Line #68 Characters/TeenTitansBeastBoy


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11	!!Beast Boy
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14	!!!'''Alter Ego:''' Garfield Logan
15	!!!'''Abilities:''' Animal shapeshifting
16	!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Doom Patrol'' #99 (November 1965)
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18	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 had two distinct effects--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]].
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20	By the time of his appearance in the pages of ''Doom Patrol'', Garfield had become a RebelliousSpirit, chafing under the shackles of his abusive guardian, whom he had been collected by following the death of his parents. Following a number of adventures and misadventures alike with the Doom Patrol, he was adopted by Steve Dayton (Mento) and Rita Farr (Elasti-Girl), which resulted in a happy period of time in his life until the Patrol was murdered, ending his series of origin.
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22	However, Garfield is most famous for his appearances with the ''Teen Titans''. Following a couple of brief appearances with the early ''Teen Titans'', first as a SpecialGuest in the early 60s issues and then as a member of [[WestCoastTeam Titans West]], Gar was fully initiated into the ''New Teen Titans'' at the very start of the seminal Wolfman and Perez run, taking his place as an iconic member of the team roster, with an almost uninterrupted tenure since, barring some turbulence around the TurnOfTheMillennium and his run with ''Comicbook/TheRavagers'' in the ComicBook/New52.
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24	Beast Boy has appeared in several television adaptations, including ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'', ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', and ''Series/Titans2018''.
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27	!!Beast Boy provides examples of:
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32	* AbortedArc:
33	** 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. By the time he joined the ''New Teen Titans'', this appears to have been completely forgotten.
34	** During the set up for the Titans LA project, Gar moved to Hollywood area and reconnected with Bette "Flamebird" Kane, another Titans West alumnus, but the project ultimately failed to go forward.
35	** The original ''Doom Patrol'' had a backup feature in the later issues expanding his past, which was dropped after issue 115 and left unresolved right before getting to how Nicholas Galtry found and obtained custody of him.
36	* AbusiveParents:
37	** Nicholas Galtry, his abusive guardian before his Doom Patrol enlistment. Galtry was the Logan family attorney who became Garfield's court-appointed guardian to gain access to the kid's massive inheritance and spend it for his own ends, from covering bad investments to hiring assassins to kill Garfield for finding out. He actually conspired with the Brotherhood of Evil for a time and when ''that'' failed to kill Gar, he finally decides to take matters into his own hands and kill him personally, with his increasingly murderous resentment inadvertently forming its own CharacterDevelopment arc. Bonus points for being {{retcon}}ned into Garfield's [[EvilUncle maternal uncle]] by [[AllThereInTheManual the DC website]].
38	** Downplayed with Steve Dayton during the New Teen Titans, who would occasionally lash out at Garfield in the midst of [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor his own trauma and breakdowns]]. There were periods of peace and even mutual love between them, however, but the writers kept driving Dayton AxCrazy.
39	* AdoptingTheAbused: After he was orphaned, Beast Boy lived under the care of his abusive guardian Nicholas Galtry before Elasti-Girl and Mento eventually adopted him as their son.
40	* AfraidOfDoctors: In the Creator/GeoffJohns run, Beast Boy has a phobia of doctors, due to being experimented on as a kid and in particular has a special hatred for needles.
41	* AlmightyJanitor: At least one interpretation of Beast Boy's character is that he has immense power (see Inverse Law of Complexity to Power below) but doesn't want the responsibility involved.
42	* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: {{Downplayed}} when drawn by Nicola Scott during the J.T. Krul run, where Beast Boy both looked and acted similarly to Beast of the ''Comicbook/XMen'' --both are OlderAndWiser {{Mentor Archetype}}s with a form somewhere between man and animal and prone to striking a PrimalStance.
43	* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation:
44	** Gar's classic green skin was a leftover from the EmergencyTransformation his parents subjected him to to save his life in his SuperheroOrigin.
45	** When he appeared in ''Comicbook/TheRavagers'' of the New 52, he was revamped and given a PaletteSwap to red to highlight his new connection to the Red, the metaphysical manifestation of the animal kingdom. Once ''The Ravagers'' series was cancelled, he was shuttled over to the Teen Titans and his green skin was quietly restored for the 2014 Teen Titans series.
46	* AmbiguouslyHuman: While it's a common shorthand to describe him as an X-Men-style mutant, it's hard to tell whether he's even really human at all anymore, given his DNA is completely mutable.
47	* {{Animorphism}}: He can turn into a green version of any animal (though he can't turn into larger animals without strain) and can speak in any form. This is because he's not limited to turning into animals, are [[OurMonstersAreDifferent included magical and mythological monsters]].
48	* ArchnemesisDad: Zigzagged with Gar's adoptive father Steve Dayton during Wolfman's run, where he got caught by the helmet in the HeelFaceRevolvingDoor. Dayton just couldn't go for more than a few years without going AxCrazy.
49	* ArtEvolution: How Beast Boy's powers manifested wasn't immediately settled at first. When he first showed up, he could turn into any animal almost perfectly except for his head, which stayed green and retained a few human features. It wasn't until later that he started turning into complete (and completely green) animals.
50	* TheArtifact: His red-and-white uniforms are holdovers from the original Doom Patrol of the sixties; he continues to wear the colors even decades after the crew was brought back from the dead and the "team uniform" was retired.
51	* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Gar can turn into animals of nearly any kind, but whether or not those animals are accurate representations is a different story. Some of his stronger animal forms show cases of SuperStrength, while his bird forms in flight are capable of keeping up with high-speed {{Flying Brick}}s.
52	* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Occasionally Gar's animal morphs, while naturally strong animals, are shown exhibiting levels of strength and durability beyond even their natural capacities.
53	* AttentionWhore: Gar's been a sucker for attention, especially from pretty girls, since ''The New Teen Titans'', and admits in early in ''Teen Titans Volume 3'' that the positive attention is a significant reason behind his heroism. It comes up again post-''Rebirth'', where he admits he feels the need to have attention on him.
54	* BadFuture:
55	** In the world of ''Comicbook/KingdomCome'', Garfield has lost his ability to maintain his human shape or turn into normal animals, and is instead forced to take the shape of a gargoyle and only turn into imaginary creatures[[note]]This may be an extrapolation from the state of the ''Titans'' during MediaNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicbooks, and in particular the period when Beast Boy was only able to turn into monsters[[/note]].
56	** In the "Titans Tomorrow" storyline, Gar encounters a nearly feral future self named Animal Man.
