CHANGELING

Real Name: Garfield Mark Logan

Class: Human mutate

Occupation: Superhero

Group Affiliation: formerly Doom Patrol, New Teen Titans, Titans II

Known Relatives: Steve Dayton (Mento, adoptive father), Rita Farr (Elasti-Girl, adoptive mother), Marie Logan (mother, deceased), Mark Logan (father, deceased), Matt Logan (cousin)

Aliases: Beast Boy

Base of Operations: Titans Compound, NYC, formerly Upper Lamumba, Africa, Titans Tower, Manhattan, NYC, San Francisco

First Appearance: Doom Patrol I #99 (November, 1965)

Powers: Changeling could shapeshift into any animal, complete with all its natural abilities and limitations , that he coulkd picture in his mind. Changeling could maintain animal forms for only a limited period of time, the larger the animal the shorter the amount of time he could retain the form, and the more exhausted using his powers made him.

History: Scientists Mark and Marie Logan traveled to the African country Upper Lamumba with their young son Garfield in tow. Garfield contracted Sakutia, a rare tropical disease that only non-human animals could survive, so Mark, in desperation, treated him with an untested machine that isolated the genetic commonalities humans shared with other animals. The process saved Garfield's life, but left him with green skin, and the power to transform into any animal he could think of.

Garfield's parents died in a boating accident, and he was raised by  King Tawaba, chief of a local tribe.

(Doom Patrol I #115) - Gar roamed the streets of Johannesburg, lost and alone. He was starving, so he stole food from a fruit stand, and made his escape by turning into a gorilla. Nazi Herr Von Shimmel was creating a gorilla army using a machine that granted gorillas human-level intelligence, and had his men capture Gar. Gar was taken to the Nazi hq, but escaped by turning into a butterfly. Witnessing the gorillas being subjugated and turned into a militia, he tried the best plan his young plan could come up with, turning back into a gorilla and trying to sever the compounds main electric cable. The Nazis attacked him, but he communicated with his ape brethren and they turned on their former masters. Nicolas Galtry, who wanted a stake in Gar's inheritance, located him and convinced him he was a friend before taking him away from Africa on the next flight out of the country. 

(Doom Patrol I #116) - Mutants Ar, Ir and Ur were threatening to destroy Earth by using their energy beams to bring Halley's Comet straight towards Earth, and Chief summoned the DP to stop them. He split up his team to find them, and Mento had a hunch they'd be in the Himalayas, since they needed a mountaintop for their plan to work. He was accompanied by Beast Boy, who groused about freezing over Mento's hunch, and Mento threatened to give him his first fat lip as his adoptive father. They didn't find the mutants, but they disturbed the Abominable Snowman, who went after them with a warclub. Beast Boy calmed him down, and made friends with him by giving him an Alfred E. Neumann button, which he claimed was a mirror. The rest of the team defeated the mutants, and they returned to hq to celebrate.

(DC Comics Presents #26 (ff)) - The New Teen Titans were called in by S.T.A.R. Labs after Prof. Stone opened up an extra dimensional gateway and released a giant protozoan that was trying to convert Earth’s atmosphere to methane to suit its needs. Changeling grumbled that he was on the verge of scoring with a stewardess when he got the call. The Titans battled the alien without much success before the battle returned to the lab where the dimensional gateway was stored. Prof. Stone sucked the air from the room, giving it no atmosphere to breathe, and Starfire blasted it back to its own world before destroying the gateway at Stone’s request.

(Titans East Special #1 (fb)) - Joker, with his hired goon Bizarro, crashed pop star Jenn’s concert in Central Park. He held her hostage, but the New Teen Titans responded and took Jenn to safety. Kid Flash took away Joker’s gun, be realized the gun contained a bomb, Joker’s actual plan involved blowing up all of Jenn’s fans. He ran at superspeed to toss it into the ocean, and Raven tried to confront Joker with his worst fears and nightmares, but they only made him laugh convulsively. Flash and Robin secured Blue Kryptonite from S.T.A.R. Labs to defeat Bizarro, and Robin took out Joker with one punch. The Teen Titans were impressed with themselves for having taken out such heavy hitters, and knew they’d always succeed as long as they stuck together.

