Adored by the Network: Teen Titans Go!, owing to Cartoon Network promoting it over other shows either on rerun or shows that were running as part of the same block, most notably Beware the Batman. The fan reaction was... less than pleased. Teen Titans Go as a whole has its own page on this trope too.
Invisible Advertising: While WB Animation would give press releases and preview clips to various websites and DC Comics has tie-ins published, Cartoon Network itself actively avoided promoting the block in any way. This was in stark contrast to, say, Level Up or Incredible Crew, which seemed to get a commercial every other break. YJ and GLTAS got a single commercial of old clips saying "Next week, new episodes!" Even on the day the final episodes of both series were broadcast. Which just goes to prove how CN was lazy and uncaring at best towards the block.
Network to the Rescue: Toonami tried to do this for Beware the Batman and the DC Nation shorts, which aired on Saturday nights during [adult swim] hours. Sadly, it turned out to be a band-aid for a bullet wound— by the time Toonami got to the unaired episodes in the rotation, news came that Beware had been financially written off by the network and could not longer air at all. In a last-ditch effort to air all the episodes, they gave it a marathon before it was gone for good.
Playing Against Type: In the Doom Patrol shorts, Clancy Brown plays Negative Man, an unambiguously heroic character, and sports a much more relaxed voice as opposed to his usual baritone.
The New Teen Titans, based on the 2003 cartoon, sees the cast from the series reprise their roles.
Plastic Man: Tom Kenny reprises his role from the Plastic Man in Puddle Trouble short and Batman: The Brave and the Bold as the titular Plastic Man. It also sees Kenny's wife, Jill Talley, reprise from role from the former as Lady Granite.
Screwed by the Network: Does not even begin to describe it. The block was screwed over so often and so severely throughout its run that you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who doesn't bring this up whenever discussion surrounding it ensues.
After skipping the entire summer 2012 broadcast season and cutting off Young Justice (2010) mid-season, the DC Nation block for the Fall 2012 season lasted for all of two weeks. Or to be exact, two weeks and six days because the schedule was changed the night before it was to air. The block eventually resumed the following January.
And to add insult to injury, they didn't tell anyone. An oblivious post on the Facebook fan page asking how fans liked the block had to be taken down due to angry comments, and the creators found out about the hiatus from fans on Twitter. iTunes even put up the episodes as scheduled, and despite having extremely high sales, they were still pulled. The worst part? They didn't even give us the reason for this, just put it on hiatus again.
The individual programs weren't safe, either, as Green Lantern and Young Justice were replaced instead of running them alongside the new series Beware the Batman and Teen Titans Go!.
One of DC Nation's unfortunate consequences of appealing more to older fans and to repeatedly jerking those fans around in regards to scheduling and hiatuses was that reruns got much poorer ratings than premieres. So, of course, the much-hyped Teen Titans Go! revival was to be air its premieres on Tuesday nights, only showing reruns on the actual DC Nation block.
Cartoon Network then pulled Beware the Batman from the schedule, despite the next episode at the time being due to air. Teen Titans Go! was still safe in its Tuesday night slot.
Beware the Batman simply vanished from Cartoon Network completely. A DVD release let out two episodes they haven't even aired and four more came out of New Zealand. This is officially worse treatment than either YJ or GLTAS received, which were both allowed to finish out their runs after their long hiatuses. The fact that Cartoon Network is promoting the Teen Titans over Batman, one of the most popular, time-tested franchises in television programming, is... interesting, to say the least. Toonami then picked up Beware to finish it up during [adult swim] hours.
Cartoon Network apparently disliked any of the more serious shows, barely giving them any ad time or putting them in bad time slots, all while going out of their way to promote the more kiddy based DC series. Not surprisingly, this mode of thought lead to the block's eventual cancellation. After this, CN decided to go all-in on Teen Titans Go!, and the rest is history.
Cartoon Network then decided to write-off Beware the Batman financially and now even Toonami is legally prohibited from airing it. They gave it one last marathon for the unaired episodes. In a world where comic book adaptations are literally the hottest thing in entertainment today, when DC is fielding at least six different television adaptations of their properties as of this writing, plus their cinematic universe, plus Teen Titans GO!, the fact that Cartoon Network either could not or would not make a profit off the DC Comics mythos — let alone Batman, the single best-selling comic book in the industry today and evermore, a multimedia juggernaut who had already turned in no less than four successful television adaptations in just as many decades — is mind-boggling.
The roleplay
Acting for Two: Varies. Some players only take one or two roles. The record-holder (one of the admins) has 13.
