Young Justice vs Teen Titans
Young Justice versus Teen Titans. Two teams made up of teenage superheroes who have the
best mentors in the game. Who do you think would win in a fight? Let us know with either
hashtag Young Justice or hashtag Teen Titans in those comments below.
Hey everyone! Welcome to Versus, the series we do here on top 10 nerd where we take your
favourite comic characters and throw them in the ring with each other in a hypothetical
battle to the death. Cause why not?
Today we’ve got a slight variation on our normal versus. We’re taking a look at the
team of superheroes on the Young Justice television series, versus the heroes on Teen Titans tv
series (specifically Teen Titans and not Teen Titans Go). We’re also sticking to all of
the original team members – meaning, for Young Justice: Robin, Aqualad, Kid Flash,
Superboy, Miss Martian, and Artemis. And for the Teen Titans, that means Robin, Raven,
Starfire, Beast Boy and Cyborg. So, it’s safe to say the Teen Titans are slightly outnumbered,
so we’ll throw in Terra onto their team, prior to her whole weird Deathstroke saga
in the Judas Contract. We can just pretend she’s one of the good guys for this battle.
Before we begin, let’s analyze the origins of both these teams.
Teen Titans started off as a comic book in the Bronze Age of comic books. The show itself
is primarily based on storylines from the Bronze Age, specifically the Marv Wolfman
and George Perez run. Perez and Wolfman were responsible for creating most of the characters
who appear on the show. The neat thing about the show though is that the characters always
maintain their superhero identities – for the most part, this kind of reflects how the
characters are seen in the comics too, with only Robin being the one who has a true secret
identity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Age_of_Comic_Books
Young Justice has a bit of a different origin – rather than being an adaptation of the
Todd Dezago and Tadd Nauck’s Young Justice comic series, it’s a story in its own right,
featuring a lot of characters that, for the most part, all have large backstories in the
DC universe as sidekicks or squires of sorts to main stream heroes in the comics - we’re
talking Batman, The Flash, Superman, Martian Manhunter, Aquaman and Green Arrow. Protégés
trying to establish their own identities as heroes, essentially. But a lot of these characters
have quite altered origins. For example, Miss Martian is now the niece of Martian Manhunter,
and Aqualad is not the Garth we grew up with – he’s loosely based on Garth, but instead
has the name of Kaldur’ahm, or Jackson Hyde, and is the son of Black Manta.
http://aquaman.wikia.com/wiki/Aqualad_(Young_Justice)
Moving on to Abilities!
Let’s try to break this down simply, since we’ve got a lot of characters on both teams.
Looking at Young Justice first: Robin aka Dick Grayson, the season one Robin.
He’s picked up a thing or two from his mentor Batman, and in the show, he’s the guy whose
got the tech and hacking expertise. Plus the acrobatic physical capabilities. In between
season one and two, he goes on to become Nightwing. Aqualad has superhuman strength, can easily
adapt to underwater environments, can swim at superhuman speeds, is capable of hydrokinesis,
bio-electric energy blasts, and has whipped up hydro swords that can sometimes act as
a shield. Miss Martian has similar traits as her uncle, including shape shifting, telekinesis,
telepathy, flight, and those Martian nine senses.
Artemis is a highly athletic expert archer, who by season two, becomes Tigress. Kid Flash
aka Wally West is a speedster, and doesn’t quite have all of the same abilities that
his mentor has – yet, that is. He’s got that super speed, but can’t vibrate his
molecules through solid objects. He has accelerated healing, superhuman endurance and reflexes,
and can generate small tornados. Superboy is a genomorph clone of Superman, and therefore
has all the same abilities, although is still learning to get a solid grasp on all of them
like his older counterpart.
And what about the Teen Titans? Robin yet again! Except due to the whole no
revealing their secret identities policy on the show, we don’t actually know which one
this is. But it’s safe to assume that it’s Dick Grayson, simply because he’s usually
the first Robin associated with the Teen Titans. Cyborg has a mechanically enhanced body that
gives him super strength, endurance, speed, stamina and flight, plus the ability to interface
with external computers comes in pretty handed, especially since he’s got the genius level
IQ. Raven is an empath, meaning she can alter
the emotions of others around her. But she’s also got telekinetic and psychokinetic powers,
can fly and levitate, is capable of astral projection, can heal herself and sometimes
others, can stop time, and can manifest her fears into monsters.
Starfire has superhuman speed, strength, reflexes, agility, stamina and near invulnerability.
She has an immunity to radiation, cold and heat, can survive in outerspace, is an excellent
alien martial artists, and can project ultraviolet energy to create her starbolt blasts and eye
beams. Beast Boy has the metamorphic ability to transform
into any animal. And lastly, Terra has geokinesis powers, meaning
she can construct and control structures made from the Earth.
Now onto the fight!
Naturally, everyone would inevitably pair off. Starting with Teen Titans team leader
Robin. We’ll, he’d obviously take on Robin. Raven would be up against Miss Martian.
Beast Boy versus Artemis. Something about a hunter facing off a character who can turn
into literally any animal seems somewhat poetic. Starfire would take on Superboy, since she’s
really the only one on the team with enough fire power that stands a chance at disabling
the Kryptonian. So that leaves Cyborg to face off against
Kid Flash, and Aqualad facing off against Terra.
The results of that?
Well, it’s fair to say it’s a toss up with the Robins – either could really take
the cake, but it’s safe to say that the Robin of Young Justice is a bit more of a
fleshed out character in the show compared to the Teen Titans Robin. Hence his transition
into Nightwing in season 2. While Raven would put up one hell of a fight,
Miss Martian just has too many abilities under her belt that Raven likely couldn’t deflect.
She’s more of a versatile character when it comes to what she can do on the battle
field. While Artemis could give Beast Boy a run for
his money – and quite a lot of difficulty considering how agile she is – at the end
of the day, if Beast Boy turned into a T-Rex, Artemis’ chances aren’t looking great
unless she’s got some special trick arrows in her quiver that could take down his more
mightier morphs. Starfire would likely be overpowered by Superboy,
Kid Flash could out run Cyborg. Aqualad and Terra would be a bit trickier – Aqualad
having experience fighting on both land and sea would definitely help him take her on.
That being said, girl has been known to bust out a lot of unexpected power, and that could
be just enough to throw Aqualad off guard.
And the winner? Young Justice. With Superboy, Kid Flash and Miss Martian on their team,
they can open up a whole can of kick ass in no time. While we’ve got to give the Teen
Titans major kudos for their ingenuity and quick thinking, they just aren’t as powerful
collectively as the Young Justice squad.
Who do you think would win in a fight? Let us know your pick with either hashtag young
justice or hashtag teen titans in those comments below. Also, feel free to suggest who you’d
like to see in a fight in one of our versus videos! The more likes you comment gets, the
more we’ll consider it! In the meantime, thanks for watching! Make sure you check out
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