Cyborg looking for the All-You Can Eat Buffet
Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo is the official film of the series that concluded it. The plot involves on the Titans looking for a criminal called Brushogun said to be a myth by all Japanese, but only a few are correct. The first enemy the Titans fight is a high-tech samurai warrior that resembles a Power Ranger, his name was Saico-Tek. It is not until near the ending of the Teen Titans' trip in Tokyo who the main villain is.
Brushogun activitated by Commander Daizo
Plot
Opened in a scene where cars are driving out of order, several cars and trucks are spinning and going opposite directions. Then, a truckdriver stops his truck, and finds a strange mutant who is standing in front of him. The truckdriver yelled at him to move, but the strange mutant man threw a bomb into his truck, and the truckdriver escaped his truck and found his seat sabotaged. The strange blue-pink-black mutant then throws more bommerang gadgets and they each explode, causing mayhem in the town. Then, a boomerang gadget that belongs to Robin, a sonic blast from Cyborg, and Beast Boy in hawk form now come to action and attack him. The Teen Titans chase him in town, and he is apparently too difficult to make the battle end very quickly. Robin is riding his R-Motorcycle, Cyborg is driving his T-Car, Beast Boy is in cheetah form, and Starfire and Raven are flying after him. The mutant has several escape gadgets that help him get away by throwing bombs at the Titans that explode. Cyborg's T-Car is blown up and Cyborg is rescued by BB as a pterodatcyl, Starfire is now holding Robin to fly, and the mutant attacks Titans Tower, and does major damage to the building with several bombs. At last, Robin catches him by tying him in a knot, and Cyborg whines "Our house...look what he did to our house".
Robin then handcuffs the mutant and translates his Japanese to English on the Translation Computer, the mutant is saying "You must let me go! I am Saico Tek! You cannot stop me! Only he can stop me! I came from Tokyo!!". Robin yells and questions him why he attacked his home and friends. Saico-Tek, also angrily responds "He made me do it! He is worse than any other criminal!", and Robin yelled at him who sent him to attack their tower. Saico-Tek quietly said one word, "Brushogun", and sets on a water sprinkler and he suddenly vanishes. As the other Titans are cleaning up, Robin declares a mission to go to Tokyo. Beast Boy believes it's a vacation, and the Titans pack their things. After packing up their bags, keeping Silkie left behind, taking rest room breaks, looking for directions to get to Tokyo, they land on a hill next to civilization. Beast Boy then asks Robin how they're going to arrange a vacation, but Robin promptly said, "We're not on vacation! We're heroes!", and Beast Boy is forced to realize that it's a mission. Suddenly, the audience sees a black-figure who is watching the Teen Titans on the computer, knowing Saico-Tek sent them, and pressed a button starting a printing press to begin. While in civilization, the Titans can't read the signs because they're Japanese. Suddenly, Starfire kisses a Japanese man,& Robin is the one who is especially shocked (since he has a crush on her, starting in Betrothed), and Starfire reveals that Tamaranians communicate through lip-contact, and now she knows Japanese, and also, the viewers can see the man having hearts around him so now he has a crush on Starfire. Then, people are running and screaming in panic. Starfire translates that the people are yelling "Run! The monster is attacking the power lines!"
Then, the Titans see a giant green dragon that resembles Godzilla (1954) and Gorgo (1960) attacking Electricity-stations. The Titans attack the monster, but it also has armor and can grow back damaged body parts changing color to normal just like Saico-Tek, and the Titans know that this monster is also a creation of Brushogun. Raven tries smashing the monster with cars, but the monster's skin is too tough, Beast Boy misses his chance to attack it as a Tyrannosaurus-Rex, Cyborg blasts a sonic cannon but he is smashed by building debris, and Starfire is grabbed by the monster in a fist. The monster turns all of its' attention to Robin and chases him in a tram-railroad. Suddenly, police cars come and surround the monster. A police commander comes & yells, "Troopers! Charge!". Troopers from the cars fire laser from their guns at the monster, and place a giant circle around the monster. The commander then uses a gun to activate the circle to trap the monster like a net and he responds to the five, "Ah, you are the Teen Titans. Welcome to Japan. I am Police Commander Uherazu Daizo". The Titans bow to him (in Japanese tradition), and Cyborg and Raven bend Beast Boy's head over as well. Then, Commander Daizo shows the Titans the Tokyo Troopers' Headquarters. Hundreds of Tokyo Troopers are training and they have improved criminal under control 200 percent. Robin asks Commander Daizo that they're looking for a villain called Brushogun, but Commander Daizo tells him Brushogun is a myth, an urban legend told by people in stories. Robin, feeling so absent-minded and clumsy, believing that he was tricked by Saico-Tek to come to the city of Tokyo for no reason but to realize that Brushogun is a urban legend, until Cyborg yelled at Robin that they are in Japan, so they should be on a wonderful vacation, so the Titans decide to stay and look for evidence if Brushogun exists.
