List of Teen Titans (TV series) characters
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This is a list of major and minor characters featured in the Cartoon Network and Kids' WB animated series Teen Titans.
Overview
[edit]Character | Voiced by | First appearance | Seasons | Films | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Trouble in Tokyo | Go! to the Movies | Go! vs. | |||
Main characters | ||||||||||
Robin | Scott Menville | "Divide and Conquer" | Main | Guest | Main | |||||
Starfire | Hynden Walch | Main | Guest | Main | ||||||
Raven | Tara Strong | Main | Guest | Main | ||||||
Beast Boy | Greg Cipes | Main | Guest | Main | ||||||
Cyborg | Khary Payton | Main | Guest | Main | ||||||
Terra | Ashley Johnson | "Terra" | Main | Guest | Recurring | |||||
Slade | Ron Perlman Will Arnett | "Divide and Conquer" | Main | Guest | Main | Guest | Main | |||
Trigon | Kevin Michael Richardson | "Nevermore" | Guest | Main | Guest | Main | ||||
Brushogun | Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa | "Trouble in Tokyo" | Main | |||||||
Robin Go! | Scott Menville | "Legendary Sandwich" | Main | |||||||
Starfire Go! | Hynden Walch | Main | ||||||||
Raven Go! | Tara Strong | Main | ||||||||
Beast Boy Go! | Greg Cipes | Main | ||||||||
Cyborg Go! | Khary Payton | Main |
Primary Teen Titans
[edit]Robin
[edit]- Voiced by: Scott Menville
Robin is the leader of the Teen Titans. Despite lacking superpowers, he is fierce and highly disciplined, with heroic virtues based on experience and reputation. As shown in the episode "Go",[1] Robin formed the group after aiding Starfire in her escape from captivity with help from Beast Boy, Cyborg, and Raven. Prior to this, he left his mentor Batman in an effort to become an independent crime-fighter. The Teen Titans Go! spin-off comic reveals he is Dick Grayson, the first Robin, but this is not shown in the show. In the future, he becomes Nightwing. Robin is best friends with Starfire, whom he secretly has romantic feelings for. Their relationship develops throughout the show, with them becoming a couple in the finale film Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo.
Starfire
[edit]- Voiced by: Hynden Walch
Starfire (as translated into English) is a humanoid alien from the planet Tamaran. The episode "Betrothed"[2] reveals her real name is Princess Koriand'r. As shown in the episode "Go",[1] Starfire arrived on Earth while escaping captivity from Trogaar, an alien overlord who intended to sell her into slavery. She created mass havoc on an Earth city to break free, which attracted the attention of Robin, Beast Boy, and Cyborg. Raven later appeared to convince them to settle the dispute peacefully, and from there the five became friends. After dispatching the alien invaders, Starfire chose to stay on Earth with her newfound friends. She is also Robin’s love interest, and they secretly harbor romantic feelings for each other; they confess their love and become a couple in Trouble in Tokyo.
Raven
[edit]- Voiced by: Tara Strong
Raven is usually depicted with a neutral expression on her face and is somewhat of a stereotypical goth. She has pale skin, violet-blue eyes, and a bob cut hairstyle, with a mystical stone in the middle of her forehead, and wears a blue hooded shroud and a black leotard with a belt. She is shrouded in mystery from her debut, with little known about her and her past, and she is emotionally distant even from her fellow Titans. It is later discovered that this is intentional, due to the secrets she hides.
Raven's main powers are her flight, mastery of magic, and telekinetic and psychokinetic abilities, with her mind empowering her to levitate objects by surrounding them in dark mystical energy. She often activates this ability through the incantation "Azarath Metrion Zinthos", allowing her to use her powers in many ways. Raven is also a master of extrasensory perception, able to sense and read the minds of others.
Beast Boy
[edit]- Voiced by: Greg Cipes
Beast Boy is a teenager with green skin, fangs, and dark green hair and eyes. He has the ability to shapeshift into any animal and gain their abilities. He was formerly a member of the Doom Patrol until he left to become a solo superhero, and during Lord Trogaar's pursuit of Starfire, he found himself joining the Teen Titans. His early training under the tutelage of the Doom Patrol was highly disciplined and militarized, leading him to initially address more experienced heroes as "Sir". Over time, he would become less serious and act as the comic relief of the Teen Titans, which frequently annoys his teammates. The two-part episode "Homecoming"[3][4] reveals his name to be Garfield.
Cyborg
[edit]- Voiced by: Khary Payton
Cyborg was once human, but became a cyborg following an unspecified "accident" that caused most of his body to be replaced with cybernetic implants. His condition is virtually impossible to disguise, though he initially attempts to do so by covering much of his body with heavy clothing and a hood. His neighborhood fell under attack after Starfire appeared on Earth, as shown in the episode "Go",[1] and as such, he came to the aid of Robin and Beast Boy while fighting her. He is skilled with technology and is Robin's second-in-command and Beast Boy's best friend.
Terra
[edit]- Voiced by: Ashley Johnson
Terra debuts in the episode bearing her name,[5] and is a super-powered teenage girl with pale blonde hair and blue eyes. She has terrakinetic abilities and is able to telekinetically control the earth, often preferring to use rocks and boulders as projectiles and as a means of travel. She lives a nomadic lifestyle in the wilderness, eventually coming to settle in the coastal hometown where the Teen Titans operate.
Terra quickly bonds with the team upon meeting then, leading to them offering her to become their newest member. Her bond is strongest with Beast Boy, with whom she has a complicated romantic relationship. He is the first to discover that she struggles to control her powers, but swears to not reveal this to anyone. During a confrontation with Slade, he reveals that he had been stalking her for years and knows her lack of control over her powers had caused natural disasters across the globe, thereby explaining why Terra never stays in one place for too long. Convinced that the Titans would shun her once this knowledge becomes public, Slade offers to train her in using her abilities before he escapes capture. Robin later deduces Terra's instability, and—incorrectly believing that Beast Boy had revealed their secret—she leaves the Titans and disappears.
