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Based on [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|the classic DC comic]] (mostly the 1980s incarnation by Marv Wolfman and George Perez), with a generous dose of [[Animesque|anime influence]] thrown in, ''Teen Titans'' features the adventures of five young superheroes:
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While their adventures are primarily episodic, each season [[Half Arc Season|includes an arc]] that follows the most famous arcs of the comic book with some fidelity. Furthermore, in the last season, its arc not only introduces the majority of the classic characters from the comic but also the members and enemies of the allied superhero team, The [[Doom Patrol]].
The show [[Comedy Ghetto|has drawn some flak for its frequently less-than-serious tone]], and the many differences between the heroes in the comics and their cartoon incarnations (like animated Raven's exaggerated Gothiness, and animated Starfire being less aggressive and more naive than in the comics). In addition, the physical appearance of the characters in the animated series is profoundly different than that of the original comic book series which, despite its title, depicted the Titans as being in their 20s (at one point the comic series even dropped the ''Teen'' from the title as it had become apparent they weren't anymore), with Starfire and Raven being arguably the two characters most
It had a [[Made for TV Movie]] called ''[[Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo]]'', and [[Recursive Adaptation|its own comics series,]] ''[[Teen Titans Go!
It was originally pitched as a ''[[Young Justice (comics)|Young Justice]]'' series, and the two are very similar in tone. Oddly enough, when ''[[Young Justice (comics)|Young Justice]]'' itself [[Young Justice (animation)|got a series]], many noted it to be closer in tone to the original ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]''.
Reruns are now{{when}} airing every weekday on Boomerang at 11 pm through midnight. The show is also returning in the form of chibi-fied shorts for Cartoon Network's new{{when}} DC Nation block, called, appropriately enough, ''The New Teen Titans''. If these reruns and shorts receive good ratings, there is hope for a 6th season! There's also a [http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/get-a-6th-season-for-teen-titans.html petition] you can sign to help.▼
This series has a [[Teen Titans (animation)/Characters|character sheet]] and a [[Teen Titans (animation)/Recap|recap]].
Not to be confused with [[Titans (2018 TV series)|the 2018 live-action TV series]], nor with its own alternate continuity/sequel ''Teen Titans Go!'' (although they had a [[Intercontinuity Crossover]] TV movie with the latter).
▲Reruns are now airing every weekday on Boomerang at 11 pm through midnight. The show is also returning in the form of chibi-fied shorts for Cartoon Network's new DC Nation block, called, appropriately enough, ''The New Teen Titans''. If these reruns and shorts receive good ratings, there is hope for a 6th season! There's also a [http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/get-a-6th-season-for-teen-titans.html petition] you can sign to help.
▲This series has a [[Teen Titans (animation)/Characters|character sheet]] and a [[Teen Titans (animation)/Recap|recap]].
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== A-E ==
* [[20% More Awesome]]: Subverted in the episode "Only Human." Since Cyborg is, well, a cyborg, the machine part of him can measure how much effort he's actually putting in.
* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]: Present in "The Beast Within."
* [[Academy of Evil]]: H.I.V.E.
* [[Acid Trip Dimension]]: Where Herald lives.
* [[Action Girl]]: Most of the female characters in the series. Starfire, Raven, Terra, and Bumblebee in particular.
* [[Actor Allusion]]:
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* [[Age Without Youth]]: General Immortus of the Brotherhood of Evil.
* [[Agony Beam]]: [[Butt Monkey|Doctor Light]] uses one of these on Robin in season 5. It's powered by the Aurora Borealis.
* [[Aliens Speaking English]]: Tamaraneans have the ability to absorb other people's language through [[Magic Kiss|mouth-to-mouth contact]] (ahem). As a result of kissing Robin, Starfire's English is fine, [[Malaproper|though she slips up from time to time]] and [[Literal
** [[Femme Fatale|Blackfire]], on the other hand, speaks English very well and frequently uses slang. Which implies that [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|she had kissed several men]].
** In the movie, when visiting Japan, Starfire grabs a random guy and kisses him in order to learn Japanese.
** Whilst Starfire averts this in "''Go!''", where she speaks Tamaranian until she learns English, it's unexplained how the entire planet of Tamaran seems to speak it, or how the Chrysalis Eater in "''Transformation''" spoke it, or how the Gordanians- well, you get the picture.
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* [[And Your Little Dog, Too]]: Raven invokes this trope by name when the Titans take on Johnny Rancid's [[Robot Dog]] Rex.
* [[Animated Series]]
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Robin. He may be the leader of a team of superheroes, but he even admits to himself that he is too dogged in his pursuit of villains, and is not above lying to his friends if it helps his plan.
* [[Animesque]]: ''Like you. Wouldn't. Believe.''
* [[Apocalypse How]]: {{spoiler|The Season 4 Finale. Planetary/Total Extinction.}} The world obviously got better.
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* [[Apocalypse Maiden]]: Raven.
* [[Arm Cannon]]: Cyborg's main weapon.
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: Killer Moth threatens to destroy the City unless the following three demands are met:
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** What's funnier is that it's {{spoiler|both a [[Parodied Trope]] and a [[Justified Trope]].}}
* [[Art Evolution]]: Most notable are the [[Super-Deformed|chibis]], which became more refined as the episodes went on.
* [[Attack Pattern Alpha]]: The H.I.V.E. and "Gamma Formation!"
* [[Back-to-Back Badasses]]: Robin gets two with {{spoiler|Red X}} and {{spoiler|SLADE, of all people!}} [[It Makes Sense in Context]].
* [[Bad Future]]: Starfire accidentally get sent to one where {{spoiler|1=Cyborg is too rundown to leave Titan's Tower anymore, Beast Boy is a fat, bald circus performer, and Raven appears to have gone insane from loneliness. But Robin/[[Nightwing]] is relatively fine. He's become just like Batman, a loner with nobody to talk to. Thankfully, Starfire returning to her own time seems to fix it.}}
* [[Bad Powers, Bad People]]
** Jinx. This trope is subverted with {{spoiler|Jinx's [[Heel Face Turn]]}} in one of the final episodes. If anything it seems that she became bad specifically because she thought she ''had'' to follow this trope.
** Raven, having demonic powers, [[Defied Trope|defies]] this trope, {{spoiler|until season 4}}.
* [[Badass Normal]]: Robin, full stop. Notable that although he's the only member of his team without superpowers, he's ''also'' the only one who can take on every member of his own team [[One-Man Army|at the same time.]]
* [[Badly-Battered Babysitter]]: Raven is at one point tasked with protecting 3 annoying young children who might have superpowers. [[Hilarity Ensues|It goes about as well as you'd think]] [[Mama Bear|until her kids are threatened.]]
* [[Batman]]: Never actually appearing in the show, or mentioned by name, but alluded to several times. In an episode that explains how the team met, Robin stops a criminal in a very Batman-like manner.
