Comic Book / Teen Titans Go!

The comic based on the show based on the comic.

Teen Titans Go! is a comics series that ran for 55 issues from 2003 to 2008. It is based on the animated series Teen Titans (2003), which itself is based on an older comics series of the same name. Like the cartoon, it is animesque and intended primarily for pre-teen boys, but did not shy away from somewhat darker material as the series progressed. It featured one-shot gags in the page margins presented by chibi versions of the cast, as well as continuations or expansions of plotlines from the series. Most issues, however, presented stand-alone plots.

As expected, the series features the Teen Titans: Robin, Starfire, Beast Boy, Cyborg, and Raven, five young costumed superheroes, and their adventures in Jump City. Some issues shift the focus onto secondary characters such as Larry and Terra, or even villains like the H.I.V.E. graduates, in addition to some characters from the original comics who did not appear in the cartoon, such as Rose Wilson, Geo-Force, and Wonder Girl.

If you're looking for the 2013 semi-revival cartoon, go here. It is also not to be confused with the digital comic with the same title based on the revived series, officially termed by DC as TTG volume 2.

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Tropes:

• Abhorrent Admirer: Kitten is one for Robin as always, but the series introduces one for her in turn — a teenage Riddler copy named Kwiz Kid. In his debut issue, he tries to stump Robin with his riddles in order to endear himself to her, only for her to reveal she was only going along with his plan so she could get Robin to come to her.
• Abled in the Adaptation: The comic's depiction of Robby Reed noticeably doesn't wear glasses.
• Adaptation Amalgamation: While this series is a comic adaptation of Teen Titans (2003), it adopts more material from the Teen Titans comics than the original cartoon. One of the first big adaptations was the introduction of Sarah Simms, who was a Love Interest of Cyborg's in the comics.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: Although a minor character that wound up not amounting to anything beyond a cameo, Aquagirl, as opposed to the earlier "Gill Girl" in the run, was greatly revamped when she made her debut. Her hair went from being brown to a deep green, and her blue eyes became gold along with suddenly becoming blue-skinned, having webbed hands and feet, and some gill markings on her face.
• Adaptation Expansion: Backstories, expanded filler, and even post-Season 5 ideas are given deeper detail all throughout the comic's run.
• Adaptational Backstory Change: In the original comics, Killowat was a time traveler trying to Set Right What Once Went Wrong. Here, he's from an alternate universe and is trying to get back home.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: Issue 52 features the appearance of Robby Reed but there's a twist: while he can transform into different original heroes, the Dial "borrows" the abilities from a nearby hero to do it.
• All There in the Manual:
  • The name of the city was never stated in the series proper. The tie-in comic named the city as "Jump City" and the fandom took this and ran with it.
  • The comic also confirms that Robin is Dick Grayson for those who couldn't take the hint from watching the show.
• Alternate Universe: Issue 48, "Wrong Place, Wrong Time", goes through a few of these in an attempt to get Killowat back to his own world, starting with the world of the Teen Tyrants.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Issue 28 has the Doom Patrol sharing a lot of stories from Beast Boy's childhood with the Titans.
• And the Adventure Continues: The 55th issue concludes with Robin, Starfire, Beast Boy, Raven and Cyborg going forth to stop Gizmo and a new HIVE Five.
• And This Is for...: In "Nearly Nabbed Me", the first story from Issue 40, Starfire, Beast Boy, Cyborg, and Robin repay members of the HIVE Five for respectively dropping a bus on her head, getting him zapped by mall security on accident, getting his car towed, and getting pizza sauce on his cape.
• Anger Born of Worry: Not directed at the person in particular: Geo-Force is furious at the Titans initially, assuming they corrupted Terra because he's been searching for her for years and then he calls them out for not thinking to investigate where she came from or to find out if she had family. He only calms down on seeing she's safe and happy.
• Animesque: To match the show.
• Art Shift: From issue to issue due to a rotating number of artists.
• Ascended Extra:
  • Remember that goth kid from "Sisters"? He and Raven are dating.
  • Issue 48 gives Kilowatt A Day in the Limelight.
  • Private HIVE, Psimon and Phobia each have issues where they get to be the Big Bad.
• Backstory:
  • Issue 45 covers Beast Boy and Cyborg (two-parter).
  • 46 covers Starfire while also introducing her long-lost brother, Wildfire.
