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* [[Adaptation Displacement]]: For many younger watchers (or those who just don't read comics).
* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: Adapts and distills many elements from the Wolfman and Perez age of the comics.
* [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]]: This [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMLdqwMU2OU&feature=player_embedded video] for the DC Nation block of [[Cartoon Network]] shows scenes of chibi version of the The Titans. Extra rejoicing as it's in the same style of the show and most likely have the same voices.
** And what's better? It's becoming an actual show.
* [[Angst? What Angst?]]: It's revealed [[All There in the Manual|in the tie-in comic]] that Starfire's parents died after she was sent away as a slave by Blackfire to the Gordanians. This isn't brought up at all in the episode she returned to Tamaran. Granted, the comic came out after the episode aired, but watching it again, it becomes [[Harsher in Hindsight|particularly jarring]] considering that Starfire displays no form of grief. [[The Sociopath|Blackfire]]'s lack of grief is justified, however.
* [[Base Breaker]]: Terra, chiefly due to the [[Misaimed Fandom]].
* [[Complete Monster]] Trigon, in all senses of the phrase. He's an [[Omnicidal Maniac]], abusive father (to the point that he tries to kill his own daughter), and the incarnation of evil itself. Raven decides to refer to him as her creator instead of her father, on the basis that fathers are kind and just.
* [[Copy Cat Sue]]: There are increasing numbers of Terra/Raven clones in fanfiction.
* [[Creepy Awesome]]: Raven and Slade. Raven gets less creepy as the show goes on, Slade gets ''more'' creepy as the show goes on.
* [[Crossover Ship]]:
** It's not uncommon to find ''Teen Titans'' crossover pairings, especially ones with Raven. Some the most popular ''Teen Titans'' crossovers are Terra×Ben10, Raven×[[Danny Phantom]], Raven×[[Avatar: The Last Airbender|Zuko]], Raven×Ben10, [[Hercules Megara]]×Speedy.
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** Terra's theme.
** Pretty much everything from the "Aftershock" and "The End" multiparters.
** Here's one that doubles as a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]: When there's trouble you know what to dooooo... CALL CYBORG! He can shoot a rocket from his shooooe... CAUSE HE'S CYBORG! Nananana, something like that! Doodadoodah, BIG FLUFFY CAT! (That's right!)
** The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSiGteEY-jk climax] of the episode ''Haunted'' is perfectly spine chilling.
** Blink and you'll miss it, but when the Titans make a comeback during the big fight in the [[Grand Finale]] ''Titans Together'', a badass remix of the main theme song plays, slower-paced and instrumental-only.
* [[Die for Our Ship]]: Terra is not hated for her betrayal as much as she is hated for getting in between [[Fan-Preferred Couple|Beast Boy and Raven]]. Even though, you know, there was [[Word of God|nothing there]], except for a bucket full of [[Relationship Writing Fumble]].
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The episode "The Beast Within" seems to resemble a [[Public Service Announcement|PSA]] about [[Drugs Are Bad|steroid abuse]], especially in the scenes with Beast Boy going into an animalistic rage in the gym. However it has nothing to do with steroids whatsoever.
* [[Draco in Leather Pants]]: Slade.
* [[Ear Worm]]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZlkjyFGjZY
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** Out of character for most Batmen, yes. Not so much for ''[[All Star Batman and Robin|The GODDAMN Batman]]''. In any case, there was some teasing that it might have been Batman in the earlier episodes, despite how little sense that would make.
** Many fans of the show have never even ''heard'' of the Teen Titans before, and had no clue that the cartoon was based on a comic book with nearly forty years of continuity behind it. This lead to many fans to make ''remarkably'' ignorant statements regarding the writers of the comic book "stealing" ideas from the cartoon...
* [[Fanon Discontinuity]]:
** Many fans choose to ignore Season 5, either entirely or up until the Ambiguous [[Downer Ending]]. It's also possible that this was the intention of the writers in the first place and Season 5 is a [[Post Script Season]]. Season 4 is based on the most famous (and re-attempted) arcs from the comics, it is the last season to focus on the Titans (Season 5 mostly dealt with minor members and B-class heroes and villains), and the Season 4 finale is actually called ''[[Meaningful Name|The End]]''. This is a heavily debated topic amongst the fans.
** 'Deep Six' is also an episode that gets this.
* [[Fan-Preferred Couple]]:
** Hooo, boy. [[Opposites Attract|Beast Boy/Raven]]. It's the most popular couple on [[Fan Fiction]].net and probably in the whole [[Fandom]]. Many fans seem to prefer Robin/Raven to [[Official Couple|Robin/Starfire]], but the latter still has the largest following of the two, coming in second position, after Beast Boy/Raven. The third one is Robin/Raven, as previously deducted. Cyborg/Bumblebee [[Pair the Spares|are often paired]] in [[Ship Mates|Beast Boy/Raven-Robin/Starfire]] fics, and a small portion of the fanbase prefers Cyborg/Jinx to [[Official Couple]] Jinx and Kid Flash.
