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"Fractured" is the eleventh episode of season two and the overall 24th episode of the Teen Titans series.

Plot[]

On a dark and stormy night in downtown Jump City, Robin is in hot pursuit of a nasty motorcycling street thug on a destructive vandalistic rampage calling himself Johnny Rancid. Robin's efforts to apprehend the vandal on the R-Cycle prove difficult and frustrating at best due to Rancid's unfair play as well as Robin's electric disk's proving no match for his marksmanship. Refusing to quit without a fight, Robin tries to take one last chance at catching Rancid when they come to the left main cable of the bay bridge. When they make it to the top and do a long jump from the first main tower, Robin miscalculates his trajectory and crashes himself and the R-Cycle into the peak of the second tower, wrecking it as Rancid gets away after taunting Robin to no end.

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Titans attempt to prevent Robin from endangering himself again, only for Robin to agree.

The next morning, Robin recovers from the accident. Thankfully, the worst he sustained was a broken arm which Raven manages to reduce to a minor fracture, but will still require weeks of containment within a cast. However, Robin still furiously blames himself for his blunder in capturing Johnny Rancid and the other Titans tackle him to prevent him from continuing the mission. But to their surprise, Robin states he was just reaching for the TV remote and actually admits that he is in no condition to go after Rancid anymore. They question him on this as he tells them he is leaving his teammates to it since he doubts he won't mess up again while wearing the cast. Suddenly, Robin starts experiencing painfully violent spasms until literally the weirdest thing happens: an inter-dimensional, impish version of himself claiming to be him bursts out from Robin's skull, much to his shock and udder confusion.

A DNA analysis proves that they are indeed one and the same, which Robin can't believe because of the unbelievable goofball the imp proves himself to be while making a mess of the living room. Robin's idea of a failed cloning attempt is shot down immediately when the imp explains that he's Robin's counterpart from the dimension 49/8 as well as Robin's #1 Fan named Nosyarg Kcid (Dick Grayson spelled backwards). Starfire and Beast Boy welcome him to their dimension and Beast Boy suggests that out of simplicity sake, they just call him "Larry", to which he joyously accepts and coins. He goes on a cartoonish celebration spree and re-introduces himself to his new friends. Cyborg asks how he did all that cartoonish stuff and Larry explains that he has a magic finger which can bend the rules of reality. He normally uses his powers as a spectator for Robin on his missions and adventures with the Titans just like any fan would on a TV. But when he learned Robin was hurt, Larry decided to help his idol and thus come into this dimension - but somehow goofed and entered this dimension through Robin's skull, which explains his entrance. Larry demonstrates his abilities by curing a logic-induced headache for Beast Boy (in a very cartoonish method) and tries to do the same for Robin, but only succeeds in turning his entire forearm into a hockey stick. Just then, the Teen Titans are alerted to Johnny Rancid wreaking havoc downtown and Robin irritatingly sends them on their way.

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Instant urban developments

While Robin channel surfs, Larry turns Robin's arm to so many different and bizarre things trying to fix it. He changes it back to start over and decides to try something that will fix it just right, but Robin refuses any more attempts since he can't deal with this nonsense any longer. When he becomes too pushy in his endless efforts to help, Robin gets angry and wrestles with Larry. However, in the scuffle, Robin accidentally breaks Larry's magic finger, causing his power to spread to the tower and making reality literally crack apart around them. Just then, a huge column of light shoots out from the top of the Tower and Robin and Larry, including the Titans who are after Rancid, are hurled into the city, which has turned into a manifestation of a preschooler's drawing and everything else goes completely haywire (especially Beast Boy's mouth which has actually gone missing). When he and Robin crash land in the middle of the city along with the other Titans, Larry confesses that the scuffle earlier cause them to accidentally break reality and he has no way of fixing it due to his magic finger broken just like Robin's arm. He orders Raven to fix his finger so he can fix reality, but she dismisses the idea due to the risk of destroying the dimension's boundaries and nullifying all existence as a result of mixing her powers with his. In order to get to the bottom of this, Cyborg declares that the six of them are heading straight for Titans Tower. Starfire asks Robin if he is feeling okay, but tells her that he is continuing to blame himself because of yet another mistake on his part, the universe is falling apart like the shards of a broken window. While Larry gets a cast for his finger and declares that he and Robin are "cast buddies", Larry's reality-bending magic continues to terraform the city, putting all the civilians in danger due the surreal constructs and creatures manifesting from it. The only place that looks normal is Titans Tower, where Larry's power is bursting from like a fountain. However, the increasing instability in reality causes Raven's hair to spontaneously change into a style resembling that of Marge Simpson's and Starfire's head sprouts wings and totally separates from her body, proving Beast Boy's loss of his mouth to be the tip of the iceberg compared to everything else they're obviously going to have to deal with while they make their way back to the Tower. The first of these challenges is a cat and mouse chase with a gigantic dinosaur while Beast Boy chases down a streetlamp with legs that has somehow come into possession of his mouth. However, after escaping the belly of a whale on their failed sail to Titans Tower Island, the Titans make it back to the island and Beast Boy finally manages to recapture his mouth (only to find himself cursed to speak backwards when he puts it back on backwards), as well as Starfire reattaching her head to her body. When they make it to the Tower's roof, they are beset by the focal point of all the reality-bending weirdness. As they wonder how to close the energy beam, Johnny Rancid shows up and declares that since it controls the city, he jumps into the power surge before the Titans can stop him, turning into a demonic version of himself.

