Sticky Joe
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Real Identity: Unknown
Affiliations: Teen Titans
Appearances: Hot Garbage, Oil Drums, Cool School, Dignity of Teeth, A Farce, Secret Garden, Finally a Lesson, History Lesson, Pure Protein, The Titans Show, TV Knight, Teen Titans Save Christmas, The Streak: Pt 2, The Inner Beauty of a Cactus, BBRAE: Pt 1, BBRAE: Pt 2, Easter Creeps, Lication, Career Day, Justice League's Next Top Talent Idol Star: Pt 2, The Academy, My Name is Jose, How's This For A Special? Spaaaace: Pt. 1, BBRBDAY, Slapping Butts And Celebrating For No Reason, I Used To Be A Peoples, Little Elvis, Booty Eggs, TV Knight 4, The Great Disaster, TV Knight 5, Teen Titans Vroom Pt. 2, That's What's Up, We're Off To Get Awards, Walk Away, Titans Go Casual, Justice League's Next Top Talent Idol Star: Justice League Edition Pt. 2, Where Exactly On The Globe Is Carl Sanpedro Pt. 1, Baby Mouth, The Cast, Various Modes of Transportation, Cy & Beasty, Doomsday Preppers, Sweet Revenge, A Sticky Situation, The Perfect Pitch?, TV Knight 7, Welcome to Halloween, A Stickier Situation, Easter Annihilation, and Haunted Tank
Powers/Skills: Survival
Voiced By: Khary Payton
Sticky Joe is a homeless man who lives among the garbage in Beast Boy's bedroom. He seems to only say the word "Howdy." While attempting to clean Beast Boy's room, Robin used his staff to chase Joe away but he simply used a spoon to parry Robin's attacks. Robin finally knocked Joe's can of beans down. Joe picked up his can, snarled at Robin and walked away. A short time later, when the garbage world began to collapse, Robin was left behind. Sticky Joe suddenly appeared on motorcycle and threw three possums at the blocked exit. Robin admitted he was wrong about Joe and left. After one last "Howdy," Joe was buried under a pile of garbage. Cyborg later found him under a couch cushion during his search for the TV remote. Sticky Joe was eating near the Taco Trouble truck when Ravager tossed a throwing knife at him. It only impaled his cap. She threw another one but Raven stopped it before it pierced his skull. Joe was unfazed. Joe was later a member of the jury during the trial of the Teen Titans.
While sitting on a park bench in the city, Joe suddenly fell to the ground after Cyborg took it. He needed to recreate Starfire's destroyed secret garden in order to calm her and the other Titans from a stage 4 freak out. The plan worked. As they enjoyed the garden, Joe popped out of the pond. The Titans later bought a rental property in the city. When Beast Boy complained about the lack of a doorman for their rundown building, Robin knocked on a trash can and Sticky Joe popped out. In Beast Boy and Cyborg's lesson about the Apollo 11 Moon Landing, the man on the Moon was none other than Sticky Joe. He activated his trash can rocket pack and saved two astronauts before they farted into space from eating too much of the Moon's cheese ocean. Inexplicably, when Robin was reiterating the dangers of the deserted island, Sticky Joe was at the shore on an inflatable chair chilling. Around 3 pm, Joe emerged from one of the piles in Beast Boy's room and brushed his teeth then applied Sticky Spray to the soles of his boots. He went into the city, greeting people, and ran into Sticky Joan. He offered a can of beans with a flower in it. As she leaned into smell it, Joe kissed her. She slapped him and walked off.
After Santa Claus quit Christmas, Robin decided it was up to the Titans to save the holiday. He would be Santa. Beast Boy recommended Sticky Joe since he already had the beard and gut but Robin didn't trust Joe. He shoved Joe into the trash chute. Sticky Joe later came to the Titans' rescue on his dumpster sleigh pulled by a rat and two armadillos. Joe pulled a lever and dumped trash bags on Santa before he could destroy the Titans once and for all. However, the Titans' presents were destroyed by Santa. Joe touched his nose and conjured a giant bag of beans. The Titans were enthralled and delivered cans of beans to every house instead.
