Celebrating 20 Years of Teen Titans (Season 1): Teenage Heroes, Compelling Villains and Robin's Shades of Grey

Now , super Reviews , we're gonna try to keep it between 2-4 parts , so there might be like 4 recording sessions between us as we try to get through the whole thing . And Extreme Reviews , bro , that's like definitely more than 4 . Like , if it's at least 5 , I'm like that's just a straight up Extreme Review right there .

That's what I was saying with Black Clover , where I was like , okay , it has 4 seasons , so that could be a Super Review . But with the movie coming out and the anime possibly returning , I'm like it just got upgraded to Extreme Review . But anyways , we gotta top it to talk about and , without further ado , let's go ahead and zone in on it .

Now it's been 20 years since Teen Titans aired on Cartoon Network and I loved watching this show as a kid . I just wanted to show you guys like Dragon Ball Z , zoys , tenjin Muya , yu-yu Haga , show you just run bolting from school trying to catch the new episodes and shit , and a lot of fans have been petitioning for a 6th season of this show .

But as we go down memory lane and talk about the characters , favorite episodes , notable moments , we'll be addressing why some of the fandom may have missed the point of how and why this series ended the way that it did . We're going to start with season 1 , the protégé season , with Robin and his obsession with Slade .

We're going to be talking about the other Titans 2 a little bit , but it's going to be mainly focused on Robin and Slade for this first part . Here Now , kokugasu , tell me what's your general opinion about Teen Titans .

I love the music . It was always fun , so I want you to understand this . Okay , when the music first came on , when they had first introduced me , I saw the trailers and stuff for the show . It was like this looks interesting as hell , I'm probably going to watch it .

So when it first came on , when it first comes on , it starts off before the Teen Titans are now getting ready to face off against their first villains , their first foes as an actual team , and you like , holy shit , this is going to be amazing . What's going on . This is fucking awesome . I'm about to enjoy this shit .

And then , aside from the fact , the really awesome graphics because even now it's better than graphics . That's what you're , better than a lot of the fucking animations that we look on cart network shit now Like significant better .

So essentially , teen Titans was one of the first American anime or Murakami , as they say to where essentially their animation style was inspired by anime . And you kind of wonder okay , I can kind of see how it holds up because kind of feels like something we will still watch to this day .

Literally , because Teen Titans , because the animation Teen Titans , wound up going so well by modified , by mixing together American animation with anime , japanese animation . For the time it is , it was a perfect blend . It was a perfect blend to make comic books feel real and make it feel like they came to life . So it was an excellent job into that .

But , yes , 20 years later , it is significantly better than a lot of the animations from shows that we're looking at nowadays . Like I'd be honest , like , no , my kids be loving watching shows I'm listening here . Like brother animation stretch this significantly cheaper and it is like , oh my God , no . And now the world wants to switch to using AI and AI .

They pretty much remixed the original 1960s Batman theme Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na Batman . But instead of going Batman , you see the na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na and I'm like , oh shit , it's like old school Batman style . That's what's up .

And then you know , finally the episode comes back on and the action sequences are amazing , especially considering the fact that Teen Titans is also one of the first animations during the time that even that started off allowing heroes to punch villains . If you keep that in mind onto this , it wasn't often for the first season .

They didn't really show it like that . It didn't show the punch you would see like still images of like fists was there and then like the enemy was flying back and stuff , because even before Teen Titans we still had Justice League , and Justice League Unlimited was getting ready to come out in time too .

But America still had a big issue about showing heroes like punching and kicking people . So the only time you would see this , villains were always punch and kick , but the heroes would never punch and kick . They would grab and throw down or possibly just hold that hold the enemy down , but they would never punch them .

If a punch had happened , it always happened off camera and you would just see the villain flying , like flying away or something like that . So they never really showed it like that . And so Teen Titans one of being one of the first ones that they actually showed it and , conveniently , their teenagers doing it too .

So it's like really , y'all allow this , I'm for it , though , for real though .

So it was one of those ones they still didn't necessarily season one did not really show them actually punching . You would see like the villains punching the hero .

That's not always going to work , because sometimes they'll chase after you . What you're going to do then if they chase after you ? Hold you down , just accept the beating ?

And they would never defend themselves until they became older , like as adults , after they suffered years and years of abuse and trauma . I'm like no , like for it .

Like don't just accept that happening , like , no , and so you finally get a chance of seeing like hey , these are like superheroes or super villains that are fighting each other , that are actually like defending , and it's not like , oh , we're just accepting beatings all the time .

No , like , no , you're not going to just accept somebody just walking up and punching you just because and I'm like , I'm a villain you are here or you have to accept that .

Unless we're talking about injustice , superman it's a whole different guy , but still it's one of those things is like okay , you can show how to hold your strength back , but it's not just about being about defending yourself and not being abusive .

And we get a chance to actually see that as well with Teen Titans Of course keep in mind for season one again you never still see too much of them like fighting each other like that . If you do see the heroes , they're usually dodging and usually it's like a lot of aerial attacks and stuff .

Like you know , everybody has their own special aerial attack that they can use , except Beast Boy . But you know Cyborg has his Sonic Cannon . You know Robin has all of his gadgets . You , of course , acquire learning with Batman and stuff .