57	** He survives a ZombieApocalypse to show up in the ''Comicbook/{{Rotworld}}'' crossover.
58	** He's also one of the last few superheroes left in the ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil2013'' tie-in, now using the moniker Beast Man, with his wife Rose Wilson and their daughter[[note]]Their daughter Red, curiously, bears a striking resemblance to Kid (or Red) Devil, whom Rose had a romance with in ''Teen Titans'' Vol. 3--Beast Boy was himself red in the present time, but ''Beast Man'' was a definite, pointed green, removing any resemblance between him and his daughter. The implication appears to be that Red is Rose's daughter by Red Devil, who is likely dead due to the circumstances, and Garfield is Rose's SecondLove[[/note]].
59	** Killed off in the ''ComicBook/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' timeline via a nuke.
60	** Beast Boy appears in the ''Comicbook/DoomPatrol'' "Weight of the Worlds" storyline, having been trapped in chimpanzee form.
61	* BarrierMaiden: On a couple of occasions, Beast Boy has been targeted by villains as a stepping stone to another dimension.
62	** In ''Titans Vol. 2'', Beast Boy was described as the "key" to a portal Trigon's sons were attempting to open to Trigon's realm; more specifically they wanted leftover power from the Trigon Seeds still lingering in his body.
63	** In ''Comicbook/TheRavagers'', Beast Boy's new connection to [[BackgroundMagicField the Red]] makes him a target for the forces of both Harvest and Brother Blood, who are trying to get to the Red for their own devices.
64	* TheBerserker: After being empowered by the Source energy he has to be careful not to be overwhelmed by his animal instincts and go feral.
65	* BeastMan: Due to the fallout of ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueNoJustice'', his ShapeShifterDefaultForm has mutated into a heftier, more brutal form; while he can return to his human shape, it takes a conscious effort. He's restored to normal after the events of ''Into the Bleed''.
66	* BestFriend: Beast Boy and Cyborg were nearly always shoulder-to-shoulder in the days of the ''New Teen Titans'', but their friendship began to disappear in the decades following and was completely lost after the ''New 52'', when Cyborg was fully promoted to the Justice League and Beast Boy joined the Ravagers.
67	* BewareTheNiceOnes / BewareTheSillyOnes: He's such a good-natured goofball that you almost forget that he can change into any number of things that can and will kill people. At one time, he turned himself into a poisonous spider, bit a foe, and said that the foe had a [[SadisticChoice choice]]; give himself up to the authorities who could give him a cure, or run and die. That being said, it takes a ''lot'' for him to get truly dangerous.
68	* BigBrotherMentor:
69	** {{Zigzagged}} with Cyborg during the days of the ''New Teen Titans''. Beast Boy was essential to helping Victor get his sea-legs in the brave new world of superheroics, guiding him through his angst about being different--Victor, meanwhile, being more emotionally stable and secure, helped Beast Boy through problems of his own and helped keep him focused.
70	** Gar was the rather spurious semi-responsible sort during volume one of ''Titans'', in which he and Bette Kane, the two-man Titans West team, did some mentoring of the [=DEOrphans=] and even led them on at least one mission while they were ostensibly "babysitting" them.
71	** More officially, Gar joined Kory and Cyborg as the mentors of the Core Four Young Justice transplants in ''Teen Titans'' Volume 3, where he did a generally better job.
72	** He returned to the title during J. T. Krul's run as an OlderAndWiser senior member on the team, fulfilling much of the same role.
73	* BirdsOfAFeather: With Raven in the New 52 ''Teen Titans''.
74	* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: One of the "limitations" of Beast Boy's power some writers employ is the fact that he simply doesn't know what he ''can'' do. Just watching Creator/AnimalPlanet allows him to discover new animal forms and the inherent powers they possess.
75	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Every time Dark Raven comes into a storyline, Beast Boy winds up hypnotized into becoming her henchman.
76	* BrilliantButLazy: Downplayed in the ''New Teen Titans'', where Garfield has an aptitude for learning when motivated (access to the best tutors money can buy doesn't hurt).
77	* BullyingADragon: In the days before he joined the Doom Patrol, Gar was on the receiving end of routine mockery over his green coloration from schoolmates who had no idea he could do something like turn into a wolf.
78	* TheCameo: Garfield Logan was largely glossed over when ''Comicbook/SecretOrigins Volume 2'' was detailing the DC Universe's new Post-Crisis backstories, both in stories about the Teen Titans and the annual dedicated to the Doom Patrol, [[spoiler:but he appears in the final issue as the surprise narrator of the chapter shared by The Flashes, Barry Allen and Jay Garrick]].
79	* CasanovaWannabe: It's rare, but he can occasionally come on ''way'' too strong when he flirts with girls, ranging directly into sexual harassment.
80	* CharacterCatchphrase: It's Garfield who introduces the famous "Titans Together!" rallying cry to the franchise lexicon during The Judas Contract.
81	* CharacterizationMarchesOn: The original Doom Patrol Beast Boy was a dyed-in-the-wool RebelliousSpirit. ''New Teen Titans'' Beast Boy was a SadClown. Modern incarnations (read: those following the famous ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' cartoon) tend to go for the [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass immature goofball who can turn into feral animals]].
82	* ChickMagnet: Between his multiple romances and his moderate celebrity, Beast Boy tends to have little problem with attracting women.
83	* CodeName: Gar's had several code names over the years. While he started (and is typically known) as "Beast Boy", he became "Changeling" after he became a New Teen Titan; this was later undone by DC when Geoff Johns wrote his miniseries in the oughts (Johns himself only referred to the character as "Garfield" or "Gar"). Sometimes he goes by "[[SpellMyNameWithAThe the Beast-Boy]]" or "the Changeling". In ''Kingdom Come'', he instead goes by Menagerie.
84	* CollectorOfForms: Beast Boy can only transform into animals he has seen, which can include extinct animals and alien animals.
85	* ComboPlatterPowers: While his main power is shapeshifting (see Inverse Law of Complexity to Power below), he also has, in no particular order, super strength, super speed, super senses, an advanced HealingFactor, and the ability to use [[Comicbook/DoomPatrol Mento's psionic helmet]]... which can only be used by people with inherent psychic abilities. However, these secondary powers receive very little attention, so little that some writers up and forget they exist.
86	* ComicbookTime: Beast Boy debuted as a teenager in 1965, where it was made quite clear that he had a substantial inheritance to receive upon is 21st birthday. He made it all the way to ''Flashpoint'' without turning 21; [[StatusQuoIsGod poor guy]].
