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[[folder:Baby Wildebeest]]
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->'''Abilities:''' Super-strength

The Wildebeest Society experimented with genetically-created host bodies to house the tainted souls of Azarath. The Baby Wildebeest was their only successful experiment, before the organization was destroyed by the New Titans. Taking care of the infant creature, the Titans soon realized that it could transform to a grown-up Wildebeest, and let him join the team.
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* BabyTalk: Often spoke in this, due to being a toddler. By the time of his cameos in Devin Grayson's ''Titans'', he spoke a little more coherently and like a slightly older child.
* CollateralAngst: Died alongside his adopted mother Pantha to serve as character development for his father-figure Red Star. Character development that never happened beyond a single issue of ''Teen Titans''.
* CListFodder: Notable for being a gratuitous death of a child character, even if he was in his hulked-out adult mode at the time. He basically was violently gored through by Superboy Prime's heat vision, after attempting to attack him for beheading his "mama".
* DependingOnTheArtist: As to how monsterish he might have looked, vs. slightly more humanoid appearances.
* DesignerBabies: One of the Wildebeest Society's many unusual test subjects.
* HulkOut: Baby Wildebeest did in fact spend most of his time as a toddler, but when in battle would assume the much larger and bulkier form of the adult Wildebeest.
* RedeemingReplacement to the Wildebeest Society.
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[[folder:Beast Boy / Changeling]]
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->'''AKA:''' Garfield Logan
->'''Abilities:''' Animal shapeshifting

Beast Boy, also known as Changeling and Menagerie, is a Creator/DCComics {{superhero}} created by Arnold Drake and Bob Brown, first appearing in the November 1965 issue of ''[[ComicBook/DoomPatrol The Doom Patrol]]''. As a child, Garfield Logan survived an infectious green monkey bite through the SuperScience of his parents, who were in Africa studying the field of reverse evolution. Their treatment saved his life, but resulted in two distinct efforts -- first, Garfield would spend the rest of his days as green as the monkey that bit him, and second, he had developed the ability [[VoluntaryShapeshifting to turn into any animal at will]].

By the time of his appearance in the pages of ''Doom Patrol'', Garfield had become a RebelliousSpirit, chafing under the shackles of his abusive guardian, whom he had been collected by following the death of his parents. Following a number of adventures and misadventures alike with the Doom Patrol, he was adopted by Steve Dayton (Mento) and Rita Farr (Elasti-Girl), which resulted in a happy period of time in his life until the Patrol was murdered, ending his series of origin.

However, Garfield is most famous for his appearances with the ''Teen Titans''. Following a couple of brief appearances with the early ''Teen Titans'', first as a SpecialGuest in the early 60s issues and then as a member of [[WestCoastTeam Titans West]], Gar was fully initiated into the ''New Teen Titans'' at the very start of the seminal Wolfman and Perez run, taking his place as an iconic member of the team roster, with an almost uninterrupted tenure since, barring some turbulence around the turn of the millenium and his run with ''Comicbook/TheRavagers'' in the ComicBook/New52.