In "Titan Rising," Terra reunites with the Titans, now with more control over her powers, and earns their trust after helping to save their home.[6] However, Slade's forces later launch a surprise attack on the Titans Tower, while Terra spends a night out with Beast Boy. Having followed the two, Slade reveals that Terra had become his new apprentice and was acting as a double agent to sabotage the team since her return. A heartbroken Beast Boy spurns her apologies, fueling a hate-filled Terra to decimate the team in part 1 of "Aftershock".[7] In part 2, the Titans regroup to retake the besieged city, leading to Slade attacking her after she is forced to retreat. With Slade controlling her body through her battle suit, she finds herself unable to leave and fights the Titans against her will. With help from Beast Boy and the other Titans, she regains control of her powers and triggers an underground volcano that kills Slade; however, the volcano rages out of control, and to prevent it from destroying the city above ground, she sacrifices herself to stop it from erupting, turning to stone as a result. The Titans pay tribute to her with a memorial plaque, which reads "Terra—A Teen Titan, A True Friend".[8]
In the series finale, "Things Change", following the Titans' return home after their battle with the Brotherhood of Evil, they battle a shapeshifting white monster; while pursuing it, Beast Boy notices a girl resembling Terra standing amongst the crowd of onlooking civilians. After he discovers Terra's statue is missing, he believes she was somehow revived while they were away. He tracks her down only to find she apparently has no memory of the Titans and has no apparent superpowers. She is never addressed as "Terra" by anyone other than Beast Boy, while the name that others refer her is unknown. At the episode's end, she explains to Beast Boy that even if she is indeed the Terra he once knew, she wants to lead a normal life and convinces him to move on. Whether she truly is Terra is unrevealed.[9]
Teen Titans Go!
[edit]In an issue of the Teen Titans comic book following the events of the series' final episode, Geo-Force — Terra's superhero half-brother — appears and reveals that he and Terra are members of the Markovian royal family who fled their home nation after being subjected to forced experimentation with a fictitious chemical called Quixium that gave them earth-manipulating superpowers. Geo-Force is later convinced to allow Terra to live without her superpowers in peace and leaves without reuniting with her.
Honorary Titans
[edit]Aqualad
[edit]- Voiced by: Wil Wheaton
Aqualad is the ex-sidekick of Aquaman who debuts in the episode "Deep Six",[10] where he enlists the Teen Titans to help him him defeat the Atlantean criminal Trident. In the episode, he butts heads with Beast Boy, as he feels shown up by him, but learn to work together in their battles with Trident and eventually make peace. He returns in "Wavelength",[11] where he asks the Titans' help to take out Brother Blood's second undersea H.I.V.E. Headquarters. Following Blood's escape, they pursue him to Steel City, where he and Bumblebee form the Titans East. He later falls under Blood's mind control, turning on appointed leader Cyborg and battling the Titans Central; he is freed after Cyborg defeats Brother Blood in the final battle, and stays with Titans East.
Argent
[edit]- Voiced by: Hynden Walch
Argent first appears in "Calling All Titans".[12] She is deputized by Starfire while walling off a fractured dam, and is soon attacked and captured by General Immortus and flash-frozen at their headquarters in Paris. She is later freed and takes part in the final battle of "Titans Together",[13] briefly seen fighting Johnny Rancid, and as the World Titans are summoned to stop Doctor Light. Prior to her official appearances in these episodes, Argent appeared in the episode "Lightspeed",[14] where she is briefly displayed on the H.I.V.E. Five's computer monitor.
Bumblebee
[edit]- Voiced by: T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh
Bumblebee is first seen as a H.I.V.E. student, but is later revealed to have been a spy in the organization working in league with Aqualad. As she reveals in a staged fight with Cyborg, she is unable to fall under Brother Blood's influence. She later becomes a founding member of Titans East, convincing Cyborg to become the team's leader; this turns out to be an elaborate trap staged by Blood when she falls back under his control. However, she appears to be the only one of the group able to occasionally break free. After Blood is defeated, Cyborg steps down from Titans East, making Bumblebee the new leader.
Bushido
[edit]- Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker
Bushido is a young silent Japanese swordsman made an Honorary Titan to fend off an incursion by the Brotherhood of Evil, which is preparing to mount an assault on young heroes. In "Calling All Titans",[12] he is defeated and captured by Professor Chang, along with several other Titans.
Gnarrk
[edit]- Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker
Gnarrk is the caveman friend of Kole, who appears in the episode "Kole".[15] He is given his name due to the fact that it is the only thing he can say or understand. He is a primal predecessor of contemporary human beings and has enhanced agility and strength. When Kole activates her crystallization powers, Gnarrk is able to use her body to great effect as a bludgeoning tool.
Herald
[edit]- Voiced by: Khary Payton
Herald is a young hooded African American boy who is made an Honorary Titan in the wake of the Brotherhood's efforts to seek and destroy the next generation of superheroes on Earth. He is one of the few Titan-affiliated heroes that manages to evade capture, and partners with fellow survivors Beast Boy, Más, Pantha, and Jericho. The five succeed in infiltrating the Brotherhood's fortress in Paris and freeing the captured heroes; Herald is called upon to save everyone when the Brain, who is forced to retreat, triggers a massive bomb to take out the complex.
Hot Spot
[edit]- Voiced by: Bumper Robinson
First featured in the Master of Games' Tournament of Heroes in "Winner Take All",[16] Hot Spot is a pyrokinetic young hero made an Honorary Titan in the wake of the Master of Games' defeat. In his normal state, he has the appearance of an adolescent African American male, but when employing his heat-based superpowers, he becomes a humanoid embodiment of fire.
Jericho
[edit]- Voiced by: None
Jericho, alongside Herald, is summoned to the Titans' rendezvous point after the Brotherhood conducts their search-and-capture campaign on the team members across the globe. Jericho is a gentle and kind, albeit mute, boy with the ability to possess his enemies and take control of their bodies, memories and abilities, which is signified through the black and green eyes they have once possessed.
