RoryWilliams
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Also I must say, very happy to see the movie using legacy heroes.
I have no hope of seeing that. Even as a nod.I have the hope of seeing a flashback to the original Titans ... Dick/Robin, Wonder Girl/Donna Troy, Aqualad/Garth, Kid Flash/Wally West, and Roy/Speedy!
and a statue!
I have no hope of seeing that. Even as a nod.
Is the fab five even acknowledged as having happened in any continuity comic or animated.
Even as a statue, they didn't seem like the having a statue/monument type.
In the pre-reboot continuity Titans Tower had a statue of the five founders, but to my knowledge, no, there's never been any media adaptation with the Fab Five.
Outside of that one Filmation short of course.
Which kind of makes the Fab Five's only appearance in a cartoon together that short cameo towards the end of Justice League: The New Frontier, though they were paired with Black Canary and Supergirl.
If I remember right, Kid Flash was retconned into being one of the founding members of the group in a 'flashback' adventure.I still don't understand why they're the 'Fab Five' when Speedy wasn't there to begin with (as far as I know). I thought it started with Robin, Aqualad and Kid Flash having an adventure together, then becoming the Teen Titans with Wonder Girl. Speedy joined when Aqualad left, I believe. I suppose Roy is kind of expendable anyway since he represents Green Arrow, who isn't really a core Justice Leaguer - unlike Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash and arguably Aquaman.
That is correct! The franchise didn't take off until the likes of Cyborg, Raven, Beast Boy, and Starfire were added and Robin became Nightwing. Sort of like with the X-Men, when they added characters like Wolverine, Storm, Rogue, Nightcrawler...etc.The Fab Five have the same problem the founding five X-Men have. There isn't much interest to put them in stuff because the franchise didn't take off in a huge way until they added a bunch of new characters.
I still don't understand why they're the 'Fab Five' when Speedy wasn't there to begin with (as far as I know). I thought it started with Robin, Aqualad and Kid Flash having an adventure together, then becoming the Teen Titans with Wonder Girl. Speedy joined when Aqualad left, I believe. I suppose Roy is kind of expendable anyway since he represents Green Arrow, who isn't really a core Justice Leaguer - unlike Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash and arguably Aquaman.
If I remember right, Kid Flash was retconned into being one of the founding members of the group in a 'flashback' adventure.
Ah, yes. Thanks!Actually it was SPEEDY that was retconned as one of the group's founding members. But he had a presence in the title as far back as issue #4 of the original series:
And he officially joined the team in issue #19:
Toddman
Or New Teen Titans: Games or Teen Titans: Tamaran War (Blackfire Rising?).Here's hoping that if this does well we get "Teen Titans: The Judas Contract" in the future.
I think it probably helps that, going off the casting announcement, most of the League are going to either not be in it or relegated to non-speaking roles, which opens up more time to spend developing the Titans compared to how Thrones of Atlantis had to juggle Aquaman's origin with the League still developing as a group .Well, I finally got around to watching the Sneak Peek. It looks promising, but I have to remind myself not to get my hopes up too high. The biggest thorn in the side of these movies is the relatively short run time (~75 minutes or fewer), and that issue gets most pronounced whenever the plot is too wide in scope, or more likely, there are too many characters to spread out the screen time thinly. You add a team of heroes (five, maybe greater), and now we're back to wondering how does one showcase all of the characters evenly, but deeply, in a relatively short amount of time? The answer, thus far, has been a resounding "You can't."