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Plot

Created for DC Comics in 1964, the Teen Titans were a band of junior crime fighters, largely comprised of the sidekicks of such A-list DC do-gooders as Batman and Aquaman. First animated on the old Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure in 1968, the youthful Titans were revived for television by producers Bruce Timm (of Batman: The Animated Series fame) and Glenn Murakami (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) 35 years later. On this occasion, the only carryover from the original comic book was Teen Titan leader Robin the Boy Wonder, although Robin's erstwhile pal Aqualad made occasional guest appearances. Other Teen Titans included the shape shifting Beast Boy, red-haired alien Starfire, the telekinetic Raven, and the half-robot Cyborg. The principal villains on this series were the superpowered graduates of Hive Academy, led by Slade Wilson (aka Deathstroke). All of these characters had, of course, been created and developed for the comic books by such worthies as Bob Kane, George Perez, and Marv Wolfman. The new version of Teen Titans made its Cartoon Network bow on July 19, 2003. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Episodes

Teen Titans: Season 01 (2003)
Youthful superheroes Robin the Boy Wonder, Beast Boy, Cyborg, Raven and Starfire battle a vast array of costumed villains--not to mention their own raging hormones, petty jealousies, and deep-set insecurities--in Season One of the animated Teen Titans. Thirteen episodes are dished up this season. In the opener, the Titans are attacked by graduates of the H.I.V.E. Academy, minions all of the mysterious Slade Williams. Then, Starfire is locked into a fierce sibling rivalry with her mercurial sister Blackfire. In the next episode, an effort to wipe out the villainous Cinderblock comes acropper because the Titans can't get along together. And there's more. Practical joker Beast Boy gets a dose of his own medicine just in time to reign in a destructive fraternal pair called Thunder and Lightning. The half-robotic Cyborg suffers a power failure in the middle of a pitched battle with the Amazing Mumbo. An enchanted mirror enables the Titans to literally find out what's on the apparently schizoid Raven's mind. The feud between Starfire and Raven has to be put on the back burner when the Titan males are "puppetized." Beast Boy shows off his morphing ability, only to be upstaged by former Teen Titan Aqualad (voiced by Wil Wheaton). Robin zeroes in on the mysterious Slade when the latter steals a valuable computer chip, virtually ignoring another and possibly more serious threat. The "retro" villain Mad Mod kidnaps the Titans and subjects them to a bummer of a bad trip. And in a two-part episode, Robin agaonizes over the possibility that he may be no better than the villains he pursues. In the first-season finale, Cyborg creates his "dream" vehicle, the T-Car, only to have the vehicle fall into the wrong hands--several wrong hands, in fact! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
  • Teen Titans: Divide and Conquer
  • Teen Titans: Mad Mod
  • Teen Titans: Car Trouble
  • Teen Titans: Apprentice, Part 1
  • Teen Titans: Apprentice, Part 2
  • Teen Titans: Sisters
  • Teen Titans: Final Exam
  • Teen Titans: Forces of Nature
  • Teen Titans: The Sum of His Parts
  • Teen Titans: Nevermore
  • Teen Titans: Switched
  • Teen Titans: Deep Six
  • Teen Titans: Masks
Teen Titans: Season 02 (2004)
The Teen Titans--Robin, Beast Boy, Cyborg, Raven and Starfire--continue to save the world from various and sundry super-baddies, and to squabble amongst themselves like the overgrown kids that they are, in the second season of the cartoon series bearing their name. In the first of the season's 13 episodes, Starfire is hurtled two decades into the future in pursuit of time-travelling felon Warp--and comes face to face with Robin's "older self" Nightwing. And that's only the beginning, folks, only the beginning! The Titans mistake Beast Boy for a green alien dog, and vice versa. The half-human side of Cyborg clashes with his half-robot side durng a battle with giant robot Atlas. The world of horror films collides with reality (or at least, cartoon reality) when Titans Tower becomes the repository of the Teen Titans' worst fears. The deadly criminal Killer Moth threatens to decimate the city-- unless Robin agrees to escort the Moth's daughter Kitten to her prom! The moment Starfire begins obsessing over her looks, her looks turn around and nearly destroy her. The Master of Games pits the current Teen Titans against several of their comic-book predecessors in an alternate dimension. And Robin comes to regret a visit from his "number one fan" Larry the Titan. There's also a poignant--and ultimately terrifying--plot thread involving Terra, a strange, telekinetic girl who wants to join the Titans, but may not yet have full control over her awesome (and potentially apocalyptic) powers. Terra is given the opportunity to prove her mettle Titans' arch-enemy Slade--and later, Terra and Beast Boy become an "item". Alas, the relationship sours in a spectacular fashion, as demonstrated in the season's slam-bang two-part finale, which proves beyond doubt that Hell hate no fury like a Terra scorned! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
  • Teen Titans: How Long Is Forever?
  • Teen Titans: Betrayal
  • Teen Titans: Fractured
