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Teen Titans (Comic Book)/Characters

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The members of the comic book version of the Titans, past and present, and their worst enemies. See here for the characters in the animated version.

Silver Age (1964-1969)

Aqualad / Tempest

 

AKA: Garth
Abilities: Aquatic adaptation, super-strength, telepathy, super-senses, sorcery, water manipulation

 

See the Aquaman character sheet for more info

Kid Flash I / The Flash III

 

AKA: Wally West
Abilities: Super-speed

 

Robin I / Nightwing

 

AKA: Dick Grayson
Abilities: Martial arts master, detective skills, acrobatics

 


Speedy / Arsenal / Red Arrow

 

AKA: Roy Harper
Abilities: Master archer and gunslinger

 
  • Artificial Limb: After Prometheus hacked his right arm off, Cyborg designed him a new one. However, this prosthetic isn't permanent, as Roy's right arm is still infected with the flesh-eating bacteria Prometheus laced his blade with. It's designed to "work around the nerve endings". It also causes him great pain to use it, impairs his ability as an archer drastically, and he can't wear anything over it unless it's his costume. It's also a total eyesore.
  • The Casanova
  • The Complainer Is Always Wrong: At Lian's funeral, Roy practically strangled Mia and blamed her for Lian's death. The majority of Rise of Arsenal seemed to be everyone coddling Mia Deardren and blaming Roy for Lian's death, even though A. Mia was supposed to be watching Lian and left her alone to fight the Electrocutioner, and B. Star City's destruction was a freak accident.
  • Doting Parent: He may have hired nannies from time to time, but he was REALLY good at being a single parent.
  • Heroic BSOD: Following his arm being hacked off and Lian getting killed.
  • Hot Dad
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold
  • Never Live It Down: His heroin abuse, which was only present for one issue and then followed by him going cold turkey. It doesn't help that following Lian's death he's gone back to using it.
  • Papa Wolf: To Lian, obviously, one of the most adorable and well-adjusted kids in comic book history. Despite requiring nannies from time to time, he never deprived her of love and attention and the two have had an amazingly adorable and loving relationship. What makes this so amazing is that Roy didn't have to sacrifice his brash personality, and just goes to show that he was a better father than his mentor Green Arrow could have ever hoped to be.
    • Big Brother Mentor: Also showed this to younger teammate Damage. He nominated Grant for membership during Titans to make it up to him for how things went when Roy led the Titans. He acted as a big brother figure to the younger Titan, and thanks to Roy (and Lian), Grant was able to admit his foster father had abused him so badly when he was younger. Roy was willing to help Grant because he remembered what his teenage years were like and how often he was left to his own devices, and wasn't about to do the same.
  • Real Men Wear Pink: He's every bit the lady's man his former mentor is, if not more so, and he can be brash and a bit of a jerk. That doesn't stop him from having scenes with his daughter that manage to redefine the word "adorable".
  • Wound That Will Not Heal: His right arm is said to be infected with dormant flesh-eating bacteria called "nanomites" which were laced in Prometheus' blade. It's for this reason that he was given a removable prosthetic meant to work "around" his nerve endings.

Wonder Girl / Troia

 

AKA: Donna Troy
Abilities: Super-strength, flight, heightened reflexes

 

See the Wonder Woman character sheet for more.

Bronze Age (1970-1979)

Aquagirl

 

AKA: Tula
Abilities: Aquatic adaptation, super-strength, super-senses

 

Bumblebee

 

AKA: Karen Beecher-Duncan
Abilities: Insect-like size, flight, sonic blasts, electric "stings"

 

Gnaark

 

AKA: John Gnaark
Abilities: Super-strength, agility, and intelligence

 

The Guardian / Herald / Vox

 

AKA: Mal Duncan
Abilities: Generates multi-dimensional portals; sonic blasts

 

Hawk and Dove

 

AKA: Hank and Don Hall
Abilities: Heightened strength and agility

 


The Joker's Daughter / Harlequin

 

