Episode Guide: Season Two Episode

"Welcome to our universe, small amusing doppelganger!"
- Starfire to Larry the Titan

Originally aired: August 5, 2004

Written by David Slack
Directed by Michael Chang

When Robin accidentally wrecks the R-Cycle while pursuing a nasty thug named Jonny Rancid, he winds up with his arm in a cast -- and doubt in himself. Lucky for Robin, he gets a helpful visit from his Number One Fan: a short little weirdo from another dimension known as Larry the Titan! But unlucky for Robin, Larry's reality bending powers cause more problems than they fix. Can Robin get his nerve back and take down Johnny Rancid before Larry's "help" breaks the fabric of spacetime and destroys reality as we know it?

Dee Bradley Baker as Larry the Titan
Henry Rollins as Johnny Rancid

Each season seem to follow a pattern of a 'wacky' episode just before the season arc wraps up; Season One had MAD MOD and season two brings us FRACTURED
The episode title refers to Robin's injury as well as the fractured state of reality
The opening sequence is sung in Japanese by Larry the Titan and features Larry in the sequence; It was actually sung by Puffy Ami Yumi's manager. It's called the "Toshi Mix." Toshi is credited in Fractured as Toy C.
Raven uses her healing powers - not seen since FINAL EXAM in season one
Robin's chainsaw hand is most likely an homage to the Ash character in the "Evil Dead" trilogy.
Jonny Rancid's name is similar to Jonny Rotten of Sex Pistols fame. His voice is provided by Henry Rollins, lead singer of the rock group, Black Flag.

Producer David Slack on FRACTURED: "That actually started as far back as season one. Sam [Register] suggested we do an episode where everything just goes crazy. So that was there. Meanwhile, all the guys on the crew started drawing a little reject Titan that they called "Larry the Titan." There were all these different designs for him and he never looked the same way twice. But they would draw all these pictures of Larry."

"So somehow, somewhere... we were thinking of doing a Bat-Mite type character. And someone said, "Why not make it Larry?" So we started to develop this anti-Robin. But we didn't want to do Mxyzptlk. We wanted him to be a more earnest trouble-maker. That he really didn't mean to make trouble. So it became an episode about making mistakes. So that made it a natural for Robin, who almost never makes mistakes. That was another one that was difficult to make the story work. That was definitely the weirdest thing I've ever written. And I've read the message boards on that one. For the record, we were all stone-cold sober. We were just very sleep deprived."

"We were up until like 2:30 in the morning coming up with that one. I think the band-aid on Beast Boy's brain was [director] Michael Chang. I came up with that whole mouth-switch thing. There was a lot of weird, weird stuff in there. Originally, we had Beast Boy speaking Japanese, but we decided it would be funnier - and easier - if he spoke backwards. Yep. Stone-cold sober! "

Producer David Slack on Larry as an 'alternate Dick Grayson': " It was sorta just to keep people guessing. I really didn't expect it to be written on the screen like that. [laughs] It was just gonna be that he was going to SAY it. I think maybe eventually we may get around to settling the Robin thing once and for all... but for now.. [...] But hey, Larry's from another dimension -- so who knows? Could mean something. Could be a coincidence. I'm not telling! "

Development Manager Tramm Wigzell on the Robin Controversy: In a recent interview with THE PULSE Tramm Wigzell [Manager, Development at Cartoon Network] was asked a question that most viewers have been wondering since day one: just who is this Robin? "Robin is Peter Parker," Wigzell said seriously, before busting out in laughter. "One of the best things about Titans is we're not married to continuity, so who's to say which heroes it will and won't be. That's not really important! But there's an episode coming up where that question may be answered, if you pay really close attention!"

FRACTURED is the episode Tramm was referring to; Larry the Titan is a alternate dimension version of Robin... and he states his name: Kcid Nosyarg. As his name spins backward it reads Dick Grayson, who was the first Robin.

Personally, I think trying to figure out which Robin is in TEEN TITANS is as pointless at trying to deduce the location of Springfield on THE SIMPSONS. Don't think too much... just enjoy.

Larry the Titan is very similar to the mischief-making interdimensional imp, Bat-Mite. Bat-Mite appeared in the Batman comics in the 1960s and 1970s before disappearing into obscurity. Larry the Titan could very well be Bat-Mite's sidekick.