  • Teen Titans: Aftershock, Part I
  • Teen Titans: Aftershock, Part II
  • Teen Titans: Every Dog Has His Day
  • Teen Titans: Terra
  • Teen Titans: Only Human
  • Teen Titans: Fear Itself
  • Teen Titans: Date With Destiny
  • Teen Titans: Transformation
  • Teen Titans: Titan Rising
  • Teen Titans: Winner Take All
Teen Titans: Season 03 (2004)
Fighting a never-ending battle against the forces of evil--and their own immaturities, insecurities and petty jealousies--Robin, Cyborg, Beast Boy, Raven and Starfire return for a third season of the animated Teen Titans. In the season opener, Cyborg, disguised as a muscleman named Stone, infiltrates the H.IV.E. Academy, breeding ground for the evil Slade's minions. The mission succeeds in utterly decimating H.I.V.E. , a victory that may prove Pyrrhic when several surviving academy members mount an undersea counteract against the Titans in a later episode which features "guest hero" Aqualad. Elsewhere: Robin must battle his alter ego Red X, and his own guilt for making Red X the crazy mixed-up character he has become. Starfire surprises everyone when she announces plans to marry a man she's never met. Beast Boy's obsession with computer games causes Cyborg to be infected with a virus that causes him to berserk--and later in the season, Beast Boy experience another personality makeover when he's drenched in toxic waste. The Titans' long-dead enemy Slade apparently returns to life--or is it merely Robin's delirium that has brought about this unholy resurrection? Raven a rendezvous with a magician she frees from one of her books; and later,the less benign illusionist the Amazing Mumbo sucks the Titans into alternate world reminiscent of the Krofft Brothers' Lidsville! Retro villain Mad Mod returns to crash the Titans' 4th of July party and hurtle the U.S. back into the British Empire. And the Titan's unofficial pet Silkie the silkworm, introduced the previous season, turns out to be one of those domestic creatures that becomes more unmanageable (and more dangerous) when it's off its feed. The two-part season finale marks the formation of a new team, Titans East, comprised of DC Comics veterans Speedy and Aqualad, and Spanish twins Mas Y Menos; alas, their crimefighting activities are severely curtailed after a brainwashing session with the sinister Brother Blood. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
  • Teen Titans: Deception
  • Teen Titans: Can I Keep Him?
  • Teen Titans: X
  • Teen Titans: Betrothed
  • Teen Titans: Crash
  • Teen Titans: Haunted
  • Teen Titans: Spellbound
  • Teen Titans: Revolution
  • Teen Titans: Wavelength
  • Teen Titans: The Beast Within
  • Teen Titans: Bunny Raven or How to Make a Titananimal Disappear
  • Teen Titans: Titans East, Part One
  • Teen Titans: Titans East, Part Two
Teen Titans: Season 04 (2005)
"Teen Titans" Robin, Beast Boy, Cyborg, Starfire and Raven do battle against the forces of evil while simultaneously adjusting to their own personal "angst" and rampaging hormones in the fourth season of their animated TV series. Things get off to a typically lively start when the Titans are thrust into a TV-generated world--with constantly changing channels--by lunatic couch potato Control Freak. Nor does the action abate in the remaining 12 episodes. Robin aspires to martial arts greatness under the tutelage of the True Master, but it is for the common good or to satisfy his own ego? Hurtled 5000 years into the past, Cyborg becomes a Conan-like barbarian. Beast Boy briefly descends from his superhero pedestal to take a job at a fast-food restaurant with a strangely unappetizing menu. Outer space hero Val-Yor wants the Titans to help him vanquish an enemy--but wants nothing to do with Starfire; and a later scuffle in space sends the Titans off to different corners of the universe. Also, a new "Max-7" brain chip turns Cyborg into a "speed freak"; and an elderly eccentric named Mother May-Eye "adopts" the Ttans as her own, but in this case a superhero's best friend may not be his Mother. The season is dominated by a disturbing throughline, beginning with Raven's curiously nonfestive attitude on her birthday. The source of her discomfort is the Titan's perennial nemesis Slade, who has apparently returned from the dead, and who shares a sinister secret with Raven. All of this is but a prelude to the season's riotous three-part finale, in which Raven, guided by Slade, prepares to fulfill what she believes is her destiny--to bring about the end of the world! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
  • Teen Titans: Episode 257-494
  • Teen Titans: Mother Mae-Eye
  • Teen Titans: The End, Part 1
  • Teen Titans: The End, Part 2
  • Teen Titans: The End, Part 3
  • Teen Titans: Cyborg the Barbarian
  • Teen Titans: Birthmark
  • Teen Titans: The Quest
  • Teen Titans: Employee of the Month
  • Teen Titans: Trog
  • Teen Titans: The Prophecy
  • Teen Titans: Stranded
  • Teen Titans: Overdrive
Teen Titans: Season 05 (2005)
  • Teen Titans: Homecoming Part 1
  • Teen Titans: Go!
  • Teen Titans: Calling All Titans
  • Teen Titans: Titans Together
  • Teen Titans: Things Change
  • Teen Titans: Homecoming Part 2
  • Teen Titans: Trust
  • Teen Titans: For Real
  • Teen Titans: Snowblind
  • Teen Titans: Kole
  • Teen Titans: Hide and Seek
  • Teen Titans: Lightspeed
  • Teen Titans: Revved Up
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AMG AllGame Guide:

Teen Titans

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Game Description

In this handheld translation of the popular animated superhero series, the Teen Titans may face off against their most challenging opponents yet -- themselves. Brother Blood has plans to make clones of Robin, Starfire, Cyborg, Raven, and Beast Boy, and use them to take over the world. It will take the whole team to stop the villain's devious scheme, so players can switch between the five Titans on the fly -- each young hero with his or her own special moves -- as they fight their way through each side-scrolling level. If the thought of Teen Titan doppelgangers is not enough of a threat, familiar villains such as Slade, Overload, Jinx, Gizmo, and Mammoth also take their turns at trying to put a stop to the heroes along the way.
~ T.J. Deci, All Game Guide

Production Credits

Company 1: Majesco Entertainment Company; EVP Creative Director: Joseph Sutton; VP Product Development: Dan Kitchen; Producer: Anthony DeLuca; Executive Producer: Dean Martinetti; Product Development Manager: Catherine Biebelberg; VP Marketing: Ken Gold; Product Manager: Deborah Montella, Liz Buckley; Assistant Product Manager: Zach Smith; Manual Author: Josh Breidbart, Zach Smith; PR Account Director: Laura Heeb; Director of Creative Services: Leslie Mills DeMarco; Package and Manual Design: Andy Cummings, Vic Merritt; QA Manager: Joe McHale; Project Lead Tester: Kevin Kurdes; Lead Tester: Eric Jezercak, Rob Cooper, Andrew Bado; Tester: Josh Hexner, Jorge Cosme, Rich Wogan, Jonathan Black, Nicholas Greder, Manny Hernendez, Gina Giacobbe, Ian Gillespie, Tito Jimenez, Martin Sanelli, Phillip Johnson, Steve Macko, Onix Alicea, Joey Goldstein, Kerwin David, Pete Rosky, Robert Raychel, Victor Dweck, Nick Garaffa, Hunter S. Gollum; Company 2: Artificial Mind And Movement; Lead Designer: Jason Dozois; Game Designer: Dave Richard; Additional Game Designer: Erik Szabo, Mario Lord; Lead Programmer: Alexandre Gauthier; Game Programmer: Vincent Da Silva, André Mathieu; Engine Programmer: Stéphane Hockenhull; Lead Artist: Yan Bohler; Animator: William Douville, Kirk Sandiford, Dave Richard; Artist: Martin Spénard, Khanh-Long Huynh, Marianne Cliche; Sound Design: Mark Mitchell, Jean-Frédéric Vachon; Lead QA: Cédric Michea; Gameplay Analyst: Vincent Noiret; QA: Jean-Philippe Coté; Script Writing: Morgan Jaffit; Creative Director: David Osborne; Executive Producer: Rémi Racine; Head of Production: Chafye Nemri; Game Executive: Denis Lacasse; Game Director: Dominique Roussy; Production Manager: Noël Kechichian; Music and GAX Sound Driver: Shin'en; Company 3: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment; Associate Producer: Jason Ades; Manager of Rights and Clearances: Karen Pierson; Director of Production: Jonathan Eubanks; Vice President of Production: Philippe Erwin; Marketing Manager: Stephanie Johnson; Public Relations Manager: Remi Sklar; Marketing Coordinator: David S. Cohen; Director of Sales and Business Development: Scott Johnson; Senior Vice President: Jason Hall; Casting Director: Andrea Romano; Company 4: DC; Producer: Gene Bahng; Associate Producer: Dana Kurtin; Voice of Robin: Scott Menville; Voice of Cyborg: Khary Payton; Voice of Raven: Tara Strong; Voice of Beast Boy: Greg Cipes; Voice of Starfire: Hynden Walch
~ Keith Adams, All Game Guide
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Teen Titans (TV series)