Starfire has their star bolts and Raven sometimes will shoot like different telekinetic blasts or just encapsulating their enemy in darkness and stuff . Otherwise , beast Boy is the only one that will kind of run through people . But even if he does , you will only see like still frame images of it .

Like if he turned into a rhino and ran after a guy , you will only see like the still image of just him as the rhino and the guys is there , and they would just show that image for like a couple seconds . It's like .

to be very careful about this to get the approval of the broadcast station . All that , all right , y'all can keep going with it Now , okay , cool , now that they're cool with what we're doing , then we can add more to it , like how they added more world building into the later on into the series , like we'll get to that later , but yeah .

Otherwise you never really saw someone getting punched or actually getting punched or kicked in . Like the first season and a half Probably full of season two . But I know season three we do get a chance to actually see like was it the first combat for season one was it was robbing against some villain and you actually see him throwing like a three hit combo .

You wouldn't see that in season one or season two . They hit . It was always like like show slow frames , like pow kapow type of thing , like no , those still frames as you were seeing comics and stuff .

So season three is when the first time you actually see like robbing through a full three hit combo , like punch , punch , kick and you're like actually knocking the opponent down and stuff , and so you actually would see that versus like season one you did the only time you ever saw someone getting hit was a blast attack .

So it was like okay you know , but then you know , and then the villains , of course . Honestly , the villains are always amazing to me for Teen Titans , like not just Slade , I just mean the villains period .

Like they get some more people like Seymour and Private Hive and some other folks , but those were like the main three for a while .

And then it's like oh , oh and then they just took the tower back in all that .

Like there's not many , there's almost no superhero show , no superhero TV show that has done that . I think this is literally the only one that actually has where the first episode the villains won .

It's like humble beginnings . It's like you got to learn bones as soon as possible , is that ? So that way you can manage your expectations later . See , here's the thing .

While we're keeping this mainly towards Robin and Slade , my whole thing was , when I see Robin is that this is a kid that has something to prove to prove that he needs to step out of Batman shadow , and if he's not able to take down someone like Slade , then it'll feel like he failed to stand out on his own and failed as a leader .

Therefore , he's thinking oh well , I still have more learning to do , so I might as well go back to my adoptive dad and stay under him until I'm actually ready . But that's just the thing . It was like Robin was taking himself too seriously because he had so much to prove , even though it's not that obvious .

But you can kind of tell that he's mainly trying to live up to the expectations of being the boy wonder that flew the coop . You know what I mean .

So they don't really know each other all that well yet , so they're still trying to figure things out Absolutely .

I also kind of like how , near the end of the series in season five like right before the series finale and all that they did show the episode when they first met and it's like , wow , so that's how their first time meeting each other went down . But we'll talk about that in detail in the fourth part .

But my point being is that these are lost , confused kids that's had like some sort of issue with their family to some degree . Like I want to say with cyborg to a less of this grief , because it's it was mainly about him being like half man , half machine , but everybody else seemed like they had like some sort of family issue going on .

But point being is that these are five kids that felt like they were like outcast and they made a family within themselves . So it's like having friends that became the family that they needed , to remind themselves that , ayo , even if you fail , we're still here for you . You just gotta trust us and work with us , and that's pretty much a whole overarching theme .

No matter what happens with the Titans Light , whether it's with Robin Starfire , cyborg , raven Beastmore , it always comes back to the fact that you need to trust your team to help you out .

I mean not to rush it , but I'm just saying it's like eventually you're gonna have to come to these new stations one way or another , but better sooner than later .

So , understanding that Starfire and Blackfire's outfits were , needless to say , swimsuit , bdsm-esque outfits nobody wanted to talk about .

She really does not make friends whatsoever . If you say it's your her friend , understand you got a bounty on your head . She will turn you in for that money , like straight up . And that's both comic book and this animated version , tv version as well .

But then also keeping in mind that once Blackfire was forfeited the throne because of her actions , the next in line for the throne was Starfire . But she would have to marry to get into the throne . But let Starfire warms up , betraying the throne , which Starfire is very pure of heart , then the next person in line would be would be their little brother .

But because Starfire did not betray her , did not betray her race , not betray her people , and she was not forfeited the throne in any form or fashion , nor did she deny the throne , she actually did wind up taking up the mantle , both in the comics and in the animated series , but the animated series is for a short period of time , it's still .

Because of that you don't . You're not gonna hear about the brother . It's just how it is . He wants it being the lesser one . He's not . He's not necessarily the weakest one , but at the same time , popularity wise , your sister's got it . Strength wise , it still kind of goes more to your sisters . And understand that .

The way that this , that the people go for their planet , is that they don't go based on gender , like genders where male is more superior to female . They go straight on age . If the first born is a girl , that first born she's gonna be queen . That's just how it works . They don't go based on gender and race there . That's not how they do it .

Everybody is equal there , so yeah .

They literally call them barbarians and savages and that's how they're treated amongst the cosmos and it's like they're barbarians but they're the most equal equality people out there , whereas almost every other planet suffers from racial wars or even like fucking . The Martians .

