ReacTT16: Red X Feels VERY Familiar

The writers didn't choose a secret identity for Red X. I'm not referring to the fact that it's not revealed, but that it doesn't exist at all, because it wasn't needed. He was just supposed to be the new Red X, so there was no need to give him a real identity. In general, this show doesn't use characters' real identities much, so it's not that surprising But the popular headcanon about him being Jason Todd is my favorite

So fun fact, the episode “X” actually aired before Jason was revived in the comics and became Red Hood. It was a six month time difference.

Quick little fun fact: so the reason why robin shares so many traits with all the different robins is because originally the writers created him to be a fusion of ALL the robins, BUT as time went on they just decided to make him Dick Grayson.

You can endlessly look at three things: how the fire burns, how the water flows, and how Nikhil denies that Robin is Grayson

Fun fact! Being sold to a conquering army so that Blackfire can become ruler of Tamaran is Starfire's *origin story* in the comics.

Robin didn’t say “why would I call myself nightwing?” He looked at starfire and said “so… nightwing huh?” Like he was super open to the idea.

My favorite theory is that it is Deathstroke’s/Slade’s first son Grant Wilson. In the comics he was the reason Slade gets involved with the Titans in the first place, and in the show with Slade being obsessed with having an apprentice it would make sense that it’s because he just lost his first heir his son from him quitting. This also helps with the fact that Red X is written like he is older than Robin. The show also goes out of their way to show Slade and Robin fights the same which would also help explain why Red X and Robin have similar fighting styles. Also last tid bit is that all of Slade’s other kids are in the show’s universe except Grant.

Star publicly appearing as Empress and then abdicating to Galfor was probably the wisest move there, a member of the previous royal line being seen handing the crown off to him gives him a sort of legitimacy he'd otherwise have no chance of gaining.

Sadly Blackfire sell Starfire into an arranged marriage is the more upbeat version. In the comic, she sold Starfire into sl@very. This episode also combined with Starfire getting into an arranged marriage(set up by someone else, not Blackfire). She originally was fine with it, because it's normal for Tamaranian royalty to have lovers as long as they produced an heir(her future husband was kissing his GF, in public, right before the wedding without anyone batting an eye). Starfire assumed that Dick would agree to be her lover, he refused that's when she started crying

"For your sister, I expected terrible, terrible things." Funnily enough this actually is true in the comics. Part of Komand'r's villain origin story involved having been born on the same day a major Tamaranean city was attacked by an enemy empire. Despite this being entirely coincidental, the people of Tamaran decided that this meant she was a terrible omen and would lead their people to ruin if she ever took the throne. Combine that with contracting a childhood illness that she didn't fully recover from (it caused permanent physiological damage that rendered her unable to fly, which is a disability on Tamaran where ability to fly is the norm) and she spent her entire childhood and adolescence shunned and hated by her own people for things that weren't remotely her fault. Eventually she was formally removed from the line of succession and replaced with Starfire as crown princess, and she decided to redirect all her hatred and bitterness toward her little sister who "took what should have been hers" instead of the people who'd been actually mistreating her (which in fairness, it's a lot harder to get revenge on millions of people than on one person). Unfortunately, after that... let's just say she very much earned her supervillain/archenemy title, given the ways she decided to vent her anger and bitterness out on Starfire. Forced marriage like in this cartoon is the censored version, essentially.