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Teen Titans
TeenTitansLogo.JPG
Genre Action, superhero, science fiction, comedy-drama
Format Animated series
Created by Glen Murakami
Developed by David Slack
Starring Scott Menville
Greg Cipes
Hynden Walch
Khary Payton
Tara Strong
Opening theme Performed by Puffy AmiYumi
Country of origin United States
No. of seasons 5
No. of episodes 65 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Sander Schwartz
Producer(s) Glen Murakami
Running time 22 minutes
Production company(s) DC Entertainment
Warner Bros. Animation
Distributor Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Broadcast
Original channel Cartoon Network
Original run July 19, 2003 (2003-07-19) – January 16, 2006 (2006-01-16)
External links
http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/ Website

Teen Titans is an American animated television series based on the DC Comics characters of the same name. The show was created by Glen Murakami, developed by David Slack, and produced by Warner Bros. Animation. It premiered on Cartoon Network on July 19, 2003, and the final episode "Things Change" aired on January 16, 2006. A comic book series, Teen Titans Go! (2003-2008), was based on the TV series. Many characters, scenarios and themes were drawn from the 1980s DC Comics series The New Teen Titans. As of September 6, 2011[citation needed], reruns have been seen again on Cartoon Network and Boomerang.

Contents

Series run

The Teen Titans from left to right:
Cyborg, Robin, Beast Boy, Starfire, and Raven

Teen Titans is based on the DC Comics superhero team, the Teen Titans, primarily the stories told in the early-1980s The New Teen Titans comic book series by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez. The series revolves around main team members Robin (the leader), Raven, Starfire, Beast Boy,and Cyborg . While it is an action cartoon, the series is also character-driven, with a focus on the main characters’ struggles with being teenage superheroes, their mutual friendships, and their limitations.[1] A major difference[citation needed] between the animated series and the comic book is that while the comic portrayed the characters as being in their late teens to early 20s (resulting in the comic series at one point even dropping the word "Teen" from its title to reflect its older characters), the animated series characters are all depicted as being in their actual mid-teen years.

Seasons two and four are based upon two of the most popular[citation needed] New Teen Titans arcs, "Judas Contract" and "Terror of Trigon" respectively[citation needed]. Many characters from the comics, including Aqualad, Bumblebee, and Speedy, appear throughout the series. This is especially true in the final season, which introduces many Titans from the comics into the series for the first time, as well as the Doom Patrol heroes and villains.

- The group's base of operations is Titans Tower, a large T-shaped structure that combines living quarters, a command center, training/workout facilities, and hangar/garage space. It sits on an island just offshore from a fictional West Coast city; the location is never stated in any episode (though geographically it seems to be based on San Francisco), but is identified as "Jump City" in the Teen Titans Go! comic series. At the end of the third season, a second team of Titans comes together in Steel City, on the East Coast, and builds a similar Tower to serve as home base. However, instead of a free-standing structure on an island, this one is set into the cliff on which the city is built

Teen Titans frequently uses self-referential humor, and its animation style is heavily influenced by anime. On different episodes, the series' theme song's lyrics alternate between English and Japanese, sung by the J-pop duo Puffy (called "Puffy AmiYumi" in the United States to distinguish it from Sean Combs). Andrea Romano revealed in an easter egg on the season 3 DVD that the Japanese theme song means it will be a silly episode, while the English theme songs means it will be a serious episode (with the exception of "Nevermore"), and if the Japanese theme song was sung by the Puffy AmiYumi producer Toshiro Kai, it will be a retarded episode (that particular episode is "Fractured"). This can be accessed by going to the special features menu on disc 2 and selecting the + sign on Más's chest; examples are then shown.