Jinx
[edit]- Voiced by: Lauren Tom; Tara Strong ("Titans Together")
An agile sorceress with a mastery of hexes that rivals Raven's magical skills. Jinx is a teenage girl with pink hair and eyes with pupils resembling a cat's. She uses a form of black magic to bring about "bad luck"-themed attacks, such as crumbling the ground beneath opponents or causing structures to collapse around them. She is often portrayed as the leader and battle coordinator of H.I.V.E.-affiliated groups.
After falling in love with Kid Flash, she parts ways with the H.I.V.E. and joins the Teen Titans in their battle with the Brotherhood in the climax of "Titans Together".[13]
She, alongside Sergeant H.I.V.E., officially joins the Teen Titans in an issue of the accompanying comic book series Teen Titans Go!. She also becomes Kid Flash's official girlfriend with them sharing an official kiss in issue #53.
Kid Flash
[edit]- Voiced by: Michael Rosenbaum
Debuting in "Lightspeed",[14] Kid Flash, the self-proclaimed "Fastest Boy Alive" and former sidekick to Flash (Barry Allen), appears as a thorn in the side of the H.I.V.E. Five, composed of H.I.V.E. alums Mammoth, See-More, Kyd Wykked, Billy Numerous, Gizmo, and Jinx. He is later captured by the H.I.V.E. Five, but manages to escape; he is then relentlessly pursued by the Brotherhood's Madame Rouge, but narrowly manages to escape. After the Brotherhood of Evil launches its full assault on the world's young heroes, Kid Flash is able to avoid capture; he later arrives to participate in the final battle, helping the World Titans defeat the Brotherhood with help from Jinx, whom he had been flirting with for some time. His secret identity is not revealed in the series, although he is implied to be Wally West, the original Kid Flash.
Killowat
[edit]- Voiced by: Yuri Lowenthal
Killowat is an honorary Titan with powers over electricity. He is a young male with luminescent electric-blue skin, glowing white eyes that lack irises, and tattoo-like magenta streaks of lightning on his arms and torso.
Kole
[edit]- Voiced by: Tara Strong
Featured in the episode which bears her name,[15] Kole is a young girl with pink hair who lives with her caveman friend Gnarrk beneath the North Pole. She is able to crystallize herself as a defense mechanism; this renders her indestructible, allowing Gnarrk to use her diamond-hard body as a weapon. In the climax of "Kole", she uses this power to focus and amplify one of Starfire's Star Bolts through her body to help the Teen Titans defeat Dr. Light.
Más y Menos
[edit]- Voiced by: Freddy Rodriguez
Debuting in the two-part episode "Titans East",[17][18] Más y Menos are superpowered twin brothers from Guatemala who join Bumblebee, Speedy and Aqualad in the newly formed Titans East. They generate different polarities of bio-electromagnetism that, when combined, give them super-speed. This power can only work once they make physical contact with each other, and as such, they are inseparable.
Melvin, Timmy, Teether, and Bobby
[edit]- Voiced by: Russi Taylor (Melvin, Timmy), Tara Strong (Teether)
Melvin, Timmy, and Teether are a trio of pre-adolescent children targeted by the Brotherhood of Evil for their fledgling superpowers. They first appear in "Hide and Seek".[19]
Melvin, the only girl in the group and the eldest of the three, has the ability to mentally spawn a giant animated teddy bear named Bobby. Timmy (the second oldest) throws temper tantrums which induce earthquakes and sonic booms, and Teether (the baby) can eat matter and spit it out like bullets. Raven is assigned to protect them from Monsieur Mallah, who is hunting them down on the Brotherhood's behalf, but the children and Bobby manage to take him down. As a reward, they are made Honorary Titans.
Bobby is Melvin's "imaginary friend", a giant teddy bear that she can physically manifest from her mind. He is able to turn invisible, which he primarily uses to hide from people he fears or does not trust. As a result, Raven did not believe he existed for most of the episode.
Pantha
[edit]- Voiced by: Diane Delano
Pantha was targeted by the Brotherhood of Evil, but despite their efforts, she manages to avoid capture. She partners with Beast Boy, Jericho, Herald, and Más to free their captured comrades. Pantha is bilingua, speaking both Spanish and English; she uses this to translate Más' instructions as he guides the group to where the frozen Titans are being held in the Brotherhood's fortress.
Red Star
[edit]- Voiced by: Jason Marsden
Red Star first appears in "Snow Blind",[20] rescuing an unconscious Starfire from a snowstorm. He is found to be living in a quarantined facility in isolation from civilization. Red Star, who is also addressed in the episode as Cpt. Kovar, is an older Russian teen boy with a well-toned physique, reddish-brown hair, and green eyes that lack irises.
Speedy
[edit]- Voiced by: Mike Erwin
Formerly the sidekick to Green Arrow, Speedy debuts in "Winner Take All",[16] where he competes in the Master of Games' Tournament of Heroes. He and Robin make it to the finals, where he narrowly loses. After Robin discovers the Master of Games' plot to steal the losers' powers and abilities, he battles the Master and frees Speedy, who helps dispatch him with an arrow to his amulet. He is then made an honorary Titan, and later joins the Titans East.
Thunder and Lightning
[edit]- Voiced by: S. Scott Bullock (Thunder), Quinton Flynn (Lightning)
Thunder and Lightning are the first honorary Titans to appear in the series. They debut in "Forces of Nature",[21] and are brothers that are the living incarnations of their respective namesakes. They wreak havoc on the city in which the Teen Titans live; Beast Boy later deduces that the duo is not evil, but rather misunderstood—they display their destructive powers in acts that they perceive as innocent fun, and battle the Titans on occasion, seeing the challenge as mere roughhousing. Slade, in the guise of an old Asian shaman, later manipulates them into creating a fire creature; however, the two learn the error of their ways thanks to Beast Boy, and go on to become heroes allied with the Titans.
Tramm
[edit]- Voiced by: Dave Coulier; Dee Bradley Baker ("Calling All Titans")
Tramm is Aqualad's engineer, mechanic and friend, who helps the Titans fix their battle-damaged T-Sub in the episode "Deep Six".[10] He speaks in an indecipherable undersea language and has the appearance of a short, anthropomorphic anchovy. In combat, he can increase his size and strength, like a pufferfish.
