The Teen Titans have a protracted legacy in DC Comics. There have been many younger heroes which have been part of the group. Sadly, that additionally implies that many heroes have left the Teen Titans. After all, every one had their causes for leaving.
With teen heroes, one expects that generally a member left to go to varsity. Different occasions, the explanations had been private. At occasions, the exits had been quiet, corresponding to Mr. Jupiter “pulling the plug,” as Mal Duncan put it two years later. Different occasions, the group would lose a Teen Titan by means of a dramatic exit. As soon as, a betrayal occurred, deliberate in live performance with certainly one of their best enemies.
11/11 Aqualad Returned To Atlantis.
The Teen Titans misplaced their first member on the finish of Teen Titans #19. On the conclusion of the journey chronicled by legends Mike Friedrich, Gil Kane, and Wally Wooden, Aqualad goes off to look after Aquaman’s son. Aqualad’s mentor was trying to find his lacking spouse in his personal title, which regularly featured the Teen Titan.
This additionally solved the problem of accommodating Aqualad’s should be within the water each hour. This difficulty really had him consuming a glass of water earlier than getting into the fray. For some time, writers did not must shoehorn a objective for Aqualad.
10/11 Robin Went To School After Refusing Mr. Jupiter’s Provide To Prepare The Staff
In Teen Titans #25, by Robert Kanigher and Nick Cardy, the group meets one of the influential folks for the early Teen Titans. Mr. Jupiter secretly funds an initiative to coach younger operatives to battle society’s ills. This comes on the heels of the Titans inadvertently inflicting the demise of a Nobel Peace Prize Winner.
Robin is the primary to reply to Mr. Jupiter. He is elected to go to varsity and discover his personal path. Following the tragic incident, he plans on utilizing the chance to discover a new path. However, after all, this and future developments additionally increase many questions on the DC timeline.
9/11 Lilith, Gnarrk, Hawk, and Dove Went Their Personal Means When Mr. Jupiter Disbanded The Titans
It requires noting that Mr. Jupiter shut down his funding of the Teen Titans. He gave them a lot of the gear, which Mal Duncan maintained. When the Teen Titans reunited two years later in Teen Titans #44 by Paul Levitz, Bob Rozakis, Pablo Marcos, Bob Smith, and Jerry Serpe, some members had been lacking.
It is later revealed that Hawk went into the Navy and his brother Don went to varsity. Gnarrk and Lilith started residing collectively. Lilith’s absence is noticeable since she, in contrast to the others, was very seen in Teen Titans’ adventures. All 4 would later assist kind Titans West earlier than it disbanded nearly instantly.
8/11 Aqualad Give up Once more When He Began Feeling Unworthy
Aqualad had been getting sick on the Teen Titans. In Teen Titans #51, by Bob Rozakis, Don Heck, Frank Chiaramonte, and Jerry Sherpe, he stunned the group together with his return. He then introduced his diseases had been psychosomatic. He felt unworthy of being on the group, leading to his situation.
To his credit score, Sherpe completed the mission with the Teen Titans and Titans West. Nonetheless, it was later revealed that his leaving set the wheels in movement for the Teen Titans to disband for good. Even Speedy, who known as Aqualad a coward, needed to agree it was time to go away.
7/11 The Teen Titans Disbanded with Robin, Wonder Girl, Speedy, And Harlequin Using Away From Guardian And Bumblebee
Two Points later, The Titans broke up for what appeared like without end in Teen Titans #53 by Bob Rozakis, Juan Ortiz, John Fuller, and Gene D’Angelo. Everybody agreed that it was time to maneuver on. The person members needed to develop on their very own, particularly if they’d someday take the place of the Justice League.
Robin, Speedy, Child Flash, and Wonder Girl would reunite briefly to assist Batman in Courageous and the Daring #149. Different members would flip up in numerous titles for just a few months. Nonetheless, it could be two years earlier than Marv Wolfman and George Pérez resurrected the group within the extremely profitable New Teen Titans.
