Line #33 Trivia/Titans2018


1	!{{Trivia}} tropes for ''Series/Titans2018''
2	!!Trivia with Their Own Pages
3	[[index]]
4	* [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/Titans2018 What Could Have Been]]
5	[[/index]]
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7	!!In General:
8	* This is one of the few DC-based series allowed to use Franchise/{{Batman}}, complete with onscreen appearances, whereas DC used to enforce an embargo to prevent audiences from being "confused" by the different continuities ([[ViewersAreMorons apparently they didn't think audiences are smart enough to know what an alternate continuity is]])[[note]]this had the side effect of ComicBook/GreenArrow being used in his place, most notably seen in ''Series/{{Smallville}}''; ironically, for a while, Green Arrow himself was seen as a poor man's substitute for Batman[[/note]]. The fact that it's separate from the Series/{{Arrowverse}} and was initially airing on DC's private streaming service might have something to do with it. However, he was mostly TheGhost in season 1, played by stunt actors in a hallucination in the season 1 finale, whereas in season 2, he does physically appear, but ''only'' as Bruce Wayne.
9	* ''Titans'' marks the live-action debut of long-serving and iconic Titan [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Donna Troy]], who had many [[ExiledFromContinuity legal issues]] in the past preventing her from appearing outside of comic books for the longest time (hence she only had extremely brief cameos in the 2003 animated series).
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11	!!Specific Tropes:
12	* ActorLeavesCharacterDies: [[spoiler: The reason why Hank Hall is killed off in the third episode of season three is due to his actor Creator/AlanRitchson leaving the show to star in ''Series/{{Reacher}}''.]]
13	* ActorSharedBackground: Creator/ConorLeslie is a part-time photographer, just like Donna Troy.
14	* ApprovalOfGod: Marv Wolfman and George Perez have both been supportive of the series.
15	* AscendedFanon: Dick Grayson's UrbanLegendLoveLife is much less of an urban legend in the show.
16	* AwesomeDearBoy: Curran Walters admitted that before starring in the show, he wasn't much of an comic book fan, but after being cast as Jason Todd, he started to study the character and read comic books about him until the actor became a fanboy himself. He often expressed how much he enjoys playing the vigilante and how he would love to see stories like ''ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily'' getting adapted just to see the character transitioning into Red Hood. Curran even cosplayed as [[https://www.instagram.com/p/B4BN8SVlW6a/?hl=ro Robin]] and [[https://twitter.com/getFANDOM/status/1065400740984700928 Red Hood]] from ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight''. His Instagram is also full of photos with him playing Jason Todd.
17	* TheCastShowoff:
18	** Creator/MinkaKelly and Creator/AlanRitchson got to show off their singing abilities in the episode 'Atonement', when their characters did a karaoke of the song ""Ain't No Mountain High Enough"".
19	** Creator/ChelseaZhang had a short scene where she had to slow dance because the scene involved Rose trying to seduce Jason Todd, and in some of her character's fighting scenes, she does many complicated dance movements; that's because Chelsea is a dancer in RealLife, not just an actress.
20	* CaliforniaDoubling: Set in UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}, yet filmed in Toronto.
21	* CelebrityVoiceActor: The Japanese dub features two of them: Hawk is voiced by the TV and theatre actor Yu Kamio, while Dove II is voiced by TV actress Akane Matsui.
22	* CompletelyDifferentTitle: Netflix Romania has translated the show's title as "Supereroi in devenire", which in english would roughly mean "Upcoming Superheroes" or "Superheroes in the making". Which is a bit strange because "Titans" is translatable mot-à-mot as "Titanii", not to say that the original cartoon was translated as "Tinerii Titani" in the country, which literally means "Teen Titans".
23	* ContentLeak: Prior to season three, the show's hair department head uploaded examples of her work to Instagram... images that were then-unreleased promos, costume shots, and production continuity photos, none of which had been approved for posting.
24	* CreatorBacklash: When asked by a fan on Twitter about what Gar's storyline would be in Season 3, actor Ryan Potter just replied: "Storyline?".
