The Teen Titans are a property of DC comics and are basically the younger Justice League of America. Over the years, however, the Titans have grown to be one of the most formidable teams in all of DC comics. Created by Bob Haney and Bruno Premiani, the Teen Titans debuted The Brave and the Bold #54 in June 1964.
Their headquarters is Titan Tower in New York City. The original team consisted of leader: Nightwing, as well as Kid Flash, Aqualad, Wonder Girl, Speedy (Green Arrow's apprentice), Lilith, Hawk & Dove, Guardian, Aquagirl, Gnarkk, Joker's Daughter, and Bumblebee. For the tournament we went with the following lineup:
CYBORG - real name: Vic Stone. Abilities include: Genius-level intellect, highly skilled in hand-to-hand combat, most of his body parts have been replaced with cybernetic enhancements that give him: Super strength, adaptive evolution, technomorphic healing factor (meaning that his robot parts fix themselves and him), cyberspace immersion (his mind connects directly to the internet), technopathy (he can speak to machines), plus numerous other functions such as sensory abilities and advanced weaponry. Cyborg is a powerful member of this team, and is kind of like their Iron Man but way different and possibly even more advanced.
RAVEN - is a sorceress of sorts with vast magical and pyschic abilites. Magic users are very important in this tournament because there are a lot of very powerful characters that have a weakness to magic. Her real name is Rachel Roth and her magical abilities include: Soul manipulation, darkness manipulation, teleportation, telekinesis, telepathy, hypnosis, flight, chronokinesis (means she can control time), demonic energy, control of the 7 deadly sins, and prevision (meaning she can glimpse the future). Raven is a serious teammate and one that will prove to be very important if the Titans hope to move passed the 2nd round.
STARFIRE - real name: Koriand'r. Yes like the spice in your cabinet. Starfire is not human, but Tamaranean for Tamaran, an alien planet somewhere in the galaxy. Her abilities include: because of her alien physiology she has super strength, speed, flight, durability, plus the ability to aquire languages instantly by physical contact and fire offensive energy blasts out of her hands and eyes. She's a tough cookie that will keep any enemies on their toes.
NIGHTWING - real name: Dick Grayson. If that name doesn't sound familiar, well then I don't know if I can help you. Haha just kidding. Dick Grayson was the first Robin to team up with Batman. There have been others since Dick grew up and took up the Nightwing role. He's Batman's protege and really the next in line to inherit the mantle of Batman if Bruce Wayne should die. Grayson actually DID become Batman for a short time while Bruce Wayne was stuck traveling through time thanks to Darkseid after the events of FINAL CRISIS. So think of Nightwing as a younger Batman. He was taught by the very best and is Batman's most trusted teammate.
GREEN LANTERN (Kyle Rayner) - The Green Lantern Corps. are an intergalactic peace keeping force who's members are chosen by their lack of fear and strength of will. During the 90's, the most famous Green Lantern Hal Jordan, turned into a bad guy and killed a lot of people. As a last ditch effort to save the galaxy from Parallex (the entity of fear that had taken possession of Hal Jordan), a Guardian of planet Oa (the Guardians are the ones that protect the green light force that power's all of the Green Lanterns' rings) found a young Kyle Rayner outside of a club and gave him a ring. Rayner did not have the training nor the discipline that Jordan had as a Lantern, but would prove himself to be one of the best Green Lantern's. Even at one point being chosen to protect the green light source (mentioned before) himself and was renamed Ion for a short time, being the physical manifestation of the green light energy. Rayner is just a normal Green Lantern in this tournament, but he still very powerful and has one of the most powerful weapons in the DC universe; the green power ring!
SUPERGIRL - Kara Danvers. She is Superman's cousin left Krypton as a teenager not long after Superman's ship took off. When she arrived she was still a teenager but Superman had grown up. She is not as powerful as Superman because she has not spent as much time being exposed to the radiation of yellow sun, which is the source of all Kryptonian's power. But just because she's not as powerful, doesn't mean she is a slouch. Supergirl is no one to mess with. She's gone toe to toe against the biggest bad guy in the DC Universe, Darkseid and has held her own. **Check out Batman/Superman: Apocalypse animated movie, it introduces Supergirl and is a great way to show off what she's capable of*** She shares all of the same abilities as Superman - near invulnerability, super flight, super strength, super speed, super breath, heat vision, and x-ray vision.
Kid Flash (Wally West) - one of the founding members of the Teen Titans. Wally has a strong history as both Kid Flash and the Flash. He stepped into Barry Allen's shoes after Barry disappeared into the Speed Force, quite easily despite how big those shoes were. Wally and Barry are pretty equal as far as ability is concerned, can't say if one is stronger than the other. But I will say this, any team that has a Flash on it is a team to be careful of. Barry Allen, Wally West, Jay Garrick, and Bart Allen are all characters that are good to their core and will stop at nothing to fight for good.
So that's the lineup for the tournament: Nightwing, Cyborg, Raven, Starfire, Green Lantern, Supergirl, and Kid Flash. The Titans are a team to look out for!
They will face the SilverHawks in the first fight of the first round. Who do you think will win?
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