Martian manhunter and Miss Martian literally are the last two survivors of their race because they had a race war that literally destroyed the entire fucking planet . Literally , when you have all of that situation . But the Tameranians are savages , but they're all equal , really really .

down on the fact that the males , that the Tameranians males , don't treat their women the same Bruh . This is like Sparta . You talk to my wife , you talk to me . It's the same bruh . There's no less than me , the hell you talking about . But again , they're the savages . But no , so my bad . But yeah , we introduced the black fire .

Yes , like you said , if you chose black fire over star fire , you definitely chose who you gonna be and I'm gonna be honest with you , my wife is God's emo . So , yeah , like I'm not gonna lie , yeah , I am there , I definitely chose black fire .

Where star fire is more reserved and doesn't quite understand how things go , black fire , well , no matter where she goes , quickly attunes to wherever she's at , and that's one of those things that , like if black fire was not evil , she literally would be the absolute best leader of the Tamaranians hands down .

No matter where she goes , she's able to instantly adapt to who it is that the people are there , she's able to immediately understand them , she's able to immediately picture in how things are supposed to be and who they are , and she fits in almost instantly . She doesn't .

She's only there for like a day , and in one day's time you would think she's already been there forever , and that's how quickly she can adjust , and that makes her such . She's a great people person , and that would actually make her a great leader , on top of the fact that she actually is stronger than star fire as well , too .

So when you keep all those things into mind , it's like the only thing that set her back was that she was a villain .

Otherwise , I would even compare her to like Teth Adam to black Adam , where literally like if she decided to be dictator and if she wasn't so like cold hearted but was mostly for the people , like how Teth Adam was , she still would be a great leader .

It's like , yeah , your own attitude is like that's just kind of things like having that one child like not exactly evil , but let's just say it's like having that one child that's like spoiled . And there's the other child that's like doesn't really act for much but works hard , and the hardworking child will get rewarded more for their merits and whatnot .

But the spoiled child will get all mad because , oh , how come they get all this ? And I was like , bro , you've been getting in your own way , thinking that you can do whatever you want because you're so grown that that's why you don't get much compared to the child that actually earned it .

And they were even thinking about the reward , though it was like they just did it just because probably so it's like just go to show that if you were more pure hearted , like Starfire , you would have had this throne . But nah , you had to get in your own way .

But other than that , blackfyre in this show was very lackluster , like she was great as far as her first appearance , but then after that there wasn't much else there for her .

I mean , that whole episode was being dedicated not so much to her , but more so is dedicated to Starfire believing in herself , because she first gets upset about the fact that everyone is choosing Blackfyre over her , which that really isn't the case . It's just the fact that , okay , blackfyre is relatable .

That's a personality trait that she has that you don't necessarily have , but that doesn't mean that you're boring . That doesn't mean that nobody wants to hang out with you .

And my thing is it's like not only could it have been genuine that she just had that natural charisma , but also I feel I was getting like mean girls vibe it's specifically Regina George vibe to where it's like she just knows how to talk to people as a way of manipulating them .

five . But with Beast Boy his main deal is he used comedy as a way of finding acceptance and coping with his insecurities . And when Blackfyre is like laughing at his jokes , like it was genuinely funny , it was like she was making him feel good about it .

So because it was like in a way she can kind of tell that you're kind of using humor as a coping mechanism . So I'm gonna use that to your favorite , to where , okay , I'm gonna laugh at your jokes , make you feel good about yourself . So that way you'll be more cool with me in the long run and not just manipulate you even harder later on .

It's that kind of deal where I'm like it's a real dark shit , like it's like , ooh , I'm telling you , like you just tell when you're like I know you're up to . It's like even with Raven it's like she was like the most begrudging when it came to Blackfyre because like of course she's gonna have her own walls up .

But then she was like , yeah , she's all right .

But then again it's like no , it's like yeah , but then again I'm like thinking one meeting is all it takes Sometimes , sometimes , but then again you know I'm gonna get to it later , but it's like the relationship between Robin and Starfire is like you know what's gonna happen , but at the same time it's almost like are y'all like each other like that , or are

y'all just friends , like it was like some back and forth in the series from time to time with Laura ? It's like half the time you can tell Robin was crushing on Starfire and Starfire was like being a little bit more botanic .

But then sometimes it feels like you can tell that Starfire feels some tough way by Robin , but he's being a little super-tonic for some reason . It's like a whole bunch of hot and cold .

I was like I was like just stick to your training boy , the bitches come later .

Because for me I'm the youngest , so I have younger siblings , I have older siblings . I only have one younger sibling and he's much younger to me . So during the time I was watching this I never really felt like he wasn't even born yet . So I was the youngest and I always felt that way . Like my older brothers always got a chance to do stuff .

Like Starfire didn't get a chance to do as much exploring , but as far as she knew , blackfyre explored almost the entire galaxy . She just flies to other different planets and just does shit . She comes back with gifts and stuff all the time , different things . Like she always gets to do stuff , and for me that was . It felt about the same .

Like a lot of times I didn't feel like I got a chance to do anything , but it felt like my brothers always got to do something .

It was still one of those ones I'm like okay , this is very interesting .

