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This is a Beast Boy/Raven picspam blog! A project to document every BBRae moment in the 2003 Teen Titans animated series in screenshot form.

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Every Beast Boy/Raven Moment in screenshots

If I skipped over an episode, there wasn’t enough interaction to justify a post.

If you're on desktop: Chronological order of (most) everything.

(Protip: On desktop, you can add /chrono after any link to make that tag display in order.)

Onto the list! Beneath the cut:

Go!

By Episode/Season

Season 1 (chronological)

Divide and Conquer

Sisters

Final Exam

Forces of Nature

The Sum of His Parts

Nevermore

Switched

Deep Six

Masks

Mad Mod

Car Trouble

Apprentice (Part 1)

Apprentice (Part 2)

Season 2 (chronological)

How Long Is Forever?

Every Dog Has His Day

Terra

Only Human

Fear Itself

Date With Destiny

Transformation

Titan Rising

Winner Take All

Betrayal

Fractured

Aftershock (Part 1)

Aftershock (Part 2)

Season 3 (chronological)

Deception

X

Betrothed

Crash

Haunted

Spellbound

Revolution

Wavelength

The Beast Within

Can I Keep Him?

Bunny Raven… or… How to Make A Titananimal Disappear

Titans East (Part 1 & 2)

Season 4 (chronological)

Don’t Touch That Dial / Episode 257-494

The Quest

Birthmark

Cyborg the Barbarian

Employee of the Month

Troq

The Prophecy

Stranded

Overdrive

Mother Mae-Eye

The End (Parts 1+2+3)

Season 5 (chronological)

Homecoming (Parts 1+2)

Trust

For Real

Snowblind

Kole

Hide and Seek

Lightspeed

Revved Up

Go!

Calling All Titans

Titans Together

Things Change

By Character

Cyborg

Starfire

Robin

Terra

The Team

Beast Boy and Raven are going to be in basically all of them so let’s not be silly.

Tags

The Mod (answering questions, doing housekeeping)

Gold Star Moments (The ‘iconic’ ones)

Sincere Moments (No joking or teasing)

Same Team (Working together)

Personal Space (touching)

Raven smiling

Raven vs Jokes

Beast Boy vs ‘Creepy’

Beast Boy vs Raven’s room

vs Food

The penny

Beast Boy protecting Raven

Raven protecting Beast Boy

Enjoy! 💜💚

Bonus Posts! (not shippy but I liked it)

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Hey babes, a couple of online friends and I were talking about wanting to have a place to connect Teen Titans fans and talk about the show and/or other media, sooo we kinda made a discord? It's very new, and anyone is free to join: https://discord.gg/PjDJdMX9kq

Feel free to join or not join, and to invite any other friends you want, Tumblr or otherwise. It's super small rn but I thought it'd be fun to bring in the community element of this fandom

Oh very cool! Anyone who might be interested, check it out :)

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Teen Titans Go! #2: The Beast Boy Who Cried Wolf (Feb. '04) Beast Boy's constant pranks are annoying the other Titans. When Starfire is chased by Gordanians, no one believes Beast Boy when he says their teammate is in trouble.

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Teen Titans Go! #2: The Beast Boy Who Cried Wolf (Feb. '04)

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From Teen Titans Go! Issue #2: The Beast Boy Who Cried Wolf (Feb. '04)

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Any plans on making posts regarding the TTG comics?

Oh! I hadn't before, but that sounds fun. I haven't reread them in a while, but there are some great moments in there.

(This is the comic that ties into the 2003 show, not the more recent chibi animated show.)

Any interest in the BBRae moments from the 2004 Teen Titans Go! comic? *

Yes!

not really but I like buttons

Voting ended onJun 11, 2024

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Raven said that it took her a whole year to stop hating Beast Boy? I mean do you suppose it means the team knew each other between the events on Go! and Nevermore? I mean in Raven’s mindscape she actually believed Beast Boy didn’t like her and vice versa.

Actually, I thought things went pretty well. Took me a year to stop hating Beast Boy. -Raven to Terra in Titan Rising

What happened between Go! and Divide and Conquer is a question that will live in my brain for all time, so let's talk about it!

So, my interpretation of Raven's line there is that it places Nevermore approximately a year after the events of Go!. (And I recommend taking a look through my Beast Boy vs Creepy tag for an idea of my thesis here. (mobile link))

In Go!, Raven and Beast Boy get along surprisingly well for how we see them by Divide and Conquer. What I think happened is this:

Beast Boy's discomfort over Raven's dark energy powers came up at least once again, probably more, and Raven interpreted this as Beast Boy rejecting her as creepy. So she started icing him out, and taking any of his attempts at humor towards her as him being fake. In return, Beast Boy got frustrated because he does tentatively like her as a person and has been trying to befriend her, but at the same time is unsettled by her powers that he doesn't understand (in that scene, if he was really truly scared of/didn't trust her, he wouldn't be literally reaching out).

