50 Fun Facts About Teen Titans

In which 1964 comic did Robin, Kid Flash and Aqualad first team up?

The trio didn't even have a team name yet; the 'Teen Titans' label arrived a year later in issue #60.

Which weather-controlling villain did the future Titans defeat in their very first adventure?

Mister Twister was later reworked into the demonic villain Gargoyle in the 1980s New Teen Titans run.

Which writer and artist created the original Teen Titans in 1964?

Haney's hip 1960s dialogue, calling the team 'the Fab Foursome', drew ribbing even at the time.

Donna Troy joined the team in 1965 as the younger sister of which hero?

Her link to the Amazons was later severed by DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths retcons, forcing a whole new origin story.

What is the real name of Kid Flash, one of the founding Titans?

He is the nephew of Iris West and eventually took over as the Flash himself.

Which title carried the October 1980 preview that introduced the New Teen Titans?

The preview story introduced Cyborg, Raven and the alien princess in a single insert before the team's own #1 launched a month later.

Which writer-artist team created The New Teen Titans in 1980?

Both men expected the book to be cancelled after six issues; it instead became DC's answer to the X-Men.

Princess Koriand'r's name is a pun on which herb?

Her sister Komand'r and brother Ryand'r continue the food-pun naming, and George Pérez pitched her look as 'Red Sonja in outer space'.

George Pérez based Raven's shadowed face and billowing cape on which DC character?

Pérez also shaped her hood so that in profile it looked like a bird's head, matching her name.

Beast Boy first appeared in 1965 as a member of which DC team?

He was even rejected as too young when he first sought Titans membership in the original 1960s series.

To cure young Garfield Logan of a rare illness, a serum turned him into which animal for 24 hours?

The illness, Sakutia, was lethal to every species but one, and the cure left his skin, hair and eyes permanently green.

Which Marvel character was originally patterned on Deathstroke, down to the name and costume?

Slade Wilson became Wade Wilson; Rob Liefeld's creation debuted in 1991, eleven years after Deathstroke.

In 'The Judas Contract', the traitor Terra can manipulate what?

Pérez said he and the writer knew from day one that Terra was a traitor and would be killed off.

Which new member, Deathstroke's other son, was introduced during 'The Judas Contract'?

The 1984 storyline won the Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Award for Favorite Comic Book Story.

During 'The Judas Contract', Robin gives up his old identity and becomes whom?

In the same storyline Kid Flash quit the team and hung up his costume.

What relation is the demon Trigon to Raven?

Raven originally formed the New Teen Titans specifically to stop him after the Justice League turned her away.

What human name does Raven use in the comics?

She took her late mother Arella's surname when she rejoined the Titans in a teenage body.

Princess Koriand'r hails from which planet?

It sits in the Vega star system, and in the comics her parents died when the Psions destroyed it.

Titans Tower is always built to resemble which letter?

The first comics tower stood in New York's East River until the Wildebeest Society destroyed it in 1991.

Which channel premiered the animated Teen Titans series on July 19, 2003?

The first two seasons also ran on Kids' WB, and the show returned to Boomerang years later.

Which Japanese duo performed the 2003 series' theme song?

The duo later got their own animated show, Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, from the same producer, Sam Register.

Who wrote the 2003 show's theme song, which exists in both English and Japanese versions?

The English lyrics were used for serious episodes and the Japanese version for comedic ones.

How many episodes did the 2003 series produce across its five seasons?

Only four seasons were planned; strong ratings won a fifth before the network declined a sixth.

Who voices Robin in both the 2003 series and Teen Titans Go!?

The show never says which Robin he is, though a mirror-universe double is named Nosyarg Kcid.

Which actress voices Raven in the animated series?

Strong also voiced Terra in Young Justice, another Titans-linked role.

Which Hellboy actor voiced the villain Slade in the 2003 series?

Richardson was in the show too, as the season-four demon Trigon.

In season one, Slade schemes to make Robin his what?

That arc contains one of the show's few Batman nods: Robin snaps 'I already have a father' as bats fly past.

The animated Titans protect which West Coast metropolis?

Their T-shaped tower sits on an island just offshore.

Which future star of The Last of Us voiced Terra in the 2003 series?

Johnson also played Ellie in the games, and the 2017 animated Judas Contract film recast the role.

Which original member of the animated team never got a season centred on them?

Seasons focused in turn on Robin, Terra, Cyborg, Raven and Beast Boy.

In season three, Cyborg helps form which offshoot team?

Its roster included Aqualad, Speedy and the speedster twins Más y Menos, with Wil Wheaton voicing Aqualad.

Which villain group, Beast Boy's longtime enemies, drives the fifth season?

The season also broke the show's no-real-names rule when Elasti-Girl called Beast Boy 'Garfield'.

In Trouble in Tokyo, the artist-turned-villain Brushogun is found trapped inside what?

Brushogun is a being of paper and ink whose creations, including the ninja Saico-Tek, dissolve into black goo.

Which cult leader clones the Titans in the 2005 Game Boy Advance game?

The bosses were his students Gizmo, Jinx and Mammoth; a console game followed in 2006.

In what year did Teen Titans Go! premiere?

The pilot drew over 3 million viewers, and by 2025 the show reached a ninth season of 52 episodes.

Which Robin does the Teen Titans Go! episode 'Permanent Record' jokingly name him as?

The gag shows 'Dick Grayson' and 'Jason Todd' crossed out; later flashbacks to Haley Circus point back to Grayson anyway.

Who voices Slade in Teen Titans Go! To the Movies?

Arnett, the Lego Batman voice, also produced the film.

Nicolas Cage voices which hero in Teen Titans Go! To the Movies?

It finally gave Cage the part he lost when Tim Burton's Superman Lives was cancelled in the 1990s.

Who voices Hollywood director Jade Wilson in the 2018 movie?

Jade Wilson turns out to be Slade in disguise, which is why the surname matches.

Which comics legend made his first and only DC film cameo in Teen Titans Go! To the Movies?

He died in November 2018, four months after the film's release.

Rapper Lil Yachty voices which Justice League member in the 2018 film?

Singer Halsey and talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel also voiced Justice Leaguers in the same cast.

In the 2019 crossover Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans, the two Trigons merge into a being called what?

The film also marked the first appearance of the 2003 characters in 13 years.

The live-action series Titans premiered in 2018 as the first original show on which streaming service?

Seasons three and four moved to HBO Max after the service folded.

Who plays Dick Grayson in the live-action Titans?

The project depended on securing the rights to Dick Grayson; Geoff Johns said 'you couldn't do Titans without Robin'.

Which actor played Deathstroke in season two of Titans?

The other three all played Deathstroke too, in Arrow, Justice League and Smallville respectively.

In season three of Titans, Jason Todd returns under what identity?

He comes back under the control of Jonathan Crane, played by Mad Men's Vincent Kartheiser.

Which Robin joins the team in the 2016 animated film Justice League vs. Teen Titans?

The film borrowed Raven's 'Azarath Metrion Zinthos' chant and Beast Boy's werewolf form from the 2003 cartoon.

Who voiced Terra in the 2017 animated film Teen Titans: The Judas Contract?

It was Miguel Ferrer's final film role as Deathstroke, released three months after his death.

Under what codename did Beast Boy serve in the 1980s New Teen Titans?

DC switched him back to Beast Boy in 2003 to match the cartoon.

Karen Beecher, DC's first African-American superheroine, uses what codename?

She built her own insect-themed suit and first attacked the Titans to make her boyfriend Mal Duncan look good.