During Crime Season, Beast Boy recruited Sticky Joe to join the Teen Titans after Kid Flash pinched Cyborg, Starfire, and Raven for his own team. Starfire and Beast Boy encountered Joe leaving a public men's bathroom at the wharf. Beast Boy determined the bathroom wasn't an element for Raven's song. Beast Boy's song for Raven brought many people together, including Joe and Joan but Raven's curse broke them apart. Cyborg tried to break up their fight but Joe threw a can at his head. Things went back to normal when Beast Boy learned his lesson and sang a new song. Joe rented Robin's bed after he started to make money in the shareconomy. On Career Day, Robin told the other Titans that following their dreams was a one-way ticket to a garbage dump called disappointment. He pulled up a literal dumpster and Sticky Joe greeted them. Joe later went to Raven's general denistry practice. Joe competed in the Justice League's Next Top Talent Idol Star. Sticky Joe and the Tooth Fairy were presents for "Best Dishwasher" at the first annual Teen Titan Awards.
Sticky Joe was inside the Titans Tower when Robin converted it into a starship and set off on a space adventure. Starfire thought it was the kind with laser swords and magical space knights. Joe greeted them. Robin shot it down and got rid of Joe with a trap door under him. Joe attended the Big Game in Jump City. Sticky Joe was alseep in a dumpster that Beast Boy happened to land in after Robin ordered the Titans to spend the day apart from each other. Beast Boy got an idea and put on Joe's clothes to learn how to be his own person. He started saying "Howdy" to everyone he encountered in the city. He gave a speech at the White House where he only said Joe's "Howdy" and somehow world peace was solved. While he shook hands with a politician, Beast Boy was confronted by Joe. He gave the clothes back sadly then returned to the dumpster unsure of how to be his own person. Joe returned, too, and gave him a rousing speech. Beast Boy realized howdys come from the heart and if they are true, you'll never be sad. Joe happily nodded and gave his cap to Beast Boy then climbed into the dumpster and drove away. He later farted next to Raven on a park bench and got teleported away.
On Easter, the Easter Bunny pooped an egg into Joe's Justice Java cup. During the Titan's egg hunt, Joe popped out of an open manhole with one of their eggs. Sticky Joe fed some pigeons in the park. He noticed Hawkman eating some seeds who then regurgitated them into Robin's mouth. The Titans were hit by a laser after they crashed into the Top Secret Government Science Facility. The T-Car was vaporized but they survived. They transformed into cars. Robin realized the laser must have combined their molecules with the T-Car's. Sticky Joe happened to be squatting on the property when the laser hit him, too. His molecules combined with a semi-trailer truck. The police pursued the Titans after they escaped City Jail. Joe came to their rescue and they drove inside his cargo hold. The semi ejected oil slicks to neutralize the police. The Titans discovered the semi was Sticky Joe. Robin believed a former associate of Dr. Military was the key to their exoneration, Chip Racerson Jr., the six time championship driver.
Sticky Joe took the Teen Titans to Chip's Raceway, the last known address of Chip Racerson Jr. and found him in a trailer in the center. The Titans later returned to Chip's Raceway and thanked Racerson for clearing their names with the police. Racerson, in turn, thanked them for curing him of Dr. Military's voice poison and invited them to another race. Sticky Joe passed by them in his truck form. Raven politely declined the offer and stated they had a race against evil. The Titans and Joe drove out of the park. As Beast Boy set off for Codsville, he asked Robin to feed Sticky Joe for him. He popped out of a bush outside the Titans Tower and greeted Robin. For some reason, Sticky Joe was up for Best Team Leader at The Superhero Award Show but lost to The Chief. Sticky Joe became furious after Robin drove into his shopping cart during a test drive of the Jokermobile. On a Tuesday, Joe found Raven's costume in a dumpster and put it on. He later found and wore Robin's costume.
