The midseason finale of Young Justice: Outsiders wrapped up with some satisfying conclusions and a hook for the remainder of the season, however we’re nonetheless interested by the episode earlier than, which explored a personality’s trauma utilizing … Teen Titans Go?

[Ed. note: This article contains spoilers for episode 12 of Young Justice: Outsiders, “Nightmare Monkeys.”]

After making an attempt on a digital actuality headset, Beast Boy enters a kind of psychic fugue state, the place he’s confronted by holograms of the superheroes who beforehand died whereas within the League’s service: Aquagirl, the primary Blue Beetle, Jason Todd, and Wally West. All of them disappear one after the other, until solely Wally West is left, watching his personal season 2 dying play out on the display screen — ouch!

However issues get even weirder, when Wally grabs and distant and modifications the channel and a familiar-sounding jingle performs, adopted by a emblem for a fictional present referred to as Doom Patrol Go!

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Beast Boy seems in his Teen Titans Go!-style and cutesy variations of Doom Patrol, voiced by the voice actor of whichever Teen Titans Go! character is their closest equal (Starfire as Elasti-Girl, Robin as Chief, Raven as Unfavourable “Woman,” and Cyborg as Robotman). These characters exist within the Young Justice universe — Elasti-Girl raised Beast Boy after his mom’s dying — however this bouncy, brilliant iteration of them exists to inform us simply what occurred to them, a darkish backstory juxtaposed with chibi cheer.

“It broke my coronary heart after I heard about Marie,” this model of Elasti-Girl tells Beast Boy. “I might by no means take her place, however I’m actually going to attempt to be a great mother to you.” Beast Boy tears up, however then Elasti-Girl proclaims: “All of us should go on a mission and die!”

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With a sugary candy pop melody taking part in within the background, the Doom Patrol Go! squad sing about their doomed mission as Beast Boy tries to futilely save all of them. The remainder of the episode continues to dive into Beast Boy’s previous, clarify what occurred within the time jumps between season, and ultimately reveals the true intent of the Goode Goggles. That’s all fantastic and good, however I can’t get the Doom Patrol Go! theme track out of my head.

This crossover is especially amusing because the light-hearted, gag-filled Teen Titans Go! basically changed Young Justice’s programming block on Cartoon Community. Teen Titans Go! really riffed on Young Justice in 2015, when the foolish Teen Titans characters met the extra critical Young Justice ones. Teen Titans Go! has a knack of taking the darkish and dreary backstories of its heroes and turning them into gags, which doesn’t make the Doom Patrol Go! solid singing about their impending deaths completely out of the realm of chance.

There’s no purpose to consider a Doom Patrol Go! is within the works, however DC Universe has a live-action Doom Patrol sequence set to premiere subsequent month. Young Justice, in the meantime, returns to DC Universe in June.