Titans Theory: Arrowverse’s Crisis Explains Season 3’s Biggest Plot Holes

Titans Season 3 had a number of notable plot holes, which could be explained by the Arrowverse Crisis on Infinite Earths changing reality.

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Warning: The following contains SPOILERS for the Titans season 3 finale, “Purple Rain.”

The many plot holes in Titans season 3 can be justified by the Arrowverse crossover event Crisis on Infinite Earths. The five-part miniseries went beyond forever changing all the superhero series on the CW network, establishing that all live-action media based on DC Comics’ books were part of a single shared multiverse. Given that Titans season 2 concluded before the start of the Crisis and that it was shown in other series that there were some changes to the timelines of different Earths following the Crisis, it seems logical to presume that some of the continuity conflicts between Titans season 2 and Titans season 3 could be due to this rebuilding of reality.

Titans season 3 found the team traveling from San Francisco to Gotham City, to aid the GCPD headed by Commissioner Barbara Gordon (Savannah Welch) in keeping the peace following the murder of Robin (Curran Walters) and the death of The Joker at the hands of Batman (Iain Glen). The team soon came into conflict with a rival vigilante, the Red Hood, who was revealed to be a resurrected Jason Todd, who had fallen under the thrall of the Scarecrow (Vincent Kartheiser). This Gotham-focused storyline seemed like a radical departure from the ending of Titans season 2, which found the Titans reunited and invigorated with new members and the promise of a conflict with an alien queen on the horizon.

Beyond the sudden shift in focus, which led to Titans adapting Batman: No Man’s Land, there were a number of other changes that went unexplained. However, within the context of the Arrowverse, many of these changes could be explained as the result of reality being rewritten between seasons. This would explain how things had changed and why nobody had commented on the differences, because they weren’t aware things had been different before.

Titans Season 3 Storyline For Blackfire Changed The Character Completely

The most noticeable change between Titans season 2 and Titans season 3 involved the character of Blackfire (Damaris Lewis), the younger sister of Starfire (Anna Diop). Blackfire was introduced in Titans season 2 as the new queen of Tamaran, following the murder of her and Starfire’s parents. Jealous of her older sister, whom her parents favored, Blackfire sent a royal guard named Faddei (with whom Starfire had a romantic relationship) to try and persuade Starfire to return to Tamaran, nominally so she could reclaim her throne, but truly so Starfire’s sister Blackfire could kill her and eliminate any opposition to her rule.

When he failed, Blackfire possessed Faddei’s body using advanced Tamaranean technology, informed Starfire of the death of their parents, and told her she was next before killing Faddei. The final scene of Titans season 2 showed Blackfire taking possession of the body of a random Earth woman, whose children were left abandoned in the parking lot of a grocery store somewhere in the United States. The cliffhanger suggested a war between the two sisters (who were archenemies in the original Teen Titans comics) would be the central storyline of Titans season 3.

Instead, the cliffhanger from Titans season 2 was forgotten and Blackfire disappeared until Titans season 3, episode 4, “Blackfire,” where Starfire, prompted by strange visions, traveled to a secret government lab with Beast Boy, and discovered that her sister had been captured by the American government and was being experimented upon. Starfire freed her sister and allowed her to return to Wayne Manor with her, where Blackfire promptly forgot about her murderous plans, joined the Titans and started a romantic relationship with Superboy. To make matters even more confusing, the penultimate episode of Titans season 3, “Prodigal,” centered around the effort to repair Blackfire’s ship, which had also been taken into custody by the American government. This completely ignored how Blackfire was shown to have come to Earth through technological astral projection in the Titans season 2 cliffhanger finale.

Rose Wilson And Jericho Disappeared From The Series Completely

Titans season 2 ended with Rose Wilson (Chelsea Zhang) turning on her father, Deathstroke (Esai Morales) and freeing her brother Jericho (Chella Man) from the psychic space his mind had taken up in their father’s head. The final episode of Titans season 2 suggested that Rose and Jericho, now sharing Rose’s body, would remain with the Titans as they tried to find a way to restore Jericho to life or find him a new body. Instead, neither Rose nor Jericho made an appearance in Titans season 3 and no reference was made to what happened to them. It was almost as if they had never existed at all.

Jason Todd Returns To Wayne Manor After Striking Out On His Own

Jason Todd quit the Titans before the finale of Titans season 2, though he became close to Rose Wilson before learning that she was secretly working with Deathstroke. The season ended with Todd disillusioned and feeling alone, though he still showed up to see Donna Troy’s body be placed on a plane bound for the Amazon homeland of Themyscira but kept his distance from the Titans. Only Nightwing seemed to notice his presence. Despite the suggestion that Jason Todd was going off to find his own path free from his old life like Dick Grayson had, Titans season 3 opened with Jason Todd in the Batcave, monitoring Gotham City while Bruce Wayne was on a business trip, preluding his death at the hands of The Joker in Titans’ season 3 premiere.

Titans Season 2 Took Place Before Crisis On Infinite Earths

Titans season 2 came to an end on November 29, 2019. This was just a few days before the Arrowverse crossover event Crisis on Infinite Earths started, with the first episode airing on December 8, 2019. While Titans had previously been depicted as taking place outside the Arrowverse, Crisis on Infinite Earths established that all television series and movies based on a DC Comics property were part of the same shared multiverse. Indeed, the world of Titans was identified as Earth-9 in the opening prelude of Crisis on Infinite Earths and was shown to have been among the Arrowverse worlds erased from existence.

The final episode of Crisis on Infinite Earths established that all of the DC Comics television series still in production were part of the new Arrowverse, with all of the shows on the CW now sharing a single world, Earth-Prime. Titans was once again established as Earth-9 and Doom Patrol (which had previously spun out of Titans season 1) was confirmed to be on a different planet than Titans. The episode also established that a number of things had changed on the new Earth-Prime, such as Clark Kent and Lois Lane now being the parents of twin teenage boys rather than a single infant son.

Theory: Titans Season 3 Changes Were Side Effect of Arrowverse Crisis

Given that the various Arrowverse series showed that Earth-Prime underwent major changes to its timeline and geography, with whole cities’ locations changed after Crisis on Infinite Earths, there’s no reason why there could not have been similar changes to the world of Titans. The event could easily have changed the circumstances of Jason Todd’s departure from the Titans or arranged for Rose Wilson and Jericho to have never joined the Titans in the first place. It could also explain the radically different stories of how Blackfire came to Earth. Although unlikely an intentional choice, having the Crisis explain the plot holes in Titans season 3 would fix many of the show’s biggest issues; however, going forward, the HBO Max series will need to do more to stick to its own established continuity — especially if the DC TV show wants to continue past season 4.

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