  • Half of Issue 47 covers Robin.
  • Issue 51, "Metamorphosis", covers Terra and her brother Geo-Force.
• Barefoot Cartoon Animal: Gill Girl wears only a bathing suit. Hardly surprising, considering that she's a Fish Person with webbed feet.
• Baseball Episode: 33, "The Strangest Sports Story Ever Told". Which, amusingly, features a Shout-Out to the Young Justice comic with the same plot:
  Raven: Please. You got this idea from... some old comic book.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Beast Boy tells Dr. Light this when Dr. Light gets electrocuted trying to get Cyborg's battery's power.
• Berserk Button: Red Raven, in her self-titled issue 44 (a continuation of 42), attacks and destroys anything having to do with fathers (Founding Fathers display at the museum, Fathers Day gifts at stores, etc.).
• The Big Race: Kid Flash versus Más y Menos in Issue #34.
• Book Ends: The cover art of the first and last issues of the series feature the Titans putting up posters.
• Brain Bleach: Played With. In Issue #39, Raven reveals that, in the midst of her failed attempts to undo Larry's misuse of Cupid's Arrow, she has also brewed a potion to keep herself from throwing up from all the nauseating romance.
• Brick Joke: In one of the earlier issues, the Titans comment that Robin once gave a communicator to their mailman. Fast-forward to the issue introducing the Fearsome Five: Robin gives Jinx her communicator while the team comments in the background that he had to ask for it back from the same mailman.
• The Cameo:
  • "Regarding Robin" from issue 47 ends with Batman himself, watching the Titans from afar and proud of what Robin has become.
  • Issue 38 has brief appearances from the cast of Blue Monday, whose creator was the artist for the issue.
  • New versions of Aqua Girl, Golden Eagle, and Azrael, recurring allies from the New Teen Titans, appear briefly on a screen in Issue 50. Mirage and Flamebird also appear, but Mirage appeared in an earlier issue, and both will appear in a later issue as well.
• Canon Foreigner:
  • It features some newly-created villains exclusive to this continuity (and who never got to be in the show), such as the Kwiz Kid (a teenage Expy of the Riddler), Kid Kold and Ice Kate (younger counterparts to the Flash Rogues Captain Cold and Golden Glider), and the trio of Rock, Paper, and Scissors.
  • There's also Aqualad's friend Gill Girl, who appears to be a cross between Aquagirl and Lagoon Boy.
  • Mr. Wolf, a short nerdy man cursed with werewolfism.
  • The Agent, a demonic entity who uses Rotten Rock & Roll to create a Zombie Apocalypse in Issue 19.
  • The Lanista, overseer of the Gladiator Games of Issue 32.
• Celebrity Paradox: Starfire is a fan of Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi. Since the Teen Titans don't have a cartoon for which the band recorded the theme, how exactly did they become popular enough in the West to get a cartoon?
• Cerebus Syndrome: Much like the show it was based on, the comics began lighthearted and humourous, to the point of skewing toward even younger kids with Knock Knock Jokes and "What Am I" riddles in the panel margins, but slowly began to incorporate more complex stories and even two-parters, though still much less epic than the animated series.
• Christmas Episode:
  • Issue 25, "Secret Santa".
  • 37, "Winterlude", is set the day after Christmas (though probably not the same Christmas as issue 25), and is narrated poetically in the style of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. Which is a Shout-Out to a similar issue from Young Justice.
• City of Adventure: The city from the series is finally named here: Jump City.
• Composite Character: In issue 52 Changeling, Power Boy, Lagoon Boy, Jesse Quick, and Protector are all aliases of Robby Reed.
• Corporate-Sponsored Superhero: Issue 16 shows that Aqualad does ads for Sea King Snorkeling.
• Creator Cameo: Writer J. Torres and artist Todd Nauck appear in the last page of issue 18.
• Crossover: With Dial H for Hero in issue 52. The Dial's stealing other Titans' powers for Robby to use, instead of granting him whole-new ones, though. Robby gives the dial-up once he finds out.
• Crying Wolf: The effective plot of Issue #2, "The Beast Boy Who Cried Wolf".
• A Day in the Limelight: Issue #30 has a story focused on Speedy and Aqualad.
• Disappointed by the Motive: In Issue #41, Raven is disappointed that Kitten's evil alter egos were just a way to get her father's attention.