During the Justice League's Next Top Idol Star: Justice League Edition, Sticky Joe was a part of Raven's act. He put an apple on his head then Raven, as Lady Legasus, did a handstand and fired a plunger arrow, knocking the apple off. Later in the act, while Legasus stomped grapes, Joe took a drink. Beast Boy packed Joe in this suitcase for the Titans' vacation to Los Angeles. He shut the case on Joe in the tower and later in San Pedro. Sticky Joe was eating his can of beans in a dumpster in Jump City but it was turned into baby food by the Baby-lonian's giant laser rattle and he turned into an infant upon eating it. Sticky Joe used trash to erect a statue of himself around the time Robin injured his leg while being transported into the Titan Robot. While Robin and Cyborg rode a train to Metropolis, Robin presented Sticky Joe. He burst out of a wet beans barrel. He tapped his two spoons in rhythm while Robin sang a rendition of "If You're Happy and You Know It." He went on a spoon solo and tapped his teeth and Cyborg's head. Later while Cyborg hallucinated from lack of sleep, Joe popped out of the glove compartment of a rental car in a simple red devil costume.
Sticky Joe relaxed on an inflatable chair on the Titans' swimming pool when Cyborg's toaster-possessed body dropped on the pavement from the top floor. Joe greeted it but it soon exploded. Sticky Joe was in the Titans' stove when Doomsday blew it up when he cried fire. He greeted them then fell on his face. As Doomsday pounded the floor like a frustrated baby, the Titans Tower started to rip apart. Joe fell down a crack in the floor. Joe was frozen solid after Robin accidentally set off a new Ice Age from Mr. Freeze's Frozen Freeze. Bored and hungry, the Titans left the tower for tacos despite Robin's misgivings. Beast Boy guaranteed that when they returned, Sticky Joe would be sleeping in the same spot on their couch. Joe's alarm clock woke him up. He lifted his cap and turned it off then went into the kitchen for something to eat. He looked in the refrigerator then in a cupboard. He found a can of beans. He dug in a drawer of the Titans Tower kitchen for something to open his can of beans. He later found Silkie who quickly ate the can whole. Joe reached in and took the can back, dropped him in the drawer and closed it but Silkie stuck out and was squished.
Back in the living room, he found Raven's Spellbook under a couch cushion and hit the can with it. It opened to a page and unleashed a wave of energy that shot through the roof then a dark spirit flew out of the tower. The console popped up due to an SOS sent by the Justice League but Joe accidentally hung up the call and activated the tower's auto defense, a flame thrower behind the TV, a buzz saw, spiked floor, Dave lowered down into the living room on a rope, and a missile. Joe then pressed a button that caused two speakers to rise up and blast "The Night Begins to Shine." Joe was teleported to the NBTS world but B.E.R. didn't have a can opener. He left and landed on the Titans Tower living room console and was accidentally sent into the Titan Robot and launched into the city. He ripped the roof off an apartment building and tried to communicate with Black Manta who was in his bath tub. He shrieked. The robot backed up and stepped on a parked car. He peeled it off and put it back in its parking space and apologized. He stood and accidentally took out three helicopters above him. He lost balance and the robot hit several buildings including Justice Java.
A military officer mistook it as a rampage and hit the alert button. Several tanks were deployed. The General realized the robot wanted to communicate. Joe motioned using a water tower like a can opener but the General thought he wanted to grind humans up into pieces. He ordered everyone to open fire. The Titan Robot was blown up and Joe was launched into the air with his can. Sticky Joe landed in the Batmobile, parked outside Joker's Gelato. He reached for his can of beans on the hood but accidentally turned off a Justice League distress call and set off an autopilot for the Batcave. Batman and Commissioner Gordon stepped outside to see the Batmobile was gone and laughed. Sticky Joe ended up in the Batcave. He was launched out of the Batmobile when it came to a stop and he hit the Ultimate Batarang case. He tried to use it to pry the can open but it slipped and bounced around, startling the local bats. While trying to swat them away, Joe ran into a display case and the urn carrying the second Robin's ashes fell on the floor and shattered.
