Weird question, but I need to ask somebody: do you think the other four Titans have genuinely better relationships with each other than any of them with Robin?
Like, think about it. Cyborg and Beast Boy are platonic boyfriends for life. Starfire and Raven are platonic girlfriends for life. Raven and BB are dating (even with the "breakup" in S4, the later seasons show them paired so often it's almost impossible to think they're not dating lol). Star and BB are those two loud obnoxious friends who cause chaos together (Starliar). Cy and Star have a great sibling-like bond and never argue (they're usually paired when BBRAE is also paired). The worst pairing here is probably Cy and Raven, and even they have moments where they enjoy each other's company (Meatball Party).
Yet all their moments with Robin are ruined in some way, usually because someone in the party is being a jerk. All of them constantly harp on Robin, because he calls them "sidekicks" and constantly acts like they don't matter. He acts like he's the leader and they're merely the NPCs who follow him around. Look at how many times he treats Beast Boy like canon fodder, not caring about his wellbeing at all (Some of Their Parts, Oregon Trail), or steals things from Cyborg (like the head position in Left Leg, or his robot parts in Real Boy Adventures), or dismisses Raven despite her knowing more about a subject than him (Laundry Day, Super Robin). As such, almost all of them have called him their least favorite Titan on completely separate occasions, and I don't think that's without reason. The exception is Starfire, of course, but even she gets uncomfortable with how much he pushes their nonexistent romance.
I do know about the Friendship Friend episode, the weird one where friendship is a physical being and Robin doesn't have any. It was probably meant as a quick "haha, Robin has no friends" joke, but that got me thinking, especially because I had this theory formulated before I found out about that episode. I find it funny that even Raven, the antisocial ice queen jerk, has more friends in the tower than Robin, who has zero.
I don't know. I made a post about this on my other blog, but I wanted to elaborate, so here I am. What do you think?
I may be biased, because I am happy whenever robin is in pain, but I don't think he has any meaningful relationships with any of the other titans, every time they make it seem like they do care about him it feels out of character
If he died they would not care/care little
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i dont think any of them are really close with robin, so yeah i think the other four titans have better relationships with each other than any of them with robin⦠every other episode its basically robin relationship torture (robin and others will bring up his bad traits, robin acts crazy, the others insult robin, etc) i feel like they only keep robin around cause hes their leader (though in episodes its been shown that theyll replace him on that on a drop of a dime) and because sometimes he is characterized as the smart or sensible one who actually knows what to do in a situation. they keep him around out of necessity
also thank u for taking your time to write and send this, i know not a lot of people engage with this show (literally on no levels... i never see anyone drawing art or reviewing characters/episodes of ttg specficailly) so its good to haev a discussion
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