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Teen Titans Go! is a Denser and Wackier Spin-Off of the Teen Titans franchise. Each character uses the same voice actor as their Teen Titans cartoon version, except Speedy, who has Robin's voice actor, for comedic purposes.
Not to be confused with the Teen Titans Go! comic book.
Tropes used in Teen Titans Go! (2013) include:
- Adaptation Dye Job: Starfire, from red to pink.
- Adaptational Disabilities: Darkseid's threatening voice is the result of him nursing a cold.
- Adaptational Niceness: The villains are still evil but are now Affably Evil and arguably have better manners than the Titans themselves.
- Affectionate Parody: "Teen Titans Go! to the Movies" is one towards the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It even has Stan Lee make two cameos.
- Butt Monkey: All of the Titans but Robin first and foremost.
- Black Comedy: In an infamous scene from "Batman v Teen Titans: Dark Injustice", an April Fools' Day-themed episode, Robin tries to prank his teammates with scotch tape between two walls, when Starfire, Cyborg and Beast Boy come up and inform him of "something most serious" (breaking the fun mood): His parents are here on the other side of a door! Robin, ecstatic at seeing his dead parents, runs up to the room... and gets caught in a scotch tape trap. It was a prank! As the teammates laugh at him:
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Robin: You sure did get me. You sure did- (bursts into tears) |
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- Didn't Think This Through: In The Movie, the Titans go back in time and prevent superhero origin stories so they can be the only heroes left and be the only ones to get a movie. The result? A total Crapsack World without any heroes that came before the Titans. They have to go back again and correct history.
- Comedic Sociopathy: In the intro to the April Fools' Day-themed "Batman v Teen Titans: Dark Injustice", Raven does not appreciate what she sees as mean-spirited pranks that her teammates perform on Robin, like when Starfire pretended to want to kiss Robin, only to punch him in the chest:
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Starfire: April the Fools! |
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- Composite Character: Batman's backstory has cues and inspirations from all the previous live-action versions.
- Crossover: Several times. With Young Justice, the original 2003 show, DC Super Hero Girls, several classic WB properties and the 2016 Powerpuff Girls reboot.
- Jerkass Ball: While the Titans are Sociopathic Heroes, other heroes alternate back and forth between genuine heroes or being just as petty as the Titans.
- Large Ham: Cyborg.
- Self-Deprecation:
- Darkseid is voiced by "Weird Al" Yankovic and he goes on a rant about how Weird Al just rips off other musicians. The insults push Cyborg into Unstoppable Rage.
- "Teen Titans Go! to the Movies" is filled to the brim with references about how DC has not been nearly as successful as the Marvel Cinematic Universe in breaking into the public consciousness.
- Teen Titans Go! vs Teen Titans leans into every critique of how the former is not nearly as beloved as the latter.
- She's Got Legs: Underneath that cloak, Raven.
- Strong as They Need to Be: For comedy's sake.
- Take That:
- "Teen Titans Go! to the Movies" is largely an Affectionate Parody of the superhero movie industry, but the Take Thats at the DC Extended Universe are brutal.
- "How's This for a Special? Spaaaace" skewers the Star Trek vs. Star Wars Fandom Rivalry. Both franchises are so different that they can peacefully co-exist. Stop comparing them and just enjoy them on their own merits.
- "Pig in a Poke" has the Titans note you can't just put on tattoos and call yourself the Joker. A description that's very similar to what critics said about Jared Leto's take on the Joker in the DC Extended Universe.
- Take That, Critics!: Many a time towards its haters, especially those people who refuse to grasp that the show is not meant for the same audience as the 2003 show.
- "Más y Menos" has a Freeze-Frame Bonus where someone posted a video takedown of the Titans. Their username? "ChildHoodDestroyed". With an avatar of a crying infant.
- "The Return of Slade" is the series' most overt case of this, particularly towards die-hard fans of the 2003 show. As the show points out - through Beast Boy and Cyborg being unamused with the clown they demanded - the show is for kids, not those who grew up with the 2003 show and those like Beast Boy and Cyborg are just blinded by nostalgia for the original (note how they can't form an exact reason as to why they used to like clowns, they just recall them being "cooler").
- When Control Freak reveals his Evil Plan in "Island Adventures: The Titans Show", Starfire asks why people who hate them would devote so much time to watching them, the online comments from haters being poorly spelled and immature comments fearing change. And then Control Freak points out that haters on the internet tend to account only for a Vocal Minority and are in no way indicative of popularity or success. And then the Titans beat up the studio audience that's been hating on them.
- "Four Hundred" is the show celebrating that despite all the hate its critics unleashed, the show has become DC's longest running animated series, despite its critics (through Superman for some reason) arguing that the show doesn't "deserve" such a milestone. The Titans even sing about this.
- Two Shorts
- Vocal Dissonance: Darkseid is introduced with his usual Badass Baritone... only for him to then take some throat lozenges and speak in "Weird Al" Yankovic's voice.