Lightning Point is an Australian television teen drama set in the modern day with fantasy elements. It was filmed on location at the Gold Coast and Byron Bay in 2011. The half-hour series is produced by Jonathan M. Shiff for Network Ten in association with Nickelodeon and German public broadcaster ZDF. It was re-broadcast on Network Ten in Australia on 22 June 2012, and again on the same network from 5 July 2014.
When Zoey and Kiki, two irrepressible girls from another galaxy and world called Lumina become castaways in the quiet, Australian seaside town of Lightning Point after losing their spaceship, they recruit local girl Amber to keep them undercover. But the whole town is abuzz with the sightings of U.F.O.s; the girls soon realize that they may not be the first intergalactic visitors on planet Earth. When the time comes, can they say farewell to a world as wonderful and beautiful as Lumina?
When Zoey and Kiki, two irrepressible girls from another galaxy and world called Lumina, land in Lightning Point, their dreams of surfing the waves of Earth's oceans and seas have finally come true. As soon as their spaceship lands, they head to the beach where they meet Amber, a local teenage girl teaching a surf class. Zoey and Kiki convince her to give them a beginner's lesson, but when Zoey borrows Madison's board and surfs the back break, Amber is suspicious.
With their spaceship obliterated and no other way of getting home to Lumina, Kiki and Zoey settle into the teenage world of Lightning Point at Amber's house. Amber's mother, Olivia Mitchell is surprised by the girls' sudden appearance, but is glad Amber finally has some company. Amber hopes Kiki and Zoey can keep a low profile, but her dreams are dashed when local surf king Brandon takes quite a romantic interest in Zoey and invites her to a barbecue at the request of his girlfriend Madison.
To blend in human society, Zoey and Kiki start attending Amber's school and find it nothing like school on Lumina. In a desperate attempt to contact home, Zoey devises a plan using "primitive" Earth technology: satellite dishes. Convinced that this plan will work and that human hearing can't detect the signal, Zoey and Kiki plant their plasma card on the school satellite dish and beam up a signal.
When Kiki is moved to tears by Amber's singing, Amber makes an important discovery: Luminans do not natively experience feelings or emotions, but Zoey and Kiki's human bodies can. Meanwhile, Zoey has fallen in love with the sport of surfing and goes out every day. That is, until Brandon steals her wave and makes her break Amber's prized surfboard. Having never experienced the feeling of anger, Zoey is a ticking time bomb and when Brandon and Madison team up to push her buttons, Zoey unconsciously starts creating miniature earthquakes around Lightning Point.
Quadrupeds fascinate Kiki and when she finds out that Luca's horse Bandit has been skittish and dangerous to ride ever since they arrived, she feels terrible. Secretly using her alien abilities, Kiki reads Bandit's aura and calms his life-force energy, just in time for Luca to see that Kiki and Bandit now have a special bond of strong friendship.
Zoey is finding Brandon a challenging surfing adversary. He's even started to compliment her on her moves. But there's one person who doesn't like this change in Brandon: his girlfriend Madison. Zoey is feeling on top of the world, so when Madison casually challenges Zoey to surf the infamous Lighthouse break with her, Zoey accepts.
"There are no sidekicks in Titans. We're partners. We have each other's backs." note From left to right: Hawk and Dove, Barbara Gordon, Nightwing, Starfire, Beast Boy, Superboy, Wonder Girl, Raven, and Red Hood.Rose: What the hell is this place, anyway?Dick: This is a place where people like you can learn how to be the best version of who you are.
Titans followed Dick Grayson (Brenton Thwaites), the former sidekick of Bruce Wayne / Batman (Iain Glen, season two onwards) who was once known as Robin. After leaving Gotham to make a name for himself outside of Bruce's shadow, he encounters a group of fellow super-powered individuals and forms a new lineup of Titans, the team of young heroes he used to be a member of. Among them are Rachel Roth (Teagan Croft), a troubled teenager who harbors a dark, demonic power; Kory Anders (Anna Diop), an alien from the planet Tamaran; and Gar Logan (Ryan Potter), a metahuman who has the ability to transform into animals.
The first season focused on the Titans getting to know each other while facing the Organization, which seeks to bring forth the demon Trigon, Rachel's birth father, to Earth. They're later joined by the surviving members of the old Titans: Hank Hall (Alan Ritchson), Dawn Granger (Minka Kelly), and Donna Troy (Conor Leslie), as well as Jason Todd (Curran Walters), the new Robin, sent by Bruce to assist Dick.
The second season saw Dick and the rebuilt Titans fighting their archnemesis, Slade Wilson (Esai Morales), who returns when his daughter, Rose (Chelsea Zhang), gets tied up with them. The Titans also find themselves pit against Cadmus Laboratories after they provide shelter to Conner (Joshua Orpin), a clone of Superman created by them. While the first season does not have a permanent setting, the Titans set shop at the old Titans Tower in San Francisco for the second season.
