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If I fell out of a plane, I could change into an eagle. If I was drowning in the ocean, I could change into a dolphin. Change can be good. And necessary. But change can't help me when I'm struggling on the inside. 
- — Beast Boy src
Beast Boy is Garfield "Gar" Logan, a young superhero member of the Teen Titans with the power to take the form of any animal.
History
Early Career
Through an unspecified incident, Garfield was granted the metahuman ability to act as a conduit for The Red, a semi-mystical energy field connected to all animal life on Earth; this connection turned his skin green and allowed him to take on the shape of any animal. After Garfield Logan's parents died, he was taken by Nicholas Galtry, who sought to access the fortune belonging to Garfield's parents—and, to this end, he attempted to have Garfield killed.[2] Later, Garfield Logan was a member of an early iteration of the Doom Patrol and was taken in by members Mento and Rita Farr as adoptive parents.[3]
Later, he became a member of the New Teen Titans. During his tenure on the team, he had a brief but disastrous relationship with Terra[citation needed] and developed a long-lasting enmity for team enemy Deathstroke.[4]
New 52
The Culling
Garfield Logan was among hundreds of young metahumans held captive by the organization N.O.W.H.E.R.E., experimented on at the shadowy organizations gigantic underground base, the Colony. He was forced to participate in the annual Culling tournament, where the captives held by N.O.W.H.E.R.E. were forced to either kill or be killed.[citation needed] For reasons unknown (potentially as a result of experimentation by N.O.W.H.E.R.E., his formerly green skin became red during this period, and he appeared somewhat smaller and younger than he had during earlier adventures.[5]
Along with the Teen Titans and time-displaced members of the Legion of Super-Heroes, Beast Boy joined a group of captives who, instead of playing the deadly game as expected, decided to break out of the Colony. With the help of Dr. Caitlin Fairchild, Beast Boy escaped with several other refugees from the Colony.[citation needed]
After escaping, Beast Boy and Terra separated from the main group of refugees.[6] While Harvest, the leader of N.O.W.H.E.R.E., claimed to have meant to scatter his subjects around the world, he took a special interest in tracking down Gar and bringing him back into N.O.W.H.E.R.E. Meanwhile, Gar began to have strange visions of a dangerous man bathing in blood.[citation needed]
Teen Titans
After his fellow Ravagers were taken, Beast Boy was left for dead in the rubble of the facility. Eventually he was approached by Raven, who proceeded to touch him. After he awoke he asked if Harvest had sent her for him, however Raven began to take over Garfield's mind and teleported them to New York. She planned to use him as her minion in the battle between her father Trigon and the Teen Titans. Beast Boy and Raven appeared before the Titans during their battle with Psimon. Under Raven influence, Beast Boy pulled the Titans and Psimon away from their fight. When Psimon killed the police reinforcements, Beast Boy saw him and squeezed him, resulting in both of them cancelling out each other's powers and rendering each other unconscious.[7] Beast Boy regained consciousness during the Teen Titans' fight against Trigon and his sons in New York City, and assisted them in battle.[8]
Forever Evil
When all of Earth's greatest heroes were gone and the Crime Syndicate of America had taken over the world, the Teen Titans attempted to challenge the Crime Syndicate. However, they were easily overpowered by Johnny Quick and Atomica and were then flung into the time stream.[9] However, Red Robin, Wonder Girl and Raven eventually returned from the 30th century Bunker and Beast Boy reunited with them while fighting The Light and The Way.[10] While one of the brothers disappeared the other one was taken down by Skitter, Grymm planted a bomb to kill the Titans, Beast Boy knocked him out before he could reveal where he planted it and although Raven found out where it was, it detonated nevertheless and almost killed them.[11]
The Titans reunited for one last time to stop Harvest's new colony. When they arrived at the colony they discovered that the victims of the Culling were somehow resurrected, they eventually found out Harvest was extracting their metagenes to create a massive DNA strand for his use. While the rest of the Titans were battling Harvest, Raven destroyed the strand, however Harvest was caught in the explosion that it's destruction caused.[12]
S.T.A.R. Labs
Becoming famous.