(Damage #5, 6) - The governor of Georgia called in some favors in Washington to get Changling and the New Titans to reunite and come to his state to deal with an outbreak of superhuman violence. The Titans interrupted a battle between Damage and Steelhawk and told Damage they were there to stop his rampage across Georgia. They didn’t realize he was new to his destructive powers and had been forced to use them to defend himself against supervillains. They didn’t realize he was new to his destructive powers and had been forced to use them to defend himself against supervillains. Iron Munro convinced them he was a hero and they all turned their attention to Steelhawk. The fight ended when Munro, Damage and Steelhawk were caught in a temporal distortion field caused by Zero Hour and sent into the past. The Titans still functioned poorly as a team, and decided to stay disbanded.

(Beast Boy #1, 2) - When the Titans reformed Gar decided to stand on his own and become a star in Hollywood, like his late adoptive mother Rita. Steve Dayton told him his cousin Matt, an aspiring screenwriter, lived in L.A., and he could stay with him. Gar met with his old agent Doug Wrighte, showing him old tapes of his role in Space Trek 2022, a plucky young cadet. Doug said he was old news, and told him to generate some buzz before he returned to his office. Walking the streets Gar came upon a riot, and an mad bus driver who attempted to ram the crowd. Gar turned into a whale to block the bus, and kept the rioters from tearing each other apart by becoming an octopus. The crowd soon came to their senses, and the news media was on the scene, but ignored Gar's involvement in the story. Gar met Matt, who turned out to not be as successful as he was hoping, and Matt invited him to schmooze with him at the Opium Den club. The bouncer wasn't impressed with either of them, so Gar turned into a mouse and snuck into the club, letting Matt in. A young woman recognized Gar from Space Trek, and told him he was her hero. Gar replied that he was nobody's hero, and he had better things to do than talk to a fangirl. Matt thought he was being a jerk, but when Gar saw her being intimidated by another man he intervened. The man threw him into the bar before running into an alley behind the club with the fangirl. Gar followed, but was knocked out by an assailant. When he came to he found the man's mauled body, and the police had arrived. The police arrested Gar, and the press were suddenly interested in him again, seeing him as another child star grown into a trainwreck. Flamebird, who was hoping Gar had come to Hollywood to lead Titans West, demanded he be released into her custody, mortifying Gar. The police told her Gar wasn't going anywhere unless she had $25,000 for his bail, which she admitted she didn't have on her. Gar spotted a doppelganger from his cell, and figured him to be behind the frame-up. He escaped jail by turning into a dragonfly, but the doppelganger evaded him, and the police put an APB out on him. Gar returned to Matt's place, when bounty hunters Fear and Loathing attacked him. They had emotional stimulators that caused feelings of fear and anger, and were behind the riot Gar encountered earlier. Much to Matt's chagrin they destroyed his apartment, but the bounty hunters were only there to stall Gar, and fled once the police responded.

