#the salt in the wound here is that kyle is added to the titans roster before either wally or roy

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So how would you think titans 2018 would handle the parralax arc (I'm interested in a train wreck sorta way)

im so glad u asked bestie <3 putting this under a cut bc theres four paragraphs already and i havent even got to parallax yet

ok so. if they ever plan on introducing kyle into the titans lineup, they're probably going to have to adapt the parallax arc. and since they have superboy i feel like its (unfortunately) a possibility. so, first things first: destruction of coast city happens early in the season.

I'm setting this during s4 since it hasn't happened yet, so the titans are on a road trip back to the west coast. The titans are in a diner, diner goes quiet, they see the destruction of Coast City on the TV or whatever. Standard catastrophe happens in a movie shit, u know the deal. The titans go "oh no! anyways" and go back to their meal.

they get back to sanfran and everyone in the city is giving them a wide berth, shit is weird, everyone is creeped out but they figure it's just leftover bad press from s3 in gotham. they get back to the tower, turn on the news and find out that superboy is being framed for the destruction of coast city. its not that huge of a leap considering he has a history of flipping his shit in public, but never to that extent.

anyways they get to coast city, defeat the imposter, kon gets his cool 90s outfit to separate himself from the other guy and bc its cool as shit. on their way out of the city (they dont help with the clean up) they pass by some guy having a breakdown at the edge of the blast radius. they shrug and keep moving bc who gives a shit.

anyways the next couple episodes or whatever are them attempting to do street level hero shit and failing miserably bc they have no skills other than punch guy in face hard and also people still don't trust them lol. they get word on the street that someone is going around and actually like helping people and stopping crime with minimal collateral damage (impossible challenge).

eventually they corner the new guy and omg its kyyyyle hi kyle! kyle is doing street level shit bc some guy gave him a ring and no instructions, so he just. started doing what the main character in his comics does (hes employed as a comic artist and this will never get brought up again). they offer him training and he accepts, joining the team. of course, the introduction of kyle means that the entire corps have been slaughtered offscreen at this point. girlboss hal moments.

anyways this all builds up to hal being the big bad of the second half of the season. hal confronts the titans in full parallax regalia, intent on killing them all. soup, you say, is this 90s parallax or the shitty bug retcon? neither. this is titans 2018. this parallax has a breakdown over the destruction of coast city because he can't control coast city anymore (since its gone) and spirals because he feels like he's losing control over his space sector. he spirals so hard that he decides he needs more power so he never loses control over anything ever again. thats right baby, this titans 2018 version of hal is just a thinly veiled version of sinestro but shittier.

anyways this culminates in a showdown where hal is trying to kill the titans bc he blames them for the loss of coast city. kyle is going "wait guys i got this, hal this isnt you this isnt in ur heart </3" etc. etc. it doesnt work lol. anyways the finale matches the season one finale beat for beat. if they go the route of hal also having fear powers or whatever this is a great opportunity for jason to push past the fear and show his character growth but this show hates good writing and also jason.

anyways the titans beat his ass with the power of working together and also the color yellow probably and then they all go "omg we're such a family" and hal dies. the end of the season finale shows kyle leaving flowers at hal's grave, and then he walks off and meets up w the titans again. (also this gives kyle a complex where he feels like he has to be better than hal bc hal turned out to be a mass murdering megalomaniac.) (this is hinted at during the course of the next season but they will never ever expand on it and it will be forgotten).

i have thought about this a normal amount. dc hire me.