Super Robin

"Super Robin" is Teen Titans Go! Season 1, Episode 8a, and the 15th overall episode of the series.

Summary
Envious of the other Titans’ powers, Robin wants some of his own. After a disastrous scientific experiment goes haywire, he convinces Raven to use her magic to give him powers.

Plot
The episode starts out the the H.I.V.E. Five robbing a bank. The Titans show up and each take on one member. Starfire takes on Billy Numerous, Cyborg takes on Gizmo, Raven takes on See-More, Beast Boy takes on Jinx, and Robin takes on Mammoth. Starfire, Cyborg, Raven, and Beast Boy each take out their respective villains with ease because of their superpowers. They all offer to help Robin with Mammoth, but he refuses, and they all wait for him by eating hotdogs. Robin does defeat Mammoth, but with much struggle and to the point of exhausting himself.

They return to the Tower and Robin complains how they have it so easy because of their superpowers. All of them then tell him how much of a curse their powers are (except for Starfire, who says she's making meatloaf). Robin then tries to fuse himself with an actual robin bird to give him powers. The robin gets the abilities and gadgets of Robin and Robin just turns into a bird-man, but didn't get any actual powers.

He then reveals himself to the other Titans, saddened because it didn't work. Raven says she will give him powers, despite what she and the other Titans (except Starfire) have kept on saying to him about having powers a curse to him, but only if he does the chicken dance (which the other Titans had wanted too). Robin does it and Raven gives him powers. He leaves for a few seconds and returns, having solved all the world's problems and made meatloaf for dinner. This causes the Teen Titans to be disbanded because they are no longer needed.

Robin then applies for a normal job. It then goes to Robin a bit in the future, where his life is boring and sad and he misses his friends and being a Teen Titan. Eventually, it shows Robin near death in a hospital because of his old age and finally realizing that his powers really were a curse. It ends with the other Titans, also very old, sort of rubbing it in his face that superpowers are a curse. Then the lights fade out, and we can hear Robin's ECG flatten, as we know he has kicked the bucket.

Characters

 * Robin
 * Starfire
 * Beast Boy
 * Cyborg
 * Raven
 * Silkie
 * H.I.V.E. Five (debut)
 * Jinx
 * Gizmo
 * Mammoth
 * See-More (debut)
 * Billy Numerous (debut)
 * The Super Robin (debut)
 * Trigon (mentioned)

Songs and Dances

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Trivia

 * This is the first time Raven mentions her father, Trigon.
 * This episode could be considered non-canon because of the Titans breaking up, aging, and Robin's death.
 * This episode contradicts the events of "Staring at the Future", where the Titans do not break up. Robin becomes Nightwing and marries Batgirl and he and Batgirl live happily in Titans Tower, Starfire becomes queen of her home planet, and Raven becomes a goddess.
 * A possible resolution could be simply Robin was imagining what life would be like with powers, or it was a vision given to him by Raven.
 * Each Titan, except for Starfire, mentioned having superpowers as a curse, and for good reasons:
 * Raven is a half demon
 * Beast Boy has green skin
 * Cyborg is trapped in his robotic suit
 * Putting the Titans out of jobs because of his envy is Robin's curse
 * Starfire probably didn't think her powers were a curse because all Tamaraneans have powers.
 * Robin's chicken dance in this episode has been nominated for the 2014 Hall of Game Awards category "Best Victory Dance".
 * In his dirty apartment, the overweight middle-aged Robin has made the Titans out of several inanimate objects. (Starfire is a mop with her face on it, Raven is a bean bag chair, Cyborg is a broom with a sweater and bucket, Beast Boy is a crudely spray-painted cat, Silkie made out of a flour bag and forks).
 * Raven has allergy to chickens in the series but is was seen that nothing happened so the original series doesn't relate to this series that much.

Continuity

 * This episode establishes the H.I.V.E Five as recurring villans
 * This is Jinx, Gizmo, and Mammoth's second appearance in the show.
 * This also marks See-More and Billy Numerous' first appearance in the show.
 * Strangly, Kyd Wykkyd, a member of the H.I.V.E. Five in the original series, does not appear with the other members in this episode or any other future episodes.
 * He did, however, appear in a dream in "Nose Mouth."
 * Raven seems to not be embarrassed with watching Pretty Pretty Pegasus in front of her friends now. This is the second appearance of the series. ("Legendary Sandwich")
 * Beast Boy being a painted green cat refers to what he confesses to doing in "Dude Relax."
 * Robin dies for the second time. ("Ghostboy")

Errors

 * Robin was surprised when Raven said that she could give him superpowers, despite the fact that Trigon had already told him and the other Titans that Raven could give them any power they wanted. However, Robin may have forgotten this.
 * In this episode, Mammoth was bigger than he is in later appearances.

Running Gags

 * Starfire seems to be obsessed with meatloaf.
 * The Super Robin that gained Robin's abilities and gadgets keeps appearing and stealing the Titans' stuff, and continues to do so throughout the series.