It comes from Beast Boy , where , when the Galactic well , I want to say Galactic Federation , but this is not Rick and Morty- oh , it was the Centauri . Yeah , when the Centauri show up , the Centauri police show up , and then like Automagant says you're all under arrest . And then Beast Boy is like wait , you can't be the good guys , we're the good guys .

So technically it's like saying even if you're doing your daring , do you're can still be looked at as the bad guy or at least grounds for legal punishment for getting involved .

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But Robin's like but we know who has cause , he remembers exactly cause you know you gotta be a Robin , you gotta be Batman's Robin , you gotta have photographic memory , or at least learn to have a really good memory , of course , and immediately takes off the necklace from Starfire and he's like cause , he remembered that exactly that Blackfyre said at the very

beginning of the episode it got you a special necklace from the Centauri Moons and it's instant like you just need to get something to do .

We know , we know , yeah , it was like , yeah , you set yourself up and , of course , by that point , blackfyre's already escaped , already trying to escape , and we have our wonderful moment where we hear this one and the music of all .

The music in the shows was always so great , but the music in this episode was very amazing , from the rave music from the party they went to to the music where Starfire finally got her comeuppance and was like no , and she actually like stands up for herself and really overpowers Blackfyre and you start hearing that music playing in the background .

It feels like victory music and it's like it feels like it was like a nice little serenade , but it felt like a victory serenade . It reminded me of back when I'm playing Final Fantasy . Like you know , you get those winds Da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da da da da da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da da .

And so you hear that Da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da da . And I'm like , oh , it's like victory music from video games . It's so good and it's like and then you know , starfire ones are winning and it all comes together so great . I literally went back and rewatched .

I literally went back and started rewatching this with my kids , just really to get prepared for this review , but also because I wanted my kids to understand what good animation shows are like . So I'm sitting here like bruh , I just I don't know Like . I understand there's a good storyline to like adventure time , but I can never get past animation .

It's just to be honest , I can't . It's a struggle for me , but still . So we wound up getting Blackfire . I know we was continuing on with villains . We wound up having okay . So episode four . I think it was very interesting . No , sorry , episode three Cinderblock . So I like Cinderblock because he's he's basped in mystery .

We don't know no origin for him whatsoever , we just know he is a giant rock golem , sentient golem .

It was corny as hell . As a kid I enjoyed that shit . I was like that was something I always did with my friends too . We ever was like pretending we was , you know , fighting or doing something . You know what 10 year old , 11 year olds would do .

They just failed at working together , which is something that is a big thing , especially because , in fact , robin is trying to understand he's not with Batman anymore . Batman , even though he always works alone . Batman , if he ever worked with somebody , he's always the one that has to be in charge , and usually for good reason .

If Batman is not in charge , stuff usually gets fucked up . That's just what winds up happening If you don't follow Batman's plans . Usually shit is about to go left . But in this particular case , it's different . Robin has to learn to work with other people . He has to understand that he is not the only strength there .

He has to be able to do stuff with someone else as well , and so it's a really great aspect of how we're able to see things grow and how we're able to see Robin grow , and how we're able to see Cyborg is still coming to terms with himself Not as much until a little bit later on , but still getting a chance to understand how teamwork works , and I like

how the episode winds up playing out to where it still ends with Robin being the leader , but it ends with Cyborg being issued as second in command Because it's been proven that Cyborg can actually still lead himself as well too .

He can lead a team and help put things together and stuff as well , and it's just one of the things where it's like where Robin is better with motivation . Cyborg is really great when it comes down to still working out the mechanics of different plannings and stuff .

No , let me not say that , Because , yeah , no , it is . This is the last Cyborg that was created that DC created that was not enhanced by Motherbox , because the previous , much older Cyborgs were not enhanced by Motherboxes either . They were just like advanced alien tech , but that was about it .

But this one was the last Cyborg before he was a Cyborg enhanced by Motherbox . When it came down to the Justice League series is when the new Justice League animated movie started coming out .

After New 52 Reboot is when we started having Cyborg the alien tech that he got wound up actually being a Motherbox and allows him to be able to use access to like boom tubes and various different things from the new God technology and stuff .

So there's one thing to keep in mind to this is that this is Cyborg's most advanced tech outside of a Motherbox , and it makes it very important to know into that as well too , because this tech can rival a lot of different DC villains as well .

with that fight with Brother Blood . But we'll get to that later .

Cyborg is very self-sufficient . He's able to go ahead and advance himself . It's just mostly his own brain Cause . One of the things about it is that Cyborg has always been intelligent , not like you know , concerned , in fact . Of course , he comes from a family of geniuses .

His dad and his mom were geniuses , was dad , of course , still is a very important DC scientist , but , keeping in mind that he's always been extremely smart , he's always had top grades . He's always been able to put things together very easily .

So , keeping that in mind , on top of now he has cybernetic enhancements and a built-in supercomputer in his brain as well , too . He's able to plan to like , process things in extreme fashion . His limitations have always only been himself . When Cyborg limits himself , that's when things wound up becoming a big issue .

When he believes in himself , he can do damn near anything Like without question . So we wound up having into that one . Mr Fixit was actually Before you continue .

Now , going back to a previous episode , fortress of Nature , I'm just gonna briefly talk about these guys because eventually they become teen titans . But they started off as villains who were just Teens just doing whatever they wanted to do just because they could .

