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Episode 53: Homecoming [Part One] When Beast Boy's former team THE DOOM PATROL is in trouble, the Titans must embark on a daring mission to save them. |
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Episode 54: Homecoming [Part Two] The Doom Patrol has been saved, but the sinister Brotherhood of Evil is still on the loose. It's just like old times for Beast Boy when he finds himself back on the team for one last mission - to stop the Brotherhood once and for all. |
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Episode 55: Trust The Brotherhood of Evil has begun its master plan to eliminate all of the young superheroes around the globe, starting with honorary Titans Wildebeest and Hotspot. |
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Episode 56: For Real Control Freak returns to Titan Tower with “The Ultimate Titans Challenge”, and faces off against Titans East. |
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Episode 57: Snowblind When Starfire is lost in a blinding snowstorm, a reclusive young soldier named Red Star comes to her aid. When Robin and the rest of the Titans arrive, they discover Red Star hides not only a tragic past, but a destructive secret. |
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Episode 58: Kole While in the Arctic Circle, the Teen Titans once again take on Dr. Light. And when an accident sends the Titans through the ice, they discover a new exotic Underworld --and two new superheroes, Kole and her caveman sidekick Gnarrk |
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Episode 59: Hide and Seek Raven must transport three rambunctious future superheroes to safety. But this simple task turns into an adventure in babysitting as Raven and her young charges are chased through the Alps by the Brotherhood of Evil's Msr. Mallah. |
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Episode 60: Lightspeed The Hive Five's crime spree is cut short when a new hero in town spoils the fun. Handing him over to the Brotherhood of Evil may score the Hive Five points, but actually catching this lightning-fast do-gooder is much harder than it seems. |
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Episode 61: Revved Up Robin's most prized possession is stolen by the hip hot-rodder DING DONG DADDY, and to get it back they're going to have to beat him in a cross-country ROAD RACE. |
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Episode 62: Go How did ROBIN meet STARFIRE? What was BEAST BOY's first joke? Why did CYBORG build his Sonic Cannon? When did RAVEN first call the Titans her friends? Return to the very beginning and see how it all started – from the word "GO!" |
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Episode 63: Calling All Titans The final game has begun. While the Titans are spread out throughout the globe on one last mission, Brotherhood mastermind the Brain makes his move. |
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Episode 64: Titans Together One by one, the Brotherhood of Evil takes all the Titans down. But as The Brain claims his victory is assured, one brave hero manages to slip thorough the Brotherhood of Evil's grasp. |
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Episode 65: Things Change The Teen Titans are finally back home. But a walk through the city reveals that things are no longer as they remembered. And while Beast Boy wants everything to be just like it was in the past, he has to face the fact that in life things change. |
update >> september 10th >> 2005 |
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Season Five Titles Revealed
An inside source has provided titanstower.com with the full episode list for season five. Here are the episodes in their production order:
1. Homecoming, part 1
2. Homecoming, part 2
3. Trust
4. For Real
5. Snowblind
6. Kole
7. Lightspeed
8. Hide and Seek
9. Revved Up
10. Go
11. Calling All Titans
12. Titans Together
13. Things Change
update >> september 1st >> 2005 |
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Details on Red Star
As previously reported, Red Star makes his animated debut in season five. Titanstower.com recently caught up with Rob Hoegee, who penned the episode featuring Red Star. Rob spilled some info: “I did read up a little about Red Star [in the comic books]. He’s coming up in an episode called SNOWBLIND. We wanted to create our own take on that character. Other than his name and his costume and a bit of his backstory, he is very much a new take on that character. But he is still from Russia, like in the comics.”
To learn all about Red Star, visit the Red Star page at titanstower.com. Look for other Titans to make their animated debuts in season five!
update >> august 14th >> 2005 |
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Voices of Doom
Comics Continuum has announced the voices behind the Doom Patrol for the Teen Titans fifth season. Judge Reinhold as Negative Man, Xander Berkeley as Mento, Peter Onorati as Robot Man and Tara Strong as Elasti-Girl. Check out comic continuum's report for more information on the voice actors.
update >> july 17th >> 2005 |
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The Titans Panel! Season Five, Terra, New Faces & More!
