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1* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: The main villain Slade has a Doomsday device that projects currently premiered movies not released on physical media all over the world on any device. With the whole COVID 19 pandemic, this is now possible with no diabolical intentions... Hopefully..
2* ActingForTwo:
3** Creator/EricBauza as both Aquaman and [[spoiler: Stan Lee's]] assistant.
4** Creator/PhilMorris as DOOMSDAY and the red carpet announcer.
5** Creator/FredTatasciore as Jor-El and a security guard.
6** Creator/DavidKaye as the Alfred trailer voice and the Inside Premiere Announcer.
7** Creator/JohnDiMaggio as both the Synth Skate voice and a security guard.
8* AllStarCast: The movie has a really strong cast of voice actors, both from the actors reprising their roles from the TV series, as well as the actors for the new characters.
9* BillingDisplacement: The movie billing goes like this: the five Titans voices actors in alphabetical order, Will Arnett and Kristen Bell, and then everyone else in alphabetical order. This results in Greg Cipes being billed first and Scott Menville second even though Robin is the main character and not Beast Boy.
10* CelebrityVoiceActor:
11** We have Will Arnett as Slade and Creator/KristenBell as Jade Wilson, though the former is a downplayed example because of some [[WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder of]] [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom his]] [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoBatmanMovie voice]] [[WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman roles]] before hand.
12** Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Flash, and Batman are being played by Creator/NicolasCage, Music/{{Halsey}}, Lil Yachty, Creator/WilWheaton, and Creator/JimmyKimmel, respectively.
13* CreatorKiller: The film failing to impress Warner Bros. (despite it making back its budget) made it the final nail in the coffin for any Creator/CartoonNetwork show to ever hit the big screen. ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie'' and ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBearsTheMovie'', both of which were released after ''Go! To the Movies'', debuted on television or direct-to-DVD respectively, though the creator of ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' is hoping to have his planned GrandFinale movie be a wide theatrical movie instead of the former two above but was recently announced to be released on Creator/HBOMax, most likely due to ''Go! To the Movies''’s perceived underperformance by Warner Bros.
14* DescendedCreator: Storyboard artists Joey Cappabianca and Dave Stone voice Plastic Man and Ace Morgan respectively
15* DuelingMovies: With ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'', another animated superhero movie.
16* EditedForSyndication: Cartoon Network airings remove the song "My Superhero Movie" to make time for more ads. This may have confused viewers, as several elements of it are brought up later in the film. The Bat-Mobile trailer was also omitted from the scene with the joke trailers.
17* MarthDebutedInSmashBros: Since ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' didn't receive an official release there, the first official appearance in China of the characters from the series was the CCTV-6 premiere of the movie. It is also the first official Chinese appearance of [[BigBad Slade]] and [[spoiler:the original ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003''.]]
18* MilestoneCelebration: The film was released during the show's 5th anniversary. As the stinger features [[spoiler:the original ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'', it also came out during the 15th anniversary of that show]].
19* NoBudget: $10 million is obviously a BigBudgetBeefUp for a feature film spinoff of a [[UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash Flash]]-animated TV show, but that's less than half of the average budget for a CGI feature, which is usually upward of $100 million, and a 1/5th the averaged budget for the far-and-few-between hand-drawn animated feature, making it the cheapest wide-release animated feature of TheNewTens.[[note]]For comparison, the previous film to take that title was ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'', which was three times that. Adjusting for inflation, however, this is about the average budget of most other feature film spinoffs of TV shows from the brief trend during the early 2000s like ''WesternAnimation/Dougs1stMovie'' and ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnoldTheMovie'', which were sometimes less than half of ''that'' (mostly because they were {{TV movie}}s given wide released at the last second following the success of ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie'').[[/note]]
20* NonSingingVoice: Jacob Jeffries fills in for Scott Menville as Robin's singing voice for the song "My Superhero Movie".
21* TheOtherDarrin: Rather than Creator/RonPerlman reprising his role as Slade from [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003 the 2003 series]], Creator/WillArnett voices him.
22** In the Hebrew dub, Doron Ben-Ami--who voiced Beast Boy in the 2003 series--reprises his role for the film (replacing Barak Broitman), while Raven is voiced by Rona Beckerman (replacing Hilly Israel, who voiced her in the series' proper).
23** Subverted in the Latin Spanish dub. As the series is dubbed in Venezuela and American theatrical movies are rarely dubbed in any South American country since Warner only have offices to coordinate dubbing of theatrical movies in Mexico, the Titans' voice actors travelled to Mexico for a recording session.
24* TheOtherMarty: The first teaser for the film had Creator/PhilLamarr play Balloon Man, before James Corden was officially announced as the voice of Balloon Man. The latter was then replaced by Greg Davies for unknown reasons.
25* PlayingAgainstType: Will Arnett, who [[WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie once]] [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoBatmanMovie played a]] [[Franchise/{{Batman}} DC superhero]], plays a DC super''villain'' this time.
26* PromotedFanboy: Superman is voiced by Nicolas Cage, whose love of the character is well documented. Doubles as a bonus for Cage because he was originally due to act in a Superman movie that was ultimately cancelled, so now he finally gets to play the role.
27* RealLifeRelative:
28** Nicolas Cage's son, Kal-El Cage, voices a young [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]] in the film.
29** ComicBook/TheAtom and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} are voiced by Patton Oswalt and Meredith Salinger, who are married in real life.
30* ScrewedByTheNetwork: It didn't get a big advertising push, and was overshadowed in theaters by ''Film/MissionImpossibleFallout'' and ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania3SummerVacation'', grossing only $10 million dollars on its opening weekend. This is a [[AdoredByTheNetwork/TeenTitansGo major contrast]] to how the show itself is treated on TV (after the movie came out, though, said treatment started to die down).
31* SoMyKidsCanWatch: Will Arnett and Jimmy Kimmel took roles in this movie because their children were huge fans of the source material.
32* SpoiledByTheCastList: In the [[https://cdn.flickeringmyth.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Teen-Titans-Go-to-the-Movies.jpg second teaser poster]], the starring cast is listed. Each Titan voice is given their own line. [[spoiler: Will Arnett and Kristen Bell, however, are listed on the same line. Could also count as {{Foreshadowing}}.]]
33* TypeCast: Creator/DavidKaye as the movie trailer announcer.
34* SpoiledByTheMerchandise:
35** A toy of Slade released a week before the film did revealed that [[spoiler: Slade is Jade by having her head as an additional part]].
36** An interesting non-merchandise example of this trope: in some countries, the ending of the movie, where [[spoiler: Titans Tower gets destroyed]], was spoiled by the episode "Tower Renovation" before they got the film. In particular, Japan got the episode a year before this movie.
37* VoicesInOneRoom: Like in the main series, the voice actors for the Titans recorded their dialogue together.
38* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
39** The joke referencing the infamous "Martha" scene from ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' was [[http://ew.com/movies/2018/07/27/teen-titans-go-to-the-movies-directors-postmortem/ heavily disliked by Warner Bros. executives]], with them only allowing it to remain at the last minute.
40** The studio initially wanted Superman to be voiced by Creator/JasonBateman. The writers were only able to suggest Nicolas Cage for the role after those plans fell through.
41** The song "It's Poop Time" from the episode "The Chaff" was originally written and animated for this movie. Warner Bros. executives found the song gross, and it was omitted.

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