of the And the Adventure Continues variety.
- Hard Truth Aesop:
- The world is always changing and you need to stop living in the past and accept things as they happen, which Beast Boy learns.
- You also shouldn't push to restart a past relationship if the other person doesn't want to reconnect.
- Learning to let go is a big part of growing up.
- Nostalgia Ain't Like It Used to Be, and what you consider to be happier times can be seen as just mostly as an awful, traumatic period for someone else.
- Innocently Insensitive: If the school girl really is Terra, then all of Beast Boy's attempts to restore her memory just remind her of all the horrible things she did and all the trauma she went through back in Season 2.
- Made of Explodium: The wooden support rafters explode when Beast Boy rams Slade into the abandoned park's rollercoaster.
- Material Mimicry: The White Monster can copy substances that it touches. After becoming oil, it gains the ability to reform itself.
- No Ending: Infamously so.
- No Name Given: The girl who is thought to be Terra never refers to herself by any other name.
- Nostalgia Ain't Like It Used to Be: All the schoolgirl can think about when Beast Boy reminisces over his time with Terra is that she sounded like a terrible person who betrayed him in the end.
- Nothing Is the Same Anymore: The Titans return after defeating the Brotherhood of Evil to find their home city changed.
- Not Me This Time: Slade claims to have nothing to do with Terra's return, amnesia, or loss of powers.
- Off-into-the-Distance Ending: The episode ends with Beast Boy running out of the school into a bright white light.
- Post-Final Boss: A variation. The monster that the Titans face is the last antagonist of the final season after the actual Big Bad The Brain and his Legion of Doom are defeated. However, the monster is different from the norm of your usual Post-Final Boss in that he's considerably more difficult to defeat and the episode ends on a cliffhanger with Beast Boy joining the fight against it with no actual resolution. Additionally, the Slade-bot is the last personal foe Beast Boy faces after his arc with The Brain.
- Ship Sinking: Beast Boy given up on Terra eliminates any chance of the two ever becoming a couple.
- Title Drop: "Things change, Beast Boy. The girl you want me to be is just a memory."
- That Man Is Dead: Assuming the schoolgirl really is Terra, given how she keeps telling Beast Boy to stop calling her as such, it's made very clear that she no longer wants anything to do with her old life.
- Two Lines, No Waiting: While Beast Boy tries to get Terra to remember her past, the other Titans chase after a Blob Monster terrorizing Jump City.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: None of Terra's classmates seem to recognize her from her time as a temporary Teen Titan or the Slade-related terrorist who briefly took over the city at least a year ago.
- Also, none of her school's students or staff seem to notice or wonder why Beast Boy is at their school.
- The Unreveal: Done on purpose. It's never actually revealed whether the girl Beast Boy meets in this episode is Terra with amnesia, or whether Beast Boy mistook the girl for someone else, etc.
- Villain Has a Point: Slade says that if Terra doesn't remember her acts of heroism as a Titan, it's because she chooses not to. Beast Boy argues that she can't forget being a true hero and sacrificing herself to save everyone... but... she didn't exactly have the best time when she had her powers. They were hard to control, which made her feel very insecure about herself. When Slade helped her control them, she owed him a favor by spying and betraying the Titans, something she felt very guilty doing. That's not even getting into the guilt she probably feels for nearly killing the Titans and taking over the city unopposed, as well as the trauma she endured from the Titans viciously fighting back and Slade beating her to a pulp when she retreated and technologically controlling her like a puppet. Even if this really is Terra brought back from the dead, she probably wants to avoid the chances of triggering another volcano. You can't really blame Terra for wanting to move past all of this, or Slade (though considering how he played a part in said trauma, he doesn't really have a leg to stand on) for outright calling Beast Boy out for telling her to remember something she doesn't want to. Perhaps Slade learned something from the battle with Trigon after the latter told him You Have Out Lived Your Usefulness.
- Wham Line: "Terra"'s first words to Beast Boy: "Sorry, you got the wrong girl."
- Wham Shot: Terra's statue is no longer in the cave, making it clear that she's living flesh and blood.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Slade of all people does this, calling out Beast Boy for continuing to force her to remember something she doesn't want to.
"Beast Boy to Robin, I'm on my way. Over."