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'''Robin''' I work alone now. }}
** Another episode with Slade attempting to lure Robin to the dark side goes like this...
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'''Robin:''' I already have a father.
''(bats emerge from the darkness and fly up into the night sky)'' }}
** When Raven read Robin's mind, there is clearly a silhouette of Batman in the Batcave.
** Gotham City is mentioned once, and in the season 1 finale, {{spoiler|there's also a battle atop a Wayne Enterprises building.}}
* [[Batman Can Breathe in Space]]: [[Averted Trope|But Robin can't.]]
** But Starfire can.
* [[Battle Couple]]: {{spoiler|Robin and Starfire.}} [[UST|Eventually.]]
* [[Battle in the Center of the Mind]]
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* [[Because Destiny Says So]] {{spoiler|Raven's reason for allowing her father Trigon to invade Earth and destroy it.}}
* [[Berserk Button]]
** Robin doesn't react well to being compared with Slade.
** Become good friends with Beast Boy, betray him, then try to kill him. Or hurt his friends. Then he will rip you a new one. He even scares Slade when his button is pushed.
* [[Berserker Tears]]: About everyone once.
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* [[Big Eater]]: Cyborg and Terra, and Starfire when among her native people. Cyborg also had an [[Extreme Omnivore]] episode in "Crash" when a computer virus caused him to [[Mushroom Samba|hallucinate]] [[Meat-O-Vision|that everything around him was delicious food]].
* [[Big Entrance]]: "Birthmark" starts off with Dr. Light fighting the Titans. At first he seems to be holding his own, until Raven makes her entrance. She mimics the last time the two of them encountered each other, with scaling up her size a fair bit, [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]], and tentacles made of shadow.
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'''Dr. Light''': (Goes [[Blue with Shock]], turns and raises hands) I'd like to go to jail now, please. }}
* [[Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti]]: Beast Boy can turn into one. Of course in a universe with aliens, [[Half-Human Hybrid|half-demons]], and cyborgs, maybe Bigfoots and Yetis aren't the the greatest [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]] we're expected to accept.
** According to canon, Beast Boy can transform into any creature so long as he has seen a picture of it and/or can visualize what it would look like. Basically, his powers run on imagination.
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]
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* [[Blind Idiot Translation]]: Cyborg pulls one when talking to Mas Y Menos for the first time. What he said translates to "Hello! My friends I am name The Cyborgo!"
* [[Book Dumb]]: Beast Boy.
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** Earlier in that episode he practically admitted to learning history from the back of a cereal box when Raven asked.
* [[Bottomless Magazines]]: Speedy. Also, just how many arrows can he fit in that quiver? During the Season 3 finale, he's firing them off nonstop three at a time but always with plenty to spare for the next scene.
* [[Brain Freeze]]:
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* [[Brainwashed]]: Happens to all the Titans (main, East, and a few reserves) at least once. Beast Boy seems to get it a lot after the team's first run-in with Mad Mod. In "Revolution," also featuring Mad Mod, the entire population of Jump City.
** This was Brother Blood's greatest power, and the fact that it didn't work on Cyborg was the reason for his obsession with the boy.
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* [[Canon Foreigner]]: ''A lot'', including most [[Villain of the Week|villains of the week]] and minor characters.
* [[Canon Immigrant]]: Más y Menos, Billy Numerous, and [[Shaped Like Itself|Cinderblock]] have appeared in the DC comics.
** The series' version of Gizmo was also adapted into the Comics, as the son of the Dwarfish original.
* [[Cain and Abel]]: Starfire and her sister, [[Obviously Evil|Blackfire]].
* [[Calling the Old Man Out]]: {{spoiler|Raven did this to her demonic dad in the season 4 finale. While blasting him to oblivion, too.}}
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* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: Cyborg and Beast Boy (and Robin, when it happened) had a habit of nicknaming their teamup moves. In "The Quest", Robin has ''someone else'' call his attacks for him.
* [[Calvin Ball]]: Stankball and later variant [[Totally Radical|Extreme]] Stankball.
* [[Captive Date]]: Killer Moth threatens the city with destruction unless Robin takes Killer Moth's [[Bratty Teenage Daughter]], Kitten, to the prom. Robin complies, much to his chagrin.
* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]
* [[Cardboard Prison]]: Usually they do not even bother mentioning an escape. Recurring villains who where caught and jailed simply reappear in later episodes, regardless of how [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|ineffectual or silly]] they are.
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* [[Cerebus Rollercoaster]]: A prime example. Sometimes the show's mood shifted within the individual episode.
* [[Character Focus]]: Results in a surprising degree of [[Character Development]], given the mostly-episodic nature of the series.
* [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]: Robin, of course, as he's the apprentice/sidekick of [[Batman]].
* [[Chaste Toons]]: Averted by Blackfire in ''The New Teen Titans'', who got married to Glgrdsklechhh some time after "Betrothed" and had babies with him.
* [[Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys]]: Occurs in the episode "Don't Touch That Dial", when Beast Boy and Control Freak crash into a [[French Cuisine Is Haughty|French cooking show]], the chef immediately produces a white flag and leaves the set.
* [[Chronically Crashed Car]]: Cyborg's car gets destroyed in pretty much every episode it makes an appearance in.
* [[Clingy Costume]]: Terra's final costume was an armored suit that Slade had fused with her nervous system. With [[Clothing Damage]], it's clear that she wears [[Bandage Babe|bandages]] where the suit's parts don't go -- an aversion of [[Stripperific]], which without the bandages is what the suit would be.
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** Beast Boy's suit near the end of "The Beast Within" gets pretty ripped up... Which raises a lot of questions about ''how'' it got ripped up, or where it goes when he changes...
* [[Cold Open]]: Nearly every episode features a scene before the opening theme.
* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: Each of the characters who had some form of energy manipulation powers had a distinct color associated with them, observable when they used their powers and also when [[Glowing Eyes of Doom|their eyes glowed]]. The major ones:
** Black with white edges for Raven (red edges for her [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] and pure white for her "White Raven" form)
** Green for Starfire
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* [[Comic Book Adaptation]]: ''[[Teen Titans Go!|Teen Titans Go]]!'' A [[Recursive Adaptation]], in that the show was derived from a [[Comic Book]] in the first place.
* [[Comic Book Movies Don't Use Codenames]]: A non-film example: "Deathstroke the Terminator" is simply Slade here. Averted with every other character, though.
* [[Continuity Nod]]: Also, Dr. Light's instant surrender when he came face to face with Raven, as he recalled the [[Mook Horror Show]] she'd subjected him to before. Guess he was still scared of the dark...
