Teen Titans Go! To The Movies
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As anyone who watchesTeen Titans Go!might tell you , every episode of the serial publication is chock - full of nod to the classical comics and popular culture . Unsurprisingly , Teen Titans Go ! To The Moviescontinues this trend , being more full of esoteric book of facts than anything this side of aMystery Science Theater 3000marathon . Not tough for a show that many dismiss as being nothing but silly songs and fart joke !
To that remnant , we ’ve essay to catalog some of the many easy - missed Easter eggs from the movie , as well as explain some of the more dark bit of amusing Holy Writ trifle that got stashed in the background . Though it may take repeat viewings and pressings of the pause button to arrest everything hide in this movie once it is released for home viewing , it is hoped this may avail sports fan take account how much smart wittiness the film control … while still having a lot of light-headed songs and flatus jokes .
The Opening Short
There once was a clock time when it was everyday for film studios to air a short cartoon before their primary features . Animated movies are bringing that trend back andTeen Titans Go ! To The Moviessurprised viewers with a preview of this fall ’s reboot ofDC Super Hero Girls . The newfangled serial , operate byMy Little PonyExecutive Producer Lauren Faust , will demonstrate the same estimate of a superhero team made up of teenage girls , but with the characters maintain secret identities in a even mellow school and a slap-up accent on the character ’s personal problems when they are n’t fighting crime .
The short , The Late Batsby , focuses on Batgirl ( Tara Strong ) as she rushes to catch up with her friends when they go off to fight Mr. Freeze on a school - night , while she ’s stuck wait for her dad to go to bottom before she can sneak out . Those who are conversant with Faust ’s work may recognize this story , as the episode is a longer edition ofTime Waits For No Girl- the second installment of theSuper Best Friends Foreverseries of short , which Faust bring on for Cartoon connection’sDC Nationanimation cylinder block . This was the same block which first introducedTeen Titans Go !
The Opening Credit Production Logos
Usually the tenacious display of production company logotype at the start of a motion picture is something to be endure before the flick finally starts . In the case ofTeen Titans Go ! To The Movies , they help to set the tonicity for what take after . The stoic WB Shield in the center of the Warner Animation logotype do as a maypole for an previous - shoal Daffy Duck who acts , well , daffy , hopping around while shouting " Woo - hoo ! Woo - hoo ! " until he is finally wrangled by a dissatisfied Porky Pig .
The new DC logotype - which first appeared before the credits ofWonder Woman - is replicate with the character animated in the style ofTeen Titans Go!rather than the more serious artwork used in the original . We are then do by to a rapid - flame flipping of pages from classic George PerezTeen Titanscomics ( Perez co - created the characters of Cyborg , Raven and Starfire with writer Marv Wolfman ) in a clear imitation of the Greco-Roman Marvel Comics party logotype . Before we see a logotype , however , it is reveal that the pages really are from a comic book , being read by the seagull who frequently alight outside Titans Tower inTeen Titans Go !
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Welcome To Jump City - Safer Than Gotham!
The opening night setting of the motion-picture show institute Jump City - the metropolitan area that the Teen Titans sort - of protect when they are n’t singing song or making fart joke . There are a number of nod to the originalTeen Titans Go!series here , with a cameo by Beast Boy ’s homeless pal Sticky Joe and a smile Plastic Man in the sign predicate the town ’s name . Jump City is declared " safe than Gotham " despite a surprising number of supervillain - owned businesses , such as Laz - R - Us Spa and Nails ( noteRa ’s Al Ghul’sface in the window in the picture above ) , Clay Face Dermatology ( mud packs a strong suit ! ) and the Body By Bane gym . The Captain Cold Cuts and Mr. Freeze Pops leave us cold , though .
Not to be scoop , there seem to be a routine of superhero theme businesses as well . There ’s aGreen Lanternsymbol in the " O " of the hotel aboveVibeRecords , next door to a nightspot called The Arrow Room , which features a greenish arrow in its mansion . The Flash manifestly lent his logo to a restaurant call Fastest Food . And for those look for a more serious nod to the comics , the skyscraper for Wayne Enterprises , LexCorp and Queen Industries can be seen in the distance and a tardy vista reveals the headquarters of Lord Technologies - the company ofJustice League Internationalfounder Maxwell Lord .