In mid-November 2005, TitansTower.com reported that prospects for a sixth season were looking extremely unlikely, and fans were urged[citation needed] to express their support for the show to Cartoon Network. Several days after this initial posting, word came that Cartoon Network had officially terminated the show.[2] According to Wil Wheaton, the actor who provided the voice of Aqualad, the series was terminated by new Warner Bros. Feature Animation executives who made the decision not to renew the series based on its sixth season pitch.[3] Wheaton's story was contradicted by series story editor Rob Hoegee who stated that the decision came from Cartoon Network, not WB, being that there were never any plans for a sixth season.[4]

After the series finale, Warner Bros. Animation announced a feature called Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo. The film premiered at San Diego Comic-Con International and was shown on Cartoon Network first on September 15, 2006. The DVD was released on February 6, 2007.

DC Nation

The series is being revived as series of new shorts in 2012 for the upcoming DC Nation programming block on Cartoon Network. Previews show the Titans in their chibi forms from the television series with the same voice actors.[citation needed]

Episodes

Season List

Cast of Characters

Principal Voice Actors

Additional Voices

Crew

Secret identities

Unlike most other superhero television series, the Teen Titans characters maintain their superhero identities at all times, though the series hints at the concept of an alter ego or secret identity but rarely explores it. The Titans have even been seen sleeping in their costumes. In the comics however, Raven, Cyborg, Starfire and Beast Boy traditionally do not have secret identities; Starfire's name is a translation of her given name from her planet of origin (somewhat like Superman and Kal-El), Cyborg's real name is public knowledge, Beast Boy's natural appearance is a dead giveaway, and Raven does not take another identity.

In particular, some fans debated which Robin leads the Teen Titans. Many times throughout the animated series, it is implied that Robin is Dick Grayson, although it was never confirmed or denied until Teen Titans Go! #47, which revealed that Robin's secret identity is Dick Grayson. In "Fractured", Robin's alternate dimensional counterpart Larry gives as his real name Nosyarg Kcid ("Dick Grayson" spelled backwards). In another episode where Starfire is thrust into the future, Robin has taken on Grayson's identity of Nightwing. Also, in the episode "Haunted" when Raven goes into Robin's mind, there is a clip of two acrobats falling from a trapeze, (The Flying Graysons, John and Mary Grayson) a reference to how Dick Grayson became Robin. In episode 12 ("Apprentice") of season 1, after Robin brought the first stolen object to Slade, he commented that he "might be like a father to him (Robin)" Robin then said that he "already have a father" after that, there were bats flying out of the ceiling window. When he attempted to steal a second object for Slade, he fought on the rooftop of a building labeled Wayne Enterprises. This probably shows that he is referring to his former mentor Batman. In the episode "Go", while Robin is fighting off a thief in a dark alley, he clearly states the he works alone after the robber asks why he was not with Batman.

"It was really important to me that little kids watching it could identify with characters. And I thought that the minute you start giving them secret identities then kids couldn’t project themselves onto the characters anymore. And that was important to me. I know it’s kind of important to have secret identities and stuff like that but we wanted everything to be really, really, iconic. Like, "Oh, there’s the robot guy. There’s the alien girl. There’s the witch girl. There’s the shape-changing boy." There's the we [sic] just wanted it really clean like that. We wanted it like old Star Trek. We just wanted it simple...

...And the whole "Who’s Robin?" controversy is really kind of interesting to me. My big concern is just trying to make Robin cool. And just really set Robin apart from Batman. So if it seems like I’m avoiding the question, I sort of am. Because I don’t think it’s really important. My concern is how do I make Robin a really strong lead character without all that other stuff. And I feel that way about all the characters. How can I keep all the characters really iconic and really clean."
— Glen Murakami, Drawing Inspiration: An Interview with Glen Murakami, April 2004

The policy of not mentioning the characters secret identities is broken in the fifth season, in which Doom Patrol members refer to Beast Boy by his real name, Garfield; however, the Titans continue to call him Beast Boy. In "Go" the Titans ask Beast Boy about his mask and he states it hides his true identity. Raven points out that he is green with pointed ears and fangs, he "has no secret to hide". The backgrounds and real names of Cyborg and Starfire are alluded to in earlier seasons: Cyborg chooses the alias "Stone" in the episode "Deception", a nod to his name Victor Stone in the DC Comics, while Starfire's name, Koriand'r, is spoken aloud on-screen amidst a line of Tamaranian language in the episode "Betrothed" (the fifth season origin-episode "Go!" mentions that Starfire is a translation of her Tamaranian name). The policy is never an issue with Raven, who never had a secret identity (though the mainstream continuity Teen Titans Vol. 3 has shown she has taken the name Rachel Roth as an alter ego in the normal world).

