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The Teen Titans would usually go in this territory in Teen Titans Go!, to the point where the actual alleged villains come off as better people because of it. Granted, this can be balanced out by how this is meant to be a parody of such, but still...


  • In "Girls' Night Out", Starfire and Raven free Jinx and they go on a crime spree.
  • In "Artful Dodgers", the Titans cheat at a dodgeball game between them and the Hive Five, and it's hinted they have done this before. And when the Hive wins their game despite their blatant cheating, the Titans have them arrested so they would win by default. Made worse by the fact that both Robin and Starfire point out that "cheaters never prosper."
  • In the infamous "Staring at The Future", Beast Boy and Cyborg, upon being sent to a future where the rest of the Titans are responsible people with productive lives, decide to selfishly and deliberately ruin the others' futures just to create a world where they won't have to deal with responsibility.
  • In "Baby Hands", when the Titans have their memories erased by Brother Blood, Robin takes advantage of their amnesia to retrain them to respect him by telling them outlandish stories of their origins, all to feed his ego.
  • In "Second Christmas", Beast Boy, Cyborg, and Raven lie to Starfire, causing her to miss a holiday on her planet, just so they can have more stuff.
  • In "Ghost Boy", Beast Boy treats Starfire like a slave as a prank and when the Titans cast a spell of transparency on him to make him think he's a real ghost, Beast Boy retaliates by pretending to jump into a volcano, leading to the Titans accidentally killing themselves when they try to stop him. He even has the gall to laugh at them.
  • In "Opposites", Cyborg begins dating Jinx for no reason even though she's a villain, and eventually convinces the other titans to become criminals so there is nothing to keep them apart.
  • In the episode "Mas Y Menos", while mentoring the title twins, Robin treats Menos horribly, believing him to be a hindrance to his brother Mas. He even lies to Menos about Mas being in a hospital so he can spend more time with Mas. The other Titans are appalled at his actions, but Robin shows no remorse. And when the twins's energy overloads and nearly endangers the city, Robin helps stop them, but at the end of the episode, he outright says that the most important part of being the hero is to put yourself in the spotlight and steal the glory.
  • In the episode "Puppets, Whaaaaat?", Robin is fed up with the Titans' constant disobedience, so he sells their souls to the evil Puppet Wizard and turns them into puppets. Though he helps the Titans regain their souls, the end of the episode implies he hasn't learned his lesson.
  • In "Breakfast Cheese", all four members of the team, sans Starfire, are depicted as blatant sociopathic heroes who beat up criminals for fun and use being heroes as an excuse for their violent behavior. Starfire is disgusted by their actions and attempts to curb their violent tendencies.
  • In "Brain Food", Beast Boy uses Raven's spell book to make the other Titans dumber than he is just as they are attempting to destroy an oncoming asteroid just so he can feel smart. Had Silkie, accidentally made smarter by the spell, not come to the rescue with his giant robot, the city would've been destroyed.
  • In "Lazy Sunday", after Robin donates the couch to a retirement home in an attempt to curb Beast Boy and Cyborg's laziness, the two trick the others into helping them steal it back.
  • Aqualad is depicted in much the same way in the episode "Pirates". Instead of being a Friend to All Living Things, he treats his sea creatures like slaves, constantly standing on them and using them as stepping stones. Aqualad even has a large number of sea creatures fed to sharks to impress Raven (who, being a Designated Hero herself, enjoys watching them be eaten). At the end of the episode, it turns out he's a pirate. It would be more shocking that a superhero became a looting, pillaging, murdering pirate who treats sea creatures like slaves and has them fed to sharks if half the show wasn't essentially an animated Fauxtivational Poster.
  • In the episode "The Hive Five", the Titans' Jerkass behavior is worse. After suffering constant prank calls from the Titans, the Hive decides to take a day off to avoid them. But their day off is ruined when the Titans intrude on them.

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