Wildebeest
[edit]- Voiced by: Jim Cummings ("Winner Take All"), Dee Bradley Baker
First appearing as a competitor in the Master of Games' Tournament of Heroes in the episode "Winner Take All",[16] Wildebeest is a hulking, humanoid Chimera of his namesake; he has a bestial level of strength and agility. Wildebeest is made an honorary Titan following the Master's defeat at the hands of the tournament winner, Robin, alongside Hot Spot and Speedy.
Wonder Girl
[edit]- Voiced by: None
Wonder Girl, the sidekick counterpart to Wonder Woman and once a founding member of the Teen Titans, was denied inclusion to the main cast of the series due to licensing issues.[22] As a result, Wonder Girl never prominently appears in the series and is never referred to.[23][24] Despite this, Wonder Girl is featured as a cameo in the show's final season, where she is seen as a young girl with blue eyes and dark hair worn in a ponytail who wears golden star-shaped earrings. She is later prominently featured in the Teen Titans Go! and identified as Donna Troy, the original Wonder Girl.
Allies
[edit]Brushogun
[edit]- Voiced by: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Seen only in Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo,[25] Brushogun was formerly a Tokyo artist who fell in love with a woman he drew. He used black magic to bring her to life, but was cursed by the magic and turned into a monstrous being with the ability to create live ink drawings.
The Doom Patrol
[edit]They appear in the two-part episode "Homecoming".[3][4] The Doom Patrol is a paramilitary unit of superheroes locked in a long-standing battle against the Brotherhood of Evil. Beast Boy was formerly a member until he became estranged from the team years before.
Elasti-Girl
[edit]- Voiced by: Tara Strong
The lone female member of the team and Mento's wife, Elasti-Girl has the ability to expand her body.
Mento
[edit]- Voiced by: Xander Berkeley
Mento is the leader and battle coordinator of the Doom Patrol. His uniform features a yellow lightning-bolt symbol on the chest. Amplified by the helmet atop his head, Mento's super-abilities stem from his mental powers, ranging from telekinesis and mind-reading to hypnotic suggestion.
Negative Man
[edit]- Voiced by: Judge Reinhold
Negative Man has the power of astral projection; able to separate his soul from his body, his "negative self" has targeted intangibility: enemies cannot harm him while in this state, though he can physically interact with solid objects and people. However, this ability can only work for a limited time, as extended use of it could lead to its effects being permanent.
Robot Man
[edit]- Voiced by: Peter Onorati
Robot Man is a towering metal robotic vessel housing a still-living human brain; as such, he has devastating strength and is practically invulnerable to harm. However, Robot Man is headstrong and reckless, often preferring to charge headlong into battle.
Larry
[edit]- Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker
Nosyarg Kcid, a.k.a. Larry, is Robin's Bat-Mite-like counterpart from another dimension. His right index finger has the power to bend reality, and he uses it to watch Robin and his adventures. He enters the Titans' dimension to help fix Robin's broken arm, but fails to do so. He breaks his own finger during a scuffle with Robin as he keeps insisting on helping him; as a result, his reality-warping power is unleashed upon the city, changing it first into an embodiment of a child-drawn picture, and later into a dark, demonic domain when Johnny Rancid seizes the power for himself. After Larry's finger is repaired and reality is brought back to normal, he returns to his own dimension, but not before Robin offers him the chance to fix his broken arm one last time. He succeeds, but accidentally leaves Robin stranded in a blank, white space in the process.
Sarasim
[edit]- Voiced by: Kimberly Brooks
Sarasim is a warrior princess from an ancient time; the year is indicated as 3000 B.C., 5,000 years from the present day. Her tribe, which is under siege from a horde of monsters, is saved when Cyborg appears to defeat them after being sent back in time.[26] The character's name is a reference to Sarah Simms, Cyborg's girlfriend in the comics, and Cyborg remarks in the Teen Titans Go! spin-off comic that Sarah is a reincarnation of Sarasim.
Silkie
[edit]- Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker
Silkie (originally named "Larva M-319") is one of many mutant larvae created by Killer Moth as part of his scheme to take over the city in "Date With Destiny".[27] After he is stopped by the Teen Titans, Beast Boy bonds with one of the larvae, naming him "Silkie" and secretly keeping him as a pet at Titans Tower.
Main villains
[edit]Slade
[edit]- Voiced by: Ron Perlman
The Titans' most recurring foe and Robin's archenemy. He relentlessly stalked them since "Divide and Conquer" and enlisted the H.I.V.E. Academy to reveal his existence to the heroes in "Final Exam".[28] He serves as the main antagonist of the first two seasons, attempting to make Robin his apprentice in the first season and later enlisting Terra during the events of the second in an attempt to destroy the Titans, which ultimately leads to his death. Slade is revived in the fourth season as Trigon's undead emissary to oversee the ritual to summon the demon, siding with the Titans and fully resurrecting himself after Trigon betrayed him before leaving.
Trigon
[edit]- Voiced by: Kevin Michael Richardson; Keith Szarabajka ("Nevermore")
Trigon (alternatively identified by the name Scath) is Raven's father and archenemy, who is feared throughout the galaxies as an ancient demon king. He serves as the main antagonist of the fourth season, enlisting Slade to prepare Raven for a ritual to bring him to Earth only for her to destroy him. Trigon later returns in the 2019 crossover film Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans, entering an alliance with an alternate version of himself who revives him with the Raven of his universe. But Trigon's constant belittling of counterpart while eventually revived ended with him swallowed up and absorbed by his counterpart, only to be freed after being rendered incorporeal again and sent back to his realm.
The H.I.V.E. Academy
[edit]The H.I.V.E. Academy is a secret campus for a rogue's gallery of superpowered teenagers, all being trained to become master criminals. The school has also been called the H.A.E.Y.P., which is short for "H.I.V.E. Academy for Extraordinary Young People".
