Future State brings an incredible many adjustments to DC Comics. The Teen Titans received the harshest of all of them within the type of a graveyard stuffed with lifeless heroes.
Spoilers for Future State: Teen Titans #1
Future State has hit the Teen Titans onerous, opening with a demolished Titans Island and a graveyard full of fallen heroes. It is not the one little bit of unhealthy information for the Titans both. Whereas the beloved workforce of Nightwing, Starfire, Raven, Cyborg, and Beast Boy remains to be intact together with a number of different members, they stay in a grim new established order. New York Metropolis was leveled alongside Titans Island in an apocalyptic occasion. Cyborg and Beast Boy have merged our bodies. And Nightwing has a startling new identification, taking over the masks and moniker of Slade Wilson AKA Deathstroke.
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The seemingly upbeat basis of the Teen Titans Academy, which noticed former members of the workforce just like the aforementioned iconic lineup tackle roles as lecturers, is what led into Future State’s grisly new setting. A tense stand-off between the Titans and the mysterious new Red X triggered the arrival of the 4 Riders and the catastrophic occasions that destroyed New York and induced the deaths of so many Titans. Red X, a former pupil of the Titans Academy is imprisoned by the surviving members of the workforce, showing in a Hannibal Lecter-like place.
Among the many fallen Titans revealed in Future State: Teen Titans #1 are Donna Troy, Wally West, and Wallace West. A number of future members of the workforce who’ve but to debut in comics are buried as nicely, with unknown names like Matt Value and Summer time Zahid adorning headstones. Whereas the reason for demise for lots of the heroes is but to be seen, Donna Troy was one of many very first to go. Wonder Woman’s former sidekick fairly actually had the life sucked out of her physique the second the 4 Riders arrived.
A doubtlessly ugly implication within the concern is the truth that just a few of the lifeless have been revealed. Whereas Donna, Wally, and Wallace are the one recognized characters to have been proven within the graveyard, there are numerous different crosses planted within the floor. Many heroes have been among the many ranks of the Teen Titans. With all these graves, the probability of extra named characters to have been killed by the 4 Riders could be very excessive.
Whereas Future State is admittedly brighter than DC’s final peak into the longer term, there’s nonetheless loads of room for darkness. And it appears just like the Teen Titans have taken the brunt of it. Gotham could also be below a fascist regime and Metropolis could also be shrunken, however at the least these cities are nonetheless standing. The identical cannot be mentioned for New York or the graveyard stuffed with teenage heroes buried within the wreckage.