Beast Boy has appeared in several television adaptations, including ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', and ''Series/Titans2018''.
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* AbortedArc: During the set up for the Titans LA project, Gar moved to Hollywood area and reconnected with Bette "Flamebird" Kane, another Titans West alumnus, but the project ultimately failed to go forward.
* AbusiveParents:
** Nicholas Galtry, his abusive guardian before his Doom Patrol enlistment. Galtry was the Logan family attorney who became Garfield's court-appointed guardian to gain access to the kid's massive inheritance and spend it for his own ends, from covering bad investments to hiring assassins to kill Garfield for finding out. He actually conspired with the Brotherhood of Evil for a time and when ''that'' failed to kill Gar, he finally decides to take matters into his own hands and kill him personally, with his increasingly murderous resentment inadvertently forming its own CharacterDevelopment arc. Bonus points for being {{retcon}}ned into Garfield's [[EvilUncle maternal uncle]] by [[AllThereInTheManual the DC website]].
** Downplayed with Steve Dayton during the New Teen Titans, who would occasionally lash out at Garfield in the midst of [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor his own trauma and breakdowns]]. There were periods of peace and even mutual love between them, however, but the writers kept driving Dayton AxCrazy.
* AfraidOfDoctors: In the Creator/GeoffJohns run, Beast Boy has a phobia of doctors, due to being experimented on as a kid and in particular has a special hatred for needles.
* AlmightyJanitor: At least one interpretation of Beast Boy's character is that he has immense power (see Inverse Law of Complexity to Power below) but doesn't want the responsibility involved.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Gar's been green for over fifty years... except for that brief stint in the New 52 where he was colored red to highlight his new connection to ''The Red''[[note]]The metaphysical manifestation of the Animal Kingdom[[/note]]. Once his debut title was cancelled, he was shuttled over to the Teen Titans and his green skin quietly restored.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: While it's a common shorthand to describe him as an X-Men-style mutant, it's hard to tell whether he's even really human at all anymore, given his DNA is completely mutable.
* {{Animorphism}}: He can turn into a green version of any animal (though he can't turn into larger animals without strain) and can speak in any form. This is because he's not limited to turning into animals, are [[OurMonstersAreDifferent included magical and mythological monsters]].
* ArchnemesisDad: Zigzagged with Gar's adoptive father Steve Dayton during Wolfman's run, where he got caught by the helmet in the HeelFaceRevolvingDoor. Dayton just couldn't go for more than a few years without going AxCrazy.
* ArtEvolution: How Beast Boy's powers manifested wasn't immediately settled at first. When he first showed up, he could turn into any animal almost perfectly except for his head, which stayed green and retained a few human features. It wasn't until later that he started turning into complete (and completely green) animals.
* TheArtifact: His red-and-white uniforms are holdovers from the original Doom Patrol of the sixties; he continues to wear the colors even decades after the crew was brought back from the dead and the "team uniform" was retired.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Gar can turn into animals of nearly any kind, but whether or not those animals are accurate representations is a different story. Some of his stronger animal forms show cases of SuperStrength, while his bird forms in flight are capable of keeping up with high-speed {{Flying Brick}}s.
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Occasionally Gar's animal morphs, while naturally strong animals, are shown exhibiting levels of strength and durability beyond even their natural capacities.
* AttentionWhore: Gar's been a sucker for attention, especially from pretty girls, since ''The New Teen Titans'', and admits in early in ''Teen Titans Volume 3'' that the positive attention is a significant reason behind his heroism. It comes up again post-''Rebirth'', where he admits he feels the need to have attention on him.
* BadFuture:
** Downplayed. While present-Gar's current form is AmbiguouslyHuman, his ''Kingdom Come'' self Menagerie is very much a living gargoyle, for reasons unknown.
** In the ''Titans Tomorrow'' storyline, Gar encounters a nearly feral future self named "Animal Man".
** He survives a ZombieApocalypse to show up in the ''Comicbook/{{Rotworld}}'' crossover.
** He's also one of the last few superheroes left in the ''Forever Evil'' storyline, now using the moniker Beast Man, with his wife Rose Wilson and their daughter Red.
** Killed off in the ''ComicBook/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' timeline via a nuke.
* BarrierMaiden: On a couple of occasions, Beast Boy has been targeted by villains as a stepping stone to another dimension.
** In ''Titans Vol. 2'', Beast Boy was described as the "key" to a portal Trigon's sons were attempting to open to Trigon's realm; more specifically they wanted leftover power from the Trigon Seeds still lingering in his body.
** In ''Comicbook/TheRavagers'', Beast Boy's new connection to [[BackgroundMagicField the Red]] makes him a target for the forces of both Harvest and Brother Blood, who are trying to get to the Red for their own devices.
* TheBerserker: After being empowered by the Source energy he has to be careful not to be overwhelmed by his animal instincts and go feral.
* BeastMan: Due to the fallout of ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueNoJustice'', his ShapeShifterDefaultForm has mutated into a heftier, more brutal form; while he can return to his human shape, it takes a conscious effort. He's restored to normal after the events of ''Into the Bleed''.
* BewareTheNiceOnes / BewareTheSillyOnes: He's such a good-natured goofball that you almost forget that he can change into any number of things that can and will kill people. At one time, he turned himself into a poisonous spider, bit a foe, and said that the foe had a [[SadisticChoice choice]]; give himself up to the authorities who could give him a cure, or run and die. That being said, it takes a ''lot'' for him to get truly dangerous.
* BigBrotherMentor:
** Gar was the rather spurious semi-responsible sort during volume one of ''Titans'', in which he and Bette Kane, the two-man Titans West team, did some mentoring of the [=DEOrphans=] and even led them on at least one mission while they were ostensibly "babysitting" them.
** More officially, Gar joined Kory and Cyborg as the mentors of the Core Four Young Justice transplants in ''Teen Titans'' Volume 3, where he did a generally better job.
** He returned to the title during J. T. Krul's run as an OlderAndWiser senior member on the team, fulfilling much of the same role.
* BirdsOfAFeather: With Raven in the New 52.
* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: One of the "limitations" of Beast Boy's power some writers employ is the fact that he simply doesn't know what he ''can'' do. Just watching Creator/AnimalPlanet allows him to discover new animal forms and the inherent powers they possess.
* BrilliantButLazy: Downplayed in the ''New Teen Titans'', where Garfield has an aptitude for learning when motivated (access to the best tutors money can buy doesn't hurt).
* TheCameo: Garfield Logan was largely glossed over when ''Comicbook/SecretOrigins Volume 2'' was detailing the DC Universe's new Post-Crisis backstories, both in stories about the Teen Titans and the annual dedicated to the Doom Patrol, [[spoiler:but he appears in the final issue as the surprise narrator of the chapter shared by The Flashes, Barry Allen and Jay Garrick]].
* CasanovaWannabe: It's rare, but he can occasionally come on ''way'' too strong when he flirts with girls, ranging directly into sexual harassment.
* {{Catchphrase}}: It's Garfield who introduces the famous "Titans Together!" rallying cry to the franchise lexicon during The Judas Contract.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: The original Doom Patrol Beast Boy was a dyed-in-the-wool RebelliousSpirit. ''New Teen Titans'' Beast Boy was a SadClown. Modern incarnations (read: those following the famous ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' cartoon) tend to go for the [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass immature goofball who can turn into feral animals]].
* ChickMagnet: Between his multiple romances and his moderate celebrity, Beast Boy tends to have little problem with attracting women.
* CodeName: Gar's had several code names over the years. While he started (and is typically known) as "Beast Boy", he became "Changeling" after he became a New Teen Titan; this was later undone by DC when Geoff Johns wrote his miniseries in the oughts (Johns himself only referred to the character as "Garfield" or "Gar"). Sometimes he goes by "[[SpellMyNameWithAThe the Beast-Boy]]" or "the Changeling". In ''Kingdom Come'', he instead goes by Menagerie.
* ComboPlatterPowers: While his main power is shapeshifting (see Inverse Law of Complexity to Power below), he also has, in no particular order, super strength, super speed, super senses, an advanced HealingFactor, and the ability to use [[Comicbook/DoomPatrol Mento's psionic helmet]]... which can only be used by people with inherent psychic abilities. However, these secondary powers receive very little attention, so little that some writers up and forget they exist.
* ComicbookTime: Beast Boy debuted as a teenager in 1965, where it was made quite clear that he had a substantial inheritance to receive upon is 21st birthday. He made it all the way to ''Flashpoint'' without turning 21; [[StatusQuoIsGod poor guy]].
* CompressedAdaptation: When Beast Boy shows up in a Teen Titans adaptation, his main role will likely be comic relief. His DarkAndTroubledPast will be summarily ignored in favor of him being silly and making jokes (and usually lousy ones at that) -- a SadClown without the Sad; even the 2003 cartoon didn't bother with the Doom Patrol until they hit the PostScriptSeason.
* CoolMask: In order to hide his identity when he originally ran with the Doom Patrol, Gar had to disguise his face with a mask... but DependingOnTheArtist things like [[PaletteSwap the color scheme]] and whether the mask was FormFittingClothing were constantly in flux, so there are several possible versions of Beast Boy's "classic" mask, ranging from a yellow DominoMask to a purple-and-black complete head covering.
* {{Crossover}}: He appears in the final issue of ''Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew'' chasing down Gorilla Grodd from their home dimension. Remarkably, this adventure was part of the setup for ''The Oz-Wonderland War''.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: He has green hair and eyes.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: During the pre-''Flashpoint'' era.
** Gar's original backstory from the ''Doom Patrol'' was ''rife'' with traumatic experiences like nearly dying from an infected monkey bite, helplessly watching his parents fall to their deaths, and accidentally tricking criminals who kidnapped him into murdering each other. Later, he was taken in as the ward of the abusive family lawyer Galtry, who squandered millions of dollars from Gar's inheritance and tried to cover his tracks by ''repeatedly'' subjecting Garfield to {{Assassination Attempt}}s.
** By the time he was inducted into the ''New Teen Titans'', he'd also collected a few more miseries, including the death of the Doom Patrol, who were blown to bits by a particularly stubborn Nazi named General Zahl, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a poor acting career]].
* ADarkerMe: Following his betrayal and torture at the hands of the reborn Brotherhood of Evil in the nineties, the resulting trauma turned Gar's shapeshifting into a LovecraftianSuperpower rife with BodyHorror. While he mostly restricted himself to being a TerrorHero, he enjoyed the change so much he even went so far as to start wearing a pitch-black longcoat over his superhero duds. Things naturally went FromBadToWorse after he was abducted by Evil Raven II.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Geoff Johns penned the ''Beast Boy'' miniseries in 2000, and then the ''Beast Boys and Girls'' arc in 2004. The first took place while he was trying to break back into acting after declining to join the resurrected Titans group and getting, and the second featured him being temporarily stripped of his powers even as they were infecting all the children in the city.
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: During the events of ''NTT'' Gar angsts on occasion about the demise of his birth parents and when he's not, he angsts about the death of Elasti-girl and the Doom Patrol. Technically Mento was still alive, but he'd been psychically tortured and spent the nineties as a supervillain called Crimelord.
* DeadpanSnarker: Comes with the territory of YouFightLikeACow.
* DemonicPossession: There have been a couple of occasions over the years where Gar has been under the influence of some evil spirit, which transformed him into a physical version of themselves or some other monstrosity.
** Gar is kidnapped by Evil Raven II at the beginning of Arsenal's original stint as team leader and infested with the equivalent of ''ten'' [[SoulJar Trigon Seeds]].
** Gar is possessed by the spirit of a {{Tengu}} during a trip to Japan.
* DependingOnTheArtist:
** The particulars of his face-mask from the ''Doom Patrol'' era could vary surprisingly widely in color scheme and design.
** With the success of the animated cartoon, the question of how animalistic he looks (with features like PointedEars and CuteLittleFangs, clawed hands and [[DoesNotLikeShoes bare feet]], or [[HellishPupils slitted rather than round pupils]]) now varies with each artist who draws him. How old he looks is also frequently changed, oftentimes looking [[OlderThanTheyLook as young as Bart]] rather then his actual age. Nicola Scott's depiction of Gar from just prior to ''Flashpoint'' is very close to the Beast and Wolverine of the ''ComicBook/XMen''.
* DependingOnTheWriter: Following Wolfman's run on the New Teen Titans, which cast him as a SadClown and ChivalrousPervert, Gar's been pulled in many different directions.
** Despite [[CharacterDevelopment setting out on his own]] in the margins of the first ''Titans'' volume due to the work of Devin Grayson and Geoff Johns, the Titans LA team[[note]]A potential revival of [[WestCoastTeam Titans West]] headed by Beast Boy and Bette "Flamebird" Kane which never took off because the series failed to be greenlit by DC; in-universe the team amounted to several cameos by Beast Boy and Flamebird in other books[[/note]] collapsed and Gar resurfaced as the BigBrotherMentor of ''Teen Titans'' vol. 3, also under Johns, who quietly de-aged him after deciding the title had too many non-teenagers.
** Several writers, Johns included, have heavily exaggerated his CasanovaWannabe traits into physically harassing women with his shapeshifting powers or making him a not-so-ChivalrousPervert.
** The success of the cartoon also increased his tendency to be depicted as a CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass to the point of making him an immature prat.
** Pat [=McCallum=], who wrote one of Gar's last appearances in the 2008 ''Titans'' series (in which he decides to migrate over to the ''Teen Titans'' series), resurrected his SadClown trait to deconstruct it and highlight Gar's HiddenDepths, and set up a chance at a mentorship role, only for Felicia Henderson (who received him in her run on ''Teen Titans'') to depict him as a clownish variant of TheMunchausen who immediately insisted on his own leadership and fawned desperately over Raven.
** J. T. Krul recast him as the team's BigBrotherMentor once again, but with an extra helping of OlderAndWiser and almost no clownish elements at all, taking a backseat to guide rather than lead the team.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: A recurring element of Devin Grayson's run on the series, starting with the [=JLA/Titans=] crossover.
** In the crossover, no matter how obviously essential Gar is to the plot as the mentally disturbed {{Big Bad}}'s best friend and how willing he is to participate, he is routinely ignored by Superman, Batman, and even other Titans (he takes offense when Raven [[ImStandingRightHere mentions but fails to include him in the conversation]]).
** In the ''Secret Files'' attachment to The Titans, the Fab Five select and invite their personal nominees for membership in the team's revival; Gar doesn't make the nominees list. Roy awkwardly claims the Titans can find a place for him, which Gar shrugs off politely; Cyborg nonetheless insists that Gar tags along to the reunion, but when Nightwing offers him a place, he doesn't take to being the team's ''afterthought'' and declines. Instead, he heads off to Hollywood to try his hand at an acting career.
* TheDragon: To Evil Raven II in the mid-nineties, after she infested him with a combined ten [[SoulJar Trigon Seeds]] (out of a total of one hundred); during this period, he was the servant with the most loyalty to her and received the most fondness in turn. Eventually, [[EvilMakesYouMonstrous he became the hideous "Gar-Goyle"]].
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Way back in '65, he invaded Doom Patrol headquarters and ransacked ''everything'' (up to and including defacing a picture of Elasti-girl and putting an axe through one of Robotman's spare head units), came back the next night and got caught only when the Doom Patrol successfully ganged up on him. When they finally let the teenage punk out, he [[IncomingHam immediately started bellowing at them for messing up his hair and shoes]] and started another fight, hurling insults in every direction. He then had the gall to demand they let him on the team. The Doom Patrol hated his guts, but the fans loved him, and he's been around for more than fifty years since.
* EvilMakesYouMonstrous:
** A variant; Gar's transformations become more monstrous as he gets angrier. When he suffers UncontrollableRage, he effectively goes OneWingedAngel.
** The Brotherhood of Evil got ahold of him and subjected him to torture, leaving him stuck turning only into monsters for a time back in the nineties.
** During one of Raven's evil stints, she implanted a seed of Trigon in him, turning him evil and, unsurprisingly, forcing him to turn into demonic creatures.
* FaceMonsterTurn: Gar's been saddled with more than his fair share of this trope over the years, being a frequent victim of DemonicPossession, PsychoSerum, or BrainwashedAndCrazy, causing him to turn into monsters and fight against his friends and allies. (Literally his first ''Teen Titans'' adventure involved him being hypnotized into serving the villain and turning into a gorilla-snake chimaera to fight the Titans).
* FairytaleMotifs: Inverted. His origin story is structured almost identically to one.
** Gar is the child of luminaries in the scientific community. (He starts as the heir of wealth and nobility...).
** He got his powers from an experimental cure for a lethal disease. (And is granted power by surviving an encounter with death).
** He was very briefly adopted by King Tawaba and his wife of Upper Lamumba. (He becomes a prince in his own right...).
** He lived on his own following this for some time. (But becomes a feral child with the power of animals).
** A local witch doctor had him kidnapped by a couple of crooks. (He was sent into exile by the manipulations of a jealous magician...).
** In the earliest version of his origin, he rescued a tribe of [[MakesSenseInContext enhanced gorilla soldiers]] by freeing them from their military captors. (Only to become a warrior and lead an army into battle).
** He is adopted by his family's conniving lawyer, later retconned into his EvilUncle. (Despite his victory, he's sent again into exile and imprisonment...).
** Eventually, he proves himself worthy of joining the Doom Patrol and is adopted by Steve and Rita. (But again becomes a hero by virtue of martial prowess and a noble heart, and is rewarded at last with a real family. [[EarnYourHappyEnding Not bad for the "Teen Tornado"]]).
* {{Flanderization}}:
** Gar's character development in his own 2000 mini-series began receding over the course of the following decade until he was at best a CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass, but really just a moron.
** After "Graduation Day", a few stories featured Gar's flirtations progressing into physical harassment until Koriand'r would come to blast him away.
** Felcia Henderson's run on ''Teen Titans Volume Three'' features this from the start, with Gar clownishly declaring himself leader of the team to the annoyance of everyone else and fawning over Raven. The disdain for him from the rest of the team is palpable.
* ForTheFunnyz: Gar is almost constantly wisecracking, even when it annoys his teammates. According to ''New Teen Titans'', he does it to keep his head from "[[SadClown blowing up from depression]]".
* GreaserDelinquents: Downplayed; classic ''Doom Patrol'' Beast Boy has the slicked hair, the jacket, and the ''attitude''. Kid was every inch the young rebel.
* TheGrinch: In the 2009 holiday special, ''The (Beast) Boy who Hated Christmas!''[[note]]Which appears to be set in a BroadStrokes blend of ''Doom Patrol'' Volume 1 and the 2003 ''Teen Titans'' cartoon incarnation of the patrol[[/note]]. Beast Boy hates Christmas because, while everybody else is having fun and enjoying all the conventional pleasures of the season, he gets to spend his holiday doing hours of menial labor for his abusive guardian Nick Galtry, cleaning his dingy, ratty motel room. [[MakesSenseInContext Luckily]], Elasti-girl hates Christmas, too.
* HandWave:
** Where does Beast Boy's uniform go when he transforms into animals? The writers haven't really bothered to explain it. In the original ''Doom Patrol'' stories, his clothes actually don't disappear but are hidden by "emanations from his body". Decades later, ComicBook/WallyWest revealed he could tell where the uniform disappeared to and used it as leverage to shut Gar up while he was cracking wise about Gorilla Grodd.
** How does Gar manage to talk normally even while in animal form? Heck if the writers know... but you ''could'' justify it if you factor in his psychic powers.
* HappyEndingOverride:
** Gar gets adopted by Rita and Steve in the sixties? The Doom Patrol is murdered by General Zahl.
** Gar finally finds and rescues his long-lost adoptive dad Steve Dayton with the Titans? The side-effects from using the Mento helmet and [[ComicBook/SwampThing a misadventure with John Constantine]] drive Steve AxCrazy.
** Gar finally starts getting along with Steve out of shared love for Rita? Steve goes mad (again) and tries to kill him.
** Gar ''finally'' resumes a relationship with Raven at the end of the Post-Crisis Titans? [[CosmicRetcon Flashpoint happens]].
* HasAType: While Beast Boy and Raven have been a Fan-Preferred Couple since the 2003 cartoon, in the comics his first two girlfriends were blonde and blue-eyed: sweetheart Jillian Jackson and the ill-fated Tara Markov. He's also very close with Bette "Flamebird" Kane, another blonde. ''Teen Titans Rebirth'' gives him a close relationship with the blonde leader of Nevrland, Joran. It's even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] at the end of the 2000 Beast Boy miniseries:
-->'''Bette''': You can't resist a cute blonde and a smile.
-->'''Gar''': Never could, Bette. Never could.
* TheHeart: A genuinely nice, compassionate guy who [[SadClown hides the pain with a lot of bad jokes]] to cheer up his BlessedWithSuck teammates. If you need someone to pull a IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight, send Gar. The fact that it ''didn't'' work with comic book Terra was what cemented her as irredeemable. It's also why giving him a ''[[ComicBook/KingdomCome very]]'' [[ComicBook/InjusticeGodsAmongUs unpleasant fate]] is shorthand for a timeline gone wrong.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With pre-Flashpoint Cyborg. Cyborg is often bitter at what he frequently sees as the loss of part of his humanity, but Beast Boy can always cheer him up. Conversely, when Beast Boy hits a few too many points on the dingbat meter, Cyborg can bring him down to earth.
