As a kid, one of my favorite series growing up was Marv Wolfman and George Perez's standard-setting New Teen Titans run.
The Justice League was always flashier, with epic storylines that
spanned the galaxy, but something always seemed more...mechanical and
straightlaced about the League of the time. The Teen Titans, on the
other hand, were tight-knit, character-driven personalities that acted
like real people trying to grow up, and I've always had a soft spot for
the band of sidekicks trying to reach independence as a family.
After
a number of animated incarnations since the start of the millennium,
the Teen Titans have graduated to the growing live-action DC Television Universe
with TNT's order of an Akiva Goldsman / Mark Haines pilot for "The
Titans". Let's look at some of the history behind the characters that we
may see brought to the screen -- and some of the glaring omissions from
Teen Titans history.
