Thread:N8THGR852/@comment-28096636-20180303214225/@comment-27892537-20180304191218

To select some characters and label them essential would mean that I would be labeling the others non-essential. I believe every character who has been a Titan or who has otherwise had an impacting role in the Titans mythos is essential to a degree. In short, all Titans characters are important, so I won't label any as essential and thus label others non-essential. I am willing, though, to give a list of characters in the upper end of the spectrum when it comes to being meaningful to the Titans mythos. I am sure this is about what you meant in the first place, but I wanted to clarify my thoughts on "essential-ness" anyhow.

I am working on my own project that probably would be similar. I am making a list of every Titan, and the list will list how many issues the character(s) served as an acting member of the Titans. There will be a number of how many issues they served as official Titans, and there will be a number of issues where they served as allies, assisting the Titans in a mission -- and then there will be a number totaling the number of issues they were participants in Titans goings-on as a whole. The list will also list each issue so that my list will have sources and thus credibility. After the list is complete, I will list them all in descending order, so that you would start with the character who had been a Titan for the longest time at the top and the total number would lessen as you scrolled down the list. In a way, this type of list would tell fans which Titans were very impacting in the Titans mythos and which ones were a little less. However, number of issues with the team isn't always telling of this, I'd like to note. For instance, Kole was with the team for about only 6 issues of Titans titles and about as many in other titles -- so about a dozen issues total -- yet many felt impacted by her death. She earned the hearts of many readers as a Titan. So, my point is that sometimes length of tenures alone isn't enough to gauge importance. You may know this, but I am typing it out in case others come by and read this post on my wall.

I also need to note that I have not yet finished reading all of the Titans titles. At this time, I still have to read all of those between 1999-2011. So there is a gap in my knowledge. This is actually a slightly considerable gap, given that Teen Titans Vol 3 (2003-2011) added MANY Titans to official membership status. Still, even though I cannot give firsthand accounts of the goings on in that time frame, I do know what happens and who joins/leaves at what time. I know the outline of all the Titans material within this time, so I can give a certain amount of information based simply on tertiary research.

At the moment, this list I am making for you that determines the more "important" Titan characters is done in a somewhat arbitrary way. I like to determine descending order through quantitative data rather than qualitative. But, I will do my best. Just know that this list that I am giving now isn't actually "in order." Nevertheless, I have prefaced this message enough, so here I shall go. _________________________________________________________________________________