The comic series Teen Titans Go! has recently been going into the background of the characters further:

  • #45- Beast Boy and Cyborg's origin.
  • #46- Starfire's origin.
  • #47- Robin's origin.
  • #51- Terra's origin.

Continuity

Season Episodes Originally aired DVD release dates
1 13 2003 February 7, 2006[5]
2 13 2004 September 12, 2006[5]
3 13 20042005 April 10, 2007[6]
4 13 2005 November 20, 2007[7]
5 13 20052006 July 22, 2008[8]
Teen Titans Motion Picture Trouble in Tokyo 2006 February 6, 2007[citation needed]
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Teen Titans has never been established to be a part of the larger DC Animated Universe or The Batman. Series producer Bruce Timm stated the series would not cross over with Justice League Unlimited. Batman himself makes a very small cameo in Teen Titans Go! comic #47. However, Speedy, who first appeared in the episode "Winner Take All" along with Aqualad and others, appeared alongside his mentor, Green Arrow, in Justice League Unlimited; though older in appearance, this Speedy has the same costume design and voice actor (Mike Erwin) as the Teen Titans incarnation. Also notably, Kid Flash was voiced by Michael Rosenbaum in his appearances in the show - the same actor who voiced the Flash in Justice League Unlimited.

While most episodes are not connected with a central plot, each season features several episodes devoted to the series' mythology. The first season introduces Slade, an arch-rival of Robin and the Titans. The second season adaptation of "The Judas Contract" introduces Terra, who eventually betrays the Titans to Slade, just as she had in the comic books. The third season focuses on Cyborg's rivalry with Brother Blood and the H.I.V.E. academy, and ends with the creation of the Titans East team, based on the East Coast. The fourth season very loosely adapts the "Terror of Trigon" arc, showcasing Raven and her relationship with her father, the demon Trigon. Lastly, the fifth season focuses on the Brotherhood of Evil, longtime enemies of the Doom Patrol, the superhero team to which Beast Boy belonged before joining the Titans, and the apparent war that takes place between them and the Titans. In the final episode, he encounters a high school student who looks and sounds exactly like Terra, but her identity is never firmly established. He eventually realizes that he must move on with his life and leave both her and the past behind.

Reception

An example of the Anime-like style frequently utilized in the show.

Some fans of the comics criticized the series for having a "childish nature".[9] The Teen Titans were based on their DC Comic iterations, however the TV series often showed the heroes in cartoon states.

Early into the series' run, Executive Producer and Cartoon Network V.P. Sam Register responded to criticism regarding the style of the show:

Justice League is awesome and Samurai Jack is awesome and we buy a lot of anime shows that are great, but those shows really are directed more towards the nine to fourteen age group, and the six and seven and eight-year-olds were not gelling with the Justice League and some of the more of the fanboy shows...The main mission was making a good superhero show for kids. Now if the fanboys happen to like the Teen Titans also, that's great, but that was not our mission.
—Sam Register, CBR News interview, May 8, 2004

However, while the series' creators initially stated that younger children were the intended audience for the series, Teen Titans Go! writer J. Torres notes that the progression and deeper themes of the show widened the appeal to a much broader audience:

... [The show] started out skewed a lot younger... but along the way, I think the producers discovered it was reaching a wider audience. ... [the show] got into some darker story lines, and they introduced a lot more characters, so they expanded on it, and they let the show evolve with the audience.
—J. Torres, Titans Companion 2 by Glen Cadigan.[10]

Years after its finish, the show maintains a loyal fan base, and has recently experienced a resurgence of popularity thanks to its addition to the cartoon lineup on Boomerang.[11] Teen Titans was named the 83rd best animated series by IGN.[12]