87	* 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, while ''Teen Titans Go!'' took until the ''sixth'' season to acknowledge his history with the Doom Patrol.
88	* CoolMask: In order to hide his identity when he originally ran with the Doom Patrol, Gar had to disguise his face with a mask... but DependingOnTheArtist things like [[PaletteSwap the color scheme]] and whether the mask was FormFittingClothing were constantly in flux, so there are several possible versions of Beast Boy's "classic" mask, ranging from a yellow DominoMask to a purple-and-black complete head covering.
89	* {{Crossover}}: He appears in the final issue of ''Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew'' chasing down Gorilla Grodd from their home dimension. Remarkably, this adventure was part of the setup for ''The Oz-Wonderland War''.
90	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite his goofy persona, even as early as ''New Teen Titans'', Garfield could be secretly great in a fight. During a sparring match with Terra in the lead-up to ''Comicbook/TheJudasContract'', Gar easily penetrates her defenses again and again and frustrates her so badly that she has a FreakOut.
91	* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: He has green hair and eyes.
92	* DarkAndTroubledPast: During the pre-''Flashpoint'' era.
93	** Gar's SuperheroOrigin is ''rife'' with trauma, like nearly dying from an infected monkey bite, helplessly watching his parents fall to their deaths, and accidentally tricking the men who later kidnapped him into murdering each other. By the time he appears in ''Doom Patrol'', he's become the ward of his family's abusive lawyer Galtry, who's squandered millions of dollars from Gar's inheritance and tried to cover his tracks by subjecting Garfield to repeat {{Assassination Attempt}}s.
94	** By the time he appears in the ''New Teen Titans'', he'd also collected a few more miseries, including the death of the Doom Patrol and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a poor acting career]].
95	* ADarkerMe: Following his betrayal and torture at the hands of the reborn Brotherhood of Evil in the nineties, the resulting trauma turned Gar's shapeshifting into a LovecraftianSuperpower rife with BodyHorror. While he mostly restricted himself to being a TerrorHero, he enjoyed the change so much he even went so far as to start wearing a pitch-black longcoat over his superhero duds. Things naturally went FromBadToWorse after he was abducted by Evil Raven II.
96	* ADayInTheLimelight: Geoff Johns penned the ''Beast Boy'' miniseries in 2000, and then the ''Beast Boys and Girls'' arc in 2004. The first took place while he was trying to break back into acting after declining to join the resurrected Titans group and getting, and the second featured him being temporarily stripped of his powers even as they were infecting all the children in the city.
97	* DeadpanSnarker: Comes with the territory of YouFightLikeACow.
98	* DealWithTheDevil: Issues 14-15 of ''The New Teen Titans'' volume one had him forced to promise the Brotherhood of Evil that they'd be free to go for now in exchange for helping them stop Madame Rouge.
99	* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: During the events of ''NTT'' Gar angsts on occasion about the demise of his birth parents and when he's not, he angsts about the death of Elasti-girl and the Doom Patrol. Technically Mento was still alive, but he'd been psychically tortured and spent the nineties as a supervillain called Crimelord.
100	* DemonicPossession: There have been a couple of occasions over the years where Gar has been under the influence of some evil spirit, which transformed him into a physical version of themselves or some other monstrosity.
101	** Gar is kidnapped by Evil Raven II at the beginning of Arsenal's original stint as team leader and infested with the equivalent of ''ten'' [[SoulJar Trigon Seeds]].
102	** Gar is possessed by the spirit of a {{Tengu}} during a trip to Japan.
103	* DependingOnTheArtist:
104	** The particulars of his face-mask from the ''Doom Patrol'' era could vary surprisingly widely in color scheme and design.
105	** With the success of the animated cartoon, the question of how animalistic he looks (with features like PointedEars and CuteLittleFangs, clawed hands and bare feet, or [[HellishPupils slitted rather than round pupils]]) now varies with each artist who draws him. How old he looks is also frequently changed, oftentimes looking [[OlderThanTheyLook as young as Bart]] rather then his actual age. Nicola Scott's depiction of Gar from just prior to ''Flashpoint'' is very close to the Beast and Wolverine of the ''ComicBook/XMen''.
106	* DependingOnTheWriter: Following Wolfman's run on the New Teen Titans, which cast him as a SadClown and ChivalrousPervert, Gar's been pulled in many different directions.
107	** Despite [[CharacterDevelopment setting out on his own]] in the margins of the first ''Titans'' volume due to the work of Devin Grayson and Geoff Johns, the Titans LA team[[note]]A potential revival of [[WestCoastTeam Titans West]] headed by Beast Boy and Bette "Flamebird" Kane which never took off because the series failed to be greenlit by DC; in-universe the team amounted to several cameos by Beast Boy and Flamebird in other books[[/note]] collapsed and Gar resurfaced as the BigBrotherMentor of ''Teen Titans'' vol. 3, also under Johns, who quietly de-aged him after deciding the title had too many non-teenagers.
108	** Several writers, Johns included, have heavily exaggerated his CasanovaWannabe traits into physically harassing women with his shapeshifting powers or making him a not-so-ChivalrousPervert.
109	** The success of the cartoon also increased his tendency to be depicted as a CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass to the point of making him an immature prat.
110	** Pat [=McCallum=], who wrote one of Gar's last appearances in the 2008 ''Titans'' series (in which he decides to migrate over to the ''Teen Titans'' series), resurrected his SadClown trait to deconstruct it and highlight Gar's HiddenDepths, and set up a chance at a mentorship role, only for Felicia Henderson (who received him in her run on ''Teen Titans'') to depict him as a clownish variant of TheMunchausen who immediately insisted on his own leadership and fawned desperately over Raven.
111	** J. T. Krul recast him as the team's BigBrotherMentor once again, but with an extra helping of OlderAndWiser and almost no clownish elements at all, taking a backseat to guide rather than lead the team.
112	* DudeWheresMyRespect: A recurring element of Devin Grayson's run on the series, starting with the [=JLA/Titans=] crossover.
113	** In the crossover, no matter how obviously essential Gar is to the plot as the mentally disturbed {{Big Bad}}'s best friend and how willing he is to participate, he is routinely ignored by Superman, Batman, and even other Titans (he takes offense when Raven [[ImStandingRightHere mentions but fails to include him in the conversation]]).
