TEEN TITANS TRILOGY:
THE LINE-UP:
TIM DRAKE- ROBIN
JOE WILSON- JERICHO
TARA MARKOV- TERRA
RAVEN
GARFIELD LYNNS- BEAST BOY
THE ANTAGONISTS:
SLADE WILSON- DEATHSTROKE
TRIGON
JOE WILSON- JERICHO
THE STORY ARC:
The first movie would cover their beginning and finding each other. They are all in college, 18-19 years of age. They would all be in different social situations in school. Tim Drake is a smart, outgoing frat dude that has all the leadership qualities a guy like him would have. He is very the definition of student government president material, a man on a path with a great future. He knows about everyone’s abilities, being the “son of Batman”, except Joe, who is a complete stranger to him. Tara is his “female counterpart” in that she is the sorority girl, very popular, smart, on the right track, with the abilities of geokinesis, or ability to control the earth (like earth bending), but can’t control it very well so she keeps it a secret. Joe is a mysterious student that Tim doesn’t know much about. He is handsome, but is very introverted, thus ignoring the social aspect of college. He has the power to control people by looking in their eyes. He looks as though a dark secret is holding over him, unbeknown to everyone that he is the son of Deathstroke, thus has gone through abuse and pain, thus why he’s scared as he as finally escaped. In addition to his own powers, Joe is a great fighter, on par with his own father, but holds back again out of fear. Raven, like Joe, has a troubled past with her father, the demon Trigon. Unlike Joe though, who is handsome and smart, the exact opposite of how he actually is, Raven looks like she’s been through hell (literally) and has just stopped caring. Her powers include spirit conjuring, mind control and telekinesis, amongst other things, but she is afraid to use her powers because they come from her father. Garfield is the youngest, a freshman, who is also dyslexic and has ADHD, which impedes his academics. He has the power to turn into any animal he can think of. They all stay in the same dorm, called the “Titan Tower” (a nod to the TV show of course).
Trigon wants his daughter to return to him as she has run away. However, he does not want to do it himself as he has to take care of the underworld and does not want to risk the Justice League being called in to stop him. So he hires Slade Wilson (Deathstroke) to get her, as he is a human and thus not too dangerous to where he would attract the League’s attention, but powerful enough to where he can defeat and escape most human opponents and prisons.
Throughout the first film Joe and Raven form a special bond, as both have emotional scars that run deep, as opposed to the rest of the team. Joe never mentions his father, only saying that he is living proof that Raven’s father doesn’t need to exist in order for evil to exist in the world. They all come together, forming a friendship and learn to use each other’s strengths to balance their insecurities. This all builds up to the final fight with Deathstroke.
Slade easily fights off Terra and Beast Boy, and toys with Robin. “Good technique, but not great”, eventually dispatching all of them until he reaches Raven, whom he knocks out. Jericho then comes out, not revealing who his father is to him, but fights him. They have a good fight, with Jericho able to hold his own, but it all ends when Deathstroke has a sword pointed at Ravens throat, saying the bounty is for dead or alive. Desperate to save Raven, he gives himself up to his father in exchange for him calling off the contract. Feeling a connection to his son, he agrees. Jericho attempts to stab his father in an escape attempt, but Deathstroke turns the tables and grazes Jericho’s throat with a bullet, rendering him mute.
The first film ends with the remaining titans vowing to save Jericho as he has saved them, Jericho prisoner for his father, and Trigon stating he will wait for his daughter, sending up a demon from Azarath to watch over her until the time is right to strike.
The second film begins with Tim Drake in the Batcave, trying to find out all that he can about Slade. The team has been training harder and harder specifically for him. Raven has become more violent, as she feels the most responsible for Jericho being captured. Jericho has been prisoner for his father, who is torturing him into submission. Slade’s heightened brain has made it so that Jericho cannot possess his mind. His only source of hope is from his memories of Raven, the one person he connected to.
Eventually Tim finds that Lex Luthor, now in prison, has hired Deathstroke in the past. Going to his cell as Robin, Luthor reveals that Slade can’t be killed, but can be hurt and bought. He reveals that to find him Robin must wait for Slade to show himself, which is a longshot.
Raven, on the other hand, has a feeling that she knows who hired Slade in the first place, so she traces her father’s whereabouts on Earth, revealing Slade’s hideout to her. The Titans go after Slade, with Terra, Beast Boy, and Robin fighting Slade while Raven goes to find Jericho. After she finds him, weak and scared, she takes him up, where Slade is keeping up with all three of his opponents. While he is fighting, he is distracted, thus Joe takes over Slade’s mind, and is about to kill him. Raven, however, takes over Jericho’s mind, and convinces him to let his father go. So Slade is sent to a SuperMax prison, while Jericho goes back with the Titans. The movie ends with Trigon saying it’s time to go for the attack, but the demon, instead of killing Raven, possesses Jericho…
Jericho is possessed by the demon, which is weak. His mind is becoming more and more corrupted, but for now the demon is weak. The team is under the impression that the big threat is over, but Raven still isn’t convinced her father is done trying to capture her. Robin is put in the position of having to pick between returning to Batman and staying with the Titans. And Terra and Beast Boy begin to bond, as Terra is all smarts with no confidence, while Beast Boy is all confidence with no smarts.
Jericho is being more and more susceptible to the demons will, as the demon keeps bringing up the old memories of abuse, and gives him back his voice. Noticing something going on, Raven speaks to Trigon. Trigon reveals that he wants her to come back, and that the demon is now latched to Jericho, so if she comes back and he summons the demon back, Jericho will die. Refusing to give up on Jericho, she refuses her father, saying if he tries to get her again she will use all her power to destroy him.
Jericho is now taken over. As Raven, Terra and Beast Boy approach him, he fights them all, using his power to use their powers against themselves. Eventually he and Raven end up fighting in the supermax prison where Slade is being held. Joe puts on the Deathstroke mask, take’s his father’s sword, and fatally stabs Raven, bringing her dying body to the roof, along with his father, who he kept dreaming of while possessed.
Robin comes to the roof of the prison, and attempts to talk to Joe. But Joe just comments on how he is accepting his destiny as the son of a murderer. “The son of Batman and the son of Deathstroke fighting together, wouldn’t our daddy’s be proud!” Joe and Robin then fight, with Robin surviving due to his gadgets, training, and Joe’s real mind coming back to him to hold him back. Eventually Slade pops up and fights with Robin to kill his son. Joe comes back to his senses after finally seeing the Deathstroke mask and Raven’s dead body, and begs his father to “kill him”, which his father does. Warning Robin to not come looking for him again, Slade leaves. Raven see’s Jericho’s mind clear and apologetic, and she forgives him as they both die with each other. The third film ends with the titans mourning the losses, and finding a new alien on earth, Starfire.
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