Where literal storms as a major storm coming out and you find out that thunder and lightning , actual pretty much gods , like actually have human form and they're going around creating various different storms and stuff just because it's fun . You know they're just like that , that's whatever . Like I'm just living my life , we're just living our lives .

But now we have this understanding that it's like , okay , they're actually doing this on purpose and they're doing this on purpose , so we gotta have them like chill out a little bit . And then eventually they wound up joining the teen , or was it not Titans East ? I think it was like Titans West .

They wound up becoming Titans themselves , as also , but yeah , it starts off with just like getting a communicator in case they're needed , and then , eventually , they wound up forming their own different branches . Once enough , like superhero , teams have been gathered together , forming their own Young Justice League before Young Justice supports .

So you can kind of imagine like okay , well , now that we kind of test to see how violent things can get with these Teen superheroes , young Justice should be like all right , bring on the edge .

I liked episode six , episode six Raven Eppel was already in my bay in episode one , but episode six , bro , dr Light , you remember Dr Light ?

And honestly , I like that episode because that episode to me was also very important even before like , if you can compare that episode to the movie Inside Out , like , literally , where every single emotion works together and when the emotions start fighting against each other , it becomes a big issue , and a lot of times that's a big issue that we deal with with

depression is that we have multiple emotions that are all fighting each other .

I want to go out , but I want to stay secluded . I want interaction , I want people to talk to me , but I don't want to go talk to nobody else . I'm angry , I'm sad , but I want to be happy , and nothing works together . And it's only when we finally have those moments where we're able to piece things together that it's okay to be happy and sad .

It's okay to want to go out and understand that you're afraid of isolation , but you're afraid of being out there too . It's okay for all of those things . It's okay that these emotions happen .

The thing is not letting all these overwhelming forces overtake you , and that winds up happening with Raven , where she finally brings her emotions together because she's been battling herself so much . She deals with so much Hell . She's constantly fighting her father all the time , so understanding those aspects is like it's a whole different thing in that aspect .

But , yeah , finally getting a chance to see Raven open herself up more , and it was like , if you're going to be part of a team , you really got to open yourself up more . And then we follow through right after that , right after that episode , to episode seven we're gonna start by switching bodies .

Like sometimes Starfire needs to understand that Raven needs her solitude and sometimes Raven needs to look at the bright side of things .

She's like righteous fury and Raven's like , yeah , I don't do that and I can't do that at home , and so literally like the whole episode , raven is the Starfire's body , like almost the whole episode , and has like no powers whatsoever , because Raven , her powers work by controlling her emotions .

Every single outburst of emotion that Raven has unleashes her power , like in Starfire had to understand that that . Okay , it's not that Raven is emotionless . She can't show her emotions . If she shows that , oh , I'm in love , her powers spurred out into random shit . If she's angry , her powers spurred out into random shit .

If she's excited , her powers spurred out into random shit .

Shit gets bad , like literally like it gets horrible for her . She can't control her power , she can't control her emotions , and it's like and so I literally rape , like Starfire . The whole time is like , oh my God , because Starfire , her personality is always overly bubbly . Everything is always like 200 . Like she's ADHD .

Literally Everything either makes her extremely sad , extremely excited , and she's like , oh my gosh , I have to control this , otherwise I am never going to control my powers . And it's like , oh man , and so , but this was a really good episode .

And getting a chance like you hear it all the time Walk a mile in the person's shoes , like step , understand that other person's life and this is something that they literally had to do . Like you get put in someone else's body and understand that everything you do makes such makes that big of a difference is hard .

And then , like even for Raven , I've always had to control my emotions , but realizing she's never , she didn't control her emotions , she limited her emotions and understanding that that's not what control actually is . Control is not limiting its understanding , helping it move in a specific direction . When you limit something .

It just keeps bottling up and then that becomes a big problem . You can't hold in all of your anger . Sometimes you've got to redirect your energy in a different way and that was something that Raven had to learn into this one and Starfighter had to learn to bring it down a notch girl . You always zero to 100 real quick .

Sometimes you got to go zero to 25 or 25 to 50 , like move it slow . So I really like this . I would say you can tell this is a great show . It's there yeah .

when they were rerun a lot of these episodes , this episode wasn't rerun that much Like realistically it wasn't rerun that much , at least not in that area that I was at , that I lived in , so we didn't see this one as much .

But this episode still want to like enjoy getting a chance to see them fight underwater and understand that they actually do need some underwater allies , that they're actually very limited like , especially cyborg . He's actually very limited for this time being , not until he gets much older . Cyborg gets much older . He makes all his shit damn near waterproof .

So he's all good into that . Until he takes damage , then he's fucked . But as long as he ain't taking no damage he can make yourself waterproof . But this cyborg is not waterproof at all whatsoever . Splash a bucket of water on him , he is fried . He would fry all his damn circuits . He's like damn cyborg . What's your weakness ?

Water , I'm frying , frying , oh my god . But no , this was still pretty funny , though . Now , this episode I know you guys , this episode , I know , is what you really want to talk about . Masque Slade is now reeking . Slade has finally made himself known to the Titans and Robin wants to find out who the fuck he is . And this is what's most interesting to me .