114	** In the ''Secret Files'' attachment to ''The Titans'', the Fab Five invite personal nominees for membership in the revived team; Gar, despite helping them reach out to their nominees, doesn't make the list. Roy awkwardly claims the Titans can squeeze him in, Cyborg insists that Gar tag along, but when Nightwing offers to include him, Gar doesn't take to being the team's third wheel and declines, instead heading off to Hollywood to try his hand at an acting career.
115	* TheDragon: To Evil Raven II in the mid-nineties, after she infested him with a combined ten [[SoulJar Trigon Seeds]] (out of a total of one hundred); during this period, he was the servant with the most loyalty to her and received the most fondness in turn. Eventually, [[EvilMakesYouMonstrous he became the hideous "Gar-Goyle"]].
116	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: His animal transformations were originally 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.
117	* EarnYourHappyEnding: Garfield's SuperheroOrigin 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.
118	* EmergencyTransformation: In his SuperheroOrigin, 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.
119	* EmptyShell: The risk for him turning into TheSwarm is that if enough of him dies, when he returns to human form he will be left a vacant living corpse.
120	* EnemyMine: In the ''New Teen Titans'', Garfield strikes a bargain with the Brotherhood of Evil to hunt down the renegade Madame Rouge and Captain Zahl, who killed the original Doom Patrol.
121	* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
122	** Way back in '65, he invaded Doom Patrol headquarters and ransacked ''everything'' (up to and including defacing a picture of Elasti-girl and putting an axe through one of Robotman's spare head units), came back the next night and got caught only when the Doom Patrol successfully ganged up on him. When they finally let the teenage punk out, he [[IncomingHam immediately started bellowing at them for messing up his hair and shoes]] and started another fight, hurling insults in every direction. He then had the gall to demand they let him on the team. The Doom Patrol hated his guts, but the fans loved him, and he's been around for more than fifty years since.
123	** When EveryoneMeetsEveryone at the start of the ''New Teen Titans'', Donna Troy is startled to discover a walking, talking, bright green bulldog has approached. The bulldog promptly leaps into her arms and turns into a human--Changeling--while she's still carrying him.
124	* EvilMakesYouMonstrous:
125	** A variant; Gar's transformations become more monstrous as he gets angrier. When he suffers UncontrollableRage, he effectively goes OneWingedAngel.
126	** The Brotherhood of Evil got ahold of him and subjected him to torture, leaving him stuck turning only into monsters for a time back in the nineties.
127	** During one of Raven's evil stints, she implanted a seed of Trigon in him, turning him evil and, unsurprisingly, forcing him to turn into demonic creatures.
128	* EvilStoleMyFaith: In ''ComicBook/TeenTitansNew52'', he confides in Bunker that he is an atheist because the amount of deaths he's witnessed makes him strongly doubt that there can be a God.
129	* FaceMonsterTurn: Gar's been saddled with more than his fair share of this trope over the years, being a frequent victim of DemonicPossession, PsychoSerum, or BrainwashedAndCrazy, causing him to turn into monsters and fight against his friends and allies. (Literally his first ''Teen Titans'' adventure involved him being hypnotized into serving the villain and turning into a gorilla-snake chimaera to fight the Titans).
130	* FamousAncestor: Gar Logan's parents, and in particular his father, was a famous inventor and luminary of the scientific community--Niles Caulder confesses that he knew Gar's father in the past when they first meet.
131	* {{Flanderization}}:
132	** Gar's character development in his own 2000 mini-series began receding over the course of the following decade until he was at best a CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass, but really just a moron.
133	** After "Graduation Day", a few stories featured Gar's flirtations progressing into physical harassment until Koriand'r would come to blast him away.
134	** Felcia Henderson's run on ''Teen Titans Volume Three'' features this from the start, with Gar clownishly declaring himself leader of the team to the annoyance of everyone else and fawning over Raven. The disdain for him from the rest of the team is palpable.
135	* EyeScream: In the wake of "Dark Crisis", Beast Boy is shot through the eye by Deathstroke and put into a coma. Upon waking up he has an EyepatchOfPower mirroring Deathstroke's own.
136	* FusionDance: Gar has been fused with both Klarion the Witch Boy in a Valentine's Day Special and Cyborg in ''Titans Academy'', both times putting friction in his romance with Raven due to SharingABody.
137	* ForTheFunnyz: Gar is almost constantly wisecracking, even when it annoys his teammates. According to ''New Teen Titans'', he does it to keep his head from "[[SadClown blowing up from depression]]".
138	* GreaserDelinquents: Downplayed; classic ''Doom Patrol'' Beast Boy has the slicked hair, the jacket, and the ''attitude''. Kid was every inch the young rebel.
139	* TheGrinch: In the 2009 holiday special, ''The (Beast) Boy who Hated Christmas!''[[note]]Which appears to be set in a BroadStrokes blend of ''Doom Patrol'' Volume 1 and the 2003 ''Teen Titans'' cartoon incarnation of the patrol[[/note]]. Beast Boy hates Christmas because, while everybody else is having fun and enjoying all the conventional pleasures of the season, he gets to spend his holiday doing hours of menial labor for his abusive guardian Nick Galtry, cleaning his dingy, ratty motel room. [[MakesSenseInContext Luckily]], Elasti-girl hates Christmas, too.
140	* HandWave:
141	** Where does Beast Boy's uniform go when he transforms into animals? The writers haven't really bothered to explain it. In the original ''Doom Patrol'' stories, his clothes actually don't disappear but are hidden by "emanations from his body". Decades later, [[ComicBook/TheFlash Wally West]] revealed he could tell where the uniform disappeared to and used it as leverage to shut Gar up while he was cracking wise about Gorilla Grodd.
142	** How does Gar manage to talk normally even while in animal form? Heck if the writers know... but you ''could'' justify it if you factor in his psychic powers.
143	* HappyEndingOverride:
144	** Gar gets adopted by Rita and Steve in the sixties? The Doom Patrol is murdered by General Zahl.
145	** Gar finally finds and rescues his long-lost adoptive dad Steve Dayton with the Titans? The side-effects from using the Mento helmet and [[ComicBook/SwampThing a misadventure with John Constantine]] drive Steve AxCrazy.
146	** Gar finally starts getting along with Steve out of shared love for Rita? Steve goes mad (again) and tries to kill him.
147	** Gar ''finally'' resumes a relationship with Raven at the end of the Post-Crisis Titans? [[CosmicRetcon Flashpoint happens]].
