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This is the character sheet for the [[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]] as they appear in the animated series of the same name. [[Comicbook (Comic Book)/Teen Titans/Characters|See here]] for the characters from the [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Titans comic books]].
 
== Core Team ==
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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]] that many assume him to be Dick Grayson, the First Robin. {{spoiler|This was eventually confirmed in an issue of the ''[[Teen Titans Go (Comic Book)!|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 -- 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 (Comic Book)!|Teen Titans Go]]!'' comics that reveal why she was a Gordanian prisoner and the existence of her younger brother.
* [[Apologetic Attacker]]
* [[Badass Princess]]
* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Seen not just in her outfit, but also in Robin's, and Cyborg's armor in issue 24 of ''[[Teen Titans Go (Comic Book)!|Teen Titans Go]]!''
* [[Battle Couple]]: With Robin.
* [[The Big Guy]]: A role she shares with Beast Boy.
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* [[Does Not Know Her Own Strength]]: On occasion, as seen whenever she hugs someone too hard.
* [[Eloquent in My Native Tongue]]
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Princesses]]
* [[Eye Beams]]
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: A victim of it as seen in the episode "Troq."
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* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: With Blackfire.
* [[Spock Speak]]: A rare version in that she does not speak this way due to a fascination with logic/science, but as a sign of her relative inexperience with Earth languages.
** She's also [[Everything's Better Withwith Princesses|royalty]], so it's not unlikely that she's used to speaking formally.
* [[Thigh-High Boots]]: Just like her comic book counterpart, but with a different design.
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Girly Girl to Raven's Tomboy.
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* {{spoiler|[[Did Not Get the Girl]]}}
* [[Dogged Nice Guy]]: Towards Terra.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Dinosaurs]]
* [[Embarrassing First Name]]: It's {{spoiler|Garfield.}}
* [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]]: The Sanguine (Shares this with Starfire).
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* [[Shapeshifter Baggage]]: Initially. When he first started he couldn't change into anything bigger than himself.
* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: Sort of, with Raven. It's more like "Slap Slap Support" and "Slap Slap Commiserate."
* {{spoiler|[[Spanner in Thethe Works]]: Pretty much single handedly foils the Brotherhood after they drove the Titans to the brink of destruction}}.
* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: Gains one in "The Beast Within," to an extent- the Beast is certainly his most powerful form, but isn't "evil" so much as amoral and uncontrollable- more like [[The Hulk]] than Raven's inner demon.
* [[Trickster Archetype]]: What is it with shapeshifters, jokes, and pranks?
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* [[Anti-Anti-Christ]]: Her dad wants her to help him end the world. She said 'no'.
* [[Anti-Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type III]].
* [[The Anti-Nihilist]]: [[Playing Withwith a Trope|Played With]]. She's naturally stoic and usually deems things pointless, but ultimately cares for the Titans and enjoys her time with them.
* [[Apocalypse Maiden]]: "The gem was born of evil's fire. The gem shall be his portal. He comes to claim; he comes to sire, the end of all things mortal." She's the gem.
* [[Badass]]
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* [[Birthmark of Destiny]]: Long and creepy looking red ones.
* [[Broken Bird]]: Though she does gradually open up in the last two seasons.
* [[Burning Withwith Anger]]: Usually over Beast Boy's antics.
* [[Bob Haircut]]
* [[Catch Phrase]] / [[Invocation]]: "Azarath Metrion Zinthos!"
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* [[The Empath]]: These were her only powers in the comic; here they're expanded upon to give her a more action-oriented role.
* [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]]: Alternates between Melancholic and Phlegmatic.
* [[Ghost in Thethe Machine]]: The episode "Nevermore." With [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|color coding for your convenience]], of course.
* [[Goth]]: Downplayed. The most we get is she writes depressing poetry.
* [[Good Is Not Nice]]
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* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: She dresses in a leotard. A leotard with very high cut leg holes. She's also quite well-developed.
* [[Nightmare Fetishist]]
* [[New Powers Asas the Plot Demands]]: Her list of one-off powers is quite extensive. As are all the times they would have come in handy had she remembered she had them.
* [[No Periods, Period]]: See ''[[Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo]]''.
* [[Perpetual Frowner]]
* [[Platonic Life Partners]]: With Robin.
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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 (Comic Book)!|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 -- 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 (Comic Book)!|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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* [[Tomboy]]: She's got no problems with [[Pun|getting dirty]].
* [[Took a Level In Jerkass]]: Once she recieves a [[Heel Face Door Slam]], Terra fully embraces [[The Dark Side]] and becomes truly ''evil''. Thankfully, it turns out that "it's never too late to change"....
* [[Witch Withwith a Capital B]]: Drops an [[Precision F-Strike|poignant W-bomb]] while fighting Raven.
* [[We Used to Be Friends]]: With the Titans.
 