I've have a full report with photos in a few days-- but here's some highlights from the Titans panel at San Diego:
- The Doom Patrol were shown during the teaser reel. They are based on the classic, Silver Age team. Each member - Mento, Elasti-Girl, and Negative Man - have costumes that look similar to Beast Boy's costume... sort of like the Fantastic Four. Mento has his original funky helmet and lightning bolt symbol. Elasti-Girl has a very Marlo Thomas type look.
- Also shown on the teaser reel were the Brotherhood of Evil - a who's who of Titans rogues with some new faces as well. Look for some new faces: Phobia, Ding Dong Daddy, LeBlanc and Cheshire. But be warned, not all new characters will get major screen time. As all the rogues are gathered, The Brain provides a clue to this season's story arc when he announces his plans for all teen heroes: "One by one, we will destroy them all." The Brotherhood of Evil's core will be the classic line-up: The Brain, Monsieur Mallah, Madame Rouge and General Immortus.
- In the panel, Sam Register asked Story Editor Amy Wolfram about the possible return of Terra. Amy hinted, "She may be coming back in an interesting way."
- Another question Sam asked: Will Starfire and Robin ever kiss? I believe it was Story Editor Rob Hoegee who provided the answer: "Pretty safe bet. But we're not saying for sure."
- Some more tibdits about season five: Expect Gordanians, Titans East, a Caveman Titan [Gnarrk] and his friend Kole. And Rob Hoegee added, "There's also someone who goes really fast and is a kid..."
Look for much more news from the con soon!
update >> july 16th >> 2005 |
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Tons of Titans in Season Five
Direct from San Diego ComiCon 2005: Some MAJOR Titans news! Cartoon Network has created a special promocard for the convention - revealing some new faces for season five! Click on the picture below to see a guide to all the new faces we'll see in season five! The major Titans panel is tomorrow-- so look for even more news this weekend and next week!
Here's a guide to the new faces - which have been brought from the comics page!
Kid Flash/Flash [not pictured]: A bolt of lightning endowed young Wally West with super-speed, enabling him to become Kid Flash, protégé to the Flash! When the Flash was slain during a great crisis, Wally became the Flash in honor of his fallen mentor.
Red Star: Leonid Kovar's exposure to a meteorite gave him powers - enabling him to become Russia's first young hero as Starfire. Leonid later joined the team as Red Star and developed fiery new abilities.
Mal Duncan/Herald: Streetwise Mal Duncan was invited to join the Titans by Loren Jupiter. Mal later adopted the identity of the Herald when his girlfriend Karen Beecher helped fashion a dimension-opening Gabriel's Horn for him.
Gnarrk: A gentle Caveman out of his own time, Gnarrk bonded with the Titan Lilith Clay before his tragic death.
Jericho: As son of Slade Wilson, Joe Wilson was born with the mutant ability to possess people once he made eye contact. The gentle mute hero known as Jericho joined the Titans despite his familial ties. Long believed slain during an encounter with the Wildebeest Society, Jericho's damaged spirit has managed to return from certain death.
Kole: The gentle crystal spinner Kole Weathers gained powers as a by-product of her father's bizarre experiments. Kole was rescued by the Titans and grew close to Jericho before her untimely demise in the Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Pantha: A product of the Wildebeest Society's macabre experiments, Pantha long sought the truths behind her origins. Pantha's razor sharp personality was softened when Baby Wildebeest bonded with ferocious feline as his 'mama' - much to her chagrin.
Killowat: Originally a soldier for Lord Chaos, Charlie Watkins realized the error of his ways during an accident with a bank of energy converters. Crackling with electricity, Charlie joined the Team Titans as Killowat! Killowat was erased from time during the Zero Hour time crisis.
