Sidekick

Sidekick is an episode of Teen Titans Go! Season 1.

Summary
Robin gets called back to the Batcave but only as a house-sitter while Batman’s away, and the other Titans show up and tease Robin about his sidekick status.

Plot
The episodes starts inside Titans Tower, where the Titans are hanging out, trying to find a good tv show to watch. Robin enters the room with his suitcase, announcing that he has a "secret" mission that he must do alone. After nobody cares, Robin keeps repeating himself, until he is acknowledged. He tells them he will be at the Batcave if they need him.

Suddenly, all of the Titans sit up, excited, begging Robin to take them along with him. Robin turns them all down, and then leaves. After traveling across the entire country on his R-Cycle, Robin finally arrives at Gotham City in New Jersey. To enter the Batcave, Robin has no choice but to mutter his embarassing nick-name "The Boy Wonder" into the microphone.

Eager to start his "special mission", Robin sits at the Batcomputer and fiddles around on DCUBook. All of a sudden, a message from Batman pops up on the screen, thanking him for cave-sitting while he is away, and giving him permission to take juice from the fridge. Beast Boy excitedly exclaims that he would like juice, startling Robin. Robin is horrified to find that he left the Batcave door unlocked, allowing all of the Titans to enter.

In a quick instant, the Titans are running around the cave, screwing around with Batman's stuff. While Cyborg is trying on Batman's belt, Beast Boy is turned into a bat, posing in front of a lamp, and Raven is meditating with some bats on the ceiling. Before Robin can stop their shenanigans, he is stopped by Starfire, who is trying on Batgirl's costume for herself.

After several seconds of being in awe of his crush, he regains control of himself, and decides to stop the Titans before they do any real damage. When he finds Cyborg and Beast Boy, he is terrified to see them staring at Batman's most prized possession: The Ultimate Bat-a-rang. The duo insists on being allowed to use it, much to Robin's annoyance. Raven asks Robin why he is so scared of Batman, but he avoids the answer.

Suddenly, everything is interrupted by a crime-alert alarm. The Titans are shocked to find that, for unknown reasons, the H.I.V.E. Five are terrorizing downtown Gotham City. The Titans rush to collect as many of Batman's gadgets as they can to prepare for the coming battle. Robin frantically trying to prevent the inevitable, but he is too late when Starfire scoops him up and sets him inside the Batmobile.

A short time later, the H.I.V.E. halts their attack on downtown Gotham when they notice the Batmobile coming their way. Thinking that the Dark Knight himself is behind the wheel, each member of the H.I.V.E. halts in their tracks, becoming too scared to move. A dark, bat-shaped figure jumps out from behind the car, and stares them down. The H.I.V.E. members breathe a breath of relief when they realize that the bat-shaped figure is none other than Starfire in her Batgirl costume, and the car is being driven by none other than their arch-enemies, instead of the Caped Crusader.

A battle breaks out, and the nervous Boy Wonder is more focused on picking up the gadgets than fighting the villains. Due to snatching away all the gadgets, Robin accidentally helps the H.I.V.E. win the battle and tie up all the other Titans. Beast Boy realizes that there is only one hope left: The Ultimate Bat-a-rang. Sadly, the H.I.V.E. has the weapon, and decides to use it against the Titans. The villains push the button, causing the Bat-a-rang to beep, and throw it at the Titans.

Robin fails to catch the device, and it nearly decapitates the other Titans. Flying up into the sky, the Ultimate Bat-a-rang explodes, creating a gigantic light show, which lights up all of Gotham City. Everyone, including Robin, is shocked to find out that the Ultimate Bat-a-rang is not a weapon. Robin wonders allowed why Batman would have such a strange device.

The camera cuts to a week ago, where Batman and Gordon are sitting under the stars, watching the light show. Batman and Gordon begin to laughing together as friends.

Back to the action, Robin decides he will use Batman's gadgets after all, and quickly defeats the villains.

