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Just a couple of images that I made by using Google Gemini.

Basically this is how I would imagine a meeting between Slade, Brother Blood and The Brain would look—the three of them seated down, around a table, like a meeting between three competing mob family heads.

The first image is of the three of them meeting with only their main enforcers at their side; Cinderblock for Slade, Steamroller for Brother Blood and (naturally) Monsieur Mallah for The Brain.

During its run from 2003-06, viewers and fans of the series, Teen Titans, likely remember the character, Beast Boy (voiced by Greg Cipes), often being made fun of or the butt of numerous jokes and gags. More often than not it was related to the characters, Cyborg (Khary Payton) and Raven (Tara Strong). It was most likely intended to be played entirely for laughs, but looking back, were they—and on occasion, Robin and Starfire—a bit too hard on him?

In retrospect, Beast Boy was the member of the team who acted his age—he is, after all, a kid, a metahuman kid, but still a kid. And, looking back, it seemed like Raven and Cyborg often picked on him for that. Yes, in their line of work, there are times where one has to stay focused and be serious, but, it seems like they were expecting him to have an adult mentality at all times. What’s even more, while having someone fill your ear with jokes on a daily basis can undoubtedly grow tiresome, it seemed like their jokes at his expense were a bit harsh at best and borderline mean-spirited at worst, at least to me.

Furthermore, they (and even the show itself at times) also seemed to have so very little regard for his fighting skills, with Cyborg outright stating that he could easily ‘kick his butt’. Funny, considering how many different animals there are out there that could easily reduce him to scrap metal. Next, after the events of “Betrayal” the two them (and Robin) seemed dead set on getting Beast Boy to view Terra as just another villain. You would think they would be a bit more tactful on the subject, considering that they knew just how much he cared for her. Similarly, with how many shots that Beast Boy seems to take from the rest of the team—Raven and Cyborg in particular—the fact that he starts to act more assertive in “The Beast Within”, circumstances aside, shouldn’t have been all that jarring, when you think about it. However, that fact that he did lash out at both Cyborg and Raven in that episode was viewed as grounds for kicking him off the team. That sort of implies that, to them, it’s perfectly okay for the others to take jabs at Beast Boy, but he must never stand up for himself, otherwise he’s not the friend that they allowed to join. Taking that in mind, and what went on in the episode “Nevermore”; it’s like whatever the others do to him, no matter what it is, is completely justified and easily dismissed like it was nothing. However, he so much as says one bad thing about the others, unless the others agree, he has to be the one in the wrong and has to apologize.

Then, one also has to take into account what happened in “Go!”. When they first met, Beast Boy was the most friendly and amicable of the Titans. He respected Robin without question and was being very friendly to both Cyborg and Raven. In return, he was dismissed by Robin, ghosted by Raven and pushed away and even outright insulted by Cyborg. He wanted to become friendly with Cyborg and the latter assumed that all he had to do was reveal his…condition, and Beast Boy would be fearful and disgusted by it (even though Beast Boy is “a monster” himself in a way). Then, when Beast Boy showed no such reactions and even viewed it as impressive (no doubt due to being exposed to such things during his tenure as a Doom Patrol member), Cyborg simply called him “a weird little dude” in response. You would think that he would have appreciated having someone look at him and not view him as a monster, or would find some solace in being praised by another ‘freak of nature”. Then, later on in the exact same episode, when Beast Boy simply stated that Cyborg looked cool without his hoodie and pants, Cyborg not only dismissed his opinion but also insulted the fact that he was wearing a mask. So his response to someone actually saying something positive about his appearance is to take a jab at theirs? Real nice, Mr. Stone

So in summary, were the other Titans really that good to Beast Boy? Because it felt like they only wanted him around if he could be useful, expected him to have an adult mentality at all times and allowed him to be on the team so long as he was passive and submissive

I just thought that this would be a nice bit of fun, should anybody decide to join in

Please do so in the comments section

On the First Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me

* BTW- the fan child’s name is Leah, named after a one-time child character that appeared in the OG Series. The idea came to me when I thought about the one of the original concepts made for Thundercats 2011’s Season Two; the making Bengali Cheetara and Tygra’s son concept to be precise.

Or, more specifically; what if, say that the cast of the original Fairly Odd Parents series had a crossover moment with the Danny Fenton and Sam Manson of the far future, when the two of them both fully-grown adults, happily married and the proud parents of 2-3 children?

Here is the scenario that I’m trying to set up; Adult Danny and Sam and their little ones are somehow brought to Dimmsdale for a certain period of time. And when they are about to go out for a while with Mr and Mrs Turner, thus leaving their kids under Vicky’s supervision along with Timmy, Sam would say this to Vicky before departing-

“And if anything happens to my kids while we’re out and I do mean anything at all, one… single… scratch; I WILL HUNT YOU DOWN TO VERY THE ENDS OF THIS EARTH AND CRUSH YOU…!”

Keep in mind that i also envision a private moment between Vicky and adult Sam where the former tries to use her usual evil glare to intimidate the latter like she has with so many. But not only is adult Sam completely unfazed by the evil glare, she also gives Vicky her own look of intimidation which almost instantly puts the babysitter in a state of submission

What do you think?