That's why by Nevermore (about a year after they initially met) they're both operating under the erroneous assumption that the other one doesn't like them. I think Raven later framing that period as "hating Beast Boy" is a bit of a defense mechanism over how rejected she felt. After all, she was plenty nice to him whenever he was real with her and wasn't putting on that jokester front.

To answer the other part of your question, which sounds like it's about how long the Titans have been a team pre-Season 1? I'd put it at only a couple months since they've officially been in the tower and operating as a team. The early episodes of S1 feel like they've been a group for long enough to be mostly comfortable working together as an established team, but not long enough to really know each other on a personal level yet—Robin and Cyborg already have a coordinated move, but either the team's never gone out to pizza together or haven't yet gone enough that anyone knows each other's orders or Star's gotten a look at the menu.

(a couple extra thoughts under the cut)

For ideas about how the team formed:

After Go! they seem to be at least temporarily separating. It feels easy to assume that some of them started using that communicator to call each other up post-Go! once they ran into trouble they couldn't handle alone (was it Beast Boy, who was really hurting for friends and somewhere to belong? Cyborg, who wanted to keep his neighborhood safe? Star, who'd just gotten a taste of niceness and liked it? Raven, who wanted to do some good for the world before her father showed up? Robin... I think is least likely, despite him having a hand in making the communicators. He'd be there if asked in a heartbeat, but I see him having trouble admitting he needed help)

After a few times it becomes clear that not only could they do some real good together, but most of them could use some housing help. (After all, the only one who seems to be native to Jump City is Cyborg, and maybe even that is somewhere he moved away from his dad post-accident? Everyone else seems to have just drifted into town). So forming a team and moving in together is a perfect solution for everyone. (Maybe the city asks them formally to stick around? is there even a mayor here who's running this town shh not important)

Nevermore's narrative function

One interesting thing I didn't fully notice until just now looking at the episode list, but Season 1 uses the plot of character-disagrees-with-Raven-and-they-learn-to-understand-each-other as great excuses for displaying the characters of (almost*) each of the main cast, in Nevermore, Switched, and Car Trouble. (Notable because not every pair on the team gets an episode focused on their relationship, only sooort of BB & Star in Forces of Nature, and Cyborg & Robin in D&C, but those plots are much less focused on the characters opening up to each other than the Raven ones.)

(*Robin's the only one who doesn't get one, which I think is due to this being his season. Every "Robin" ep in S1 needs to advance the overarching plot, which doesn't really leave time for Robin-and-Raven-have-a-wacky-self-contained-adventure. It also just doesn't seem necessary, since he gets plenty of time for both his character and relationships in those episodes.)

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Raven: I’m not able to sense it either... I can’t believe I’m gonna say this, but I wish Beast Boy were here. Maybe he could follow the scent.

BBRae in Season 5: Things Change

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Raven: Where am I gonna buy my books? Beast Boy: I don’t remember any bookstore. Raven: That’s because you never bought a book. Beast Boy: Hmm.

BBRae in Season 5: Things Change

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BBRae in Season 5: Titans Together

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Beast Boy: Raven! Is everyone safe? Raven: Yeah. We’re all fine. Beast Boy: Good, ’cause Robin needs you right away for another mission. Raven: I can’t. I’ve gotta watch the kids.

BBRae in Season 5: Hide and Seek

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Beast Boy: Kids are easy. All you gotta do is make silly faces. Oh, a-and kids love jokes. This one never fails. Why did the cookie go to the doctor? Raven: ... Beast Boy: [whispering] You’re supposed to ask why. Raven: ...Why? Beast Boy: He went because he was feeling a little crumb-y! Get it? [laughs uproariously at his own joke, is cut off] Raven: ...I guess I’m on my own.

BBRae in Season 5: Hide and Seek

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Raven: I need backup... Raven calling anyone! Beast Boy: Raven! Raven: Anyone other than Beast Boy! Beast Boy: Did you finish your mission? Raven: ...We had a little detour.

BBRae in Season 5: Hide and Seek

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Raven: Can’t someone else do it? Starfire likes people... or, Cyborg..? Beast Boy: Everyone else is on other missions. You’re gonna have to— [screen cuts out]

BBRae in Season 5: Hide and Seek

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Raven: Well, tell [Robin] I don’t do babysitting. Beast Boy: Raven told me to tell you she doesn’t babysit!! Robin: (offscreen fighting a robot) Beast Boy: ...Robin says you have to.

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Raven: ROBIN! Beast Boy: Robin’s communicator! May I— Raven: Put Robin on. NOW! Beast Boy: ... Beast Boy: ...Uh, he’s kind of in the middle of something.

BBRae in Season 5: Hide and Seek

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Raven: Raven calling Robin. Over. Beast Boy: Robin’s communicator! May I help you? Raven: Beast Boy. Put Robin on. Beast Boy: He’s fighting crime at the moment. Perhaps I can be of assistance? Raven: I’m at the train station and no one’s here. Are you sure I’m in the right place? Beast Boy: Yep. That’s the pickup spot.

BBRae in Season 5: Hide and Seek