Later, at the Batcave, the Titans attempt to help Robin clean up the gigantic mess they have made. Robin decides that he is tired of being treated like a sidekick, and that he is going to stand up to Batman, making sure that he knows that he is not the boss of him anymore.

Suddenly, a tall, Bat-shaped shadow walks up from behind him, and Robin begins sobbing, begging Batman to forgive him. He tries to convince Batman that he didn't mean any of it, but shortly after, is embarassed to realize that he is not really talking to Batman, but a mannequin wearing Batman's cape and cowl that Beast Boy is putting back.

Robin admits he is still scared of Batman and graffitis the words "The Joker was here" on the side of the ruined Batmobile before fleeing the scene.

Characters

 * Starfire
 * Cyborg
 * Beast Boy
 * Raven
 * Robin
 * Gizmo
 * Jinx
 * Billy Numerous
 * See-More
 * Mammoth
 * Batman (Cameo)
 * Commissioner Gordon (Cameo)

Trivia

 * On his shelves, Batman likes to keep souvenirs from different missions. Some include the bandages of Hush, Scarface (the doll of The Ventriloquist), a Riddler plate, the ashes of Robin 2 (Jason Todd), the crowbar that Joker beat Jason Todd to death with, Mr. Freeze's head, and Renuyu (the chemical that turned Matt Hagen into Clayface).
 * Starfire dresses up in Batgirl's costume.
 * Robin seems to be very attracted to Starfire in Batgirl's costume because it basically combines the two people he has a crush on/his two main loves in the comics: Starfire and Barbara Gordon.
 * The Batmobile in this episode is different than the one that Robin crashed in Driver's Ed. It seems to be a combination of the Batmobile from the Tim Burton Batman films and the one from Batman: The Animated Series.
 * It is revealed that Robin doesn't like to be called "The Boy Wonder".
 * In the episode "You're Fired", Robin's DCUbook username was "The Boy Wonder", but he changed it between then and this episode, his username is now just Robin.
 * It is also shown that Robin won't be let in the Batcave unless he says "Boy Wonder" into the voice controlled door.
 * The R-cycle makes another apearence.
 * It is shown that in the Batcave, Batman has a giant Joker card hanging up.
 * In the DCUBook (first shown in You're Fired!), Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes) has a status with the hashtag #SaveYoungJustice, alluding to one of the shows that came before Teen Titans Go! on the DC Nation Block, Young Justice, which was cancelled to the disappointment of many fans who have wanted to save it ever since.
 * A picture of the Justice League: Unlimited characters including a fish and Plastic Man appear on the computer while Robin is using it.
 * Another picture says "want super abs" with the Batman (The Dark Knight trilogy variant) costume is seen, though it doesn't show his face.
 * Despite the full comment not being seen, Space Ghost's comment on DCUBook is shown to say "BOO", referencing his last name.
 * The way Starfire confronts Jinx is similar to part of the intro to Batman: The Animated Series.
 * Several small headshots of Batman's villains are seen; including The Joker, Scarecrow, Riddler, Ra's Al Ghul, Bane, Clayface, The Mad Hatter, Hush, Killer Croc, Poison Ivy, The Penguin, Man-Bat, Two-Face, and Mr. Freeze.
 * Harley Quinn's headshot is seen on one of the Batcomputer screens.
 * This episode is the third to show Batman and Commissioner Gordon together, the other two being Girl's Night Out and La Larva de Amor.
 * Music from Driver's Ed (also heard in Meatball Party and Starfire the Terrible) returns when Cyborg and Beast boy get Batman's Ultimate Bat-a-rang.
 * The Titans look at an old picture of Batman and a young Robin in his old costume and Starfire wonders what is with "the short shorts." This is a reference to Dick Grayson's original Robin costume that he wore from his debut in 1940 until his transition to Nightwing in the 1980s in the comics which, modern day, is sometimes criticized and laughed at for the same reason.