• Distaff Counterpart: Issue 41, "Bad Girls", introduces Pink X, Mad Maud, Joystick, Marionette, and Daughter Blood. They're all the same girl, though: Killer Moth's daughter Kitten.
• Downer Ending: Issue 27 is one for Cyborg - his girlfriend Sarah breaks up with him, Starfire is angry at him, and Jinx is a Yandere for him.
• Eccentric Fashion Designer: Mad Mod disguises himself as a kooky foreign fashion designer named D.D. Ammo in an attempt to control the minds of Jump City's inhabitants. Robin makes a comment on the clothes, saying they're outdated or something.
• Engineered Public Confession: The Titans do this to Professor Chang, when he tries to kidnap Lightning and sell him to a Sultan as a fake genie.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Issue 41 and Issue 44 show that Kitten doesn't just use her father, Killer Moth, to get what she wants all the time; she does sincerely love him too.
• Fish People:
  • Gill Girl, who debuts in issue 10 and has a couple of cameos in later issues, resembles the Creature from the Black Lagoon as a cute teenage girl◊.
  • The version of Aquagirl seen in issue 50 and the chibis seems to be a less extreme example, falling somewhere between looking like a fish person (with gills, webbed feet and blue skin) and being more humanoid (with her face and hair).
• Foreshadowing: Blackfire's choice of words in the beginning of issue 7 ("You are absolutely priceless, Starfire! This should be rather...rewarding!") are early hints on what she actually plans to do with her sister.
• "Freaky Friday" Flip: Beast Boy and Mento once did this due to the former fiddling with latter's helmet. Rita describes it as their "Wacky Wednesday".
• Fuzz Therapy: One issue has the plot revolve around Hot Spot trying to find a way to calm down. This turns out to be the solution.
• Gift of the Magi Plot: For Christmas, Beast Boy bought Cyborg stainless steel custom monogrammed hubcaps for the T-car and says they're for the new tires Cyborg just bought. Unfortunately, Cyborg returned those tires and used the money to buy Raven an antique made of genuine petrified wood from the black forest because her books are taking over her room. Ironically, she sold some of her books to buy Starfire a food processor in hopes it'll help her cook better. Cyborg even brings up The Gift of the Magi to describe the situation.
• Give Her a Normal Life: When Geo-Force finds out whats happened to Terra, he doesn't bother revealing himself to her, noticing it's the first time he's seen her happy. Terra, spotting and recognizing him, watches as he leaves.
• Grievous Harm with a Body: Issue 23 has Control Freak try to hit Cyborg over the head with a dummy arm. Cyborg is not impressed and detaches his own arm to play the game too.
• Hand-or-Object Underwear: The citizens of Jump City left naked as a result of Cyborg's sonic weaponry destroying their hypnotic clothing in issue eight are shown desperately trying to use their own hands to obscure their privates the instant they realize they're nude.
• Heel–Face Turn: In Issue 19, Johnny Rancid is trying to make an honest living through music, and isn't happy to learn that his songs are creating zombies thanks to making a Deal with the Devil.
• Humongous Mecha: Issue 9 introduces the Titans Go-Bot 5, which the team uses to fight Gizmo's giant robot. It's later used to fight a Professor Chang-controlled Beast Boy, a.k.a Garsaurus Rex.
• I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder: Dr. Light wants Cyborg's battery but doesn't know which part of the latter is it. He says he's a supervillain, not a mechanic.
• Innocent Fanservice Girl: Starfire does not react to ending up naked near the end of the eighth issue and is even oblivious of Cyborg and Robin staring at her with amused grins. This is quite in-line with her original comic version.
• Interspecies Romance: Besides Robin with Starfire, there's also Gill Girl with a turtle named Nero.
• "Knock Knock" Joke: Beast Boy occasionally comes up with them.
• Last Episode, New Character:
  • Cassie, a.k.a. Wonder Girl 2, who shows up in the next to last issue of the series. She does get a cameo in the final issue however.
  • Flamebird and Mirage also show up as new Titans in cameos in the final issue, although an alternate future version of Mirage appeared in an earlier story (issue 48) and Flamebird had a brief cameo in issue 50, on a screen showing potential new Titans (along with GO! versions of Azrael,^note The alien "space angel" hero who appeared in an arc of the original New Teen Titans comic, not to be mistaken with the '90s anti-hero of the same name Aquagirl, and Golden Eagle, who otherwise never got roles in the series). Two Titans named "Soldier Boy" and "Soldier Girl", who both wear costumes similar to Private HIVE, also cameo in the final story.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In "Magic and Misdirection", Mumbo opens a trap door that makes Beast Boy fall out of the panel. Starfire and Terra follow, and we're treated to a few pages of them wandering around the borders of the page while Super-Deformed.
