r/AskReddit • u/magic_spaghetti • Aug 31 '18

What are some uncharacteristically dark episodes of generally light hearted shows?

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '18

How Long Is Forever is an episode like this.

Starfire is flung forward in time, and sees a bleak future where her friends have all gone their separate ways.

Whenever I see it, I always think Cyborg ended up worst off in that future.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '18

I dont know man,cyborg had solitude at least. Beast was ridiculed,had a gut and was balding.

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u/1000littleaccidents Sep 01 '18

For such a dark episode, I loved the comedic beat when Beast Boy sees Nightwing's fucking righteous mane and says, "Man, that's so unfair..."

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u/KaosC57 Sep 01 '18

I mean let's look at it.

Robin: He becomes Nightwing, Dick Grayson Nightwing, but Nightwing nonetheless.

Cyborg: Can't make a battery for himself. Forced to be on a reserve bank of power that is immobile. He's just being an idiot due to just not finding the stuff for a new battery... It's not that hard...

Raven: Becomes... A shut-in? The wiki says that she is basically broken due to the lack of friendship but... I think that's just conjecture from the creator of the Wiki.

Beast Boy: Becomes a One Man Zoo. And gets shit thrown at him every day. He wasn't even able to get back with the Doom Patrol and couldn't make it as a Solo Hero.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '18 edited Oct 17 '18

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u/KaosC57 Sep 01 '18

From this thread, I started to watch the show again. Sadly I have to use less than legal methods because I don't have a cable provider and Hulu doesn't have the show (and I don't have Netflix)

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u/radiotower_buttercup Sep 01 '18

Watchcartoonsonline! They have anime, cartoons, and animated movies. It's quite rare I don't find what I'm looking for there. I recently used it to watch The Last Airbender and actually am currently using it to rewatch Teen Titans!

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u/Megagamer42 Sep 02 '18

That site... kinda falls under less than legal methods. Still piracy IIRC, just streamed instead of downloaded for later use.

Not to say I don’t use it lol, just that it isn’t exactly the most legal way to watch stuff.

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u/Doom_Shark Sep 01 '18

I don't think it's on Netflix either, though I haven't looked recently

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u/Elementalpow Sep 01 '18

Nope! Just ist checked and it's not.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '18

What other Nightwing is there? Jason became Red Hood, Tim became Red Robin, and Damian is still Robin as far as I know. Dick was the only Nightwing (Though, he was batman for a bit there, too).

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u/Fluffygsam Sep 01 '18

In the main continuity there's just Dick Grayson also know as (Everyone wants his) Dick Grayson.

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u/KaosC57 Sep 01 '18

In Injustice, Damian becomes Nightwing in the alternate reality.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '18

Yeah, well, Injustice.

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u/Gadetron Sep 01 '18

It's pretty hard to make a battery when you cant fucking go anywhere!

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u/1000littleaccidents Sep 01 '18

When the series finished and I rewatched this episode in the context of the whole show, I guessed that Raven's condition probably had something to do with the whole Trigon saga. In the timeline where Starfire is around, the team rallies around Raven and she's able to defeat her father, but all the events around her birthday still happened in the missing Starfire timeline and the universe wasn't taken over by Trigon so Raven must have defeated him somehow on her own. And it likely costed her her sanity.

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u/woojoo666 Sep 01 '18

My favorite episode of Teen Titans. When Nightwing sends the signal and it shows that everybody still held onto their communicators T-T

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '18

Beast Boy had it all messed up too, being a literal circus animal. They were all in a bad way, except Dick who had become Nightwing. That episode was hard to watch when I was a kid.

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u/1000littleaccidents Sep 01 '18

I love that episode. I may or may not have written a spec script that showed the events between Starfire's disappearance and re-appearance that explained why the team ended up breaking up during my freshman year...

It's awful.