Argent: Silver-skinned Toni Monetti learned she had the ability to control bursts of silver plasma energy. Joining the Teen Titans as Argent, Toni evolved from spoiled rich girl to capable heroine.
Bushido: The japanese teenager became the proud Bushido warrior upon his mother's death - fulfilling a long family line of honorable heroes.
Full bios can be found on the meeting room page at titanstower.com!
update >> july 12th >> 2005 |
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Brotherhood of Evil Rises in Season Five
TitansGo.net has announced that the Brotherhood of Evil will be appearing in the fifth season of Teen Titans! The classic Brotherhood of Evil team was in constant conflict with the Doom Patrol! Look for the season to loosely adapt [very loosely] the storyline featured in NEW TEEN TITANS #13-16 [1982].
Brotherhood of Evil was a powerful international crime syndicate whose inner circle comprised the Brain, a disembodied human brain preserved in a special fluid; Monsieur Mallah, a gorilla given superhuman intelligence through the Brain's surgical techniques; and Madame Rouge, an elastic villainess gifted with extraordinary disguise skills. The Brotherhood of Evil battled the original Doom Patrol numerous times before Rouge was finally driven insane after one of the Brain's experimental surgical operations. Allying herself with General ZahI, another of the Doom Patrol's enemies, Rouge turned against her comrades and tried to kill them. See their full story at the Brotherhood of Evil page!
update >> july 11th >> 2005 |
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The Titans are Doomed in Season Five
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Beast Boy reflects on his time with The Doom Patrol |
Producer Sam Register hinted at a DC Comics super-team making their animated debut in season five of the Teen Titans. An inside source has revealed the identity of the super-team in question: It’s none other than the Doom Patrol!
A team of freaks and misfits, the strange team was established during the Silver Age of comics in the mid-60s. The team is composed of: Robot Man [a man’s brain saved from death and placed in a robot body]; Negative Man [a bandaged man composed of pure energy]; Elasti-Girl [a beautiful woman who can grow as well as shrink in size]; Mento [a man whose mental prowess is enhanced by a powerful helmet]; and the Chief [their mysterious wheelchair-bound leader].
Beast Boy met the team after they gathered and became their junior member, long before he joined the Titans. Elasti-Girl and Mento married and later adopted Beast Boy. Full bios can be found on the meeting room page at titanstower.com! Look for more information Doom Patrol’s role in the season – soon!
update >> july 6th >> 2005 |
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Titans Go Global in Season Five
Teen Titans Story Editors recently revealed some interesting tidbits on season five, which features our Titans, Titans East, and more young heroes. Rob Hoegee reveals a bit about the season’s direction: “The original idea was to rebrand the show a little bit and open up the world a little bit. I think we ended up sticking to conventions to some degree. But we also thought it might be time to bring in some new, fresh faces.”
Rob added, “It’s gonna be a bigger and broader season. I think it may be the most cohesive in terms of a season arc. A good number of the episodes interlink with the next. There is a common theme to them. The stakes are high not only for the Titans, but for all young heroes across the globe. We definitely go global this season.”
I would say the best tease for season five was Amy Wolfram’s way of defining it, which is “Anything happening everywhere."
update >> may 12th >> 2005 |
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Toyfare #95 Interview:
More Titans, Maybe an Origin and Possibly... Kid Flash?
Toyfare #95 - on sale this week at comic stores everywhere – contains a mini-interview on Teen Titans. From Toyfare’s advertising: “CARTOON NETWORK SNEAK PEEK: We go behind-the-scenes at our favorite network, to find out what?s coming up in all our favorite shows: Teen Titans, Justice League, and the entire Adult Swim lineup! This feature is jam-packed with interviews, insights and even? Venture Brothers toys?!” The interview features Glen Murakami [GM], David Slack [DS] and producer, Linda Steiner [LS]. Here’s the interview blurb:
How do you feel the show has changed over the last four years?
