History WesternAnimation / TeenTitans

* WidgetSeries: Whenever the theme song is in Japanese, the episode ''will'' be a Weird Humorous American Thing.

[[caption-width-right:350: [[ThemeTune From their tower, they can see it all.]][[note]]Left to right: [[DarkMagicalGirl Raven]], [[PluckyComicRelief Beast Boy]], [[TheBigGuy Cyborg]], [[TheLeader Robin]], and [[TheHeart Starfire]][[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350: Left to right: [[DarkMagicalGirl Raven]], [[PluckyComicRelief Beast Boy]], [[TheBigGuy Cyborg]], [[TheLeader Robin]], and [[TheHeart Starfire]].]]

** TheLancer: Beast Boy/Mas y Menos

** TheBigGuy: Cyborg/Aqualad

-->-- '''Robin'''[[note]]and Music/PuffyAmiYumi in the theme song[[/note]]

!!''Teen Titans'' features examples of:

[[folder: A-F]]

* AmbitionIsEvil: Jinx's motivations for villainy stem mostly from her desire to "be somebody". Hey, she was born with "bad luck" powers, so she might as well be a bad person so she can do something great (but terrible) with her life. [[spoiler: However, there's also an ''inverted'' example of this; Jinx is far more ambitious than her lazy slacker teammates, so eventually part of the reason she ''turns good'' is so that she can work with competent people like Kid Flash instead of teammates who have no ambitions besides petty theft.]]

** While [[spoiler: Terra was trapped in stone]], it is heavily implied that she was alive the whole time.

* AstralCheckerboardDecor: When the Titans first encounter Mad Mod he is in control of a strange world with a checkerboard pattern. [[spoiler: It's later revealed to be all smoke and mirrors.]]

%%* BackToBackBadasses: Robin gets two with [[spoiler: Red X]] and [[spoiler: ''Slade'', of all people!]] ItMakesSenseInContext.

** Raven, having demonic powers, {{defie|dTrope}}s this, [[spoiler: even during season 4 by blasting her demonic dad]].

--> '''Robin:''' "Slade...stop..."
--> '''Slade:''' "No, Robin. I won't stop. Not now, not ever. I am the thing that keeps you up at night; the evil that haunts every dark corner of your mind... I will never rest, and neither will you."

* BecauseDestinySaysSo: [[spoiler: Raven's reason for allowing her father Trigon to invade Earth and destroy it]].

-->'''Starfire:''' New friend, please enjoy [[AlienLunch my home-made ''glorrkh!'']]
-->'''Robin, Raven, Beast Boy, Cyborg:''' [[BigNo No!!]]
-->'''Terra''' ''(devouring it):'' It tastes like sushi mixed with ice cream. Got any more?
-->'''Starfire:''' I shall go cultivate the fungus!

-->'''Robin:''' Well, I guess this whole experience proves it really is bad to watch too much TV.
-->'''Starfire:''' But truthfully, we only prevailed because Beast Boy watches too much the television.
-->'''Raven:''' So there really isn't a lesson here.

* CallingTheOldManOut: [[spoiler: Raven did this to her demonic dad in the season 4 finale. While blasting him to oblivion, too]].
-->[[spoiler: '''Raven''': ''Fathers are kind! Fathers protect you! Fathers raise you! I was protected by the monks of Azarath. I was raised by my friends! '''They''' are my family. '''This''' is my home. And '''you''' are not welcome here!'']]

** Robin's outfit got quite a bit torn up in "Haunted" when he was fighting with [[spoiler: [[YourMindMakesItReal what he thought was]]]] Slade.

** Applies to Jinx as well. [[spoiler: Including the HeelFaceTurn due to ThePowerOfLove.]]

** The episode "Haunted" also ranks up there as one of the creepiest pieces of WesternAnimation targeted towards kids. They took Slade, a villain who's already creepy in his own right, and left the audience constantly unsure whether he was BackFromTheDead and torturing Robin, or whether Robin had gone insane and was mutilating ''himself''. [[spoiler: The truth is somewhere in between.]]