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** [[Badass Abnormal]]: In Season 4.
* [[Big Bad]]: Of Seasons One and Two.
* [[Break Them Byby Talking]]: He's practically the king of this trope by the end of Season 1.
* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: Played With. Though not so much as the likes of Blood, Slade does seem aware of his own evil, but just doesn't care rather than openly reveling in it. Of course, that [[Creepy Monotone]] can make it hard to figure out exactly ''what'' he feels.
* [[Characterization Marches On]]: Early episodes emphasized his nature as a [[Card-Carrying Villain]] and [[Diabolical Mastermind]]. He really hit his stride in the second half of season one, when the emphasis switched to his [[Break Them Byby Talking]] and creepy, ''creepy'' obsessions with Robin/Terra/Raven.
* [[The Chessmaster]]: There's ''always'' a plan with this guy. ''Always''. {{spoiler|Even after he dies, he's got a couple of aces left up his sleeve}}.
* [[Comic Book Movies Don't Use Codenames]]: Or comic book animated series, in this case. Probably a combination of [[Never Say "Die"]] and the fact that "Deathstroke the Terminator" fits comic Slade (a mercenary killer) much better than his animated counterpart (a mastermind who generally avoids getting his hands dirty, though he's more than capable of doing so if neccessary).
* [[The Corrupter]]: Seasons One and Two. Not so successfully with Robin, much more so with Terra.
* [[Crazy Prepared]]: He's essentially played like an evil version of [[Batman]] (which makes him such a good foil for Robin), and naturally he has a significant fanbase because of it.
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* [[Manipulative Bastard]]
* [[Mind Rape]]: Especially to Raven when he comes [[Back From the Dead]].
* [[Mind Screw]]: [[Break Them Byby Talking]], [[Mind Rape]], [[Manipulative Bastard|manipulation]], it's all there. And ''boy'', do Robin and {{spoiler|Terra}} bite the bait.
* [[No Sense of Personal Space]]: Best seen in his interactions with Raven.
* [[Noble Demon]]: During the later half of Season 4.
* [[Pick Onon Someone Your Own Size]]: With Robin, Terra and Raven.
* [[Post-Mortem Comeback]]: After his death in the second season finale, one of his masks was confiscated by Robin. Slade left a chemical substance in the dust that infiltrated Robins' central nervous system, forcing Robin to see, hear and feel Slade, even when he wasn't there. The more he fought the illusion, the more harmful it became, but it could only be seen in the dark. It led to one of the ''best'' episodes in the series' run.
** Also occurs in that he literally comes back as a servant of Trigon.
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* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: So good that he was able to dupe ''Slade'' into thinking that he was being sincere. However, as it turned out, [[Crazy Prepared|Slade had second guesses.]]
* [[Nigh Invulnerable]]
* [[Not So Invincible After All]]: After he enters the [[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]' world from his world. He only lasts three episodes before Raven kills him.
* [[Obviously Evil]]
* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]
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* [[Manipulative Bastard]]
* [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]]: In the comics, Blood was a cult-leading [[Evil Sorcerer]]; here, the source of his abilities is more vague, but since he's never shown using any of the same trappings as the explicitly magical characters, it seems at least as likely that he's just a natural-born telepath.
* [[New Powers Asas the Plot Demands]]
* [[Not So Different]]: To Cyborg, though he's the only one who takes it seriously.
* [[Pick Onon Someone Your Own Size]]
* [[Psychic Powers]]
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]
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{{quote| Voiced by: [[Glenn Shadix]]}}
 
Leader of the Brotherhood, [[Big Bad]] of season five. [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|A disembodied brain]].
 
