Teen Titans ~Comic To Cartoon~ ☆Narrated☆【1/2】

[optimegatrongodzilla]

@TheShadowParliament can you please do a look back on the dcau, batman, teen titans, superman, the new batman adventures, static shock, justice league, justice league unlimited, batman beyond, and the zeta project, in that order?

[efcdf]

I like it! You did a good job.

[Sandman827]

Great explination but you may want to consider re-recording it becuase of all the staick in the background.

[XXsimLVRxx]

it actually shows some of cyborgs past in smallville i think too.

[orangesoda1991]

wait so if dick grayson is robin.

whos nightwing?

[RavenNight2641]

@orangesoda1991 Dick grayson is the first original robin out of four (5 if you include Stephani brown... but i dont) Dick grayson was robin from when he was 9 till an older age which will arrives depending on what version you like) after he quit supposedly in the version he started the titans. But then later after that ended became nightwing.

[RavenNight2641]

@RavenNight2641 where is says which will arrive its supposed to say Which will vary lol. sorry

[TherealRNO]

@RavenNight2641: Dick Grayson (Robin 1/Nightwing), Jason Todd (Robin 2 [probably the one who is in the Red X suit in the cartoon, given how Jason & Red X are similar]), Tim Drake (Robin 3), Damien Wayne (Robin 4), & of course, the two female Robins, Cassandra Cain (formerly Spoiler) & Stephanie Brown.

[TaYuK0]

While I think the cartoon is nice I like the comics better. Minus Robin's outfit. (Never liked it until Teen Titans. Which is probably why I like Nightcrawler. It's Robin but not in the tights) I see in related videos there's another Teen Titans animation which came out in the 80's (decade before I was born..). So going to click on that.

[09GTAplayer]

i thought it was really neat when on the episode where robin is slades apprentice slade says i could even be like a father and then robin says i already have a father then the camera pans up to the sky and you see bats flying.

[UntoTheBreach24]

Interesting stuff. I loved the cartoon and wasn't even aware that they had a comic running since the '80s. However, my reservation about reading the comics would have to stem from the cartoon: I never really liked comics, especially ones involving superheroes, and would find myself thinking how different the comic would be from the cartoon.

But, how about from someone who read/knows about these comics: would it be worth looking into?

[TherealRNO]

And to settle the issue of shipping, the comics were a nightmare, pairing everyone with everyone seemingly due to the comics' perchant of dropping relationships willy-nilly, whereas the show only highlighted a few of them (Robin/Starfire, Beast Boy/Terra, Slade/Terra [subtext-only mainly], Cyborg/Sarah Simms [see TitansGO!, which also showed the team members' origins in cartoon comic form], Beast Boy/Raven, & Kid Flash/Jimx [only in the show, though Wally is a philandering idiot comic-wise]).

[TherealRNO]

LadyElfTari: This is especially so since Rob Hoegee--the show writer responsible for a lot of the team interaction--said that "Raven & Beast Boy fight like a married couple. They get on each other's nerves (or rather, Beast Boy gets on Raven's nerves...a lot)", but they still have a deep bond, hence why Beast Boy still makes it his mission get the mystic to open up more, even though she appears to seemingly abuse him ("[she] only hits [him] out of love", again quoting Hoegee).

[TherealRNO]

"Murakami had an interview where he confirmed that all the Titans besides Robin-Starfire had familial relationships"

Yet, probably because of the ongoing comics running concurrently alongside the show's run that paired them, BB & Rae--or comic-wise, Garfield & Raven (Rachel Roth is NOT her birth name, it is a public alias used by Raven to separate her Titan duties as Raven with her new relatively normal life as Rachel)--had their fair share of moments too.

[TherealRNO]

"in the cartoon, Robin's origin was not really mentioned"

Because EVERYONE who's seen ANY Batman show with Robin in it KNOWS it already, so the Titans' show didn't need to go over it like a dead horse.

[coolL9457]

so slade = big boss from mgs4?

[BrutalAnimation]

i love this, both the comics and the serious i am a huge fan and too have various opinions on the contrast ,similar opinions oddly enough. although i had only read the more recent comics so most stuff i knew Azarath , beat boys origin story , other stuff ,,Slade is death stroke i didn't know

[ShiningStar1314]

You should do something about young justice.