* DisneyDogFight: Between Killer Moth and Starfire. The "Dog" in question can't make up his mind [[spoiler: so he explodes]].

* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: Terra]] in "Aftershock". Slade flunks #48 on the EvilOverlordList.

--> '''Starfire:''' You know what it is like to be judged simply by the way you look?\\

-->'''Starfire:''' Rest. You are safe. He can no longer harm you.
-->'''Raven:''' He didn't hurt me, he saved me.
-->'''Starfire:''' From what? ''(cue scene transition)''

* ExtremeOmnivore: A number of characters show this.

---> '''Starfire:''' I suggest a large pizza with pickles, bananas, and mint frosting.

* TheFaceless: Slade. [[spoiler:Even when his mask gets knocked off in "The End" and his undead face is just a ''skull''.]] Though at that point in the show, [[spoiler:he had been reanimated by Trigon, but not resurrected]]. Apparently, [[spoiler: this means he can't regrow his skin]].

* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: Every now and then, the show features some pretty brutal [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown No-Holds-Barred Beatdowns]] played completely seriously. There's never any blood, but it can get ''surprisingly'' disturbing with how far it goes; Robin "vs" Slade in the episode "Haunted" comes to mind. Speaking of Slade, [[spoiler: his first death was rather horrific, as he's melted alive in magma (off-screen of course, but still)]].

--> '''Starfire''': You know how it feels to be judged just because of how you look?
--> '''Cyborg''': Of course I do... I'm part robot.

* ForTheEvulz: In the first season, Slade's apparent goal is to destroy the city for no reason at all. Subverted in the season finale; [[spoiler: the destruction of the city turned out to be a diversion and his true goal was to blackmail Robin into becoming his apprentice]].

[[folder: G-L]]

--> '''Beast Boy (about Robin)''': Right. Check him for batteries.

* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Clearly, Blackfire did not have the best interests of her people in mind when she took over the planet. Fortunately, [[spoiler: in their culture, a monarch's rule can be taken away from her via TrialByCombat, which is exactly what Starfire did]].

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Jinx.]]

** The Titans [[spoiler: rescuing the lost Doom Patrol members in "Homecoming"]].

** In "Snowblind: [[spoiler: Red Star. A supercharged supersoldier from Russia, he willingly locked himself up in an old power plant for years to keep from hurting other people due to his body discharging radiation every few hours and at the end of the episode has Starfire take him into the stratosphere when he goes supernova due to an overload from battle. [[UnexplainedRecovery He returns in the second-to-last episode with no particular explanation]]]].

--> '''Kitty:''' And would it kill you to smile?
--> (Robin forces a [[TechnicallyASmile painful-looking rictus]])
--> '''Robin:''' Maybe.

* KidHeroAllGrownUp: A darker, more pessimistic variation comes from the episode "How Long Is Forever?". Starfire pursues a time-traveling villain 20 years into the future, where she finds that, shortly after she disappeared, the other Teen Titans disbanded and went their separate ways. In this future, Cyborg is stuck hooked up to Titans Tower's power supply, Beast Boy is balding, overweight and has a miserable job as a one-man zoo, Raven is in a mental asylum, and Robin has [[spoiler:taken on a new identity, ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}]]. Near the end of the episode, however, [[spoiler: [[PuttingTheBandBackTogether all the Titans band together again]] to defeat the villain, and Starfire returns back to her time]].

** If Slade or Trigon is in an episode, it's pretty much a guarantee it won't be humorous (except for the first few episodes featuring Slade, but even then ''he'' wasn't played for laughs, though he also wasn't as creepy as he'd become later on). Also, Terra. You wouldn't think it at first but once [[spoiler: all her deep emotional issues and comatose conscience]] come to light, you get the impression she's not there for fun and games... especially later on when [[spoiler:she tries and succeeds in killing each of the Titans. Apparently anyway]].

