Teen Titans

Teen Titans was an animated series that followed the adventures of the superhero team of the same name. The main characters were Robin, Beast Boy, Cyborg, Raven, and Starfire.

A wealth of secondary characters also appeared, mostly drawn from DC comics, as well as a few original characters who were created for the show.

Teen Titans characters in the DCAU

• Batman
  • Batman: The Animated Series, "On Leather Wings";
  • Teen Titans, "Haunted" (implied)
• Beast Boy
  • Static Shock, "Romeo in the Mix";
  • Teen Titans, every episode, except for “Trust”, “For Real” and “Lightspeed”
• John Grayson & Mary Grayson
  • Batman: The Animated Series, "Robin's Reckoning";
  • Teen Titans, "Haunted" (implied)
• Mutant
  • The New Batman Adventures, "Legends of the Dark Knight"
  • Teen Titans, "How Long is Forever?"
• Kid Flash
  • Justice League Unlimited, "Flash and Substance" (implied);
  • Teen Titans, "Lightspeed"
• The Gordanians
  • Justice League, "Starcrossed, Part I";
  • Teen Titans, "Go!"
• Robin
  • Batman: The Animated Series
  • Teen Titans, every episode, except for “For Real” and “Lightspeed”
• Speedy
  • Justice League Unlimited, "Patriot Act"
  • Teen Titans, "Winner Take All", “Titans East (parts 1 and 2)”, “For Real”, “Calling All Titans” and “Titans Together”
• S.T.A.R. Labs
  • Superman: The Animated Series, "A Little Piece of Home"
  • Teen Titans, "Overdrive"
• Wayne Enterprises
  • Batman: The Animated Series
  • Teen Titans, "Apprentice"

1996 Pitch

In 1996, production coordinator Thomas Zellers approached staff artist Tommy Tejeda to produce concept art for a potential Teen Titans spin-off. The only known piece of art for the project boasts a line-up of Flash, Aquaman, Robin, Speedy, Wonder Girl, Aqualad, and Kid Flash.^[1] While the show never came to fruition, the Kid Flash design eventually found it's way into the Flash Museum during Justice League Unlimited's "Flash and Substance".

Proposed Crossovers with 2003 Series

• According to Dwayne McDuffie, when the team was mentioned in the Static Shock episode "Hard as Nails", Alan Burnett's^[2] plan was to have the two shows crossover later in the season, but the episode was needed before the Titans show would even premiere. "Someone [from the studio^[2]] suggested Justice League instead, and [I guess it's obvious how we responded^[2]] we were off to the races".^[3] on a separate occasion, he voiced interest in them finally meeting one day.^[2] Teen Titans character designer, Derrick J. Wyatt, later added that he had seen a size comp done for the episode.^[4] McDuffie later stated that he was open to let the Teen Titans crew use Static in their show had they asked him.^[5]
• A crossover between Justice League Unlimited and Teen Titans was proposed at one point by WB President Sander Shwartz, but according to Dwayne McDuffie, they couldn't figure out how to do it, and he wasn't sure if they were the same continuity.^[6] "We couldn't even agree on the format of the show," Bruce Timm said. "Should it be a one-parter? Should the Teen Titans crew do it? Should both of us do one part of it? Should it be a serious story? Should we deal with the continuity or should we not deal with continuity? After about five minutes of that, it was like, 'Forget it, it's too hard.'"^[7] Timm later expanded on the notion saying that he, James Tucker and Sam Register weren't keen on the idea so it never got as far as thinking about story ideas. "I think we got as far as discussing how to deal with the inherent incompatibility of the styles of the two shows. We toyed (for about a minute) with the idea of having the Titans drawn in the “JL/ BT /DCAU” style in the JL half and the Justice Leaguers drawn in “TT / Murakanime” style in the other half, as if it was a two-part COMICS crossover, with John Buscema, say, drawing all the characters the “Marvel” half and Jim Aparo drawing them in the “DC” half. But no one seemed very excited about that approach either."^[8] At one point James Tucker suggested this idea was also floated as a potential movie.^[9]
• There was seemingly another potential crossover that Bruce Timm wasn't in the loop on.^[8] According to Derrick J. Wyatt and Titans director Ben Jones, The Teen Titans were going to fight Darkseid on their show^[10], while Mad Mod would have gotten his hands on Apokoliptian technology so his illusions become real been the antagonist in the Justice League episode.^[11]

See also

• Hard as Nails
• Justice League: The First Mission
• The Teen Titans wiki.

References