Editing Teen Titans (section)

===''The New 52'' (2011–2016)===
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[[File:Ttitans v4 01.jpg|thumb|left|180px|Cover for ''Teen Titans'' (vol. 4) #1 (November 2011),<br />art by [[Brett Booth]] and Norm Rapmund]]
DC Comics relaunched ''Teen Titans'' with issue #1 ([[cover date]]d November 2011) as part of DC's New 52 event, written by [[Scott Lobdell]] with former ''Justice League'' artist [[Brett Booth]] providing interiors. The relaunch was controversial, because it was originally designed as a direct continuation of the previous Teen Titans series before Dan DiDio declared that all previous incarnations of the Titans never existed; this in spite of the fact that early issues of the 2011 series (as well as "[[Red Hood and the Outlaws]]" and "[[Batwoman]]") made explicit mention of the previous Teen Titans teams.

The new team is formed by Tim Drake, now rebranded as "Red Robin" to protect teenage heroes from a villain known as Harvest and his organization "N.O.W.H.E.R.E." A running theme for the 2011–2014 series was Harvest kidnapping young heroes for experimentation and enslavement as part of the villainous scheme for world domination.

The 2011–2014 series featured several crossovers, "[[The Culling (comics)|The Culling]]", which had the team meet the Legion of Super-Heroes, as well as "[[Death of the Family]]", which focused upon a meeting of Batgirl, Red Hood and the Outlaws, and the Titans, as the Joker kidnapped Red Hood and Red Robin. The 2012 "Zero Month" issue provided the ''New 52'' origin of Tim Drake, recasting him as a young computer hacker who was adopted by Batman to protect him from retaliation by the Penguin.

The 2011–2014 series and Scott Lodbell's writing drew negative reviews, though the Lodbell created character [[Bunker (comics)|Bunker]] was positively received by fans. Criticism included the meandering Harvest/N.O.W.H.E.R.E storyline, an arc that revealed Kid Flash (Bart Allen) as a futuristic fundamentalist Christian terrorist hiding in the 20th century, as well as the elimination of the franchise's lore. The character of Raven and Trigon was originally embargoed by Lobdell, but the characters were brought back due to fan demand. The 2011 series also spawned a short-lived spin-off, ''The Ravagers'', which ran for 10 issues and featured Beast Boy, Terra and [[Caitlin Fairchild|Caitlyn Fairchild]] of ''[[Gen¹³|Gen<sup>13</sup>]]'' in major roles.

The series was relaunched in July with a new issue #1 with Will Pfeifer as writer. The series continued with the characteristics of the main characters, but ignored the events of the Ravagers spin-off, presenting Beast Boy both green and in line with his animated series characteristics. The series also added an African American version of the super-heroine [[Power Girl]] to the roster.

Due to the backlash against the removal of the previous incarnations of the Titans (and the ripple effect it had upon characters such as Nightwing and Donna Troy), DC launched a new miniseries called "Titans Hunt", which restored the original 1960s version of the Titans to canon. The series states that all memory of the original Titans was erased by Lilith to protect the team from Mr. Twister. It also alludes to further reality alterations to the DC Universe; these are then picked up on in the ''[[DC Rebirth]]'' initiative, beginning a week after "Titans Hunt", which restores [[Wally West]] to canon, along with various aspects of the Pre-''Flashpoint'' continuity.