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In DC’s Future State the Teen Titans are a damaged staff, and Raven trains in a Hazard Room-like simulator inside a prison’s thoughts.
Warning! Spoilers to Future State: Teen Titans #1 beneath!
DC’s Future State has not been variety to the Teen Titans. Whether or not it was the ruins of Titans Tower, the makeshift graves of fallen teammates or the remnants of the staff struggling to work collectively, this group of former teenage sidekicks has seen higher days after they have been higher folks. Whereas a number of the Titans, previous and new, work to finish their mission, others practice for what’s to come back like Raven, the staff’s half-demon empath and sorcerer who’s been coaching herself in specialised coaching room, situated inside a prisoner’s thoughts. This unheroic scenario and the the reason why Raven takes half in it recall to mind the X-Males‘s Hazard Room, particularly when it gained sentience and was pressured to coach the well-known mutant superheroes.
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On this DC future, the present Titans are a blended bag of older Titans working alongside different former sidekicks or new heroes out of a secure home below Queens, making an attempt to salvage helpful weapons from the wreckage of the previous to assist save what’s left of their world. Whereas gadgets such because the well-known Dial H for Hero dial may nonetheless work, the placement of the Spear of Future is the true prize because the Titans are conscious of Barry Allen’s latest discovery relating to Wally West and the 4 Riders of the Apokolips. Blaming themselves for unintentionally releasing the Riders upon the world, the Titans are ready to do no matter it takes to make it proper, even when these actions go towards all the things they used to face for.
In Future State: Teen Titans #1 by Tim Sheridan and Rafa Sandoval, Raven runs coaching simulations alongside different Titans, going through gargantuan, multi-headed monsters that she makes use of her powers to defeat. However simply as she nears victory, the simulation ends and Raven is pushed out, since her coaching room occurs to be inside a prison imprisoned of their sub-basement. Not solely is the prisoner somebody Raven is aware of, however she discusses her battle methods and coaching with him, that means he’s awake when these simulations happen and that it’s a part of his punishment, which he accepts. Though he is helped Raven enhance her powers and abilities, it is all in preparation for one thing that Raven—and solely Raven—should cope with alone.
This example brings to thoughts the Hazard storyline from Astonishing X-Males, the place the X-Males and their college students are below assault from their Hazard Room. After it creates a physique and leaves to hunt out Professor Xavier, the X-Males be taught that Charles not solely knew of the Hazard Room’s sentience however stored it a secret, forcing the mechanical mutant to serve and practice the X-Males as a substitute. Though Charles later defined he was unprepared and unable to correctly free her with out figuring out what she was able to, the truth that Charles knew and let the Hazard Room undergo disgusted the X-Males. Though Hazard would pursue her vengeance towards Xavier, she finally relented and accepted the X-Males’s invitation to hitch them.
For the X-Males, Charles knew of Hazard’s self-awareness and used his inexperience together with her particular sort of mutation to justify the wants of his X-Males, particularly to coach them in order that they may very well be higher ready for battles to come back. For Raven, she believes her prisoner is responsible and due to his crimes, she justifies utilizing his thoughts to assist her practice, pushing her abilities and powers to new limits in preparation for a harmful and probably life-threatening activity. The one distinction is that the X-Males did not know of Hazard’s existence whereas different Titans like Nightwing are conscious of Raven’s coaching strategies and do not care, making them complicit in these unheroic actions.
In the long run, Hazard ended up turning into one of many X-Males, serving to them in varied conditions and later settling as one of many residents residing on Krakoa. The prisoner is finally freed by Dick Grayson and given his Red X identification to imagine because the Teen Titans search to resolve their issues divided as a substitute of united. Time will inform if Raven’s methodology of coaching could have adverse penalties down the road for her.