The original line-up for Season 1 final
Titans (2018)
What Could Have Been in this series.- David A. Gregory was considered for the part of Dick Grayson before Brenton Thwaites was cast.
- Barbara Gordon was going to be part of the team when it was in development for TNT, as her pre-New 52 identity Oracle. That being said, her existence is confirmed during the Season 1 finale and she appears in the third season.
- A Working Title for the series was Blackbirds.
- The first season was intended to be 12 episodes long, but was reduced to 11 episodes when the creative team repurposed the planned finale as Season 2's opening episode; this also lead to Season 1's finale being an outright Downer Ending until the second season resolves the Cliffhanger.
- The first season finale was initially planned to go much differently
. The planned differences included:- Gar was supposed to be killed by a possessed Dick drowning him in a bathtub and Rachel would resurrect him. This scene would have involved him transforming into an eel as a cost effective alternative to the octopus the writers wanted.
- The Doom Patrol from the Spin-Off series would have appeared. They would arrive courtesy of Negative Man's powers, establishing The Multiverse and showcasing the team there as from a different universe rather than the iteration seen earlier in the series. They would have also joined the battle against Trigon. Because this was cut, Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019) shows Titans and Doom Patrol as existing on different earths. Season Four shows there is a Doom Patrol on the same earth.
- Rachel would have gone through a portal to Azarath to train for 300 days. She would have returned with new abilities, such as flight and energy blasts, and would have defeated Trigon by absorbing him into her soul-self.
- Trigon was supposed to be much larger, closer to his size in the comics.
- Dick would have suited up as Nightwing, with the costume heavily obscured through various camera methods with no plans to have the entire costume shown.
- Kory and Donna would have worn their hero costumes.
- The writers wanted to introduce Cyborg but no actor had been cast by that point and time constraints prevented his inclusion, so the writers settled for mentioning him only.
- Donna would have mentioned Wally West.
- After the battle with Trigon the team was supposed to fight unknown henchmen that were implied to be working for H.I.V.E.
- Some leaked photos show that Rachel was supposed to receive her hero costume. Kory is also seen in a new costume, one that is different from either her civilian or hero costumes and also has an unknown book on hand in one of the photos. Rachel and Kory are also seen in an unknown building with light shining in and seem to be training. This all seems to imply that Kory would have joined Rachel for her time in Azarath.
- Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019) uses footage of Hawk and Jason from the original finale due to the cast's unwillingness to film new footage for the event, repurposed to show the two instead seeing the red sky of their Earth being destroyed.
- The writers didn't plan to use Deathstroke as the main villain of Season 2 at first. They instead planned for it to be H.I.V.E.
- Word of God confirmed Deathstroke survived the events of season 2, but that the scene actually showing him waking up from his defeat was cut from the finale to avoid confusing people into thinking he would directly return in season 3 (and to avoid it distracting from the main villain plotlines involving Scarecrow and Red Hood in that season). Deathstroke's brief appearance in season 4 as a zombie showed that following the scene of his survival being scrapped, he did indeed die.
- In addition to this, it was also confirmed that there would have been an Author's Saving Throw for the increased levels of jerk attitude and unsympathetic moments intended to be sympathetic in that season, Raven's powers were becoming a Hate Plague to her and those around her.
- Solstice was set to appear in the first season, as evidenced in the casting breakdowns.
- When Beast Boy finally got his costume in Season 4, Ryan Potter was given the choice of either wearing the suit in the traditional red and white, or wearing a black and purple outfit like the one from the animated series. Being a fan of the original Wolfman-Perez run, he chose the former.
