- Hey guys, I'm Ruby Jay
and today we're going
to talking about
T-E-E-N T-I-T-A-N-S
Teen Titans Let's go!
Teen Titans Go is based
on the Teen Titans comics
which have been around
since the 1960s.
And the comic book
version of the team
has been through some
pretty weird stories
that never quite made
it onto the TV version.
I'm gonna tell you all
about what got left on
the cutting room floor on
What They Got Right
with Teen Titans Go.
From the comics to the show.
♪ Robin to the Beast Boy ♪
♪ Raven takes flight ♪
♪ It's Teen Titans Go ♪
♪ This is what they got right ♪
With Trigon to the H.I.V.E Five,
Teen Titans Go has
some of the coolest
baddies in all of TV.
But the Teen Titans villains
weren't always this menacing.
The first enemy the Teen
Titan fought in the comics
was Mister Twister.
With his tri-corner hat
and old dusty jacket,
he looked a lot like George
Washington if George Washington
could control the weather
with a magic stick.
Another villain they
fought in the comics
was The Calculator.
The Calculator was a super
villain who looked like,
well, exactly like
what he sounds like.
He super powers included
being able to use the internet
without a computer, making
him the only villain
that's only as powerful
as a smart phone.
Thankfully, Teen
Titans Go updated the
team's rogues gallery
pitting them up
against super villains
instead of super duds.
We all know that Teen
Titans and Teen Titans Go
are Robin, Cyborg, Starfire,
Raven, Beast Boy and Silkie
but this wasn't always the team.
In the 60s comics, the original
Teen Titans were Robin,
Kid Flash, and Aqualad and
they were supposed to be the
comic book version of the
hottest teen pop group
of the time, The Beatles.
Thankfully, the folks behind
Teen Titans Go didn't try
to make the modern version
of the superhero group
into anything remotely
like a boyband.
I honestly cannot picture
Cyborg as a member
of One Direction.
The Teen Titans on TTG are
basically the ideal group
of heroes but we're
lucky this is the group
the show makers picked,
given some of the options
from the original comics.
In the past, the Teen
Titans have included
members of all kinds.
Familiar faces like Bumblebee,
Speedy, and Superboy.
Not so familiar faces
like Wonder Girl,
who's literally teenage Wonder
Woman, Aquaman's sidekick,
Aquagirl, teenage superhero
duo Hawk and Dove,
Martian Manhunter's
friend, Miss Martian,
Superman's cousin, Supergirl,
and time traveling
superhero, Blue Beetle.
Plus complete weirdos like
teenage boxer Mount Duncan,
the psychic Lilith,
a caveman named Gnark
and even Young Frankenstein.
When your team has a
caveman and a Frankenstein,
you know you have
too many members.
On the other end of the
spectrum, there was another
storyline where after a
bunch of the Teen Titans were
injured during the infinite
crisis in the comics,
the team shrank down to
just Beast Boy and Raven.
They wanted to add new members
so badly that they had an
open membership drive for
anyone who wanted to join
the team.
So that's how Young
Frankenstein got in.
It all makes sense now.
One other weird storyline
from the comics that's totally
different from the show
was the brief time where
Beast Boy left the team and
changed his name to the super
lame Changeling to go solo.
Beast Boy, without the
rest of the Titans?
What's even the point?
But thankfully, we ended up
with the version of Beast Boy
that would never leave
his buddies behind.
Oh, unless Cyborg made
fun of his favorite food.
Ah delicious burritos.
(slurps) Mmm.
So it's safe to say that
there was a lot of weird stuff
to draw from for the
makers of Teen Titans Go.
But thankfully, the team chose
all the right stuff to make
TTG one of the most
fun shows around.