Heads
[edit]The H.I.V.E. Academy has its known headmasters:
Brother Blood
[edit]- Voiced by: John DiMaggio
Brother Blood is a cult leader and the archenemy of Cyborg, who takes control over the H.I.V.E. Academy after the Headmistress goes missing; his power is based mainly on his ability to manipulate others through mind control,. Aside from hypnosis, his mind can create vivid hallucinations, and he also boasts both vast intelligence and a photographic memory. His mental powers also allow him to interfere with radio signals and block the powers of other empaths like Aqualad; they also greatly enhance his own physical abilities: Blood also possesses supernaturally high reflexes and strength, allowing him to walk across water, rip steel with his bare hands, and channel psychokinetic energy used to teleport or to fire offensively as bolts of lightning and force blasts.
H.I.V.E. Headmistress
[edit]- Voiced by: Andrea Romano
The Headmistress of the H.I.V.E. Academy in the first season, who commissions the services of her top graduates Gizmo, Jinx, and Mammoth out to the top bidder, who turns out to be Slade, in the episode "Final Exam".[29] Slade then hires the H.I.V.E. trio to defeat the Teen Titans, which they succeed in doing until the Titans later regroup to defeat them. She tells Slade that she will "discipline" them after they are retrieved from the authorities, only for Slade to reveal that he never expected her team to succeed in their mission—only in "delivering the message" that he exists and is watching them.
In the Teen Titans Go! comics, the Headmistress sends Rock, Paper, and Scissors to capture Wildebeest.
Students
[edit]The following are students at the H.I.V.E. Academy:
Gizmo
[edit]- Voiced by: Lauren Tom; Tara Strong ("Revved Up", "Titans Together")
An impish young boy with a genius-level intellect who is armed with a mechanized backpack that generates multiple devices, gadgets and weapons. Gizmo is also a well-versed computer hacker and inventor, and typically uses these skills against Cyborg, exploiting his robotic weaknesses in several episodes, even after being called upon by the Titans to help save Cyborg's life in the episode "Crash".[30] Gizmo was also a short-lived Honorary Titan following the events of "Winner Take All",[16] but was quickly stripped of this distinction.
Mammoth
[edit]- Voiced by: Kevin Michael Richardson
A hulking man with mane-like hair, fangs, and superhuman strength, who was genetically modified. He is brought into the original H.I.V.E. trio as a counterweight to Beast Boy. He is the least intelligent member of this clique and is mainly used for his brawn and power when executing crimes. Despite his strength, he tends to be easily defeated in most episodes in which he appears.
See-More
[edit]- Voiced by: Kevin Michael Richardson
See-More is a minor villain from the H.I.V.E. Academy who joins the H.I.V.E. Five prior to "Mother Mae-Eye".[31] His powers stem from various interchangeable colored eyeballs which are accessible via a dial in his helmet; each eyeball is equipped with a unique function or attack, such as multi-vision, X-Ray vision, hypnosis, projection of eye-shaped bubbles, laser beams, and balloon-based flight. Like many H.I.V.E. characters, See-More first appears in the cafeteria in "Deception".[32]
Billy Numerous
[edit]- Voiced by: Jason Marsden
Billy Numerous is a minor villain who was once a student at the H.I.V.E. Academy; like many H.I.V.E. characters, Billy Numerous first appears in the cafeteria in the episode "Deception".[32] His power is self-duplication, and he is known to brag about his crime sprees to his only friends: his own clones. He wears a red bodysuit with a division symbol on the chest, and speaks with a rural Southern drawl.
Kyd Wykkyd
[edit]- Voiced by: N/A
Kyd Wykkyd is a silent, bat-costumed at the H.I.V.E. Academy with the ability to teleport, who first appears in "Deception".[32] After Cyborg and the Titans destroy the H.I.V.E. and the various students went on to become renegade villains, Wykkyd joined the H.I.V.E. Five at some point before "Lightspeed".[14] Despite giving off a dark and demonic demeanor, it is shown in "Lightspeed" that he is slightly childish, wanting to build a pillow fort with his teammates and joining them to hide behind Jinx when Madame Rouge arrives at their base.
Private H.I.V.E.
[edit]- Voiced by: Greg Cipes
Private H.I.V.E. is the eponymous villain from the H.I.V.E. Academy with a military demeanor who wields a hexagonal shield with the H.I.V.E.'s logo plastered upon it for attack and defense; he seems partial to throwing his shield in the style of a discus, like Captain America. He appears to be modeled after The Guardian and says "sir" at the end of almost every sentence.
He later joins the Titans in the Teen Titans Go! comic book series, along with Jinx.
Angel
[edit]- Voiced by: N/A
Angel is a villain from the H.I.V.E. Academy who sports bird-like wings that enable flight. In addition, she can also size-shift them to any size for combat purposes.
XL Terrestrial
[edit]- Voiced by: N/A
XL Terrestrial is an alien villain from the H.I.V.E. Academy with size-shifting abilities.
I.N.S.T.I.G.A.T.O.R.
[edit]- Voiced by: N/A
The I.N.S.T.I.G.A.T.O.R. is a floating robotic villain from the H.I.V.E. Academy.
"Wrestling Star"
[edit]- Voiced by: N/A
"Wrestling Star" is a masked wrestler from the H.I.V.E. Academy. During the final battle between the Titans and the Brotherhood of Evil, he was defeated by Pantha, who was bound by honor to unmask him. He shields his face upon being unmasked and is among those flash-frozen by Más y Menos.
The Brotherhood of Evil
[edit]The Brotherhood of Evil is a secret society of supervillains dedicated to total world domination whom the Doom Patrol fought in the past. They serve as the main antagonists of the final season.
Members
[edit]The Brain
[edit]- Voiced by: Glenn Shadix
The Brotherhood's leader and Beast Boy's archenemy. He is a disembodied human brain preserved in a robotic cylinder and communicates through a voice box built in its chassis. Aside from having genius level intellect, he appears to have some psychokinetic powers channeled by and through his robotic shell.