Powers And Abilities: Chessmaster and [[Gadgeteer Genius]].
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* [[Arch Enemy]]: To Mento. Beast Boy also comes to consider him an [[Arch Enemy]] across the course of season five, but it's one sided- Brain has no respect for him whatsoever, and seems only marginally aware of who he is.
* [[Big Bad]]: Of Season Five.
* [[Brain In Aa Jar]]: Obviously.
* [[The Chessmaster]]
* [[Evil Genius]]
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* [[Creepy Monotone]]: It was clearly the effect they were going for.
* [[Diabolical Mastermind]]
* [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]]: He's a [[Brain In Aa Jar]].
* [[Mad Scientist]]
* [[Non-Action Big Bad]]: For reasons that should be obvious.
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* [[Battle Butler]]
* [[The Dragon]]: To the Brain.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Monkeys]]
* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Seems to make most of the stuff Brain designs.
* [[Genius Bruiser]]
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Powers And Abilities: Immortality, genius-level intellect.
* [[Immortality]]: It's in his name! Although it's unclear what ''kind'' of immortality he has, it's implied to be [[Complete Immortality]].
* [[Putting Onon the Reich]]
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: More like really ''thousands'' of years old, if his flashback montage is accurate. He refers to ''Sun Tzu'' as one of his best students, so that pretty much seals the deal.
* [[The Strategist]]
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* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Red X only really appeared in two episodes in the series.
* [[The Real Remington Steele]]
* [[Riddle for Thethe Ages]]: Who he is and what he looks like.
* [[Shadow Archetype]]: To Robin, obviously.
* [[Wild Card]]:Could help the villain, could help the hero, or could screw both of them for himself.
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* {{spoiler|[[Hot Mom]]}}: According to The New Teen Titans.
* [[Most Common Superpower]]: Of course they think she's a [[Cool Big Sis]]... she's, well, ''big''.
* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: The ''[[Teen Titans Go (Comic Book)!|Teen Titans Go]]!'' comic revealed she was the one who had given Starfire to the Gordanians as a peace offering to keep them from invading Tamaran. If you saw the episode "GO!" you can figured what happened after they left the planet.
* [[Shiny Midnight Black]]
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: With Starfire.
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* [[Harmless Villain]]: His threat level is considerably lower than other villains.
** [[Not So Harmless]]: Proved that he wasn't so harmless in "Kole", there he totally pwned Robin. Even in his first appearence, he pwned the whole Titans but he didn't count on Raven's demonic powers.
* [[Name's the Same]]: He did ''not'' create [[Mega Man (Videovideo Gamegame)|Mega Man]].
* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]
* [[Light Is Not Good]]: His weapons are variations of lasers
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* [[Spoiled Brat]]: Kitten, again.
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Kitten takes one in her brief appearance in "Calling All Titans"; she gets to control moths and fight with a laser whip like her father.
* [[What Happened to Thethe Mouse?]]: So, what ''happened'' to Kitten after "Calling All Titans"? She's not with the other villains at the Brain's HQ afterward.
* [[Whip It Good]]: Kitten's aforementioned whip.
 
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{{quote| '''Voiced by''': [[Greg Ellis]]}}
 
A [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can]] dragon trapped in one of Raven's spellbooks, who tricked her into thinking he was a [[Sealed Good in Aa Can]] (and falling in love with him) so she'd set him free.
 
Powers and Abilities: Flight, superhuman strength, impenetrable scales, fire breath, encyclopediac knowledge of magic, manipulative genius (all but the last two are when released only)
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* [[Mailer Daemon]]
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]
* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: A dragon [[Evil Sorcerer|Sorcerer]] [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can]] [[Mailer Daemon]] who pretends to be a [[Sealed Good in Aa Can]]
* [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can]]: What he really is
* [[Sealed Good in Aa Can]]: What he pretends to be
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: The human image he uses, apparently actually that of the wizard who defeated him.
 
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* [[Mind Control]]: Via his hypno-screens, which can induce effects as varied as reducing the victim to a mindless vegetable or [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|convince them that they're really British]].
* [[Non-Action Guy]]
* [[Orcus Onon His Throne]]: In "Revolution".
* [[Sadist Teacher]]: In "Mad Mod", his first appearance, when he traps the Titans in a VR school where [[Everything Is Trying to Kill You]].
* [[Shout-Out]]: EVERYTHING he does is a tribute to some aspect of British pop culture from [[Monty Python]] to [[Yellow Submarine]].