The third season, a loose adaptation of A Death in the Family and Under the Red Hood, moved the setting to Gotham. Jason, after having been presumed dead, resurfaces as a terrorist known as the Red Hood, who vows to become Gotham's dictator by consolidating all criminal elements. With the departure of Batman, the Titans must deal with threats posed by Jason and Scarecrow (Vincent Kartheiser), who is in league with him. Along the way, they have to navigate the whims of the Gotham City Police Department, headed by Commissioner Barbara Gordon (Savannah Welch). The Titans also welcome a new member: Blackfire (Damaris Lewis), Kory's uncontrollable younger sister.
Produced by Geoff Johns, Greg Berlanti, Akiva Goldsman, and Sarah Schechter, Titans was created for the DC Universe streaming service after previously being in development at TNT since 2014. The series premiered on DC Universe in the United States on October 12, 2018, with Netflix handling international distribution. After a WarnerMedia restructuring transformed DC Universe into a digital comics reader, the show moved to HBO Max beginning with its third season and started streaming new episodes for the service on August 12, 2021. Ahead of the third season premiere, TNT (its aforementioned original home) also began airing the first season on July 12 of that year. The fourth and final season aired on November 3, 2022, and the series ended on May 11, 2023 after five years and 49 episodes.
As of Crisis on Infinite Earths, Titans is represented in the Arrowverse multiverse as Earth-9. The fourth episode of series introduced the superhero group Doom Patrol, which later got their own series. Despite initial statements and the Doom Patrol cast reprising their roles in the spin-off, and Doom Patrol characters returning in Season 4, the two series are not set in the same universe. note Doom Patrol is officially Earth-21
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- Killed Off for Real: The show mostly adheres to Superhero Movie Villains Die trope. As for the heroes, the trope applies to Garth/Aqualad (who died in the flashback), and Hank (who is killed off in season 3, then decides not to come back to the living world when a chance presents itself).
- Klingons Love Shakespeare: Tamaraneans like Kory and Faddei seem to be very in fond of human cultures. Kory is enjoying the aesthetics and music of The '70s, and loves eating donuts; while Faddei likes to watch cartoons like Donald Duck and mentions he stopped at food and drinks when he had to study our ways of living.
- Knight of Cerebus:
- Trigon: First season builds Trigon up upon being an inter-dimensional entity capable of destroying entire worlds. In the end, this is averted in first episode of season 2. He gets easily defeated by Raven.
- Deathstroke: Slade may not be a non-human demon, but he managed to scare most of the main characters to the point where they can barely function as human beings. Things are never light around this guy. Never.
- Legacy Character: Jason Todd succeeds Dick Grayson as Robin, while Dawn Granger succeeds Don as Dove some time after his death.
- Leitmotif: Played with. While no character is associated with a particular song, the Titans seem to each be associated to a certain genre or mood of music. Starfire in particular is the most blatant example, as many of her scenes are accompanied by 70's music including Boney M.'s cover of Bobby Hebb's "Sunny," and Donna Summer's "I Feel Love". Robin, on the other hand is more associated with rock music. Much of the score used in Raven's scenes also wouldn't be out of place in a supernatural horror film.
- Live-Action Adaptation: Despite the Adaptation Distillation take, Titans mostly adapts stories from the Wolfman and Perez version of "Titans" that ran between 1980 and 1994, bringing them in trend with the 21 century versions of the Titans (for example, the Robin costumes are inspired by their DC Rebirth; and the romance between Rose and Jason was inspired by the brief affair they had in the New 52), while adding new and original twists to those stories. For example, the first two seasons are roughly live adaptations of The Terror of Trigon (which was also the very first Story Arc of the comics) and respectively, its most famous Story Arc, The Judas Contract.
- Lonely Together: Dick and Raven share a close father/daughter bond based on their shared feelings of loneliness. She also develops a similar friendship with Gar (although more of a Ship Tease) for much of the same reason.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: Inverted; Raven learns that her mother is not her "real" or birth mother just before she's murdered.
- Meaningful Name:
- Dick Grayson also knows as 'Richard'; his name is derived from the old Germanic elements " rk, rīc" (ruler, leader) and "hard" (strong, brave). Doubles as a Punny Name since Dick is literally the "brave leader" of the Titans.
- Kory, the last name of her human alias is the German word for "different", fitting as she's an alien, who is stranded on a strange planet.
- Subject 13 has no name at first since he was created on a laboratory, but he chooses later the name of "Conner" for himself. This name has Irish origins and is derived from the word "Conchobhar", which means "Lover of canines". Only fitting when your best friend is a dog.
- Donna Troy. "Donna" means woman or lady in Italian, which is fitting when you are adopted in the free-man warrior society of the Amazons. Also, Troy has fallen, again.
- Cliff Steele was a former human, now he is a brain caged in a metal body after a tragic accident.
- Angela Azarath plays the role of a Lilith in the show. Yeah, so a woman named "Angela" showed her middle finger to those angelic beings in the moment she willingly has left herself impregnated by Trigon, basically a Satanic Archetype, gave birth to his daughter and made sure she will release Trigon from his prison to enslave the Universe.
- Mercy Graves is security specialist at CADMUS Labs. Of course, she is anything but 'merciful' when she decides to torture Gar and make him kill innocent people. Her surname, "Graves" is an occupational name for 'steward', from the Middle English "greyve". She is also Lex Luthor's Number Two and enforcer.
