How would it work? I'm thinking Robin could be a private detective. Cyborg could be a war vet who lost an arm, a leg and an eye but still manages to work as a cop or a bouncer. Starfire could be a Russian immigrant who fled the USSR and now works as a singer. Raven would definitely be a mob boss daughter. I don't how what Beast Boy could be.
Teen Titans Noir
Owen Lewis
Kayden Baker
Beast Boy is a circus freak or a greaser type
Austin Rodriguez
I'd read it. Raven should be a fortune-teller. You know, parlor covered in drapes and skulls and candles. That sort of thing was very in-vogue at the time.
Adrian Gutierrez
>Raven should be a fortune-teller
More specifically, a gypsy
Brayden Anderson
Dick is already a gypsy.
Juan Reyes
Well, she and Robin would have that in common.
Kevin Foster
Sounds like edgy shit.
Gabriel Jones
Where the fuck is the third series of incognito OP??
Andrew Morales
Just spoke with Ed on the phone. He sends his apologizes and assures he'll start working on it immediately.
Colton Brown
Robin is a rich bored kid who dabbles in detective work because Bruce Wayne, his legal guardian, is famous socialite sleuth along with his wife, Selina Kyle, and the two of them got this Thin Man dynamic going on. Dick spends a lot of his time loitering around New York.
Cyborg is a bit older guy, badly injured amputee war vet who works in a garage. He’s got one of those primitive hook hands and a metal plate in his head.
Raven is a girl running a fortune teller scam at Coney Island, despite having some minor medium powers.
Beast Boy is a fairground freak show jungle boy attraction at Coney Island due to a childhood sickness turning his skin green.
Basic premise is Dick stumbles into a criminal plot orchestrated by Abra Kadabra while loitering around the Coney Island boardwalk and ends up teaming up with the local kids working there. Cyborg ends up offering a helping hand later when the teens venture into the dark night streets of New York and get into a bit of a trouble, and becomes something of an older brother to the group, helping out with shit young kids couldn’t do.
Speedy, Donna and Aqualad might be additional carnie kids who join up later.
Lincoln Thomas
When I think of teens and noir the first thing I think of is Blue Velvet
Ian Robinson
Sounds pretty good. I wish there were more Noir alternate adaptations.
Blake Watson
It would be Brat Pack but unironic and unfunny.
Noah Jenkins
Set in Bludhaven
Bruce Wayne, the Bat-Man is dead (or missing presumed dead you know how it goes)
21 year old Dick Grayson has left Gotham city after losing Bruce, feeling the city bested him and it was no longer his.
He calls himself The Night Robin, and is a private eye. Alfred moves with him and returns to Wayne Manor every few months to check on the house.
Dick moonlights in public as a silversmith's apprentice and makes his weaponry there
Raven is the runaway daughter of some Al Capone type and also half gypsy and a fortune teller
Beast Boy is an old friend of Dick's from the circus who was originally an animal tamers apprentice and is now a freakshow attraction until Dick takes him in.
Cyborg is essentially powered by a huge Ford engine for most of his torso and instead of his white noise cannon he has a flamethrower arm
Starfire is raised as a French aristocrat's daughter after landing on Earth in a semi amnesiatic state as a young girl after her sister Blackfire locked her in a rocket and shipped her off world out of childish jealousy
Gabriel Adams
Based, I'm getting some steampunk vibes on this one.
Julian Martinez
Piggy backing on this thread. What about red Hood and the Outlaws but western.
Jason Todd is an outlaw that survived a hanging and was buried. He dug himself out and now has a red bandana covering his mask.
Speedy was orphaned and discovered/raised by native Americans. He left his tribe after a vision quest showed him Jason and Kory, believe that they are his destiny.
Kory, exactly the same. Except now she wears mid western clothes.
John Powell
Beast boy being a circus freak made no sense in the tvshow, nor in the comics. I can see him turning into a mobster with a heart of gold, doing bad things because he owes the boss for taking him in when he was left a orphan.
Joseph Richardson
I'd read the shit out of it. Why isn't DC doing more Elseworlds like these? I find them way more interesting than the original series.
Elijah Powell
It's the 30's esque times dude what else would an animal skinwalker man be other than in hiding than in a circus. I imagine most of the Doom Patrol would be traveling Carnie/Circus folks.
Oh fuck. The owner of Halys Circus could secretly be Niles Caulder
Wyatt Davis
Animal skinwalker would be a street rat, the stinking racoon, the flying squirrel - you get the puns
Jack Carter
Now how would you do Artemis and Bizarro?
You could definitely get a lot of mileage out of medical quackery and technology fairs when doing noir Doom Patrol.
Jacob Gutierrez
I would have to write out Starfire and Roy.
Starfire- her arc more or less follows the comic, but I'd end it with her defeating blackfire. And her leaving the Outlaws to rule her planet.
This would be big hit on the team and Jason and Roy split.
Roy decides to become sheriff of the town which the comic first started. His Deputy is Nightwing.
Jason, decides he's done and just wants to travel by himself.
Eli Diaz
I can see Dick wearing a golden pocket watch instead of the "R" on his chest because it was a gift from his parents. He meets Raven on the boardwalk when she seductively offers him to read his palm while she steals her watch. Suddenly she sees her dad's henchmen looking for her so she runs away with the mobsters pursuing her. Dick realizes his watch is gone so he also runs after them. They get into a dead end and just before they grab Raven Dick says some one-liner and beats them up. They become friends afterwards but Raven's dad is after Dick now too.
Bentley Watson
So to answer the question. I'd do a freakshow. Bizzarro is an attraction (personally I'd switch him out with Grundy)
Artemis is searching for her weapon which is in the show in the oddities around the world tour. She has no idea how to act civil so she causes a big fight.
Jason gets roped into her fight, and when they look like everything end Bizzarro saves them. The three then end up together in sort of a Samurai champloo style
Benjamin Rodriguez
Bizarro could be a strongman who used to be very successful but after an accident in one of his shows ended up retarded like Forest Gump.
Nicholas Myers
Who cares about bizarro? superman could literally be circus strongman in this timeline because his original costume was based on a 1930s circus performers.
James Garcia
The Titans of Tinsletown
Justin Fisher
>Beast Boy is a fairground freak show jungle boy attraction at Coney Island due to a childhood sickness turning his skin green.
Dick goes to Coney Island and sees performers in makeup.
“I fucking hate clowns.”
Henry Bell
Cyborg would be a tragic character like Richard Harrow
Anthony Collins
Well then there you go.
1930 strongman Superman 6 issue mini
Adrian Gray
They can be twin brothers who got into a fight over the same woman. One accidently hit the other with an iron weight which left him retarded.
Chase Sullivan
I like that. Sort of an American Hammer and Sickle, but just twins