General Immortus
[edit]- Voiced by: Xander Berkeley
General Immortus is an ancient military commander knowledgeable in every combat strategy, mainly by being personally involved in every major battle in history. He mentions teaching many of history's best minds of war; in the episode "Homecoming",[3][4] he refers to Sun Tsu—the Chinese military philosopher and author of The Art of War—as one of his students. Immortus has command over armies of both human and robot soldiers, and often uses them as part of a larger plot in executing attacks. He is frozen by the Teen Titans at the end of "Titans Together".[13]
Madame Rouge
[edit]- Voiced by: Hynden Walch
Madame Rouge, though appearing mainly as a Russian female with black hair who wears red attire, is a shape-shifter with the ability to stretch and contort her body, including assuming the appearances of others. She nearly defeats Kid Flash by pursuing and pummeling him into exhaustion and later succeeds in taking down Hot Spot, taking his likeness as the Titans arrive to give him a communicator. After coming into possession of a Titans Communicator, the Brotherhood is able to coordinate their strikes against the team.
Monsieur Mallah
[edit]- Voiced by: Glenn Shadix
Monsieur Mallah is a hyper-intelligent African gorilla capable of human speech who develops many of the Doomsday Devices used by the Brotherhood. Mallah is also adept at using weapons, such as grenades and a laser-firing minigun. Mallah is extremely loyal to his master and is his trusted confidant. He suggests that they escape when the Titans begin to regroup against them, but their retreat is thwarted by Robin and Beast Boy; he is beaten by Beast Boy, and is the second-to-last Brotherhood member to be subjected to the freezing machine in "Titans Together".[13]
Other villains
[edit]André LeBlanc
[edit]- Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker
André LeBlanc is a French jewel thief who debuts in "For Real".[33] He later joins the Brotherhood of Evil.[13]
Atlas
[edit]- Voiced by: Keith David
Atlas is a robotic villain that debuts in "Only Human".
Blackfire
[edit]- Voiced by: Hynden Walch
Blackfire is Starfire's elder sister and her rival to Tamaran's throne. She is also a wanted criminal.
Cinderblock
[edit]- Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker
Debuting in the series premiere "Divide and Conquer",[28] Cinderblock is a living monolithic stone idol with limited intelligence, but immense strength. He is named after the several panels on his body which resemble his namesake. Cinderblock appears throughout the series as a secondary villain.
Commander Uehara Daizo
[edit]- Voiced by: Keone Young
Commander Uehara Daizo is the main antagonist inTeen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo.[25] He is Tokyo's police commander and commander of the Tokyo Troopers, which he secretly uses Brushogun in creating. It is later revealed he seeks to discredit the Teen Titans as heroes, as his heroic reputation diminished as the Titans' exploits become internationally known. To this end, Daizo effectively enslaves Brushogun to create criminals for him to capture, the Tokyo Troopers to act as his personal army, and various supervillains to battle the Teen Titans.
Control Freak
[edit]- Voiced by: Alexander Polinsky
Control Freak is an overweight supervillain and film fanatic who is notorious for using a nuclear super-powered remote control he designed to warp reality to suit his film inspired images. He first appears in the episode "Fear Itself",[34] where he causes a disturbance in a film rental outlet out of anger over a non-mutual trivial dispute with the cashier regarding a sci-fi television series. The remote is his source of power, but he rarely uses his intellect to accomplish anything meaningful, instead preferring to hype himself into superiority in hopes of garnering mass respect as a supervillain.
Ding Dong Daddy
[edit]- Voiced by: David Johansen
Appearing the episode "Revved Up",[35] Ding Dong Daddy is a large 1950s-style street racer who forces Robin to compete in a cross-country race against himself and several foes from the Titans' rogues gallery; the prize being a briefcase containing what is only identified as "Robin's most prized possession". Leading the majority of the race in his undersized Hot Rod, Ding Dong Daddy ultimately finishes in second place to Robin. Having won the race, Robin reclaims his briefcase from Ding Dong Daddy. It is never revealed how Ding Dong Daddy acquired Robin's briefcase or what is inside it.
Dr. Light
[edit]- Voiced by: Rodger Bumpass
A recurring secondary villain in the series, Dr. Light—as his name implies—is a normal, powerless man who often uses battle suit with offensive-capability light-energy weapons. While the most common offensive use of his suits are firing laser beams, he can also generate tangible solid objects from light such as laser whips, fireballs, trapping orbs, and forcefields.
Fang
[edit]- Voiced by: Will Friedle
Fang is a mutant who is human from the neck down, but has a giant four-legged spider in place of a head. The legs of his spider head have the ability to move at fast speeds and jump vast distances, while the head is capable of firing sticky webs and paralysis-inflicting venom beams.
Katarou
[edit]- Voiced by: Keone Young ("The Quest")
Only appearing in the episode "The Quest", he is Robin's motivation to seek "The True Master" and serves as the episode's antagonist and Robin's rival. He is ultimately defeated by Robin and later appears as a member of the Brotherhood of Evil.
Killer Moth
[edit]- Voiced by: Thomas Haden Church ("Date with Destiny"); Marc Worden ("Can I Keep Him?")
Debuting in "Date With Destiny",[27] Killer Moth is an evil lepidopterist who commands swarms of mutated moths capable of eating through anything. He is presumably a human-moth hybrid, and wears moth-like body armor with razor-sharp claws and a pair of wings. He has enhanced speed, strength and reflexes and the ability to adhere to walls, as well as flight. In the series, Killer Moth is the father of Kitten, the breeder of Silkie, and may have been involved in the creation of Fang.
Kitten
[edit]- Voiced by: Tara Strong
Kitten is Killer Moth's spoiled and bratty daughter and Fang's girlfriend. She first appears in the episode "Date With Destiny",[27] when Fang breaks up with her for unexplained reasons. Not wanting to attend the junior prom alone, she talks her father into threatening the city with a large swarm of mutant moths to force Robin to become her date, instigating a fight between Fang and Robin and then between Kitten and a jealous Starfire. It is later revealed that Kitten secretly had control of the moth's release trigger concealed in her corsage, but she, Fang, and Killer Moth are ultimately apprehended and jailed. The trio would later appear as members of the Brotherhood of Evil; Kitten, riding atop a giant mutant moth and wielding a laser whip, confronts and defeats Starfire in "Calling All Titans",[12] but it is later revealed that Starfire had escaped. Before attacking Starfire, Kitten swipes her communicator and uses it to taunt Robin. She always calls Robin, "Robbie-Poo".
