Warning: Worlds Finest Teen Titans is a direct sequel to events in Batman/Superman: World's Finest, so Late Arrival Spoilers for that comic may be unmarked on this page.
World's Finest: Teen Titans is a July 2023 comic written from Mark Waid and Emanuela Lupacchino.
It is a Spin-Off of Waid and Dan Mora's Batman/Superman: World's Finest, continuing the adventures of the Teen Titans during their classic era and while Dick Grayson was still Robin.
Pre-release material for World's Finest: Teen Titans provides examples of:
- Adaptational Early Appearance: The series presents Bumblebee as a Titan before Mal Duncan, who was her boyfriend and entire reason for becoming part of the team in the original Bronze Age comics. In fact, Bumblebee is the one introducing Mal to the hero life.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Batman, in contrast to his more mainstream appearances, is a good mentor figure to Dick. While he clearly disapproves of Dick's involvement in the Titans team, he explains his reasons (which are pretty much valid concerns), clearly states he trusts Dick, and even when Dick directly goes against his orders by unmasking in front of the team remains reasonable. Even congratulating Dick on leading a team, something Batman may not be able to do. This comes across as a nice surprise, given multiple canon versions of Batman are outright abusive (emotionally, and in some cases physically) to Dick and openly antagonistic towards the Titans team-up.
- Ask a Stupid Question...: The first major foe the Titans take on is the Separated Man. Speedy asks why he's named that before the team's promptly attacked by his hand.
- Continuity Overlap: Downplayed, but the spin-off branches off from the events of Batman/Superman: World's Finest's second arc Strange Visitor (wherein the Teen Titans had first appeared and played a significant supporting role).
- Mythology Gag: Bumblebee's casual outfit is her costume from the Teen Titans animated series.
- Official Couple: The series starts out with Donna Troy and Aqualad in a relationship. This doesn't last, because their personalities are pretty much incompatible. They still remain friends.
- Properly Paranoid: Batman doesn't trust Robin in the Teen Titans, mostly because he has no idea how trained his teammates are. Seeing as Speedy is treating the team as photo ops and the like, he has a point.
- Retired Badass: Golden Eagle is this, keeping out of the costume and sticking around to help with the team's social media.
- Selfie Fiend: W. Scott Forbes' Variant Cover for Titans #1 shows
Wally West and Dick Grayson doing this. - Soft Reboot: The spin-off is being touted as a modern retelling of the Teen Titans' classic adventures.
- Spin-Off: Of Waid and Mora's Batman/Superman: World's Finest, which featured Dick and the Teen Titans in a significant supporting role during the first year of the run.
- Variant Cover: According to the press release, Lupacchino will be doing variant covers. Additional variants will be drawn by Waid's Daredevil collaborator Chris Samnee, Evan "Doc" Shaner, Jim Cheung, and W. Scott Forbes.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Dick is outright beaming when Batman congratulates him on the successful Titans mission. While Dick's fears about Bruce's reaction to his choices with Titans turn out to be misplaces, Roy's case is more painful. Like Dick, Roy clearly sees his mentor as a parental figure and craves his approval. But unlike Bruce, Ollie is hardly ever there for his sidekick, leaving Roy deeply insecure.