Getting The Business End Of Things
More superhero and A-one - villain themed business are visible in the background signal , as the Teen Titans battle a bank robber called Balloon Man . While kids and juvenile minds may laugh at how Beast Boy punctures Balloon Man ’s posterior with some well place hedgehog flight feather ( resulting in a sizeable fart noise , of path ) , the eagle - eyed fan may descry quite a few Easter Eggs as Balloon Man tries to cover his shame .
While we ’d belike pass on any of the bread products at Sinestrolls and Buns , we ’d gladly giveEndless Friesa try out even if their fry baskets were n’t truly endless outside of the land of The Dreaming . Darkseid is calculate more glamorous than ever on the sign for Apokolips and Lashes - perfectly dressed for a nighttime out atThe Ror Shack . Then again , it might be a good thought to stay home , as the graffito on the side of the Ace Chemical building suggestsThe Jokeris on the lax again .
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Titans V. Superman: Brawn Of Justice
Balloon Man almost get away , thanks to the Teen Titans stopping to tattle an 80s - vogue rap birdsong about who they are . This is actuate by Balloon Man err them for unnoticeable Justice League member at first , before asking if they are theGuardians of The Galaxy . gratefully , Superman , Wonder Woman and Green Lantern John Stewart just happen by at that moment and put a check to Balloon Man ’s crime fling as he ’s in the middle of robbing The Pyggy Bank - a nod toBatmanvillainProfessor Pyg .
Superman is warm to give the Titans a dressing down for their not taking offence - fighting as seriously as they should . He also confirms their status as jokes in the superhero community . When they answer to this by throwing a rubber wimp in his fount , The Man of Steel sigh , face - palms and mutters , " Somebody relieve me " in reference to the theme call ofSmallville .
Superman , it should be noted , is voiced by actor Nicholas Cage . Cage is rather famous for his love life of comical playscript in general and Superman in particular . He ’s such a Brobdingnagian Superman buff that he mention his Word ( who can be get a line work the role of a young Bruce Wayne ) Kal - El . John Cage also almost play The Man of Steel ina live - actionSupermanmoviethat was to be directed by Tim Burton .
There ’s another blink - and - you’ll neglect it billboard gag here , with one hoarding behind Superman promoting aKingdom Comemovie . fructify in a disconsolate future where the Hero of old have largely been replaced by a new generation of trigger-happy anti - heroes no better than the villains they fight down , Kingdom Comedetails how Superman retort to the populace he felt abandoned his ideals and fights to save it . The classic graphic novel by writer Mark Waid and artist Alex Ross is considered one of the greatest stories lay out in the DC Comics Universe and perhaps the number one selection of many comics lover when asked what stories they ’d wish to see accommodate for picture .
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Seriously - Who Are The Challengers of the Unknown?
After finding out that they are n’t on the lean to get into the premiere of the latestBatmanmovie , the Teen Titans use Raven ’s power to open a portal anywhere to sneak into the field of operations and clear some seat by sending the Challengers of the Unknown into another proportion . This set up two running gag - how ridiculously easy fights would be if Raven did n’t keep block about half her major power , and how utterly obscure the Challengers of the Unknown are .
Surprisingly , the Challengers of the Unknown were quite big in the early sidereal day of The Silver Age of Comics . create by fabled comic record book writer and creative person Jack Kirby , the Challengers were a squad of four men who miraculously survived a planer clangour unscathed , who seek out new , impossible challenge as explorers and adventurers . The team was pop enough that some excogitate it may have inspiredThe Fantastic Fourat Marvel Comics , which utilized the same premiss but made one of the four hero sandwich a woman and leave them all superpower .
Batman Again
The dawdler moderate into the newBatmanmovie ( which is titledBatmanAgain ) start to get Robin ’s hope up about the possibility that he might have gotten a movie base on his exploits . deplorably , the trailer turn out to be for movies found upon Alfred the Butler , The Batmobile and The Utility Belt . To add affront to wound , the entire bunch of superheroes in attending mock Robin for remember they ’d ever make a motion picture about a sidekick - even his fellow sidekicks like Kid Flash and Speedy !
curious as this is , the whole sequence is also a metatexual comment on how DC Comics ca n’t seem to discontinue makingBatman - inspired movies . Granting that a movie based around The Batmobile is distinctly think of to be an exaggeration , it does n’t seem so far fetched given thatthe trailer forBumblebeewas screened beforeTeen Titans Go ! To The Movies . And withsix Joker moviescurrently in varying microscope stage of output along withBatgirlandNightwingsolo movies , it ’s comely to say that Warner Bros. has gone batty .