148	* HasAType: While Beast Boy and Raven have been a Fan-Preferred Couple since the 2003 cartoon, in the comics his first two girlfriends were blonde and blue-eyed: sweetheart Jillian Jackson and the ill-fated Tara Markov. He's also very close with Bette "Flamebird" Kane, another blonde. ''Teen Titans Rebirth'' gives him a close relationship with the blonde leader of Nevrland, Joran. It's even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] at the end of the 2000 Beast Boy miniseries:
149	-->'''Bette''': You can't resist a cute blonde and a smile.
150	-->'''Gar''': Never could, Bette. Never could.
151	* TheHeart: A genuinely nice, compassionate guy who [[SadClown hides the pain with a lot of bad jokes]] to cheer up his BlessedWithSuck teammates. If you need someone to pull a IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight, send Gar. The fact that it ''didn't'' work with comic book Terra was what cemented her as irredeemable. It's also why giving him a ''[[ComicBook/KingdomCome very]]'' [[ComicBook/InjusticeGodsAmongUs unpleasant fate]] is shorthand for a timeline gone wrong.
152	* HeterosexualLifePartners: With pre-Flashpoint Cyborg. Cyborg is often bitter at what he frequently sees as the loss of part of his humanity, but Beast Boy can always cheer him up. Conversely, when Beast Boy hits a few too many points on the dingbat meter, Cyborg can bring him down to earth.
153	* HiddenDepths:
154	** Gar had many of them in Wolfman's ''New Teen Titans''.
155	*** It was a recurring theme that Garfield was a SadClown--constantly making jokes, lame or otherwise, in order to keep his head "from blowing up from depression."
156	*** Garfield also proved to be BrilliantButLazy when he belatedly hired a tutor to teach him sign-language to speak with Jericho; "belatedly" because most if not all of the other Titans were already fluent in it.
157	*** Garfield planned and staged Donna Troy's wedding just about single-handedly and proved to be more tasteful and thoughtful than anyone expected.
158	** Beast Boy's knowledge of animals comes with a lot of niche applications that only he knows about. In ''Rebirth'', when the Team was caring for Jackson's mother, he morphed into maggots to remove the decaying flesh and use their secretions to stimulate recovery.
159	* HideYourOtherness:
160	** 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.
161	** In the Silver Age ''Comicbook/DoomPatrol'' Garfield refused to display his powers publicly because he'd promised his late father he would keep them secret as a child. He naturally pays for this by having to endure BullyingADragon from other students who mock him for his green skin.
162	* {{Hunk}}: Gar boasts a significant amount of chest and arm hair whenever he gets a shirtless scene.
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166	* IDidntMeanToKillHim: Madame Rouge and General Zahl, villains from the ''Doom Patrol'', were responsible for killing the eponymous heroes of that series, and survived long enough for Gar Logan to catch up to them, with all his UnstoppableRage in tow. At long last Gar finally catches Rouge and lethally wounds her, only to instantly regret it.
167	* IJustWantToBeSpecial: He is very attached to his super powers, and has had them since he was too small to know anything different. Changing into any critter he can think of? That's not just useful, it's a lot of fun.
168	* InUniverseNickname: "Gar" from Garfield, on occasion.
169	* InverseLawOfComplexityToPower: Garfield's power is "[[SemanticSuperpower shapeshifting into animals]]", taking on both their form and natural powers. The range, mechanism, and limitations of his power have never, in the fifty years since his debut, been really examined, leading to what is basically one of the most versatile movesets in all of DC.
170	** Typically he shifts into some species of earth fauna, but he's also turned (or is capable of turning) into:
171	*** Multiple animals at once[[note]]He turned into a mass of barnacles all the way back in the original ''Doom Patrol''[[/note]].
172	*** Things that [[ArtisticLicenseBiology aren't strictly speaking animals]][[note]]He turned into a microbe in the original ''Doom Patrol'' as part of his escape from being imprisoned in his room by Galtry; unicellular organisms fall outside of the animalia kingdom[[/note]].
173	*** Chimerical MixAndMatchCritters[[note]]He first turned into a gorilla-snake hybrid during his GuestStar appearance in the original ''Teen Titans'' series in the 60s[[/note]].
174	*** Both variants of AnimalsNotToScale[[note]]He first turned into a colossal ape during the ''[[WestCoastTeam Titans West]]'' arc in the 70s[[/note]].
175	*** {{Prehistoric Monster}}s[[note]]Such as when he had a negative reaction to the Amazon's Purple Ray in the ''New Teen Titans'', which drove him mad and enabled him to turn into a monstrous Brachiosaurus[[/note]].
176	*** Imaginary creatures[[note]]He turned into a monstrous serpentine monster while chasing Madame Rouge to kill her in the ''New Teen Titans''[[/note]].
177	*** Alien species[[note]]He became a Gordanian during the first ''Omega Men'' crossover[[/note]].
178	*** Mythical beasts[[note]]He first turned into a dragon, purely gratuitously, during a one-off adventure between the end of the Hybrid arc and the first appearance of the Wildebeest, and he transformed into Lockheed during the [=Teen Titans/X-Men=] Crossover[[/note]].
179	*** {{Eldritch Abomination}}s[[note]]When his brain was exposed to the newest prototype of the Mento helmet by villains in the 90s, the resulting trauma disrupted his shape-shifting and caused him to turn into monsters rather than animals, a tendency that was reinforced after Evil Raven II planted a Trigon Seed in him. He may have the ability himself naturally, given that he turned into a monster when his EvilCounterpart drove him berserk during their BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind[[/note]].
180	*** "Fictional" creatures[[note]][[Literature.{{Jabberwocky}} the Jabberwock]] (as per a future incarnation of himself named [[Comicbook/KingdomCome Menagerie]])[[/note]].
181	*** {{Funny Animal}}s[[note]]As he does in ''Comicbook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew''[[/note]].
182	*** [[BeastMan Beast Men]][[note]]He turns into an anthropomorphic tiger walking around on its hind legs during an adventure with Raven in ''Titans Giant'' #2[[/note]].
183	** His Animal Man self from the [[BadFuture Titans Tomorrow]] arc is able to duplicate his animal morphs in a process that looks suspiciously like cellular replication, but it's unknown whether he can transform into microscopic life forms in the post-crisis world (he could in ''Doom Patrol'' Volume 1).
184	* KarmicTrickster: When he served with the original ''Doom Patrol'', Garfield was not at all above using his abilities to humiliate and frustrate bullies and jerks at school; at one point he challenged a JerkJock to a race and used his rabbit morph to repeatedly get the drop on him. By the end of the race, the jock had been reduced to TantrumThrowing and InelegantBlubbering.