Impact on the comics

Much like X-Men: Evolution and Batman: the Animated Series, the series has had an impact on the comics that initially inspired it. During DC's 52 event, Beast Boy adopted the purple and black outfit he wore on the show.[13] Several years later, Beast Boy was also given the pointed ears and fanged teeth originated by the series.[14] In addition, the future Cyborg shown in the Titans Tomorrow storyline had the same armor pattern that was worn by his animated counterpart.[15] The characters Mas Y Menos are brought into the comics during 52 as new recruits to the Titans, and later make a small cameo in the Final Crisis limited series.[16] During 52, Joto is given the more politically-correct name "Hotspot" to match his cartoon counterpart.[17] The most recent Aquagirl wears a costume with a similar design to the cartoon version of Aqualad.[18] Writer Will Pfeifer brought Billy Numerous into the comics for a brief cameo during his tenure on Catwoman.[19] Following the death of the original Gizmo, (who was an adult in the comics), a second Gizmo inspired by the adolescent cartoon version was created for the DC Special: Cyborg mini-series.[20] Cinderblock was recently brought into the comics during a battle with the newest roster of the Titans.[21] Elements of the show's redesign of Cheshire, specifically her grinning white and red cat mask, would later be used in her design for the Young Justice television series.[22]

Toys

Bandai released a line of action figures based on the Teen Titans animated series. The line included 1.5 inch "Comic Book Hero" mini figures, 3.5 inch action figures (including "Teen Titans Launch Tower Playset", "Teen Titans Command Center", "Battling Machines", "T-Vehicles", "T-Sub Deluxe Vehicles"), 5 inch action figures, 6.5 inch plush Super-D Toys, and 10 inch figures. Amongst the characters included in the line were the main members of the Teen Titans, Titans East, and various allies and villains.[23][24]

Awards and nominations

2005 Annie Awards
  • Outstanding Storyboarding in an Animated Television Production (Nominated)
2004 Annie Awards
  • Outstanding Music in an Animated Television Production (Nominated)
  • Outstanding Storyboarding in an Animated Television Production (Nominated)
2004 Motion Picture Sound Editors Awards
  • Best Sound Editing in Television Animation (Nominated)

References

  1. ^ Walko, Bill (2004-04). "Drawing Inspiration: An Interview with Glen Murakami". TitansTower.com. http://www.titanstower.com/source/animated/behindglenpace4.html. Retrieved 2006-10-15. 
  2. ^ Teen Titans' Sixth Season Looks Unlikely, Titans Tower Monitor blog post, November 15, 2005
  3. ^ Wil Wheaton’s Rabio Free Burrito Episode 4 interview transcript
  4. ^ Transcript of TitansGo.net's interview with Rob Hoegee
  5. ^ a b "Teen Titans: The Complete First Season DVD-Video". dvdempire.com. http://www.dvdempire.com/Exec/v4_item.asp?userid=99365681249545&item_id=770197&searchID=213038. Retrieved 2007-04-24. 
  6. ^ "Teen Titans: The Complete Third Season DVD-Video". dvdempire.com. http://www.dvdempire.com/Exec/v4_item.asp?userid=99365681249545&item_id=1274510&searchID=213038. Retrieved 2007-04-24. 
  7. ^ "Teen Titans: The Complete Fourth Season DVD-Video". dvdempire.com. http://www.dvdempire.com/Exec/v4_item.asp?userid=99365902819426&item_id=1359265&searchID=213038. Retrieved 2007-08-17. 
  8. ^ "Teen Titans: The Complete Fifth Season DVD-Video". dvdempire.com. http://www.dvdempire.com/Exec/v4_item.asp?userid=99366281287642&item_id=1401525&searchID=. Retrieved 2008-04-02. 
  9. ^ Geoff Duncan (October 31, 2003). ""Teen Titans": Robin the Cradle". teevee.org. Archived from the original on 2003-12-03. http://web.archive.org/web/20031203162516/teevee.net/archive/2003/10/31/index.html. 
  10. ^ Cadigan, Glen. "J. Torres - Adapting the Animated Antics of the Teen Titans". Titans Companion 2. TwoMorrows Publishing. p. 216. ISBN 1-893905-87-X. 
  11. ^ "Boomerang TV Schedule". LocateTV.com. 2010-05-22. http://www.locatetv.com/listings/boomerang/3042. Retrieved 2010-05-22. 
  12. ^ "83, Teen Titans". IGN. 2009-01-23. http://tv.ign.com/top-100-animated-tv-series/83.html. Retrieved 2009-01-24. 
  13. ^ Titans 52
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  16. ^ Final Crisis #1
  17. ^ Teen Titans #38
  18. ^ Aquagirl A28
  19. ^ Comic Vine
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