Episode Four: Teen Titans Go! vs Teen Titans - A Tale of Two Booties

True Believers: A Comic Book poDCast

Following our inadvertent theme of multiversal mixup, in this off the rails episode Andrew and chrs recap and review the mad merry-go-round movie that is Teen Titans Go! vs Teen Titans.

Notes:

We apologize for the choppy sound editing towards the end of the episode. Andrew was up editing the episode at two in the morning because of work obligations.

Our bad.

• We accidentally said episode 3 at the beginning. This is episode 4.
• “Avengers: Endgame'' released in April of 2019 and “Teen Titans Go! vs Teen Titans” premiered at SDCC in July of 2019, but the digital release was in September of 2019.
• Lil Yatchy did write a significant portion of “Act Up” by City Girls after saying “no homo'' before going into the booth.
• The literal definition of Satire is “the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.”
• Teen Titans premiered in July of 2003 and the final episode, "Things Change," premiered in January of 2006, followed by the movie “Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo,” premiering September the same year.
• There’s a 55-issue comic book called “Teen Titans Go!” based on the 2003 animated series and their continuity that’s mostly collected in six trade paperbacks.
• The “Nevermore” episode indirectly references the poem “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe. Ironically, the word ‘nevermore’ is a prophetic warning in the poem.
• In “Nevermore” Cyborg actually counsels against Beast Boy invading Raven’s room. Minding his black-owned business. We stan.
• The alternate aspects of Raven are her “emoticlones” that serve as a physical manifestation of her true feelings.
• “Tiny Titans'' was a two-time Eisner Award winning series featuring alternate versions of DC Comics characters in an elementary school environment. The initial series ran for 50-issues from February of 2008 to March of 2012, and from 2014-2015, the series revived with a 6-issue miniseries - “Tiny Titans: Return to the Tree House”
• “Auld Acquaintance” is the 26th episode of Young Justice, and the first season's finale. The only Justice League member who doesn’t get their shit rocked by the JV is Wonder Woman.
• I couldn’t be bothered to look up the H.I.V.E. episode we were referencing, but it’s interesting that their stupid battle catchphrases seem to parody Robin’s “Titans, GO!”
• When Raven mentions facing her demons, she’s directly referencing season 4 of Teen Titans.
• Santa Claus actually appears many times in Teen Titans Go! (largely as an antagonist) in the episodes “Second Christmas”, “The True Meaning of Christmas”, “The Teen Titans Go Easter Holiday Classic”, “Who's Laughing Now”, “Halloween v Christmas”, “Teen Titans Save Christmas”, and “The Streak”
• The stupid ‘Battle Ready Armor’ joke is a reference to the ubiquitous armor worn by the teen ninjas in “Codename: Kids Next Door”
• Cyborg is the one who obtains the Worlogog after it goes flying out of Megan’s hands, which is understandable - before he was cybernetically enhanced and became a superhero, he was a promising young athlete.
• Teen Titans Go! Cyborg has the nerve to have actually yelled out “Cyborg Cycle, Activate Alpha Maneuver 42 Delta!” without having agreed on any codewords ahead of time.
• Because of their mythological association with misfortune and misery, a group of ravens is called An Unkindness.

Music: “The Victory Of Heroes” by Shane Ivers - www.silvermansound.com

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