185	* KidAppealCharacter: During his original stint on the Doom Patrol, being the token teen with attitude.
186	* KingIncognito: {{Downplayed}}. In his SuperheroOrigin, 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.
187	* TheLadysFavour: During the events of ''Comicbook/WhoIsWonderGirl'', Garfield volunteers to go on a suicide mission to seek out the lost Cyborg and Nightwing under the {{Big Bad}}'s nose. While he jokes through the discussion and fully expects to be teased for his first attempt at turning into an alien beast for the job, his bravery earns him a kiss from Donna, a kiss from Kory, and a "[[BuffySpeak psychic whammo]]" from Raven[[note]]which seems to be a telepathic beacon allowing Raven to teleport to his side with the other girls once he finished his job[[/note]] that he describes as even ''better'' than kisses.
188	-->'''Garfield:''' ''Rave -- I think I'm in love.''
189	* TheLeader:
190	** In his SuperheroOrigin, 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.
191	** {{Subverted}} at the TurnOfTheMillennium, where some setup was done to let Gar lead the Titans LA team, but this was ultimately never greenlit by DC, and so Gar and Bette Kane instead spent a few years orbiting the main action.
192	** Beast Boy ''did'' lead the Titans during the TimeSkip prior to ''Comicbook/OneYearLater'', but this was the most unstable period in post-crisis Titans history and by the time the story actually starts, Beast Boy has left the Titans himself to support the ''Comicbook/DoomPatrol'', which is in dire straits.
193	** During a BadFuture storyline in the first volume of the New 52 Teen Titans, Beast Man co-presides over the last few Titans with his wife Rose Wilson.
194	* LikeFatherLikeSon: When Gar first meets Niles Caulder of the ''Comicbook/DoomPatrol'', Caulder notes he has the same guts his father had.
195	* LonelyRichKid: Downplayed. ''Rebirth's'' ''Teen Titans'' introduced him throwing a massive party with his uncle's money.
196	* LovableSexManiac: Under Marv Wolfmans' pen in ''The New Teen Titans'', he threw himself at nearly anything female (his [[MediaNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] bios listed his relationship status as "desperate"). The second issue features him intentionally inviting the team to a PoolScene just to trick Donna Troy and Starfire into the skimpiest bikinis he could find. That said, whenever he got out of hand, Donna Troy was usually there to put him in his place.
197	* MasterActor: Zigzagged.
198	** During the Titans West arc at the tail end of the 70s, Gar was introduced as the actor behind Lieutenant Tork of ''Space Trek'', but during ''Tales of the New Teen Titans'', Gar was indicated to be only mediocre with a doomed-from-the-start career, though he made BlatantLies otherwise.
199	** Later, Marv Wolfman decided against the original direction and began ascribing him some actual celebrity. Since then, Gar has been depicted as a fairly talented actor with legitimate celebrity and ''Space Trek'' has become the DC universe ''equivalent'' of ''Star Trek'' rather then the knockoff it was originally claimed to be.
200	* MentorArchetype: To Fast-Forward, Kid Slick, Fever, and Freak of Justice, Inc. during the third run of ''Doom Patrol'' under John Arcudi, helping ground them back in reality after their previous coach turned out to be an imaginary doppelganger.
201	* MeatVersusVeggies: Not a StrawVegetarian himself, but is been here and there across many stories and media. Gar has a point, since he knows what's to expect of the process of putting your ham & eggs on the table since... you know, he is ''all'' of your meals in a signle package. Also, he avoids to turn into carnivores (DependingOnTheWriter) as much as he can due the same issue.
202	* MommasBoy: Downplayed. Historically, Beast Boy has been closer to his mothers Marie and Rita then to his fathers Mark and Steve.
203	* 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.
204	* 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.
205	* 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.
206	* OneSteveLimit: Garfield Logan is ''neither'' [=DC's=] first "Beast Boy" nor "Changeling".
207	** The first "Beast Boy" was [[Comicbook/LegionOfSuperheroes Ilshu Nor of the Heroes of Lallor]] (debut 1964), who had all the same powers, but underwent a FaceHeelTurn and RedemptionEqualsDeath in short order after Gar's debut (1965).
208	** There have been several Changelings in DC history, the earliest a Franchise/TheFlash villain from 1947. Of particular note is Gregor Nagy, an {{expy}} of Gar (a blonde teenager and the son of a biologist who gained the power of altering his species) who briefly became the adopted son of Superman until extreme use of his powers killed him. (For the record, Nagy ''could'' become Kryptonian).
209	* OnlyMostlyDead: ''Twice'' in ''New Teen Titans'', both times by being shot and having to wait to be healed by either the Amazons or Raven.
210	* PerfectHealth: In the "Beast Boys and Girls" arc, he mentions that he hasn't been sick since he was six. His sickness is a plot point in the rest of the arc.
211	* PhlebotinumOverdose: Following the ''No Justice'' CrisisCrossover, Beast Boy was infused with energy from the Source Wall that mutated him into a furry hulk and threatens to turn him into TheBerserker if he loses focus.
212	* PrimalStance: While he usually walks upright, it's not unheard of for him to get into poses similar to predators at rest or about to pounce.
213	* 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.
214	* 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 (and even she wasn't spared Gar's mouthing off in his first story).
215	* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: His EvilCostumeSwitch after being infested with the Trigon Seed, which was a simple but effective PaletteSwap of his old costume.
216	* RefusalOfTheCall: Played with. At one point in the eighties, Dr. Fate invited Beast Boy (among others) to join him in creating a new Justice League (as the Martian Manhunter had disbanded the original). Not only did Beast Boy turn him down, he invited everyone in the group to join the Teen Titans, of which group he was already a member.
217	* RequiredSecondaryPowers:
218	** Beast Boy only wears his uniform half of the time; it disappears whenever he shifts. Where, exactly, it goes (and the implications of it disappearing) are a puzzle that have yet to be solved.
219	** Should his powers allow Beast Boy to turn into other humans? [[WordOfGod Wolfman and Perez]] say yes. Is he ''allowed'' to turn into other humans? [[EnforcedTrope Wolfman and Perez say no]].
220	** Beast Boy shifts into alien species like the Gordanians of the Vegan system, so can he become [[Comicbook.SuperMan Kryptonian]] or [[Comicbook.MartianManhunter Martian]]?
