History Recap / TeenTitansS1E10MadMod

* OlderThanTheyLook: Subverted; Mad Mod is actually an old man, but uses his illusions to portray himself as a hip young man (who still sports the British mod style that was popular in the 1960s).

* StupidEvil / WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Mad Mad successfully captures the Titans by knocking them out with knockout gas. But instead of taking the opportunity to kill them while they’re unconscious and helpless, he lets them wake up so he can have fun “teaching them a lesson” first. This decision comes back to bite him when the Titans catch him in the end.

* StupidEvil / WhyDon’tYouJustShootHim: Mad Mad successfully captures the Titans by knocking them out with knockout gas. But instead of taking the opportunity to kill them while they’re unconscious and helpless, he lets them wake up so he can have fun “teaching them a lesson” first. This decision comes back to bite him when the Titans catch him in the end.

* JumpScare: During the ScoobyDoobyDoors sequence, Robin gets all the Titans together to open the doors at the same time. This narrows it down to one door, which Robin approaches with a huge grin. When he opens it, however, a giant T-rex roars at all the Titans.

* MadScientist: [[MeaningfulName Mad]] Mod is implied to be one, as he ''did'' create all his robots and illusion-machines.

* RunningGag: Beast Boy succumbing to MindControl and the Titans having to make him laugh to snap him out of it.

%%* SensoryAbuse: ''Holy hell.''
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: Realizing that going through the ScoobyDoobyDoors is wasting the team's time and messing with them, Robin tells everyone to stop chasing Mod blindly. He has each of them open a door, narrowing it down to one. Unfortunately a T-Rex is behind that one and Mad Mod appears in the corridor.
* TemptingFate: Beast Boy declares he's not going to fall for Mad Mod's hypnoscreens again... only for a hypno-screen to randomly pop out and hypnotize him.

* BreatherEpisode: This aired smack in between two WhamEpisodes, "[[Recap/TeenTitansS1E9Masks Masks]]" and "[[Recap/TeenTitansS1E12ApprenticePartOne Apprentice, pt. I]]". This became a tradition in the series, for each season to have one BreatherEpisode immediately before the finale.

* BreatherEpisode: Precedes WhamEpisode [[Recap/TeenTitansS1E12ApprenticePartOne Apprentice, pt. I]]. This became a tradition in the series, for each season to have one BreatherEpisode immediately before the finale.

* AntagonistTitle: This is Mad Mod's debut episode and it is titled after him.

%%* MindControl

* RunningGag: Beast Boy succumbing to MindControl.

* TemptingFate: Beast Boy declares he's not going to fall for Mad Mod's hypnoscreens again... only for a hypno-screen to randomly pop out and hypnotize Beast Boy.

* CuffsOffRubWrists: After Robin sabotaged Mad Mod's controls, allowing the restrained Raven, Starfire and Cyborg to break out of their chairs, Raven briefly rubs her wrists. The other two doesn't.

%%* MasterOfIllusion: (Mad Mod)

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* MasterOfIllusion: (Mad Mod)
* MindControl

* SensoryAbuse: ''Holy hell.''

* BilingualBonus: A montage in "Mad Mod" in which the team chase down the titular villain is accompanied with the song "K2G" by Music/PuffyAmiYumi. The lyrics are in Japanese, but if translated they make numerous references to sex and alcohol.

The one that parodies ''[[WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler The Thief and the Cobbler]]''.

!!Tropes:

* StatingTheSimpleSolution: Realizing that going through the ScoobyDoobyDoors is wasting the team's time and messing with them, Robin tells everyone to stop chasing Mod blindly. He has each of them open a door, narrowing it down to one. Unfortunately a T-Rex is behind that one and Mad Mod appears in the corridor.

The one with loads and loads of SensoryAbuse.

* StatingTheSimpleSolution: Realizing that going through the ScoobyDooDoors is wasting the team's time and messing with them, Robin tells everyone to stop chasing Mod blindly. He has each of them open a door, narrowing it down to one. Unfortunately a T-Rex is behind that one and Mad Mod appears in the corridor.

* AdaptationalBadass: Zig-zagged. In the comics, Mad Mod was a largely-unimpressive smuggler and thief who would probably be more at home matching wits with [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Mystery Inc]]. This animated version is [[{{Expy}} pretty much]] [[Characters/XMenRoguesGalleryAToL Arcade]] in all but name, capturing all five Titans ''[[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome offscreen]]'' and building a whole complex of technological (and psychological!) terrors to torture them with. But when all the gimmicks are stripped away, he's revealed to be a withered old man who folds the ''second'' Robin confronts him.

* ScreamingWoman: Starfire, and amusingly, Raven, become this trope when Robin accidentally opens a door with a T-Rex inside of it during the infamous chase sequence.

* EvilBrit Mad Mod. He's even the page image for the trope, albeit in a different episode.

* MasterOfIllusion (Mad Mod)

* ScoobyDoobyDoors: During the song sequence. Bonus point for frequently messing with the perspective, and with the doors opening in various ways.