• Least Rhymable Word: In Issue #42, Raven asks the readers "Why do poets hate the colors orange, purple, and silver?". The answer is "Well, you try coming up with rhymes for those words!".
• Legacy Character: An interesting variation: issue 54, "Makes You Wonder", features Cassie Sandsmark attempting to usurp Donna Troy's position as Wonder Girl.
• Lensman Arms Race: Issue #9 has one of these happen between Cyborg and Gizmo, with Fixit presiding.
• Lightbulb Joke: Mumbo Jumbo asks "How many magicians does it take to change a lightbulb?" and answers "Depends on what you want it changed to!"
• Lighter and Softer: The series is a lot more laid back in tone than the cartoon it was based on, to the point of even seeming to skew toward a younger audience in its first issues, with Chibi-fied characters making jokes, simple riddles, and games for the reader, and even when it later incorporated the show's more complex plots, they are considerably smaller in scope.
• Lotus-Eater Machine: 38, "It's a Mod, Mod, Mod, Mod World."
• Magic Skirt: Weirdly disregarded for Issue #20; turns out Blackfire wears shorts under her skirt.
• Make Wrong What Once Went Right: One issue sees Warp try and alter the timeline by replacing Batman as Robin's mentor, molding him into a money-hungry potential villain. Nightwing's intervention leads to the changes getting undone.
• Mars Needs Women: Or rather Braboldian scientists want super powered females for their experiments; Issue #36, "Troy."
• McNinja: At least one movie of the Super Ninja Fury movie series Cyborg and Beast Boy watch features Canadian ninjas.
• Me's a Crowd: "Pieces of Me:" Raven's "emoticlones" are let loose by accident, and several of them run amuck throughout the city.
• Mythology Gag:
  • Issue #18 has Larry put the Titans "all back the way you should be:"
    • Starfire acquires her mainstream version's hair and exclaims "X'Hal!"
    • Beast Boy gets his old Doom Patrol costume.
    • Robin gets an older version of his costume. With no real pants.
    • Raven gets a lampshade hung on her more goth like appearance.
  • The Teen Titans cartoon Adapted Out Chief from its version of the Doom Patrol. In Issue #28, Mento mentioned Beast Boy had a puppy named "Chief".
  • When "Beast Boy" is forced to participate in Gladiator Games in Issue #32, The Lanista refers to him as "Changeling", which was another of Beast Boy's Code Names in the comics.
  • The 36th issue has Robin work together with Speedy, Aqualad, Kid Flash, and Wonder Girl. In the comics, they were the members of the first Teen Titans. Beast Boy also has an understated but important role in the issue, possibly reflecting his early appearance and almost-membership of the Titans in the 1960s comic series.
  • In Issue #39, a Valentine's Day issue, Speedy and Cheshire get hit by an arrow, and fall in love. In the comics, they briefly fell in love, and had a child together.
  • Also in Issue #39, Andre l'Blanc mistakenly assumes he's been cornered by the Doom Patrol, but it's actually Beast Boy, Herald, and Bumblebee—in the mainline comics, these three Titans joined the Doom Patrol following the events of One Year Later.
  • In Issue #43, Psimon attempts to form a team called "The Fearsome Five" to take down the Titans, whose members are himself, Dr. Light, Gizmo, Mammoth, and Jinx. With the exception of Jinx, this is the same roster as the original Fearsome Five from the Wolfman/Pérez New Teen Titans run. (That continuity's version of Jinx would eventually join the team, but she was not a founding member.)
  • The Teen Tyrants of Issue #48, three of whom are Red Robin, Arsenal, and Tempest — the same names used by certain older versions of Robin, Speedy, and Aqualad. As their team name indicates, they're decidedly twisted versions.
    • The same issue has a heroic version of Madame Rouge named Gemini, a reference to Rouge's daughter. There's also a heroic female version of Dr. Light, modeled after Kimiyo Hoshi.
