Trivia / New Teen Titans

• Author's Saving Throw: These periodically show up every few years or so. Some went over better than other.
  • The Wolfman Era: Kory was forced into a political marriage during Crisis on Infinite Earths. But after she returned to Earth to be with the man she loved (Dick Grayson), her marriage was ultimately explained to be a glorified peace treaty and not a "traditional" marriage, presumably because the iconic Dick and Kory relationship being an act of adultery was a bit too much.
• Executive Meddling: Arguably one of the worst victims in comics for some reason^note A somewhat understandable part of it is that the Titans, using many characters from other series results in frequent inter-series competition over who has more rights over the characters, especially where the Batman, Flash, and Wonder Woman offices are concerned, despite only being a huge seller in one era. Virtually every single writer (since at least the '90s) has come off the book complaining about this in some way, to the point where it's obviously not just making excuses as to why their runs sucked (most of the time, anyways). The short list:
  • Marv Wolfman was actually able to stop one case of meddling when the higher-ups wanted Dick Grayson back as Robin. He was instead able to convince them to simply create a new character to take on the mantle, leading to the creation of Jason Todd and the Robin legacy as a whole.
  • The Team Titans, a team of future-borne characters with horrifyingly "90s" stereotypes. The Team Titans and their book were also subject to further meddling, as both Marv Wolfman and Phil Jimenez were not allowed to follow through with some plot points they'd set up by the end, or had their plans utterly changed by editorial (such as the identity of the Team Titans' mysterious leader ^note He was originally intended to be a 20-something Back from the Dead Danny Chase, but was made into Hank Hall to tie into Zero Hour: Crisis in Time!)
  • The issue of Nightwing and Starfire's wedding ended up not going forward following editor Jonathan Peterson's departure as instead the wedding was called off after a corrupted Raven implanted a demon seed on Starfire and Batman editors wanted him back to the Bat-titles, which led to...
  • The removal of Nightwing from the book and the restriction on portrayals of Nightwing and Tim Drake since the 90s, lasting up until volume 3. The "Arsenal-led" team was explicitly forbidden to use Nightwing and, despite winning a fan contest in which he was a choice to join the '96 Teen Titans team, Batman editors refused to honor the contest and allow Dan Jurgens to use Tim Drake in the Titans, leading to Jurgens having to substitute Captain Marvel Jr. in his place. Nightwing was also forbidden from being heavily utilized in the Jurgens run aside from limited cameos, while the original series treatment had him as a mentor to the new team. ^note During this time period, the Batoffice was enforcing an "Urban Legend" retcon with all Bat-related characters, in which the general public didn't believe that "The Batman" was real. This resulted in the heavy restrictions on Nightwing and Robin in both Teen Titans and Young Justice.

---