Johnny Rancid takes control of the city and reality itself by warping the reality beam to his own manifestation and transforms all of Jump City into a macabre version of itself. The Titans chase after him when he flies away on his motorcycle, but Rancid manages to disable them one by one by making the new environment fight for him and he escapes into the city. Robin admits defeat because he thinks he will mess up again, but Larry helps him recover his confidence, citing Robin as his hero because he never stops trying in the face of odds even more overwhelming than this. Rancid is wreaking havoc in the city when Robin suddenly appears on his fully operational R-Cycle, with Larry having granted it the ability to fly with what little power he can get out of his finger. Robin and Larry now have Johnny Rancid on the ropes by taunting him to no end this time, who becomes so angry that he loses control of himself. With Rancid distracted, Robin kicks him off his bike, and Larry manages to get close enough to recover his powers from the villain. Stripped of his new powers, Rancid is finally weakened to the point of defeat and Larry manages to restore reality and the city returns to normal.

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Larry encourages Robin to keep on trying

Just before Larry heads back home, he reassures Beast Boy that his backwards talk will wear off in due time and Robin decides to show his gratitude by allowing him another chance to fix his arm. Unexpectedly, Larry totally succeeds, but, even less expectedly, Robin, in turn, now finds himself standing in a white boundless void.

Characters[]

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Credit[]

Trivia[]

  • This episode's title song is sung by Puffy AmiYumi's producer Toshiro Kai.
  • Larry's real name (Nosyarg Kcid) is Dick Grayson spelled backwards.
  • When Larry is coming out of Robin's forehead, it looked like the bump on Starfire's forehead when her Transformation first started.
  • Mad Mod, Trident, Doctor Light, and Cinderblock cameo when Larry explains he watches Robin beat the bad guys all the time.
  • This is a rare time where Robin does not obsess over going after a villain.
  • The last time this episode aired on Boomerang was June 1, 2014.

Cultural references[]

  • The passing of Larry on the bike during the theme song is reminiscent of the title sequence of season 3 of the 60s Batman series where Yvonne Craig played Batgirl.
  • The Titans affected by the fractured reality are Raven, Starfire, and Beast Boy. Raven's hairdo changes into a Marge Simpson-type style from The Simpsons, Starfire's head grows bird-like wings and flies off her neck and shoulders, and Beast Boy loses his mouth.
    • The stripe on Raven's changed hair is also reminiscent of the Bride of Frankenstein.
      • Eventually when she fixes it by the time the gang makes it back to the tower, it then shapes into an actual raven and then the leaning tower of Pisa.
  • Larry busting out of Robin's forehead is most likely a shout-out to the anime series FLCL.
  • Johnny's Demon-like form looks like Akuma from the games series Street Fighter.
  • While Larry was on his cartoonish celebration streak and repeating his new name, the detailed figure that he calle "Mr. Larry" is the exact likeness of Robin or Jason Todd from his debut appearance in the DC Comics from 1940.
  • While attempting to "fix" Robin's arm, Larry turns it into a chainsaw, a play on the character Ash Williams of the Evil Dead trilogy.

Goofs[]

  • Since Robin's right arm was fractured, he has been wearing a cast. In multiple scenes, both arms are in their regular gloves and no cast is present.
  • As Larry shows Robin's comic book on screen, the letter "R" in the words "THE BOY WONDER" appears to be incomplete, hence misspelled as "THE BOY WONDEK".
  • In the scene where Beast Boy tears Raven's mouth from her face, the former's arms disappear for a brief period.
    • When Beast Boy places the mouth on his face, it has purple lipstick on.
  • When Beast Boy put on his mouth backwards, it appears the right way after he flies on top of the Tower.

Gallery[]

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Transcript[]

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