    • It also features Raven opening doors to various alternate realities, including the original flavor Teen Titans from the Silver Age, and in a blink and you'll miss it peek, Secret and Lobo of Young Justice.
  • In Issue 50, Beast Boy is surprised to see Speedy, who left the Titans to join the Justice League off-screen—a nod to Speedy's appearance in Justice League Unlimited. The same issue ends with the Titans officially restructuring into an official global organization and expanding their outreach, effectively making themselves Teen Titans Unlimited.
  • In Issue 52, the various heroes who steal the Teen Titans' thunder and powers take their Code Names from the original comics, including "Changeling", "Jesse Quick", "Power Boy", "Lagoon Boy", and even "Protector".
  • Issue 54 reveals that the Battle Cry for the Amazons is "Amazons Attack!"
• Naked People Are Funny: Everyone in Jump City (except Robin, Raven, and Cyborg) is naked by the end of issue eight. It Makes Sense in Context.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: According to the Wildfire issue, Blackfire has sold off Starfire to the Gordanians, to keep them from invading Tamaran. Watching the episode "Go!" from the main cartoon shows how well this turned out.
• Noodle Incident: Issue #47 compares Starfire's bright and sunny morning routine with Raven's dour and grumpy routine—Raven in particular is grumbling about a "stupid Beast Boy nightmare" that involved a "tofu-stein monster" and a musical number.
• Not Me This Time: After the events of "Bad Girls", a later issue has Robin facing Jade Wilson, daughter of his arch nemesis Slade. Robin's first reaction is that it's Kitten posing as the offspring of other villains to get her father's attention, again, but it turns out Jade Wilson's the real deal.
• Not So Stoic: Stylistic choice here, but a lot of the more humorous issues feature Raven being happy and laughing alongside the other Titans, without any outside influence.
• Off on a Technicality: In Issue #41, Killer Moth is free and says he paid his debt to society. Raven says he "got off on some pointless technicality".
• Official Couple: As of the Valentines' Day issue #39, Robin and Starfire are going on double-dates with Cyborg and Sarah Simms.
• Origins Episode:
  • Issue #45 features Beast Boy's and Cyborg's origins.
  • Issue #47 features Robin's origin.
• Out-of-Character Alert: In Issue #42, after the Teen Titans think they got all parts of Raven's personality back, Robin finds it odd "she didn't so much as frown at Beast Boy" for causing that mess in the first place. The Trigon-eyed Raven is still at large and shows a "the end?" sign.
• Poor Communication Kills: More like Poor Communication is Painful: The plot of Issue #6 "Storm" stems from Lightning fighting Thunder because the former misheard the latter as insulting him.
• Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: Issue 27 - "Love is a Battlefield".
• Powers as Programs:
  • How the Master of Games' amulet treats all powers; in Issue #24, a plot by Katarou leads to the gem being broken and the five Titans' powers swapped between each other.
  • The H Dial used by Robby Reed gives him powers that have been removed from other superheroes.
• Race Lift: Although a minor example (as the series was cancelled before he or others could be developed), the cameo of Golden Eagle falls under this. In the original comics, he's a blond Californian teenager. In Go!, he's revamped to be an Egyptian boy, probably to tie him better into the original Hawkman mythology.
• The Reveal:
  • Issue #16 has a pretty big surprise for the Titans, especially Beast Boy. The child Starfire has been spending the day with at the mall, trying to help him find his parents? He's their ally Wildebeest!
  • The first half of Issue #47, "Regarding Robin," reveals without a doubt, that Robin is in fact Dick Grayson.
  • According to "Metamorphosis," the schoolgirl is Terra. Geo-Force can tell.
  • Ravager, a.k.a. Rose Wilson (Slade's daughter) appears and attacks the Titans, then joins them. It makes you wonder what Season 6 might have been like...
• Rise of Zitgirl: Raven in Issue #5, "Monster Zit."
• The Runaway: It's revealed that Terra when she was a little girl ran away from home, because adults there wanted to use her and her brother to gain power. Geo-Force, aka Brion Markov, couldn't search for her at first because he had to get rid of the corrupt adults but he's been worried sick.
• Sadistic Choice: For Geo-Force, when corrupt adults tried to use him and his sister to stage a coup, Terra ran away when the adults ended up causing her Power Incontinence. Geo-Force was forced to clean up his country before he could start looking for her, and even then his search took years.
