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=== ''[[Teen Titans (Animation)|Teen Titans]]'' features examples of: ===
 
* [[Twenty Percent20% 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.
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{{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]].
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* [[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.
* [[Crap Saccharine World]]: [[I'm a Humanitarian|Mother Mae-Eye]]'s oh so [[Tastes Like Diabetes|cutesy wootzy fantasy world]].
* [[Crazy Cultural Comparison]]: Starfire has a few strange Tamaranian customs, such as The Pudding Of Sadness and The Poem of Gratitude.
* [[Cuffs Off, Rub Wrists]]: ''Cyborg'' of all people does this, in the second part of "Titans East".
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Oh. So. ''Often.'' Any given Slade vs. Robin fight will be like this.
* [[Custom Uniform of Sexy]]: Pick a girl, any girl.
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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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* [[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?"
* [[Either or Title]]: "Bunny Raven, or How to Make a Titananimal Disappear"
* [[Eldritch Location]]: The inside of Mumbo's hat.
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* [[Emotionless Girl]]: Subverted by Raven, who actually ''has'' emotions, but is forced to keep them in check by the nature of her powers. ("Fear Itself" provides a pretty good example of what happens when her emotions become too much for her to handle.)
* [[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]]:
{{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.
** The latter is especially ironic for those aware that "The Steel City" is a nickname for [[Pittsburgh]], PA.
* [[Evil Costume Switch]]
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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 (Comic Book)|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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** A number of other one-off named [[Finishing Move|Finishing Moves]] exist, like the "T-Rex Takedown".
** Many of these involve Cyborg and Beast Boy pulling off numerous variations of a [[Fastball Special]].
* [[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]]:
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* [[Harmless Villain]]: Mostly the one-shots.
* [[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}}
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** In "Snowblind: {{spoiler|Red Star. A supercharged supersoldier from Russia, he willingly locked himself up in a old power plant for years to keep from hurting other people due to his body discharging radiation every few hours and at the end of the episode has Starfire take him into the stratosphere when he goes supernova due to an overload from battle. [[Unexplained Recovery|He returns in the second-to-last episode with no particular explanation.]] }}
** Robin nearly pulls one of these in the Season 1 finale by blasting himself with the same deadly nanites that were killing the rest of the Titans, gambling on Slade being more willing to let them all live than to let Robin die. He was right, too.
* [[Hot -Blooded]]: Robin and Cyborg. Oh so very much.
* [[Hotblooded Sideburns]]: Control Freak has a long pair of them.
* [[Hot Mom]]: After seeing Arella in "The End" arc, it's quite obvious who Raven takes after.
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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.
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Cyborg, Raven, and Terra. {{spoiler|Notable in that Terra's subsequent retirement was permanent, and implied as being for the better...}}
* [[In the Blood]]: Raven's demonic heritage and power, which she resists.
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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, It'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.
* [[Leaning On the Fourth Wall]]
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* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[No Sell]]: Occurs semi-regularly, but a notable example is in "Wavelength" when Cyborg hits Brother Blood with a (small) missile and there isn't even any [[Clothing Damage]] when the smoke clears.
* [[The Notable Numeral]]: The Hive Five
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'''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.
{{quote| '''Cyborg:''' So [[Let Me Get This Straight...]]: We're [Robin, Starfire, Beast Boy and Cyborg] inside Mumbo's Hat and Raven's inside Mumbo's Hat INSIDE Mumbo's Hat?!"}}
* [[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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** [http://i56.tinypic.com/zo6kc7.jpg Awww, look at the cute widdle...]
*** [http://i54.tinypic.com/av37l1.jpg Oh god; ABORT, ABORT!!]
*** 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!]
{{quote| '''Starfire:''' Awww! You look so cute!<br />
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** Starfire had one of these moments at the end of ''How Long Is Forever?''
* [[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]]
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* [[Shonen Hair]]: Robin, probably to invoke an "anime" look more than anything.
* [[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.
* [[Sidekick Glass Ceiling]]
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* [[Stylish Protection Gear]]: The team has protection outfits that still look good.
* [[Sugary Malice]]: Mother May-Eye.
* [[Super -Deformed]]: Mostly as sight gags. And would Larry count?
* [[Superhero]]: Hmm, I wonder.
* [[Super -Hero Origin]]: Oddly, not featured until the fourth-to-last episode of the series.
* [[Superpower Lottery]]: Raven, Brother Blood, and {{spoiler|Slade while working for Trigon}} all seem to develop five or six new abilities in every alternate scene. Their typical powers are also pretty damn out-there. It's probably a sign when quite a few of Raven's episodes ("Switched", "Fear Itself", "Bunny Raven", "The End") feature her losing her powers in some way.
** 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]].
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* [[Vile Villain Saccharine Show]]: The show always got darker whenever Trigon showed up, and the same could almost always be said of Slade.
* [[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.
* [[Weak-Willed]]
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* [[Weird Moon]]: A rather large one that's full for two night's straight for the [[Our Werewolves Are Different|Werewolf-esque]] episode "The Beast Within".
* [[Weld the Lock]]: Starfire does this in the third episode.
* [[Wham! Episode]]
** For good writing, "Aftershock".
** For something more epic, "The End".
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** 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.
** 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.
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