Every Original Teen Titan, Ranked by Power

by

The Teen Titans are a famous superhero team in DC Comics, known for bringing together heroes who often feel like outsiders. While many fans remember the team from the 1980s – featuring characters like Starfire, Raven, Beast Boy, and Cyborg – that wasn’t the original lineup. The very first Teen Titans formed in 1964, consisting of five sidekicks to DC’s most famous superheroes. These young heroes wanted to prove themselves and eventually developed powers that rivaled, and sometimes even exceeded, those of their mentors.

The original Teen Titans, first appearing in the 1960s, have changed a lot as they’ve matured, gaining many new skills and powers along the way.

5) Arsenal

As a huge superhero movie fan, I’ve always been fascinated by Green Arrow’s former sidekick, Roy Harper – he’s gone by a few names like Speedy, Red Arrow, and Arsenal. Honestly, the guy is a total powerhouse! He’s an incredible martial artist – one punch could take someone down, and he can go toe-to-toe with assassins like Cheshire. I’ve read he once took on dozens of armed gangsters using only a toolbox! But it’s his archery that really blows me away. He’s not just good, he’s better than Green Arrow himself, apparently! And his trick arrows? Forget about it! Explosive tips, EMP blasts, knockout gas, even freezing arrows – he’s got it all. He’s a seriously impressive character.

4) Nightwing

Dick Grayson, originally known as Robin and now Nightwing, is a highly respected hero in the DC Universe, despite not having any superpowers. Raised by trapeze artists and personally trained by Batman, he’s become an incredibly skilled acrobat and fighter. Nightwing has demonstrated amazing feats of strength and agility, like dodging bullets, breaking through walls with a single punch, and even holding an orca’s jaw open. His advanced suit protects him from serious injury, allowing him to survive falls from great heights. He’s also equipped with a variety of high-tech tools, including electrified fighting sticks, boomerang-like throwing stars called “Wing Dings,” and gauntlets that launch explosives.

3) Tempest

Garth, originally known as Aqualad and later Tempest, is one of the most powerful Atlanteans. He’s incredibly strong, able to lift several tons, and can swim faster than the speed of sound. However, his greatest power comes from his skill with Atlantean magic. This magic gives him a wide range of abilities, including controlling water, creating protective force fields, firing energy blasts, projecting his spirit, teleporting, and even traveling through time. Tempest has demonstrated incredible feats of power, like blasting a hole through a demon, summoning massive cyclones and tidal waves, and creating force fields strong enough to block attacks from a god. Perhaps his most impressive act was during the Imperiex War, when he sent the entire city of Atlantis back in time to save it from destruction.

2) Donna Troy

Donna Troy is a remarkably powerful and highly trained Amazon from Themyscira, originally known as Wonder Girl. She’s a seasoned fighter with the Teen Titans, skilled in both martial arts and sword fighting thanks to extensive training from the best Amazon warriors. Donna’s strength is comparable to Wonder Woman’s, and she’s proven herself against formidable opponents, including the Fearsome Five, and even matched supervillains like Match, Superwoman, Atlas, and the powerful Monarch. She also has incredible healing abilities, once even reattaching her own arm. As an added weapon, Donna wields the Lasso of Persuasion, which allows her to control anyone it captures.

1) Flash

Wally West, originally known as Kid Flash, eventually became DC Comics’ fastest version of the Flash. By tapping into the Speed Force, he gained incredible powers, including the ability to steal speed from others, briefly stop time, create energy-based weapons, and even vibrate through dimensions. Wally’s speed feats are legendary – he’s evacuated entire cities in the blink of an eye, damaged the armor of a powerful cosmic being, outrun death itself, and surpassed aliens with instant teleportation abilities. He even won a race against Barry Allen that saved the entire multiverse. Most impressively, Wally somehow managed to move faster than the Speed Force, the limitless energy source that powers all movement.

What do you think? Leave a Comment below and join the conversation in the ComicBook Forum!

https://comicbook.com/comics/list/5-great-teen-titans-nobody-talks-about/embed/#

Read More

2026-01-30 19:23