GM: I think the show started off where it was more [about] the moral and focusing on the characters, and I feel like now that we’ve established the characters it’s starting to become more of a superhero show.
There certainly seem to be more and more of them. We’ve seen Titans East — will any another superteams take shape?
DS: There may be some other cool team-ups coming down the pike. We had a conversation at the beginning of our latest run of production with DC about a long list of characters that we’d like to use, and we got some really great names off that list. We’ll be seeing a number of Titans from the comics. I don’t want to give anything away, but I think there’s going to be a lot of satisfaction for the fans out there.
Are founding Titans Kid Flash and Wonder Girl on that list?
DS: There’s a good chance that we’re going to see Kid Flash. I don’t know about Wonder Girl.
Speaking of which, how the heck did the cartoon Titans team get started? Will there be an origin episode?
DS: That is a subject of discussion. It never has been before, but as of late it is something that we’re talking about.
GM: We talk about it all the time. The reason we chose not to do one is because we felt that everyone does that.
Will the Justice League ever guest-star on the show?
GM: We talked about that, too. In the beginning, I was against any kind of crossovers just because I really wanted to establish Teen Titans as its own thing. I was really worried about any other characters coming into it — I felt like it would just diminish the [Titans] characters. At this point, you never know.
Will we see the “future” Titans again?
DS: I think that that’s probably unlikely. Once we went there it didn’t seem like we’d need to go back. But there might be some moving around in time again.
Will Robin and Starfire ever get together?
LS: I wish! I’ve been wanting that since day one. We’re not done, so you never know, but I’d love to see that.
When is Terra coming back?
LS: I can’t say right now, but the guys have been so thrilled with the response on Terra.
Can you tell us who Red X is?
DS: If I wanted you to know that, he wouldn’t be wearing a mask.
The article also features a sidebar comparing the comics Titans to cartoon Titans. Other series featured include Justice League Unlimited, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Harvey Birdman, Krypto, Family Guy and Sealab 2021 – and much, much more! Check out Toyfare #95 for a great look into Cartoon Network’s animated offerings.
update >> march 20 >> 2005 |
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All About Andre Le Blanc
Andre Le Blanc makes his animated debut in the fifth season episode, "For Real." Le Blanc has only made one appearance in the original comic book series way back in 1968. But titanstower.com has all the info on the flashy French filcher.
Here's his background: The self-styled "world's greatest jewel thief," arrogant Andre Le Blanc made the international most wanted list. Le Blanc often clashed with the Russian super-hero Lenoid Kovar - who was also known as Starfire. Le Blanc delighted in evading capture by the young hero.
Interpol requested that the Teen Titans team up with Starfire to safeguard the Crown Jewels of Sweden from Le Blanc. So confident in his abilities, the bragging thief announced his crimes before they were committed. Mutual antagonism spoiled the joint efforts of the American and Soviet champions, until Starfire rescued the Titans from Le Blanc's deathtraps. Kid Flash then returned the favor by saving Starfire from death on the subway tracks, while Robin defeated Le Blanc in hand-to-hand combat.
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update >> march 13 >> 2005 |
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Season Five Episode Details are "For Real"
Internet Movie Database has leaked some information on an episode coming up in season five! The episode is titled "For Real" and features the return of Control Freak - and Titans East! It also features the animated debut of comic book villain, Le Blanc, a jewel thief whose first and only appearance was way back in Teen Titans #18.
Internet Movie Database list the following credits:
"For Real" guest appearances:
Dee Bradley Baker - Silkie/Le Blanc
Mike Erwin - Speedy/Computer Geek
T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh - Bumblebee/Old Lady/Young Boy/Computer Geek (voice)
Alexander Polinsky - Control Freak/Computer Geek (voice)
Freddy Rodriguez - Mas y Menos (voice)
Wil Wheaton - Aqualad/Computer Geek (voice)
A source close to production of Teen Titans has confirmed this info is accurate. Stay tuned later this week for more on Le Blanc!
update >> february 17 >> 2005 |
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Cartoon Network Makes Official Season Five Announcement
We've known for months, but now Cartoon Network has made it official.
