The Teen Titans have grown from simply a sidekick squad to one of DC Comics' powerhouse lineups. The Teen Titans encounter some of the best villains in the DC universe. Those villains only heighten the quality of Titans stories. From deadly assassins like Deathstroke to supernatural entities like Raven's father Trigon, this group has fought the best of the best.
However, like most superhero teams, not all the villains the Titans face are cosmic threats. In fact, several Teen Titans comic book villains come across as ridiculous, strange, and even laughable. Some strange villains have become fan-favorites while others were simply left in the waste-basket of experiments that should be left in the past.
10 Mister Twister Kidnapped Children For Feathers
Mister Twister served as one of the first Titans villains in The Brave and the Bold #54 by Bob Haney and Bruno Premiani. Finding a magical shaman staff near his home that possesses weather-bending powers. He kidnaps the teenagers of his hometown in exchange for one thing: a feather from a passenger pigeon.
Twister's ancestors leased the land to Colonists for the price of the pigeon's feather. However, due to the bird going extinct, the townsfolk couldn't repay his later descendants. The original Teen Titans stopped Twister, but he returned, teaming up with the demon Antithesis.
9 Ding Dong Daddy Drove On The Wrong Side Of The Law
In Teen Titans #3 by Bob Haney and Nick Cardy, the Titans were invited to a small town called Harrison. The townsfolk needed their help, as several high school students were dropping out of school. The team discovered the true reason for the dropouts: Ding Dong Daddy.
As a car proprietor, he was hiring kids to work on his vehicles for extra cash, unaware that his true intent was to sell the cars to criminals on the black market. The Titans arrested Daddy and convinced the teens to go back to school. Readers were never sold on an evil mechanic, serving only as a punchline, even in the 2003 Teen Titans animated series.
8 Mad Mod Was Fashionable But Forgettable
Another Haney and Cardy collaboration, the Teen Titans would come across another strange foe in Teen Titans #7. This time, the group dealt with a drug smuggling operation that used clothes as covers, hailing from one particular brand: the "Mad Mod" line.
A fashion designer from England, Neil Richards grew tired of outfitting peasants and sought to outfit criminals with contraband drugs. However, he later encountered the Titans. He was another forgotten foe, coming back in the 90s series, this time a reformed villain, but he went back to his old habits in DC Rebirth.
7 Goth Was An Influencer From Hell
During the 90s Titans era, Devin Grayson and artists Justiniano and Drew Johnson created a brand-new foe for the Titans. Goth was a demon from Hell with sinister motives targeted toward the youth. Every few years, he would take on a new form that enticed teens to become his disciples, forfeiting their souls.
In Titans #3, he took the form of a horror auteur with the team suspecting him of crime based around his films. The team defeated him multiple times in the series. However, he met his unexpected end at the hands of the powerful Justice League foe, Gog, looking to destroy "false gods."
6 Andre Le Blanc Was Just An Arrogant Thief
Created by Marv Wolfman, Len Wein, and Bill Draut, Andre Le Blanc was just like any other foe the Titans battled. The difference: his inflated ego. As a cat burglar, he openly bragged to law enforcement and any government that he could steal from under their noses.
At first, his threats were valid, proving himself competent, even going up against Russian superhero Red Star and winning. However, the Titans and Red Star outsmarted the master thief and Robin later defeated him. His humiliating defeat has since kept him behind bars, never to be seen again.
5 Hallucinatra Served As A Planetary Drug Dealer
Another storyline during The Titans, Tom Peyer and Barry Kitson teamed up to create "Chemical World." The team was transported to an alternate world where drugs were controlling the population, destroying the world. Head scientist Hallucinatra tried to cure his people of the effects, creating robots called Hypomen.
However, the robots were not a permanent fix. Hallucinatra went mad due to his failure. He later assumed total control of the world, serving as both its dictator and dealer. The Titans eventually broke free from their drug-induced illusions, freed everyone else, and defeated Hallucinatra.
4 Captain Rumble Hated Hippies
During the Flower Power era of the 60s, Bob Haney and artist Lee Elias teamed up to showcase hippie life in Teen Titans #15. The team searched for a runaway boy and found him in Hippieville, U.S.A. In this town full of gurus and peace lovers, readers came across one of the main villains.
Captain Rumble was a street biker hoodlum who lead a gang of troublemakers, chasing hippies out of town. Luckily, the Titans stopped him and his gang for good. Rumble is one of many forgotten villains from the Teen Titans' early crimefighting career. His concept was not popular enough to facilitate his return.
3 Dr. Caligan Was Another Mad Scientist
In the early 2010s, J.T. Krul and Nicola Scott took the Titans in new directions, creating new characters. One new creation was Mr. Carter, an ordinary science professor at Walker High School. But Carter was actually Dr. Caligan, a mad scientist.
He experimented on his students, giving them superhuman powers. Caligan unleashed his superpowered minions on the Titans, who stopped Caligan's experiments. However, he escaped and later teamed up with Superboy Prime to create clones of Conner Kent. Through subsequent reboots and retcons, the character's fate remains unknown.
2 Houngan Merged Sorcery And Technology
Created by the iconic team of Marv Wolfman and George Perez, Houngan started off as a computer scientist living in the United States. However, once he witnessed a voodoo priest heal his dying father in Haiti, he became enamored. He researched ways to combine the past and present, creating "virtual voodoo."
However, unlike the doctor, he used his newfound talent for villainy. The Brotherhood of Evil recruited Houngan, using his modern sorcery to battle the Teen Titans and Doom Patrol. While the idea of creating virtual magic is interesting, Houngan hasn't reappeared since Infinite Crisis.
1 The Brain and Monsieur Mallah Are A Diabolical Duo
One of these villains can't be talked about without the other. First appearing in Doom Patrol #86, The Brain was once a French scientist caught in an explosion, leaving nothing but his brain. With help from his trained gorilla assistant, Monsieur Mallah, The Brain assumed a robotic identity, wanting revenge on the person he deemed responsible.
Creating the international Brotherhood of Evil, they fought the Doom Patrol. When Beast Boy joined the New Teen Titans, he brought his Brotherhood antagonists with him. Though a gorilla and a brain in a jar is a strange sight, the two remain constant threats in the DC universe, appearing in cartoon and live-action Titans adaptations.