Titans Season 3s Best Trick Is Combining Different DC Movies

Titans Season 3’s Best Trick Is Combining Different DC Movies

The Titans season 3 teaser trailer seems to copy and combine disparate elements from past DC adaptations. Here’s why it’s a good move for the show.

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Titans Season 3s Best Trick Is Combining Different DC Movies

The first teaser for Titans season 3 seems to combine several elements from past DC movies, which may prove to be the show’s best move yet. Relocating to HBO Max, the gritty superhero action-drama officially returns August 12, 2021. Still led by Brenton Thwaites’ Dick Grayson (a.k.a. Nightwing), the titular team will similarly switch homes, moving from San Francisco to Gotham City. There, the familiar faces will be joined by such newcomers as Tim Drake (Jay Lycurgo), Barbara Gordon (Savannah Welch), and Dr. Jonathan Crane (Vincent Kartheiser).

A taste of some new and returning characters can be seen in the first teaser trailer for Titans season 3. Throughout the new footage, however, there are also several homages to past DC Comics adaptations. While tracking The Joker, Jason Todd (Curran Walters) comes across a murdered security guard — one sporting a smile identical to the ones Jack Nicholson’s Joker gave his victims in Tim Burton’s Batman. Later in the Titans season 3 trailer, Dick Grayson says, “This city breeds a special class of criminal”, which mirrors a line from Heath Ledger’s Joker about Gotham deserving “a special class of criminal” in The Dark Knight. Furthermore, there’s a moment with Conner (Joshua Orpin) looking forlorn while surrounded by fire, matching a scene with Henry Cavill’s Superman in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice.

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Titans’ path to the screen was a rocky one. The first season was cut short and subjected to several last-minute changes. Titans season 2, meanwhile, rapidly distanced itself and even retconned a lot of what came before. Though it still endured some teething problems, it at least concluded with some much-needed unity. As such, it seemed like the show might finally live up to its potential in future episodes. In the Titans season 3 trailer, that looked even more to be the case. The show previously echoed elements from past films – such as Jason Todd’s fighting style matching Ben Affleck’s Batman. It never seemed as overt as it did into the new trailer, however. By fully leaning into the combined cinematic mythology, there was an element of sure-footedness that indicated Titans might finally have resolved its identity issues.

It isn’t just the big screen outings getting the homage treatment. With the infamous Jason Todd and Joker scene, the new episodes seem to blend Death in the Family and The Killing Joke, with the crowbar incident instead taking place at an abandoned amusement park. Titans season 3 also looks set to adapt specific panels from Judd Winick’s Batman: Under the Red Hood storyline. Even riffing on animation, Titans season 3 appears to be adapting a Batman Beyond story. By mixing and matching the best elements from different sources, it allows Titans to more successfully be its own unique thing. Yet, all the while, it cements itself as part of the larger mythology that exists across various mediums. That will allow Titans to pluck at fans’ nostalgia and allow them to imagine the show as a potential continuation of whichever past franchise they wish. Simultaneously, it gives the show room to subvert and surprise.

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The move also lends itself to the idea of a multiverse between the DC movies and TV shows. The notion was first given life within the Arrowverse, which saw even Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen crossover. The favor will apparently be returned with Grant Gustin rumored to be appearing in The Flash movie. It remains to be seen how fully Titans fits into such plans – if at all – now that it shares a streaming service with even upcoming DCEU adventures. Whatever the case, by blending in established elements of past DC films, Titans season 3 at least ties in thematically with the multiversal ideas. As Jon Cryer’s Lex Luthor states during Crisis on Infinite Earths, “the multiverse has a way of aligning fates”. With no d0ubt even more references and homages to come in Titans season 3, those words ring truer than ever.

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