(Beast Boy #3, 4) - Gar was tossed in prison again, along with Matty, arrested as an accomplice. They were outfitted with DEO power inhibitors, even though Matty protested that even though he was Gar's cousin he didn't have any superpowers. Matty told Gar not to worry because he'd almost passed a semester of criminal justice, but the police weren't impressed with his negligible knowledge of the law. Flamebird returned to bail them out, but was unaware she couldn't pay with a personal check. Gar was cleared when reports came in of Nightwing fighting his doppelganger. Furthermore the doppelganger had already kidnapped Gar's Space Trek co-stars Tim Bender and Vicky Valiant, so he clearly had a grudge. Nightwing picked up Gar and offered to help him catch his double, but Gar was still angry he hadn't been invited to join the Titans, and said he wanted to stand on his own two feet. Gar and Matty returned home only to find that Matty had finally been evicted. The double left behind xianqui pieces, so Gar searched Chinatown, and found a woman resembling a younger Madame Rouge waiting for him. The young woman was Gemini, daughter of Madame Rouge, and she was raised to hate the Doom Patrol, and blamed Gar for Rouge's death, so she decided to ruin his name by impersonating him. She summoned Fear and Loathing to attack Gar, while she took his Hollywood co-stars away, planning to kill them, hoping the blame would fall on Gar. Flamebird arrived to help Gar fend off the bounty hunters, allowing him to pursue Gemini. Gar battled her, saved his co-stars, and knocked out Gemini with a punch after a shapeshifter duel. The media was abuzz about Gar, and Don Dickerson, the producer of Space Trek, said he had roles lined up for him. Gar hung up on him, sick of how fickle Hollywood was. Flamebird offered her apartment to Gar and Matt, and they moved in. Flamebird put the idea of bringing back Titans West in his head, and he admitted he had a hard time saying no to a cute blonde.

(JLA / JSA: Virtue and Vice) - Hong Kong, Changeling and Nightwing battled citizens under the control of the Seven Deadly Sins. The Sins were defeated by the JLA and JSA, and their influence over the people of Hong Kong ended.

(Flash II #209) - Changeling and the rest of the world forgot Flash’s secret identity thanks to the Spectre. Flash wanted the heros he knew and trusted to know his identity, so he unmasked for Changling and teTeen Titans.

(Flash II #210) - Flash and the Teen Titans got together for a little catch-up.

(Identity Crisis #1) - Changeling was among the number of heroes who attended Sue Dibny’s funeral. Afterwards heroes broke into teams to look for suspects in Sue’s murder, and Changeling and the Teen Titans went looking for Plasmus and Warp.

(Superman / Batman #13) - Changeling and the Teen Titans were among the heroes invited to Paradise Island to welcome Superman's cousin Supergirl into the superhero community.

(Green Arrow III #46) - Green Arrow sponsored Speedy’s membership in the Teen Titans, and after an initiation training session and a combat session with Robin, Beast Boy and the rest of the Titans welcomed her to the team.

(Green Lantern: Rebirth #4) - Ganthet summoned Changeling and the Teen Titans and a number of other heroes to battle Parallax, who’d completely taken over Hal Jordan. They weakened him enough for the Spectre to separate Hal from Parallax, allowing Hal’s soul to return to his body, resurrecting him.

(JLA #111) - Cyborg and Beast Boy were putting out a forest fire when they were called to help the JLA battle the Crime Syndicate of Amerika. The heroes fought valiantly, but were forced to retreat.

(Teen Titans III #30, 31) - Beast Boy and the Titans escaped Blood after he opened a door to Hell and unleashed an army of demons of Los Angeles. Raven told the Titans that Brother Blood was exploiting an opening in the door between life and death, and they had to figure a way to close it. Blood confronted the Titans with his New Titans West, a team made of resurrected Titans. The Titans fought the demons and the New Titans while Raven and Beast Boy went into the afterlife and found that Brother Blood had Kid Eternity chained in the opening of the door between life and death, allowing the opening to widen. After fighting the resurrected Ravager, Gizmo and Madame Rouge who'd been sent by Blood to guard him they freed him and closed the door. Back on Earth Eternity sent the demons and New Titans back to the afterlife, and temporarily resurrected Blood’s predecessors, who tore him to bits.