Eventually, Garfield's skin returned to its original green hue. Later, Red Robin decided to reform the Titans. They stopped a terrorist group that was taking a school bus hostage, however their leader managed to get away.[13] After that, Garfield and Miguel went to a S.T.A.R. Labs building to stop a fire caused by the same person but after Bunker realized that she was a robot, he simply blew up his head and stopped the fire.[14] However, the robot returned and attacked Raven in a bar at the Bowery, Raven quickly called the Titans for help and Wonder Girl destroyed the robot once again. The robot reformed again and attacked Red Robin while he was hacking into S.T.A.R. Labs files.[15] The Titans got a distress call from Red Robin and they went to S.T.A.R. Labs but when they arrived he had already taken down the robot and decided to work with it's creator Manchester Black.[16] But being skeptical about the offer, he had Beast Boy sneak into S.T.A.R. Labs.[17] He was almost caught an employee but said employee was shot and Garfield was to take him to an hospital before the building was blown up by an experimental fission device.[18]
The Titans soon arrived to the scene of the explosion and Raven healed the employee, Manchester Black revealed that the men who blew up S.T.A.R. Labs were planning to use weapons of mass destruction built by S.T.A.R., after Wonder Girl captured one of the terrorists, Raven read the man's mind and discovered that they planned to destroy Manhattan with a weapon nicknamed "The Eraser". The Titans stopped the terrorists from using The Eraser while being unknowingly watched by all of Manhattan using the terrorists' holo-projector.[19]
After taking down the terrorists, Beast Boy became the host of Comedy Tonight. During a comedy show, a man jumped out of the crowd and attacked an actor, Garfield stopped him and later found out the man was just an actor.[20]
The Elite
After Superboy returned and supposedly massacred 21 people, Wonder Girl and Power Girl quit the Titans due to Tim's decision to defend Superboy. In turn, they were then invited in Manchester Black's new team The Elite.[21]
After that the Titans went to hide from Black in Chicago, they tried to lay low but they were easily recognized on the street and after Superboy saved a woman from being crushed by a train, the Elite found their location. They attempted to run away but the Elite caught up to them and demanded that they hand over Superboy.[22] Despite Wonder Girl's attempts to sort it out peacefully, the situation escalated quickly, resulting with a fight between Superboy and The Elite. Superboy then choose to leave while the Titans and The Elite teleported back to New York.[23]
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DC Rebirth
Some time after leaving the Teen Titans, Garfield tried to find meaning in his life by throwing a wild party in an abandoned house. After he failed to impress a girl he liked, he found himself knocked out and awoke in an unknown location alongside Starfire, his former teammate Raven, and the new Kid Flash. Garfield and the others found out that they had been kidnapped by Robin who intended for them to join his new incarnation of the Teen Titans, as he needed their help to take down his grandfather Ra's al Ghul and the League of Assassins.