[rikkulockhart15]

I loved your review of this. Here's my thoughts: 1. Robin: I think the show did him justice. 2. Starfire: I agree. I like her cartoon version better. 3. Raven: I can see why the cartoon toned her down, but I like her comic version better. 4. Beast Boy: comic; cartoon never explained his past. 5. Cyborg: comic; cartoon never explained his history either. 6. Terra: cartoon; comic Terra is gross o-o; 7. Slade: cartoon because was so sly and evil >D

[wd1250]

I love Teen Titans!! I didn't even know the show was based on a comic, I just thought it was mad up.

[TheKimico16]

TEAM TERRA! SHE ROCKS!! CYBORG IS SO AWESOME!

[IArtIdinaMenzel]

This is very well done. I love the comics and the cartoon but for different reasons. You have not only explained everything very well for one who does not know the comics, but you have also taught me a few things I had not known from my comic book readings. thanks

[DogoHalibar]

Slade is the anti-Batman!!

[Addam3000]

Is the comic drawed in different ways?

[SwagginBoy]

*COUGH* TERRA DID WHAT NOW???

[TherealRNO]

@SwagginBoy: she & slade had sex. the end.

[mh3slayer]

thx for explaining this I have read some of the comics and yea I did see differences in animated and comics, you really explained it good for people who havnt read some of the comics, does anyone know were I could get or read more of there comics because I ahvnt read them all

[WorkSucksMedia]

The comics Terra didn't like Beast Boy at all.  She pretty much hated him and all the other Titans (other than maybe Kid-Flash).

I like the comic Terra better than the cartoon Terra, btw

[NoahTheWaffle]

TERRA DID WHAT WITH SLADE!?!? FOR HOW MANY COOKIES!!??? (had to)

[LBJordan1]

whn beast boy came up i was all happy lol hes awsome!!!

[NeiyonSpyder]

When you said Red X, I yay'ed. I had known that they had to change a lot of things for the cartoon because the comic wasn't as kid friendly

[beUrStargirl13]

love the show! and i'm going to start reading the comics, so excited

[eugeniopontzuloaga]

cool

[LadyElfTari]

Very informative! You explain and compare everything really clearly.

(Though I should point out that Cartoon Robin and Raven don't actually flirt. Their interactions are pretty much all plot-related. IIRC Executive Producer Murakami had an interview where he confirmed that all the Titans besides Robin-Starfire had familial relationships. So that bit of comic canon got dropped for the show I think.)

[TherealRNO]

@LadyElfTar: Plus, in the comics, the part where Raven thinks she's in love with Robin & finding out about that platonic & romantic forms of love are two separate things is true, but at the time that she was in love with Dick, she manipulated his mind to try & get him to notice her instead of Koriand'r in the same way that she controlled Wally into thinking he loved her to keep him on the team, even though it was readily apparent that Wally was on his way out as far as the Titans were concerned.

[TherealRNO]

@LadyElfTar: Raven's attempt to convert Dick into liking her through emotional mind control was to no avail, largely due to Dick's strong will & the alien convincing the mystic to leave well enough alone until Raven's bisexual demon side intervened at the Nightwing/Starfire nuptials. But of course, once she was reborn into a new host body, Rae began to pursue others (such as a certain changeling just as Terra II happened upon the scene, as per the early 00s comics prior to the show's debut).

[LadyElfTari]

@TherealRNO Lol, yeah dude, I know all of that comic history. I was just commenting on the fact that not even the Rob/Rae mind control incident made it into the show.

And I've ALWAYS thought that even though they claimed cartoon BB/Rae wasn't a thing, the writers still liked to deliberately ship tease the shippers. (And once again, Rob/Rae didn't even have that, as it appears no one on the cartoon TT writing team shipped Rob/Rae, like Hoegee did for BB/Rae.)

[MermaidGinnyGreen]

This is really helpful, I have seen all the episode of Teen Titans but only read one of the comics. So this helps the story line of both the show\comic. Lots of cool information about the characters. Thanks for posting this, can not wait till part two.

[lilhyperangel20]

This is a really good comparison between the cartoon and comics....while I entered the fandom through the animated series, I love the comics just a little bit more- due to the more complex origins, stories and relationships.

So, again...great comparison! =D You managed to cover the gist of everything quite nicely.

[xRiica]

this is itneresting! i have never read the comics, only seen the cartoon.

I'm a relatively new fan. (since a few weeks)

But I know that in the comics they show more background info and stuff.

The cartoon ended with a lot of loose ends.