Mad Mod
[edit]- Voiced by: Malcolm McDowell
Mad Mod is a psychedelic red-headed British villain with the mannerisms of a strict schoolmarm, whose root source of power comes from his ruby-tipped cane. It is later revealed that Mod is actually an old man who uses holograms to appear younger. He uses hypnotic suggestion, which has a stupefying and lobotomizing effect on its victims.
Master of Games
[edit]- Voiced by: Jim Cummings
The Master of Games is an ape-like humanoid alien creature with the mannerisms of a game show host who takes the three male Titans along with Gizmo, Hot Spot, Wildebeest, Aqualad, and Speedy to his world in "Winner Take All"[16] to hold a "Tournament of Heroes". In reality, he is attempting to steal their unique skills and powers with his magic amulet.
His plan ultimately fails after Robin wins the tournament and unites with Cyborg and Speedy to defeat him and destroy his amulet; after the males are returned home at the episode's conclusion, he regenerates and captures a cast of potential female victims composed of Raven, Starfire, Terra, and five others in silhouette for an alleged "Tournament of Heroines".
He is later inducted into the Brotherhood of Evil in the final season; after getting knocked out by Pantha in "Titans Together",[13] his exact fate is unknown.
In the Teen Titans video game, he serves as the main antagonist.
A version of the Master of Games appears in Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans, voiced by Rhys Darby. His appearance is drastically different than the original series as he is now a short, blue humanoid with red eyes. He claims to be a being that travels the multiverse to find the best versions of particular heroes by having them compete against their counterparts, and pits the Teen Titans Go! versions of the Titans against their original series counterparts. He is later revealed to be a disguised Trigon, who organized the fight to siphon Raven's powers.
Mother Mae-Eye
[edit]- Voiced by: Billie Hayes
Mother Mae-Eye is a haggish witch with candy-themed magical powers and a mass-produced army of gingerbread cookie soldiers. In her human form, she appears as a plump, rosy-cheeked and kindly woman dressed in a red, white and pink outfit, but she is actually a three-eyed witch capable of growing and shrinking in size. Mae-Eye feeds on the "sweet, nourishing affection" of her victims; she then traps and bakes them within a gigantic pie in a giant potbelly stove under the guise of their "5:00 bedtime" after their love reaches its peak. She becomes angered when her victims either come out of the spell on their own or refuse to eat her pies; in addition to the pies, she uses a magical wooden spoon to focus her magical powers.
Mumbo
[edit]- Voiced by: Tom Kenny
The Amazing Mumbo is a turquoise-skinned magician whose powers are largely based on stage magic feats; he once found an working magical wand, whose power drove him insane. He is actually an old man, but his powers make him appear much younger.
Overload
[edit]- Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker; James Arnold Taylor ("Car Trouble")
Overload is a humanoid electric monster with a red-and-black circuit board at its core. It attacks with electricity and has and the ability to control and manipulate electric-powered machinery, but due to being composed largely of electricity, it is vulnerable to water.
Plasmus
[edit]- Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker
Debuting in the series premiere "Divide and Conquer",[28] Plasmus is featured throughout the series as a secondary villain. Plasmus is a normal human being while in a state of sleep; while awakened, he becomes a shape-shifting monster made of slime that has an appetite for toxic waste and raw sewage.
Professor Chang
[edit]- Voices by: James Hong
Professor Chang is a mad scientist who runs an underground smuggling operation providing illegal services for higher-tier villains. He has several workers helping him, who wear suits and helmets which hide their faces.
Punk Rocket
[edit]- Voiced by: Greg Ellis
Punk Rocket is a musical anarchist who moved from England to the United States to spread what he calls "the sound of chaos". He wears a sleeveless orange prison jumpsuit and has gray spiked hair and multiple piercings. He wields a customized guitar that releases sonic blasts; he is also able to ride it through the air like a surfboard.
Punk Rocket is first seen in "The Lost Episode",[36] where he interrupts a concert, but is defeated when Beast Boy goads him into cranking the guitar up to maximum, blowing up the sound system it is linked to in the process. Punk Rocket later allies with the Brotherhood of Evil and, along with Angel, unsuccessfully attempts to capture Bumblebee in "Calling All Titans".[12] During the first phase of the final battle of "Titans Together",[13] Más knocks him into a portal created by Herald, after which he is not seen again.
Puppet King
[edit]- Voiced by: Tracey Walter
The Puppet King is an evil marionette who transfers the Titans' souls into puppets in an attempt to enact a ceremony that would turn their bodies over to him permanently in "Switched".[37] However, his plans are disrupted when a spell cast by Raven as he was transferring her and Starfire into their puppets resulted in them escaping their puppets but swapping bodies as a result. After overcoming their issues in controlling each other's powers, Raven and Starfire work together to stop him, and his spells are broken as the Titans' souls are returned to their proper bodies. He is also rendered a lifeless marionette as a result, which the Titans stow away in their evidence room.[34]
He is reanimated and appears in the episode "Revved Up",[35] riding his own car with the villains going after Robin's most prized possession. He had previously become an honorary member of the Brotherhood of Evil, and later helps Control Freak take down Killowat in "Calling All Titans".[12]
He is beaten by Más early on in the final battle of "Titans Together",[13] but is seen standing with the Teen Titans as Robin tosses Brain to Beast Boy.
Red X
[edit]- Voiced by: Scott Menville
Debuting in the episode "Masks",[38] Red X was originally a cover identity Robin assumed to infiltrate Slade's organization, using a high-tech suit capable of creating various X-shaped effects. In the episode "X", a mysterious thief steals the suit for his own use. While his identity is never revealed, he develops a personal rivalry with Robin, but often ends up helping him against a common enemy.