* HiddenDepths:
** It was a recurring theme of his during the ''New Teen Titans'' that Garfield was constantly making jokes, lame or otherwise, in order to keep his head "from blowing up from depression."
** ''NTT'' Garfield also proved to be somewhat brilliant but lazy when he belatedly hired a tutor to teach him sign-language to speak with Jericho; "belatedly" because most if not all of the other Titans were already fluent in it.
** More ''NTT'': Garfield planned and staged Donna Troy's wedding just about single-handedly and proved to be more tasteful and thoughtful than anyone expected.
* HideYourOtherness: Downplayed; for a guy with green skin and hair, there's only so much otherness you can hide, but one interpretation of why he doesn't use the full extent of his powers is that he's ashamed of them for being freakish.
* {{Hunk}}: Gar boasts a significant amount of chest and arm hair whenever he gets a shirtless scene.
* IDidntMeanToKillHim: Madame Rouge and General Zahl, villains from the ''Doom Patrol'', were responsible for killing the eponymous heroes of that series, and survived long enough for Gar Logan to catch up to them, with all his UnstoppableRage in tow. At long last Gar finally catches Rouge and lethally wounds her, only to instantly regret it.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: He is very attached to his super powers, and has had them since he was too small to know anything different. Changing into any critter he can think of? That's not just useful, it's a lot of fun.
* InUniverseNickname: "Gar" from Garfield, on occasion.
* InverseLawOfComplexityToPower: Garfield's power is "[[SemanticSuperpower shapeshifting into animals]]", taking on both their form and natural powers. The range, mechanism, and limitations of his power have never, in the fifty years since his debut, been really examined, leading to what is basically one of the most versatile movesets in all of DC.
** Typically he shifts into some species of earth fauna, but he's also turned (or is capable of turning) into:
*** Multiple animals at once[[note]]He turned into a mass of barnacles all the way back in the original ''Doom Patrol''[[/note]].
*** Things that [[ArtisticLicenseBiology aren't strictly speaking animals]][[note]]He turned into a microbe in the original ''Doom Patrol'' as part of his escape from being imprisoned in his room by Galtry; unicellular organisms fall outside of the animalia kingdom[[/note]].
*** Chimerical MixAndMatchCritters[[note]]He first turned into a gorilla-snake hybrid during his GuestStar appearance in the original ''Teen Titans'' series in the 60s[[/note]].
*** Both variants of AnimalsNotToScale[[note]]He first turned into a colossal ape during the ''[[WestCoastTeam Titans West]]'' arc in the 70s[[/note]].
*** {{Prehistoric Monster}}s[[note]]The first example of this was his negative reaction to a the Amazon's Purple Ray in the ''New Teen Titans'', which drove him mad and also enabled him to turn into a Brachiosaurus[[/note]].
*** Imaginary creatures[[note]]He turned into a monstrous serpentine monster while chasing Madame Rouge to kill her in the ''New Teen Titans''[[/note]].
*** Alien species[[note]]He became a Gordanian during the first ''Omega Men'' crossover[[/note]].
*** Mythical beasts[[note]]He first turned into a dragon, purely gratuitously, during a one-off adventure between the end of the Hybrid arc and the first appearance of the Wildebeest, and he transformed into Lockheed during the [=Teen Titans/X-Men=] Crossover[[/note]].
*** {{Eldritch Abomination}}s[[note]]When his brain was exposed to the newest prototype of the Mento helmet by villains in the 90s, the resulting trauma disrupted his shape-shifting and caused him to turn into monsters rather than animals, a tendency that was reinforced after Evil Raven II planted a Trigon Seed in him. He may have the ability himself naturally, given that he turned into a monster when his EvilCounterpart drove him berserk during their BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind[[/note]].
*** "Fictional" creatures[[note]][[Literature.{{Jabberwocky}} the Jabberwock]] (as per a future incarnation of himself named [[Comicbook/KingdomCome Menagerie]])[[/note]].
*** {{Funny Animal}}s[[note]]As he does in ''Comicbook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew''[[/note]].
*** [[BeastMan Beast Men]][[note]]He turns into an anthropomorphic tiger walking around on its hind legs during an adventure with Raven in ''Titans Giant'' #2.[[/note]]
** His Animal Man self from the [[BadFuture Titans Tomorrow]] arc is able to duplicate his animal morphs in a process that looks suspiciously like cellular replication, but it's unknown whether he can transform into actual microscopic life forms like he could in the animated series.
* KarmicTrickster: When he served with the original ''Doom Patrol'', Garfield was not at all above using his abilities to humiliate and frustrate bullies and jerks at school; at one point he challenged a JerkJock to a race and used his rabbit morph to repeatedly get the drop on him. By the end of the race, the jock had been reduced to TantrumThrowing and InelegantBlubbering.
* KidAppealCharacter: During his original stint on the Doom Patrol, being the token teen with attitude.
* KingIncognito: One of the least-explored facets of his original character is that Gar does an awful lot of ''not talking'' about how he was adopted by an African king. King Tawaba of Upper Lamumba briefly took Gar as his son after the Logans died, but the kid rejected a life of rules and study and instead became a WildChild living on the outskirts of the village in a treehouse with a chimp named Meka. Tawaba let this stand but promised to forever consider him his son and friend... which means Garfield is still an African prince.
* TheLadysFavour: During the events of ''Comicbook/WhoIsWonderGirl'', Garfield volunteers to go on a suicide mission to seek out the lost Cyborg and Nightwing under the {{Big Bad}}'s nose. While he jokes through the discussion and fully expects to be teased for his first attempt at turning into an alien beast for the job, his bravery earns him a kiss from Donna, a kiss from Kory, and a "[[BuffySpeak psychic whammo]]" from Raven[[note]]which seems to be a telepathic beacon allowing Raven to teleport to his side with the other girls once he finished his job[[/note]] that he describes as even ''better'' than kisses.
-->'''Garfield:''' ''Rave -- I think I'm in love.''
* TheLeader: Subverted. In the 2000s there were a few motions in the direction of letting Gar lead his own team of Titans, only to come undone by either mandate or another writer. Whenever he ''is'' in the role, he's a Charismatic-type, and [[{{Foil}} plays off of]] Robin's Levelheaded-type. They both have elements of Mastermind and Headstrong.
* LonelyRichKid: Downplayed. ''Rebirth's'' ''Teen Titans'' introduced him throwing a massive party with his uncle's money.
* LovableSexManiac: Boy-howdy! In his earliest ''TT'' appearances, he threw himself at nearly anything female. In fact, the second issue of ''The New Teen Titans'' has him intentionally inviting the team for a swim in his pool just to trick Donna Troy and Starfire into the ''skimpiest'' bikinis he could find. Whenever he got out of hand, Donna Troy was usually there to put him in his place.
** In his [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] bios, his relationship status was listed as "desperate."
* MasterActor: Zigzagged. During the Titans West arc at the tail end of the 70s, Gar was introduced as the actor behind Lieutenant Tork of ''Space Trek'', but during ''Tales of the New Teen Titans'', Gar was indicated to be only mediocre with a doomed-from-the-start career, though he made BlatantLies otherwise. Later, Marv Wolfman decided against the original direction and began ascribing him some actual celebrity. Since then, Gar has been depicted as a fairly talented actor with legitimate celebrity and ''Space Trek'' has become the DC universe ''equivalent'' of ''Star Trek'' rather then the knockoff it was originally claimed to be.
* MentorArchetype: To Fast-Forward, Kid Slick, Fever, and Freak of Justice, Inc. during the third run of ''Doom Patrol'' under John Arcudi, helping ground them back in reality after their previous coach turned out to be an imaginary doppelganger.
* MommasBoy: Downplayed. Historically, Beast Boy has been closer to his mothers Marie and Rita then to his fathers Mark and Steve.
* OneSteveLimit: Garfield Logan is ''neither'' [=DC's=] first "Beast Boy" nor "Changeling".
** The first "Beast Boy" was [[Comicbook/LegionOfSuperheroes Ilshu Nor of the Heroes of Lallor]] (debut 1964), who had all the same powers, but underwent a FaceHeelTurn and RedemptionEqualsDeath in short order after Gar's debut (1965).
** There have been several Changelings in DC history, the earliest a Franchise/TheFlash villain from 1947. Of particular note is Gregor Nagy, an {{expy}} of Gar (a blonde teenager and the son of a biologist who gained the power of altering his species) who briefly became the adopted son of Superman until extreme use of his powers killed him. (For the record, Nagy ''could'' become Kryptonian).
* NextTierPowerUp: He awakened the ability to shape shift into mythological and magical animals when protecting Raven from the Wyld. His evil future self who had the same ability implied that he could do it all along but was afraid to do so. In 90s era comics he would pull out dragons on occasion, but he was also under significant psychological strain at the time.
* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Being one of the most famous ''Teen Titans'' has resulted in his portrayal as a perpetual teenager so he can ''stay'' stuck to the title, which is especially ironic in light of one of his earliest stories making a big to-do about his inheritance, promised to him at the age of 21. Having the epithet of Beast ''Boy'' probably doesn't help.
* OlderAndWiser: Krul's and Scott's run at the end of ''Teen Titans Volume Three'' sloughed off about a decade of {{Flanderization}} to allow him to serve as the MentorArchetype to the Teen Titans.
* OnlyMostlyDead: ''Twice'' in ''New Teen Titans'', both times by being shot and having to wait to be healed by either the Amazons or Raven.
* PerfectHealth: In the "Beast Boys and Girls" arc, he mentions that he hasn't been sick since he was six. His sickness is a plot point in the rest of the arc.
* PhlebotinumOverdose: Following the ''No Justice'' CrisisCrossover, Beast Boy was infused with energy from the Source Wall that mutated him into a furry hulk and threatens to turn him into TheBerserker if he loses focus.
* PrimalStance: While he usually walks upright, it's not unheard of for him to get into poses similar to predators at rest or about to pounce.
* PsychicPowers: During the fallout from the climax of ''The Judas Contract'', Garfield launches a campaign against Deathstroke using Mento's helmet to manipulate everyone around him. Not only does the helmet ''require'' the user to have psychic powers to even work, Beast Boy's illusions were even able to outfox dedicated psychics like the Titans' own Lilith Clay[[note]]This is possibly the result of a CriticalResearchFailure. The Mento helmet was originally indicated to amplify psychic powers, so Robotman couldn't use it, but in another ''New Teen Titans'' story, the helmet is indicated to turn commands into energy, suggesting Wolfman either forgot or retconned the original mechanism of the helmet[[/note]].
* RebelliousSpirit: During his original stint on the Doom Patrol, Beast Boy was ''the'' Teenager with Attitude. He would mouth off to basically anyone whose name wasn't Elasti-girl.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: His EvilCostumeSwitch after being infested with the Trigon Seed, which was a simple but effective PaletteSwap of his old costume.
* RefusalOfTheCall: Played with. At one point in the eighties, Dr. Fate invited Beast Boy (among others) to join him in creating a new Justice League (as the Martian Manhunter had disbanded the original). Not only did Beast Boy turn him down, he invited everyone in the group to join the Teen Titans, of which group he was already a member.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers:
** Beast Boy only wears his uniform half of the time; it disappears whenever he shifts. Where, exactly, it goes (and the implications of it disappearing) are a puzzle that have yet to be solved.
** Should his powers allow Beast Boy to turn into other humans? [[WordOfGod Wolfman and Perez]] say yes. Is he ''allowed'' to turn into other humans? [[EnforcedTrope Wolfman and Perez say no]].
** Beast Boy shifts into alien species like the Gordanians of the Vegan system, so can he become [[Comicbook.SuperMan Kryptonian]] or [[Comicbook.MartianManhunter Martian]]?
** Given that he can turn into bacterial life forms, which are external to the ''Animalia'' [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_%28biology%29 kingdom]], his powerset [[RequiredSecondaryPowers doesn't actually rule out transforming into plants or fungi]]. He just never does it, and perhaps it's never even occurred to the writers.
* {{Reincarnation}}: Played with. An issue of ''Doom Patrol, Vol. 3'' casts the then-current incarnation of the patrol as characters in the story of Nao Yut (or Nou Yu T'u), an ancient {{animorph|ism}} warlord and emperor ([[https://books.google.com/books?id=36kEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA183&lpg=PA183&dq=nou+yu+t%27u&source=bl&ots=FKKaaNq-vQ&sig=5oaxpBzys6Agx9lDg6IXx12_S4Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjH_bjLuovSAhUN7WMKHWRrBPIQ6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=nou%20yu%20t%27u&f=false a legend of the people of Ch'u]]) who was suckled by a tiger -- Nao Yut was played by Beast Boy, natch.
-->''How much of that story is true?''
-->''Not very much.''
* RelationshipRevolvingDoor: Beast Boy and Raven have a very on again off again relationship, often spending their time apart pining for one another before getting back together again.
* RetCanon: Following the ''One Year Later'' TimeSkip from ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', Beast Boy donned his costume from the cartoon and was given pointy ears and fanged teeth to match his animated counterpart.
* RetGone:
** John Byrne's run on ''Doom Patrol'' was a wholesale reboot of the series, which basically cost Beast Boy his adoptive mom and dad. The loss wasn't really paid any attention to until ''Infinite Crisis'', when Beast Boy was there at Ground Zero for Superboy punching reality in half, leaving him and Rita Farr to deal with the fact that she was his mom again.
** The ''New 52'' rewrote Gar's entire history from scratch, doing away with his connection to the Doom Patrol entirely. ''Rebirth'' has yet to weigh in, but Gar did manage to cameo in ''Doom Patrol'' vol. 6 when one of its characters wears a shirt featuring his cartoon self from ''Teen Titans Go''.
* SadClown: His constant joking and goofing off are his way to distract himself from dwelling on tragedy. This is a character who got his start in ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol,'' after all.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Jillian "Jill" Jackson, who was introduced in ''Doom Patrol'' as the one girl who felt any sympathy for the high school outcast with green skin. Not ''quite'' enough to agree to date him, though (at least, not at first). Then ''New Teen Titans'' happened and her significance in Gar's life waned directly in proportion to Terra's growing presence.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: With ActionGirl Bette "Flamebird" Kane in the ''Beast Boy'' miniseries, who took his sudden reappearance in Hollywood to mean the imminent resurrection of Titans West under the moniker "Titans LA" (but, as we know, the project was never greenlit).
* SecretIdentity: Beast Boy had a really awkward relationship with secret [=IDs=] back in the day. During his original stint on the Patrol, he wore a distinctive (and ridiculous) purple hood to disguise his equally distinctive green skin. The hood and the uniform served as a full body disguise, which worked well enough back in the day, but nowadays the hood is usually only a character footnote to be glanced over or poked fun at.
* SecretlyWealthy: Mostly it's a secret because it's another facet of his character so rarely paid attention to. Remember, Garfield has a substantial inheritance in both estate and research (his biological father made millions with medical innovations before devoting his life to studying Reverse Evolution) and his adoptive father is Steve Dayton, the fifth richest man in the world. The Dayton estate makes Wayne Manor look like a pleasant little townhome.
* SelectiveObliviousness: In the ''ComicBook/TheJudasContract'' story, Changeling will always believe that Terra was TheMole or that she was being controlled by Slade, despite all the evidence of the contrary, including Terra's own explicit remarks.
** RevengeBeforeReason: He even kept attacking Slade after all this, blaming him for the death of Terra.
* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: For most of his history, Garfield's natural state was simply a green human with Teen Idol good looks, but the success of the cartoon lead new management to depict him as a LittleBitBeastly. In the Rebirth-era ''Titans'' title, following the events of ''Comicbook/JusticeLeagueNoJustice'', Gar's post humanoid form is actually ''not'' his default, and he deforms into a hulking, furry creature when not concentrating.
* ShipperOnDeck: During his time with Justice, Inc., he quietly reveals he knows Kid Slick is interested in Fever, prompting Kid Slick to bluster that he's only concerned about her ''as a friend''.
* SitcomArchnemesis: Danny Chase, with whom Changeling never got along.
* SixthRanger: While Beast Boy served on the original Doom Patrol with his adoptive parents Mento and Elasti-girl, both Beast Boy and Mento served more as reserve forces to be called on when the main team was incapacitated in some way. They spent several missions at home, [[VolleyingInsults not getting along with each other]].
* SoleSurvivor: If nothing else, Gar Logan is a survivor. He got to watch his parents go over a waterfall after a flood completely destroyed their African residence. He watched the crooks who kidnapped him shoot each other to death. For years, he was the only one who hadn't gone insane from the death of the Doom Patrol (until they found Robotman's BrainInAJar was still functioning). In the New 52, he's the only member of the Ravagers to survive after the cancellation of their book.
* SpecialGuest: Gar was almost one of the Fab Five, once upon a time. He appeared in an issue of the original Teen Titans, featuring just Robin, Kid Flash, Wonder Girl, and Aqua Lad -- right after his debut in ''Doom Patrol'', the Teen Titans writers considered whether they should bring him on (he was the second guest star after Speedy); the adventure was literally titled "The Fifth Titan". Notably, the Titans were actually quite welcoming, but couldn't accept him on the grounds that he needed Nick Galtry's permission, which, if you've been reading, you probably already figured wouldn't be forthcoming.[[note]]The issue in question invited readers to send in mail about their opinions on whether Beast Boy should join, but enthusiasm was apparently not sufficient.[[/note]]
* SuperSenses: A feature introduced during Johns' run (''Teen Titans'' Volume 3) is that Gar has heightened senses even in his base form -- early in the run, he could smell individuals on the roof of a hospital from the inside, and later on he could hear hypersonic signals emitting in Titans Tower from different floors than the source.
* SuperStrength: After being empowered by the source energy, his new BeastMan form has strength enough to out-muscle Miss Martian ''and'' Donna Troy.
* SurvivorsGuilt: A major part of his SadClown status is that many of the people he's loved are dead, and he feels that [[ItsAllMyFault crushing sense of responsibility common to superheroes]].
** In ''Comicbook/TheTerrorOfTrigon'', his evil double drives him over the edge by claiming he's personally responsible for murdering everyone he's ever loved and invites him to ''feed upon their corpses'' as a reward for all his hard work.
** ''Rebirth'' era Beast Boy feels guilty over not being there for Tim Drake.
* TenMinuteRetirement: During a Nightwing-led revival of the Titans around the turn of the millenium, Gar felt rather obviously put-out at being invited as an afterthought and declined. He moved to LA and tried to work on his acting career, though ([[RealLifeWritesThePlot after the Titans LA concept failed to lift-off at DC]]) he inevitably helped restore the Titans (yes, again, what, you think the Titans are stable?) with Cyborg and Starfire.
* {{Transplant}}:
** Beast Boy started off with the ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'' but eventually wound up in the ''New Teen Titans'' (after a stint on ''Titans West'') when Raven summoned him to join the new team she was building. He ended up bringing the DP mythos with him, tethering the two series together for decades.
** Subverted back in the sixties. As a matter of fact, Beast Boy had a run-in with the original Titans before they were even the Fab Five -- he encountered Robin, Aqua Lad, Kid Flash, and Wonder Girl before Speedy had been retconned to become a founding member. Of course, he was still living with Nicholas Galtry at the time, who wouldn't give him permission to join either the Titans or the Doom Patrol, so he didn't get to enlist.
* TroubledButCute: Handsome, loaded with an ugly past.
* UndyingLoyalty: He turned down an invitation to the Justice League once, affirming himself a "card-carrying member" of the Titans.
* VagueAge: Like most of the titans, it's hard to pinpoint an exact age, but Gar, who's been a teen for roughly fifty years (despite a few attempts to admit the cast were rightly in their twenties at this point) has a really bad case of it. ''NTT'' indicated him to be a younger member of the team, though he was treated as a peer of the original Silver Age Titans when he Guest Starred for them back in the sixties. And then there were the writers who wrote him like a kid even while they technically admitted him to be a Titans alumnus.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Cyborg; at least, they ''were'' until the New 52 sent Vic off to join the Justice League and put Gar on the Ravagers.
* WestCoastTeam: He had a stint on Titans West in the seventies before Raven recruited him for ''NTT'' in the eighties -- you can see him in the cover art on the trope page, ugly old hood and everything. He also notably tried to resurrect the team as ''Titans LA'' in the early Oughties, but (out of universe) the project was never greenlit and (in-universe) the effort collapsed.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: With Raven, starting in the oughties. They settled on OfficialCouple just before the New 52 reboot. Before that, he had a civilian girlfriend named Jillian, who he had an on-and-off relationship with.
* WillfullyWeak:
** It is heavily implied multiple times that he restrains himself from shifting into magical and mythological creatures out of fear of losing control of himself. Fittingly since he killed his Trigon spawned EvilTwin [[UnstoppableRage when pushed too far]] by turning into an EldritchAbomination and crushing him between his hands and Madame Rouge by accident when transformed into a chimera.
** Even under normal circumstances Gar holds back a lot, considering the near infinite number of bone-crunchingly powerful or lethally toxic animals he can turn into with a mere thought.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: He rather famously spent the first part of the New 52 dyed bright ''red'', rather than his classic green hue, due to creators making a big deal of his connection to "[[Comicbook/AnimalMan The Red]]", which remained with him consistently through ''The Ravagers'' and the first ''Teen Titans'' series of the New 52. His color was quietly and inexplicably changed back to green with the start of the second ''Teen Titans'' series of there era.
* YouFightLikeACow: Gar's had this attitude for a long time, and the first people subjected to it [[LetsYouAndHimFight were Cliff and Larry]] in the ''Doom Patrol''.
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[[folder:Cyborg / Cyberion]]
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->'''AKA:''' Victor Stone
->'''Abilities:''' Super-strength, invulnerability, technopathy, advanced weaponry, engineering skills