Beast Boy, Cyborg, Raven, and Robin & Starfire together are separated and go on each other with communication devices to group each other in case of an emergency. The audience sees the black-figure again earlier and prints villains whose shadows are only seen and are stalking the Titans one by one. For Beast Boy, he sees a really pretty girl laughing at him and calls him "Otaku" (meaning "obsessed with manga and comics" in Japanese) when Beast Boy gets full attention of the girl and madly pursues her when the girl is running away laughing. Starfire and Robin are at a Japanese Arcade and Starfire is in great luck because she becomes the #1 High-Score Winner in a Dance-Dance Revolution, Whack-A-Mole, and Guitar Hero-esque game, and the Japanese boys praise her in being the advanced-level game's best player, sending Robin out of attention of Starfire. Also, Raven is looking for books that are printed in English or any other language she knows (she doesn't know Japanese) and the only thing she is able to read at a public book store is a piece of gum, called "Super Twinkle Donkey Gum", and tries to control her temper at the Book Stand owner by chewing the gum. Then, Robin and Starfire travel around Tokyo in a garden and fly to the top of a tower. The two discuss about the event where Starfire kissed the guy with almost no reason, and Robin understands why she kissed him earlier before: to know and understand English. Starfire goes off on her own in an unknown place and Robin also looks for evidence of Saico-Tek. Raven finds evidence of Brushogun from a short but wise and old book-store owner that Brushogun is no myth, and was true but only few people believed him to exist.
For Cyborg, he found an All-You-Can-Eat Sushi Bar(with a robot stalking him) and he angers the Sushi Bar's owner for eating so much, and dared himself to eat octopus. For Beast Boy, he ends up being in a karoake following the girl and the audience are full of Japanese girls who urge him to sing the Teen Titans' Theme Song (in English, instead of Japanese and English combined performed by Puffy Ami-Yumi in the opening credits), and the girls fall in love with Beast Boy and each one kisses him. Then, Cyborg gets chased by angry cooks and the angry Sushi Bar Owner while Beast Boy is chased by girls to avoid being kissed. Then, danger comes.. Robin finds another Saico-Tek! Robin battles Saico-Tek alone, and he is wounded in minor injuries. In a painful short fight, Robin kills the Saico-Tek and is covered in pink paint and makes himself look like a violent-criminal. The Japanese citizens all stare with fear and terror at Robin thinking he is a criminal. Then, Daizo, police commander who caught the Green Lizard monster earlier tells Robin, I am sorry my young friend, but you leave me with no choice. I must put you under arrest, and Robin is arrested. His news of being arrested spreads throughout Japan, and Starfire notices, and she alerts the three other Titans.
The four other Titans, however, are too busy to find Robin because criminals are fighting and atacking them. Raven fights a ghost that looks similar to No-Face from the 1997 film "Spirited Away", Cyborg fights a yellow robot with a Pac-Man face and the character "Boss-Borot" from the show Mazinger and the girl Beast Boy fell in love with turns out to be a pink cat-devil (that resembles the Puma twins from the show Dominion: Tank Police), and Starfire fights a blue boy robot who resembles Astro-Boy from the manga series. At the Tokyo Troopers' Prison, Commander Daizo and Robin discuss over the event. Robin told him that Saico-Tek isn't human and it's not blood, it's pink ink, until Daizo reminds him that "most of his friends" are not human and reminds him furiously that Brushogun is a myth. When Robin is inside a truck to be taken to another jail, he finds a Saico-Tek gadget bomb inside the truck and escapes when the bomb explodes. Robin also is able to disguise himself by stealing clothes of a crook who ordered him to give him money with a gun. Robin then finds a Beer-Booth owner who knows about Brushogun at the Beer-Booth. The Beer-Booth owner told him that Brushogun is not supposed to mention because it is said that it can inspire more criminals in Japan. Then, Commander Daizo and his troops chase after Robin who steals a motorcycle to get away. When Robin is surrounded, he puts his hands up, but Starfire rescues him by grabbing ihs arm and flying off.
