Justice League vs Teen Titans

[Raph's Girl]

Coming this spring is the next DC Animated Film set in the new 52 stuff. Justice League vs Teen Titans. In this Damien joins the titans at the behest of Bruce. Unfortunatly Raven's daddy is on the lose... weee.. In this incarnation the team consists of Starfire (team leader), Raven (not voiced by Tara Strong for once), Blue Beetle (Jaime), Beast Boy (not voiced by Greg Cipes for once), and Damien.

Here is a 12 min behind the scenes featurette that came with the Batman: Bad Blood). Looks like there's a bit o shipping going on with Raven and Damien...

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[CyberCubed]

Looks alright for the next DVD movie, although these movies have varied in quality a lot.

[MikeandRaph87]

I knew this was next. The four New Teen Titans, Nightwing, and for some reason the Jaime Reyes and Damien Wayne characters...

Why is Starfire the team leader? Too many other are better suited! Beside Dick is in this so why is he not leading the character of the Titans/Young Justice? Its only right.

I am soldo n Bad Blood. This? I don't know.

You must have bought it off the DVR because Bad Blood is not out until Groundhog's Day. Unless we repeat Groundhog's Day over and over I will pick it up that Friday.

[Leo656]

New 52? Damien? Pass and Double-Pass.

If you wanna do an animated Titans movie, do f*cking Judas Contract or do nothing. Period.

[MikeandRaph87]

New 52? Damien? Pass and Double-Pass.

If you wanna do an animated Titans movie, do f*cking Judas Contract or do nothing. Period.

It got tabled years ago for two reasons. First of all late 2007 was to early to rehash with a darker take on what the 2003 cartoon had then recently done and it was proven hard to adapt because it eas dark in nature. Maybe it was the insinuated relationship between Slade and Terra and the fact she was a chain smoker.

On the fence here, but think Bad Bloodvwill be good. Still want Hudh or Sinestro Corps War.

[Leo656]

Well now that they're doing "Killing Joke" any reasons as to why they can't do "Judas Contract" are officially f*cking bullsh*t.

With all due respect to the Teen Titans, that's the ONE story from the comics that A. People actually know of, and B. Would make a good movie. There really aren't a hundred Titans stories that are familiar or popular enough to be marketable but that one is. "We did a watered-down version of it once in a little kiddie cartoon" should have never been an issue in the first place and definitely should not be a factor now.

[CyberCubed]

Isn't that the story where Slade rapes a teenage girl? You really think they would risk making that in animation?

[MikeandRaph87]

Don't shoot the messenger. I am only repeating sources. I do agree with you. When I first heard about The Killing Joke I thought that very same thing.

Is Dick Grayson in the League this time around?

[CyberCubed]

Yes, Slade rapes Terra and turns her against the Titans.

The cartoon, obviously, did away with all the adult stuff.

[Leo656]

He only raped her in the legal sense, in that she was underage. If you actually read the comic books she was completely willing and complicit, both in the sex and in betraying the Titans. She was never on their side and Slade didn't "turn her against them", she was always an immoral person. The story goes to great lengths to illustrate that.

[TurtleTitan97]

Yeah, Terra was always insane, even before meeting Slade and the Titans.

[Leo656]

Which I enjoyed, because "some people are just Bad People" is an idea that's gotten to be unpopular nowadays, but it's true all the same. Some people just ARE bad people; maybe there's reasons and maybe they just get off on it, but some people don't need a "sympathetic origin story" to "make them easier to relate to" while explaining why they do bad things, and frankly, nowadays that kind of thing is done so much it's annoying. "Every 'Bad Guy' is just a misunderstood Good Guy!" Expect in real life it absolutely doesn't work that way.

I also give them points for sticking to their guns once Terra became super-popular in the books; you know they had to be tempted to cave in and make her sympathetic, since they knew making her an unrepentant villain would piss off a lot of fans (and some fans never did get over it). Nope. "She was just a bad person who made bad choices and now she's dead." BAM. No "She was manipulated," no "Deep down she had her doubts", no "It was her evil clone"... she f*cked Slade because she was a skank and tried to kill the Titans because she was a lunatic. That took guts. They absolutely could have gone the other way, but didn't.

[ABrown]

I went ahead and picked this up. It was't too bad. The only thing really new that hasn't already been featured in DC animation is that it featured the hot version of Starfire. I know that there's a lot of Young Justice fans out there. But me personally, I'll take this over YJ any day. And for whatever it's worth, I'm betting that I'll take this new 52 shared continuity of movies over what DC is going to be putting out with their live continuity of movies.

[turtlefanforever]

i don't really know how to rate this. i'd say it's good but Batman vs Robin was good and that was on a completely different level than this movie. after seeing that i expected a lot from this and it didnt deliever. Probably between alright and good.

[ZariusTwo]

I went ahead and picked this up. It was't too bad. The only thing really new that hasn't already been featured in DC animation is that it featured the hot version of Starfire. I know that there's a lot of Young Justice fans out there. But me personally, I'll take this over YJ any day. And for whatever it's worth, I'm betting that I'll take this new 52 shared continuity of movies over what DC is going to be putting out with their live continuity of movies.

I'm starting to wonder how long the New 52 influence will continue to last in those movies now that DC's distancing themselves from it with Rebirth

[ABrown]

I'm starting to wonder how long the New 52 influence will continue to last in those movies now that DC's distancing themselves from it with Rebirth

That would be a shame. I'm really enjoying this shared continuity of movies, and this movie was no exception. I agree with others that I've read stating that it would be nice if they'd change the yearly Batman movie now to a Teen Titans movie featuring this team.