AKA: Duela Dent
Abilities: Acrobatics, clown-themed gadgets

 
  • Luke, I Am Your Father: Duela claimed she was the daughter of multiple super-villains. Pre-Crisis it was believed she was Two-Face's daughter, until it was revealed that she was too old to be his child. Following Infinite Crisis, it was revealed that Duela comes from Earth-3, and is the daughter of the Jokester (a heroic version of the Joker), Three-Face ( a heroic, female version of Two-Face) and the stepdaughter of a heroic Riddler.
  • Plot-Relevant Age-Up: A subversion. When she returned during Donna Troy's wedding, she was significantly older (and heavier), to further support that she wasn't Two-Face's daughter. Following Crisis on Infinite Earths, her next appearance was in a mental institution, where her memories as a Titan were met with skepticism because of how old she was. During her next few appearances she was much younger. See What Could Have Been below.
  • Redheaded Hero: Originally, her hair was green when in costume, and brown when in her civilian identity. A few years ago she began sporting red hair.
  • Sexy Jester
  • Stuffed Into the Fridge: Her death was what started Countdown to Final Crisis.
  • What Could Have Been: Her reappearance in Team Titans was meant to reveal that she was a member of the team who'd been driven insane by time travel. In the back of one of the final issues during Zero Hour there was a mock preview for a story involving Duela getting her hands on a reality warping device and using it to turn New York into what it had been during the 1970s.

Lilith / Omen

 

AKA: Lilith Clay
Abilities: Precognition, telepathy, teleportation

 
  • C-List Fodder
  • Darker and Edgier: Her transition to Omen. However, this was to play up the mystery of her character and the evolution of her psychic abilities to mystical powers. She never once turned into an anti-hero.
  • Luke, I Am Your Father: Pre-Crisis, her birth mother turned out to be Thia of the Titans of Myth. Post-Crisis, the identity of Lilith's father turned out to be Loren Jupiter, the man who financed the Titans. Her mother has not yet been revealed. Lilith's stated that her psychic abilities were inherited from her mother, and that she's very secretive. Word of God from Dan Jurgens has it that Lilith's mom is a preexisting DC character.
  • Redheaded Hero
  • Stuffed in The Fridge: Graduation Day. The characters in story made a bigger deal of Donna Troy's death then her's. It can be argued that her death was what began the thread of mutilation and death being more closely associated with the Teen Titans.

The New Teen Titans (1980-1994)

Baby Wildebeest

 

Abilities: Super-strength

 
  • C-List Fodder
  • Stuffed in The Fridge: Died alongside his adopted mother Pantha to serve as character development for his father-figure Red Star. Character development that never happened beyond a single issue of Teen Titans.

Beast Boy / Changeling

 
 

AKA: Garfield Logan
Abilities: Animal shapeshifting

 

Cyborg / Cyberion

 

AKA: Victor Stone
Abilities: Super-strength, invulnerability, technopathy, advanced weaponry, engineering skills

 

Jericho

 

AKA: Joseph Wilson
Abilities: Possession of others

 

Kole

 

AKA: Kole Weathers
Abilities: Flight, can "spin" crystals

 


Pantha

 

AKA: Rosabelle Mendez
Abilities: Super-strength, agility, and senses; claws

 

Phantasm

 

AKA: Danny Chase
Abilities: Telekinesis, photographic memory

 


Raven

 
 

AKA: Rachel Roth
Abilities: Empathy, flight, telepathy, sorcery

 

Red Star

 

AKA: Leonid Kovar
Abilities: Super-strength, speed, and stamina; pyrokinesis

 

Robin / Red Hood

 

AKA: Jason Todd
Abilities: Martial arts master, detective skills, acrobatics

 

Starfire

 

AKA: Koriand'r / Kory Anders
Abilities: Flight, super-strength, invulnerability, energy projection

 

Terra

 

AKA: Tara Markov
Abilities: Manipulates earth and stone

 

Arsenal's Titans (1994-1996)

Damage

 

AKA: Grant Emerson
Abilities: Channel energy to physically enhance himself or fire energy blasts.

 
  • Dark and Troubled Past: Beyond the few years he spent trying to figure out just who his actual birth parents were, the readers discovered that his foster father physically and sexually abused him.

Green Lantern

 

AKA: Kyle Rayner
Abilities: Green Lantern power ring

 

Impulse / Kid Flash

 

AKA: Bart Allen
Abilities: Super-speed

 
 

See the Flash character sheet for more.

Minion

 

AKA: Jarras Minion
Abilities: Power Armor.

 

Mirage

 

AKA: Miriam Delgado
Abilities: Illusions

 

Ravager

 
 

AKA: Rose Wilson

 

Supergirl

 

AKA: Matrix / Linda Danvers
Abilities:

 
  • Put on a Bus: In the cases of both Matrix AND Linda. The former merged with a New God named Twilight and focus on Peter David's run on Supergirl shifted solely to the latter. Linda was last seen in hell during the Reign of Hell mini-series, and hasn't been seen since.