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Infinite Frontier
Titans Academy
Beast Boy, along with his former New Teen Titans alumni Nightwing, Raven, Cyborg, Donna Troy and Starfire formed an academy, named in honor of the believed-deceased Roy Harper to train new Titans. He also celebrated Nightwing's birthday with the rest of the staff and students.[24] Gar participated in various training sessions at the academy and was sometimes called "Mister Changeling" by students.[25] He along with Raven tried to help Billy Batson with his powers as they were malfunctioning and Gar later advised three students that were investigating the Red X case to stay away from the mystery.[26]
When Gorilla Gregg sent Summer to alert the team about an attack that Grodd would unleash on New York City, Gar participated on the fight along with his fellow Titans. After the fight, Beast Boy went to talk to Gregg about his relationship with his uncle Grodd, comforting him and telling him that he needed to open up more to people.[27]
Dark Crisis
Following the disappearance of the Justice League, Titans Academy was attacked by Deathstroke and his Secret Society of Super-Villains. Gar was caught trying to spy on the army; Slade shot him in the head, intending to use him as a message to his friends.[28] He miraculously survived, aided by his shapeshifting abilities, but was left in critical condition.[29]
Because of this experience, Gar fully believed he had died, resulting in him remaining in a catatonic state; Nightwing remained by his side while he recovered.[30][31] As the Titans reunited to take on Deathstroke, Gar finally recovered from his injuries and joined his team, claiming that he had a score to settle. Beast Boy and the assembled heroes then fought against Deathstroke's forces.[32]
An angered Gar directly went after Deathstroke, attacking him while saying that he was sick of him hurting his family.[33] While Gar was unable to defeat him, Slade and his army were defeated by the rest of the heroes at the same time the Justice League returned.[34]
Out of the Shadows
Gar would later join his friends in a new iteration of the Titans.[35]
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Beast World
Powers and Abilities
Powers
- Conduit of The Red: Garfield's genetic code contains a "metagene" that allows him to tap into The Red, an energy field that connects and pervades all animal life and micro-organisms in the universe. Garfield's connection to The Red allows for a genetic sense memory, as well as a propensity for replication and transmutation of his own body.[36]
- Therianthropy: Beast Boy has the ability to morph into any animal he knows of. He can change into extinct animals and even animals from different planets.[35] When he changes, it only takes a couple of seconds. It does not matter how big or small. It does not put strain on him to do this. He can stay in an animal's form indefinitely. Animals native to Earth are easy to transform into and control, however Beast Boy can transform into other unknown creatures, and while in these forms he cannot control them as easily.[36] In the years he has mastered his abilities to the point where he can selectively transform only certain parts of his body while maintaining the rest human,[37] or assume an animal-human hybrid form similar to that of a werewolf.[38] He can even transform into a demon-like creature.[39]
- Animal Mimicry: Beast Boy has the power to mimic the abilities of any animal he knows of while he is in their form. The ability apparently gives him intuitive understanding of the animals and what abilities they have that may be useful in the situation.
- Bio-Fission: Beast Boy is able to transform into a swarm of insects. However, splitting his mind across multiple creatures is a risk, because if one of them dies, Gar feels a small piece of himself fade away.[40]
- Enhanced Intellect: Beast Boy can expand his brain capacity to think faster and more efficiently by transforming into a minke whale.[1]
- Regeneration: At his most extreme transformation, Garfield can attain a sort of biological immortality which enables him to regrow himself from a few shreds of neuronal tissue when the situation demands it.[41] Having once regrown a lost eye that'd been blown out by Deathstroke.[2]
- Flight: Beast Boy can fly, by transforming into various creatures with wings, such as a bird or a pterodactyl.[42]
- Bio-Fusion: Gar can also use his animorphing power in order to reaccumulate bits and pieces of himself into his composite whole in case of fatalistic catastrophe.[41]
- Self-Resurrection: Similar to how actual starfish can regenerate lost or destroyed neurological tissue. Garfield can revive himself with every bit of his anima intact should he reassimilate everything that makes Garfield's sense of self by reabsorbing distaff pieces of his morphed form.[41]
- Infection: When transformed into a Starro-like creature, Gar released hundreds of thousands of spores that infected people across the planet and transformed them into various beasts.[1]
- Size Alteration: Beast Boy can alter his size at will, depending on which animal he takes the form of. He can shrink to the size of a mouse,[35] or even grow to massive sizes.[1] He can even grow in size without transforming into an animal.[42]
- Superhuman Strength: Beast Boy can possess the immense strength of animals such as gorillas,[2] or even deadly alien creatures.[35]
- Superhuman Durability: Beast Boy can become much more resistant to injury than any normal human, by transforming into various animals.[2]
- Therianthropy: Beast Boy has the ability to morph into any animal he knows of. He can change into extinct animals and even animals from different planets.[35] When he changes, it only takes a couple of seconds. It does not matter how big or small. It does not put strain on him to do this. He can stay in an animal's form indefinitely. Animals native to Earth are easy to transform into and control, however Beast Boy can transform into other unknown creatures, and while in these forms he cannot control them as easily.[36] In the years he has mastered his abilities to the point where he can selectively transform only certain parts of his body while maintaining the rest human,[37] or assume an animal-human hybrid form similar to that of a werewolf.[38] He can even transform into a demon-like creature.[39]
Abilities
- Disguise[39]
- Encyclopedic Animal Knowledge: Beast Boy is aware of even the most obscure details about animal biology, behavior and statistics, which he uses to his advantage when the situation requires the skill of a particular animal.[43]
- Hand-to-Hand Combat (Advanced)[38]
- Swimming[2]
Weaknesses
- Monstrous Appearance (Formerly): After the events of No Justice, Beast Boy lost control over his powers, and his default form was a hulking, hunch-backed creature.[44] He regained control over his form after a journey in the Bleed purged the Source energy from his body.