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: In Season 4. [[spoiler: Raven knows full well why Slade has returned, who he's working for, and what his new mark means, but doesn't want her friends to find out that she's destined to destroy the world and so withholds the information as long as she can. Slade throws a wrench in it by feeding Robin information and then deliberately baiting the team to a location that happens to hold all the answers.]]

[[folder: M-R]]

--> '''Raven''': His heart rate is off the charts.
--> '''Cyborg''': Blood pressure, neurokinetics - most people can't survive that kind of stress!

-->'''Reflection''': So that's it man, you just going to give up?
-->'''Cyborg''': What else can I do? I gave everything I had. 100%.
-->'''Reflection''': Give more. Your friends are in trouble. You have to go back, you have to win.
-->'''Cyborg''': I can't win. Atlas is stronger, Atlas is faster, he's just a better robot.
-->'''Reflection''': But you aren't all robot! Half of you is human, and that's the half that can beat him!
-->'''Cyborg''': Time to take it up a notch.

** [[spoiler: Terra.]]
** [[spoiler: Robin, when he is [[FaceHeelTurn recruited as Slade's apprentice]] [[SadisticChoice in exchange for his friends' lives]]]].

** Right before Robin and Starfire [[spoiler: have their [[TheBigDamnKiss big damn kiss]] in the movie]], she tells him to "Stop talking". It's rather minor, but Starfire said variations of this frequently to Dick Grayson in the comics.

* NeverSplitTheParty: As explained by Beast Boy.
-->'''Beast Boy:''' When you split up, the monster hunts you down one at a time, [[DeathByGenreSavvy starting with the good-looking funny relief guy -- ME]]!

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: Terra could have been persuaded from Slade's influence earlier if it wasn't for the fact that Beast Boy pushes her off the edge when he declines her friendship at the very end of "Betrayal". He proceeds to blame himself for it in "Aftershock"—even though he'd been under the considerable emotional duress of realizing his friends were in mortal danger because of Terra's betrayal]].
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler: Thanks to Terra going ridiculously overboard in trying to destroy the Titans and the city, and generally prove herself a villain, the Titans manage to put aside any past feelings toward her and kick her butt easily the next time she confronts them by herself. And then Slade does some fixing of his own when he decides to be an asshole to Terra and take physical control of her through her supersuit, which is a big factor in Terra's final HeelFaceTurn]].

** Demonstrated ''terrifyingly'' effectively in the Season 4 finale, when [[spoiler: Slade and Robin fight off an army of Trigon's lava monsters, using the ''exact same moves'']]. As Robin points out though, there is one major fundamental difference between them:

* NothingPersonal: Said by Jinx right before attacking her [[spoiler: ex-teammates]].

---> '''Slade:''' No, Robin. I won't stop. Not now, not ever. I am the thing that keeps you up at night. The evil that haunts every dark corner of your mind. I will not rest, and neither will you... I'm ''very'' real. Could you have gotten all of those bruises from someone who wasn't there?

---> '''Slade:''' You ''have no other choice''!\\

** Despite having a StoryBreakerPower and being easily capable of handling the entirety of the H.I.V.E. Five at once with no real trouble, Kid Flash does not have unlimited energy and will get tired eventually. Madame Rouge deals with him by repeatedly hunting him down until he's too exhausted to fight back or run away, and it takes [[spoiler: a HeelFaceTurn from Jinx]] to save him.
** The series finale. The Brotherhood of Evil has been beaten, and the Titans have returned home. [[spoiler: However, things are not neat and tidy. There's a new villain around, and Terra's seemingly back. The episode ends without either plotline having been resolved. In addition, they've been gone for a long time and many things have changed around town in their absence.]]

%%* RescueRomance: [[spoiler: Robin saves Starfire a ''lot''.]]

[[folder: S-Z]]
%%* SadClown: [[spoiler: Beast Boy in the future.]] More like Beast Boy, period.

