Warning : Spoilers for World ’s Finest : Teen Titans # 5 !

Summary

DC ’s iconic team theTeen Titanshave been around for decades , but their name change to the Titans marked their true growth as heroes . A new narrative focusing on their early years as a squad reveals just why that change was so essential . Despite impressive ability and superpowers , the original looping of this team is just a crowd of tike .

Many times , Batman has voiced disapproval of how the Teen Titans tries to manage thing on their own , andWorld ’s Finest : Teen Titans#5 by Mark Waid and Emanuela Lupacchino proves him right . While the Justice League is once in a while less than super friend , they succeed when they put their difference of opinion aside and defend as a team . The Teen Titans have n’t quite learned that object lesson yet , and their pandemonium gets in the manner

Wonder Girl is frantic to be off of Themyscira , but Aqualad does n’t feel comfortable on firm ground , all while their romance fall apart . Bumblebee does n’t have an grownup mentor head her , while Speedy urgently wants attention from Green Arrow . Robin is deplume between wanting to conduct a team and not disobeying Batman . And Kid Flash just wants everyone to be friends . They will only realise the name " Titans " when they grow out of this childish phase .

Nightwing, Cyborg, Donna Troy, and Starfire stand near the silhouette of a new Titan

Despite already having an all - star channel - up of poor boy , the Titans just sum a strong new phallus who will dramatically raise the squad ’s power level .

DC’s Iconic Team Puts the “Teen” in Teen Titans

The childish team is not acting like the “world’s finest”

Haywire turn one of the Teen Titans ' favorite tool against them , taking down the team while bystander film it for societal media . He get out them break in the street , stating his mission this time was humiliation . That said , when the Titans do n’t have " Teen"in the title , the comedian is free to tell more grownup stories feature superheroes who are still young , but at least have their drivers ' licence . While the Titans still have their disagreement , they ’re far less childish when expressing themselves . They have year of experience beyond their mentor ' fantasm and have it away how to control as individual superheroes and as a squad .

DC’s Titans Series Loses the Teen

The Titans have finally grown up enough to lead the DCU

In theTitans : Beast Worldevent , the Titans will even be taking on threats that are commonly Justice League - level . That the same characters can be have by lector across their entire career is one of the DCU ’s greatest strengths . That ’s why bothBatman : Year OneandThe Dark Knight Returnsare beloved Book — because it ’s exciting to learn about a young Batman figure things out as well as an sometime Batman at the death of his life . BothTitansandWorld ’s o.k. : Teen Titansshow off these interesting young Hero , with the " Teen " let reader know how childish they can expect theTeen Titansteam to be .

World ’s Finest : Teen Titans#5is available now from DC Comics .

WORLD ‘S FINEST : TEEN TITANS # 5 ( 2023 )

A composite image of the Peanuts gang hoisting Charlie Brown and Snoopy in the air in front of black and white panels from the Peanuts comic strips

Far Side, cowboys with hands in the air (foreground) Union soldier giving general

Comic book art: Costumed superheroes stand in a row, smiling.

Comic book panels: young costumed superheroes mope in a basement.

Comic book panels: young costumed superheroes argue with each other.

Featured Image: DC’s Titans, including Nightwing, Raven, Kid Flash, Cyborg, and others

World’s Finest Teen Titans 5 Main Cover: Batman looms over Robin while the Teen Titans watch.