Editor’s Note: The following are spoilers for the Titans season 4 finale.After four seasons of strife, casualties, near-deaths and team changes, Titans ends with a triumphant team accepting a future in which they are still a family, even if they are not together. Like several superhero shows before it, including Shield agents, Super Girl, And Arrow, Titans The series finale allows the core cast of characters to spread their wings outside of their team dynamics. But first, they need to defeat a half-demon villain with a god complex.
Titans The fourth season was, in many ways, a look at what came before. The show began with a cult called The Organization desperate to kidnap Rachel Roth/Raven.Teagan Croft) to bring back his interdimensional demon father Trigon. This season is about the Church of the Blood, the remnant of the Organization. Managed by May Bennett/Mother Mayhem (Franka Potente), she successfully manipulates her and Trigon’s son Sebastian Sanger/Brother Blood (Joseph Morgan) in the return of the demon to Earth. By the end of Titans Forever, the Titans are in a state of confusion and the only way to win is if Corey Anders/Starfire (Anna Diop) sacrifices itself. How the team beats Brother Blood in Titans series finale?
“Titans” Series Finale: How Did We Get Here?
At the end of the last episode Titans, Sebastian finally killed his mother (this time for good) and absorbed all of her power. Conner Kent/Superboy (Joshua Orpin) attempted to kill Sebastian with a Project Starfire Nuke Ball, but because the ball did not reach 100% power, Sebastian was not harmed at all - instead, he attacked Conner, seemingly killing him, and detonated the Horn of Trigon. call the father.
The ending begins with Sebastian, now wearing the full regalia of Brother Blood, confronting his father - he knows that Trigon, like his mother, is lying when he says that Sebastian will rule the world on par with Trigon. Sebastian is nothing more than a tool and will be disposed of when he is no longer useful. So Sebastian does the usual thing by ripping his father’s giant demonic heart out of his chest and drinking his demonic blood (this season is not for the faint of heart). Once again increasing his strength, Sebastian attacks his sister Rachel. Luckily, she just astral projects her form to talk to him, but it’s now clear that Sebastian has gone too far. He needs to be stopped, not saved.
The only person who really needs to be saved is Conner. Dick Grayson/NightwingBrenton Thwaites) tries to revive him with a specially crafted superinjector, but Conner doesn’t respond. Even gentle phrases from Krypto don’t seem to work. The Titans may have lost one of their own, but Dick isn’t ready to let go. In the strangest writing choice, Dick, standing over Conner’s seemingly dead body, decides to order a six-person dinner for Friday (Titans airs on Thursday, so we can assume he booked it for the next day). If a delicious dinner doesn’t bring Conner back to life, what will?
Titans Endgame Presents Wormhole
STAR Labs is hiding a secret project called “Icarus Gate” that contains a wormhole. While the gates are in operation, they require the energy of more than 10,000 Earth’s suns to power them. Guess who has this power - it’s Corey! Corey has determined that Sebastian plans to use the wormhole to destroy her home planet of Tamaran because it is “everything he doesn’t have”. This plot point also goes back to the first season when Starfire was sent to Earth to destroy Trigon’s daughter to keep her from opening the door to bring him to Earth, which would then lead to the destruction of Tamaran.
The gate is located under STAR Labs and Sebastian just enters the building without anyone stopping or identifying him. The only person who stands up to Sebastian is Dr. Espenson (Kiana Teresa) and soon she, like everyone else in STAR Labs, is killed by Sebastian. And why does he kill them? Because they destroyed his game Abraxus. Sebastian is a caricature of the titled white guy who thinks he deserves greatness but doesn’t earn it. Abraxus is a terrible game that he’s been trying to imagine since the start of the season, and that only worked because Conner wanted to prove he could beat Sebastian on his own. The game was a short-lived success because Sebastian “Azarat, Metrion, Zinthos” made the players enjoy it and then drained their life force while they played. Tim Drake/Robin 3.0 (Jay Lycurgo) turned it off with Conner. And now STAR Labs employees are paying the price. Except one - Bernard Fitzmartin (James Scully), who wakes up from Abraxus’s coma just in time to reunite with his boyfriend Tim and help the Titans during the final showdown.
Brothers Blood and Starfire will meet in “Titans” The final
The Titans head to STAR Labs and find the bodies of the murdered employees. Bernard only ran away because Sebastian couldn’t see him. Bernard and Tim have a quick but sweet reunion, although it’s funny that the Titans are wearing colorful and intricate supersuits but Bernard is stuck in gray medical underwear. The dressers could have given Scully something cool to dress up for the finale.
While the team goes into battle with the metahuman task force (where did they come from?), Starfire possesses Sebastian and is taken to the Icarus Gate. First of all, let’s just reiterate here that STAR Labs, a facility with a literal wormhole inside, has absolutely no systems in place to prevent some rando from waltzing and using magic to enter the gate room. Sebastian can “Azarat, Metrion, Zintos” enter the password into the room, but it wouldn’t be a problem if the front door wasn’t open.
