Teen Titans Go! (animation)

Teen Titans Go! is a Denser and Wackier animated Spin-Off of the Teen Titans franchise. It was first aired in April 2013, and the tenth season was announced in 2025.

Teen Titans Go! was announced in response to the popularity of DC's New Teen Titans shorts aired around 2012. Each character uses the same voice actor as their Teen Titans cartoon version, except Speedy, who has Robin's voice actor, for comedic purposes. It follows the original Teen Titans‍'‍ continuity only when it's funny to do so, and mostly focuses on what the Titans do when they're hanging around their tower. The series features frequent cameos by other DC superheroes, as well as a lot of shout-outs to popular Eighties cartoons.

Not to be confused with the Teen Titans Go! comic book.

Tropes used in Teen Titans Go! (animation) include:
  • Adaptation Dye Job: Starfire, from red to pink.
  • 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:

Robin: You sure did get me. You sure did- (bursts into tears)

  • 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:

Starfire: April the Fools!
(Cyborg and Beast Boy laugh at Robin)
Robin: Got me again!
Starfire: You see, Raven?
Raven: Uh, you just humiliated him.
Starfire: But in the fun way. See?
(Cyborg, Beast Boy and Robin give a thumbs up)
Starfire: Fun!
Raven: These "fun" April Fools' pranks are just excuses to be cruel to your friends. No one likes being the butt of a joke. Especially me.

  • Shout-Out: In "Teen Titans Vroom", all the Titans gain the ability to turn into cars when they get wet, in a clear parody of Turbo Teen. The rest of the double episode has original Transformers - style music, and makes very frequent cuts to a "Turbo Teen Titans" pseudo-title screen during scene changes, in the style of a lot of 80s action cartoons.
  • "There and Back" Story: The basic premise of "Road Time". Cyborg eggs the other Titans into going on a road trip to... wherever. It's about the journey, after all. Subverted at the end when the "back" never happens - the other Titans refuse to repeat the experience and instead build a new B-shaped tower right at their destination.
  • Two Shorts
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