25	* DarkhorseCasting:
26	** Many actors are of a lesser-known variety as opposed to well-known stars. The best known of the actors are probably Creator/BrentonThwaites, Creator/RyanPotter, Creator/AlanRitchson, Creator/MinkaKelly, and Creator/ConorLeslie. Many other actors don't even have their Wikipedia pages yet. Australian child actress Creator/TeaganCroft as Raven is especially notable, as this is her first major role outside her homeland, only having two previous TV roles and a film back home, plus a theater role in ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird''.
27	** The Japanese dub zig-zag this: From the voice cast of the titular team so far, only Creator/YuukiKaji (Robin) and Creator/ChiakiOmigawa (Raven) are the only well-known faces in the cast. Yui Kano's (Starfire) mostly known role was as Irma in ''Anime/QueensBlade'' and Mark Ishii (Beast Boy) is known for {{Mecha}} fans as the voice of the main hero Bellri Zenam in ''Anime/GundamReconguistaInG''[[note]]And ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsX'' as well.[[/note]] (which was also his debut role as a voice actor) and Lev Haiba in ''Manga/{{Haikyuu}}'', while Creator/ShoyaChiba (Jason Todd) is better known as Hayato Akiyama in ''VideoGame/TheIdolmasterSideM''.
28	* DawsonCasting:
29	** Garfield Logan is supposedly a teenager, but is played by twenty three-year-old Creator/RyanPotter in his introduction. This was presumably done because of [[ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing the character's frequent nude scenes]], which would have been harder to film with an underage actor.
30	** Creator/AlanRitchson and Creator/MinkaKelly also play Hank Hall and Dawn Granger during their college years while both are in their 30s.
31	* DisabledCharacterDisabledActor:
32	** Joey Wilson/Jericho is mute and communicates with ASL. He is played by deaf actor Chella Man.
33	** The wheelchair user Barbara Gordon is portrayed by amputee actress Savannah Welch.
34	* FakeAmerican:
35	** Robin's actor Creator/BrentonThwaites is Australian. As are Raven's actress Teagan Croft and Superboy's actor Joshua Orpin.
36	** Due to a RaceLift, Chief is played by Mexican Creator/BrunoBichir.
37	** Acolyte is played by Afro-Swiss J. Jarreth Mertz.
38	** Don Hall is played by English Creator/ElliotKnight.
39	** Zig-zagged with Larry Trainor. Although he's physically played by Dominican-Canadian Dwain Murphy, American actor Creator/MattBomer provides his voice and appears as him in pre-accident photgraphs.
40	* FakeMixedRace: Thanks to the RaceLift Slade has received by being played by the Puerto Rican actor Creator/EsaiMorales, Rose is now half Vietnamese and half Latino. Her actress, Chelsea Zhang is of Chinese origins despite being born in USA.
41	* FakeRussian: Konstantin Kovar is played by English-French Mark Anthony Krupa.
42	* FatalMethodActing: Special effects coordinator Warren Appleby was [[https://deadline.com/2022/03/titans-crew-member-death-fine-acme-fx-warren-appleby-1234984392/ killed during pre-production for an episode when a piece of equipment burst and he was hit with a piece of metal]]. The special effects company was fined $110,000 in Canadian dollars plus a 25% victim fine surcharge for the accident.
43	* LyingCreator: Brenton Thwaites raised a lot of fans' hackles when he said that Dick split from Batman because Batman became a killer, yet nothing in the show outright confirms this and when Batman finally appears, Dick is shocked that he violates his one "no-kill" rule against both criminals and cops. Even then, this is all inside Dick's head courtesy of Trigon. Though to be fair, given all the changes the show has gone through behind the scenes, Thwaites' comment may be less a "lie" and more of a WhatCouldHaveBeen. In the story itself, Batman only becomes a killer in season 3, when he murders the Joker as revenge for killing Jason, and this is treated as an out-of-character moment to the point that [[DrivenToSuicide Bruce nearly commits suicide because of it]].
