# Teen Titans **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 25, 2003, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-titans/197491 "2003-08-25T11:46:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-titans/197491/21 "2003-09-16T02:09:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Big Bad Voodoo Lou \* > \*\*I’m not sure how that particular team got together in the comics, but the original Teen Titans line-up in the '60s was just teen sidekicks of established heroes: the first Robin (Batman), Kid Flash (Flash), Wonder Girl (Wonder Woman), Aqualad (Aquaman), and Speedy (Green Arrow). > > The cartoon members were more or less on the team during the '80s, and they were all protrayed as a lot older in the comic. Robin, for example, had already adopted the identity of Nightwing (although the cartoon Robin is based on the current Robin, Tim Drake, and not the one who grew up and became Nightwing). \*\* This version of the Titans (the cartoon cast plus Kid Flash and Wonder Girl) was brought together by Raven to help protect the world from her father Trigon. She went to the Justice League first, but they turned her down. Robin became Nightwing about 4 years into the comic run of New Teen Titans. Bill ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-titans/197491/22 "2003-09-16T02:23:00Z")
To continue my hijack, I should link to the “greatest movie ever” [http://www.seanbaby.com/movies/greenl1.rm](http://www.seanbaby.com/movies/greenl1.rm) (it’s real media) It demonstrates one of the most simulatenously ridiculously elaborate and absolutely pathetic “capture a superhero” plot ever, as well as showing off the full spread of Kairo’s abilities as a sidekick: yelping in a high-pitched voice and hiding behind a rock. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-titans/197491/23 "2003-09-16T02:24:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Apos \* > \*\*The absolute worst was Green Lantern’s sidekick on SuperFriends. He was an utterly useless little green man that RODE AROUND ON GREEN LANTERNS ASS WHEN THEY NEEDED TO FLY SOMEWHERE. His name was Kairo. > > [http://www.seanbaby.com/superfriends/images/greenl10.jpg](http://www.seanbaby.com/superfriends/images/greenl10.jpg) \*\* I was wondering how long it would take for a Seanbaby cite to appear in this thread. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-titans/197491/24 "2003-09-16T03:43:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Apos \* > \*\*Mark Hamill has not only been Luke Skywalker, but now pretty much the best screen Joker ever. His voice is what in my head I’ll always imagine as the Joker’s voice. Same with Bruce Timm’s Batman, really. \*\* Slight nitpick: Kevin Conroy is the voice of the animated Batman. Always has been. Bruce Timm has been the producer on all the animated Batman shows, but not the voice. Conroy is Batman to me. I can’t read a Batman comic without hearing Conroy’s voice. Hamill is a hell of a voice actor. He was Hobgoblin on Fox’s Spider-Man cartoon, and he’s done a ton of other voices. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-titans/197491/25 "2003-09-16T13:17:36Z")
> [@](#): > > It demonstrates one of the most simulatenously ridiculously elaborate and absolutely pathetic “capture a superhero” plot ever, as well as showing off the full spread of Kairo’s abilities as a sidekick: yelping in a high-pitched voice and hiding behind a rock. Hit him in the head with a bird? Where the hell did that come from? ---
**Author:** ![Jay\_Belanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Jay\_Belanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jay_Belanger)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-titans/197491/26 "2003-09-16T13:32:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by smiling bandit \* > \*\*Hit him in the head with a bird? Where the hell did that come from? \*\* The old Green Lantern has a weakness to wood, the new (Hal Jordan, yes, I’m old) has a weakness to the color yellow. I guess the cartoon Green Lantern has a weakness to birds. Which is why all of his arch-enemies have pigeon coops on their roofs. ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-titans/197491/27 "2003-09-18T05:26:55Z")
> [@](#): > > Slight nitpick: Kevin Conroy is the voice of the animated Batman. Always has been. Bruce Timm has been the producer on all the animated Batman shows, but not the voice. My bad. I even knew that, but didn’t think about it hard enough. Thanks for the catch. The cartoon Green Lantern is allergic to thinking, which is a pity, since it’s what his powers are based on. What was he even doing just standing around in the desert when he can zoom about in a rocketship made out of his thoughts? Why not just wear a damn helmet. And speaking of stupidity: how could anyone be so cheap as to buy a “beam” that seems to move at roughly the speed of a glacier instead of near or at the speed of light? And the way this woman talks to her henchmen and they respond, shouldn’t GL have been able to hear her whole speech about the bird? What was he doing with his back to her when she must have been like ten feet away shouting her entire evil plot at him? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-titans/197491.md?page=1)