History Characters / TeenTitansBeastBoy

* StillWearingTheOldColors:
** Red and white were the core colors of the Doom Patrol uniform all the way back in the Silver Age, and Beast Boy still wears that palette in many of his uniforms even after leaving the Patrol--this example is {{Downplayed}} insofar as nobody ever comments on the leftover palette.
** {{Downplayed}} again when he wears purple-and-black uniforms based on his costume from ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'', which was revealed to be the actual uniform of the show's version of the Doom Patrol in season five.

** Gar's classic green skin was a leftover from the EmergencyTransformation his parents subjected him to to save his life in his OriginStory.

** Gar's OriginStory is ''rife'' with traumatic experiences, like nearly dying from an infected monkey bite, helplessly watching his parents fall to their deaths, and accidentally tricking criminals who kidnapped him into murdering each other. Later, he was taken in as the ward of the abusive family lawyer Galtry, who squandered millions of dollars from Gar's inheritance and tried to cover his tracks by ''repeatedly'' subjecting Garfield to {{Assassination Attempt}}s.
** By the time he was inducted into the ''New Teen Titans'', he'd also collected a few more miseries, including the death of the Doom Patrol, who were blown to bits by a particularly stubborn Nazi named General Zahl, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a poor acting career]].

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Garfield's OriginStory was sufficiently traumatic that simply being accepted into the Doom Patrol and especially adopted by Rita and Steve counts. This was given a prompt HappyEndingOverride by the death of the Silver Age Doom Patrol at the end of the original run.
* EmergencyTransformation: In his OriginStory, Garfield was bitten by a green monkey and contracted Sakutia, a disease the monkey was a carrier for. His desperate parents gave him an experimental treatment consisting of a serum and a peculiar green ray[[note]]The green ray is often ignored in retellings[[/note]] to morph him into the same species of monkey so he could survive, but when they changed him back he kept his green skin.

* KingIncognito: {{Downplayed}}. In his OriginStory, King Tawaba of Upper Lamumba briefly took Garfield as his son after the Logans died, but the kid rejected a life of rules and study and instead became a WildChild living on the outskirts of the village in a treehouse with a chimp named Meka. Tawaba let this stand but promised to forever consider him his son and friend... which would imply Garfield is still an African prince.

** In his OriginStory, he encountered an evil plot by Nazis to create an army of gorilla soldiers. Gar broke it up by turning himself into a green gorilla, and, under his leadership, they TurnedAgainstTheirMasters.

* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: {{Downplayed}}. In his OriginStory, after he survived his infection and contracted permanent green skin, some time later his mother Marie Logan encountered a dangerous viper--Gar's response was to instinctively turn into a mongoose and kill it.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In a later episode of his OriginStory adventures in Africa after getting his powers, Gar was kidnapped by two criminals named Kurt and Stokes, who taught him how to break into a high-security vault to retrieve gold and diamonds. One night, Gar creates ATragedyOfImpulsiveness when he decides to play a trick and hide the stolen goods--his kidnappers immediately suspect the other of turning traitor and murder each other right in front of Gar.

* RetCanon: Following the ''One Year Later'' TimeSkip from ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', Beast Boy donned his costume from the cartoon and was given pointy ears and fanged teeth to match his animated counterpart.

* CompressedAdaptation: When Beast Boy shows up in a Teen Titans adaptation, his main role will likely be comic relief. His DarkAndTroubledPast will be summarily ignored in favor of him being silly and making jokes (and usually lousy ones at that) -- a SadClown without the Sad; even the 2003 cartoon didn't bother with the Doom Patrol until they hit the PostScriptSeason.

* RebelliousSpirit: During his original stint on the Doom Patrol, Beast Boy was ''the'' Teenager with Attitude. He would mouth off to basically anyone whose name wasn't Elasti-girl.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: His animal transformations were originaly depicted as having him turn into normally-colored animals except for the head being colored green with green hair like his normal self as opposed to the more accepted fully-green animals.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: His animal transformations were originaly depicted as having him turn into normally-colored animals except for the head being colored green with green hair like his normal self as opposed to the more accepted fully-green animals. In addition, the issue of ''Doom Patrol'' where his origin was revealed gave his given name as Craig before it was quickly changed to Garfield.

* NextTierPowerUp: He awakened the ability to shape shift into mythological and magical animals when protecting Raven from the Wyld. His evil future self who had the same ability implied that he could do it all along but was afraid to do so. In 90s era comics he would pull out dragons on occasion, but he was also under significant psychological strain at the time.
* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Being one of the most famous ''Teen Titans'' has resulted in his portrayal as a perpetual teenager so he can ''stay'' stuck to the title, which is especially ironic in light of one of his earliest stories making a big to-do about his inheritance, promised to him at the age of 21. Having the epithet of Beast ''Boy'' probably doesn't help.
* OlderAndWiser: Krul's and Scott's run at the end of ''Teen Titans Volume Three'' sloughed off about a decade of {{Flanderization}} to allow him to serve as the MentorArchetype to the Teen Titans.

