WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Future State: Teen Titans #1, by Tim Sheridan, Rafa Sandoval, Jordi Tarragona, Alejandro Sanchez and Rob Leigh, on sale now.

Future State is here, and it's introduced a more perilous vision of the DC Universe's potential future for a new generation of heroes in possible timelines rocked by cataclysmic events. In one era, Earth has been devastated in an event that resulted in the deaths of numerous members of the Teen Titans and left the rest of the rest of the team shattered in the aftermath. And as the surviving heroes attempt to pick up the pieces and inspire the next wave of young superheroes, two major Titans have been merged together, as they try to adjust to their new normal.

Sometime after the explosive disaster that laid the Titans low, Nightwing and Red Arrow visit the ruins of Titans Island off the coast of New York City. After paying their respects to a field of graves to their fallen friends -- some of whom were killed by a possessed Wally West -- , the two join the rest of the Titans in a subterranean meeting under the streets of a devastated, flooded New York. Raven approaches a solitary figure huddled in the shadows of a darkened cell whom she addresses as Cybeast, a composite individual created by a merger of Beast Boy and Cyborg in Future State: Teen Titans.

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Gar Logan and Victor Stone have always had one of the tightest friendships in the DC Universe, certainly among the Teen Titans. Along with Raven, the heroes were considered somewhat to be the misfits of the group in direct comparison to some of their teammates. And while Vic struggled with his lost humanity as he came to terms with the growing amount of cybernetic implants and prosthetics in his body, it was always Gar with a quick joke that helped lift the mood, even if Gar's constant sense of humor was a coping mechanism to help him address his own unresolved pain and trauma.

Even as their counterparts' tenure with the main Titans group ended and they moved into young adulthood, Cyborg and Beast Boy remained as a fixture for subsequent generations of Titans, taking on a mentor role on later iterations of the team.

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While it's not entirely known how Cyborg and Beast Boy merged into a single being, flashbacks indicate the disaster that befell the Titans years ago involved a confrontation with Red X and feedback created by Dial H for Hero's modern dial, used by heroes Miguel Montez and Summer Pickens. With the two young heroes killed in the confusion, the resulting shockwave from their signature dial being damaged in a scuffle may have caused a blast that killed some of the other Titans seen buried years later on Titans Island and merged Beast Boy and Cyborg in the immediate fallout. Although Cybeast seems to be a functioning member of the team, the personas of the two heroes disagree more than they did as separate entities.

With Red X shaping up to be a part of Titans Academy moving into the Infinite Frontier era, the cataclysm that has befallen the Teen Titans in Future State may be a dark harbinger of things to come for the DC Universe's preeminent young superhero team. Red X's confrontation leading to the encounter with Dial H for Hero stemmed over how students were treated at Titans Academy and with the antihero slated to be Infinite Frontier's most prominent student in the fledging superhero school, future events may repeat themselves spelling deadly consequences for the Titans and a partnership for Victor and Gar that may be closer than either would care to embark upon.

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