- The Mentor:
- Batman and Wonder Woman used to sidekick Dick Grayson, Jason Todd and respectively Donna Troy.
- Dick tries to mentor the new generation of young Titans.
- More Deadly Than the Male: Generally speaking, the show presents the ladies as the strong sex and the gentlemen as the weak one. With very few exceptions, most of the women have a wide range of powers, while the males have more Badass Normals.
- The team, both present and former members, has 5 females, of which only Dawn is a Badass Normal, while the guys are 7 at number, with 3 of them being Badass Normals. On the ladies side, there is Kory, an alien Warrior Princess with Super-Strength and capable of shooting fire blasts; Rose, a One-Woman Army Waif-Fu with enhanced abilities and unbeatable Healing Factor; Donna Troy, an Amazon with Super-Strength; and Rachel, a half demon girl, who, despite lacking any training, unlike the rest, has tremendous dark magical powers hard to control. On the guys side, there is Garth, with hydrokinesis; Conner who has some of Superman's powers; Jericho with body possession powers; and Gar, a shapeshifter. And while the guys' powers are not something to mess with, they are not as wide in range or powerful, to which one can add the fact that all of them are inexperienced fighters, and usually ends up as victims more often than the girls.
- Subverted with Conner, who is the strongest physically and has the widest power set. Than double subverted by the fact that he still ends up captured and brainwashed by Mercy Graves, a Badass Normal Dark Action Girl who is also the only person in the cast able to critically injury Conner.
- The girls are also presented to be not only more dangerous, but also more ruthless, having higher body count than their counterparts. For example, the first significant characters that kill, are Kory and Rachel. In the pilot episode, no less. Rose too implied to have killed several people offscreen.
- While the main villains in the first 2 seasons are males: Trigon, a world conquering Satanic Archetype, and Slade, a metahuman who is also deadliest assassin alive, are taken down by their own daughters with relative ease.
- Movie Superheroes Wear Black: Averted most of times, both heroes and villains have comicbook accuracy costumes.
- Everybody who has a hero gear in the Titans, wears same bright colors they had in the comics.
- Averted by Deathstroke too, who wears his trademark blue and orange color scheme with grey accents.
- The Multiverse: Crisis on Infinite Earths established that Titans took place on Earth-9 in the Arrowverse multiverse. Season 4 has the show briefly explore the concept, reaffirming it's connection to the Arrowverse through cameo appearances of Barry Allen, Stargirl and Swamp Thing. However it also uses audio of Harley Quinn and the Joker from Harley Quinn (2019) along with audio of Jonathan Kent from Superman: The Movie while the Beast Boy of Teen Titans Go! briefly appears on a television, implying that they exist as separate realities.
- Mundane Made Awesome: Negative Man apparently listens to AC/DC while cooking in the Doom Patrol's kitchen.
- Mr. Fanservice: A lot of the male cast members are this. The creators did not miss this, having them show up shirtless aplenty, particularly Dick, Hank, and (from season 2 onwards) Conner. On the villain side, there's Slade Wilson, a certifiable hunk who gets shirtless a lot.
- Ms. Fanservice: Starfire, even with her less skimpier costumes. Donna Troy is a subdued example; she never gets skimpy, but she is an Aloof Dark-Haired Girl who has an air of traditional feminine beauty in her.
- Mythology Gag: Has its own page.
- My Friends... and Zoidberg: When Donna Troy is inciting the OG Titans to fight Trigon:Donna Troy: Titans... And new Robin. Let's go!
- Naked People Are Funny: In Beast Boy's character teaser, he transforms into a tiger and back. It takes Dick asking an innocent question and Starfire snickering for him to realize that he's completely naked.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Deathstroke the Terminator.
- Never Heard That One Before: Dick's reaction to being called, well, a dick.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Jason announcing on Tv Live that the Titans are back puts everyone on harm.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: All over the place.
- Jason sadistically beats the shit out of some cops that were just trying to do their jobs.
- Deathstroke mopped the floor with Dick and Donna at different points of the story.
- Dick does this several times in season 1, as he has problems controlling his violent side.
- Hank and Dawn do this to the pedophile coach that abused the former as a child.
- Old Superhero: The series is set long after the creation of the Justice League, as a result, a lot of established characters are far older than their comics incarnation. Bruce Wayne is in his late 50s and on the verge of retirement, his sidekick Dick Grayson is pushing 30s instead of a teenager, and Alfred Pennyworth has died of old age. Most of Batman's Rogues Gallery have been rotting in prison for years, as well.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: After the Titans break up again, Jason and Rose go on their way together to Gotham City, where they happen to destroy the business of some drug dealers and beat them. Unfortunately, the series doesn't bother to show how those two amazing fighters would work together as Battle Couple because everything happened off-screen, we only know what happened because they mention it.
- Omniglot:
- As with the comics, Kory speaks many, if not all, languages. In addition to Tamaranean, she is fluent in English, German, Kryptonian (a dead language), and probably other Terran and non-Terran languages as well.
- Donna has knowledge of the Tamaranean language, which proves vital in "Koriand'r".
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