Once Starfire comes to her senses, she reminds Sebastian that destroying Tamaran and Earth was Trigon’s wish, not his, but Sebastian drank his father’s soul, so he’s just doing what his father would like. Sebastian then plugs Starfire into the gate mechanism, and a bizarre scene emerges that seems to pay homage to the nightmarish cyborg scene in Superman III. However, it’s not so scary.
Deus ex Conner Kent Saves the Titans
What’s annoying about Starfire being captured is that she turns into a damsel in trouble during the climactic fight scene. Throughout the season, we’ve seen Raven and Starfire being Team Titans’ powerful forces - in fact, in Episode 11 Jason Todd / Red Hood (Curran Walters) specifically tells Robin to stick with Raven and Starfire if the fight gets heated, and earlier in the finale, the three male contestants take cover behind the two ladies because they are so strong. But in the final fight, Starfire is tied up and Nightwing takes on the boss fight on his own (Tim helps out a bit). Wouldn’t Raven be the best bet? She is Sebastian’s sister, and despite his love for her at the start of the season, once Sebastian becomes all-powerful, he tries to kill her. She deserved the catharsis of defeating him. It also doesn’t make sense that Dick would have survived a fight with Sebastian since Dick has no powers and Sebastian is a demon god. Only Raven’s white magic could stop him.
Instead, Raven is forced to jog with Starfire’s memories, which again makes no sense because the last time Starfire was incapacitated, in Episode 8, “Dick, Carol, Ted and Corey”, it was Dick’s voice and he declared his love for her. which brought her back to reality. Titans a lot of things get right, and then the show’s writers falter at the finish line.
The situation is saved by Conner, who blasts Sebastian with an electric field, and Dick’s escrime wands completely incapacitate Sebastian. But Sebastian is alive, which means he could still be a threat in the future. Corey, now free, grabs Sebastian and flies into the stratosphere. Is she gone? She is dead? No, Starfire is back and her old powers are back. Both she and Dick finally kiss, and the team’s group embrace their victory. They don’t explain exactly what happened to Sebastian, but we can assume that he went crazy. The earth lives for another day.
“Titans” Ends with a bright future for the characters
We’ve reached a point in pop culture where no one dies in the finals - yes, there have been a few close ones and Ryan Potter He most likely got a headache when Garfield Logan/Beast Boy cried over the apparent deaths of Conner and Starfire, but we’re here for a happy ending.
Dick realizes his plans for dinner with the Titans. Gar announces that he is leaving to be Red, but if he is needed, he will be back in no time. Rachel also leaves the team - for a short time in season 4, Rachel lost her powers and felt like a normal person. She wants to feel it again and will go to college in Blüdhaven. Tim says that he will see Rachel often - he will continue to be Robin, but he has a life with Bernard in Metropolis, so he will patrol both cities. This is a bit confusing; in the comics, Tim Drake’s Robin lives in Gotham. Tim on Titans also from Gotham, but does not want to go back there. Looks like Tim is Robin in Blüdhaven and Metropolis now? This is interesting, since in the comics Dick’s possession is Bluehaven, but he has nothing to do with the place in the show. I think Robin 3.0 is coming to help Bluehaven.
Conner leaves to be with his genetic father, Clark Kent/Superman (no, he’s not a cameo here, we only see his boots), who will give Conner flying lessons and hopefully some fatherly wisdom. Conner worries if he will live up to Clark’s expectations. He did several terrible things in his Conner Luthor phase, including killing one of Mother Mayhem’s aides. Dick, who is no stranger to murder and death, tells Conner to forgive himself. The show is definitely rocking heroes killing people, and that’s just something the heroes and fans will have to come to terms with.
Dick and Corey stick together, but it doesn’t look like superheroes are at the top of their priorities. Back in the third season, Dick had a vision of a little girl (Lilian Moniz) calling him “Dad”. In Season 4, Corey has a similar vision of the same little girl in Dick’s arms. This is an obvious reference to The kingdom is coming comic series (Mark Waid, Alex Ross), where Dick and Corey have a daughter named Marie Grayson/Nightstar. In both of their visions, Dick and Corey saw a girl with a red balloon. Returning to their visions, Dick and Corey see a child pass by with the same balloon and look longingly at him. They have just rekindled their romance but seem to be dreaming of a future child already.
Titans Ends on a Happy Note, but Still Leaves Us Wishing
Titans ends on a positive happy note, but is anyone else disappointed that the team never said “Titans Together”? This is the comic book team’s catchphrase, and I’ve been waiting for a moment like in Avengers: Endgamebut never came. In a way, this makes sense. The Titans are no longer together, and over the course of four seasons, some members clashed with others, so the team could not merge well. The characters in Season 4 were the closest thing they ever came to being a cohesive unit, a family, with the exception of Conner’s rebellious phase.
The ending didn’t feel as epic as it could have been - while it didn’t feel rushed, the point was to get him out the door as soon as possible. Finals are tough; there is always an expectation, and it is different for everyone. All we can say is that we’ve had four years with these beloved characters, many of whom debuted on the show. It wasn’t enough, but we’ll always have those four seasons. Titans forever.
Source: Collider
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