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All The Mock Movie Posters
For sheer volume , the single - largest source of tidy sum gags in the pic is the mock posters for various pic based on DC Comics ' superheroes . Most of these are seen after Robin leave theBatman Againpremiere and when the Teen Titans are vagabond the Warner Bros. moving picture lot . There are quite a few shots fired atBatman V. Superman : Dawn of Justice , with a Batman vs. Joker movie scream " Yawn of Justice " and aBatgirl V. Supergirlposter whose smiling heroine suggest a far - more lightsome moving-picture show , where the " Phoebe " stands for " Valentine . "
There might be a market forJonah Rex- the story of a horribly deface dinosaur cheat the American West as a torpedo for hire . There are probably also enough melodious devotee to absolve aGotham Sirens Musical . The same ca n’t be sound out forGreen Lantern Core , about an apple core that becomes a Green Lantern , orWhat ’s Up Doc?starring Doctor Manhattan fromWatchmen .
Talking ofWatchmen , there ’s also a poster for a Nite - Owl solo flick , along with posters for The Atom , the Challengers of the Unknown and Wonder Woman along the side of one construction in the Warner Bros. wad . There ’s also a poster for a Detective Chimp movie titledThe Case of the Missing Mustache .
Even without the " S " in moustache being replaced with aSupermanshield , this would be a well-defined nod to the infamous upshot with the CGI used to remove Henry Cavill ’s moustache while reshootingJustice League . There ’s also another reoccurring notice that evidence up several times throughout the movie , depicting Cavill with Superman ’s trademark spit - curl and a mustache .
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All The Superhero Cameos
While most of them do n’t get speech production theatrical role , virtually all of DC Comics ' A - list Hero and quite a lot of the B and C - listing show up in the bunch at theBatman Againscreening and walking around the Warner Bros. motion picture slew . All of the kernel Justice League are in attendance , with Superman , Batman , Wonder Woman , Aquaman , The Flash , Aquaman , Green Lantern ( John Stewart ) and Martian Manhunter making an apperance . Green Arrow and Black Canary are also there , along with fellow Justice League members Vixen , Elongated Man , Black Lightning , Metamorpho , Red Tornado , Zatanna , Animal Man , Steel , the Ted Kord Blue Beetle , Booster Gold , Shazamand Plastic Man . There ’s even a few JSA members like Hawkman , Power Girl and The Spectre representing the first superhero team in story .
face to the next generation of hero , you’re able to also spot Supergirl , the Barbara Gordon Batgirl , Speedy ( Roy Harper ) , Aqualad , Kid Flash , Wonder Girl ( Donna Troy ) and The Wonder Twins , Zan and Jayna . fan ofYoung Justicewill be pleased to know that Miss Martian , Superboy and Artemis put in an appearance as well . snipe out the cameos , there are a few remaining - ball choices such as Swamp Thing , Detective Chimp , western hoagie Jonah Hex and Krypto the Superdog . Perhaps the most unnoticeable cameo of all , however , is that ofAmethyst - Princess of Gemworld- a fantasy heroine with a solo book from the 1980s .
Lex Luthor, Sinestro and… the Rainbow Raider?
As the Teen Titans ruminate how they can earn their own pic , they agnize that they miss the one thing every truly great poor boy postulate to be taken badly - an prankish - opposition . After all , Superman has Lex Luthor , Green Lantern has Sinestro and The Flash has … the Rainbow Raider ! Yes , the Rainbow Raider - more colored thanGorilla Groddand more annoying than The Trickster , he has the power to fly around on rainbow bridges and flak light beams that change a person ’s emotion . An intelligent criminal might make purpose of such big businessman , but Roy . G. Bivolo was kind of an imbecile , imprecate with a want of imagination and full color - cecity .
Young Roy was an aspiring creative person , held back only by the fact that nobody would buy his paintings because everything was the wrong colors . His don , an optometrist , devoted his aliveness to trying to bring around his Word ’s coloration - cecity and failed miserably , rather creating the goggles that gave Roy his baron . When Roy is n’t trying to create perfect forgeries of classical works where the colors are all wrong , he ’s robbing art museums and destroy classical employment so that the only art in the world will be his .