After being injured in a scientific accident that resulted in the death of his mother, high school athlete Victor Stone was outfitted with advanced ArtificialLimbs by his father, Silas. Initially horrified by his new appearance, with his body parts having been replaced with a large arsenal of high-tech gadgets and weaponry, while constantly providing life support, Victor struggled with his humanity as a machine.

Victor would find a home and family with the newly-reformed Comicbook/TeenTitans, and remained with the team for a number of years as a charter member. As an adult, Cyborg eventually "graduated" from the team and briefly joined the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica alongside his former teammates ComicBook/{{Starfire}} and [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Donna Troy]]. [[ComicBook/JusticeLeague2011 As of the]] ComicBook/New52 ContinuityReboot, Cyborg is now a founding member of the Justice League. After 35 years of being a character, Cyborg finally got his very first ongoing comic book, titled ''[[CharacterTitle Cyborg]]'', in July 2015.

Outside of comics, Cyborg has appeared in a number of adapted works, most notably as one of the main characters of the popular ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' animated series. Actor Creator/RayFisher plays him in the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse, he appears as a footage cameo in ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' and is featured prominently in ''Film/{{Justice League|2017}}''. A Cyborg-centric movie was in development at one point, but nothing has really come from it.
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* TheAestheticsOfTechnology: Vic is repeatedly saddled with thick, bulky robotics that tend to emphasize his monstrous self-image, even though a character who's nature is associated by default with cutting-edge technology would nowadays quite reasonably be expected [[TechnologyMarchesOn to be slim, streamlined and emulating a natural appearance]]. Granted that he's outfitted with fictional superhuman bionics which are going to look like whatever the artists say such a thing needs to look like, but it's also true that the DCU has other bionic characters who look more human, so InUniverse, there's [[TheArtifact really no reason]] for him to constantly look so inhuman. There have been several instances where he gained a more streamlined or normal-looking appearance, only for StatusQuoIsGod to force him back to something closer to his classic look. In later versions where his cybernetics are connected with BlackBox alien technology, this becomes less of an issue because no one really knows what he is.
* AngryBlackMan: In his early years before his injuries, Victor was a surly troublemaker who resented his parents' manipulation of his life. However, it never extended to supporting a friend's grandiose plans for racially motivated terrorism and Victor eventually had to stop him by force as Cyborg.
* AscendedExtra: Thanks to Creator/GeoffJohns, Cyborg went from being a brief member of the JLA to one of the team's founders in the ComicBook/{{New 52}}. And, thanks to this, his appearances outside the comics have become more and more frequent. In ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'' he was depicted as Earth's greatest superhero without Superman around (of course, Aquaman and Wonder Woman had done a FaceHeelTurn).
* ArmCannon: Cyborg's trademark weapon is a sonic cannon built into his arm.
* ArtifactTitle: He was still called Cyborg in Devin Grayon's ''Titans'' run, even though technically, he wasn't a cyborg at all, just a human mind inside of a shapeshifting alien robot.
* ArtificialLimbs
* TheBigGuy: Especially in the ''Teen Titans'' cartoon.
* BlackAndNerdy: Cyborg is often the Titans' go-to tech guy.
* BodyHorror: Initially he was a straightforward cyborg, hand crafted by his father and would replace parts as they are damaged or worn out the same way someone would fix a car. Later versions have him blended with alien nano-tech that is constantly evolving, threatening to absorb or even discard the remaining organic components.
* BreakoutCharacter: He started as part of the ensemble of the Teen Titans, but as time went on he steadily was pushed further and further into the spotlight until he became one of the founding members of the Justice League in the ComicBook/{{New 52}} and Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse.
* CatchPhrase: Due to ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', and many subsequent works continuing to cast Creator/KharyPayton as him, he's starting to pick up a habit of saying "Booyah!". Even when he's not played by Payton.
* ChromeChampion: During the period where his soul was inside the Omegadrome, Cyborg looked like a human with shiny gold skin and red eyes.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Cyborg has feared this from time to time, especially in his early years with his prosthetics.
** This actually ''was'' his fate during the period from "Titans Hunt" through his "Cyberion" phase, until ''JLA/Titans'' actually DID return his soul to him ''literally.'' Why, yes, that period WAS [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks during the 90s]], how did you guess..?
* {{Cyborg}}: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Well, duh]].
* DeathByOriginStory: The accident that injured him also killed his mother.
* EraSpecificPersonality: ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' is what propelled him to be a more renowned character in the DC universe, but it catches some fans off guard in the original comics and other adaptations that he isn't a BoisterousBruiser FunPersonified as he was in the show. At his best he could be disarmingly friendly and casual but much of the time he is more pensive, concerned with CyberneticsEatYourSoul.
* EvilCounterpart: The end of ''ComicBook/TrinityWar'' introduces Grid; a supercomputer virus in control of a robot body. [[spoiler:Grid took over Cyborg's cybernetic body and tore it from Cyborg's human remains to make its body]].
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: He's a {{cyborg}}... named Cyborg.
* GadgeteerGenius: This even evolves to the ability to take himself apart and put himself back together by the time of volume 3.
* GeniusBruiser: Has an IQ of 170.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Beast Boy. Later gets this with Shazam in the New 52.
* InstantArmor: For a time, Victor possessed the ability to instantly transform from a normal human appearance to his trademark Cyborg look. He lost this power shortly before to the 2003 Teen Titans relaunch. At the end of the first story arc from his New 52 solo series, he gets this ability again.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: When he was first introduced, Cyborg was the typical AngryBlackMan. He was a complete jerk, always shouting, always angry, always mad at everyone, with or without reason... and, as time goes by, his true personality begins to shine through. No, he was not the AngryBlackMan after all, it was a slow subversion.
* MakeSomeNoise: His signature weapon in his sonic cannon, which fires a beam of concussive sound waves.
* MeaningfulName: "Victor Stone" is a ShoutOut to [[{{Literature/Frankenstein}} Victor Frankenstein]] (in German, "Frankenstein" means "Stone of the Franks").
* TheNicknamer: Has a nickname for just about everyone (such as "Goldie" for Starfire and "Witch" for Raven).
* PromotedToLoveInterest: In ''ComicBook/TeenTitansEarthOne'', he and Tara Markov (a.k.a Terra) are portrayed as a high-school couple, despite never having been shown to have any interest in each other in other continuities.
* RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun: It was often lampshaded in the ''Titans'' run how Cyborg merged with the alien knowledge-cataloging organism known as Technis to become Cyberion during the ''JLA/Titans: The Technis Imperative'' arc which ended in him becoming Planet Cyberion, assimilating and collect everything in his way until he became as large as the Earth's Moon, consumed the Earth's moon which nearly destroyed the Earth by causing massive natural disasters and planet-wide technological shutdowns, and had to be stopped by a joint effort consisting of the Justice League, Young Justice, JLA Reserves, Titans and Teen Titans.
* TheSmartGuy: Though often in the role of TheBigGuy while working with the Titans, he's also generally the most technologically savvy of the team- meanwhile, his strength and durability pale in comparison to several FlyingBrick members of the Justice League, so his role as tech-savvy engineer has increased a good deal as well.
* SuperStrength: His cybernetic parts grant him some degree of enhanced-strength,but it's usually downplayed in favor of his other abilities. In the new 52 however, he has been shown to be strong enough to ''draw blood'' from Shazam/Captain Marvel, who has Superman-level of durability.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: He serves as one for the John Stewart Green Lantern, and also Static Shock to some extent. In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' cartoons John Stewart was used as the main Green Lantern to diversify what would have been a very white League, and the success and popularity of the cartoons obscured Hal Jordan who Creator/GeoffJohns had been reviving, and who he wanted to restore as the Green Lantern, and to still maintain diversity, Cyborg was brought in to the League, while having him serve alongside the Hal Jordan Green Lantern.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Poor Vic has managed to regain his human form (or at least a less-monstrous appearance) several times, but [[SnapBack events]] [[ResetButton always]] conspire to turn him right back into a bulky, armored freak.
* TokenMinority: Cyborg was both this in the New Teen Titans and the first few arcs of the ''ComicBook/{{New 52}}'' Justice League.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting : At the end of the first story arc from his ComicBook/{{New 52}} solo series, he gets the ability to freely shift from his armored form to his "normal" looking human form.
* WeCanRebuildHim: In both the original and ComicBook/{{New 52}} continuities, the major impetus behind giving Victor robotic body parts was to save his life. And he hated his dad because of this.
** He was further rebuilt by Russian scientists when he wound up comatose from an accident in ''New Titans'', but this attempt went horribly wrong. He became a silent automaton and LivingProp for the majority of the run until the Technis restored his mind--at the cost of him being turned into an emotionless techno-organic alien being, and then evolving into a robotic planetoid before the Titans restored him to a more humanoid form.
* TheWorfEffect: Since he's quite hard to kill (as he can just be rebuilt), Cyborg is usually the first one to be taken out in order to demonstrate how powerful a new foe is.
* WritersCannotDoMath: Cyborg has used a "million decibels" of white noise as a weapon multiple times. This is more than 900 times the decibels the entire universe produces (1,100 decibels, and keep in mind decibels run on a logarithmic scale, which means it would be even higher) and is estimated to be very high in power. So you'd think it would be extremely dangerous, right? Well, not exactly. The most it does half the time is blow up walls or make certain character's ears hurt.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jericho]]
->'''AKA:''' Joseph Wilson
->'''Abilities:''' Possession

