Chapter Four: The Night Begins to Shine

"Chapter Four: The Night Begins to Shine" is the fourth and final part of the special series The Day the Night Stopped Beginning to Shine and Became Dark Even Though it Was the Day, the thirtieth episode of the fourth season of Teen Titans Go!, and the one-hundred-eighty-seventh overall episode of the series.

Summary[]

In a final epic battle, the Titans and their musician friends square off against the dragon for control of the Night Begins to Shine.

Plot[]

At the alternate dimension, the dragon asks Cyborg what his last words are, to which he says, "Great music lasts forever", which then CeeLo Bear comes out and destroys the cyber warriors. And Fallout Bot comes out and destroys a cyber centipeede. Then the dragon uses The Night Begins To Shine to tire CeeLo Bear and Fallout Bot. Then B.E.R uses Rise Up to make the prophecy come true and summon Sweet, which destroys the dragon, then uses Cyborg to finish the dragon. The dragon vows he will return soon, before getting killed by Cyborg. B.E.R says the prophecy is fulfilled and are able to sing The Night Begins to Shine to restore the world. With that, all the cast sings The Night Begins to Shine and the four-part special ends with "THE NIGHT BEGINS TO SHINE" and 'THE END' fades the screen, and screen fades to black and episode ends.

Characters[]

Songs[]

Trivia[]

This is the fourth and last episode of a special that contains a series of four episodes dedicated to Cyborg's favorite song, The Night Begins to Shine.
- The overall title of this special series of episodes is called The Day the Night Stopped Beginning to Shine and Became Dark Even Though it Was the Day.
This episode premieres exactly a year after "Crazy Desire Island" of Island Adventures.
Fall Out Boy and CeeLo Green recorded their own renditions of The Night Begins to Shine, as well as Puffy AmiYumi, the artists of the original Teen Titans Theme and the Teen Titans Go! Theme.
This is the last episode to have the overall lighter tone in color. Starting with "Lication", the animation changes to a darker color tone.

Continuity[]

The design for Sweet was inspired from the cover art seen on the "Night Begins to Shine" cassette case in the 40%, 40%, 20% episode.
The cover art also appears to be like a mural depicting the prophecy mentioned by B.E.R. and the Evil Dragon.

References[]

Along with Cyborg, when Fall Out Boy transformed themselves into vehicles and into Fall Out Bot, it's a reference to Hasbro's Transformers where they combine into bigger robots called Combiners.
Fall Out Boy's transformation into vehicles is a reference to several properties from the 1980's-1990’s.
- Each vehicle is a direct reference to a different film or TV series from the 1980's-1990s.
  - A DeLorean DMC-12, a reference to Back to the Future and its sequels.
  - A 1983 GMC Vandura van, a reference to the TV series The A-Team (the van has similar decals to the van that appeared in The A-Team).
  - A Bell 222 helicopter, modified to appear exactly the way it appears in the TV series Airwolf (save for the color scheme).
  - A 1986 Ferrari Testarossa, a reference to the TV series Miami Vice.
- The manner in which the panels of Fall Out Boy's vehicles flip-out to reveal weapons is a direct reference to the 1980's animated series M.A.S.K.
- The combining of the vehicles to form "Fall Out Bot" is a reference to the 1980s Transformers animated series where they combine into larger robots called combiners, but it is likely a stronger reference to another animated series from the 1980s: Voltron.
  - As with the lions in Voltron, each Fall Out Boy vehicle is associated with a single dominant color.
    - DeLorean is blue.
    - GMC Vandura van is green.
    - Bell 222 helicopter is yellow.
    - Ferrari Testarossa is fuschia.
  - The style of Fall Out Bot is very reminiscent of Voltron.
  - The fight sequence with the giant robotic centipede is also very reminiscent of the fights in Voltron:
    - The individual lions would often attempt to fight a giant monster before declaring that they were going to "Form Voltron."
    - The Fall Out Bot formation animation highlights the four colors of Fall Out Boy's vehicles coming together, as with Voltron's formation from its five lions.
    - Voltron would often first fight the monster unarmed before forming its sword and using the weapon to finish the monster, as Fall Out Bot did.
    - The animation sequence of Fall Out Bot's sword formation and final attack is in a style almost exactly mirroring those seen in Voltron.
  - Two cars forming part of Fall Out Bot likely a reference to Menasor a group of Decepticons who are formed from cars and a truck. A helicopter part of it likely reference to Defensor or Bruticus where Blades or Vortex is part of said combiner. They even say "Form Fall Out Bot" where combiner teams yell to form their respective combiners when they combine
Cyborg transforming into a truck and saying "Titans Roll Out" is a reference to Optimus Prime from Transformers where he transforms into a truck and say "Autobots Roll Out!"
The pyramid and the background that appears when B.E.R. start singing Rise Up resembles the pyramid stage extensively used by Daft Punk, especially during their Alive 2006/2007 world tour.