The Titans get residence at a Japanese-motel room. Raven then reads the evidence and origin of Brushogun: He was at first an ordinary manga artist. He drew a woman who he fell in love with, and used dark Japanese magic to make her come to life. It worked, but at a terrible price. The woman who touched him had gave him evil powers, turning his skin into paper, covered in black ink, and had formed criminals with his hands, and transformed into Brushogun.
Then, Robin puts on back his regular costume, and Tokyo Troopers, karoake-girls, and Sushi Bar chieves show up to catch and stalk the Titans. A chase starts where the Teen Titans are running from the criminals created by Brushogun, the Tokyo Troopers, karoake-girls chasing Beast Boy, and Sushi Bar chieves chasing Cyborg. Commander Daizo looks furiously for the titans, and they find a Comic Book Company, Wakamoko, where it has a printing press. At the Wakamoko Comic Book factory, they find an elderly black dark figure trapped to a printing press who turns out to be Brushogun. Brushogun reveals he sent the first Saico-Tek to the Titans as a messenger to take them to Tokyo for help from the main criminal. The main criminal sent the second Saico Tek to Robin as a trap. And it also turns out that someone else was framing Robin. And we see the black-figure again who talks to the Titans. Robin then says that the answer of the criminal whose plotting crime is the hero who catches them: and it is Commander Uherazu Daizo.
Robin and the Titans finally know the true answer: Commander Daizo was framing them, and he used Brushogun's powers on a printing press to print monster criminals and evil doers so that he can capture them and look like a hero and be praised for fame and fortune. Robin yells out the truth: "You used his powers to lie! To make yourself look like a hero! And when I started to look for the truth, you made me look like a criminal!", and "Brushogun was the only real criminal you ever caught, wasn't he?!". Commander Daizo replied "One was enough", and ordered the Tokyo Troopers to attack the Titans. The Teen Titans fight and defeat the Tokyo Troopers, and they also turn out to be just ink-drawings created by Brushogun. Commander Daizo prints back all the criminals in the printing press that fought the Titans, and when Robin tried to catch Daizo, he dove into the printing press core and took over control of Brushogun's power and transformed into a large, giant ink monster with the criminals and enemies as the ink substances.
The Teen Titans are busy fighting the criminals, and Robin tries to remove Brushogun from Commander Daizo's ink monster body, but is sucked inside and is trapped as well so that Brushogun's spell can break. Raven, Starfire, and Cyborg are all captured and Beast Boy is the only remaining Titan left. But as Commander Daizo is laughing easily believing he defeated the Teen Titans, Robin comes out and removes Brushogun from the machine. Brushogun's last words to Robin and all were: "You ... saved me", and disappeared from existence. Soon, the ink and criminals start to melt, and Commander Daizo's power is melting. Raven, Starfire, and Cyborg are freed, and Commander Daizo is turned back to normal, ready to be arrested the next day.
After winning and completing the journey mission in Tokyo, Robin and Starfire kiss each other for the first time, and Cyborg responds "Well, it's about time". The next day, Robin's criminal records are evicted and erased and the Teen Titans are praised the newest heroes of Japan, and are given Medals of being heroes and bravery for protection and defense. Cyborg then faces the Sushi Bar Owner again, and he still thinks the Owner is angry at him, but it turns out that the Sushi-Bar Owner is showing him a present: a giant one-year supply of food on a round table, and announces "All You Can Eat!" and the hungry teenager-robot eats it with joy and ravenous appetite. Beast Boy is still kissed and loved by lots of girls, but now it's more safer, and Raven is the mascot of Super Twinkle Donkey Gum, the gum she chewed earlier before. Then, Robin tells "You know, heroes DO need a vacation at times".
The Teen Titans are finally all happy together and continued being praised. Beast Boy then says "Okay, next year, we'll go Mexico". Robin and Raven do not like the joke, and Raven smacks him off the screen, concluding the running gag that she still is annoyed by his lame jokes.
The ending credits roll as each of the Titans sing their theme song.
Trivia
- No recurring villain from the TV Series appeared in the movie.
- There were several Japanese shop owners in the movie who the Titans confronted.
- Not even other recurring heroes from the Tv series appeared in the movie, except Aqualad in the beginning where he is seen waving at them.
- Silkie makes a cameo in the movie.
- There are several parodies of Japanese manga and popular media in the movie (see above).
- The plot resembles episodes of Scooby-Doo.
- The show's final story arc finale.
- Beast Boy has a second-person protagonist role in the story.