Cartoon Network Unveils New Shows, Original Programming Franchise and Acquisitions at 2005 Kids Upfront Presentation : In 2005, Cartoon Network will telecast brand new series and acquisitions, launch an original programming franchise for young viewers and their parents and support a healthy lifestyle initiative, it was announced today at Cartoon Network’s Upfront presentation to advertising executives and the media in New York. Cartoon Network will air more than 400 new half-hours, including five new animated series, new episodes of returning original series and new acquisitions.
Here's what Cartoon Network said about Teen Titans: Seventeen new episodes bring new and exciting changes for the Teen Titans in 2005. Cyborg has a final showdown with Brother Blood and the Teen Titans move to a new tower with five new members. This year, Aqualad, Bumblebee and Speedy pitch in to help the Teen Titans. The series has been given the greenlight for a fifth season. The additional 13 episodes will bring the total up to 65.
update >> january 11 >> 2005 |
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Season Five Confirmed
Sam Register confirmed season five in a recent interview at The Pulse: "He also said there should be many more guest stars in the fifth season including the return of some characters who caused a stir: Speedy and Aqualad. The duo will be joined by three other heroes as a part of Titans East: Bumblebee, Mas and Menos. "We're just starting our work on Season Five now and we're going to see a lot of Teen Titans East - Aqualad, Speedy, Bumblebee, Mas and Menos. Mas and Menos are speedsters who, when they tough, go super fast. The pair speak only in Spanish throughout the entire episode. In the fifth season we also get to see some other DC teenage superheroes and possibly another superhero team from the DC Universe.""
For the full interview, click here.
update >> september 15 >> 2004 |
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Waiting for Word: Season Five
So what’s the word on season five? Animation Insider recently caught up with TEEN TITANS Producer/Story Editor David Slack. Presently, TEEN TITANS is renewed for four seasons, with a total of 52 episodes. I asked David about the possibility of a fifth season. He revealed: "We don't know about a fifth season yet. There's still a lot of ideas out there that we'd like to do. Spare parts. Things that you'd say "Oh, wouldn't it be cool if we did this." Stuff that we weren't quite able to figure out how they'd work. For example, in season four we finally figured out how to do an episode I've wanted to do since season one. Right now things are flowing pretty good and we'd all love to do more. So we're all waiting. "
I expressed some concern over the "52-episode rule". Today, if an animated series has 52 episodes. they consider it enough for daily viewing. Is there a profitable reason to go back for more? David mentioned, "I'm not sure how that works. The shows I've worked on have been atypical. BIG GUY AND RUSTY THE BOY ROBOT was supposed to get picked up, but didn't, because of a changing of the guard. But then JACKIE CHAN has over 90 episodes... which is a huge number. But TEEN TITANS is doing well. Hopefully Cartoon Network will want more. Basically I just get a call, and they say "Hey, want to do more?" and I get working. I think we have legs to go beyond 52. I think we're all hopeful. "
So with season one focused of Robin, season two on Beast Boy, Cyborg for season three and Raven for season four... where does that leave our favorite Tamaranean Titan? I asked that very question: Will Starfire get gypped out of a season arc? "But you know what?" David said, "She has the best one-off episodes. That's actually the reason we haven't done a Starfire arc. Between SISTERS, HOW LONG IS FOREVER, SWITCHED and some of the upcoming stuff . I don't know how she gets that lucky. BETROTHED is a tremendous amount of fun. She's such a great character."
Here's two other tidbits I've uncovered that would make Robin's brain work overtime: The season ender for season four is titled "The End." But.... an insider informs me that a season five order may mean more than the usual 13-episode order. Puzzle that one out, boy wonders.
When a decision is made for season five, it'll be sure to be reported in this space. Stay tooned!
