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+ | * '''Warp''': "Damage? Silly girl, there's nothing wrong with your ''past''. One cannot damage history, because history cannot be changed. (''Holds up Clock of Eternity)'' I went back in time to steal this because history says it disappeared. And history says it disappeared because I went back to steal it. Past, present, future. It's all written in stone, my dear. And nothing you do can ever change it." |
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Revision as of 17:23, 14 June 2015
Back to List of Episodes Template:EpisodeInfoboxSeason2 How Long Is Forever? is the 14th episode of the Teen Titans series and the first episode of Season Two.
Plot
After Starfire falls through a time portal with a villain named Warp, she has an adventure alone in the future, and now she must find her friends' future selves and get back to her own time.
Synopsis
One morning, Starfire intends to celebrate a traditional Tamaranean holiday, Blorthog, the Day of Friendship, with her fellow Teen Titans, but she finds them bickering over trivial things. She warns them that if friends do not value their friendship, "Rekma", or "the Drifting Apart" would occur, and result in the death of close friendships. The Titans reassure Starfire that this was perfectly normal behavior, and they would always remain friends. However their conversation is cut short when the alarm sounds, and the Titans rush off to their mission.
The Titans bickering
At the technological museum, a time-travelling villain calling himself Warp, attempts to steal a valuable clock. The Titans engage him, but Warp's knowledge of the Titans and his futuristic weapons fend them off easily. As he opens a time portal to return to his time one hundred years in the future, Starfire impulsively charges him and both vanish into the time-stream. As they are adrift, Starfire rips off a lens from Warp's chestplate; this results in both of them suddenly dropping out of the time-stream.
To her astonishment, Starfire finds herself in the middle of winter, and before her stands Titans Tower, decrepit and crumbling. As she investigates the structure, she encounters Cyborg as its only occupant, who has also fallen into disrepair and is now hooked to a bulky power generator. He reveals to Starfire that she is now twenty years in the future; the Titans have disbanded following her disappearance and gone their own ways. Starfire assumes that this is due to Warp's tampering with the time continuum and decides to seek out the others. In the course of her search, she finds a bald Beast Boy carving out a miserable existence as a carnival curio, and learns Raven has gone insane from loneliness, thinking that all around her is just an illusion.
As she tries to find Robin, Starfire encounters Warp again, who has also aged due to her theft of the lens, which is actually a vortex regulator, the heartpiece of his time-travelling technology; he demands it back to enable himself to return into his own time. When Starfire demands that he restore her past, Warp replies that nothing can be changed as the course of past, present, and future is inevitable. He takes back the vortex regulator, but before he can finish her off, he is attacked and forced to retreat. Starfire's defender turns out to be Robin, but with a new super identity: He now goes under the name of Nightwing.
The Titans reunited
In his hideout, Nightwing re-encourages Starfire by the fact that the Titans have always prevailed even against the impossible before and may do so yet again. With an old Titans Communicator he had kept, he alerts the other Titans, then he and Starfire proceed to the tech museum where it all began. Warp is already there reattaching the regulator to his chestplate, but before he can escape, Nightwing and Starfire attack, gradually joined by the other Titans. This time, Warp's weapons are ineffective as the Titans are wise to his tricks; a bullseye hit by one of Nightwing's birdarangs on the already damaged regulator causes the device to go haywire, reducing Warp to an infant. Cyborg uses the regulator to open a portal into the past for Starfire, and with a last happy look at her reunited friends and the stolen clock in her hands, she steps through the portal and reappears in the museum with the clock, proving that Warp's theory was wrong.
After telling the others about her adventure in the future, the Titans realize how important their friendship really is. They spontaneously start to participate in the Tamaranean holiday, much to Starfire's joy, and Robin begins to express an earnest interest in his future identity...