221	** Given that he can turn into bacterial life forms, which are external to the ''Animalia'' [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_%28biology%29 kingdom]], his powerset [[RequiredSecondaryPowers doesn't actually rule out transforming into plants or fungi]]. He just never does it, and perhaps it's never even occurred to the writers.
222	* {{Reincarnation}}: Played with. An issue of ''Doom Patrol, Vol. 3'' casts the then-current incarnation of the patrol as characters in the story of Nao Yut (or Nou Yu T'u), an ancient {{animorph\|ism}} warlord and emperor ([[https://books.google.com/books?id=36kEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA183&lpg=PA183&dq=nou+yu+t%27u&source=bl&ots=FKKaaNq-vQ&sig=5oaxpBzys6Agx9lDg6IXx12_S4Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjH_bjLuovSAhUN7WMKHWRrBPIQ6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=nou%20yu%20t%27u&f=false a legend of the people of Ch'u]]) who was suckled by a tiger -- Nao Yut was played by Beast Boy, natch.In the mask and everything!
223	-->''How much of that story is true?''
224	-->''Not very much.''
225	* RelationshipRevolvingDoor: Beast Boy and Raven have a very on again off again relationship, often spending their time apart pining for one another before getting back together again.
226	* ResentfulGuardian: Nicholas Galtry became his legal guardian after his parents died and has treated Garfield like crap while plotting to keep his inheritance to himself ever since. Part of why Beast Boy came to the Doom Patrol was to try and convince the heroes to save him from Galtry's abuse.
227	* RetCanon: Following the ''One Year Later'' TimeSkip from ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', Beast Boy donned his black-and-purple costume from the 2003 cartoon and was given pointy ears and fanged teeth to match his animated counterpart.
228	* RetGone:
229	** John Byrne's run on ''Doom Patrol'' was a wholesale reboot of the series, which basically cost Beast Boy his adoptive mom and dad. The loss wasn't really paid any attention to until ''Infinite Crisis'', when Beast Boy was there at Ground Zero for Superboy punching reality in half, leaving him and Rita Farr to deal with the fact that she was his mom again.
230	** The ''New 52'' rewrote Gar's entire history from scratch, doing away with his connection to the Doom Patrol entirely. ''Rebirth'' has yet to weigh in, but Gar did manage to cameo in ''Doom Patrol'' vol. 6 when one of its characters wears a shirt featuring his cartoon self from ''Teen Titans Go''.
231	* SadClown: His constant joking and goofing off are his way to distract himself from dwelling on tragedy. This is a character who got his start in ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol,'' after all.
232	* SatelliteCharacter:
233	** Jillian "Jill" Jackson, who was introduced in ''Doom Patrol'' as the one girl who felt any sympathy for the high school outcast with green skin, became his SatelliteLoveInterest. Not ''quite'' enough to agree to date him, though (at least, not at first). Then ''New Teen Titans'' happened and her significance in Gar's life waned directly in proportion to Terra's growing presence.
234	** Matt Logan is his paternal cousin, a goofy LoserArchetype and BromanticFoil for Gar, from the pages of the ''Beast Boy'' miniseries. Matt has no ability to hold a job and has almost no sense of responsibility, all of which gives Gar something to snark internally over.
235	* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: With ActionGirl Bette "Flamebird" Kane in the ''Beast Boy'' miniseries, who took his sudden reappearance in Hollywood to mean the imminent resurrection of Titans West under the moniker "Titans LA" (but, as we know, the project was never greenlit).
236	* SecretIdentity: Beast Boy had a really awkward relationship with secret [=IDs=] back in the day. During his original stint on the Patrol, he wore a distinctive (and ridiculous) purple hood to disguise his equally distinctive green skin. The hood and the uniform served as a full body disguise, which worked well enough back in the day, but nowadays the hood is usually only a character footnote to be glanced over or poked fun at.
237	* SecretlyWealthy: Mostly it's a secret because it's another facet of his character so rarely paid attention to. Remember, Garfield has a substantial inheritance in both estate and research (his biological father made millions with medical innovations before devoting his life to studying Reverse Evolution) and his adoptive father is Steve Dayton, the fifth richest man in the world. The Dayton estate makes Wayne Manor look like a pleasant little townhome.
238	* SelectiveObliviousness: In the ''ComicBook/TheJudasContract'' story, Changeling will always believe that Terra was TheMole or that she was being controlled by Slade, despite all the evidence of the contrary, including Terra's own explicit remarks.
239	** RevengeBeforeReason: He even kept attacking Slade after all this, blaming him for the death of Terra.
240	* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: For most of his history, Garfield's natural state was simply a green human with Teen Idol good looks, but the success of the cartoon lead new management to depict him as a LittleBitBeastly. In the Rebirth-era ''Titans'' title, following the events of ''Comicbook/JusticeLeagueNoJustice'', Gar's post humanoid form is actually ''not'' his default, and he deforms into a hulking, furry creature when not concentrating.
241	* ShipperOnDeck: During his time with Justice, Inc., he quietly reveals he knows Kid Slick is interested in Fever, prompting Kid Slick to bluster that he's only concerned about her ''as a friend''.
242	* ShoutOut: One of Garfield's defining traits during Wolfman and Pérez's run is his tendency to make pop culture references. This is obvious from his first appearance, as he immediately proposes "Titans, assemble!" as the team's battle cry, though he then jokes that the phrase is [[ComicBook/TheAvengers already taken]].
243	* SitcomArchnemesis: Danny Chase, with whom Changeling never got along.
244	* SixthRanger: While Beast Boy served on the original Doom Patrol with his adoptive parents Mento and Elasti-girl, both Beast Boy and Mento served more as reserve forces to be called on when the main team was incapacitated in some way. They spent several missions at home, [[VolleyingInsults not getting along with each other]].
245	* SoleSurvivor: If nothing else, Gar Logan is a survivor. He got to watch his parents go over a waterfall after a flood completely destroyed their African residence. He watched the crooks who kidnapped him shoot each other to death. For years, he was the only one who hadn't gone insane from the death of the Doom Patrol (until they found Robotman's BrainInAJar was still functioning). In the New 52, he's the only member of the Ravagers to survive after the cancellation of their book.