Slade and Adeline's youngest son, Joseph Wilson is able to control people's bodies through eye contact. He was a longtime member of the Teen Titans, although he occasionally found himself fighting against them. See [[Characters/{{Deathstroke}} Deathstroke characters page]] for more info.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kole]]
->'''AKA:''' Kole Weathers
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->'''Abilities:''' Flight, can "spin" crystals

Professor Abel Weathers, paranoid of an impending nuclear holocaust, was attempting to find a way for humanity to survive the fallout through forced evolution. One of the test subjects in his experiments was his 16-year-old daughter, Kole, whom he grafted with crystal and Promethium (a fictionalized version of the real-world element promethium). Instead of evolving to survive a nuclear fallout as her father intended, Kole found herself with the ability to create and control pure silicon crystal at will.
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* BackFromTheDead: Played with and then subverted in ''Team Titans'', due to the different writers' conflicting ideas. Marv Wolfman reintroduced her as a mysterious helper to the team and implied that she had lingered on in the form of a spirit, while Phil Jimenez was told by the editors to explain her away as a false doppelganger. Her limp body is shown hanging behind Monarch, with the implication that she was one of his "puppets".
* {{Flight}}: Kole has the ability to fly, but it is unclear whether this also comes from the experiments which gave her her powers, or granted to her during her tenure as Thia's slave.
* ThePowerOfGlass: Kole has the ability to create and control pure silicon crystal at will.
* SacrificialLamb: Created to die in ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' where she attempts to save the Earth-2 Robin and Earth-2 Huntress from the Anti-Monitor's shadow-demons. She failed, and all three were apparently killed, their bodies never found.
* ShipTease: With Jericho. She even asked Jericho if they could have sex.
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[[folder:Pantha]]
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->'''AKA:''' Rosabelle Mendez
->'''Abilities:''' Super-strength, agility, and senses; claws

Pantha is a cat-like super-hero and a member of the Teen Titans. Originally a normal woman named Rosabelle Mendez, the Wildebeest Society mutated her into a were-beast. With no knowledge of her origins, she used the name X-24 given to her as a test subject. Much of her career was spent looking for information about her past. When she left the Titans, she formed a family with Red Star as her partner and Baby Wildebeest as her adopted child. During Infinite Crisis, she was murdered by Superboy-Prime.
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* CListFodder: Had her head punched off by Superboy-Prime in ''Infinite Crisis''.
* CatGirl: She was a catgirl created by genetic alteration. She doesn't know if she was a human woman or a female panther prior to the alteration. [[spoiler:She was a human woman as explained when her past was finally revealed. Though it was an alternate timeline so that may not be the case in the real timeline.]]
* CollateralAngst: She wasn't just CListFodder, but she and her adopted son Baby Wildebeest were killed off to serve as development for her boyfriend Red Star. Development which consisted of a single issue of ''Teen Titans'' and two issues of ''Red Robin''.
* DeadpanSnarker: Always with a quip or general snark on hand.
* DependingOnTheArtist: Just how cat-like she looked when unmasked. Sometimes she'd appear with a snout-like nose and a slight point to her earlobes, and sometimes she'd have actual cat ears sprouting from her head or even whiskers. Other times, she'd have a relatively average human face, with the only "cat" feature being her slit-shaped pupils. Her eye color itself varied between being red or yellow.
* {{Expy}}: She was the Titans' Wolverine.
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[[folder:Phantasm]]
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->'''AKA:''' Danny Chase
->'''Abilities:''' Telekinesis, photographic memory

Danny Chase was once the youngest and (in the opinion of many fans) most annoying of all the members of the New Teen Titans. When Jason Todd died he was expelled by Nightwing of the Titans. He later returned as the Phantasm.
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* BedsheetGhost: The original Phantasm was Danny using telekinesis to manipulate a tattered brown cloth, mask, and gloves. Slade even calls him "The Sheet" once.
* BrattyHalfPint: The main reason of his unpopularity; he was snide, egotistical, bratty and arrogant.
* CharacterShilling: For a group as rife with personal conflict as the Titans, Danny got quite a bit of unquestioned approval in the early stages, especially from Nightwing. For one example, when Danny goes missing -- during super-powered combat, in the middle of a top secret EscortMission -- Nightwing brushes off Cyborg belatedly noticing his disappearance with a confident statement that Danny can take care of himself. (This same episode saw Danny and his grandfather single-handedly rescue the Titans after they were swiftly captured by a villain using tech invented by Danny's grandfather).
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Eventually gave up his life to save the disembodied souls of Azarath. This caused him, Arella and the souls to merge into a new Phantasm.]]
* IncomingHam: "No more. Phantasm says no more!"
* InsufferableGenius: Danny Chase was exceptionally bright for a boy his age (his lack of interest in schoolwork notwithstanding), and had no reservation when it came to showing off in front of the other Titans. Though the Titans respected Danny's intelligence, his arrogance and condescending behavior also caused them great frustration.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* KidAppealCharacter: Danny was dreamed up to put the Teen back in Teen Titans.
* TheMillstone: After being dismissed from the Titans, Danny winds up on the streets, but still keeps abreast of details enough to learn of the activities of the Royal Flush Gang, which he plans to capture by himself to humiliate the team. After accidentally infiltrating the gang -- yes, accidentally -- the Titans arrive in the middle of a heist, causing Danny to hesitate and then ultimately decide to sabotage the team so his original plan is still available to him. This backfires appropriately once the RFG recognize him from older Titans photos.
* MindOverMatter: Through an act of will, he can manipulate material of varying mass and volume from a remote distance.
* PeoplePuppets: When he appears during ''Titans Hunt'' Danny amuses himself and a mall crowd by putting on a little ''Theatre/PunchAndJudy'' show with some criminals he's apprehended mid-robbery.
* RichesToRags: According to Nightwing, the Titans were semi-babysitting Danny for his parents the whole time, and when Danny, who apparently either didn't want to go home or had no home to go to, was expelled from the Titans, he wound up on the streets.
* SitcomArchnemesis: Was created to serve as one to Beast Boy.
* TeenSuperspy: His parents were international spies; as such, he was trained in espionage, infiltration, and intelligence acquisition in addition to his powers.
* TookALevelInBadass: Danny Chase in ''Titans Hunt'' shows substantially more confidence and assertiveness with his powers; back in the 80s he was constantly fighting with insecurity. He even gets ahold of the two Wildebeest Society members who try to capture them the instant they show up... only to [[SuicidalOverconfidence let them go so he can play with them some more]].
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[[folder:Raven]]
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->'''AKA:''' Raven, Rachel Roth (later alias)
->'''Abilities:''' Empathy, healing, flight, telepathy, sorcery, amongst others

Raven is a superhero created by writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Perez.

Raven was born when a human woman named Angela (or Arella) became involved with a cult and was raped by Trigon. To protect the world from her and her father, Raven was raised in the distant land of Azarath, where the Goddess Azar taught her to control her emotions to suppress her demonic powers. After Azar's death, Raven tried and failed to mobilize the pacifistic people of Azarath against Trigon. Still swearing to stop him, Raven traveled to Earth for help. She first went to the Franchise/{{Justice League|of America}}, but due to ComicBook/{{Zatanna}} sensing the evil power within her, she was rejected. Still desperate, Raven instead sent telepathic messages to previous ComicBook/TeenTitans members [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson/Robin]], [[ComicBook/TheFlash Wally West/Kid Flash]], and [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Donna Troy/Wonder Girl]], and new heroes Koriand'r[=/=]ComicBook/{{Starfire}}, Victor Stone[=/=]ComicBook/{{Cyborg}}, and Garfield Logan/Beast Boy, uniting them as the new Teen Titans. While at first distant, Raven eventually began to accept them as her new adoptive family and began opening up to them.

Trigon is a recurring foe of the Titans, as he cannot be killed. Raven keeps Trigon's influence within her, and eternally struggles not to let him free by accident. Partially because of this, Raven is extremely prone to the HeelFaceRevolvingDoor and [[TheyKilledKennyAgain fluctuations between life, death, and undeath]], even for a comic book character.

In the ComicBook/New52, Raven first appears as a confused normal girl the Phantom Stranger hands over to Trigon. She reappears later as "The Black Bird of Terror", and eventually prayed for both the Gods of light and dark to grant her and her friends strength that JusticeWillPrevail.

Between the New 52 and ComicBook/TeenTitansRebirth, Raven had a self-titled miniseries (see below for tropes from that series). A direct sequel to that series, ''Raven, Daughter of Darkness'', received a 12-issue run in 2018.

