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Garfield Logan (New Earth)

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Current Alias

Aliases
Changeling, Beast-Brat, Green Jeans, Salad-head, Sprout, Tork, Craig Logan [1]

Identity

Alignment

Affiliation
Doom Patrol; former member of the Teen Titans; former member of the original Doom Patrol; former member of Titans West

Relatives
Mark Logan (father, deceased), Marie Logan (mother, deceased), Steve Dayton/Mento (adoptive father), Rita Farr/Elasti-Girl (adoptive mother), Matt Logan (cousin)


Base Of Operations

Characteristics
Gender

Height


Eyes

Hair

Skin

Unusual Features
Green skin, Green hair

Status
Citizenship

Marital Status

Occupation
Adventurer

Origin
Origin
Infused with the blood of a green monkey that genetically altered him.


First appearance


Contents

History

As a child, Garfield Logan contracted with a rare illness called Sakutia and was cured by a serum from a green monkey. This serum had the unintended effect of turning his skin and hair green and gave him the ability to change into any animal (the colors and appearance of these animals changed depending on which artist was using the character at the time).

Originally and currently known as Beast Boy, he was adopted by Elasti-Girl and Mento, members of the Doom Patrol. He later joined the West Coast team of the Teen Titans (known as Titans West), and was part of the New Teen Titans assembled by Raven. It was at this time that he took the name Changeling. He remained with various incarnations of the team, forming a close friendship with Cyborg.

He later began using the name Beast Boy again, under which he got his own mini-series Beast Boy. Following a failed attempt to recreate "Titans West" as "Titans L.A.," he rejoined the main team.

He has also worked as an actor, playing the role of an alien in the TV series Space Trek 2022 (which, even in the fictional setting, was a thinly disguised pastiche of Star Trek and Space: 1999, and was canceled following threats of legal action on the grounds of plagiarism).

Beast Boy is a comic relief character. Whatever team he is part of, he likes to joke around with people and make jokes of the situations the team get themselves into. However, this is only a facade. In reality, Beast Boy is a boy who has suffered many hardships in his life (both his real parents have passed away, and then his foster mother, whom Garfield became very close to, died in battle along with virtually all of the other Doom Patrol members with whom he was part of the team. Also, his foster father was driven mad by a helmet he used to fight enemies). He also has lost many teammates and fell in love with Terra (a member of the Teen Titans) and was heartbroken to discover that she was a traitor working for Deathstroke and hated the Teen Titans with a passion. Even after her death, he refused to believe for a long time that she was a traitor and blamed Deathstroke for corrupting her and using her. As a result of all of this, he uses his jokes to cover the fact that he is scared of losing anyone else he is close to. Despite all of his hardships though, Garfield is friendly and upbeat.

His best friend is Cyborg (also a member of the Teen Titans). He is also close with Bette "Flamebird" Kane, a former Titan who helped save his life on an adventure in Los Angeles.

In the "Titans of Tomorrow" storyline, wherein the Titans glimpsed a grim, possible future, Beast Boy had changed his name to Animal Man (II) and fought alongside his fellow, fascist Titans to make the United States a police state. This future Beast Boy is shown as feral shaggy, and more bestial in appearance. He is also characterized as still bearing a grudge against a possibly-resurrected Terra, who, in this future, is a member of the more benign rival group Titans East.

He has recently become romantically attached to Raven, coming together in issue thirty of the latest Teen Titans comic. Raven had been developing feelings for him since her recent rebirth. Despite fan speculations that this affair was influenced by the Shipper fan community, writer Geoff Johns has gone on record to note that he had long been preparing these two slowly to have a relationship before the animated series even began.

Due to the events in the "one year later" events, they have apparently separated. After trying to hold together a ragtag band of Titans, once Robin returned Beast Boy left the team to rejoin the Doom Patrol and aid his adoptive parents. Following attacks on various former Titans, it was determnined that the sons of Trigon were trying to destroy the group to establish a name for themselves. The Titans decided to reform to combat the threat. At the same time, Beast Boy tried to reconcile with Raven.


Powers and Abilities

Powers

Animal Metamorph: As a shape shifter Beast boy has the ability to morph his body form according to his desire, the transformation takes only a mere second and Beast Boy demonstrated that he is capable of rapidly changing his form with little or no effort. His transformations are limited to the forms of animals, these animals also include extinct species like dinosaurs. His power enables him to completely alter his body mass being able to take the shape of animal far larger and heavier like an elephant, hippopotamus, or Tyrannosaurus Rex (though until recent stories, such larger forms would physically exhaust him), or smaller and lighter than himself like a mouse or an insect. Also his power enables him to radically alter his body structure and take forms of animals without limbs like a snake or without bones like an octopus. While in animal form he still completely retains all his human intellect, mind and memories, and retains the ability to speak. No matter what form he takes, his skin, hair and eyes remain green.

  • Physical Animal Enhancement: While in the form of animals he gains all physical abilities and characteristics of the animal like strength, speed, durability, the ability to fly or to breathe underwater.
  • Animal Communication: While in a particular animal form, Beast Boy can communicate with many forms of animals.

Abilities

None known.


Paraphernalia

Equipment: None known.


Notes

  • Although this character was originally introduced during DC's Earth-One era of publication, their existence following the events of the 1985-86 limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths remains intact. However, some elements of the character's Pre-Crisis history may have been altered or removed for Post-Crisis New Earth continuity, and should be considered apocryphal.

Trivia

  • No trivia.


See Also


Recommended Reading

  • None.


Links and References


Footnotes


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