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It can be found [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/65979 here.]
The series also includes most of the tropes found in ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'', so this page will mostly consist of ones unique to the original characters or original story lines.
There's also a [[Titan Legends/WMG|WMG page]] and a [[Titan Legends/Awesome|CMOA page]].
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=== This series provides general examples of: ===
* [[Age-Appropriate Angst]]: Done with most characters [[Better Than It Sounds|at least once]].
* [[Anachronic Order]] : Due to three or more different authors, the troubles that all of them have with updating, and some stories being written before the story they're supposed to be sequels to, the timeline goes all over the place.
* [[Arch Enemy]]: More than a few.
* [[Backstory]]: There's a detailed one for pretty much every character, OC and CC, in the stories, but many have yet to be revealed.
* [[Big Bad]]: There's always one for each of the stories.
* [[Boring Invincible Villain]]: Arguable with the Lord of the Night.
* [[Character Development]]: Occurs with some characters, but not all.
* [[Crossover]]: ''Danny's Inferno'', a crossover with [[Danny Phantom]].
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** This troper's favorite, for sheer strangeness, was when a story actually referenced the infamous exploitation film ''I Spit On Your Grave''.
* [[Theme Naming]]: Savior, Gauntlet, and Metatron all have the same middle name: Alexander.
** It also seems that ALL villains and heroes that introduce themselves MUST have a codename... this includes any possible pairs or groups of heroes/villains when they team up, EVERY time they team up.
* [[There Are No Therapists]]: Subverted, in that there are obviously plenty of therapists, the main characters just have too many secrets or other issues to visit them.
** Now completely subverted with the appearances by Dr. Sidlakus as a psychiatrist/counselor for a few Titans when they seek him out.
=== Specific storywise examples include: ===
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* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: The Lord of the Night, who is never indicated to be Asian or has any affinity for Asian arts, culture, or philosophy, fights with a katana.
* [[Last-Second Word Swap]]: While several male Titans are hanging out, they decide to talk about sex. In order to avoid offending any females that pass by, they switch their words at the exact second they come into hearing range. After a while they realize it's too risky and switch topics.
** Then Kid Flash screws that up and [[That '70s Show|bursts out about breasts the size of watermelons]] when Raven comes along.
* [[Love At First Sight]]: Noel gets dumbstruck when he sees Raven... and to keep it from being [[Mary Sue|Sueish]], Raven just keeps shooting him down throughout the entire story.
** Also lampshaded by Noel when he mentally berates himself for it.
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== Wings Of The Eagles ==
* [[Alternate Universe]]: The many seen during ''Time and Time Again''.
** Heck, due to the nature of the Legendsverse, some fans choose to view it as a really obscure [[Alternate Universe]] of DC Comics as opposed to a fanfic, even if the company (likely) has no idea is exists.
** They've even noted the numbers for the Legendsverse and it's AU spinoffs.
* [[Anachronic Order]]: This fanfic is the one with the most confusing timeline; it connects between 2 arcs posted separately and ''The Epic Of Gauntlet''.
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== Flashing Lights And Sounds ==
* [[Alien Blood]]: Blacktrinians' blood is essentially [[Bloody Murder|liquid ''napalm'']].
* [[Ax Crazy]]: The White Hole
* [[Big Bad]]: The Sorceress
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{{quote|'''Billy Recording''': These tests will show just how much you are willing to sacrifice to make it out of here alive. So Titans. Would you sacrifice your blood? A limb? How about a teammate? You'll have to answer for your choices, Titans. Be prepared.}}
** It's immediately presented that the Titans had tests to pass... they never thought that the "choices" they'd have to make about teammates could be unrelated.
** Also, {{spoiler|Noel's jacket}} in Boogeymen IV.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Used quite a few times in these stories. (Spoilers ahead.)
** {{spoiler|The Orb of Archetypal}}.
** {{spoiler|Gizmo's Intrinsic Field Remover in Boogeymen II}}.
** {{spoiler|The crowbar Flay severed in Boogeymen II}}.
** {{spoiler|The empty elevator in Boogeymen IV}}.
** {{spoiler|Cyborg's stolen favorite taser}}.
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*** It turns out that {{spoiler|there was a surprise ending and chapter 12's ending was a ruse all along}}.
** {{spoiler|If the Titan's powers were blocked by the Orb of Archtypal (like they assumed), then Noel shouldn't have had any painful effects when trying to access the Shimmer simply because it had blocked his powers. His nerve system should be normal, so its response should be just like anyone else's: ''without pain''. The fact that it wasn't pointed to the reality that the Orb of Archetypal was not in play}}.
** {{spoiler|Gauntlet kept bringing up the fact that it was All Saints Day (AKA The Day of the Dead), and ''not'' Halloween, even though all of the previous stories occurred on the night before Halloween (so midnight was Halloween and the night was Mischief Night)}}.