(Teen Titans III #32) - Superboy Prime confronted Superboy because he wanted to take his place, and was willing to kill him to do it. Superboy took a beating from Prime, but called Beast Boy and the Titans and their reservists on an emergency signal. The Doom Patrol also joined the fight, and because Superboy Prime had battered the wall of spacetime some time ago, the world forgot of their existence. Ever since Beast Boy's return from the afterlife he had dreams about his past with the DP, and when the rupture in spacetime that made the world forget about the DP closed the DP and Beast Boy experienced a rush of memories as they too remembered their own past. Beast Boy had a joyous reunion with his adoptive mother Elasti-Girl before rejoining the battle. There were casualties, but Flash Jay Garrick, Flash and Kid Flash took Prime out of action by running him into the Speed Force. Superboy's heart stopped, but he was revived by Raven.

(52 / WWIII Part Two: The Valiant #1) - <Week 50, Day 4> Black Adam declared war on Earth, starting WWIII. The Teen Titans, led by Beast Boy, prepared to confront him, well knowing he could kill them all.

(52 / WWIII Part Three: Hell Is For Heroes #1) - <Week 5, Day 5, 6> The Titans confronted Black Adam in Greece, and Raven begged Beast Boy to have confidence in himself and be the leader they needed him to be. Adam defeated the Titans, severely injuring several of them and killing Young Frankenstein. Beast Boy decided to leave the wounded behind to be tended by locals, and pursue Adam to the Himalayas. Raven started to be overcome by the empathetic pain she felt from her teammates. Adam defeated the Titans again and killed Terra. Beast Boy realized he could do nothing except tend to the wounded.

(52 / WWIII Part Four: United We Stand #1) <Week 50, Day 7> Black Adam arrived in China, and prepared to destroy the entire country. He defeated China's superhero team the Great Ten before China allowed Beast Boy and the American superhero community to square off against him. Beast Boy was still struggling with guilt over letting his teammates die at Black Adam's hand under his leadership. Black Adam was a god with nothing left to lose, and each punch he threw was intended to kill. His savagery was winning the day until Martian Manhunter reappeared and flooded his brain with his own loss, the death of the entire Martian species. Black Adam was distracted long enough for Captain Marvel to hurl a Shazam bolt at him. Theo Adam was powerless, and left with amnesia. He staggered away unnoticed from the end of WWIII.

(Tales of the Sinestro Corps: Superman-Prime #1) - An army of Earth’s heroes, including Beast Boy and the Doom Patrol appeared to take Superboy down during the Sinestro Corps invasion of Earth. The heroes focused on wrecking his armor, because after a year on Oa, and away from a yellow sun his Kryptonian body still wasn’t at full strength, and his armor collected sunlight. Superboy bragged that once the sun rose on Earth he’d be at full power. Superboy was battered by Wonder Girl and Wonder Woman, who blamed him for Superboy’s death, as well as Supergirl and Power Girl, who blamed him for the death of the Superman of Earth-2. As the fight went against him, Superboy broke down in tears. He tried to wipe them away, saying that it was impossible foir boys to cry, and then whining that no one ever thanked him for sacrificing his Earth to save the multiverse. The battle lasted until dawn, and he flew into the sunrise. As he achieved full power he declared himself the one, true Superman. The Guardians arrived with Sodam Yat, the new Ion, and pitted him against Superboy-Prime.

(Titans East Special #1, Titans II #1-4) - Cyborg recruited a new roster of young heroes and contacted his old friends to reform the Titans and train them. Beast Boy said no, and it seemed like no one was interested in Cyborg’s idea. Trigon decimated Cyborg’s team, he was out to destroy every Titan, past and present. After Trigon’s demons attacked Beast Boy he reunited with Starfire, Troia, Flash, Red Arrow, Nightwing and Raven to investigate The Titans saved Argent and a number of other former Titans from Trigon’s horde, although they were adamant that they were not a team again. Cyborg was rebuilt, and wanted in on the case, to avenge the death of Power Boy. Raven contacted Trigon, and learned that although he had been decimated by demonic warfare he was still bent on destroying Earth, and he shared a secret with her, her brother would help him in his invasion. In an attempt to find Raven’s half-brother, Raven and the Titans tracked down Trigon’s other brides, only to find that they’d died years ago. Trigon’s three sons kept the Titans off balance by exposing them to the seven deadly sins, and then confronted them. They attacked the Titans and used Raven to open up a portal to Trigon’s dimension. The battle went for Trigon’s children and they used Beast Boy’s Trigon seed, the smallest spark of which was still in him, to finish the portal. Raven used her own ability to tap into the seven deadly sins, which greatly sickened her, to overcome her brothers with greed. They stole Trigon’s last vestiges of power, and then retreated to learn how to manipulate their newfound magic. Raven was pleased at having tricked them. In his dilapidated state Trigon could not have given them much of a magical boost. The Titans agreed that they still saw each other as family, and decided to remain a loose group in order to spend more time with each other.

