The Terror Titans are a supervillain group in the DC Comics . They are a mirror group to the Teen Titans . They first appeared as a team in Teen Titans (vol. 3) #56 (February 2008), though Clock King and Dreadbolt appeared in shadow form at the end of #55.
21-557: The Terror Titans first appeared in Teen Titans #56, the first in Sean McKeever 's Terror Titans story arc. Subsequently, a six-part Terror Titans limited series was released October 2008 with Joe Bennett on art duties. The Terror Titans make their first strike as Kid Devil throws an impromptu party at Titans Tower . Dreadbolt , in his civilian identity, plants several surveillance/teleportation/jamming devices around
42-589: A bestial savage, to be sold to " The Dark Side Club ". Clock King attempts to close the deal with " Boss Dark Side ", but is refused on the grounds that he promised all the Titans. The Terror Titans return to base, and Ravager, who survived the explosion, follows them. Back at the Tower, Robin triggers a message in one of Clock King's devices. The message tells him to bring all the remaining Titans to an abandoned church. Meanwhile, Eddie and M'gann have been imprisoned within
63-528: A cadre of new legacy, semi-obscure heroes, and Clock King hires Ravager as his minion and trainer. Rose begrudgingly accepts, still refusing to embrace the cruel ways of the Club and refusing to give up her independent will, apparently with a secret agenda of her own. In the Final Crisis series, Dan Turpin is shown discovering that the Club has been capturing metahuman children, and teaching them to say
84-406: A cell. M'gann discover that Fever has also been captured, and Eddie is brought to the ring to fight Hardrock. When the rest of the Titans arrive at the church, Dreadbolt and Disruptor teleport Wonder Girl and Blue Beetle into the clutches of their teammates. Robin takes on Clock King, only to discover that his foe has the precognitive ability to see 4.6692 seconds into the future. Able to predict
105-753: A chance to join him, but she turns him down; as the Titans prepare to attack as one Clock King removes them from his base, and begins planning anew. Some time later, Clock King takes over the Dark Side Club, planning to use the brainwashed young metahumans for his own plans. Ravager, who had accepted Clock King's offer, helps to train the Terror Titans physically, as Clock King trains them mentally. He has Dreadbolt kill his father and take his name, reunites Persuader with her father, then kills him, and has Copperhead care for an injured combatant named TNTeena, earning her trust, then has him kill her. All this
126-607: A machine meant to rid the Everymen of their lingering powers, deemed too unpredictable and unstable to be used by the Dark Side Club. As a side effect, the still living Infinitors vanish. The Club returns in the Terror Titans , where the Terror Titans are shown retaining their chief role, and granting the Dark Side Club a more business driven facade, more similar to the Roulette underground fight club. They manage to capture
147-551: Is a fictional underground club in DC Comics , coming to prominence in the Final Crisis limited series. Originating from the Seven Soldiers : Mister Miracle mini-series (there was also an earlier Dark Side Club that appeared in a few issues of Justice League International , but that seems to be unrelated to the current one), the Dark Side Club serves as the stronghold for Darkseid (known as "Boss Dark Side") and
168-582: Is an American comic book writer . Born in Appleton, Wisconsin he grew up in Eagle River . Since the end of his creator-owned teen drama series The Waiting Place , which was published from 1997 to 2002, McKeever has written several series for Marvel Comics , including The Incredible Hulk , Sentinel , Mary Jane , Inhumans and Gravity . In 2005, he won an Eisner Award for Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition. He has written for
189-485: The Apokoliptian New Gods stranded on Earth and a recruiting central for new loyal servants. Similar in concept to the former Roulette fight club, the Dark Side Club provides his wealthy patrons with an underground fighting ring, where brainwashed metahumans are forced to fight in often deadly battles. In a human recreation of Granny Goodness ' orphanage, the captured metahumans, usually the youngest or
210-498: The Terror Titans mini-series. It really is like she's sharing the mini-series with the Terror Titans". Eventually, during the series she's convinced by Clock King to take part in the Dark Side Club and train the Terror Titans, not by mind control but out of simple persuasion, but still keeps a hidden agenda, and not everyone in the Terror Titans team trust her fully. Sean McKeever Sean Kelley McKeever (born 1972)