Red X makes his mainstream DC debut in the two-issue teaser comic Future State Teen Titans and its follow-up series Teen Titans Academy.[39][40] He is depicted as a renegade student of Titans' Academy who will be responsible for the future downfall of the team, and is later revealed as Brick Pettirosso, a metahuman with electromagnetic powers.[41] The legacy of this Red X is also explored with his unknown surrogate father, a mercenary/thief who stole Dick Grayson's Red X suit as revenge for foiling his plans.[42] It is later revealed that Red X II killed Brick's foster parents, who worked for Black Mask on making the soldiers in the False Face Society. After being revealed as Red X, Brick believes Grayson to be his father as told by Red X II, only to be killed by his surrogate before teleporting away, leaving him to die in Grayson's arms. [43]
Saico-Tek
[edit]- Voiced by: Keone Young
A supporting villain who appears in Teen Titans: Trouble In Tokyo,[25] Saico-Tek is a high-tech Japanese ninja who is most distinguishable by his blue and pink armor. He wields high-tech ninja weapons, including a rocket-propelled jet pack, nunchucks, exploding throwing stars and smoke bombs, many of which use his cyan-magenta color scheme.
Spike
[edit]- Voiced by: John DiMaggio
A former mechanic and ally of Atlas.
Trident
[edit]- Voiced by: Clancy Brown
Trident is an Atlantean criminal armed with the mystical weapon of his namesake, who first appears as the main villain of the episode "Deep Six".[10]
Recurring characters
[edit]Arella
[edit]- Voiced by: Virginia Madsen
Arella is Raven's biological mother, who appears in the episode "The Prophecy",[44] Raven inherits much of her looks from her mother. She has short violet hair and wears a white robe; like Raven, she has a Chakra stone on her forehead. Unlike Raven, she has a more natural skin tone.
Raven, in desperation to avoid her obligation to release Trigon upon Earth, travels to her ancestral home of Azarath hoping to find a way to avert the impending apocalypse. However, she finds that Azarath is largely abandoned, save for a flock of doves which she finds Arella caring for. Arella somberly informs Raven that the prophecy she is to fulfill cannot be stopped, and that Earth will fall to Trigon as Azarath once did. At that moment, the illusion of Azarath dissipates and the realm is found to be in ruins.
It is never revealed if Arella was a product of the illusion, existing as a spirit of the lost civilization, or if she is actually Azarath's sole survivor.
Batman/Bruce Wayne
[edit]Batman, the legendary crime-fighter who trained Robin, never appears in the series. However, he is referenced in several episodes, as Robin had worked for him.
Wintergreen
[edit]- Voiced by: None
Though never addressed by his actual name, Wintergreen appears in the series as Slade's butler and right-hand man. He appears as an old man who wears a white suit and tie, white gloves, and a black dress shirt.
See also
[edit]- Atlantis in the DC universe
- Azarath
- Doom Patrol
- Gotham City
- H'San Natall
- Justice League
- Tamaran
- Team Titans
- Teen Titans
- Titans East
- Young Justice
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Season 5; Episode 10 - "Go"
- ^ Season 3; Episode 3 - "Betrothed"
- ^ a b c Season 5; Episode 1 - "Homecoming (Part 1)"
- ^ a b c Season 5; Episode 2 - "Homecoming (Part 2)"
- ^ Season 2; Episode 3 - "Terra"
- ^ Season 2; Episode 8 - "Titan Rising"
- ^ Season 2; Episode 12 - "Aftershock (Part 1)"
- ^ Season 2; Episode 13 - "Aftershock (Part 2)"
- ^ Season 5; Episode 13 - "Things Change"
- ^ a b c Season 1; Episode 8 - "Deep Six"
- ^ Season 3; Episode 8 - "Wavelength"
- ^ a b c d e Season 5; Episode 11 - "Calling All Titans"
- ^ a b c d e f g h Season 5; Episode 12 - "Titans Together"
- ^ a b c Season 5; Episode 8 - "Lightspeed"
- ^ a b Season 5; Episode 6 - "Kole"
- ^ a b c d e Season 2; Episode 9 - "Winner Take All"
- ^ Season 3; Episode 12 - "Titans East (Part 1)"
- ^ Season 3; Episode 13 - "Titans East (Part 2)"
- ^ Season 5; Episode 7 - "Hide And Seek"
- ^ Season 5; Episode 5 - "Snowblind"
- ^ Season 1; Episode 4 - "Forces Of Nature"
- ^ Torres, J (2008). "Adapting the Animated Antics of the Teen Titans". Titans Companion 2. TwoMorrows Publishing. p. 216. ISBN 978-1-893905-87-0.
- ^ "Titans Tower: Wonder Girl". Archived from the original on December 26, 2008. Retrieved January 1, 2009.
- ^ "J. Torres on Wonder Girl". Newsarama. Retrieved January 1, 2009.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b c Teen Titans: Trouble In Tokyo
- ^ Season 4; Episode 4 - "Cyborg The Barbarian"
- ^ a b c Season 2; Episode 6 - "Date With Destiny"
- ^ a b c Season 1; Episode 1 - "Divide and Conquer"
- ^ Season 1; Episode 3 - "Final Exam"
- ^ Season 3; Episode 4 - "Crash"
- ^ Season 4; Episode 10 - "Mother Mae-Eye"
- ^ a b c Season 3; Episode 1 - "Deception"
- ^ Season 5; Episode 4 - "For Real"
- ^ a b Season 2; Episode 5 - "Fear Itself"
- ^ a b Season 5; Episode 9 - "Revved Up"
- ^ Teen Titans: The Lost Episode
- ^ Season 1; Episode 7 - "Switched"
- ^ Season 1; Episode 9 - "Masks"
- ^ Future State Teen Titans #1 and #2 (January and February 2021)
- ^ Teen Titans Academy #1 (March 2021)
- ^ Teen Titans Academy #11
- ^ Teen Titans Academy 2021 Yearbook #1
- ^ Teen Titans Academy #12
- ^ Season 4; Episode 7 - "The Prophecy"