** Starting with Geoff Johns' run in ''Teen Titans'' Volume 3, Gar began developing a romance with Raven, who had just returned after a lengthy absence, and helping her reintegrate with the Titans. Once Johns left, though, the relationship took a hard turn for the rocky, with numerous arguments, break-ups, and brief get-togethers along the way. They finally reconciled and settled on TheyDo, just in time for ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint|DC Comics}}'' to launch a company-wide ContinuityReboot.

** In the ''Secret Files'' attachment to ''The Titans'', the Fab Five invite personal nominees for membership in the revived team; Gar doesn't make the list. Roy awkwardly claims the Titans can find a place for him, Cyborg insists that Gar tag along, but when Nightwing offers to include him, Gar doesn't take to being the team's afterthought and declines. Instead, he heads off to Hollywood to try his hand at an acting career.

** In the ''Secret Files'' attachment to The Titans, the Fab Five select and invite their personal nominees for membership in the team's revival; Gar doesn't make the nominees list. Roy awkwardly claims the Titans can find a place for him, which Gar shrugs off politely; Cyborg nonetheless insists that Gar tags along to the reunion, but when Nightwing offers him a place, he doesn't take to being the team's ''afterthought'' and declines. Instead, he heads off to Hollywood to try his hand at an acting career.

* PsychicPowers: During the fallout from the climax of ''The Judas Contract'', Garfield launches a campaign against Deathstroke using Mento's helmet to manipulate everyone around him. Not only does the helmet ''require'' the user to have psychic powers to even work, Beast Boy's illusions were even able to outfox dedicated psychics like the Titans' own Lilith Clay[[note]]This is possibly the result of a CriticalResearchFailure. The Mento helmet was originally indicated to amplify psychic powers, so Robotman couldn't use it, but in another ''New Teen Titans'' story, the helmet is indicated to turn commands into energy, suggesting Wolfman either forgot or retconned the original mechanism of the helmet[[/note]].

*** {{Prehistoric Monster}}s[[note]]The first example of this was his negative reaction to a the Amazon's Purple Ray in the ''New Teen Titans'', which drove him mad and also enabled him to turn into a Brachiosaurus[[/note]].

* HideYourOtherness: Downplayed; for a guy with green skin and hair, there's only so much otherness you can hide, but one interpretation of why he doesn't use the full extent of his powers is that he's ashamed of them for being freakish.

Beast Boy has appeared in several television adaptations, including ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', and ''Series/Titans2018''.

Beast Boy, also known as Changeling and Menagerie, is a Creator/DCComics {{superhero}} created by Arnold Drake and Bob Brown, first appearing in the November 1965 issue of ''[[ComicBook/DoomPatrol The Doom Patrol]]''. As a child, Garfield Logan survived an infectious green monkey bite through the SuperScience of his parents, who were in Africa studying the field of reverse evolution. Their treatment saved his life, but resulted in two distinct efforts -- first, Garfield would spend the rest of his days as green as the monkey that bit him, and second, he had developed the ability [[VoluntaryShapeshifting to turn into any animal at will]].

** In the original ''Doom Patrol'' issues, Gar was carrying around a key to his parents' legacy, but any future explorations of that legacy were largely cut short with the death of the original Doom Patrol. Future ''Titans'' titles would further neglect to getting around to him inheriting his parents' legacy.

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Gar's been green for over fifty years... except for that brief stint in the New 52 where he was colored red to highlight his new connection to ''The Red''[[note]]The metaphysical manifestation of the Animal Kingdom[[/note]]. Once his debut title was cancelled, he was shuttled over to the Teen Titans and his green skin quietly restored.

* EmergencyTransformation: As a child, Garfield was bitten by a green monkey a contracted a disease that the species of monkey had an immunity to. His desperate scientist parents gave him an experimental treatment consisting of a serum and a peculiar green ray[[note]]The green ray is often ignored in retellings[[/note]] to morph him into the monkey so he could survive the virus, but when they changed him back he kept his green skin.

* KingIncognito: {{Downplayed}}. In his OriginStory, King Tawaba of Upper Lamumba briefly took Garfield as his son after the Logans died, but the kid rejected a life of rules and study and instead became a WildChild living on the outskirts of the village in a treehouse with a chimp named Meka. Tawaba let this stand but promised to forever consider him his son and friend... which means Garfield is still an African prince.