246	* SpecialGuest: Gar was almost one of the Fab Five, once upon a time. He appeared in an issue of the original Teen Titans, featuring just Robin, Kid Flash, Wonder Girl, and Aqua Lad -- right after his debut in ''Doom Patrol'', the Teen Titans writers considered whether they should bring him on (he was the second guest star after Speedy); the adventure was literally titled "The Fifth Titan". Notably, the Titans were actually quite welcoming, but couldn't accept him on the grounds that he needed Nick Galtry's permission, which, if you've been reading, you probably already figured wouldn't be forthcoming.[[note]]The issue in question invited readers to send in mail about their opinions on whether Beast Boy should join, but enthusiasm was apparently not sufficient.[[/note]]
247	* StillWearingTheOldColors: Beast Boy's most common uniform colors--either his typical red and white or even the purple and black of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003''--are lifted right from the ''Comicbook/DoomPatrol'' uniform. [[DownplayedTrope It never comes up, however]], and mostly seems to be [[EnforcedTrope an artistic tradition]] at this point.
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249	* StorybreakerPower: Beast Boy is capable of turning into creatures as dangerous as the planetary conqueror "Starro" but refrains from doing so because of how [[TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody easy it would be to lose himself to its power]], when he does so in the "Beast World" event, he requires to shift into a whale first to increase his brain capacity to comprehend how difficult the shift will be and still requires Raven's empathic powers to keep his mind tethered to his humanity.
250	* SuperSenses: A feature introduced during Johns' run (''Teen Titans'' Volume 3) is that Gar has heightened senses even in his base form -- early in the run, he could smell individuals on the roof of a hospital from the inside, and later on he could hear hypersonic signals emitting in Titans Tower from different floors than the source.
251	* SuperStrength: After being empowered by the source energy, his new BeastMan form has strength enough to out-muscle Miss Martian ''and'' Donna Troy.
252	* SurvivorsGuilt: A major part of his SadClown status is that many of the people he's loved are dead, and he feels that [[ItsAllMyFault crushing sense of responsibility common to superheroes]].
253	** In ''Comicbook/TheTerrorOfTrigon'', his evil double drives him over the edge by claiming he's personally responsible for murdering everyone he's ever loved and invites him to ''feed upon their corpses'' as a reward for all his hard work.
254	** ''Rebirth'' era Beast Boy feels guilty over not being there for Tim Drake.
255	* TenMinuteRetirement: During a Nightwing-led revival of the Titans around the TurnOfTheMillennium, Gar felt rather obviously put-out at being invited as an afterthought and declined. He moved to LA and tried to work on his acting career, though ([[RealLifeWritesThePlot after the Titans LA concept failed to lift-off at DC]]) he inevitably helped restore the Titans (yes, again, what, you think the Titans are stable?) with Cyborg and Starfire.
256	* TheseHandsHaveKilled: When he ended up killing Madame Rouge, he instantly regretted it.
257	* {{Transplant}}:
258	** Beast Boy started off with the ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'' but eventually wound up in the ''New Teen Titans'' (after a stint on ''Titans West'') when Raven summoned him to join the new team she was building. He ended up bringing the DP mythos with him, tethering the two series together for decades.
259	** Subverted back in the sixties. As a matter of fact, Beast Boy had a run-in with the original Titans before they were even the Fab Five -- he encountered Robin, Aqua Lad, Kid Flash, and Wonder Girl before Speedy had been retconned to become a founding member. Of course, he was still living with Nicholas Galtry at the time, who wouldn't give him permission to join either the Titans or the Doom Patrol, so he didn't get to enlist.
260	* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: {{Downplayed}}. In his SuperheroOrigin, 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.
261	* TroubledButCute: Handsome, loaded with an ugly past.
262	* UndyingLoyalty: He turned down an invitation to the Justice League once, affirming himself a "card-carrying member" of the Titans.
263	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In a later episode of his SuperheroOrigin 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.
264	* VagueAge: Like most of the titans, it's hard to pinpoint an exact age, but Gar, who's been a teen for roughly fifty years (despite a few attempts to admit the cast were rightly in their twenties at this point) has a really bad case of it. ''NTT'' indicated him to be a younger member of the team, though he was treated as a peer of the original Silver Age Titans when he Guest Starred for them back in the sixties. And then there were the writers who wrote him like a kid even while they technically admitted him to be a Titans alumnus.
265	* VitriolicBestBuds: With Cyborg; at least, they ''were'' until the New 52 sent Vic off to join the Justice League and put Gar on the Ravagers.
266	* WestCoastTeam:
267	** Gar was a founding member of Titans West at the very tail-end of the Silver Age ''Teen Titans'', along with Bat-Girl (Betty Kane), Lilith, Hawk, Dove, Golden Eagle, and Joker's Daughter.
268	** Gar and Bette (now Flamebird) also tried to resurrect the team as ''Titans LA'' at the TurnOfTheMillennium, but (out of universe) the project was never greenlit and (in-universe) the effort collapsed.
269	* WildChild: For a short time after he was orphaned, he lived by himself in the wild.
270	* WillTheyOrWontThey:
271	** In the original ''Doom Patrol'', Gar struggled to start up a relationship with his classmate Jillian Jackson, which ended in success. She vanished with the end of the first ''Doom Patrol'' run, but ''The New Teen Titans'' revived their relationship after ''Comicbook/TheJudasContract''. Sadly, the events of the nineties, including the arrival of a ''second'' Tara Markov, ended up chasing Jill out for good.
272	** 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 just in time for ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint\|DC Comics}}'' to launch a company-wide ContinuityReboot.
273	* WillfullyWeak:
274	** It is heavily implied multiple times that he restrains himself from shifting into magical and mythological creatures out of fear of losing control of himself. Fittingly since he killed his Trigon spawned EvilTwin [[UnstoppableRage when pushed too far]] by turning into an EldritchAbomination and crushing him between his hands and Madame Rouge by accident when transformed into a chimera.
275	** Even under normal circumstances Gar holds back a lot, considering the near infinite number of bone-crunchingly powerful or lethally toxic animals he can turn into with a mere thought.
276	* YouDontLookLikeYou: He rather famously spent the first part of the New 52 dyed bright ''red'', rather than his classic green hue, due to creators making a big deal of his connection to "[[Comicbook/AnimalMan The Red]]", which remained with him consistently through ''The Ravagers'' and the first ''Teen Titans'' series of the New 52. His color was quietly and inexplicably changed back to green with the start of the second ''Teen Titans'' series of there era.
277	* YouFightLikeACow: Gar's had this attitude for a long time, and the first people subjected to it [[LetsYouAndHimFight were Cliff and Larry]] in the ''Doom Patrol''.
278	* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Is upset when Brain compliments his killing of Madame Rouge.
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