** Fan [[Shipping]] even occurs in-universe in the episode ''For Real''. Apparently one fanboy ships Starfire/Beast Boy, while another ships Bumblebee/Aqualad.
* [[Follow the Leader]]: Try to find an American kids' action cartoon made in the past few years that does not take any cues from this series' success. It's not easy. ''Teen Titans'' solidified the trend of [[Animesque]] action-comedy kids' shows that run on [[Rule of Cool]].
* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: When [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|Raven]] is not actively controlling her powers, they almost immediately become destructive. None of the other characters' powers really behave this way, suggesting that her abilities' default purpose is to [[The End of the World as We Know It|obliterate everything in the general vicinity]]. This makes perfect sense... considering that her father is [[Big Bad|essentially DC Comics' version of the Devil]].
* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]:
** Robin to Mother Mae-Eye: "Lady, you are ''not'' my mother."<ref>If anyone could explain what the second half is, please do.</ref>
** Also, the use of Dr. Light in the series, if you know [[Moral Event Horizon|the things he did...]] [[Identity Crisis|elsewhere...]] Also counts as a [[Continuity Nod]] Because {{spoiler|in ''[[Identity Crisis]]'' they partially damaged his brain in the process of the mind wipe, making him even weaker than he originally was.}}
*** [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: Dr. Light appears, and Raven [[Mind Rape|Mind Rapes]] him. Irony is beautiful, no?
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'''Dr. Light:''' ''[appears terrified]'' I'd like to go to jail now, please. }}
* [[Genius Bonus]]:
** In "Haunted", when Raven goes through Robin's memories, the very last one is {{spoiler|a circus}}. Should give you a hint as to which Robin he is.
** Also when 'Larry' shows up he gives his real name. It's backward but when the marquee wraps around behind him we see it front ways.
* [[Growing the Beard]]: For most, during late into the first season with the episode "Masks".
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]:
** [[Epileptic Trees]] identifying Red X's [[Secret Identity]] as Jason Todd, in light of the appearance of Jason coming [[Back
** Más Y Menos slogan "Si, podremos!" ([[Barack Obama|Yes, we can!]])
* [[Iron Woobie]]:
** Cyborg, almost literally.
** And Red Star.
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Slade by Season 4.
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* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Slade: "If you disobey even the smallest request, ''I will annihilate them, Robin.'' And I'll ''make you watch.''"
** His actions in the Season 2 finale pushes him further over the line. He has Terra, Cinderblock, Plasmus, Overload, and an army of robots completely dominate the city so that he can rule it as his first criminal empire base, one which he states is only the first of many to come. When Terra fails to eliminate the Titans, he physically abuses her repeatedly and then turns on a function in her super suit that forces her body and power to obey his commands - namely, to kill his enemies.
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** The Titans believe Terra crossed it when she pulled a [[Redemption Rejection]] in her fight with Robin. However, she proves to be not so far gone after all...
** Blackfire crosses it in her second appearance when she tries to straight up murder her own sister and her father figure without any conflicting feelings about it whatsoever.
▲** Malchior convinces Raven to break his curse using classic sexual predator technique; preying on her despair and loneliness. And then what ''Slade'' does to Terra and Raven throughout seasons two and four respectively is bad enough, but he didn't have to sound like he enjoyed it so much.
** Malchior convinces Raven to break his curse using classic sexual predator technique; preying on her despair and loneliness.
** Brother Blood crossed it when he literally tore Cyborg apart limb from limb and then tried to hack inside of him to find the secret to his power over his [[Mind Control]]. Beforehand he'd already touched upon the line by preparing to give Titans East cybernetic surgery to turn them into cyborgs, suggesting that some might not even ''survive'' the procedure.
** Trigon lives far on the other side of this, but he demonstrated this clearly by sacrificing his own daughter as a means for him to enter the world and bring ruination upon it.
** The Brain's plan to freeze an entire generation of young superheroes alive certainly counts as this.
** Mad Mod crosses this when he drains Robin out of life to make him become a withered old man, then forces him to watch as his friends suffer. Though he wasn’t far from there since he tried to splatter Starfire and made it so that Beast Boy couldn’t think anymore, even if the effects of the latter could be reversed.
** Mother Mae-Eye claimed that she loved the Teen Titans…but then she tried to bake them alive.
* [[Nausea Fuel]]:
** Starfire eating Silky's cocoon and really liking the taste of it.
** Kitten and her boyfriend Fang, whose head is a giant spider, making out. Though it does show that out of all things Kitten is, she at least isn't shallow.