Okay , this one was interesting to me because , I'll be honest with you , I knew of Deathstroke . I read the comics , but I read some of the comics , but I didn't read a whole lot , and that was where my biggest fuck up was at , and this is why I say that I had no idea that Deathstroke's real name was Slade Wilson . I never knew that shit .

I want you to understand that this is where shit . Literally , this is like Slade's biggest fuck . You to Robin Slade , who are you ? I'm Slade . This nigga literally told Robin his name on some real shit . He straight up told him what his name was , and Robin still couldn't find out who the fuck the guy was .

It was very obvious to Robin that he's definitely had military fighting skills .

At this point this is not really a spoiler when Batman finally got a hold of Darkseid's chair , the chair of infinity where actually of all knowledge , and he winds up asking who is the Joker's real name is , and he finds out that it's actually three jokers . But then you find out that Batman knew this shit all along . He just wanted to make .

He just really was hoping he was wrong . That was all it was . Batman knew this shit all along . He's fought all three jokers , tested them and realized every single one , because he's gotten blood samples and all types of shit from their fights .

It has been able to find three different names and he was always thinking there's no way all three of them could be Joker . That means that this is something crazy going on Joker's doing something to himself . Batman knew all along it was more than one Joker , but he just didn't want to admit it . Batman found out who the Joker really was .

On this , because Batman has had a lot of times where he ditched out on group lead , on group efforts but I just recently watched was a crisis on two earths .

I just went back and we watched that again Great movie , of course , you can watch it on max and so , literally into that one , they wound up going to a whole other universe to help out , and Batman's like fuck that , I'm staying here .

Like Batman literally says no , I'm not , I'm nothing to do this shit , and he only was going there because he literally gets roped into that shit , like it wasn't what he wanted . He was like , damn it , man , I did not want to get stuck in a whole other universe . What the fuck . But ?

But on some real talk , though , is the fact that literally , it's like Batman will rope himself out of group efforts because he , when he's hooked onto something , he puts everything into that , and that's why he works alone , because he understands that if he gets really attached to something , he will stick to that , and that was something that I find it really funny

. That was something that Dick Grayson , of course , are robbing from this one , if you all didn't know that this is actually Dick Grayson , but anyway , hey , can I say something real quick ?

But then I was like I think , all right , what's the cool name that I can stick with ? Or the long run , and I was thinking like , for some reason I was thinking Red X , because I was thinking , oh , that sounds so edgy , I need to think of something like that .

And then for some reason , it's like kind of translated weirdly to where I was , like Jet Black X , I was like , no , that sounds a little dumb , can I add a little bit more to it ? Jet Black Extreme , but you spelled the extreme . But the next I like boom , there we go , jet Black Extreme .

I don't know , I was just watching Teen Titans while I was on , came over the name .

Sometimes you can understand , sometimes you can't . Like I don't know . I still think he still should give praises , but you know it's a different story . But there's one of the biggest things that Dick Grayson used to really hate about Batman is that if he got hyperfixiated on something , that nigga was hyperfixiated on it .

I'm not really skipping because it wasn't the same episode , essentially , where Starfire confronted Robin after all that shit , and she was like basically saying she was disappointed and Robin for not trusting his team , when if they , if he let them in on the plan , they would have helped him out more . But he felt like he can afford to let them in on the plan .

No one that's late will probably know that oh , he let them in on the plan . I need to like bust that shit up . I was like , yeah , I kind of see where Robin came from , but at the same time he still could have trusted his team to figure something out , like pull a fast one on Slay .

So that's still the thing is like , despite the situation , it's like the better call was to just trust your team .

They wind up arguing a lot on a lot of different issues , and is understandable , because they're like we can't trust you , bro , like you literally have shown that you will just go behind our backs and do whatever you feel that you need to do , regardless of what it means to us . Like you don't care . And it's one of those things I understand .

It's not that he doesn't care , but it's he treats things very differently and a lot of times he feels the need that he has to do things by himself . And it's the scariest thing to understand that you feel like you have to go by yourself to do things , but you really don't and Robin doesn't . It's Robin .

He's not going to understand that , because this is Robin that hasn't fully grown yet . This is Robin that's still fresh from Batman's wings . So it is . It's still one of those scary things and understanding that how you raise makes a big difference on how you treat people .

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Hey , batman , do they find some self doing the same thing , but going a step further ? Because Batman will not pretend to be another Vengellantian or pretend to be a villain in order to find somebody . Now , batman will manipulate another villain . That's one of the things that he does to Catwoman a lot .

He will manipulate another villain to infiltrate , but Batman will never pretend to be a villain to infiltrate . That's something he won't do .

It would not help Robin grow whatsoever , rob , Robin had to understand what true growth really is , and the only way that he can do that is , you know , finally having his time away , and even Batman admitted that , that at some point he needed Robin to leave , and I think that's the reason why even during the comic book series from what I understand what is it ?

They make a joke at it in Harley Quinn , where Robin is having like a mental breakdown and he was talking about the only reason he wound up going to bloodhaven and wanted to believe in was because Batman made him go away , kind of thing .

