Changing Faces (TTAS2 Episode)

Changing Faces is the third episode of the alternate version of Teen Titans Season 2.

Featured Charaters

 * Teen Titans
 * Robin / Nightwing (first appearance as Nightwing) (flashback and main story)
 * Starfire
 * Cyborg
 * Beast Boy
 * Raven

Supporting Characters

 * Batman (first appearance) (flashback and main story)
 * Robin / Damian Wayne (first appearance)
 * Red Robin / Tim Drake (first appearance)

Villains

 * Rose the Ravager (first appearance)
 * Talia al Ghul (first appearance) (flashback and main story)
 * Ra's al Ghul (first appearance) (flashback only)

Other Characters

 * Vicky Vale (first appearance)
 * Red Hood (first appearance)

Summary
As his fellow Titans battle against a clan of ninjas and samurais led by Slade's vile daughter Rose the Ravager in order to stop her from ressurecting the demoniac swordsman Ra's al Ghul, Robin (revealing his identity to his teammates to be Dick Grayson) undergoes a new alter-ego: Nightwing.

Plot
The Titans overhear news that Batman is patrolling Ghotam City with a new boy who is fighting as Robin, whom they deduce to be "awfully young", to which their Robin barely agrees, but confirms that he learned many lessons like the Titans did. And Robin appears in the room unmasked, much to the Titans surprise because they never really new how Robin looked like without his mask. Robin eventually reveals his real name to be Dick Grayson, whom only Cyborg and Raven seem familiar with.

As they check on his Dick's room, Cyborg and Raven view journals containing information about Dick's parents, the Flying Graysons, who were once a couple of successful acrobatic circus performers at Haley's Circus until a traggic accident cost John and Mary's lives. Just then, he was raised by Batman and, years latter, trainned to be Robin. After some talk with the Titans, Dick gets for himself a new suit and redubs himself Nightwing. The Titans eventually get to visit Ghotam City, where they are suddenly confronted by a clan of ninjas and samurai led by a young swordswoman with an armor ressembling Slade's. She introduces herself as Rose the Ravager and reveals that she is Slade's daughter, who is determined to fullfill a mission her mentor Talia al Ghul sent her for and, most personally for Rose, to finish the job her father started.

Just as a fight between the Titans and the Clan issues, the young heroes are aided by Batman, forcing Rose and her clan to retreat. The Titans eventually regroup with the Dark Knight in the Batcave, where they also meet Tim Drake (who is currently the Red Robin) and Bruce's son Damain Wayne (who is the current Robin). As the Titans speak with the two Robins, Nightwing claims to have learned of his successor Jason Todd's wherebouts and, much like Batman himself, was not much content about it. Meanwhile, Rose returns to her clan's temple informing her master Talia al Ghul that they could not get the gem she wanted because of both the Titans and Batman. Talia eventually decides to lead the clan into an attack on the heroes with the decision to use them as the sacrifice for her father Ra's al Ghul's ressurection.

Cast

 * Greg Cipes as Beast Boy
 * Scott Menville as Robin / Nightwing
 * Khary Payton as Cyborg
 * Tara Strong as Raven, Robin / Damian Wayne, Vicky Vale
 * Hynden Walch as Starfire
 * Kevin Conroy as Batman
 * Alyssa Milano as Rose the Ravager
 * Cameron Bowen as Red Hood
 * Vanessa Marshall as Talia al Ghul
 * Martin Jarvis as Alfred Pennyworth
 * Xander Berkeley as Commissioner James Gordon

Trivia

 * This episode marks Batman's first true appearance in Teen Titans after numerous series in previous episodes.