* [[Opposites Attract]]: Most of the [[Fan-Preferred Couple|fan preferred couples]] invoke this. Especially [[Slap Slap Kiss|Beast Boy/Raven]].
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** [[Ship Mates]]: Robin/Starfire - Beast Boy/Raven is the most common example. There is also Beast Boy/Terra - Robin/Raven or Robin/Raven - Beast Boy/Starfire, and Robin/Starfire - Beast Boy/Terra also exists, though probably to a lesser extent. Kid Flash/Jinx is very commonly shipped alongside any of these combinations. Cyborg usually gets paired with Bumblebee, though he is occasionally paired with Jinx, creating another (much, much smaller) battle between Cyborg/Jinx and the (far more popular) [[Official Couple|Kid Flash/Jinx]]. For a while, Robin/Starfire - Beast Boy/Terra - [[Pair the Spares|Cyborg/Raven]] fics were very common.
* [[Squick]]: Kitty and Fang's kiss in ''Date With Destiny''.
* [[Tear Jerker]]:
** ''Aftershock'' part two. Especially the ending. {{spoiler|"''You're the best friend I've ever had.''"}}
*** Made even worse when you go back and listen to her theme song.
** Apprentice, part two is incredibly sad as well. When Starfire has caught up with Robin (who is Slade's apprentice due to blackmail), she threatens him with a starbolt for a while, and eventually we get the following speech:
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*** And then she just floats there, not even trying to defend herself. She's basically saying, "I can't live without you. Go ahead and kill me", only engineered so that [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|it gets past the censors]]. Robin can't bring himself to do it, until Slade himself starts attacking them with his nanoprobes.
** ''[[Downer Ending|Things Change]]''
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* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]:
** Immortus has a very cool character concept -- that they did ''nothing'' with.
** Blackfire only appeared in ''two episodes'' and we never find out ''why'' she's so antagonistic in the first place!
*** She ''does'' give us a reason - [[For the Evulz|she does it for kicks]].
** On a more basic level, Starfire has a deep backstory, yet she ''never'' got a season devoted to her own growth the way the other four did (with Robin and Beast Boy getting ''two'' in that they tied in to Raven and Terra's growth respectively), while the most growth we got from Starfire was her relationship with Robin.
* [[Tomato Surprise]]: The season 1 finale had a fight scene {{spoiler|between Robin and the other Titans. Robin is being forced to be a villain by Slade, who has made him steal something from a tech company, and the Titans catch him as he escapes. After he beats them, the camera pulls back to reveal the building was a Wayne Enterprises one, meaning it was owned by his adopted father Bruce Wayne, aka [[Batman]]. Not only does Slade make him have to fight his friends, but he had to steal from and assault employees of his own father, using the techniques that same father taught him.}}
* [[Toy Ship]]: Beast Boy and Terra. OK, so they're not kids, but they're still two of the youngest characters in the show.
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: Subverted on "Troq".
* [[Ugly Cute]]:
** Silkie might as well be the mascot.
** There's also those little egg-headed aliens that worshiped Raven.
** And Monster!Starfire from the episode ''Trasnformation''.
** Blackfire and Glgrdsklechhh's babies in ''The New Teen Titans''.
* [[Villain Decay]]:
** Brother Blood. Even though his power level actually seemed to go ''up'' with each appearance, his personality became increasingly [[Large Ham|hammy]], petulant, and single-mindedly obsessed with Cyborg, which noticeably hurt his overall effectiveness as a villain.
** Also very observable with the HIVE kids. In their first couple of appearances, they're the [[Evil Counterpart]] team to the Titans and can fight them evenly (and even beat them without too much trouble if they play their cards right), but as time goes on they become complete jokes to the point that [[Dark Action Girl|Jinx]], who remained the most competent, finally jumped ship and [[Heel Face Turn|became a hero]].
* [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?]]: To an extent. On the whole, the series is pretty kid-friendly, but there are certain episodes that are very dark. "Haunted" stands out in particular, as well as the entire season 4 arc.
* [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?]]: Any episode with Mad Mod and ''Employee of the Month'', {{spoiler|where the [[Villain of the Week]] was a cube of alien tofu that was stealing cows to fuel his starship and wanted to blow up Earth after he had enough cows}}.
* [[The Woobie]]: Often Starfire. Beast Boy gets little bits of Woobification throughout the series, but season five really sticks it to the guy, especially when he finds Terra.
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Terra and Raven. There are plenty of times where you just want to give them a great big hug. Raven is also an ''incredibly'' literal case of the trope name, as the reason for her birth is {{spoiler|to let Trigon onto Earth and destroy it, something which eventually happens in the fourth season. Things get better, naturally.}}
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