** {{spoiler|The fact that Noel's trap didn't have a tape, which would ''always'' be left in plain view... implying that the tape was somewhere ''else'' so it could easily be found... like ''Noel's jacket'', which he decided to search out of anyone's sight at the very beginning of the story}}.
*** Also, {{spoiler|when Noel gives the jacket to Starfire, he says, "It still has armor. Hopefully enough, if someone decides to shoot through the door or...something." Why would he assume someone would shoot through the door when there's been only bladed weapons so far... unless he's seen (or even ''has'') one?}}
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* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Specifically ''Boogeymen III'', which features or will feature just about every horror movie character there was, including one scene where the protagonists are attacked by no less then 100 "slashers" from nearly as many movies. You know the drill.
* [[Love Makes You Evil]]: {{spoiler|Savior's}} [[Always Save the Girl|motive]] for [[Sadistic Choice|betrayal]] in {{spoiler|''Boogeymen IV: Dolorum Ipsum Quia''}}.
* [[Normally I Would Be Dead Now]]: Used several times in ''Boogeymen IV: Dolorum Ipsum Quia''... though the Titans would have probably been better off had it not been.
* [[Oh, No, Not Again]]: Done by Noel in ''Boogeymen II: Teenage Wasteland'' when {{spoiler|horror movies are brought to life, and he's stuck in the mayhem again}}.
** Also by {{spoiler|Nightwalker}} in ''Boogeymen III: House of 1000 Cliches'' .
* [[Please Wake Up]]: {{spoiler|Noel}} does this to {{spoiler|Raven}} in ''Boogeymen IV: Dolorum Ipsum Quia''.
* [[Psycho Supporter]]: In BMIV, {{spoiler|Marissa}} makes her first appearance as {{spoiler|The Lord's latest follower}}. She still has some [[Creepy Monotone|madness]] the readers expected, but {{spoiler|[[Split Personality|Zia]] made no appearance at the end of the story}}.
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== Boogeymen Gaiden ==
* [[Came Back Wrong]]: This BM differs in that it's the Titans fighting off the Black Lanterns, which are Type 3.
* [[Doppelganger]]: Gauntlet is off fighting Lanterns out for revenge on his father separately from the Titans with the help of a new masked friend/foe, [[Meaningful Name|Cipactli]]. It isn't until the end of the story that he manages to get her real name: {{spoiler|Zia Mori}}
** To be clear, {{spoiler|at the very same time those two are fighting, ''Marissa'' Mori is present the entire time with the Lord}}. This brings up a lot of [[Epileptic Trees]].
* [[Emotion Bomb]]: The Lord's plot hinges on one of these to overload the Lanterns' rings, which could make them vulnerable to attack.
* [[Enemy Mine]]: The Titans have to team up with ''quite'' a few enemies of theirs: {{spoiler|The Lord of the Night, Marissa Mori, Elijah Versaw (now Intertia, not Cauterize),Empyrean, and Myth}}.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: {{spoiler|Beast Boy, Cyborg, and Savior}} all do one of these, with the latter being the worst, when they realize that the ones that came back from the dead include {{spoiler|their parents}}.
** Although the villain counterpart is the [[Villainous Breakdown]], {{spoiler|Elijah and Marissa}} both have reactions similar to the heroes rather than going insane.
* [[Horror Hunger]]: While it was first touched on in ''Silent Night'', we get a straightforward confirmation that The Lord ''drains and feeds off darkness in people'', including their emotions.
** You'd think this wasn't all that bad, since the person would feel relieved afterwards, but he not only pushed the Titans to {{spoiler|utterly slaughter the Lanterns that took on their loved ones' forms after they've been hit by the [[Emotion Bomb]]}} just to get an extra boost, but he even flaunts doing it to his new and ''willing'' subordinate ({{spoiler|Marissa}}) right in front of Raven.
* [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]: Extremely disturbing when done by the resurrected {{spoiler|Mitch Mori}}. Alhough it's likely a ploy by the ring to get as much of a rise out of {{spoiler|Marissa}} as possible before killing her and turning her into one, let's make go over just how [[Squick|freaking disgusting]] it is: {{spoiler|it's the rotted corpse of a father who raped his daughter after her mother's dead and drove her off the deep end into massacring students at her school before offing herself, and it's chasing her down while discussing how much he's going to enjoy doing it ''again''}}.
* [[More Than Mind Control]]: Heavily implied to have been involved with why {{spoiler|Marissa}} works for the Lord willingly, even so far as for her to say she ''knows'' what he's done already. It's unclear if she really knows everything or if he didn't outright [[Mind Rape]] her, particularly when Raven tells Dr. Sidlakus that {{spoiler|''many'' pieces of her mental self were missing, particularly those related to [[Split Personality|Zia]]}}.
