Concept and Creation
The Terror Titans were created by Sean McKeever and Eddy Barrows. McKeever the group to be the nemesis of the Teen Titans. This group was a reflection of the young Titans, they are teenagers who have continued the legacy of other villains, some dead, others absent, and they have reasons to take on the Titans.
McKeever created them to break the cliché of young people against adults that has haunted the series. He believed it was time to have equals, enemies of the same generation who can grow with them, and he has done so using the concept of legacy in the same way that it was present in the Teen Titans.
History
Clock King's Terror Titans
The Terror Titans were formed by a new Clock King as a team of evil legacies of super-villains. He recruited young sociopaths and street urchins like Terrance "Terry Bolatinsky (the son of supervillain Bolt), Elsie Kimble (a young assassin who is the ancestor of the 31st century criminal Nyeun Chun Ti), Nathan Prince, and Angelica Smith (the "daughter" of Teen Titans foe Disruptor) to be his own personal enforcers. Once they were given costumes and weapons by Clock King, they became Dreadbolt, The Persuader, Copperhead, and The Disruptor.
The Terror Titans were contracted by Boss Dark Side to apprehend the six members of the Teen Titans to become new contestants of The Dark Side Club. The Terror Titans were successful in capturing Kid Devil and Miss Martian, but they failed to apprehend Ravager. The Clock King was able to manipulate Robin, Wonder Girl and Blue Beetle into coming to his lair, an abandon church in Gateway City, even though he had already informed them that it was a trap.
After their defeat at the hands of the Teen Titans, The Terror Titans continue to round young metahumans for The Dark Side Tournament. Ravager joins the team after she had a falling out with Teen Titans and was instructed by Clock King to be their combat instructor in exchange of drugs to enhance his powers. Later, Clock King took over The Dark Side Club in the wake of Boss Dark Side's death in Final Crisis. He turned each loosing contestant to be brainwashed into his Martyr Militia.
One by one, Clock King gave special assignments and offers to the Terror Titans: Ordered Dreadbolt to kill his own father and take the mantle of Bolt, reunite Presuader with his father, and have Copperhead to take care of injured Dark Side Club contestant TNTeena. Secretly, Clock King was fine-tuning his Terror Titans to have no compromises. He killed Eslie's father and rigged TNTeena to self-destruct after she recoopered and developed feeling for Copperhead.
When Clock King unleashed the Martyr Miltia loose in Los Angeles, The Terror Titans stopped Ravager from preventing the chaos. They attacked Ravager and the Disruptor tried to kill her. They failed in their attempts and in a turn of events the metahumans were freed from Clock King's mind control by Miss Martian (who posed as Star-Spangled Kid in the Dark Side Tournament). Once the Terror Titans returned to base, Clock King called them failures and killed Disruptor for trying to kill Ravager time and again. He then retreated away from the team, left them behind to be captured by the freed metahumans. Two weeks after they were captured, the Terror Titans managed to bust out of jail, formed a new pact of friendship as they decided to go after Clock King and kill him for his betrayal. A task that has not been accomplished after the events of Flashpoint changed the history of DC Universe.
Haywire's Terror Titans
In the early years of the Teen Titans, Haywire is assembling his own anti-Teen Titans after being rejected as possible recruit. This Terror Titans team consists of Haywire himself, Toyboy, The Ant, and Artemis.
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