(Titans II #5, 6) - Beast Boy stopped by Raven’s school under the pretense of a bear-o-gram to talk to her. He knew she was upset after her encounter with her half-brothers, and indeed she’d spent the last night brooding about the evil side of her nature. They went for a bite to eat, and she confessed the encounter she had brought out her dark side. She started wanting the Titans dead, and wondered if Raven was a mask, and her demonic side was her true self. Despite Beast Boy’s encouragement, her demonic side manifested and summoned her half-brothers, who led her by the hand to Trigon’s dimension. Beast Boy told the Titans that the Sons of Trigon had taken Raven, and that she’d been recruited to her father’s cause. Troia told the Titans that Raven had always planned for the worst, and given her a Ramat Stone that could locate magic-users. Beast Boy wanted to know why Troia was chosen to keep Raven’s secrets, and she replied that in addition to being the most magically adept Titan, she’d also proved that she’d never judge Raven. The Titans concentrated on the stone and Raven, and were transported to Trigon’s dimension. They met the rest of the Sons of Trigon, Greed, Gluttony, and Sloth, and were defeated. Raven turned against her brothers, proclaiming herself Pride, the sin from which all others sprung. She wanted to rule the Earth, but with the Titans at her side, and began imbuing them with the powers of the Seven Deadly Sins. This activated the Ramat Stone, Raven had given it a sliver of her pure essence, and the Raven that was loyal to the Titans emerged and merged herself with her demonic counterpart and returned the team to Titan’s Tower. Raven was starting to feel more like herself, but told the Titans that the Ramat Stone wouldn’t work twice, and that she might me evil to the core. She presented her teammates with a set of magic talismans capable of ending her life if she wet to the dark side, and demanded that they learn to master them if she was to be comfortable on the team. Titan’s Tower security was breached, and the team responded, only to find that Superboy’s clone Match had broken in. The villain revealed that he was Jericho, trapped inside Match’s body.

(Titans II #7-9) - The Titans examined Match in hopes of freeing their friend. Raven used the Titans’ computers to cross-reference medical records on Jericho and Match. Beast Boy was impressed with her new skills, and she told him she’d become computer savvy since enrolling in high school, and liked the distance computers put between her and other people. Beast Boy tried to assure her she was trusted, but she blew him off, making him storm out. Cyborg isolated Jericho’s neuron patterns from Match, and prepared a radio-ectoplasmic pulse to free his astral form. Jericho then had Match run berserk and attack the Titans, claiming he couldn‘t control him. After battering the team, Cyborg used the ecltoplasmic pulse to separate them. Raven probed Jericho’s mind and realized he was up to no good, burt before the team could respond Jericho vanished, possessing one of the Titans. The Titans went into lockdown to keep Jericho from escaping, and Cyborg went with protocol for just such a situation, each Titan would take a security clearance interview with the Titans computer. The Titans kept an updated log of secrets only they and the computer would know. The Titans shared their secrets with the computer, and Beast Boy admitted to it that his parents did not die in a boating accident. Everyone passed, so Cyborg decided to use the ectoplasmic pulse on the Titans, one at a time. Jericho revealed himself to Nightwing, and forced him to inject himself with an LSD compound that made his mind a battleground, enabling Jericho to overcome his will. He promised to reveal what he was planning to do, and why. The Titans used the ectoplasmic pulse on Cyborg and Red Arrow, and waited for them to recover before testing the rest of the team. Jericho made Nightwing feel his thoughts, and revealed that everyone he’d ever possessed had left their memories and a part of their mind in him. It was the vicious villains he’d had contact with, like Deathstroke, that were now making his decisions for him, and he begged for Nightwing to help him. The Titans contacted S.T.A.R. Labs and learned that before Jericho had come to them for help he’d possessed Green Lantern Hal Jordan and tried to kill the candidates for president. The Justice League were right outside of Titans’ headquarters, demanding that Jericho be released to them.

