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Robin is, at heart, a fairly normal teenager, enjoying hanging out and chilling as much as his comrades do. However, he's Batman's ex-sidekick, and this means he shares his mentor's fixation on discipline and hard work, which can put him at odds with his more relaxed teammates. He's also got issues of his own, namely a tendency to fixate on problems to such an extent that he stops paying attention to anything but "the mission", which has damaged his friendships on more than one occasion. Despite this, he is loyal to his team and takes threats against them seriously indeed.
 
[[Shrug of God|The creators are ambivalent]] about which Robin precisely he's supposed to be, with [[Word of God]] being that he's more supposed to represent "[[Composite Character|Robin in general]]" than a specific member of the Batclan. That said, the show has enough [[Mythology Gag|Mythology Gags]]s that many assume him to be Dick Grayson, the First Robin. {{spoiler|This was eventually confirmed in an issue of the ''[[Teen Titans Go!|Teen Titans Go]]!'' comic, where Batman narrates Robin's past.}}
 
Powers and Abilities: [[Badass Normal]] with a variety of weapons and devices.
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* [[Action Girl]]
* [[Alien Lunch]]: Has some weird tastes in Earth food -- admittedlyfood—admittedly, some of it is because she's not a native and so doesn't truly know what humans eat, but she's also got some very strange eating habits (like considering mustard a drink). Her friends treat her as something of a [[Lethal Chef]] whenever she tries to cook a Tamaranian meal for them.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: It is the ''[[Teen Titans Go!|Teen Titans Go]]!'' comics that reveal why she was a Gordanian prisoner and the existence of her younger brother.
* [[Apologetic Attacker]]
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* [[Proud Warrior Race Girl]]
* [[Puberty Superpower]]: Eye-beams.
* [[Redheaded Hero|Redheaded Heroine]]ine
* [[Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl]]: Energetic Girl to Robin's Savvy Guy.
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: With Blackfire.
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{{quote|'''Voiced by''': [[Greg Cipes]]}}
 
The son of two scientists studying wildlife in Africa, Beast Boy was infected as a child with a mysterious disease, the experimental cure for which gave him the ability to turn into any animal, but permanently dyed him green. His parents drowned in a boating accident -- Beastaccident—Beast Boy being too inexperienced to save anyone but himself -- andhimself—and he was subsequently adopted by the [[Doom Patrol]]. It wasn't a stable family, and Beast Boy subsequently ran away after he hit puberty.
 
Beast Boy is the unofficial comedian of the team, though most of his teammates consider his typical array of jokes and pranks to be pretty groan-worthy, and it is implied that, like his comics counterpart, he is one of your "jokes to hide the pain inside" types. Whether he is or isn't, he is the youngest, in terms of behavior, of the team, obsessed with video games and goofing off, which means he's often chewed out by Robin. A devout vegetarian: as he has ''been'' [[Animorphism|just about every animal under the sun]], he finds [[Carnivore Confusion|eating any kind of meat]] to be [[I'm a Humanitarian|too similar to cannibalism for his liking]]. (Though it might be more accurate to a call him a vegan- he eats tofu eggs rather than regular ones in "Nevermore"- but the show [[You Keep Using That Word|always refers to him as a vegetarian]].)
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{{quote|'''Voiced by''': [[Tara Strong]]}}
 
The half-human daughter of Arella Roth, a human woman who managed to find her way to the other dimension of Azarath/a native of Azarath (the show isn't clear) and Trigon the Terrible, a dread and powerful demon lord who intended to use Raven to open a portal that would allow him to enslave Earth. As a result of her race, Raven has powerful telepathic and psychokinetic abilities that are destabilized by her emotional level -- inlevel—in other words, if she fails to keep her emotions tightly in check, her psychic power runs rampant, breaking and destroying her surroundings until she calms down. Presumably due to her birthplace, she is also versed in a wide variety of occult lore and a skilled practitioner of magic. She also has the power to astral project, dispatching her soul from her body to teleport herself or others, and to heal, though it's left unclear if these are [[Psychic Powers]] innate to her or mystical powers she has learned from her studies.
 
Because of her background and powers, Raven is a solitary, quiet individual who prefers to avoid interacting with others much, but displays a biting, acerbic wit and a love for sarcasm when she does.
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Powers and Abilities: Superspeed, [[Twin Telepathy]]
 
* [[The Big Guy|The Big Guys]]s: Sort of. Ironic considering they're so tiny. Their speed, however, lets them build up momentum to pack serious punch.
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Everything that comes out of their mouths. Everything.
** [[Played for Laughs]] during a long rant that went completely over Speedy and Aqualad's heads. They wore dunce hats.
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* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: They have sworn in Spanish at least once.
* [[Gratuitous Spanish]] (Subverted - it can and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXsyOdX5mgs has been] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOFu61Bp0-E translated].)
* [[Lightning Bruiser|Lightning Bruisers]]s
* [[Meaningful Name|Meaningful Names]]s: "Más y Menos" means "plus and minus" in Spanish. It's also a [[Punny Name|pun]] on the Spanish phrase for "more or less."
* [[Motor Mouth|Motor Mouths]]s
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: As a result of the [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] trope.
* [[Single-Minded Twins]]
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Perhaps ''the'' most divisive character in the series, Terra was envisioned as a [[Lighter and Softer]] adaptation of the infamous "Judas Contract Arc" character, who was a stone-cold psycho hired by Slade from the beginning to infilitrate the Teen Titans and managed to creep ''him'' out (not that it stopped him from [[Squick|sleeping with her]]). The animated Terra, on the other hand, was envisoned as a more sympathetic, confused character -- [[Word of God]] describes her as no longer caring about good or evil, [[Broken Bird|just wanting to no longer be hurt.]]
 
[[All There in the Manual|According to the]] ''[[Teen Titans Go!|Teen Titans Go]]!'' comics, Terra was born Tara Markov, a princess to a small country called Markovia, and whose royal scientists experimented on her and her brother to imbue them with geokinesis (the psychic ability to manipulate earthen materials) as part of a project to create metahuman defenders. Terra escaped and abandoned her country, but, perhaps as a result of this, her ability to control her powers was limited -- Sladelimited—Slade mentions, in her debut episode, a history of having attempted to settle down and do good, but causing disaster when her powers invariably went out of control. When she first met the Teen Titans, the possibility of her finally finding a home arose... but her paranoia meant that she would destroy this chance, and her friendship with them. {{spoiler|However, the episode "Things Change" and issue 51 of the ''[[Teen Titans Go!|Teen Titans Go]]!'' comic also revealed that Terra's tragic "death", due to [[Power Incontinence]], had not been permanent, and that she was happily living life as a normal Schoolgirl, with no desire to return to either villainy or heroics.}}
 
Powers And Abilities: Geokinesis. As Slade's apprentice, wore a special suit that created a telepathic link with him and enchanced her powers (but also allowed him to remotely control her).
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Powers And Abilities: Superspeed
 
* [[Actor Allusion]]: Voiced by Michael Rosenbaum, who voiced the adult [[Justice League (animation)|Flash]].
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[The Dulcinea Effect]]: Of sorts, with Jinx. Once he crosses paths with her, Kid Flash continuously tries to convince Jinx to make a [[Heel Face Turn]].
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