231-589: The Boy Wonder's every move, Clock King soundly defeats Robin, and prepares to stab him with a knife. Within the Dark Side Club's arena, Eddie, with help from Megan's telepathy, manages to regain his rational mind, and the two escape. As Wonder Girl is being badly beaten by Disruptor and Persuader, Rose saves her, and Blue Beetle, having defeated Dreadbolt and Copperhead, joins them in helping Robin. Ravager attacks Clock King, only to find that her precognitive abilities are in perfect synch with his. Clock King offers her
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#1732776500885252-429: The brainwashed metahumans, who turn on the Terror Titans. They come to Clock King for help, but instead he kills Disruptor and leaves the rest at the mercy of the incoming metahumans. Ravager confronts Clock King, and manages to defeat him, although she is unable to keep him from escaping. The three remaining Terror Titans escape from custody two weeks later, and set out to get revenge on Clock King. The team are taking up
273-646: The latter into undo his mental damage. However, not every captured metahuman is deemed fit to fight alongside the Boss Dark Side, and Doctor Bud Fogel (actually the Dark God Desaad ) is sent to capture the Infinitors and deal aggressively with the Everymen kids, the younger heroes receiving often unwanted powers from Lex Luthor 's exogene . Double Trouble is killed, and Vaporlock , Amazing Woman , and Empathy are captured, and forced to power
294-592: The limited series Nomad: Girl Without a World for Marvel Comics and this led into Young Allies a new series and team formed after the Heroic Age line-wide reboot, all with artist David Baldeon . McKeever also wrote a new story for The Waiting Place illustrated by Mike Norton. The story was printed in The Waiting Place: The Definitive Edition from IDW Publishing . Dark Side Club The Dark Side Club
315-503: The mantle of other older supervillains, as McKeever explains: "What I've done with the Terror Titans is create a team of bad teenagers using the idea of legacy characters": At the end of Teen Titans (vol. 3) #60 Ravager left the Teen Titans and will have a role in the limited series although, according to McKeever, not necessarily as part of the team: "She won't necessarily be on the Terror Titans team, but she's front and center in
336-442: The monthly comic books Gravity , Marvel Adventures Spider-Man , Sentinel and Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane , all for Marvel Comics, and on January 9, 2007, DC Comics announced that McKeever had signed an exclusive contract with the publisher. He was a part of the writing team working on DC's weekly series Countdown , and took over for Gail Simone as the writer of Birds of Prey after issue #112, however, his last issue
357-586: The most obscure, are fed drugs concocted by Bernadeth and routinely abused and controlled by Granny. Among the most known victims of the Dark Side Club there are the Tornado Twins, children of the third Flash and Misfit , young protegèe of the Birds of Prey . Since all of them manage to escape, their capture backfires on the Boss Dark Side, alerting the larger heroic community on their activities, and letting Misfit and Black Alice deal crippling blows to
378-406: The organization, like killing Granny Goodness during their escape. Dark Side then hires the Terror Titans in order to capture the Teen Titans , granting the new Clock King the role once held by Granny and Bernadeth as the chief captor and brainwasher. In such role the Terror Titans manage to capture Red Devil and Miss Martian , brainwashing the former into a feral, mindless beast, and forcing
399-410: The tower, and later lures Kid Devil into an ambush. Kid Devil is defeated and captured by the Terror Titans. Copperhead , Persuader and Disruptor then infiltrate the tower and attack Ravager . During the battle, a gas line is ruptured, destroying a portion of the tower. Disruptor is then sent to capture Miss Martian , who is thrown into a ring with Kid Devil, whom Clock King had been conditioning into
420-532: Was #117 due to time constraints with deadlines. Sean also took up writing duties on Teen Titans with the double sized August issue #50 and also wrote the Terror Titans limited series that spun off from this. His run on Teen Titans has ended with issue #71, although he has continued with a Ravager back-up story starting in #72. It was announced at Wizard World Philadelphia 2009 that McKeever, no longer under exclusive contract to DC, would write
441-405: Was Clock King's way of conditioning the Terror Titans into ruthless soldiers. It is eventually revealed that Clock King has made the brainwashed metahumans into his own Martyr Militia , and set them on Los Angeles, having them destroy the city simply for his own amusement. Ravager, disgusted, turns against the Terror Titans, and with Miss Martian , who had been posing as one of the combatants, frees
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