(Titans II #10) - Jericho panicked and jumped into Flash’s body and vibrated out of Titan headquarters, but he couldn’t evade the Justice League. The Titans joined the League in battling Jericho as he lept from body to body, until he ended up in Superman. Previously he would never have been able to enter Superman’s mind, but his power had grown immensely. He still wasn’t strong enough to take control of Superman, who expelled his astral form from his mind. Jericho’s astral form dissipated into the wind. The whole experience left Nightwing shaken, and he desperately wanted to find a way to help Jericho.

(Titans II #10) - Nightwing called a meeting with the Titans to announce his resignation from the team, saying he needed to spend more time with his family in Gotham.

(Titans II #11) - The Titans decided to take some time off from each other at Beast Boy’s suggestion. Beast Boy pestered Raven until she was willing to talk to him. He said they should start dating, and she replied that there was nothing between them, and that she’d only kissed him to give him confidence. Beast Boy was convinced she was either trying to protect him or hurt him, but he was upset, and left her.

(Titans II #12) - Cyborg recovered from the injuries Jericho caused him, and revealed to the Titans that Jericho had uploaded himself into his OS, and then proceeded to use him to rig Titans Tower and try and kill the Teen Titans before fleeing his body. Troia took charge, and told the Titans they had to find a way to help Jericho. They contacted the Teen Titans, but they had no leads on either Jericho or his sister Ravager. The Titans decided to ask for Vigilante for help, because he was after Jericho as well, even though Changeling balked at the idea of working with a killer. Cyborg knew Vigilante had surveillance equipment monitoring Titans Compound, so if he thought Jericho was inside Cyborg that could work as bait to lure him in. Cyborg staged a fight against the Titans right outside the Compound, and Vigilante soon arrived. Before Cyborg could explain the situation Vigilante blasted him in the head with one of his firearms.

(Vigilante III #5) - The Titans restrained Vigilante, and he assured them Cyborg was alive, he’d used an EMP gun to force out Jericho. The Titans rushed Cyborg to his repair chamber, and revealed that Jericho was gone, and they’d used Cyborg as bait to bring Vigilante to them. They unmasked him, and fingerprinted him, telling him his short career was over. Vigilante set off concussive bombs attached to his security cameras in Titans Compound to create a diversion and free himself. Before the Titans could find him, Jericho, possessing a police officer, contacted them and asked for help with a hostage crisis at Union Federal. They headed to the bank, and Vigilante contacted his techie J.J. to wipe the memory banks of the Titans computer system containing his fingerprints. He knew the Titans would still eventually realize he was Adrian Chase’s brother since they’d seen him unmasked. Beast Boy stayed with Cyborg while the Titans disarmed mobsters armed with experimental government weaponry at Federal, and realized they’d been baited in. Vigilante was close behind them, and spied Jericho, who set off explosives inside the bank, killing his hired thugs and a number of police officers. Vigilante attacked Jericho, but Jericho kept jumping bodies, and then threw a grenade, damaging Vigilante’s suit, and made his escape. Vigilante reflected that it was no skin off his teeth if Jericho succeeded or failed in his maniacal plans, he wasn’t trying to save the world, only himself. Jericho called up the Teen Titans aboard their wing plane to tell them he was going to kill the Titans and use them to do it. They kept him on the phone to trace his call, and this allowed him to infect the wing ‘s computer system with a worm that gave him control over it. Jericho flew the wing to NYC and used it to attack the Titans.