So it's like , if you put in that aspect , it does make a little more sense that Batman is like you need to grow on your own . There's only so much that I can teach you and you can't stay under my wing forever . Plus , I mean , I need to go back to working alone again .

So there was called the group and essentially they were going over all these kids being too young for superhero work or being too young for the Justice League , like with the whole thing with Shazam , because technically he's a 10 year old kid .

But then they got to Robin and Batman was saying , like well , robin needed someone to help put the people who killed his family to justice and all that shit . And I said , oh , so what ? You want him to be ? Just like you ? And it's like so he wouldn't know , wouldn't be .

Why is because a lot of times , they don't need to be just like him . They need to be able to find a better way to do things , because a lot of these robbers , if he didn't stop them , realistically what would have happened is that they would have , um , they would have killed and they would have turned into villains , like on some real shit .

That's just what would have happened . So it wasn't being beneficial that Batman wound up taking money this way . Now , granted , has everything that Batman has done been great ? No , like realistically no , but he still hasn't changed the aspect that he has helped them out a lot and it makes a very big difference .

Yeah , now I don't have anything else on this episode . There's a little on to this particular episode , but I know we do have more to discuss real quick before we end this about . Robin in Slade .

Everyone just wakes up in a different room and I swear to God , this is the funniest shit . If , for those of you who don't know , like literally the creators who helped make this episode , they derived some of the segments of this episode from Dundun Rampa .

about fire . One of them was like a giant shredding machine and stuff like that . Literally , the stuff that happened there was exactly the same shit that happened in the anime , and so I was like bro , no , no , I'm like these people are gonna say he's gonna kill these teams , he's about to kill the asses . Oh my God , no .

And like the episode was just insane . And then the bad part about it is , no matter how much they thought they escaped , they weren't , they were still just in a whole nother maze , in a whole nother room . And then also understand how great this niggas technology was , because it makes no damn sense .

This entire time they was just stuck inside of a warehouse , the entire , and I was like what ? Like I was so confused , I was like it was like some Dun . Dun .

Yeah , no way bro . And they did it . They did a great job on this episode . It was hilarious shit , but that's the only thing I have for this one . Matt Maude was not like a major villain . He does come back later on and it's beaten just as fast as he shows up .

So , whatever , but this one right here was one of those ones that , if he can , a lot of villains , and you'll see this even later on . We wound up talking about puppet master , even control freak , for later on too . Is that a lot of villains ?

When they can catch the Teen Titans off guard , which in most cases usually catching while they're sleeping and stuff like that , if you catch them off guard , you can trap them and you can definitely fuck them up like really horribly .

But because , unfortunately , our Teen Titans let their guard down a lot , they don't have somebody up the guard because they trust their , their tower to do so , but their tower keeps getting hacked all the time . Cyborg's technology is great , but his biggest weakness is that he can easily be hacked .

We learned that in the first episode , where literally Gizmo hacked cyborg on his back , then Gizmo hacked the control tower . Bro , your security is kind of sucks , man . If your villains keep hacking your shit , you need to upgrade your security . I'm just saying .

That's unpickable . Like , even though you may , they may , advertise it , there is not a single lock . That is unpickable . He has picked literally thousands upon thousands of locks and they have like master . If this is something , if you don't know , I don't buy master locks anymore , like master brand locks .

I don't buy them no more because , literally , master locks focus on the wrong shit . They focus their thing onto the fact that's like a crowbar or like pliers and shit can't break your locks .

But the issue is is that their combination locks and their key locks are extremely easy to pick and for years , even to this day , like they just released out a new lock , it's still easy to pick them , whereas some other locks you have to like spend time to kind of pick them and try to like line them up and everything to do it just right .

Literally , you could take a comb lock and just shake it in there a couple of times and lock instantly opens and it doesn't matter . That's literally what happens . And master had like the perfect lock where they advertise it was the perfect lock .

They had the strongest man in the world have these giant as wire pliers and try to break the lock and it wound up breaking the pliers and the lock didn't . Lock was made like almost with indestructible material . They put C4 on it . Try to blow it up . Try to blow it up .

The locks still didn't open but the dude went into where the key is supposed to be at shook . He went in with like a little pick , shook it a little bit in . The lock opened up and it's like you're focusing on the wrong shit .

And I feel like that's what they did with cyborg , where it was like you make the technology look so great , like he can take tons of damage and shit . He could take a rocket launcher to the face and it won't do anything , like it'll just scratch it a little bit , it's not going to hurt him and shit . He can take laser beams .

And you're like , oh my god , his technology is fantastic , you go to hack it . There's no firewall , like what the fuck , it's like what is going on and I'm like what is happening here . They literally do the cyborg so much . The cyborg security is really good . Like Batman doesn't hack cyborg security that easily .

It takes him a minute to actually hack cyborg security . Just understand that . So , like , if Batman hacks the security , hacks cyborg security , it's because he been hacked the security .