44	* TheOtherDarrin:
45	** A very weird example wherein two separate actors have ''simultaneously'' been cast for the same part. Bruno Bichir was cast as [[ComicBook/DoomPatrol Niles Caulder/The Chief]] for the episode that introduces his team, while Creator/TimothyDalton is portraying him on his [[Series/DoomPatrol2019 own show.]]
46	** For many reasons, including the change of genre from animation to live-action, most foreign dubs has also changed the voice actors from previous incarnations:
47	*** The Latin American Spanish one is a very brutal one, as the dub were switched out from Venezuela (animated series) to Mexico (live-action).
48	*** The Japanese one is also pretty notorious on this, as it also replaced all the long-time voice actors from the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'''s era, considering they also dubbed them in both ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'', ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' and most Japanese dubs of the DCAU. The only exception is Creator/YuukiKaji as Robin, as he already voiced him before in ''Anime/BatmanNinja'', although as the Damian Wayne iteration of Robin instead of Dick Grayson.
49	*** Mostly averted by the Brazilian dub, in which, of the four protagonists, only Raven didn't have a RoleReprise (check below for more info), mostly because the character is [[AgeLift much younger here than in other media]].
50	* RealLifeRelative: In the Latin American Spanish dub, Raven and Starfire's voice actresses (Verania and Creator/MarianaOrtiz) are daughter and mother in RealLife.
51	* RoleReprise:
52	** A very interesting cross-continuity one happens in the Latin American Spanish dub: Bruce Wayne is voiced by Sergio Gutierrez Coto, who already voiced him in the dubs of ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'' films, through only in the first season, since Creator/GerardoReyero voices him in the second one.
53	** As mentioned above, the Brazilian dub reprises the voices of the main team, except for Raven.
54	*** Gar and Kory got the same voices from ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'': Charles Emmanuel and Luisa Palomanes, respctively. It works well because they use their natural voices here, while, in the cartoon, they raised the pitch.
55	*** Dick was voiced by Sergio Cantú, the voice actor of his Nightwing version in the second season of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010''.
56	*** Ricardo Schnetzer had not only voiced Slade in the ''Teen Titans'' cartoon, but he had also voiced previous ''live-action'' versions of Slade as well, in ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' and in TheStinger of the movie ''Film/JusticeLeague2017''.
57	*** Speaking of which, Jorge Lucas, who had voiced Batman in the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse, voices Bruce Wayne here.
58	* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: After Creator/{{TNT}} scrapped the project, WB and DC revived it for DC's new streaming service.
59	* SpoiledByTheCastList: A variation. Many of the characters appearing in the show (such as Arsenal, Donna Troy, Elasti-Girl, the Jason Todd Robin, Solstice and even Batman) have been spoiled by casting breakdowns that, while they've tried to be vague on who they are, were pretty obvious to anyone familiar with the comics.
60	* TakeThatTitForTat: The promo "To Deadpool With Love" responds to the joke from ''Film/Deadpool2'' about DC being too dark. Ironically, Creator/BrentonThwaites and Creator/AlanRitchson appeared alongside ''Deadpool'' actor Karan Soni in ''Film/OfficeUprising'', which was released the same year as ''Deadpool 2'', and Creator/ConorLeslie previously starred with Soni in ''Series/OtherSpace''.
61	* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Promotional materials for season 3 never bothered to hide the fact that Creator/ConorLeslie as Donna Troy is still a part of the cast, despite being killed off in the season 2 finale.
62	* YouLookFamiliar:
63	** Stuntman Joel Labelle, who played one of the thugs beaten down by Dawn in the first season, appeared in the second season as the prosecutor assassinated by Deathstroke.
64	** Actress Sistah Lois portrays a liquor store cashier named Jan in season 1, while in season 2 she portrays a cook working at Elko's Diner.
65	* WordOfGod: Ryan Potter has [[https://twitter.com/bamsmackpow/status/1435823128131821569 indicated on Twitter]] that Gar is bisexual.

Context Trivia / Titans2018