To make a long story short; I have long believed that the MCs of “Danny Phantom”, “American Dragon: Jake Long” and “The Life and Times of Juniper Lee” seemed like something of a trifecta of sorts of supernatural/paranormal animated adventure shows. This is why I have often put some thought into making fanfiction for the three shows and that has culminated into the conception of three story ideas, all of which I like to have some feedback on, in terms of which one has the most potential to be good. Keep in mind, though, that two of these ideas I have already gotten started on to a certain degree, one of which has been on hiatus for quite some time, while the other has taken a great deal of priority in my book, and the only remaining idea is still just that; an idea. Still I would like to hear some feedback on these ideas

1. Generation Ghost - Inspired by a fanart picture that I once saw (whose creator I contacted and informed about this), this was intended to be a sequel series for ‘Danny Phantom’, set many years into the future and focused on the adventures of Danny and Sam’s three children, who have all begun to play hero themselves, in an attempt to follow in their parent’s footsteps. An especially significant development that has led them to learning about how to work as a team and how to use their inherited ghost abilities to fight the good fight (or how to do so without any, in one of the siblings case). All while they encounter a great deal of friends and foes in both the human world and the Ghost Zone, both old and new, and try to make it through the difficulties of being in grade school.

2. American Dragon: Way of the Fire-Breathers - A sequel series for “American Dragon: Jake Long” that follows Jake Long and his family and friends as they all deal with quite a few new challenges and adventures as they all come their way. Such as the experiences of High School, the addition of 2 new dragon characters in the mix and the rise of a whole new threat to both the human and the magical worlds. All while the ancient and long-forgotten history of the dragon race is being made to gradually but surely come into the light.

3. A spinoff series for “The Life and Times of Juniper Lee” - Now, I haven’t exactly worked out all the details for this one, but, the basic idea is that 5 characters from the original series; Taylor Evermore from the “Who’s Your Daddy” episode (this guy👇)

; Juniper Lee’s School rival, Melissa O’Malley (her👇)

; the older sister of one of June’s friends, Rachel Irwin (her👇)

Ashley the 4th/5th degree witch from the “Take My Life, Please” episode (her👇)

And Ray-Ray Lee

; are all brought together to form a team of magical guardians that will deal with the Magic-related problems occurring far far away from Orchid Bay, the problems that occasionally slip underneath the radar of the Te Xuan Ze their inner circles. I do have at least 5 different plot lines for this idea firmly decided upon; 1.) Taylor will be the group leader 2.) Taylor and Melissa will ultimately form a romantic relationship 3.) Both Melissa and Rachel will realize just how bad that they have been and how rotten that have treated others, thus resulting in them both becoming more kind and caring people 4.) Ashley and Ray-Ray will have a very strong little brother/big sister relationship, and 5.) Ray-Ray discovering new things about himself which will result in him developing some new powers and abilities.

Not sure where this came from, but, since it genuinely seems like a discussion topic that this fandom might get a kick out of; what do you think Rose’s first reaction would have been had she caught sight of her dragon sweetheart, Jake Long, like this -

Here are a couple of AMVs that I have made over the years for Robin and Starfire -

Just a little something that I made a while back. It’s essentially just a retouched version of a screencap from the animated feature - “Constantine: The House of Mystery”. Except with Robin and Starfire

This was what happened after the date 😏

It was made very clear, right off the bat, during the fifth season of Teen Titans 2003, that the main antagonists, the Brotherhood of Evil, were actively forming alliances with a good number of the Titans’ past enemies. However, as I’m sure many other people have already taken notice of and pointed out; there were still a few other bad guys who were not among the Brotherhood’s roster of allies. The most notable of those who were not present but could have been were;

Slade -

Blackfire -

and

Brother Blood -

(I think that there are more than enough good reasons for why Trigon wasn’t going to be there)

This does seem like the kind of thing that certain fans would find rather peculiar, because, if the Brotherhood’s main objective was to take down the Titans through allying themselves with members of their rogues gallery, why wouldn’t they recruit the three that have had the highest success record in dealing with them and likely have a significant amount of useful inside knowledge about them?

Now I might not be able speak for why Blackfire was not invited, but I do have a theory for why neither Slade nor Brother Blood were there either.

You see; while Slade and Brother Blood would have both been very powerful allies, the fact of the matter was that they were both far too powerful, far too capable and far too close to being on the same level as the Brotherhood themselves. To put it plainly; the Brain probably knew that these two mastermind arch-villains were both far too beyond his ability to control and were the most likely to try and double cross him, and had the best chance of success (in fact, I even read somewhere that if Season Five had been given more episodes, there would have been a storyline about how Slade joins and then takes over the Brotherhood of Evil).

I guess, when alls said and done, these three bad guy factions are more likely to engage each other in a fearsome ‘gang war’ than they are to work together.

Simply put; this is the colored version of one of the two drawings I made, depicting the four Xiaolin Monks; Omi, Kimiko, Raimundo and Clay, respectively, in the forms of actual Xiaolin elemental dragons