Terra

 

AKA: Unknown (impersonated Tara Markov)
Abilities: Earth Manipulation

 

Atom's Teen Titans and The Titans (1996-2003)

Argent

 

AKA: Toni Monetti
Abilities: creates constructs of silver plasma.

 

The Atom

 

AKA: Ray Palmer
Abilities: Able to shrink to microscopic size

 

Captain Marvel, Jr.

 

AKA: Freddy Freeman

 

Jesse Quick

 

AKA: Jesse Chambers
Abilities: Super-speed and strength, flight

 

Joto / Hotspot

 

AKA: Isiah Crockett
Abilities: Flight, Generating and sensing heat.

 

Prysm

 

AKA: Audrey Spears
Abilities: Made of living crystal, Flight, refracts light as a crystal.

 

Risk

 

AKA: Cody Driscoll
Abilities: Super Senses, enhanced reflexes, strength and durability

 
  • C-List Fodder: Got one arm torn off by Superboy prime during Infinite Crisis. Got the other torn off again by Superboy Prime in another event.

Post-Graduation Day (2003-2011)

Aquagirl

 

AKA: Lorena Marquez
Abilities: Aquatic adaptation, enhanced strength and durability

 

Blue Beetle

 

AKA: Jaime Reyes

 

Bombshell

 

AKA: Amy Adams
Abilities: Flight, Super Strength, Invulnerability, energy blasts

 

Hawk and Dove

 

AKA: Holly and Dawn Granger

 

Kid Devil / Red Devil

 

AKA: Eddie Bloomberg
Abilities: Fire Breath, enhanced strength and reflexes, healing factor, burning hot skin, limited flight, teleportation

 

Kid Eternity

 

AKA: Christopher Freeman
Abilities: Ability to call back the deceased and transform into them.

 
  • Dropped a Bridge on Him: Was last seen in Titans getting snatched by Calculator. Some time later, in the pages of Batgirl, Calculator gives an off-hand reference to his death, having been forced to constantly summon the spirit of Calculator's son, Marvin.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: Vanished without a trace from Teen Titans, his own team wouldn't express any interest in his whereabouts or fate until a much later arc.

Impulse/Kid Flash

 

AKA: Bart Allen

 

See the Flash character sheet for more.

Miss Martian

 

AKA: Megan Morse / M'gann M'orzz
Abilities: Flight, super strength, shape shifting, invisibility, telekinesis, intangibility, optic force blasts, telepathy.

 

Osiris

 

AKA: Amon Tomaz

 
  • Did Not Do the Research: Eric Wallace wrote The Power of Shazam issue for Blackest Night, detailing Amon rising as a Black Lantern, yet somehow in control and managing to not kill anyone. The problem is that, in Blackest Night #3, a video screen in JLA headquarters featured Amon killing people, their torn hearts in their hands. Could be seen as a case of Canon Discontinuity, depending on whether or not Wallace actually read, or paid attention, to the issues of Blackest Night.
  • Ignored Epiphany: In a sense. After being revived as a Black Lantern, Amon was somehow in control of his mind and body, and managed to pull a heroic sacrifice stopping Black Lantern Sobek. Then he came back from the dead and helped killed Ryan Choi.
  • Moral Event Horizon: Killing the Persuader was an accident. He tried justifying the death of Ryan Choi and everyone else he's killed as trying to bring his sister and Black Adam back. But now he freely admits that he enjoys violence and is just as bad as everyone accused him of being.

Robin / Red Robin

 

AKA: Tim Drake

 

Solstice

 

AKA: Kiran
Abilities: Light Manipulation, Flight

 
  • Broken Bird: Kiran mentions that while she was N.O.W.H.E.R.E.'s prisoner she was forced to do horrible things in order to survive.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: In the reboot continuity, Kiran's powers have somehow shifted and caused her to look as if she's made up of smoke and charcoal. Fans referred to her as "Charcoal Girl" and assumed she was a completely different character until they found out she was Solstice.

Speedy

 

AKA: Mia Dearden

 

Static

 

AKA: Virgil Hawkins

 

Superboy

 

AKA: Conner Kent / Kon-El

 

See his own page for more.

Supergirl

 

AKA: Kara Zor-El / Linda Lang

 

Wonder Girl

 

AKA: Cassandra Sandsmark

 

See the Wonder Woman character sheet for more.