6/11 Child Flash Left When His Powers Began Inflicting Him Ache
Wally West was one of many heroes to discovered the New Teen Titans. He felt manipulated by Raven and sometimes threatened to give up. When he started shedding his super-speed and experiencing ache each time he did use it. The time got here when he needed to grasp up his costume and depart the New Teen Titans.
New Teen Titans #39 was the place it went down. Marv Wolfman, George Pérez, Romeo Tanghal, and Adrienne Roy gave readers a phenomenal goodbye to a beloved character. It was evident that Robin and Wonder Girl had been saying farewell to a childhood pal.
5/11 Robin Left The Teen Titans, However Not Dick Grayson
New Teen Titans #39 additionally dropped a bombshell that was coming for some time, however it nonetheless hit laborious. It was obvious that Robin would all the time take a again seat to Batman. Jason Todd had already assumed a dressing up like Robin’s in Batman.
Dick Grayson was not quitting the Titans, however he’d but to determine on a brand new id to guide the Teen Titans. He handed on the position of chief to Wonder Girl. He additionally welcomed Terra into the Teen Titans, giving her his belief. Sadly, Terra wasn’t worthy of that belief.
4/11 Terra Did not Simply Go away – She Fully Betrayed Them
The Judas Contract was Marv Wolfman, George Pérez, Mike DeCarlo, Dick Giordano, and Adrienne Roy’s ending to a narrative that began with Terra’s first look. The conclusion to the 19-month story stretched by means of Tales of the Titans #42-44 and concluded in Tales of the Teen Titans Annual #3. The ending was painful for a technology of readers used to traitors’ and spies’ redemption. Marv Wolfman and George Pérez performed with that cliché, delivering false clues of Terra’s redemption.
Deathstroke described Terra as unstable. Raven known as her soul corrupt. Her betrayal affected the Titans for years. It is becoming that it comes on the finish of the Bronze Age of comics. Any innocence left within the Teen Titans ended with Terra’s betrayal of them and her demise.
3/11 Raven Went Lacking Following The Defeat Of Trigon
The injuries of Terra’s betrayal had been nonetheless recent when Marv Wolfman, George Pérez, Romeo Tanghal, and Adrienne Roy ended Raven’s battle together with her father in New Teen Titans #5. Trigon’s affect had corrupted Raven over time. He used her to overcome Earth after which discarded her as lifeless, all to brag over the Teen Titans.
Then the goddess Azar channeled the souls of Azarath by means of Raven and her rings. This energy not solely resurrected Raven however killed Trigon. Together with her soul purified, Raven vanished as she helped restore the planet.
2/11 Starfire Returned To Tamaran
Within the midst of Crisis on Infinite Earths, Starfire’s household despatched for her to return to Tamaran. Nightwing and Jericho went alongside together with her. She did not understand till she arrived residence that she was introduced residence to marry Karras – from a robust political household within the south – to stop civil warfare.
This drama coated New Teen Titans #14-18 by Marv Wolfman, Eduardo Barreto, Chuck Patton, Romeo Tanghal, and Adrienne Roy. Starfire’s sister Blackfire overthrows their mother and father however Starfire’s marriage to Karras proceeds. Nightwing is unwilling to face by as a lover on the aspect of a political marriage and returns residence with Jericho.
1/11 Nightwing Went Off On His Personal To Discover Raven
Nightwing tried to redirect his anger and frustration into Titans’ enterprise. However sadly, the Teen Titans had all however cut up up. The most recent member Kole died throughout the Crisis. Changeling and Cyborg had been after Mento on their very own with disastrous outcomes.
Wonder Girl tried to speak with him, however the dialogue resulted in a fistfight. Nightwing accused her of failing to guide the Titans whereas he was gone. After all, he was redirecting his anger and grief, however it spelled the tip of the Titans. In his rage, Nightwing was okay with that final result.