Credits
- Written by:
- David Slack
- Directed by:
- Alex Soto
- Starring:
- Greg Cipes as Beast Boy and Future Beast Boy (only appearance)
- Scott Menville as Robin and Nightwing (only appearance)
- Khary Payton as Cyborg and Future Cyborg (only appearance)
- Tara Strong as Raven and Future Raven (only appearance)
- Hynden Walch as Starfire
- Also featuring:
- Xander Berkeley as Warp (first appearance)
Trivia
- This episode features the only appearance of Robin as Nightwing, as well as the only appearances of Future Beast Boy, Future Cyborg, and Future Raven.
- This is the only time that the word "die" was used.
- Starfire is shown having a Mumbo alarm clock.
- From Warp's perspective at least, Starfire committed a time paradox.
References
- The two teenagers that were harassing future Beast Boy resemble members of the Mutant Gang from the graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns, which was another story that is set in the future.
- This episode is very similar to an episode of the 2003 series of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles called Same As It Never Was, where Donatello is sent into a possible future in another dimension thirty years from his time, where the Shredder rules the world, Raphael is missing an eye, Leonardo is possibly blind, Michelangelo is missing his arm, Master Splinter and Casey Jones are dead and his brothers are no longer a team. Donatello's brothers all die in the end of that episode, and Donatello is sent back to his dimension.
Errors
- Starfire is shown being cold in this episode, but in Kole and Snowblind she is not cold despite being in colder conditions.
- The future world is set 20 years into the future, but hasn't been destroyed by Raven as she did in Season 4 (which was not 20 years ahead of present time). A possible explanation is that Raven's insanity allowed her to resist Trigon's control.
Memorable Dialogue
- Nightwing: It's good to see you again.
Starfire: Robin?
Nightwing: I haven't used that name in a long time. Call me ... Nightwing.
- Starfire: Then Nightwing handed me the clock, and I entered the vortex.
- Raven: (astonished at Starfire's story on her journey in the future) Whoa.
- Beast Boy: Bald?! You're telling me I'm going to be bald?!? [rips out hair and weeps]
- Cyborg: Guess you were right about all that Rekma stuff.
- Robin: I don't want us to drift apart. Does it all have to happen? Isn't there anything we can-
- Starfire: Our friendship has already changed Warp's past. I believe it can also change our future.
- Raven: (fixes the broken necklaces) So... is it too late to do this festival of friendship thing?
- Starfire: [heart eyes] Oh, it is never too late! (everyone puts one a necklace)
- Cyborg: (screaming in Raven's ear) Happy Blorthog!
- Beast Boy: I thought it was Blort-hog.
- Raven: Ok. I feel like a wind chime.
- Robin: (Starfire place a necklace on Robin) So ... "Nightwing", huh?
- Beast Boy: (observing Nightwing's full head of hair) Dude, that is so unfair.
- Starfire: History said it disappeared.... but history was wrong!
- Starfire: (Angry at her friends' constant bickering and breaking the necklaces, she screams) STOP!! Friends must never behave this way! And especially not on Blorthog! Do you wish to invite the Rekmas?
- Beast Boy: (confused) Geshundheit?
- Starfire: On my world, Rekmas means the drifting. The point of which close friends begin to drift apart and their friendship begins to die.
- Cyborg: Oh, come on Starfire!
- Beast Boy: We are so not Rek-whatevering!
- Raven: We're getting on each other's nerves a little. Big deal.
- Robin: Yeah, this is just typical roommate stuff. We're not going to drift apart, Star. I promise. We'll all be friends forever.
- Starfire: Forever?
- Robin: (Titans communicator rings) Titans trouble!
- Beast Boy: (after seeing an infant Warp) Okay, I am not changing any diapers.
- Starfire: If you ever wish to see your future, then you will repair the damage you did to my past!
- Warp: "Damage? Silly girl, there's nothing wrong with your past. One cannot damage history, because history cannot be changed. (Holds up Clock of Eternity) I went back in time to steal this because history says it disappeared. And history says it disappeared because I went back to steal it. Past, present, future. It's all written in stone, my dear. And nothing you do can ever change it."