(Teen Titans III #70) - Cyborg’s system crashed, and Beas Boy brought him o S.T.A.R. Labs, where a staff scienist old him that Vigilane’s E.M.P. caused sector damage hat disabled his self-repair algorithm, and hat he’d have o be manually repaired. Beast Boy waited through the repair, and talked to Cyborg, telling him how Raven shooting him down devastated him. He said the last thing he could stand was losing his best friend.

(Titans II #13) - Jericho entered the Hamilton Grande, prepared for a slaughter. He announced that he had rigged explosives throughout the restaurant, and every wealthy patron was his hostage. Using a cellphone video, he recorded himself shooting the hotel manager in the head, and promised to kill a patron every two minutes, unless the Titans arrived to stop him. Beast Boy was watching the footage, and reluctantly left Cyborg’s side to rejoin his team, and stop he madman. The Titans confronted Jericho, and tried to reason with him, but he as having none of it, telling them he’d succeed in killing them here his father failed, finally allowing him to overshadow his dad. He’d strapped explosives to his hostages, and held the trigger, guaranteeing that the Titans would die trying to save them. He offered Ravager a chance to escape, but she wasn’t abandoning her teammates. They tussled, and Jericho set off the detonator, and escaped. Newscrews filmed what appeared to be the dead Titans. Cyborg heard the broadcasts, and ripped off his life-support system, vowing to make Jericho pay.

(Vigilante III #6) - Raven had actually created the illusion of the Titans’ death, and Miss Martian disguised herself as Deathstroke to confront and confuse Jericho. The Titans reached out to Jericho, and Raven tried to enter his mind to heal him, but all she found was darkness. They defeated him, but Vigilante made his presence known, and drew his guns, saying Jericho would kill again if not stopped. Ravager reminded him of his promise, and he slipped away. He later ambushed Jericho’s police convoy, and cut out his eyes so he could never use his power again. The Titans realized too late what Vigilante was up to, and they found Jericho in the back of his transport, bleeding and babbling that he was cured.

(Titans II #16 (fb)) - Intergang got their hands on a number of Justifier helmets, so Mon-El called in the Titans to deal with them. The heroes prevailed, but Starfire lost control and went berserk, still upset that she had once again been made a slave thanks to the Justifiers.

(Titans II #14) - Cyborg plugged himself into the Titans Compound computer network to give it an upgrade. Beast Boy joined him in the network to tell him to stop working because he was wound too tight. Beast Boy noticed that Cyborg’s network avatar was a normal person, and Cyborg told him that was how he saw himself. At lunch Beast Boy told him about Metamatch Dating Services, that matched superhumans with normal people. Cyborg tried to blow him off, but Beast Boy insisted it would be good for him. Beast Boy was excited when Cyborg finally went on a date through the service.

(Titans II #17) - The Titans had breakfast together, and Red Arrow asked Beast Boy why he changed his codename back from Changeling, which he deemed “less dumb.” Beast Boy told him that when he forgot to re-register Changeling.com another guy got the domain, which he used to sell old Changeling merchandise, and Gar wasn’t about to give him free publicity. Flash and Red Arrow decided to razz him by buying Changeling shirts from this entrepreneur. Troia went apartment hunting, another way of distancing herself from the Titans, with Starfire and Raven. Beast Boy tried to convince Raven to blow them off and spend some time with him, but she coldly told him to stop pretending she was his girlfriend. Troia then yelled at Beast Boy, telling him not everything was about him. Cyborg told Beast Boy he was worried about him. He seemed to want to maintain status quo by continuing to act like a teenage clown and pursuing a teammate as a girlfriend. Beast Boy ducked talking to Cyborg, and eagerly accepted when his agent called offering him a gig on a panel at the Warlock World science fiction and fantasy con in San Francisco. Beast Boy soon got sick of answering questions from fan boys, half of them didn’t know who he was, and the other half were only interested in him because he’d met Batman. He freaked out when fellow panel member Dr. Double X posed with Deathstroke’s mask to get money from the fans. He ripped up the mask and stormed out of the convention, coming upon the Teen Titans, who were battling the super villain Cinderblock. Wonder Girl wasn’t taking charge, having lost her confidence after the death of Red Devil, so Beast Boy stepped in and helped them defeat the villain. Beast Boy realized they were ignoring their problems just like he was. He returned to Titans Compound and told his agent he’d no longer need his services.