* [[Named Weapons]]: The Lord named not only the weapon he {{spoiler|gave to Nightwalker, previously the Lightscourge, now the Nightscourge}}, but also named a shapechanging sword [[Meaningful Name|Tezcatlipoca]].
== Christmas Stories ==
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* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Más Y Menos' lines, which are all in Spanish.
* [[Yet Another Christmas Carol]]: Subverted when Gauntlet leads an attempt to do this to Savior in ''Adeste Fidelis'', but is stopped immediately when the sheet flies off of Terra (who's playing the ghost of Christmas Past). Considering Noel's childhood, maybe it's better that they were stopped.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Lampshaded by Gauntlet when Met steals the title from him in ''Silent Night''.
* [[Covered in Gunge]]: Speedy continuously tries to get back at Gauntlet for his pranks in ''Adeste Fidelis'', but gets Savior by accident.
* [[Dating Catwoman]]: [[Opposites Attract|Cyborg and Jinx]], in both stories.
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* [[Anti-Villain]]: Though Cauterize clearly means well, his actions and methods show that despite the suffering that's been inflicted on him, he's learned the wrong lessons from it. Perhaps most tragic is the fact {{spoiler|though he clearly loathed his abusive stepfather, said abuse has made him into a twisted mirror image of his abusive stepfather.}}
* [[Asshole Victim]]: Mayor Tercero is a corrupt, greedy bastard... and he's the one who called the Titans for help.
* [[Beleaguered Assistant]]: Roman Fernandez.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: Light City is saved, but at what cost? {{spoiler|Then it turns out Elijah isn't dead after all.}}
* [[Catch a Falling Star]]: Cauterize runs up a skyscraper into the air, dragging {{spoiler|Mayor Tercero}}, lets him go, and runs back down to watch.
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* [[The Killer Becomes the Killed]]: {{spoiler|Subverted, since Toby's death was an [[Xanatos Gambit|elaborate ruse]] to make everyone think Toby had been Cauterize and that Cauterize was now dead}}.
* [[Trick Dialogue]]: Terra overhears Beast Boy screaming at someone that he hates him/her, and assumes it's her (since she's been awkwardly avoiding him while trying to get back together with him)... then realizes he was yelling at himself in the mirror for not just telling Terra he loves her.
** What makes this funny is that she actually bursts in and yells at him for kissing Kory (which she did to learn English) after he mentioned it in his discussion with himself.
* [[Turn in Your Badge]]: Turnquist does this to Chesbro (to protect him from Pierce) after [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Pierce]] blackmails Turnquist to ensure none of his "business" is uncovered while he's under the Titan's protection.
* [[Sympathetic Murderer]]: [[Vigilante Man|Cauterize]].
* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: Several; the biggest might be {{spoiler|Toby Garigen}}.
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* [[Crisis Crossover]]: A re-imagining of one, to be precisely.
* [[Depending on the Writer]]: While it started out as a straight re-imagining, later chapters and the story's section on the website comment on DC's editorial decisions since the original miniseries was published.
* [[Rousing Speech]]: When Robin asks Noel to pull one of his motivational speeches out of his ass, Noel gives a speech comparing the Titans' situation of defending Metropolis from an oncoming army of supervillain escapees to the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BCE.
** A speech which was shamelessly swiped, and even stated so:
{{quote|'''Robin:''' Very nice.
'''Savior: '''Don’t thank me, thank Frank Miller. I mostly stole it from him. }}
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** Eyesore: See above.
** Jackal: Was apparently abandoned by his parents and had a terrible life afterward: not many details were provided.
* [[Generation Xerox]]: Subverted. ''Here Comes Tomorrow'' and some parts of ''Time and Time Again'' and ''Crisis Point'' do show the next generation, however some are completely unrelated to the Titans and those who ''are'' have their own personalities and issues.
* [[Genki Girl]]: Zippy, somewhat justified due to her lightning powers.
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: The Lord of the Night's {{spoiler|horribly burned and shredded face}} is a clear indication that he is ''not'' good. On the other hand, {{spoiler|Nigel and Noel have easily-concealed scars on their chests from being run through with swords in the name of justice.}}
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* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: Raven is a human/demon hybrid. {{spoiler|Mary}} is half-Blacktrinian.
* [[Hobbes Was Right]]: The Lord's personal bible, mixed in with [[Nietzsche Wannabe]] and [[Put Them All Out of My Misery]].
* [[Love Martyr]]: Poor {{spoiler|Murdercrow}}.
** Various other characters have their moments of this, including Noel challenging a demon lord for a chance to date Raven, or Starfire {{spoiler|purposefully getting herself shot}} in ''Boogeymen IV: Ipsum Dolorum Quia''.
** From what we've seen of her, Empyrean also appears to be one. [[Love Makes You Crazy]], indeed.
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