- Missing Eye (Formerly): Beast Boy was shot in the face by Deathstroke and his right eye was severely damaged as a result.[45]
Notes
- Beast Boy was created by Arnold Drake and Bob Brown, first appearing in Doom Patrol #99. However, Beast Boy first appeared as part of Prime Earth continuity in Teen Titans Annual (Volume 4) #1 by Tom DeFalco, Scott Lobdell, and Brett Booth.
- Gar was merged with Cyborg, to form an amalgam named Cybeast.[46]
Trivia
- Garfield's human hair color is brown.[36]
- Beast Boy was originally portrayed with red skin to tie him into the Red, but his skin color was changed back to green in Teen Titans (Volume 5) #1. This change was never addressed.
- Garfield is a vegetarian, as he sees eating meat as cannibalism. This is due to the fact that he's tranformed into most edible animals.[47]
- Gar is dating Raven and shares a room with her in the Bludhaven Titans Tower.[48]
Related
- 332 Appearances of Garfield Logan (Prime Earth)
- 300 Images featuring Garfield Logan (Prime Earth)
- 17 Quotations by or about Garfield Logan (Prime Earth)
- Character Gallery: Garfield Logan (Prime Earth)
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Titans: Beast World #1
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Tales of the Titans #4
- ↑ Teen Titans Giant #7
- ↑ Titans (Volume 4) #1
- ↑ Titans (Volume 4) #1
- ↑ Ravagers #1
- ↑ Teen Titans (Volume 4) #19
- ↑ Teen Titans (Volume 4) #22
- ↑ Forever Evil #2
- ↑ Teen Titans (Volume 4) #29
- ↑ Teen Titans (Volume 4) #30
- ↑ Teen Titans Annual (Volume 4) #3
- ↑ Teen Titans (Volume 5) #1
- ↑ Teen Titans (Volume 5) #2
- ↑ Teen Titans (Volume 5) #3
- ↑ Teen Titans (Volume 5) #4
- ↑ Teen Titans (Volume 5) #5
- ↑ Teen Titans (Volume 5) #6
- ↑ Teen Titans (Volume 5) #7
- ↑ Teen Titans (Volume 5) #8
- ↑ Teen Titans Annual (Volume 5) #1
- ↑ Teen Titans (Volume 5) #9
- ↑ Teen Titans (Volume 5) #10
- ↑ Teen Titans Academy #1
- ↑ Teen Titans Academy #2
- ↑ Teen Titans Academy #4
- ↑ Teen Titans Academy #7
- ↑ Dark Crisis #1
- ↑ Dark Crisis #2
- ↑ Dark Crisis #3
- ↑ Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths #4
- ↑ Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths #5
- ↑ Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths #6
- ↑ Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths #7
- ↑ 35.0 35.1 35.2 35.3 Titans (Volume 4) #1
- ↑ 36.0 36.1 36.2 Ravagers #0
- ↑ Titans United: Bloodpact #1
- ↑ 38.0 38.1 Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths #6
- ↑ 39.0 39.1 Nightwing (Volume 4) #103
- ↑ Titans (Volume 4) #3
- ↑ 41.0 41.1 41.2 Titans: Beast World #6
- ↑ 42.0 42.1 Titans (Volume 4) #2
- ↑ Teen Titans (Volume 6) #10
- ↑ Titans Special #1
- ↑ Dark Crisis #1
- ↑ Teen Titans Academy #14
- ↑ Teen Titans (Volume 6) #6
- ↑ Titans (Volume 4) #1
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