** Another is in ''Can I Keep Him'' where one of the "foods" Starfire offers to Silky is mustard, which she was drinking in ''The Sum of His Parts''
* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: In "The End", [[Badass Normal|Badass Normals]] Robin and Slade run around on rocks floating in lava. Later, Cyborg's face is held about a few inches above a lava lake and he's totally fine.
** YMMV on Cyborg, while the parts of him that are still human would certainly burn, it's within possibility that his mechanical parts could be heat resistant.
* [[Composite Character]]: Robin is Dick Grayson, has the temper of Jason Todd, and looks like Tim Drake.
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* [[Custom Uniform of Sexy]]: Pick a girl, any girl.
* [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul]]: Season 4 episode "Overdrive". Especially if you decide to ''delete'' parts of it yourself...
* [[Dance Battler]]: Jinx will sometimes look like she's dancing ballet while dodging attacks in battle.
* [[Dark Action Girl]]: Jinx fits this trope to a T ([[Incredibly Lame Pun|heh heh heh]]). She's also the leader of the H.I.V.E F.I.V.E, all male, and the only one with ambition. Her [[Heel Face Turn]] was partly triggered by high ranking villains initially dismissing her as useless. She has yet to do real heroics, her motivations seem to be simple revenge (and a crush on Kid Flash). Of course, the phrase "Dark Action Girl" really brings Raven to mind... though she's more an example of [[Dark Magical Girl|another trope]].
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Many thought Raven will make a great villain because of her very dark past. She isn't. In the case of Jinx, she IS a villain at first, {{spoiler|but her relationship with Kid Flash convinced her to do a [[Heel Face Turn|heel face turn.]]}}
** ''You are dark, and darkness is often misunderstood''. --[[Mailer Daemon|Malchior]]
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Season 4: Trigon's Plot is {{spoiler|TO FORCE RAVEN TO FULFILL HER DESTINY AS THE ANTICHRIST AND DESTROY THE WORLD! Birthmark alone has a scene where Slade brands Raven in a scene that is uncomfortably creepy.}} This after the series was sometimes accused of being too kiddie.
** In general, [[Vile Villain Saccharine Show|Slade's episodes tended to be]] darker then was typical for the show.
* [[Dark Magical Girl]]
** Raven. "AZARATH METRION ZINTHOS!" Exactly.
** Applies to Jinx as well.
* [[Dark-Skinned Redhead]]: Starfire. Kid Flash may also count.
* [[Darkest Hour]]
* [[Dating Catwoman]]: Happened between Kid Flash and Jinx. {{spoiler|As a result, Jinx [[Heel Face Turn|became one of the good guys]].}}
* [[A Day
* [[Day in The Limelight]]/[[Hostile Show Takeover]]: "We're the Hive Five. This is our show now!"
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
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** Red X.
** Cyborg has several moments, too.
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'''Cyborg:''' More like find out if she'll give him another kiss... }}
* [[Decoy Getaway]]: Slade, to Robin's continually escalating frustration.
* [[Defanged Horrors]]
** When Raven pulled Dr. Light into some sort of dark vortex within her cloak, and when he came out he was curled up in the fetal position muttering, "S-so dark. Make it stop. Please make it stop."
** The episode "Haunted" also ranks up there as one of the creepiest pieces of [[Western Animation]] targeted towards kids. They took Slade, a villain who's already creepy in his own right, and left the audience constantly unsure whether he was [[Back
* [[Defiant to the End]]: Standard for each of the Titans to be [[Defiant to the End]], which makes Robin begging for Slade to stop in "Haunted" more disturbing.
* [[Deranged Animation]]: Bits of it in (nearly) every episode.
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* [[The Ditz]]: Starfire, though she's just naive and unfamiliar with her new environment as opposed to being legitimately stupid. She's demonstrated her intelligence on more than one occasion.
* [[Don't Think, Feel]]: In "Switched", Starfire teaches Raven [[How Do I Shot Web?|how to fly]].
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'''Starfire!Raven:''' You must ''feel'' [[Flight]].
'''Raven!Starfire:''' [[Flat What|What.]]
'''Starfire!Raven:''' When you ''feel'' the unbridled joy of flight, you will fly. }}
* [[Downer Ending]]: Beast Boy suffers this in "Things Change", not so much to the fact that his real name is Garfield.
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* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]: Season 4's three-part finale. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|One of the best episodes ever]].
* [["Everybody Laughs" Ending]]: ''Teen Titans'' is not a particularly bad offender, but it did provide a subversion (from [[Trapped in TV Land|season four, episode one]]).
* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]:
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* [[Everytown, America]]: Jump City, California & Steel City, New York.
** The latter is especially ironic for those aware that "The Steel City" is a nickname for [[Pittsburgh]], PA.
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* [[Executive Meddling]]: Because of the [[Never Say "Die"]] trope, Deathstroke was forced to be called by his first name, Slade (except in foreign dubs). It may have been a good idea, as it is often considered more enigmatic and badass than his [[Dark Age of Supernames|original name]].
* [[Expanded Universe]]: The tie-in comic, ''[[Teen Titans Go!|Teen Titans Go]]!''
* [[Exposed to the Elements]]: Starfire in the episode "Kole" is in the arctic wearing her usual [[Bare Your Midriff]]/[[Mini-Dress of Power|Mini Dress Of Power]] costume, while ''everyone else'' around her is dressed in thick winter attire. [[Handwaved]] due to the fact she's an alien.
* [[Expressive Mask]]
** Robin's mask basically emotes as if it were his eyes, and he ''never'' takes it off (except once in the movie, and then he was wearing sunglasses).
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** Red X actually counts, too; in "Revved Up", his reaction to {{spoiler|landing on the bus only to discover Raven and Starfire in it is nothing short of hilarious}}.
* [[Eye Lights Out]]: When Cyborg is severely damaged, his glowing eye fades, along with the [[Tron Lines|blue lights on his arm and leg circuits.]]
* [[Exposition Cut]]: Probably not the only example of this in the series, but used in the episode "The Beast Within" after the team found Raven in the maw of a feral Beast Boy.
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'''Raven:''' He didn't hurt me, he saved me.
'''Starfire:''' From what? ''(cue scene transition)'' }}
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* [[The Faceless]]: Slade. {{spoiler|Even when his mask gets knocked off in "The End" and his undead face is just a ''skull''}}. Though at that point in the show, {{spoiler|he had been reanimated by Trigon, but not resurrected}}. Apparently, {{spoiler|this means he can't regrow his skin}}.
** The episode ''Forces OF Nature'' has Slade disguised as an old man, though this functions as a bit of a [[Mythology Gag]], as his disguise is somewhat similar to his original comics appearance.
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* [[False Camera Effects]]: The later episodes and TV movie played with false [[Jittercam]] and [[Whip Pan]] effects.
* [[Fandom Nod]]: "For Real" One fan forum began to suspect writers visited their site due to the near verbatim lines in regards to Titan's East.
* [[Fandom
** [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on that though. The Raven/Beast Boy thing is never really looked at in this version of the Titans.
* [[Fantastic Racism|Fantastic Racist]]: Val Yor. Now we know that "Troq" is the intergalactic equivalent of the N-word. Lampshaded by Cyborg when he tells Starfire that being part robot has caused him problems, too.
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* [[Fish People]]: Triton and Aqualad's friend [[Dave Coulier|Tramm]].
* [[Five-Man Band]]:
** [[The Hero]]: Robin, [[The Leader]] of the Titans.
** [[The Lancer]]: Raven, but she may also count as [[The Smart Girl]].
** [[The Smart Guy]]: Cyborg, but he may also count as [[The Lancer]], to Robin.
** [[The Big Guy]]: Beast Boy, maybe not in size, but in role.
** [[The Chick]]: Starfire.
*** Although each season has a different setup
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** The blackbirds in Raven's mind... when we first meet them, anyway...
* [[Flying Brick]]: Starfire, plus energy blasts and [[Bizarre Alien Biology]].
* [[Forced to Watch]]: Robin has been subject to this at least twice, and Raven once.
* [[Forgot About His Powers]] Well, her powers at least. Raven has so many one-off powers she magically forgets about that it get's silly.
* [[For the Evulz]]: In the first season, Slade's apparent goal is to destroy the city for no reason at all. Subverted in the finale, {{spoiler|the destruction of the city turned out to be a diversion and his true goal was to blackmail Robin into becoming his apprentice}}.
* [[For the Lulz]]: This is Red X's reason for stealing the suit in the first place, and then using it to commit theft. He's [[Anti-Villain|not really a "villain"]] so much as he finds crime more entertaining than heroics -- although he's [[Friendly Enemy|not adverse to heroics]] when he feels like it, as he does have [[Gentleman Thief|a streak of actual decency]] that tends to kick in if people are going to die or someone's done him a favour.
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'''Red X:''' Whatever I want. Not everyone wants to play [[Big Bad|the big villain]], kid. }}
* [[Form-Fitting Wardrobe]]: Literally every single character.
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* [[Funny Foreigner|Funny Foreigners]]: The Spanish-speaking Más Y Menos.
* [[Future Badass]]: In the [[Bad Future]] of ''How Long Is Forever?'', Robin is the only Titan to get ''more'' [[Badass]].
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* [[Future Loser]]: Beast Boy being the most prominent, but Cyborg and Raven's futures also kinda suck.
* [[Gag Series]]: Most of the time anyway
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* [[Genki Girl]]: Starfire
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Control Freak and Beast Boy.
* [[Genre Busting]]: It's a superhero action cartoon whose animation is often more inspired by [[Tex Avery]] or [[Widget Series|the weirder side of]] [[Anime]] than anything in U.S. [[Comic Books]], yet often has very dark, dramatic storylines and, on a few occasions, will have an episode focus almost entirely on character interactions, with the obligatory supervillain battle relegated to a minor B-plot.
* [[Girls' Night Out Episode]]: "Switched". Also doubles as a [[Freaky Friday Flip]].
* [[Give the Villain a Hero's Funeral]]: In the adaptation of the Judas Contract arc from [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|the comic book]], a variant is added. Unlike in the comic where {{spoiler|the Titans were able to cover up Terra's treachery}}, they don't have that option when {{spoiler|she leads armies of Sladebots into Jump City to forcibly take over and "evacuate" the civilians. When the dust is settled, literally, Terra is turned into a statue due to pulling a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to stop a volcano she accidentally activated when fighting Slade. The civilians return, bewildered as they try to adjust to a normal life, while underground, the Titans place a memorial plaque by Terra's statue declaring her a Titan despite her betrayal, and flowers courtesy of Starfire. Raven, Robin and Cyborg say that she'll try to reverse the effects to bring Terra back, but Starfire and Beast Boy truly believe she's gone forever. The season five finale confirms Beast Boy visits her statue regularly enough to talk to her, and is shocked when it goes missing.}}
* [[The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry]]: Starfire vs. Blackfire
* [[Glove Snap]]: Cyborg does this once.
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* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]
** Starfire gets these when using her powers.
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*** Her Demon form has it basically all the time, as does {{spoiler|her father, Trigon}}.
** Terra also has this at times when using her geokinesis, though it is inconsistent
* [[Go Mad From the Isolation]]: Happens to Raven in the [[Bad Future]] episode "How Long is Forever". She gets better, though.
* [[God Guise]]: In one episode, Raven crash-lands on a planet inhabited by tiny aliens, and is worshiped as a God simply for being more than three inches tall.
* [[Good Costume Switch]]: Although a [[Dark Is Not Evil]] example, Raven has had a dark cloak to white cloak switch at least three separate times in the series, accompanied by a [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment. Never lasts long, though.
* [[Goomba Stomp]] / [[Goomba Springboard]]: Robin uses this several times against mooks.
* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]
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* [[Goth]]
** Raven, the ultimate gothic superheroine.
*** However, although the early episodes portray Raven as straight-up Goth, her personality begins fluctuating later and she is revealed to be more calculating, introverted and antisocial than generically Goth.
** Argent, introduced in the third-to-last episode.
** Jinx fills the goth villainess role.
* [[Granola Girl]]: Starfire portrays this physically and verbally. She's a hippie chick from outerspace.
* [[Gratuitous Japanese]]: [[The Movie|Trouble In Tokyo]] is full of this one. The biggest standout is Brushogun, whose name would be "[[Transvestite Bra|Shogun]]" in their language.
** Pretty sure it's supposed to be a Portmanteau of "Brush" (y'know, [[Don't Explain the Joke|like a paint brush?]]) and "Shogun."
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* [[Grenade Tag]]: Robin.
* [[Grievous Harm with a Body]]: Kole
** Pantha gets a few of these scenes, only the body she's doing grievous harm with isn't usually a willing participant.
* [[Grumpy Bear]]: [[Doom Patrol]]. [[Butt Monkey|Poor Doom Patrol]].
* [[Harmless Villain]]: Mostly the one-shots.
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** Except for Season 5, where all but three episodes (the [[Whole-Episode Flashback|origin story]] episode, the [[Go-Karting with Bowser]] episode, and the final episode) are in some way connected to the fight against the Brotherhood of Evil. And even the final episode mentions how the Titans have just come back from defeating them.
* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: Raven is half-demon. A case could be made for Cyborg as a half-robot.
* [[Harsh Life Revelation Aesop]]:
** The episode "X" has one: sometimes people won't forget your worst mistakes. Someone steals the Red X suit from Robin, briefly alarming the team when they think that Robin has another obsessive scheme up his sleeve. Starfire pokes Robin to make sure he's not a hologram, and Cyborg prepares to do an anal check to make sure he's not a robot double. While Robin reassures them that it's him before Cyborg can go that far, the team is still distrustful of him as they try to track down the real Red X and stop whatever plan he has. Robin spends the whole episode brooding about how he hurt his friends with his good intentions.
** "Troq": You can't fix racism by being a good person. Starfire tolerates Val-Yor, who keeps calling her the title word; she later explains to Cyborg that it's a galactic slur that means "nothing". Though Starfire saves Val-Yor's life and he actually uses her name rather than "troq", he says that she must be one of the "good" Tamaraneans. The team is aghast, with Robin telling the guy to [[Get Out]] and get off their planet. Robin apologizes to Starfire for not protecting her, as Val-Yor flies off in a huff, but Starfire wisely says that it doesn't matter what Val-Tor thinks, only that she did the right thing.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Jinx}}
* [[Heroes Unlimited]]: Season 5
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* [[Human Resources]]: "Employee of the Month".
* [[Humorless Aliens]]: Starfire has some trouble understanding why, exactly, Beast Boy's jokes are supposed to be funny. When exposed to "Why are ducks so funny? Because they're always quacking jokes!", she said something like, "Oh, I get it! It is humorous because ducks lack the large brains necessary for the telling of jokes!"
* [[I
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* [[I Shall Taunt You]]: One of Gizmo's usual battle strategies . . . it rarely actually works, though.
* [[Idiot Ball]]: Robin gets hit with a ''big'' one in the fifth season.
* [[If It Swims, It Flies]]: The T-Sub quickly became the T-Ship capable of deep space travel. Lampshaded in that Cyborg was quite adamant about it being built for deep-sea, not deep-space.
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* [[Ironic Birthday]]/[[Dangerous Sixteenth Birthday]]: If you don't know Raven that well, don't even ''try'' to plan a birthday party for her.
* [[I Regret Nothing]]: Terra in "Aftershock".
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* [[Irritation Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery]]: [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]], though for a moment everyone who was imitating Robin was afraid it might hold. Robin actually was flattered... It's a good thing the True Master taught him not to take himself so freaking seriously.
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* [[It Came From the Fridge]]: "Final Exam". Later played with, as Mammoth has absolutely no problem scarfing the entire fridge.
* [[I Was Just Passing Through]]: Completely averted by Red X. In "X", Red X tracks Robin down to [[Villain|Professor Chang's]] lair [[Just in Time]] to snatch Robin out of mid-air before Robin can fall into Chang's disintegrator cannon. When Robin comments on this, Red X doesn't try to claim that he acted for his own reasons.
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'''Robin:''' I thought you didn't like to play the hero.
'''Red X:''' Doesn't mean I don't know how. }}
* [[I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure]]: Slade uses this threat to make Robin his apprentice. It works... for a short period of time.
* [[Jobber]]: Dr Light ends most of his appearances in short order as the unfortunate target of Raven's [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]. After getting one episode where he actually ''was'' a threat in season 5, the [[Grand Finale]] ended with his attempted bank robbery being responded to by the entire [[Heroes Unlimited|extended Titans team]].
* [[Just a Machine]]
== K-O ==
* [[Keet]]: Beast Boy, of course. [http://i53.tinypic.com/oa500x.jpg To the next level.]
* [[Kid Hero]]
* [[Knight of Cerebus]]: If Slade or Trigon is in an episode, it's pretty much a guarantee it won't be humorous (except for the first few Season One eps with Slade, but even then ''he'' wasn't played for laughs, though he also wasn't as creepy as he'd become later on).
* [[Kuudere]]: Raven -- although [[Plucky Comic Relief|Beast]] [[The Pollyanna|Boy]] occasionally manages to push [[Grumpy Bear|Raven]] over into using the more aggressive [[Tsundere]] tactics.
* [[Large Ham]]: Brother Blood, before [[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Aquaman]] comes to mind.
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* [[Lethal Chef]]: Raven's pancakes -- burned like charcoal on the outside, still runny on the inside. Starfire may be a perfectly competent cook by Tamaranian standards but... well, it's called pudding of sadness and is produced by someone who treats ''mustard'' as a beverage...
** To be fair, it is stated that the whole point of the Pudding of Sadness is to be so disgusting that it takes your mind off whatever bad thing you're thinking about. Also, part of Terra's introduction features her trying some weird green gelatinous substance with pink things floating in it that Starfire offers her. She adopts a thoughtful look, announcing that it tastes "like sushi mixed with ice cream" (complete with [[Rebus Bubble|visual equation]], no less). [[Big Eater|Then she eagerly asks if there's any more]].
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* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: Beast Boy has these moments quite a bit.
* [[Leotard of Power]]: Raven, though averted with Starfire (whose costume in the comics defines [[Stripperiffic]]).
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** He shouldn't have been able to survive ''any'' of his fights with [[Big Bad|Slade]].
** Even mentioned by Cyborg at one point during "Haunted":
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* [[Magicians Are Wizards]]: The Amazing Mumbo.
* [[Magic Kiss]]: Starfire learns languages this way; see [[Aliens Speaking English]] above.
* [[Magic Skirt]]:
** Starfire has a really short skirt that magically sticks to her somehow.
** Elasti-Girl of the [[Doom Patrol]] does as well, [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|despite being 30 feet high]].
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* [[Military Mashup Machine]]: Submarine + rockets = {{smallcaps|[[Space Is an Ocean|spacesub]]}}!
* [[Mind Control Eyes]]
** The Teen Titans have pink eyes in the episode "Mother Mae-Eye", when they are under the titular character's spell.
** Brother Blood's victims have glowing red eyes when he's directly controlling their actions, but normal one's when they're just being influenced.
** Beast Boy, along with the citizens of Jump City, have the stereotypical spirals when under Mad Mod's hypnosis.
* [[Mind Rape]]
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** When Cyborg infiltrates HIVE, he uses the alias "Stone"; in the comics, his civilian identity is Victor Stone.
*** In the same episode, Beast Boy shuts up Robot!Cyborg by turning into a stafish and clamping over his face, in a manner very reminiscent of classic DC villain Starro the Conqueror.
** A lot of the lines from Terra's episodes are slightly changed from The Judas Contract, such as Terra referring to Raven as a "witch" (she referred to her as that a lot in the comics). {{spoiler|Terra being turned to stone and the monologue is also very reminiscent of Terra's burial statue and the monologue during her death}}.
** Beast Boy's infinite movie and T.V. show knowledge. Possibly a reference to the fact that he was at one point a television actor in the comics.
** In "Mother Mae-Eye", the titular villain character combs Robin's hair in the style that the original Dick Grayson version of the character wore (y'know, the one without pants), which he eventually shakes out
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* [[Never Say "Die"]]: Sometimes played straight, sometimes averted. This is the reason why [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Deathstroke the Terminator]] goes simply by "Slade", for one.
* [[Never Split the Party]]: As explained by Beast Boy.
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** {{spoiler|He doesn't die, but he's the first to go down.}}
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: {{spoiler|Terra could have probably been persuaded from Slade's influence earlier if it wasn't for the fact that Beast Boy pushes her off the edge when he declines her friendship at the very end of "Betrayal".}} Way to go, hero.
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* [[No Ending]]: The last episode, verging on [[Mind Screw]] territory.
* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: Pretty much the entirety of "Haunted".
** Each of the Titans are capable of giving a good one when they really cut loose. Usually that requires either [[Heroic Resolve]] or a [[Berserk Button]] to be pushed, however.
* [[No One Could Survive That]]
* [["No Respect" Guy]]: Who else? Beast Boy.
* [[
* [[The Notable Numeral]]: The Hive Five
* [[Not Just a Tournament]]: In "Winner Take All", a number of teen superbeings are teleported to an unknown location, where the Master of Games invites them to take part in a Tournament of Heroes that will determine which of them is the greatest young hero on Earth. What the competitors don't know is that when they lose, they're trapped within the Master's jewel so he can use their powers.
* [[Not So Different]]: The basis of Slade's [[We Can Rule Together]] crusade towards Robin. The team even calls Robin out on it a few times, after he does something dickish.
** Demonstrated ''terrifyingly'' effectively in the season 4 finale, when {{spoiler|Slade and Robin fight off an army of Trigon's lava monsters, using the ''exact same moves''.}} As Robin points out though, there is one major fundamental difference between them:
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* [[Not-So-Imaginary Friend]]: Bobby, the giant teddy bear that Melvin created. "Created" as in {{spoiler|Melvin's power is to make things she imagines real}}.
* [[Nothing Personal]]: Said by Jinx right before attacking her ex-teammates.
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* [[Other Me Annoys Me]]: nosyarG kciD to Robin.
* [[Out of the Inferno]]: Val Yor does this.
== P-T ==
* [[Painted-On Pants]]: Oh, dear lord, Robin.
* [[Pardon My Klingon]]: Starfire occasionally spouts odd Tamaranian curse words and insults.
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* [[Pettanko]]: Terra and Jinx.
* [[Pick on Someone Your Own Size]]
* [[Plot Induced Stupidity]]: Raven has a very diverse set of magical powers...that she mainly uses to throw things at people. There's also Cyborg's seldom used detachable limbs and grappling hook hand.
** In the episode "Kole" the entire Titans team ends up falling through a huge hole into a prehistoric world. Despite Beast Boy being able to turn into flying animals, Cyborg's above mentioned grapple hook and Robin owning every swinging rope gadget imaginable. Starfire and Raven on the other hand somehow completely forget ''[[Forgot I Could Fly|they can fly]]''.
** Starfire's forgetfulness is particularly bad. One minute she's lifting tons over her head and flying faster than light, and the next she's struggling against [[Badass Normal|badass normals]].
* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]: Beast Boy!
* [[Poor Communication Kills]]:
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'''Robin, as heard on the ship's communication:''' ''(static)'' separate! I repeat! ''(static)'' SEPARATE!
'''Starfire:''' As you wish. ''(The ship separates. Cue the Titans being stranded on an alien planet.)'' }}
* [[Post-Kiss Catatonia]]
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* [[Power Crystal]]: Raven's red forehead crystal.
* [[The Power of Friendship]]: Discussed by Robin, when talking about the [[Not So Different|one difference]] between him and [[Big Bad|Slade]]:
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* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: Given Terra's past as a mercenary and having a relationship with [[Big Bad|Slade]], despite being [[Squick|only fifteen]], it's little wonder they made the changes they made to her.
* [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]]: Several.
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'''Beast Boy:''' I'm not a man... I'm an animal!
'''Robin''': Lady, you are ''not'' my mother. }}
* [[Pretty in Mink]]: Raven's winter outfit is basically her uniform with fur trim.
* [[Psycho Ex-Girlfriend]]: {{spoiler|Terra. "I don't have any friends, remember?"}}
* [[Pull a Rabbit Out of My Hat]]: Mumbo. Even better, the rabbit in question is ''Raven.'' [[Transformation Conventions|It's complicated.]] Cyborg sums it up -- somewhat.
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* [[Puppet Permutation]]: The Puppet King episode.
* [[Race Lift]]: Jinx. In the comics she was Indian (and bald); on the show she's white. Well, chalk-pale, but most likely Caucasian.
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* [[Reality Warper]]: Mumbo, Larry
** Mad Mod turned the sky into a huge Union Jack... ''somehow''. To say nothing of all the ''other'' unexplained weirdness that happens whenever he shows up. Though Mad Mod is probably more a [[Master of Illusion]] than a [[Reality Warper]].
* [[The Real Remington Steele]]: The second Red X.
* [[Rebellious Prisoner]]:
** "Only Human" has Atlas imprison the Titans as "trophies" within impenetrable orbs, to incentivize Cyborg to fight him in-person. They spend most of their screen time trying to break the orbs, with Beast Boy experimenting by transforming into different strong animals. When Atlas's sidekick tells them to deal with permanent captivity, Robin asks why work for someone that demeans and doesn't respect you. He convinces Mechanic to free them, and stop helping Atlas.
** In "The Prophecy," Slade lures the Titans into a trap and succeeds in capturing them when Raven flees to Azarath. Despite realizing they are under-equipped to handle his [[Super Strength]] and fire powers, they keep fighting, even when bound in fiery ropes. There's a shot of Robin realizing that his friends are going to die, which motivates him to try and get up.
** "The End, Part One" has Trigon mindraping Raven via psychic link when he sends Slade and his army to storm Titans Tower, saying that unless she surrenders to become his [[Apocalypse Maiden]], he will make her watch the Titans die. Her friends told her to stay in the safe room they made because if they [[Hold the Line]] long enough, Trigon's window of opportunity will pass. She surrenders for their sake, while using the last of her power to protect them from the oncoming apocalypse; they later use it to fight Trigon and track her down in the wasteland. Yet while being escorted to the sacrificial altar, she tells Slade that he may think he's powerful, but Trigon will dispose of him when he's no longer useful. He tries to attack her, only for the army to turn on him. Raven snarks that he's become useless to Trigon already.
* [[Rebus Bubble]]
** {{smallcaps|Raven + Larry = NUCLEAR EXPLOSION!}}
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* [[Redheaded Hero]]: Starfire and Kid Flash.
* [[Remember That You Trust Me]]
* [[Remembered I Could Fly]]: Seemingly played straight when Beast Boy wants a moped and Robin reminds him he doesn't need one, because he can fly. Then averted when Beast Boy says he already knew that, but complains that ''his arms get tired''.
* [[Reverse Mole]]: {{spoiler|Robin, when he is [[Face Heel Turn|recruited as Slade's apprentice]] [[Sadistic Choice|in exchange for his friends' lives.]]}}
* [[Riddle for the Ages]]
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*** I don't know, [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|the red eyes tipped me off]].
** It's Raven! [http://images.wikia.com/teentitans/images/4/46/147.jpg As a BUNNY!]
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'''Bunny!Raven:''' ''([[Death Glare]])'' }}
* [[Rise of Zitboy]]: Starfire, in the episode "Transformation".
* [[Rocket Boots]]: Slade's ninja-minions have these.
* [[Rousing Speech]]: Most memorable is Beast Boy's speech in the Season 5 finale.
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* [[Running Gag]]
** Starfire's bad english and unaccustomed to earth culture
** Robin is short and wears a lot of hairgel.
* [[Ruritania]]
** [Eastern] Zandia; only mentioned in "Crash".
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** Gizmo to Cyborg
** Also {{spoiler|Season 4's mainly dead end way of preoccupying the remaining three protagonists while Robin can play the hero and Slade can set up his anti-villain/hero moment.}} Additionally a pretty effective way of providing tidbits of backstory and moonlights from one particular previous season.
* [[Shaped Like What It Sells]]: The balcony of the pizzeria is shaped like a slice of pizza when seen from above. The floor is the cheese and the tables are the pepperoni.
* [[Shapeshifter Showdown]]: Beast Boy vs. his evil copy.
* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]
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** Though not a sidekick, Beast Boy.
** Also denied -- Comicdom's best-known sidekick leads the team.
* [[Signature Device]]: Their communicators which were specifically designed by both Robin and Cyborg.
** Later the devices served as a plot point.
* [[Sixth Ranger Traitor]]: Terra
* [[Sixty
* [[Sliding Scale of Silliness Versus Seriousness]]: The whole show ''dances a jig'' up and down this. Take, for example, season three, where you've got an episode that's basically one of the most brutal, drawn out mind rapes ever put to [[Western Animation]], very close in production order to an absurd story about Cyborg accidentally downloading a virus and ''trying to eat every inanimate object in sight''.
* [[Smart People Play Chess]]: Raven and Cyborg, the two smartest Titans, play chess with each other in one episode; [[The Chessmaster|the Brain]] and [[Genius Bruiser|Monsieur Mallah]] also appear fond of the game.
* [[Smelly Skunk]]: Beast Boy uses this as an attack once, unlike most examples in this trope there isn't an actual gas cloud shown, but there is a fart sound effect.
* [[Something Person]]: Beast Boy, Aqualad, Gill Girl in the tie-in comics.
* [[Sorry I Left the BGM On]]: In the episode where Mad Mod tries to put all the Titans in detention, an [[Ear Worm]]-y song is played during their attempted escape. Right before the "exit" is discovered, Robin turns a switch on a bust of Mad Mod, ending the song.
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* [[Sssssnaketalk]]: The snake guardian in ''The Quest''.
* [[Status Quo Is God]]
* [[Stealth Pun]]:
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* [[Steven Ulysses Perhero]]: Slade's name is a pretty interesting case. His comic-book name, Deathstroke the Terminator is rejected by the bigwigs at [[Cartoon Network]] because [[Never Say "Die"|saying death is a big no-no]] and the fact that "Terminator" is still copyright from [[The Ahnold|Governor Arnie.]] As a result, the producers picked his actual name, Slade Wilson. And the weirdest thing is ''that it works.'' Deathstroke sounds like a hitman's name, which works in the original comics because he's a mercenary.
* [[Still Wearing the Old Colors]]: Beast Boy still wears the outfit of his old group. He ditches the goggles after Raven calls them dorky, but that's about it.
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** Jinx's powers seem to let her do anything as long as its considered "bad luck" for the target, ''anything''. This can be as simple as causing small explosions or electronic mishaps, to telekinetically dismantling the chair they are sitting on, to causing the ground itself to break apart so water mains can just so happen to burst out right into the person's face. Her powers definitely made her stand out among her comrades, who were just a [[Super Strength|Super Strong Guy]] and a [[Techno Wizard]].
* [[Surrounded by Idiots]]: In the episode "Lightspeed", Jinx remarks "I don't know why I hang around with you nitwits." {{spoiler|By the end of the episode, she's done hanging around with those nitwits}}.
* [[Swarm of Rats]]: Occurs as Starfire's "demise" in the episode "Fear Itself".
* [[Swiss Army Appendage]]: Cyborg's arms (and possibly most of his body) qualifies.
* [[Swiss Army Hero]]: Beast Boy.
* [[Swiss Army Weapon]]: Robin with his discs and Speedy with his arrows. See-More's eye can change into many different kinds of weapons or tools, from a heat laser to bludgeoning projectiles, to x-ray vision and even a blimp . . . unclear if See-more is more of a case of a ''weapon'' or a ''[[Swiss Army Appendage|body part]]'' though.
* [[The Chew Toy]]: I'll give you a hint, he has pointy ears and green skin like an Orc or a Goblin, eats tofu, is an idiot jokester, and is the official [[Plucky Comic Relief]] of the entire series.
* [[The Sweat Drop]]
* [[Tactical Rock-Paper-Scissors]]: In The End pt.II, Starfire, Beast Boy and Cyborg cannot beat their respective clones. So they switch and face eachother's clones instead.{{spoiler|Needless to say, they win}}.
* [[Taken for Granite]]: {{spoiler|Terra in "Aftershock Part 2"}} and {{spoiler|the entire world in "The End"}}.
* [[Taking the Bullet]]: How {{spoiler|Terra takes out Starfire-with a boulder aimed at Robin}}.
* [[
* [[Team Shot]]
* [[Team Title]]
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* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Raven the [[Goth|gothish]] [[Tomboy]] and Starfire the [[Moe Moe|adorably cute]] girly girl. Though Starfire, being from a [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|proud warrior race]], was well capable of [[Let's Get Dangerous]] moments.
** In the original comics, this is reversed. Starfire's Proud Warrior Race is played up ''a lot more'', with her constantly wanting to hang out with the boys and solve everything through violence. Raven, on the other hand, is [[The Empath]], and is a demure pacifist who cries during nearly every single fight.
* [[Took a Level
** [[Butt Monkey|Dr. Light]], of all people, takes one in "Kole", by virtue of having a better plan then usual, and having ''very'' [[Green Lantern Ring|loose limits]] on what can be done with "light-based" powers. He loses the level with his inevitable defeat by episode's end, however.
** Control Freak takes a level in TV badass (not that it makes him any less dorky in the script) in ''Don't Touch That Dial'', and tops it off with "[[I Know Karate]]".
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* [[True Companions]]
* [[TV Never Lies]]
* [[Two Aliases, One Character]]: {{spoiler|Robin and Red X}}. Although, another person did adopt the Red X persona in a later episode.