It's not one of those things like , oh , I have to hack it on the spot , like he has to been hacked the security , but then in the show , gizmo and everybody else just hacks it like on the spot . Hmm , let's see . Oh , we're in . What the fuck , bro ? Like what the hell ? What are you doing ? This Cyborg is better technology than this . Don't do that it's .

car . That is how attached he was to the car and he liked for a cyborg . I think he went a little far on that and so it's like it stole his car . This episode was just for fun , that's all it was

. And to re again reiterate the point that , even though cyborg can make shit indestructible , unfortunately this particular cyborg , his shit , can be hacked so easily and it's so horrible , like it is so horrible that they treat him like this .

So cyborg , with the help of Raven , try to get the car back , crashed but the car crashed into a prison transport releasing overload and overload ends up taking over the car and trying to attack cyborg . And cyborg is like oh man , I hate to do this , but he had to destroy his own car to make sure nobody else could steal it .

But in the end , raven just ended up helping him build the car .

So it's like I guess it's gonna get hacked , yeah , but I'm just saying like I , as a filler episode I guess , but I think it was supposed to be a moment of like cyborg and Raven bonding , but yeah , I already had a moment of that anyway , during the split apart episode with Raven , with Dr Light .

But either way , again one of the only few episodes out of the entire series . That's not interesting , but it was that . That's not like to me work , going back and watching like that . Other than that , like this is season one . After this . You don't really have no other episodes that you like , don't want to watch .

Every episode after this is like fucking amazing , you're all into it . You're like , oh , my god , what's gonna happen next this year ? So that's just kind of how . But this is like you said , season one was kind of experimental , kind of see where things are going and stuff .

Before the mission , he's attacking everything on site , including this innocent bystander .

They're trying to still find this device but funny enough , funny coincidence Starfighter is allergic to what those devices made of , so essentially she just became like a tracker device for it and then eventually , defying the sewer , robin got separate from the team by sender block and after taking sender block down , robin finds Slade's tracking device , using it to get

to Slade's headquarters . He ends up confronting Slade and trying to get the detonator remote , but the rest of the time is chasing after Slade's other hints meant trying to carry the detonator on his speedboat . So it was like a really big diversion type thing to where , in reality , the chronoton detonator .

It wasn't meant to stop time but rather to blast the other titans with these nanoscop that probed to blackmail Robin into working for him or otherwise . He'll just use the probe to kill the other titans .

And you went after someone , that you started off with the villain . It's just the fact that he realized . He realized the fact of how good Robin actually is and he was like this is a masterful kid .

I don't really have to teach him anything , I just want him under my wing , I want him working for me , because that's just how good he is you know , and then , keeping in mind for the fact that he decided to go with Red X-Form , you've already gone . Villain per se anybody Robin .

Even for one of the movies another movie you can also watch it on Max as well was things like Batman , night of Dragons or something like that , and that one specifically about Batman's son Damien when he first became Robin , and his hymn versus Slade Wilson against Deathstroke and like Deathstroke had no matter what iteration .

Deathstroke and Robbins do not get along . I don't know what is up with that . It is like the some bizarre reason Deathstroke is like the main villain of every Robin since Teen Titans like also real shit .

But with Slade it was like just his voice alone . It's like aw , this sounds like a very smooth , charismatic villain who really knows how to get in your head .

He's going hand to hand with Batman multiple times and he's had multiple human he is , because he's souped . He's souped himself up and stuff too .

Yeah so , yeah , like keeping that into mind is the fact that , yeah , this like Slade is supposed to be really , really dangerous and he is in this show , like he's definitely very dangerous in this show , oh yeah , but this , this two-part episode , it kept me on my toes like going through the whole time . They're just like we gotta stop Slade .

He's about to fuck everything up because he literally just he does it the most boldest way possible . He literally just puts up a screen . He literally just like sends a transmission to Titans Tower . But there's also something that I think I know they joked about in Teen Titans Go a lot , and I don't like Teen Titans Go .

We already know this , but it is the truth . Villains are able to send you transmissions whenever what the fuck ? And they're looking in and looking at you through the , through your cameras and stuff that they can see inside of , in the inside of your tower . This is horrible security . Like what's the real shit . But then Nick gets his bold , he shows up .

He later just sends a transmission . He says this is my weapon , this is what it's about to do and I'll see if you can stop it . And then , like the hell , he has it perfectly set up to where he lures Robin away from the group to make it to where Robin's like I'm gonna go after Slade .

You guys try to stop the bomb , try to stop the emitter and then immediately blast all of them with nanomachines . And then like that final moment where Robin is like they're hunting at what was it ?

Because it was it was in part two , when they're hunting after Robin trying to figure out , and then they finally catch up to him and he holds a blast strip to them and they're like you wouldn't do it . And Robin's like he literally was not going to . And so he's like either do it , robin , I gave you an order , now do it .

And he just still wouldn't do it . He's like , all right , fine , he pushes the button and everybody starts like fucking glowing red with these black spots . You're like holy shit , what is happening to them ? He's like he's destroying their DNA . Like what is happening ? Like , oh my god , they're about to die .

Like you really feel like they are about to fucking die . And then Robin winds up shooting them , all shooting with the blaster , and then gets away and they're just like and then quickly put it together . They're like Robin's not doing this .

So he touches the machine , and now he's affected with the probe too . So it was like so you have to deal slave , you kill them , you also kill me . So what you want to do ? And the funny thing is like Sleight was so interested in having Robin as a protaj .

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