YMMV / Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Saico-Tek at the beginning was a good-guy who was sent by Brushogun as part of a Batman Gambit in order to save him. He performs a Heroic Sacrifice by committing suicide to stop Daizo from finding out after having instilled the knowledge of Brushogun to the Titans.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: The first Saico-Tek, Nya Nya, and Scarface are all viewed as interesting and memorable opponents of the team.
• Fanon: A popular theory is that the reason Raven is so snippy to Beast Boy in this film is that she was averting No Periods, Period. There's no evidence to contradict this.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Brushogun's ink has a limited color palette of black, yellow, pink, and blue, which would later become synonymous with Cartoon Network itself in advertising over the 2010s.
  • Nya-Nya, one of Brushogun's creations, may shock modern viewers with how much she resembles a pink 2018 Catra, to the point where one must wonder if the 2018 She-Ra took some inspiration from the former...
• Magnificent Bastard: Commander Uehara Daizo is a Tokyo police detective who arrested the mysterious Brushogan and sealed him away in an abandoned comic book factory. Forcing Brushogan to bring life to hoards of criminals for him to capture, Daizo founded the Tokyo Troopers, rose in the echelons of the police department, and obtained great public favor through his machinations. When the Teen Titans arrived in Tokyo to follow a lead, Daizo remains beneath notice and sets up the circumstances in which Robin is framed for the "murder" of Saeko-Tech, using that as a reason to have the other Titans arrested or booted out of Tokyo. When the Titans uncover his deceit, the calm and confident Daizo simply aims to have them eliminated using the full extent of Brushogan's black magic.
• Tear Jerker: When an attempt at a kiss is suddenly interrupted by Robin's focus on the mission:
  Starfire: (holding Robin's arm gently) Must we always be heroes? Are we capable of nothing else? Can we not, for a few moments... (touches his cheek) be something... more?
  Robin: A hero is what I am, and if you don't like it—
  Starfire: Robin? I like it more than you will ever know. (flies off crying)
  • The sad state of Brushogun. He's not the same young mortal artist who dreamed of bringing his art to life. He's not even half the dangerous supervillain he used to be. He's just a withered shell of his former self, humbled by Daizo's manipulating him, weakened and overworked to the point where it literally leads to his death in the end.

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