Alfred Pennyworth came to check on the noise. Sticky Joe sat at the Batcomputer in a Batsuit. Somehow, Pennyworth fell for the ruse and left. Joe set off a saved video game at the Batcomputer then triggered the chair option to raise up to the Batplane. The Batplane took off to the Hall of Justice. It crashed into the side of the Hall of Justice. Joe found the Trident of Poseidon and used it to open his can of beans but it was a prop and a prong bent. He took the mace off the Hawkman statue but the mace broke in half. He eventually found Green Lantern's power ring and made a can opener construct. He noticed Krypto had the can. Joe had a big bone construct. Krypto ran off. Joe made a net construct but Krypto burst out. Joe made a brick wall but Krypto burst through. Joe tumbled through the hole and lost the ring. He grabbed the Lasso of Truth and captured Krypto. He scolded him and Krypto handed the can back. However, he noticed Streaky and chased after him with Joe pulled along. Joe crashed into the Phantom Zone Projector display and was zapped into the Phantom Zone with his can.
Aethyr, an all-powerful evil residing in the Zone, was insulted by his trespassing and gave Joe the choice of which punishment: the chamber of nightmares or watching "Sweet Home Alabama" with him in his studio apartment. Joe drifted towards the chamber of nightmares, stunning Aethyr. Aethyr clarified which led where but Joe still headed towards the nightmares. Aethyr admitted he was bluffing and revealed there was no such thing as a chamber of nightmares, he wanted Joe to choose his studio because he was lonely and rarely got to watch his favorite movie with anyone. Joe felt bad and went for the studio door. Aethyr took the door away and declared it was too late and the moment was ruined. He decided to just wait for someone else who also enjoyed the comedic stylings of Reese Witherspoon. He yelled at Joe to begone. Joe said Howdy. Aethyr repeated himself and zapped Joe back to the physical plane.
Joe landed in a bush then crawled out to Jonah Hex roasting a hot dog at a fire. They greeted each other. Joe looked around and described his can of beans. Hex saw it in the river. Joe shook his hand then took off into the river. He watched as an alligator ate the can whole. Infuriated, he attacked it. It knocked him into a tree. Joe emerged and nailed the alligator with a flying elbow. It chucked out the can but it sailed into the nearby Hall of Doom where Green Lantern, Flash, Wonder Woman, and Superman strapped down in front of a death laser. Sticky Joe's can of beans coincidentally landed on the death ray machine, interrupting the power. It shut down. The Justice League was relieved. To their horror, Joe climbed atop the machine, took his can, and went into a missile exit. The machine turned back on and blasted the League. Someone selected the Titans Tower as a target and a missile was fired with Joe hanging from the edge. He ate his beans, gained super strength, and punched the missile away. It landed at the Hall of Justice and blew up. Joe reverted to normal and fell through the same hole in the tower's roof and landed on the couch then went back to sleep. The Titans returned unaware Joe left that spot.
Sticky Joe was hired as the assistant's assistant when the Titans worked on their video game cartoon pilot. His job was to order desserts. He presented doughnuts after he high fived Birdarang, the assistant. During a September TV night, Batman and Commissioner Gordon watched an episode of Sticky Joe's Back Alley Antique Show. He appraised Starfire's vase at an auction value of $5700 then ruined it by eating his beans out of it, reducing it to a value of one dollar. He appraised Cyborg's inherited doily at an auction value of $800,000 then used it as a bib, reducing it to $1.15 in value. Robin presented The Caterpillar #1 from the initial print run in mint condition. Joe appraised it at an auction value of $6,030,352 then took it out of the bag to read, reducing it to $0 in value. While chasing the Teen Titans in his castle on Halloween, Krampus discovered Sticky Joe asleep on a bed.