Post-Flashpoint (2011-Present)[when?]

Bunker

 

AKA: Miguel Jose Barragan

 
  • Barrier Warrior
  • The Big Guy
  • Boisterous Bruiser
  • Camp Gay: Only slightly.
  • Incorruptible Pure Pureness: In the most recent issue, a villain named Grymm tries to take control of one of the Titans. He tries to take hold of Miguel's mind, but he can't because he says Miguel is "too happy and centered."
  • Nice Guy
  • Positive Discrimination: Miguel is an openly homosexual Mexican Catholic who comes from a family and a village that was nothing but supportive of both him and his powers. He's the happiest and most competently functioning of the current Titans team.

Skitter

 

AKA: Celine

 

Danny the Street

 

AKA: N/A

 
  • Genius Loci: He ain't called Danny the Street for nothin'.

Ancillary Teams (Titans West and Titans L.A.)

Bushido

 

AKA: Ryuku Orsono

 

Flamebird

 

AKA: Bette Kane

 
  • Ascended Fangirl: Started out as a Robin fangirl.
  • Took a Level in Badass: In the Beast Boy miniseries, Nightwing trying to convince her to stop being a hero motivated Bette to clean up her act and get more serious.

Golden Eagle

 

AKA: Charlie Parker

 

Hero Cruz

Villains

Blackfire

 

AKA: Komand'r

 

Brother Blood II

 

AKA: Sebastian Blood IX

 

Cheshire

 

AKA: Jade Nguyen

 
  • Asian Baby Mama: So nice she did it twice: once with Arsenal, and once with Catman.
  • Foe Yay: With both Roy Harper, the first Speedy, and Thomas Blake, aka Catman. She once propositioned Catman during a battle, not long after having hired two hit squads after him.
  • Mama Bear: And not just to people trying to hurt her kids. She once staged an elaborate plot to ruin and murder Black Canary because Canary had developed into a psuedo-surrogate mother figure for her daughter.
    • Well, at least until their safety proves more of a burden and a liability. At which point she'll go out of her way to conceive a replacement kid, and use that pregnancy as a shield.
    • Evil Matriarch: To be fair, staging an elaborate plot to murder the women whom is her daughter's surrogate mother-figure doesn't necessarily make her a Mama Bear. Cheshire was espousing that she had plans to retire, and getting Black Canary out of the way would've made things less complicated for her.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: In Villains United, she was blackmailed into compliance by threats against Lian's safety. Over the course of the miniseries she successfully seduced Catman and managed to conceive a replacement baby in order to betray and leave the Secret Six with Lian's welfare no longer being an issue (that she cared about). It turned out the threat was false, but she didn't know that.

Clock King

 

AKA: Temple Fugate

 

Deathstroke the Terminator

 

AKA: Slade Wilson

 

The Fearsome Five

Harvest

Introduced in the Nu52 series. Leader of the organization NOWHERE, which kidnaps metahuman teens to build an army of said teens, have a few half trained ones escape and spark a panic regarding them, so they can come in and save the day.

  • Fake Ultimate Hero: Why? to SAVE THE FUTURE!
  • Go-Go Enslavement: Dresses up all the teens he captures in suits right out of Tron.
  • Gambit Roulette: He claims it was his plan when the heroes thwarted his kidnapping and make an army plans, but given his intitial plan's intelligence, it comes off as more of an Ass Pull. But no one calls him on it.
  • Hero Syndrome: His plan, or so he claims.
  • Hype Aversion: It's hard to take a "Darkseid level threat" seriously when his plans are transparently idiotic.
  • Gladiator Games: His scheme to make an army of meta humans he could control.
  • Set Right What Once Went Wrong: With round about murder and fear domination.
  • Show, Don't Tell: His main problem. He is said to be an expert schemer and manipulator, but his core plan for recruitment (kidnapping metahumans, forcing them into a Deadly Games battle royal to determine the 'best', which he then makes his private army) is, well--look at it! And no one notices how bad this plan is.
  • Villain with Good Publicity: He wants his organization to be this. he himself looks like the Grim Reaper if he appeared in Tron.

H.I.V.E.

Mad Mod

 

AKA: Neil Richards

 

Mister Twister / Gargoyle

 

AKA: Bromwell Stikk

 

The Terror Titans

Trident

Trigon the Terrible

The Wildebeest Society

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