Why Titans Is The Live-Action TV Series That DC Needs

Things Aren’t Always What They Seem

It’s funny how everyone lost their minds over less than two minutes of footage when the trailer dropped. In fact, it’s two minutes of out-of-context footage. It’s like we’ve forgotten how trailers contain scenes that might not even make it onto the actual show.

Undoubtedly, one of the more controversial moments in the trailer was Robin’s “f–k Batman” line and use of excessive force to take down a few thugs. DC’s Geoff Johns, who’s also a showrunner on Titans, explained the following to Polygon about it:

“The trailer shows a piece of the tone of the show – the show’s not all that. But it does make you go, ‘Why is he saying [F**k Batman?]’ If you look at when Robin first left Batman in the comics, there was a lot of uneasiness and him being lost. Titans is really a series about these different characters that are all lost in their lives; just like the greatest comic-book Titans run ever, by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez, it’s about all these lost characters find one another. And they’re all struggling with something, and Robin is clearly struggling with his past with Batman. And we’ll learn a lot more about it and what that is and why he is the way he is.”

In other words, chill. It’s possible that this could even be a dream sequence and the scene is one of Dick Grayson’s dark fantasies. We don’t know the full story here; only that Raven needs help and sought out Grayson. That’s it.