* SixthRangerTraitor: [[spoiler: Terra]]

* StatusQuoIsGod: Every single episode that was not a part of the story arc (Like [[spoiler: Robin becoming Slade's apprentice, the whole Terra storyline, Cyborg with Brother Blood, Raven with the prophecy of ending the world, and all of Season 5, which focused on the Brotherhood of Evil and a lot of characters we have never heard of before unless we read [[Comicbook/TeenTitans the original comics]]]]). Even with [[spoiler: Terra]], after the Titans [[spoiler: were convinced to let her become a member of the Titans]], she only made a split-second appearance in the next episode. The episode after that had to do with her though but of course the events of that episode restore status quo of the team. Most episodes will always end where it began, but there are a few exceptions.

* TacticalRockPaperScissors: In "The End pt.II", Starfire, Beast Boy and Cyborg cannot beat their respective clones. So they switch and face each other's clones instead.[[spoiler: Needless to say, they win]].

* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: [[spoiler: Robin and Red X]]. Although, another person did adopt the Red X persona in a later episode.

** Along with [[spoiler: Terra herself. [[MindScrew Maybe. Possibly]]]].

** [[spoiler: Red Star]] shows up among the numerous allies who come to the Titan's aid in the penultimate episode, even though he died by turning into a supernova in his introductory episode.

** Also, whether the [[spoiler:schoolgirl was really Terra]] in the series finale, and if so, [[spoiler: how she lost her memory...or if she really did lose it at all]]. This is explored somewhat more in an issue of ''Teen Titans Go!''

** In "Haunted", it's revealed that [[spoiler: the chemical reagent in Slade's mask that caused Robin's hallucinations didn't activate itself; someone had to have triggered it from outside the tower]]. We never find out who is behind this.

-->'''Slade''': All he needs is a little motivation.
-->'''Robin''': Motivate THIS!

-->'''Chrysalis Eater''':Since you have stolen my meal, I shall devour you instead!
-->'''Starfire''': Devour THIS!

* VillainousFaceHold: In Season 2, [[spoiler: Terra]] tries to quit working for [[BigBad Slade]]. Unfortunately the armour suit she's wearing is integrated into her nervous system, and as she tried to leave Slade uses the suit to drag her back to him and electrocute her. He grabs her jaw and holds her face still while he brags about how she can never leave him.

* VillainousRescue: [[spoiler: Slade]] in Part 3 of "The End".

** Also Terra [[spoiler: until Beast Boy tells her that she doesn't have to let Slade control her]].

** In Season 5, what happened to the Doom Patrol in the finale? Their leader was shown to be obsessed with taking down the Brain, you'd think they'd know when [[spoiler: the Brain made a move as big as capturing the Titans en masse]] and they'd do something about it.

-->''Today we'll uphold traffic laws! TEEN TITANS!''
-->''We'll eat anything without preference! TEEN TITANS!''
-->''Earthquakes, thunder, fire, Dad''
-->''Language Arts, Arithmetics, Science, Social Studies''
-->''We're not afraid of anything''
-->''TEEN TITANS! GO!''

-->-- Robin

-->'''Starfire:''' I am sorry to disappoint you... but I am stronger than I look.\\\
'''Beast Boy:''' I'm not a man... I'm an animal!\\\

* BreatherEpisode: Usually before a rather dark SeasonFinale.

* OnlyChildSyndrome: With the exception of Starfire, all the main Titans are only children.

* [[SideEffectsInclude Yes But What Does Zataproximetacine Do?]]: In the TrappedInTVLand episode. The product is Zinthos, from the makers of Azarath and Metrion, and it gives you [[StrongAsTheyNeedToBe what you need, exactly when you need it]].

** Mother Mae-Eye is voiced by Billie Hayes, who is best known for voicing another [[Series/HRPufnstuf twistedly maternal wicked witch]].