Raven is prominently featured in the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' cartoon, which made her a fan-favorite. She is also a prominent character in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' and [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGoToTheMovies its movie]]. She is one of the playable Titans in ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' (along with Nightwing and Cyborg) and appears in the [[ComicBook/InjusticeGodsAmongUs prequel comic of the same name.]] She made her live-action debut in the ''Creator/DCUniverse'' series ''Series/{{Titans}}'', played by Creator/TeaganCroft.
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* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Raven is usually half-demon in most continuities, but in ''ComicBook/TeenTitansEarthOne'' she appears to be entirely human, [[MagicalNativeAmerican albeit not a normal one]].
* AdaptationalConsent: The exact details of her conception have varied from writer to writer, with the main difference being whether Trigon first seduced her mother Arella using a human guise or brutally raped her without any pretense.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Both of her incarnations in the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' cartoon and ''Characters/DCAnimatedNew52'' universe are much less willing to go through the Trigon-induced HeelFaceRevolvingDoor than her comics counterpart.
** In the ''ComicBook/New52'', Raven is a brainwashed Heel forced into fulfilling her evil demonic father's wishes of universal domination, and otherwise has an interest in helping people for genuinely benevolent reasons.
%%* AllEncompassingMantle
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Her aunt and uncle become this to her, though she doesn't seem to mind too much.
* AnimalMotifs: Of a raven, obviously.
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Type 2, Animal Alias, with a raven theme present in her name, her costume, and the appearance of her powers.
* AntiAntiChrist: She was sent to Earth to end it, but ends up being a hero who tries to save it.
* ApocalypseMaiden
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence:
** At the end of the "Terror of Trigon" arc, a purified Raven rises from the ashes of the battlefield and departs for places unknown, leaving her teammates wondering if she had died. She's later found, but falls into the hands of Brother Blood first.
** At the end of New Titans, Raven's pure soul was somehow extracted from Starfire offpanel (following the defeat of her corrupted Trigon-self) and existed in a ghostly golden "spirit advisor" form. She made a few more cameos in team events, but then vanished and the Titans assumed this had happened to her. However, it turned out that she was resurrected in a new mortal body by the ''new'' Brother Blood.
* AstralProjection: Through the use of her soul-self, Raven can project her consciousness into the mind, for therapeutic purposes (to aid in her own meditation, or to help calm an agitated ally), or for offensive attacks, rendering her enemies unconscious.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: She is the daughter of the demonic Trigon and was intended to serve in destroying the world with her dark powers. Instead, she opposes him and fights for good with the other Titans.
* BirdsOfAFeather: With Beast Boy in the New 52.
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* CainAndAbel: Whenever Raven is given a sibling she's the Abel to their Cain.
** In the second ''Titans'' volume the villains of the opening arc were six previously unknown half brothers by Trigon who stole their dad's powers and tried to get Raven to join them. Their powers were based on the SevenDeadlySins with Raven's evil side manifesting as Pride.
** In the non-canon ''New Teen Titans: Games'' graphic novel, one of the Gamesmaster's playing pieces is revealed to be [[spoiler:an unnamed half sister who was abandoned and cast to Earth when she was a baby. The child grew up inside Arkham Asylum and her abilities made the insanity of the other inmates even worse. Raven manages to purge her sister's madness just before she dies thanks to the self destruct device implanted in all of the playing pieces, but before she dies Raven is able to give her a name so her soul can rest in peace: Azara.]]
* CastingAShadow: She can control pure shadows and darkness.
* ChekhovsGift: Her rings, gifted by Azar at her death, turned out to be much more powerful than readers thought. They destroyed Trigon during ''ComicBook/TheTerrorOfTrigon''.
* ChildByRape: She is this with the specifics depending on the version.
** In the very first origin (written before Marv Wolfman and George Perez got their act together), Trigon took Arella, her mother, as his bride while using a human guise and didn't reveal himself until much later, making her a child of rape by fraud since Arella never would have agreed had she known what he really was.
** The second origin, which is generally considered to be the canon (by this point, Wolfman and Perez had long settled down in their thing), Trigon brutally raped Arella.
** In a later take on her origin (written by Geoff Johns), it used the fraud explanation, but still counts as this trope.
* CleverCrows: Raven is a DarkIsNotEvil hero (when not being [[GrandTheftMe possessed]] or [[BrainwashedAndCrazy mind-controlled]] by her EldritchAbomination father) whose magical powers often use a corvid motif.
* ColorMotif:
** [[TrueBlueFemininity Blue]]: Raven wears a blue dress and cloak in her first appearances. They symbolize her kindness, [[TheEmpath empathetic nature and powers]] and melancholy.
** [[DarkIsNotEvil Black]]: Her soul-self, and, in the [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans animated]] [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo adaptations]], the color of her psychokinetic powers. In the WesternAnimation/DCUniverseAnimatedOriginalMovies, Raven even wears a black cloak instead of a purple one. Black also fits her name, animal motif and half-demon nature.
** White: Her white dress and cloak symbolize her new freedom and purity after being purified from her father's presence in her soul.
** [[SupernaturalIsPurple Pur]][[PurpleIsPowerful ple]]: In the [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans animated]] [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo adaptations]], Raven wears a purple colak, and has purple hair and [[TechnicolorEyes eyes.]]
** [[RedIsViolent Red]]: Her skin and eyes turn red when she unleashes her demon part or gets possessed by her father Trigon.
* DarkIsEvil: In the New 52.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Raven has darkness based powers, and a DarkAndTroubledPast, but is at heart a hero.
* DemonicPossession: Occasionally, thanks to Trigon. And when that happens, terrible things tend to follow.
* DependingOnTheArtist: Raven's general appearance is subject to this (see "Gonk").
** The second version of "Dark Raven" was very dependent on the artist drawing her, with colorists either making her skin an outright red or a deep tan, giving her a gray skunk-stripe in her hair or leaving it entirely black, and one artist even giving her antlers like her father.
* DependingOnTheWriter: Raven's heritage is generally described as "evil" but the particulars tend to waver depending on whether Trigon is considered an evil Elder God from AnotherDimension or a straight-up [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils lord of Hell]]. Pre-Flashpoint, writers who placed Trigon as a demon from Hell also hooked him into a few demonic family trees, which inadvertently turned Raven into ''ComicBook/{{Etrigan}}'s aunt''.
* DivineParentage: She is the daughter of the demon Trigon and a human woman, something that causes her considerable angst.
* EmotionlessGirl: At first. This was due to that fact that she had to keep her emotions under control lest her demonic father, Trigon, use those emotions to take control of her and invade her dimension. Due to the popularity of the cartoon, she eventually evolves into a more DeadpanSnarker.
* {{Empath}}: Raven has the psionic power to absorb and control feelings, sensations and emotions, enabling her to feel and enter into the subconscious minds of others.
** EmpathicHealer: Could heal others, at the cost of having to feel their agony. This cannot be done to major injuries.
** EmotionEater: Initially could just instill and influence emotions in others, such as getting Wally West to believe he loved her. By volume 3, she'd developed the power to drain others of emotion as a way to help calm crowds.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: After her evil persona was resurrected in a new body as "Dark Raven" in ''New Titans'', she took to wearing a black {{Stripperiffic}} bikini and leather straps all over her arms and legs, along with thigh-high boots and a gray version of her cloak. She also displays a brief one-panel switch in Teen Titans volume 3, when her cloak and dress turn pitch-black when Brother Blood controls her to attack the Titans and send them to her soul-self's pocket dimension.
* EvilCounterpart: Had this briefly with a fellow offspring of Trigon in ''New Teen Titans: Games''. She managed to soothe the dying woman and name her "Azara", in order to give her meaning to her brief life.
* FanservicePack: In a contrast to her original slimmer "dancer's build" and gaunt look in the '80s series, more modern depictions of Raven have her with a somewhat more voluptuous body and a much larger bust size.
* Raven can manifest a bird made of black energy referred to as her "soul-self". It can travel long distances, become intangible, communicate telepathically and act as a shield.
* {{Flight}}: With her new body came new powers and new and stronger abilities, the ability to fly at supersonic speeds being one of them.
* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: This was Raven's main power when she used the white cloak during the Wolfman era. Purified from Trigon's evil side, and no longer forced to deny emotions, she enjoyed giving happiness to everybody. Both to enemies, to make them become good guys, and to mere bystanders.
* {{Gonk}}: Although she started out with a smoother and more average face, George Perez gradually modified his take on Raven to give her a very narrow face with protruding cheekbones and a very high forehead. This was then explained away in-story as her demonic heritage showing. However, after Perez left, Eduardo Barretto drew Raven more like her initial appearance. While later artists would bring back her narrow face, the volume 3 artists drew her to be more human-like and [[ProgressivelyPrettier more beautiful]], eventually averting this completely.
* GothGirlsKnowMagic: Quiet, oftentimes emotionless, and sometimes snarky, she wears dark clothing and painted black nails even out of her superhero costume and can wield magic.
* GrandTheftMe: Trigon's evil influence basically manifests as a completely separate persona within her in "ComicBook/TheTerrorOfTrigon", leaving her to astral-project herself out of fear.
** After Raven died at the end of "Titans Hunt", her evil self manifested as her own persona and managed to implant herself into a metahuman to be the second incarnation of "Dark Raven". Luckily, the evil self unknowingly implanted the soul of the good/purified Raven into Starfire. Needless to say, both "halves" of her were still equally considered Raven (the pure soul and the Trigon avatar).
* HalfHumanHybrid: The half-demon daughter of Trigon.
* HappilyAdopted: In the New 52. Raven is taken in by her human aunt and uncle at the beginning of her 2016 miniseries, and by the time it ends, she's shown to enjoy being part of their family.
%%* TheHeart
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Raven's [[VillainousLineage demonic blood]] seems to turn her evil at least once a year, or give her paranoia of doing so. In the ComicBook/New52 she is actually still a Heel. The only difference is that Rachel has been brainwashed into being Trigon's sleeper agent in the Teen Titans, and was recently released from the mind control that was inflicted upon her, turning her to Face.
* HeroicBastard: Born from Trigon raping Arella. However, this isn't consistent and some accounts state that Trigon seduced Arella before revealing his demonic nature, or even married her.
* IdiotBall: When Raven first came to Earth, she asked for help to the Justice League. They did not help her: Zatanna sensed a great evil in her. So, she created a new group, reuniting the disbanded Teen Titans. And, as she explained to them, the evil that Zatanna felt was that Raven is Trigon's daughter; even when she completely refuses him and tries as much as possible to prevent his arrival. Sounds fine... but didn't she tell ''that'' to the League? After all, she never denied or concealed on purpose her relation with Trigon, if it came as a reveal it was because she usually says very little.
* InTheHood: She loves the Hood; it somehow conceals her face just as well as a mask but without that pesky glue. It even stays on when she flies (the animated version provides a possible explanation for this by giving her telekinesis, a power she lacks in the comics.)
%%* SugarAndIcePersonality
* LadyOfBlackMagic: She's dark, aloof, and has many supernatural and sorcerous powers.
* LeotardOfPower: Wore a unitard after the ''One Year Later'' timeskip that paid homage to her animated self's outfit (but covered her legs). It was later discarded in favor of her wearing a dress again.
* MeaningfulAppearance:
** After she defeated Trigon and wound up under Brother Blood's thrall, she began wearing white. After being freed by the Titans, she continued to wear white to symbolize her newfound purity and freedom. It didn't last.
** At the beginning of volume 3, the resurrected Raven is dressed in a white dress and cloak by the new Brother Blood. After Beast Boy helps her get back in control of her mind and powers, she rejects Blood and her uniform magically becomes blue.
* TheMedic: Healing is her primary power and she is a pacifist who hates violence.
* MindControl: Subjects Beast Boy to this in her first appearance in the New 52.
* MindOverMatter: Raven has the ability to psionically move objects with mind, seen for example when she uses this ability to levitate children out of a burning hospital in Dakota and move herself through the flames.
* MsFanservice: The modern depictions of Raven have very voluptuous bodies, long shapely legs, and the tendency to wear attractive costumes (especially the dresses and unitard).
* MultipleChoicePast: While the BroadStrokes of her backstory are unchanged -- Arella Roth fell in with a cult and was ultimately raped by Trigon -- the details have changed several times.
** Marv Wolfman's early versions had Arella as an adopted or foster child who didn't know her actual parents or her birth name, and it stated that she attempted to get legal help and support after her rape until she fell into despair and was taken to Azarath.
** In Geoff Johns' take, Arella had the birth name of "Angela Roth" and lived in Gotham City, until she decided to run away from home to escape her [[AbusiveParents violent Catholic father]], who would strike her for her rebellious anti-religious outfits and music, inadvertently falling in with the Church of Blood. Johns rather accelerates through the rest of the backstory, indicating that the Trigon's rape of Arella, the ensuing pregnancy, at least one suicide attempt, and finally the arrival and hospitality of Azarath all happened in ''one night''.
** And according to Rebirth, Angela ran away from home due to a hatred of her family's Catholicism, and began worshipping Azar before Trigon raped her.
** The ''Daughter of Darkness'' miniseries, written by Wolfman again, reconciles these different takes by having Arella make BroadStrokes alluding to Johns' take but also indicating that this is a blatantly SelfServingMemory and that in reality Arella was [[NeverMyFault constantly causing her own problems]].
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands:In her original portrayal, she was an empath and could teleport, along with inducing feelings in others. After her revival, Geoff Johns and other writers gave her the ability to fly (to tie in with her animated version), to completely deprive others of emotions, and gradually more previously-unseen magical powers for whatever type of story they wanted to tell.
* PrefersProperNames: Raven refers to her friends by their names. She's one of the few who call Dick "Richard". This is due to her aloof personality and upbringing.
* PsychicPowers: She has powerful telepathic and telekinetic powers fueled by her emotions.
* RaceLift: She is Caucasian in the main continuity, but is portrayed as a Native American in ''ComicBook/TeenTitansEarthOne''.
* RavenHairIvorySkin: Most depictions of Raven have her with fair skin and as a 'ravenette'.
* ResurrectedRomance: After coming back from the dead during Geoff Johns' run, she began a long and troubled romance with Beast Boy (which roughly coincided with both of their cartoon selves becoming a Fan-Preferred Couple); they spent roughly a decade passing through WillTheyOrWontThey and settled on TheyDo when ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'' hit.
* RetCanon:
** Following the ''One Year Later'' TimeSkip from ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis, she donned a similar costume to the one from the cartoon (modified to include a bird symbol and leggings).
** Also the concept of a romantic relationship between her and Beast Boy originated in the TV show (or at least its fandom) before being ported back to the comics.
* ShesGotLegs: Raven's original dress (both blue and white) showed her legs. Perez always included a MaleGaze on them.
* SpiritAdvisor: At the tail-end of ''New Titans'' in the mid 90s, the GainaxEnding reduced Raven to the "[[SoulAnatomy good part of her soul]]", which appeared as Raven in human form, but pure gold. She remained this way through a few re-appearances under Devin Grayson's pen through ''Titans'' volume 1[[note]]Barring a very brief appearance in ''Day of Judgment'' in which she is depicted in her classic be-cowled appearance, as the creators were apparently [[CriticalResearchFailure not up to date on current events]] in the Titans.[[/note]], but disappeared for several years. She was later fully reborn in the flesh (in a younger body, no less) in ''Teen Titans'' volume 3 by the Cult of Blood during Geoff Johns' run.
* StatuesqueStunner: Zig-zagged over the years. Now in the Rebirth continuity, she's 5'10" and quite easy on the eyes.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Her standard personality in the comics for years.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Whenever evil wins over Raven in some way, there is a serious chance that a (yes, ''a'') Dark Raven will appear, who is much likelier to exhibit violent powers than Raven.
** The first Dark Raven, who served as TheHerald for Trigon when he first came to Earth, was Raven's body filled up with Trigon's power.
** The second Dark Raven, the [[EnemyWithout severed evil part]] of Raven's soul mixed up with the souls of some evil Azarathians, was a DepravedBisexual who would infest her victims and lieutenants with Trigon Seeds.
* TechnicalPacifist: Being raised in the pacifistic land of Azarath, Raven does not like fighting, as it would also get her closer to reviving Trigon. However, if push comes to shove, she '''will''' fight on.
* {{Teleportation}}: Using her soul-self, she can teleport herself and others over vast distances.
* TrueBlueFemininity: The color Raven has worn the most in the comics. The blue dress and cloak show her [[BlueisHeroic kindness]], [[LadyofBlackMagic elegance]] and [[TheEmpath melancholy]].
* UglyGuysHotDaughter: Her dad is [[SatanicArchetype Trigon]]. Need we say more?
* UnstablePoweredWoman: She is infamous [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten in-universe]] for the number of times she has manifested a SuperpoweredEvilSide and betrayed the ComicBook/TeenTitans, often at the bidding of her father, [[SatanicArchetype Trigon]]. There have even been instances in the comics where people have regarded her as akin to a ticking time bomb, who is always at risk of being corrupted, controlled or seduced into betraying her friends.
* VagueAge: She never quite ages out of the appropriate age of whatever current group of Teen Titans she is serving with even when her former peers have gone on to become adults.
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: While not a complete EmotionlessGirl, when purged of Trigon's influence for the first time, she had difficulty comprehending her suppressed emotions. Specifically the different branches of them. Because of this her powers were greatly influenced by her extreme emotional states. She assumed Nightwing's platonic love was no different than romantic love and this caused her powers to make him believe he was romatically in love with her without either of them knowing the true cause. Starfire caught on to this and helped her see through her mistake.
* WillTheyOrWontThey:
** With Beast Boy. Settles on OfficialCouple just before the reboot too.
** In the NTT era, she had a similar relationship with Jericho with a more UnresolvedSexualTension flair.
* YouCantFightFate: Raven spent years knowing that Trigon would eventually assimilate her, and that she would eventually become a demon like him. It finally happened in ''ComicBook/TheTerrorOfTrigon''. Her soul was cleansed from Trigon's evil at the end of the story.
* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Warning the whole of Azarath and the Justice League about Trigon's return, all ending up in failure because of Azarath's pacifistic nature and ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}'s evil detection.
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[[folder:Red Star]]
->'''AKA:''' Leonid Kovar
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->'''Abilities:''' Super-strength, speed, and stamina; pyrokinesis

Leonid Kovar was exposed to a space ship which gave him his powers, and would later join the Teen Titan and take the name "Red Star".
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* HuskyRusskie
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Robin II / Red Hood]]
->'''AKA:''' Jason Todd
->'''Abilities:''' Martial arts master, detective skills, acrobatics

Originally Jason Todd was the second Robin, after Dick Grayson grew too old. During "ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily" he was murdered by the Joker. Many years later, he was resurrected and become the anti-hero Red Hood. Before his death, he took part in Titans activity for a brief time. See the [[Characters/{{Robin}} Robin character sheet]] for more info.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Starfire]]
->'''AKA:''' Koriand'r / Kory Anders
->'''Abilities:''' Flight, super-strength, invulnerability, energy projection

Starfire is an alien super-hero with powers of [[FlyingBrick flight]] and [[HandBlast energy projection]]. Born a princess on the planet Tamaran, she escaped execution at the hands of her older sister Blackfire and traveled to Earth. Meeting the Teen Titans, she became a charter member and stayed with the team for most of her career. Her culture's different standards of intimacy cause her to be extremely open and sexually liberated by human standards. See [[Characters/TeenTitansStarfire her personal page]] for more info.
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[[folder:Terra]]
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->'''AKA:''' Tara Markov
->'''Abilities:''' Manipulates earth and stone

Terra is a super-hero with the power of geo-kinesis. Born the illegitimate daughter to King Viktor of Markovia, her half-brother is Geo-Force. Unable to stay at home, she became a mercenary and began working with Deathstroke. He used her to infiltrate the Teen Titans, where she developed a relationship with Beast Boy, and ultimately died betraying them.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: In the Comicbook/{{New 52}} she is a heroine and standing member of the Ravagers.
** Basically every adaption of the character, up to and including her theoretically-separate successors Terra II and Terra III (Atlee), is this. They take the same immoral false love / spy and backstabber chassis of this version of the character, and make her more earnestly heroic, while still filling the role.
* AmbiguousSituation: Her feelings for Garfield Logan; she kissed him during the Judas Contract, which also revealed she was in a relationship with Slade. Terra II, who [[CloningBlues may or may not have been the same person]], was blatantly trying to initiate a relationship with him, but he was too creeped out to really reciprocate.
* BastardBastard: The illegitimate daughter of a king and is not a nice person.
* CloningBlues: Terra II suffered an ongoing and severe identity crisis regarding whether or not she was the original Terra or not. This was never answered decisively.
* CuteAndPsycho: She seems like a sweet young girl; is actually a vicious and ruthless mercenary with distinct yandere traits — she's not only sleeping with the much older mercenary/assassin who hired her, she ends up killing herself (while trying to kill him) when Jericho possessed the assassin and freed the Teen Titans, making Terra believe that her lover betrayed her.
* DishingOutDirt: She can control and manipulate all forms of rock and earthly substances and materials. There is no set limit to how far or how close she needs to be to the earth for this power and ability to work. She has been able to be completely off the ground and still control the earth. She has created tremors, earthquakes, sharpen rocks to a needle point, and has control over these elements for as long as she can physically maintain them.
* DominoMask: Though averted with her ''Post-Crisis'' counterpart, Atlee.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: For as irredeemably horrible a person as she was in the end, she was shown to care about her older brother Brion when he made a visit, being secretly worried that he'd join the Titans or still be around the Titans when the time came for her to betray the team and she didn't want him caught up in all that and possibly killed. She later admits she hated Brion's own goody-goody attitude just as she did the Titans', but the fact remains that unlike with her teammates she didn't want him ''dead.''
* EvilAllAlong: An infamous example. She's arguably the first character who was TheMole all along, and she didn't even reform. Her goal the entire time was to take down the Titans because she hated how goody-goody they were.
* EvilCounterpart: Downplayed. Terra and Deathstroke's relationship is a [[DarkerAndEdgier deliberately more explicit]] take on the shadier aspects of Batman and Robin; it's even more explicit in ''ComicBook/TalesFromTheDarkMultiverse'', where Dick Grayson has a spontaneous moment of empathy of her and gives her a speech about no longer being stuck in their shadow, which she [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial adamantly denies being relevant to her]]... right before she kills Deathstroke and then uses his SuperSerum for herself.
* ForWantOfANail: Inverted in ''Comicbook/TalesFromTheDarkMultiverse'', where the key event is Dick Grayson offering Terra empathy and some advice that ultimately inspires her [[TheStarscream to rid herself of Deathstroke and go into business for herself]].
* HormoneAddledTeenager: Besides her affair with Deathstroke, she constantly flirts with Nightwing, even cheering for him to take off all his clothes in one issue.
* IAmWhatIAm: According to the narrative -- "plainly, Terra Markov is what she is."
* InformedFlaw: The denouement of the ''Judas Contract'', reinforced by Word of God over the years since, was that Terra was an inherently, irredeemably evil character. This is despite a host of suspicious and mitigating circumstances both at the time and accumulating in later stories like the fact that she was an abused teen, a middle-aged hitman and father figure may have been having sex with her, she may have been crazy for any of those reasons or [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity because she was an Earth elemental]], or she may have been drugged.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: When she was a Titan she was a complete Jerk, always insulting everybody and attacking them for petty reasons. And, as it was discovered later, she was ''pretending to be nice''.
* KickTheDog: When she reveals herself as a Mole to the Titans, she keeps kicking them over and over. And over. ''And over.''
* LateArrivalSpoiler: When it happened, the reveal that Terra was a traitor was a complete surprise. Nowadays, with a pair of decades of Teen Titans with the betrayal of Terra as a recurring past plot element, and an animated series where she did precisely the same thing, it shouldn't be a surprise for anyone.
* LeotardOfPower: Alongside her Post-Crisis counterpart, Atlee. In the ''ComicBook/New52'' she wears a black jumpsuit with yellow lines all over it.
* LittleMissSnarker: Was frequently the team member with the most cynical attitude and cattiest remarks to say. Even when doing villainous work she seldom let up on the snark.
* LovableRogue: She's lied, cheated, stolen, vandalized, damaged public property, taken advantage of others, and even used lethal force against her enemies but you can't help but like the girl - provided she doesn't want you dead.
* LoveInterest: Beast Boy, who tried the hardest to integrate and reform her with the group. The original Terra's feelings for him were ambiguous, but the second Terra was very obviously interested in pursuing a relationship with him from the start.
* TheMole: She joined the Teen Titans, fooling them by staging a battle against Deathstroke. She then operated as a spy for Deathstroke, eventually giving him the information he needed to kidnap the Titans.
* NotQuiteDead: Her famed death by her own powers was retconned out in the Rebirth comics thanks to Deathstroke's time altering actions from "The Lazarus Contract" creating a timeline where Slade gave her a [[CooldownHug Cooldown Kiss]] to snap her out of her breakdown and save her from dying, her death being faked afterwards.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: By the time of ''The Judas Contract'' Terra was able to rip skyscraper-sized columns of twisted earth and stone up from the ground and hurl them about freely. In the ''ComicBook/TalesFromTheDarkMultiverse'' adaptation, she takes this further after taking a hearty dose of Deathstroke's SuperSerum, which resulted in her upgraded abilities allowing her to cause volcanic eruptions and ultimately to destabilize the whole planet through its core.
* PetTheDog:
** Most of her good qualities and actions get subverted in the end with two exceptions - her caring about her brother (see EvenEvilHasLovedOnes) and how she got along with Wally West. Wally was a part of the team when Terra "joined" them secretly under the contract to betray them all to Deathstroke and the H.I.V.E, but he retired from it before Terra was ready to make her betrayal, and she never suggested to Slade that they find out where he is now and capture him in order to kill ''all'' the Titans that were present when Grant died and Slade took up the contract, so her fondness for him might have been at least somewhat sincere.
** The Rebirth version of her is just as much of a manipulator and a [[Jerkass]]... but somewhat tries to help Rose Wilson come to terms with her own issues, in a roundabout, asshole way, admittedly. Also when Rose goes missing, Terra seemed to be the Defiance member who showed the most open concern and suggesting that they find out where she was.
* ProgressivelyPrettier: Was originally meant to be a "cute" but unconventional-looking type of girl with large front teeth, short cropped hair, and being shorter than the others. Later artists' flashbacks and her zombie form in ''Blackest Night'' instead show her to have long hair, no buck teeth, and a shapely body.
* TheRival: To Rose Wilson on Defiance. The two seem to ''loathe'' each other, and make no secret about it. Whenever they're together, they're fighting, and it goes into ''physical'' conflict if there's nothing more important for them to do.
** This almost reaches VitriolicBestBuds in later issues where Rose shows that she actually does trust Terra when they're tackling missions together, is comfortable sitting next to her on a bus and talking (even if the two of them still have nothing nice to say to each other), and even refers to Terra as her "friend" when she demands an enemy let her go (though she was in her Willow guise at that point and said this in Mandarin, making Terra not likely to understand what she'd just said).
* SelfDisposingVillain: During the climax of the ''Judas Contract'', in her rage to kill both the Titans and Slade (due to a misunderstanding when Jericho took over Slade's body and attacked her), she ends up burying herself under mounds of rubble.
* ShipTease: With Beast Boy until she was revealed as TheMole.
* SkySurfing: Terra's most common mode of high-speed transport is to perch herself on a levitating boulder.
* TheSociopath: She believed wholeheartedly that people with their powers should use them to make people fear them. Which is why she happily turned against the Titans as she only saw them as "goody-goodies".
* StalkerWithACrush: The Rebirth version is this to Slade. She lies in his bed naked, and constantly tells him she wants to sleep with him. She also had a mental breakdown when she found out he never loved her, [[CooldownHug only calmed when he kissed her.]] When he himself admits he never loved her to her face years later, Terra's response...[[TranquilFury is]] [[WomanScorned quite]] [[LetsGetDangerous different.]]
* TeensAreMonsters: Was never a nice person to start with and was never ever truly on the side of good. Her last appearance right before her death took this trope to ridiculous extremes.
* WalkingSpoiler: Most of her character is from the reveal that she was a mole.
* WomanScorned: The impetus to her VillainousBreakdown. During the final battle of the Judas Contract, Slade was possessed by his son Joey and began to help the Titans; to be apparently betrayed by the man she loved was TheLastStraw for Terra and she began to rampage out of control until she ultimately died in her own frenzy.
* WriterOnBoard: ''The Judas Contract'' as presented by Wolfman and Perez insists after Terra's accidental suicide that she was ''both'' [[CardCarryingVillain pure evil]] and [[AxCrazy completely insane]]. This was in order to dump the full moral responsibility of the betrayal on her, and not on, say, Comicbook/{{Deathstroke}}, the SilverFox {{assassin}} and established enemy of the Titans who was employing her, [[EvilMentor training her]], and [[TeacherStudentRomance sleeping]] [[MayDecemberRomance with her]].
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* HypnotizeThePrincess: A case in the good guys' side. When she first reunited the Titans, Wally West refused to take part in it, so Raven influenced his emotions to make him love her. It was discovered a few issues later, and gave problems for years. Thanks for nothing, Zatanna!

* BaldWoman: In her first appearance in the 2003 ''Teen Titans'' series. She would sport BoyishShortHair a few issues later, then had shoulder-length hair before growing her hair long after ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis''.

Cyborg, also known as Victor Stone, is a superhero who is half man and half machine. His body was destroyed in a tragic accident, but he was saved through experimental technology; his body parts have been replaced with a large arsenal of high-tech gadgets and weaponry, while constantly providing life support. Stone struggles with his humanity as a machine, although his advancements have made him incredibly powerful. He has primarily been a member of the Teen Titans, but he is also a member of the Justice League. See [[Comicbook/{{Cyborg}} his page]] for more info.
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[[folder:Jericho]]
->'''AKA:''' Joseph Wilson
->'''Abilities:''' Possession

Slade and Adeline's youngest son, Joseph Wilson is able to control people's bodies through eye contact. He was a longtime member of the Teen Titans, although he occasionally found himself fighting against them. See [[Characters/{{Deathstroke}} Deathstroke characters page]] for more info.
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[[folder:Kole]]
->'''AKA:''' Kole Weathers
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->'''Abilities:''' Flight, can "spin" crystals

Professor Abel Weathers, paranoid of an impending nuclear holocaust, was attempting to find a way for humanity to survive the fallout through forced evolution. One of the test subjects in his experiments was his 16-year-old daughter, Kole, whom he grafted with crystal and Promethium (a fictionalized version of the real-world element promethium). Instead of evolving to survive a nuclear fallout as her father intended, Kole found herself with the ability to create and control pure silicon crystal at will.

* BackFromTheDead: Played with and then subverted in ''Team Titans'', due to the different writers' conflicting ideas. Marv Wolfman reintroduced her as a mysterious helper to the team and implied that she had lingered on in the form of a spirit, while Phil Jimenez was told by the editors to explain her away as a false doppelganger. Her limp body is shown hanging behind Monarch, with the implication that she was one of his "puppets".
* {{Flight}}: Kole has the ability to fly, but it is unclear whether this also comes from the experiments which gave her her powers, or granted to her during her tenure as Thia's slave.
* ThePowerOfGlass: Kole has the ability to create and control pure silicon crystal at will.
* SacrificialLamb: Created to die in ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' where she attempts to save the Earth-2 Robin and Earth-2 Huntress from the Anti-Monitor's shadow-demons. She failed, and all three were apparently killed, their bodies never found.
* ShipTease: With Jericho. She even asked Jericho if they could have sex.