• Scenery Censor: When Beast Boy and Starfire are left naked as a result of Cyborg's sonic weaponry destroying their hypnotic clothing in the eighth issue, Raven's arm obscures Starfire's breasts while Robin's head covers up Beast Boy and Starfire's pubic areas.
• Secret Legacy: Terra, as it turns out she's a princess of a kingdom.
• Ship Tease: While the early comic made Raven and Goth Boy an Official Couple, the later issues began making hints about Beast Boy and Raven.
  • In issue 42, Raven's aggressively flirty purple emoticlone hunts Goth Boy down at a theme park and proceeds to embarrass him into dragging her out of the park. Once he runs off in disgust (the last time he shows up in the comic), the emoticlone finds Beast Boy standing behind her and latches onto him.
    Melvin: Hee-hee. I think she likes him.
  • In Issue 47, Raven's day starts with her grumbling about a "Beast Boy nightmare" that appears to have involved a musical number.
  • After Phobia's nightmares are dispelled in Issue #55, Beast Boy nervously consults with Raven about a dream featuring the two of them and either Valentine's Day or mistletoe. Raven curtly answers that she'd prefer not to relive it.
  • Later in the same issue, Raven makes a crack at Beast Boy's expense that provokes him to threaten to disinvite her to a Dayton family barbecue—naturally implying he's already invited her to a get-together with his family.
• Shipper on Deck:
  • Starfire pretty vocally ships Cyborg / Sarah Simms, playing Cupid for them, and arranging their date in the Valentine's issue of Teen Titans Go! (#27).
  • Robin takes Starfire on a date in Issue #4, with Beast Boy and Cyborg following along to annoy him with advice.
  • Issue #39, another Valentines' Day issue, begins with Larry playing with his dolls and musing how it would be if everyone were in love... and then decides to take matters into his own hands by deploying Cupid's Arrow (from the actual Cupid/Eros, no less).
• Shout-Out:
  • Riddle in Issue #9 says "A game in which only winning move is not to play. What am I?"
  • In Issue #20, we can see that Speedy's handle in multiplayer games is "Shaft," which is also the name of Speedy's expy from Youngblood (Image Comics).
  • The artist tends to cram in tons of references to Mystery Science Theater 3000.
  • Starfire is a fan of Puffy AmiYumi and their cartoon series. (J. Torres worked as an animator on the show.)
  • Issue #25 has a The Gift of the Magi reference during the Titans' Secret Santa and Cyborg even calls the story by name.
  • In Issue #29, Cyborg mumbles "Rassmfrassmstarfire" in a similar way to Muttley grumbling about Dick Dastardly.
  • Issue #33 has a Pinky and the Brain reference.
  Mallah: Okay, you ween! Zat plan deedn't work, but you must admit zat it was an amusing distraction... So, what are we going to do tomorrow night, Brain?
  Brain: The same thing we do every night, Mallah... Try to take down the Teen Titans!
  • During a race in Issue #34, Kid Flash makes "Beep Beep".
  • Issue #38 has a story titled "It's a Mod, Mod, Mod, Mod World".
  • After Beast Boy tells his origin to some kids, one of them suggests he must've been bitten by some radioactive dork. Early on that story, Beast Boy said he was bitten by a radioactive unicorn from another dimension.
  • In Issue #48, during a battle between the Teen Titans and the Teen Tyrants, Beast Boy turns into a rabbit and Speedy's Teen Tyrant counterpart says "Be very, very quiet! I'm hunting rabbit!".
  • In Issue #55, Beast Boy refers to his childhood home as "Stately Dayton Manor".
• Slow and Steady Wins the Race: Where "slow" is relative in The Big Race between Super Speedsters. Más y Menos are clearly the underdogs compared to Kid Flash, but since the Fastest Kid Alive took the time to flirt with every pretty girl he met along the way, he gave his girlfriend Jinx cause to accost him right before the finish line, giving the Tornado Twins the chance to take the win.
• Snap Back: There are stories that clearly take place after, the fifth and final season of the show, and yet nearly every villain in the show's run was frozen in the end.
• Spanner in the Works:
  • Larry and his hare-brained Shipping scheme does this a lot to the Titan's attempts to stop Andre Leblanc in Issue #39.
  • In Issue #55, Phobia would've gotten away of trapping the Titans inside their worst nightmares, if not for Silkie hitting the Tower's wake-up alarm.