** If Slade or Trigon is in an episode, it's pretty much a guarantee it won't be humorous (except for the first few episodes featuring Slade, but even then ''he'' wasn't played for laughs, though he also wasn't as creepy as he'd become later on). Also, Terra. You wouldn't think it at first but once [[spoiler: all her deep emotional issues and comatose conscience]] come to light, you get the impression she's not there for fun and games...especially in her second appearance where [[spoiler: she tries and succeeds in killing each of the Titans. Apparently anyway]].

** The hero of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' ShoutOut in "Episode 257-494" is voiced by Creator/JamesArnoldTaylor, a.k.a. [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars Obi-Wan]] [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars Kenobi]].[[note]]Though at the time ''Teen Titans'' was airing, only ''Star Wars: Clone Wars'' was aired as ''Star Wars: The Clone Wars'' came a few years later.[[/note]]

This series has a [[Characters/AnimatedTeenTitans character sheet]] and a [[Recap/TeenTitans recap]]. Now has a [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/crowner.php/BestEpisode/TeenTitans Best Episode Crowner]]. All episodes can be watched for free (with ads) on [[https://cartoonnetwork.com/video/teen-titans/episodes/index.html Cartoon Network's website]], provided you sign in with a cable provider. The TV episodes are available on the Creator/DCUniverse streaming service with a subscription.

** The hero of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' ShoutOut in "Episode 257-494" is voiced by Creator/JamesArnoldTaylor, a.k.a. [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars Obi-Wan]] [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars Kenobi]][[note]]Though at the time ''Teen Titans'' was airing, only ''Star Wars: Clone Wars'' was aired as ''Star Wars: The Clone Wars'' came a few years later.[[/note]].

* DrivingUpAWall: Tthe T-Car pulls this in a clear homage to ''Anime/LupinTheThird''.

** For those who understand Spanish. At least you know what the bloody hell Más Y Menos are talking about.[[note]]No English subtitles are provided.[[/note]] Their {{catchphrase}}, "Más y Menos, sí podemos!' literally means "Plus and Minus, yes we can!" Not only is it a straightforward Spanish rhyme, but it is also a pun on the saying "más o menos" ("more or less.") They're also guilty of GettingCrapPastTheRadar, shouting at least ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXsyOdX5mgs one curse word in Spanish]]''! The Latin American Spanish dub had to modify this, naturally, and the Season 3 DVD release substituted in a different line as well.

* {{Fanservice}}: It has a good amount for a [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar kids show]]...

** Seriously. [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Sort of]]. Many of Slade's lines had [[MemeticMolester pedophilliac undertones]] as it was, but "Haunted" has him [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSiGteEY-jk giving a speech]] that almost completely sounds like rape dialogue.

* TheMole: [[spoiler: Terra.]]

* ReverseMole: [[spoiler: Robin, when he is [[FaceHeelTurn recruited as Slade's apprentice]] [[SadisticChoice in exchange for his friends' lives]]]].

** In "Date With Destiny", Starfire gets into a CatFight with Kitten, half of the villainous duo of the episode with her father Killer Moth. Aside from Kitten being named what she is, this--and the cat sound effects that are used for humor during tehir fight--are especially fitting with Starfire since, in the original comics, it was explained that her species, the Tamaranians, are basically superpowered alien humans who evolved from cats.

** In "Kole", when come some hungry velociraptors and Beast Boy have communicate with them, however, his {{Animorphism}} allows him to turn into animals and talk with them, but ''not'' to actually control them, nor does it grant him any social affinity with them, all this gets them is confirmation that yes, they ''do'' want to eat them.

** According to canon, Beast Boy can transform into any creature so long as he has seen a picture of it and/or can visualize what it would look like. Basically, his powers run on imagination.

* BigBrotherBully: Or rather, Big ''Sister'' Bully between Blackfire and Starfire.

%%* {{Adorkable}}: Beast Boy and Starfire when trying to figure out Earth customs.

** TheLeader:
** TheLancer:
** TheSmartGuy:
** TheBigGuy:
** TheChick: