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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:
 
'''[[Robin (Comic Book)|Robin]]''', [[Badass Normal|the gruff, strait-laced leader]]; '''Starfire''', [[Innocent Aliens|an alien from the planet Tamaran]] who behaved like an [[Action Girl]] [[Funny Foreigner]]; '''Cyborg''', the second-in-command [[Token Minority]] and [[Techno Wizard]] who can also hold his own in a fight with his body's built-in weaponry; '''Raven''', [[The Quiet One]], a moody sorceress with a few [[Half -Human Hybrid|secrets]] of her own; and '''Beast Boy''', the [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|shape-shifting]] [[Plucky Comic Relief]].
 
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 noticably "kiddified" for the animated series. Of course, taking a hard left on the [[Sliding Scale of Silliness Versus Seriousness]] might have gotten the show more fans [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|than it lost]], and consequently, it also has a fairly large and devoted fan base.
 
It had a [[Made for TV Movie]] called ''[[Teen Titans Trouble in Tokyo]]'', and [[Recursive Adaptation|its own comics series,]] ''[[Teen Titans Go (Comic Book)|Teen Titans Go]]!''.
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* [[Amusing Alien]]: Starfire
* [[And I Must Scream]]: Parodied in "Fractured".
* [[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:
{{quote| "The city will declare me ruler, the Teen Titans will surrender and Robin... will take this lovely young lady to her junior prom." }}
** 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.
{{quote| '''Criminal''' You! aren't you supposed to be with...<br />
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{{quote| '''Raven''': Remember me?<br />
'''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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* [[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.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Each character has one.
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* [[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.
* [[Clothing Damage]]
** In "Birthmark", Slade rips off over 85% of Raven's outfit while [[Mind Rape|mind raping her]]... or perhaps the [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|OTHER kind]]. Watch closely, her top is being held on by thin shoulder straps. There's absolutely no back.
*** [[Rule Thirty Four34]]: A surprisingly high quality animation by ZONE-sama does exactly that. And with minimal changes to the original episode's audio track, disturbingly enough.
** Terra's outfit in "Aftershock Part 2"; see above.
** Robin's outfit got quite a bit torn up in "Haunted" when he was fighting with {{spoiler|[[Your Mind Makes It Real|what he thought was]]}} Slade.
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* [[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
** Yellow for Terra
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** 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]].}}
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* [[Day in The Limelight]]/[[Hostile Show Takeover]]: "We're the Hive Five. This is our show now!"
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
** Raven, the most mature of the [[Five -Man Band]].
** Red X.
** Cyborg has several moments, too.
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* [[Disney Dog Fight]]
* [[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]].
{{quote| '''Raven!Starfire:''' Okay. How do you fly this thing?<br />
'''Starfire!Raven:''' You must ''feel'' [[Flight]].<br />
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* [[Downer Ending]]: Beast Boy suffers this in "Things Change", not so much to the fact that his real name is Garfield.
* [[Drop What You Are Doing]]: Terra drops the T-communicator when Robin announces her big secret: that she can't control her powers. She thinks Beast Boy lied to her and told, but Robin once worked for [[Batman|the world's greatest detective]] and figured it all out on his own, unaware it was a secret.
* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: Beast Boy, in the whole series and The Movie ''[[Teen Titans Trouble in Tokyo]]''.
* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: Each Titan has a dark past.
* [[Early Bird Cameo]]: Silkie had a few blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameos before "Can I Keep Him?"
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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]]).
* [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Princesses]]:
{{quote| '''Starfire:''' Oh, yes, I am second in line for the throne... perhaps I forgot to mention?}}
* [[Everytown America]]: Jump City, California & Steel City, New York.
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* [[Feud Episode]]: Robin and Cyborg have an early episode like this.
* [[Flying Firepower]]: Starfire most of the time.
* [[The Fifties]]: The Fifties Fifties version, in a [[Show Within a Show]] which Beast Boy lands in for a short while before an eight-foot robot smashes into the suburban paradise home like some demented manifestation of [[ChandlersChandler's Law]].
* [[Final Solution]]: Our heroes go on a trip with [[Fantastic Racism|Val-Yor]] and commit genocide one an race of allegedly hostile robots.
* [[Finishing Move]]
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* [[Fish Out of Water]]: Starfire -- due to being an easy bit and the series' hinge on humour, her adaption was pretty [[Ping Pong Naivete|back and forth]] but never complete.
* [[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]].
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** [[The Smart Guy]]: Aqualad
** [[The Big Guy|The Big Guys]]: Mas Y Menos
* [[Five -Bad Band]]: The (more than five) members of the HIVE Five.
** [[Big Bad]]: Brother Blood
** [[The Dragon]]: Jinx
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* [[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.
{{quote| '''Robin:''' Why did you steal the suit? What are you planning to do?<br />
'''Red X:''' Whatever I want. Not everyone wants to play [[Big Bad|the big villain]], kid. }}
* [[Form -Fitting Wardrobe]]: Literally every single character.
* [[Freaky Friday Flip]]: "Switched"
* [[Funny Foreigner|Funny Foreigners]]: The Spanish-speaking Más Y Menos.
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*** Yes, but it would still be pronounced ''and'' spelled "Bra Shogun" in Japanese. The whole point is what [[Punny Name|worked]] or [[Rule of Cool|sounded cool]] in one language [[Lost in Translation|does not always]] [[Gone Horribly Wrong|work that way in another]].
* [[Great Gazoo]]: Larry the Titan, from "Fractured", an explicit parody of [[Batman (Comic Book)|Batman]] Gazoo Bat-Mite.
* [[Green -Eyed Monster]]: Starfire during "Date with Destiny". The kicker? She really has green eyes.
* [[Green Lantern Ring]]
** Raven's powers, even more so in ''Go!'' where they start allowing her to make objects out of energy.
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* [[Half Arc Season]]
** 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.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Jinx}}
* [[Heroes Unlimited]]: Season 5
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* [[Hot Mom]]: After seeing Arella in "The End" arc, it's quite obvious who Raven takes after.
* [[Hotter and Sexier]]: Notably averted and a source of some criticism from those hoping for a more direct adaptation of the comic book. The character designs for the Titans were made more awkward and teen-like than their Comic Book counterparts. Although this can be said for virtually all the characters, Starfire is the obvious poster child for this particular aversion.
* [[Human Outside, Alien Inside]]: Pops up for Starfire from time to time, such things as her allergy to metallic-chromium and [[Lethal Chef|strange recipes]]. Also when she attempts to "bathe" her pet, Silky, by licking it like a mother cat. With a two-foot-long tongue. Apparently, she also has ''nine'' stomachs. And let's not get started on her transformation....
* [[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!"
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'''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]]
* [[Keet]]: Beast Boy, of course. [http://i53.tinypic.com/oa500x.jpg To the next level.]
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* [[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 (Animation)|Aquaman]] comes to mind.
** [[Hey ItsIt's That Voice|Both voiced by]] [[John Dimaggio]], no less.
* [[Last Minute Hookup]]: Robin and Starfire are [[Ship Tease|ship teased]] throughout the whole series. They finally kiss in the last few minutes of ''Trouble in Tokyo''.
* [[Laughably Evil]]: A few villians, with Control Freak being one of the most apparent.
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{{quote| '''Raven''': His heart rate is off the charts.<br />
'''Cyborg''': Blood pressure, neurokinetics - most people can't survive that kind of stress! }}
* [[M AgiciansMagicians Are Wizards]]: The Amazing Mumbo.
* [[Magic Kiss]]: Starfire learns languages this way; see [[Aliens Speaking English]] above.
* [[Magic Skirt]]:
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* [[Marked Change]]: {{spoiler|Raven}}
* [[Marshmallow Hell|Marshmallow Heaven]]: In "Forces of Nature", Starfire hugs Beast Boy (as a cat) after forgiving him for the motor oil balloon prank, but if you look carefully, Beastie is rubbing his face ON HER BOOBS. Hey, he's a ''teenage boy'', what did you expect?
** [[The Abridged Series]] subtitled this with "[[LO LcatsLOLcats|im on ur girlfriend rubbin on ur boobs!]]"
** [[Puppy Dog Eyes|Puss-In-Boots Eyes]]: "You know you can't resist the face..."
** Happens to none other than RAVEN, after getting back into their bodies at the end of switched Starfire hugs Raven and for split second we can see her head at... a questionable place
* [[Martial Arts Do Not Work That Way]]: Season 1 Robin being the most frequent offender; fortunately he does clean up his act, and his fights that don't invoke this trope more than make up for the ones that do.
* [[Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy]]: [[Badass Bookworm|Raven]] and [[Cute Bruiser|Beast Boy]].
* [[Masked Luchador]]: Pantha, a rare female example.
* [[May -December Romance]]: Between Raven (teen) and Malchior (easily a few centuries, if not millenia).
* [[The Mean Brit]]: Mad Mod, who's mean, but also wacky and entertaining -- and appears to be motivated by a need to correct young people's education and grammar.... And also has an aversion to America in general; hence Jump City's makeover in "Revolution" to look more like a mish-mash of English cities.
* [[Meaningful Name]]
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** In a similar vein, Cyborg's cover identity when he infiltrates the HIVE Academy: Stone. This is more of a nod towards Cyborg's real name Victor Stone. The fake power more likely came about because of the name, not the other way around.
* [[Mecha Mooks]]: Slade's minions.
* [[MesMe's a Crowd]]: Billy Numerous.
* [[Metaphorgotten]]: "Run run run as fast as you can, you can't catch me... catch you, uh... I'm Billy Numerous!"
* [[Military Mashup Machine]]: Submarine + rockets = {{smallcaps|[[Space Is an Ocean|spacesub]]}}!
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{{quote| '''Beast Boy:''' When you split up, the monster hunts you down one at a time, [[Death By Genre Savvy|starting with the good-looking funny relief guy -- ME]]!}}
** {{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.
* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: {{spoiler|Thanks to Terra going ridiculously overboard in trying to destroy the Titans and the city, and generally prove herself a villain, the Titans manage to put aside any past feelings toward her and kick her butt easily the next time she confronts them by herself.}}
* [[New Powers As the Plot Demands]]: Raven. There are possible justifications for it, such as just using new spells or perhaps being afraid to go all out due to her demon nature.
* [[No Ending]]: The last episode, verging on [[Mind Screw]] territory.
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** 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:
{{quote| '''Robin:''' [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|"He doesn't have any]] [[True Companions|friends]]"}}
* [[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.
* [[Occidental Otaku]]
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* [[Office Sports]]: Stankball, using a ball made from unwashed socks.
* [[Official Couple]]: Robin and Starfire, Kid Flash and Jinx. For a while, Beast Boy and Terra, Cyborg and Sarasim, Raven and Malchior/Rorek.
* [[One, Two, Three, Four, Go]]: The theme song is the [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Green -Skinned Space Babe|Orange-Skinned Alien Babe]]: Starfire, who also has [[Green Eyes]].
* [[Orbital Kiss]]: In [[The Movie]], with the first aforementioned official couple.
* [[Other Me Annoys Me]]: nosyarG kciD to Robin.
* [[Out of the Inferno]]: Val Yor does this.
* [[Painted -On Pants]]: Oh, dear lord, Robin.
* [[Pardon My Klingon]]: Starfire occasionally spouts odd Tamaranian curse words and insults.
* [[Parody Commercial]]: In "Don't Touch That Dial", with [[Rattling Off Legal]].
* [[Peek -a -Bangs]]: Terra, which symbolizes when {{spoiler|she's working for Slade.}}
* [[Pettanko]]: Terra and Jinx.
* [[Pick On Someone Your Own Size]]
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'''Robin, as heard on the ship's communication:''' ''(static)'' separate! I repeat! ''(static)'' SEPARATE!<br />
'''Starfire:''' As you wish. ''(The ship separates. Cue the Titans being stranded on an alien planet.)'' }}
* [[Post -Kiss Catatonia]]
** [[The Movie]]'s random Japanese boy from whom Starfire [[Mega Manning|Mega Mans]] the language.
** Also Robin, after Starfire first kisses him and then pushes him to the ground when he first meets her in "Go".
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{{quote| '''Robin:''' "He doesn't have any friends."}}
* [[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.
{{quote| '''Starfire:''' I am sorry to disappoint you... but I am stronger than I look.<br />
'''Beast Boy:''' I'm not a man... I'm an animal!<br />
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* [[Script Wank]]: Lampshaded! After defeating Control Freak, Robin states that the lesson this week was to not watch too much TV... until he's reminded that they only won ''because'' Beast Boy watches too much TV, thereby deliberately [[Spoof Aesop|smashing the Aesop into tiny little pieces.]]
* [[Second Person Attack]]: Frequent. Cyborg does it in the title sequence.
* [[Self -Deprecation]]: Robin's "This Show Will Rot Your Brain" rant in "Don't Touch That Dial" could be taken as against ''the cartoon itself''!
* [[Shadow Archetype]]
** Slade and Red X to Robin
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* [[Shoo the Dog]]: Starfire with Silkie.
* [[Shout Out]]: So many, they've been moved to [[Teen Titans (Animation)/Shout Out|their own page]].
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: The exchange between Slade and Robin in "Masks".
* [[Shut Up Kiss]]: How Starfire "learned" her English.
** Also somewhat a a subtle [[Smooch of Victory]] as she kisses after Robin frees her from her restraints.
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* [[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.
* [[Strong As They Need to Be]]: The show is fairly notorious for this.
* [[Stolen Good, Returned Better]]: The Hive takes over the Titans' (filthy) Tower. By the time the Titans retake it, the Hive have cleaned it up and alphabetized their CDs. The Titans are [[Subverted Trope|appalled]], since now they can't find anything and they were saving [[It Came From the Fridge|that blue mold.]]
* [[Story Arc]]
* [[Stylish Protection Gear]]: The team has protection outfits that still look good.
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* [[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}}.
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** See it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyGx3m1gPZI&feature=related here] and laugh.
** The tune was also used as a cue. If [[Puffy AmiYumi]] sing in Japanese, you're getting one of the wacky, goofy episodes. If they sing in English, it's a normal episode. The only exception to this rule was the first Raven-centric episode, "Nevermore".
*** And if ''Larry'' sings it, it's [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made On Drugs?]].
** In the Movie, not only is a translated to Japanese and back to English version sung by Beast Boy during a Karaoke scene, but also in the credits of said Movie, each of the five main characters sing (or in Raven's case, deadpans in a way that you KNOW she must be trying to look away from everyone) at least two lines.
* [[There Are No Therapists]]: One wonders how society is okay with a group of teenagers with no parental figures involving themselves in horrific violence every day without any support, except from each other. Also, each Titan has an extremely dark past which quite obviously still affects them and even interferes with their work sometimes, yet they don't try to seek help in any way, and in the case of most of them, simply try to bottle it all up.
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* [[Ugly Guys Hot Daughter]]: Trigon and Raven, as well as Kitten and Killer Moth.
* [[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]]
** Robin's attache case in "All Revved Up". Also, whether the {{spoiler|schoolgirl was really Terra}} in the series finale, and if so, {{spoiler|how she lost her memory...or if she really did lose it at all.}}
** 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).
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{{quote| '''Starfire:'' ''(putting a flower on Robin's lapel)'' I believe on such occasions, it is customary to wear a dead plant?}}
* [[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).
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* [[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.
* [[Weak -Willed]]
** Beast Boy, a real hazard whenever Mad Mod rolls around.
** Also Terra {{spoiler|until Beast Boy tells her that she doesn't have to let Slade control her.}}
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** For something more epic, "The End".
** Also, "Apprentice" in season 1 shocked people with how dark it was, back when the show was new and hadn't established itself yet as a serious show.
* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: At the end of the [[Trapped in TV Land]] episode Cyborg has brought a soap opera star back to reality with him. What happens to her is never explained. Then again, how she got there is never explained, either...
** 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
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*** 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.
** Pay close attention to Slade's butler in the pilot, for he is never seen again. (He does make a brief appearance in [[Teen Titans Go (Comic Book)|the comic]] as a victim of Ravager, but his relationship to Slade is never elaborated on.)
* [[What Measure Is a Non -Human?]]: Whether or not you think the episode "Troq" is a [[Broken Aesop]] hinges on whether you consider robots to be sentient creatures.
* [[When She Smiles]]: Raven. Occasionally, this is a sign that something's horribly, horribly wrong...
* [[White -Haired Pretty Boy]]: Malchior from the episode Spellbound. {{spoiler|Of course, it turns out that the Malchior is the dragon that has borrowed the look from Rorek}}.
* [[White -Haired Pretty Girl]]: The [[Mysterious Waif|mysteriously waifish]] Chrysalis Eater, who is portrayed as [[Wise Beyond Their Years|Wise Beyond Her Years]].
* [[White Void Room]]: Raven's chamber in "How Long Is Forever?"
* [[Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises]]
* [[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.
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* [[Wrench Wench]]: Raven, of all people, though its easy to miss. Terra has this aesthetic, but isn't.
* [[Xtreme Kool Letterz]]: Kyd Wykkyd seems to have a serious aversion to the letter I.
* [[Yank the DogsDog's Chain]]: Terra's now an official Teen Titan, made friends with her teammates and even [[Puppy Love|had a little romance with Beast Boy.]] You thought she's going to be [[Breakout Character|a permanant character]], right? WRONG. {{spoiler|As it turns out, after the debut appearance, she seeks Slade's help, and even give out vital information to him into order for Slade to send his robot minions to attack Titans Tower}}. For once, we should have actually ''believed'' Raven's instincts.
* [[Yes but What Does Zataproximetacine DO]]: In the [[Trapped in TV Land]] episode. The product is Zinthos, from the makers of Azarath and Metrion, and it gives you [[Strong As They Need to Be|what you need, when you need it]].
* [[You Are Already Dead]]: Robin does the [[Diagonal Cut]] version on an [[It Makes Sense in Context|animated cardboard samurai monster]] in "Fear Itself".
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* [[Your Mind Makes It Real]]: "Haunted". And "Fear Itself", though in this case, it's just Raven's mind for everyone.
* [[Yuppie Couple|Yuppie Pet]]: Silkie, who is also pretty much the personification of [[Ugly Cute]].
* [[Zerg Rush]]: About the only thing [[MesMe's a Crowd|Billy Numerous]] can do. There's also Slade's attack with an army of fire-demons in the fourth season finale.
 
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