[[folder:Pantha]]
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->'''AKA:''' Rosabelle Mendez
->'''Abilities:''' Super-strength, agility, and senses; claws

Pantha is a cat-like super-hero and a member of the Teen Titans. Originally a normal woman named Rosabelle Mendez, the Wildebeest Society mutated her into a were-beast. With no knowledge of her origins, she used the name X-24 given to her as a test subject. Much of her career was spent looking for information about her past. When she left the Titans, she formed a family with Red Star as her partner and Baby Wildebeest as her adopted child. During Infinite Crisis, she was murdered by Superboy-Prime.
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* CListFodder: Had her head punched off by Superboy-Prime in ''Infinite Crisis''.
* CatGirl: She was a catgirl created by genetic alteration. She doesn't know if she was a human woman or a female panther prior to the alteration. [[spoiler:She was a human woman as explained when her past was finally revealed. Though it was an alternate timeline so that may not be the case in the real timeline.]]
* CollateralAngst: She wasn't just CListFodder, but she and her adopted son Baby Wildebeest were killed off to serve as development for her boyfriend Red Star. Development which consisted of a single issue of ''Teen Titans'' and two issues of ''Red Robin''.
* DeadpanSnarker: Always with a quip or general snark on hand.
* DependingOnTheArtist: Just how cat-like she looked when unmasked. Sometimes she'd appear with a snout-like nose and a slight point to her earlobes, and sometimes she'd have actual cat ears sprouting from her head or even whiskers. Other times, she'd have a relatively average human face, with the only "cat" feature being her slit-shaped pupils. Her eye color itself varied between being red or yellow.
* {{Expy}}: She was the Titans' Wolverine.

[[folder:Phantasm]]
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->'''AKA:''' Danny Chase
->'''Abilities:''' Telekinesis, photographic memory

Danny Chase was once the youngest and (in the opinion of many fans) most annoying of all the members of the New Teen Titans. When Jason Todd died he was expelled by Nightwing of the Titans. He later returned as the Phantasm.

* BedsheetGhost: The original Phantasm was Danny using telekinesis to manipulate a tattered brown cloth, mask, and gloves. Slade even calls him "The Sheet" once.
* BrattyHalfPint: The main reason of his unpopularity; he was snide, egotistical, bratty and arrogant.
* CharacterShilling: For a group as rife with personal conflict as the Titans, Danny got quite a bit of unquestioned approval in the early stages, especially from Nightwing. For one example, when Danny goes missing -- during super-powered combat, in the middle of a top secret EscortMission -- Nightwing brushes off Cyborg belatedly noticing his disappearance with a confident statement that Danny can take care of himself. (This same episode saw Danny and his grandfather single-handedly rescue the Titans after they were swiftly captured by a villain using tech invented by Danny's grandfather).
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Eventually gave up his life to save the disembodied souls of Azarath. This caused him, Arella and the souls to merge into a new Phantasm.]]
* IncomingHam: "No more. Phantasm says no more!"
* InsufferableGenius: Danny Chase was exceptionally bright for a boy his age (his lack of interest in schoolwork notwithstanding), and had no reservation when it came to showing off in front of the other Titans. Though the Titans respected Danny's intelligence, his arrogance and condescending behavior also caused them great frustration.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* KidAppealCharacter: Danny was dreamed up to put the Teen back in Teen Titans.
* TheMillstone: After being dismissed from the Titans, Danny winds up on the streets, but still keeps abreast of details enough to learn of the activities of the Royal Flush Gang, which he plans to capture by himself to humiliate the team. After accidentally infiltrating the gang -- yes, accidentally -- the Titans arrive in the middle of a heist, causing Danny to hesitate and then ultimately decide to sabotage the team so his original plan is still available to him. This backfires appropriately once the RFG recognize him from older Titans photos.
* MindOverMatter: Through an act of will, he can manipulate material of varying mass and volume from a remote distance.
* PeoplePuppets: When he appears during ''Titans Hunt'' Danny amuses himself and a mall crowd by putting on a little ''Theatre/PunchAndJudy'' show with some criminals he's apprehended mid-robbery.
* RichesToRags: According to Nightwing, the Titans were semi-babysitting Danny for his parents the whole time, and when Danny, who apparently either didn't want to go home or had no home to go to, was expelled from the Titans, he wound up on the streets.
* SitcomArchnemesis: Was created to serve as one to Beast Boy.
* TeenSuperspy: His parents were international spies; as such, he was trained in espionage, infiltration, and intelligence acquisition in addition to his powers.
* TookALevelInBadass: Danny Chase in ''Titans Hunt'' shows substantially more confidence and assertiveness with his powers; back in the 80s he was constantly fighting with insecurity. He even gets ahold of the two Wildebeest Society members who try to capture them the instant they show up... only to [[SuicidalOverconfidence let them go so he can play with them some more]].

[[folder:Raven]]
->'''AKA:''' Raven, Rachel Roth (later alias)
->'''Abilities:''' Empathy, healing, flight, telepathy, sorcery, amongst others

Raven is a superhero with dark magic powers. Her strong personal motivations and desire to see good conflict with her heritage, as her father is a powerful demon named Trigon who wants to enslave the planet. Her mother is a human woman named Arella who was living in the mystical realm of Azarath. At all times, Raven must keep her emotions in check lest she risk unleashing the terrible might within. Despite this, she has still managed to find a second family in her friends who love and accept her regardless of her troubled past. See [[ComicBook/{{Raven}} her personal page]] for more info.

[[folder:Red Star]]
->'''AKA:''' Leonid Kovar
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->'''Abilities:''' Super-strength, speed, and stamina; pyrokinesis

Leonid Kovar was exposed to a space ship which gave him his powers, and would later join the Teen Titan and take the name "Red Star".

* HuskyRusskie

[[folder:Robin II / Red Hood]]
->'''AKA:''' Jason Todd
->'''Abilities:''' Martial arts master, detective skills, acrobatics

Originally Jason Todd was the second Robin, after Dick Grayson grew too old. During "ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily" he was murdered by the Joker. Many years later, he was resurrected and become the anti-hero Red Hood. Before his death, he took part in Titans activity for a brief time. See the [[Characters/{{Robin}} Robin character sheet]] for more info.
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[[folder:Starfire]]
->'''AKA:''' Koriand'r / Kory Anders
->'''Abilities:''' Flight, super-strength, invulnerability, energy projection

Starfire is an alien super-hero with powers of [[FlyingBrick flight]] and [[HandBlast energy projection]]. Born a princess on the planet Tamaran, she escaped execution at the hands of her older sister Blackfire and traveled to Earth. Meeting the Teen Titans, she became a charter member and stayed with the team for most of her career. Her culture's different standards of intimacy cause her to be extremely open and sexually liberated by human standards. See [[Characters/TeenTitansStarfire her personal page]] for more info.
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[[folder:Terra]]
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->'''AKA:''' Tara Markov
->'''Abilities:''' Manipulates earth and stone

Terra is a super-hero with the power of geo-kinesis. Born the illegitimate daughter to King Viktor of Markovia, her half-brother is Geo-Force. Unable to stay at home, she became a mercenary and began working with Deathstroke. He used her to infiltrate the Teen Titans, where she developed a relationship with Beast Boy, and ultimately died betraying them.

* StuffedInTheFridge: Died alongside his adopted mother Pantha to serve as character development for his father-figure Red Star. Character development that never happened beyond a single issue of ''Teen Titans''.

* StuffedIntoTheFridge: She wasn't just CListFodder, but she and her adopted son Baby Wildebeest were killed off to serve as development for her boyfriend Red Star. Development which consisted of a single issue of ''Teen Titans'' and two issues of ''Red Robin''.

* TheGrinch: In the 2009 holiday special, ''The (Beast) Boy who Hated Christmas!''[[note]]Which appears to be set in a BroadStrokes blend of ''Doom Patrol'' Volume 1 and the 2003 ''Teen Titans'' cartoon incarnation of the patrol[[/note]]. Beast Boy hates Christmas because, while everybody else is having fun and enjoying all the conventional pleasures of the season, he gets to spend his holiday doing hours of menial labor for his abusive guardian Nick Galtry, cleaning his dingy, ratty motel room. [[MakesSenseInContext Luckily]], Elasti-girl [[NotSoDifferent hates Christmas, too]].

* MasterActor: Zigzagged. During the Titans West arc at the tail end of the 70s, Gar was introduced as the actor behind Lieutenant Tork of ''Space Trek'', but during ''Tales of the New Teen Titans'', Gar was indicated to be only mediocre with a doomed-from-the-start career, though he made BlatantLies otherwise. Later, Marv Wolfman decided against the original direction and began ascribing him some actual celebrity. Since then, Gar has been depicted as a fairly talented actor with legitimate celebrity and ''Space Trek'' has become the DC universe ''equivalent'' of ''Star Trek'' rather then the knockoff it was originally claimed to be.

Starfire is an alien super-hero with powers of flight and energy projection. Born a princess on the planet Tamaran, she escaped execution at the hands of her older sister Blackfire and traveled to Earth. Meeting the Teen Titans, she became a charter member and stayed with the team for most of her career. Her culture's different standards of intimacy cause her to be extremely open and sexually liberated by human standards. See [[ComicBook/{{Starfire}} her personal page]] for more info.

* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: With {{Adorkable}} ActionGirl Bette "Flamebird" Kane in the ''Beast Boy'' miniseries, who took his sudden reappearance in Hollywood to mean the imminent resurrection of Titans West under the moniker "Titans LA" (but, as we know, the project was never greenlit).

* {{Expy}}: She debuted in ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' shortly after Kitty Pryde debuted in ''ComicBook/XMen'', and Marv Wolfman has more or less admitted that he played with the idea of Terra being an Evil Kitty Pryde (teen-age mutant much-loved by her fellow team members, only to betray them).

[[folder: Baby Wildebeest]]

[[folder: Beast Boy / Changeling]]

[[folder: Cyborg / Cyberion]]

[[folder: Jericho]]

[[folder: Kole]]

[[folder: Pantha]]

[[folder: Phantasm]]

[[folder: Raven]]

[[folder: Red Star]]

[[folder: Robin II / Red Hood]]

[[folder: Starfire]]

[[folder: Terra]]

* SelectiveObliviousness: In the ''ComicBook/TheJudasContract'' story, Changeling will always believe that Terra was a ReverseMole or that she was being controlled by Slade, despite all the evidence of the contrary, including Terra's own explicit remarks.

** Where does Beast Boy's uniform go when he transforms into animals? The writers haven't really bothered to explain it. In the original ''Doom Patrol'' stories, his clothes actually don't disappear but are hidden by "emanations from his body". Decades later, [[Franchise/TheFlash Wally West]] revealed he could tell where the uniform disappeared to and used it as leverage to shut Gar up while he was cracking wise about Gorilla Grodd.

** There have been several Changelings in DC history, the earliest a {{Comicbook/Flash}} villain from 1947. Of particular note is Gregor Nagy, an {{expy}} of Gar (a blonde teenager and the son of a biologist who gained the power of altering his species) who briefly became the adopted son of Superman until extreme use of his powers killed him. (For the record, Nagy ''could'' become Kryptonian).

* AttentionWhore: Gar's been a sucker for attention, especially from pretty girls, since ''The New Teen Titans'', and admits in early in ''Teen Titans Volume 3'' that the positive attention is a significant reason behind his heroism. It comes up again post-Rebirth, where he admits he feels the need to have attention on him.

* TheGrinch: In the 2009 holiday special, ''The (Beast) Boy who Hated Christmas!''[[note]]Which appears to be set in a BroadStrokes blend of Doom Patrol Volume 1 and the 2003 Teen Titans cartoon incarnation of the patrol[[/note]]. Beast Boy hates Christmas because, while everybody else is having fun and enjoying all the conventional pleasures of the season, he gets to spend his holiday doing hours of menial labor for his abusive guardian Nick Galtry, cleaning his dingy, ratty motel room. [[MakesSenseInContext Luckily]], Elasti-girl [[NotSoDifferent hates Christmas, too]].

* AfraidOfDoctors: In Creator/GeoffJohns run, Beast Boy has a phobia of doctors, due to being experimented on as a kid and in particular has a special hatred for needles.

** There have been several Changelings in DC history, the earliest a {{Comicbook/Flash}} villain from 1947. Of particular note is Gregor Nagy, an {{expy}} of Gar (a blonde teenager and the son of a biologist who gained the power of altering his species) who briefly became the adopted son of Superman until extreme use of his powers killed him. (For the record, Nagy *could* become Kryptonian).

* NamesTheSame: Garfield Logan is actually ''not'' [=DC's=] first "Beast Boy"; that identity was originally claimed by [[Comicbook/LegionOfSuperheroes Ilshu Nor of the Heroes of Lallor]] (debut 1964), who had all the same powers, but underwent a FaceHeelTurn and RedemptionEqualsDeath in short order after Gar's debut (1965).

* ArchnemesisDad: Steve Dayton, Gar's adoptive father and fellow reserve member of the original ''Doom Patrol''; note that this was not a natural enmity, but the result of Steve getting caught by the helmet in a HeelFaceRevolvingDoor; when Wolfman was writing him, Dayton just couldn't go for more than a few years without going AxCrazy.