(Titans II #18) - Beast Boy left the Titans to mentor the Teen Titans, and Raven was sad to see him go, but didn’t try to stop him. He assured her they were still friends, and invited her to come over for movie night some time. She worried that everyone would leave the team, and she’d be all alone. Beast Boy told her she was only as alone as she chose to be, and she remarked that that was actually a wise statement coming from the class clown.

(Titans II #20) -Beast Boy called Troia in an attempt to reconnect with her after she distanced herself from the Titans.

(Titans II #22) - Beast Boy, the Teen Titans and several other heroes gathered at Titans Tower for Hero's Day

(Blackest Night: Titans #1-3) - During Heroes' Day. Starfire questioned why Terra had a statue in Titans Tower, because she'd shamed herself by betraying the Teen Titans. Beast Boy argued that she could have redeemed herself, but Starfire disagreed. Beast Boy was upset, and went for a walk, where he met Terra, who told him she'd survived and embraced him. In truth she'd been resurrected as a zombie by the Black Lantern Corps, and wanted to rip out Beast Boy's heart. The Titans saved him, but Titans Tower was leveled by Terra, and several more ex-Titan Black Lanterns joined the assault on the heroes. Beast Boy destroyed Terra, telling her that even though she was an empty husk she was a phony just like the Terra he remembered. He cursed himself for ever investing such emotional energy in her. He was a good man who saw the best in people, but she was irredeemable. The Black Lanterns attacked Dove, but her lifeforce connection permanently destroyed them. The surviving Lanterns fled, and the Titans realized the war was far from over. Troia said they needed to get Dove on the front lines.

(Doom Patrol V #8 (fb)) - Beast Boy was present for the final battle between Earth’s heroes and the Black Lantern Corps.

(Titans II #23) - Beast Boy and the Teen Titans made memorial statues for Hawk and Tempest following their deaths during Blackest Night.

(Doom Patrol V #20) - When the DP were kicked out of Oolong Island they became political refugees. Elasti-Woman reached out to her son Beast Boy, and he told her she was welcome to stay at Titans Tower, but not her teammates. The U.N. listed them as probable terrorists for their association with Oolong, invading a sovereign nation, and sheltering a mass murderer. Elasti-Woman realized she couldn’t stay with Beast Boy because she’d be putting him at risk just by associating with her.

(Titans II #38) - Beast Boy, the Teen Titans and the rest of the superhero community attended the funeral of Atom Ryan Choi.

Comments: Created by Arnold Drake & Bob Brown.

Changeling received a profile in Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #4. Changeling received a profile in JLA-Z #3 under the Teen Titans entry. Beast Boy received a profile in Teen Titans / Outsiders Secret Files 2003. Beast Boy received a profile in Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #7 under the Doom Patrol entry.

Changeling had cameos in Damage #0, Flash II #189, 208, Flash Secret Files #3 Hawk and Dove Annual #1, JLA #121, R.E.B.E.L.S. #15 and Titans I #24.

Beast Boy had a cameo in Batgirl I #62, Doom Patrol V #6, 10, 13, 21 and Titans II #15, 21.

Justice League of America II #2, 5 showed a Beast Boy stuffed doll.

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