• Spared by the Adaptation: An interesting example is given in the issue explaining the origins of Cyborg and Beast Boy. Cyborg's origin establishes that his mother is still alive and helped his father fit their son with his robotic parts even though she was killed in the same accident that injured her son in the original comics and is implied to be deceased in the animated series this comic book is based on.
• Super-Deformed: Other than the margin gags, there's also Issue #18: "When Chibis Attack." Raven even explicitly refers to their tiny counterparts as "chibi."
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute:
  • Ice Kate and Kid Cool are teenage versions of Golden Glider and Captain Cold.
  • The Kwiz Kid is basically a younger Riddler
  • Gill Girl is a mashup of Aquagirl and Lagoon Boy (an actual version of Aquagirl would later be briefly seen towards the end of the series as an image on a screen, as well as in a chibi gag).
  • Kitten becomes one of Duela Dent when she masquerades as the daughters of numerous villains.
• Take That, Audience!: In "Stupid Cupid," Raven remarks on how all the "shipping" is stupid, after Larry attempts to pair up all the Titans with each other. Depending on the fan, they might have either liked it, hated it, or felt indifferent.
• Timey-Wimey Ball: In Issue #31, a villain changes Robin's past to become his mentor and the other titans are helped by Good!Robin's future self a.k.a. Nightwing. During the epilogue, Beast Boy wonders how that Nightwing could exist at the same time as Bad!Robin and Raven handwaves it by saying they don't fully understand how Time Travel works.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Raven is a bit snarkier than she is in the animated series, most notably ranting on how pointless she considers such times of year as Valentine's Day and Halloween, even belittling her friends for expressing their enjoyment of the holidays.
• Truer to the Text: This series integrates more material from the source comics than Teen Titans (2003).
  • This series introduces Sarah Simms, one of Cyborg's Love Interests from the New Teen Titans.
  • Issue 8 has Mad Mod using hypnotic clothes, referencing his comic origins as a fashion designer.
  • Issue 43 sees the creation of the Fearsome Five, the five-man team that Jinx, Gizmo, Mammoth, Dr. Light, and Psimon all belonged to in the New Teen Titans.
  • Issue 46 belatedly introduces Starfire's little brother, albeit under the name "Wildfire", unique to this comic. (In the source comics, Ryand'r's name works out to "Darkfire").
  • Issue 49 briefly shows Wintergreen residing in Slade's old residence with a picture of Slade himself in safari gear, looking exactly like he does in the source material.
• Two Words: Added Emphasis: This line from Beast Boy when he and Cyborg are discussing two Super Ninja Fury movies and arguing over which one is better.
  Beast Boy: Two words, Cyborg: Canadian ninjas.
• Under the Mistletoe: Invoked by Starfire in Issue 25; her Secret Santa gift to Robin is simply holding up a sprig of mistletoe between the two of them.
• Unreliable Narrator:
  • In Issue #40, some H.I.V.E. 5 villains recall past run-ins with the Teen Titans. The flashbacks show that, in most cases, escaping the heroes took more luck and less skill than their narrations suggest.
  • When Beast Boy narrates his origin, he messes up several details and keeps forgetting where his parents were and which creature they were dealing with.
• Vanity License Plate: Cyborg once had a car with CBG - 010 as a license plate. Surprisingly, it was before he became Cyborg.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Geo-Force calls out the Titans for not investigating Terra, his little sister, when she joined the team, and for not thinking she'd have a family or a home. He also doesn't admit it, but he's mad at Terra for running away and making him worry. As he puts it, he spent years searching for her, and when he heard she and Slade nearly destroyed Jump City he came as soon as he could.
• When You Coming Home, Dad?: Killer Moth's daughter did what she did in Issue #41 to get his attention because he's distracted with some world domination plot.
• Whole-Plot Reference: "Nearly Nabbed Me" from Issue 40 is one for Almost Got 'Im, complete with Undercover Cop Reveal.
• Woman Scorned: Jinx isn't happy to see her boyfriend Kid Flash flirting with other girls and she makes sure he knows it.◊
• You Are Too Late: A more mundane sort; by the time Geo-Force arrives to find Terra and "rescue her" from people who have corrupted her, all the events of Season Five has happened, meaning Terra has became a statue, revived and lost her memory, and desires a normal life. Geo-Force decides to respect her wishes to stay normal.

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