Robin was disgusted Sticky Joe's pet rat Howdy was in his bowl. He was further upset when Joe brushed Howdy's back and butt with his toothbrush. The Titans had to leave the Titans Tower to fight Brother Blood but Robin instructed Joe to get rid of Howdy. Joe put Howdy back into the sink. Using the bubble suds, Howdy pretended to be Superman, then Wonder Woman, and Batman. They high fived but Joe noticed Howdy has very long nails. He produced nail clippers but Howdy was scared and ran away. The chase wrecked the kitchen. Howdy hid in a cabinet. Joe opened it but all the cans of beans fell on him. Howdy made it to the elevator. Joe found a chute behind a portrait and climbed up a narrow passage to the roof. Howdy backed into the cockpit of the T-Jet but tripped on a button, turning it on. After the canopy closed, Joe clung to the exterior as the jet took off. It soon crashed into Killer Moth's Cocoon.
Kitten was smitten with Howdy. Killer Moth was upset by the presence of a rat and wanted to call an exterminator. He reminded her she had a lot of pets already and he always ended up cleaning up after them. He caved in but offered to mutate it with his Bug Beam so it could have two heads. Kitten liked that because he would be twice as cute and strapped Howdy down. Sticky Joe was horrified and jumped to the top of the Bug Beam, reversed the polarity, and reverted Howdy to normal. The Bug Beam accidentally tilted and fired on Killer Moth turning his face super handsome. Moth was horrified by his appearance. They chased after Joe and Howdy but they jumped out the cocoon. Hawkman scooped up Sticky Joe and Howdy before they fell on sharp rocks and ate them whole. He returned to his nest in the city and regurgitated them. He attempted to feed Howdy to his baby but Joe intervened and pulled on him in a tug-of-war. They both fell out of the nest and luckily fell down an open manhole down below.
Howdy was befriended by Penguin in the Jump City sewers and was offered a fish to eat. Sticky Joe arrived in search of his pet. Howdy was happy to see him but ran back behind Penguin when Joe produced his nail clippers to clip Howday's long claws. Penguin brandished his blade umbrella. Joe grabbed an umbrella from Penguin's collection. It happened to be the electric jellyfish one and upon impact, Penguin was zapped. He grabbed a Sith light saber umbrella. Joe grabbed a Jedi light saber one but was knocked off his feet. Joe quickly grabbed another one but it was a saxophone. He started playing smooth jazz and Penguin liked it. Joe then smashed Penguin over the head with the saxophone and tried to run off with Howdy. Penguin, however, used his fishing pole umbrella to snag the back of Joe's jacket. Joe was pulled back but he landed in a pipe. It overloaded and shot him and Howdy out of the sewers on a life raft only to be swallowed whole by an orca whale. Joe and Howdy were forced to playe Go Fish with Aqualad, a shrimp, and a crab or face the business end of pincers.
Howdy became suspicious and revealed Crab was a cheater and a fight broke out. The orca's stomach was upset so it surfaced and blew Joe and Howdy back towards the city. They landed in Control Freak's apartment and watched an episode of Himguy. Howdy drank Freak's soda and put it on his remote. They were accidentally zapped into the Himguy series. Musclelor was upset with having intruders and bulked up with a protein shake. Joe produced a can of beans and became jacked then changed Howdy. However, Joe still tried to clip his nails. Musclelor was trampled and his gym gear and blender were wrecked. In anger, he zapped them back to the real world. Howdy jumped out the window, followed by Joe. They happened to fall through the roof of the Jump City Weapons Depot and found the Titans tied up to a bomb when the countdown was at 13 seconds. Joe realized Howdy's long sharp nails could cut the detonator and threw him at Robin's face.
Howdy climbed in and picked the red one at the last second which successfully disabled the bomb. Joe untied the Titans. Even Robin admitted Howdy wasn't so bad after all. Howdy kissed Robin. Robin was horrified and screamed for iodine and disinfectant. Joe and Howdy high fived but Joe still tried to clip his nails. During an Easter egg hunt, Robin found one but Sticky Joe refused to give it up like a dog and his toy but eventually relented. At the DC Halloween Festival, Joe took up Hawkman on his $5 Hawkman Rides attraction and was flown around. However, Hawkman was a casualty of Haunted Tank's Pumpkin Blast and Joe was dropped.