* [[Ugly Guys Hot Daughter]]: Trigon and Raven, as well as Kitten and Killer Moth.▼
== U-Z ==
* [[Unflinching Walk]]: Robin has a "cool guys don't look at explosions" moment, even though there's no explosion and he crouches instead of walks.
* [[The Un-Reveal]]
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** Also, anytime Slade's mask gets knocked off something happens to make sure we don't see his face (in Apprentice II he managed to cover it with his hand before more than a silhouette could be seen, and in The End II his face was just an undead skull).
** In ''Final Exam'', we only hear the final sentence of Robin and Starfire's conversation as they enter the living room:
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** Raven's backstory gets one is "Switched" when she and Starfire have to know about each other's powers.
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** In ''Trouble in Tokyo'', when Robin needs to ditch his superhero persona because he was framed for a crime, you think you will finally see his eyes, but nope, now he's got big 'ol shades.
*** Actually, we DO get to see his eyes for a second, when Robin and Star's moment gets interrupted by the rest of the team. Of course, they're only specks because the animation goes haywire, but still.
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* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: Gizmo works in these like other people work in oils or clay. ''What the hairball?!''
* [[Unusual Dysphemism]]:
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* [[Vague Age]]: It goes with the series lack of showing anything of the heroes personal lives.
* [[Values Dissonance]]: In-universe example. In "Betrothed", Robin is appalled by the idea of Starfire having an arranged marriage, but Raven responds by asking if the Titans have any right to question Tamaranian culture. The issue's rendered moot anyway, since it turns out Starfire was lied to and she didn't have to marry anyone at all. Besides, Robin was complaining for [[Green-Eyed Monster|other reasons.]]
* [[Variable Terminal Velocity]]
* [[Very Special Episode]]: "Troq" (racism) and "Overdrive" (addiction).
* [[Vile Villain, Saccharine Show]]: The show always got darker whenever Trigon showed up, and the same could almost always be said of Slade.▼
* [[Villainesses Want Heroes]]▼
* [[The Villain Must Be Punished]]: Normally, Robin is the one who can't stand Slade and wants to bring him down by any means necessary. When Slade returns in season 4, however, he's gunning for Raven, to [[Mind Rape]] and taunts her that her destiny is coming. Raven ends up in uncharacteristic [[Heroic BSOD]] as her friends do research about {{spoiler|how Slade came back from being burned alive in lava. Then when fleeing to Azarath, Raven finds out that Trigon had ravaged the city and killed her mother, who could only leave a piece of herself behind to say goodbye to Raven and apologize for not protecting her better. Stricken with grief and horror, Raven returns to Earth and finds Slade torturing her friends. She slams a door into him and demands that he fight her instead, to set her on fire. Slade reveals he can't, because Trigon ordered him to keep Raven physically intact, and begins to retreat. Raven says, "I'm not finished with you!" and proceeds to unleash a [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]] that scares her friends, as Raven is angry but in complete control of her powers. She only lets Slade go after he points out how worried the other Titans are and she promises she's not going to be Trigon's pawn}}.
** Kitten demands that Robin take her to the prom, or she'll unleash mutant insects on the city. Robin is not happy. [[Ship Tease|Neither is Starfire.]]▼
** Blackfire also flirts heavily with Robin in her debut appearance; however, this seems to be more about making Starfire angry than an indication of real interest on her part, as she doesn't even interact with Robin at all when she shows up again. ▼
* [[Villain Takes an Interest]]: Slade and Robin, Brother Blood and Cyborg, Slade and Terra.
* [[Villain Teleportation]]
▲* [[Villainesses Want Heroes]]
▲* [[Vile Villain Saccharine Show]]: The show always got darker whenever Trigon showed up, and the same could almost always be said of Slade.
▲** Kitten demands that Robin take her to the prom, or she'll unleash mutant insects on the city. Robin is not happy. [[Ship Tease|Neither is Starfire.]]
* [[Voices Are Mental]]: In "Switched", when Raven and Starfire switch bodies, they still have their original voices. ▼
▲** Blackfire also flirts heavily with Robin in her debut appearance; however, this seems to be more about making Starfire angry than an indication of real interest on her part, as she doesn't even interact with Robin at all when she shows up again.
▲* [[Voices Are Mental]]: In "Switched", when Raven and Starfire switch bodies, they still have their original voices.
* [[Wasn't That Fun?]]: One episode has Raven forced to take three little kids who are potential superheroes to a safe place to stop them from being kidnapped by the Brotherhood of Evil. At one point, she and the kids are trying to escape from Monsieur Mallah by riding in a cable-car, and the wire snaps. They go plummeting down the mountain in the car, which eventually crashes, but the kids land harmlessly in the snow. The two who can talk both promptly sit up and scream, "Again! Again!" Raven's reply? "NO AGAIN."
* [[Wave Motion Gun]]: In ''The End: Part 1''. As a last resort, Cyborg hooks himself up to the Tower's electricity supply and proceeds to [[Telescoping Robot|arm a truckload of hidden equipment]]. This culminates in [[Guns Akimbo|double blasts]] from two massive sonic cannons, spiriting several hundred fire demons back to Hell. Probably bumped up the episode's [[Holy Shit Quotient|HSQ]] considerably.
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** Easy. It's shown that stuff from TV Land can be brought back to reality via Control Freak's lightsabers in the final episode. However, the [[Canned Laughter]] at the end also shows that they may have still been in TV land anyways.
*** Or maybe they just walked back over to a news station set and looked for an {{color|red|EXIT}} sign
** In Season 5, what happened to the Doom Patrol in the finale? Their leader was shown to be obsessed with taking down the Brain, you'd think they'd know when {{spoiler|the Brain made a move as big as capturing the Titans en masse}} and they'd do something about it.
** Wondergirl appears on the Wheel in ''Titans Together'', but never appears in the episode (either speaking or not). What is the in-series reason she's not with the other Titans?
*** Probably the police: the poor soul sent to kidnap him had no chanche in hell, and could have been [[Finger-Poke of Doom]]-ed to death in full public view.
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* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: Robin and Starfire.
* [[Witch with a Capital B]]: Very memorably used by Terra against Raven.
* [[Wolverine Claws]]: Cheshire from Season 5's finale sports these.
* [[Word Salad Lyrics]]: The Japanese theme song. It's ''not'' a translation of the theme song, to put it simple.
* [[World-Healing Wave]]: At the end of Season 4.
* [[World Limited to the Plot]]: With a couple episodes being exceptions, used with full force until Season 5. A good example of this is that despite Robin, Aqualad, Speedy, and Kid Flash being characters, we never even hear the names of their adult counterparts. We also never hear Robin's name, though it's implied a couple of times to be Dick Grayson.
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