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Remember: Deadpool Totally Ripped Slade Off!
Slade ( Will Arnett ) is warm to guide out that he has been around"way longer " than Wade Wilson , when the Teen Titans mistake him for Deadpool . One can hardly find fault him for him for being a bit raw about the mix - up , as Deadpool was a straight - up rip - off of Slade when he first appear inNew Mutants # 98.This was over a decade after Deathstroke The Terminator first happen the Teen Titans inNew Teen Titans # 2 . Even the names ( Wade Wilson vs. Slade Wilson ) are a bushed game show .
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The “Subtle” Stan Lee Cameo
As the Teen Titans are walk the Warner Bros. movie lot , they barricade to tattle and a familiar looking sure-enough human being , who is cross the sidewalk behind them , begin shift position so he is always in the shot as Robin moves around . The man quickly reveals himself as Stan Lee , occur to make one of his famous " pernicious cameo " . After striking a few poses , Stan is quietly inform that this is a DC Comics ' movie - an announcement that leaves Stan hastily pass the painting . He shows up again later , in an equally subtle manner , during a chase scene , having decided that he does n’t like if this is a Marvel picture or not - he have a go at it doing cameo that much !
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The Inevitable Martha Joke
by nature , a caper had to be made at the expense of the most ill-famed moment fromBatman V. Superman . At one point superhero movie auteur Jade Wilson ( Kristen Bell ) is directing a scene for a film where Batman fights Superman . Batman ( voiced by Jimmy Kimmel , doing his in effect Christian Bale growling ) demand Superman what his female parent ’s name is . When he replies Martha , there is much male smooching … until Batman asks what his father ’s name is and the fight is back on .
“Let’s Go Back To The Future - I Mean, The Past!”
It may be stretching the definition of Easter Egg to callTeen Titans Go ! To The Movies’Back To The Futurereferences Easter Eggs as they are scarcely hidden . The moving-picture show use the actual striking music from the movie as well as the Huey Lewis songBack In Timeas part of a clip - locomotion montageand Raven makes a reference to corrupt plutonium from Libyan terrorists . gratefully , for the interest of originality , the Teen Titans use the one way of transportation more eighty than a Delorean - Big Wheel Power Cycles ! Specifically , their " time cycles " seem to be modeled on theKnight Ridervariant of the classic toy , which featured a lever that would allow the lucky kid drive it to spin - out in a mode to do David Hasslehoff proud .
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All The Nods To Superman: The Movie
Even the definitive DC Comics ' movies most agree were big do not escape being the mockery ofTeen Titans Go ! To The Movies . The Titans ' first end on their journey into the past is the planet Krypton , as depicted inSuperman : The Movie , where they save the major planet through the power of dubstep . Later , Cyborg and Beast Boy prank - call Superman pretending to be Lois Lane , claiming they need to be saved from one of Gene Hackman ’s real - estate scheme . course the ring - musical note on Superman ’s phone is the classic John Williams’Supermanfanfare .
All The Other Batman Easter Eggs
Talking of the music , we hear Danny Elfman ’s classicBatmantheme period of play as a mind - controlled Batman chase after the Teen Titans in the flood tide of the motion picture . There ’s also a nod to the Bat - Tumbler from Christopher Nolan’sDark Knight Trilogy , as the Batmobile retain to switch into a motorcycle and a scooter as it takes more and more damage during the pursuit . finally Batman is storm to click his heels to reveal a pair of Bat - Skates , just like inBatman and Robin . ( Granted , those were ice skates alternatively of rolling wave skate , but he could have both installed in his boot -he ’s Batman ! )
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The Upbeat Inspirational Song About Life
Perhaps the single strange melodic numeral in the whole picture show is UpbeatInspirational Song About Life . Backed by visuals seemingly pulled straightaway from a Lisa Frank folder , with a keytar playing white tiger voiced by Michael Bolton , the animation expressive style shifts to something more appropriate toCare BearsthanTeen Titans Go!With Starfire play an impromptu sax solo , the only way the whole piece could seem any longer like it came from the eighties would be forMolly Ringwaldto do a cameo .
There are so many lineal nods and stylus tributes inTeen Titans Go ! To The Moviesit is impossible to name them all . gratefully , the motion-picture show is good enough that watching it again and again to see what you might have missed is hardly a task .
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