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Real Identity: Garfield Logan
Affiliation(s): Doom Patrol and Teen Titans
Appearances: All of Season One, Season Two, Season Three, Season Four, Trouble in Tokyo, The Lost Episode, Homecoming Part One, Part Two, Trust, Snowblind, Kole, Hide and Seek, Revved Up, Go!, Calling All Titans, Titans Together, and Things Change
Appearances (New Teen Titans): Language Lesson, Red X Unmasked, Utility Player, Gamma Rays and You, Burping Contest, Titans 3-D Streams of Consciences, Turn Back The Clock, Taped Before A Live Studio Audience, Titanimal Kingdom, Kids Korner 4 Kids, Groundhog Minute, Lightning Round, It's the Great Pumpkin, Garfield Logan, and Mayhem at First Sight
Appearances (Teen Titans Go!): Intro
Powers/Skills: Shape Shifting, Animal Mimicry, Military Training,
Voiced By: Greg Cipes

Beast Boy is an oddity, not because of his green skin, but as one of the younger super heroes, he boasts years of experience in fighting evil. It all began when a pre-teenage Garfield Logan accompanied his parents, two scientists, to Africa. They were in search of the elusive gene that connected animals to human beings. Logan was bitten by a green monkey and contracted the Sakutia Virus. The virus altered his DNA and made Logan's genetic code unstable, forever. Logan's skin and hair turned green and discovered he became a changeling. He could now shape shift into any animal and adopt its physical attributes. He immediately fell in love with his powers. Soon after this transformation, Logan's parents died in a boating accident.

Mento and Elastigirl, of the Doom Patrol, adopted Logan and made him a member of their super hero team, the Doom Patrol. He took on the codename Beast Boy and was raised by everyone in the Patrol as a surrogate family. Beast Boy donned a team costume and wore a mask to protect his civilian identity. The team was strictly regimented and Beast Boy often disobeyed Mento's orders to save his comrades rather than complete the mission at hand. For years, the two were at odds over this. Eventually, Beast Boy quit the Doom Patrol and wandered the world alone. He ended up in Jump City, California and was amazed when he realized he saved Robin in a fight. Beast Boy was honored to team up with Robin and attempted to ask him to be his sidekick but Robin was fixated on finding Starfire and assessing her threat to Earth. He then quickly befriended Cyborg. After the young heroes defeated the Gordanians, they soon formed the Teen Titans. At their behest, Beast Boy abandoned his geeky mask since he was green and his concerns were moot.

At around 14 years of age, Beast Boy was the youngest member of the team and felt insecure around his older and more confident teammates. To hide this insecurity, he became the jokester of the team and often pulled pranks on them. Beast Boy got on Raven's nerves and it took her a full year to get used to him. It also became clear that Beast Boy lacks the mechanical and technological aptitude of team mates, Robin and Cyborg. He also routinely loses to them on the Gamestation. Instead, Beast Boy is a certified fan of comic books and manga, namely Wakamono Shukan and wasted his whole life watching television. As a result, he could quote scene or dialogue from memory and some argue that it led him to have a low mental capacity. Most likely due to his chance encounter in Africa, Beast Boy also believes in fate and luck and won't hesitate to pick up a penny from the ground. Despite being the adopted son of Mento, Beast Boy is the weakest of the team towards mind control and is unorganized, evident by his Titans Tower room. He also can eventually become carsick.

Over the years, Beast Boy became a vegetarian, out of respect of the animals he shape shifts into, and consumes an all tofu diet. Convinced mopeds attract single women, Beast Boy began saving up to buy one for himself one day. Over the years, Beast Boy went through many changes of his own with odd side adventures on missions. While on the hunt for Trident, he became a friend and rival of Aqualad. He was kidnapped by an alien whose pet dog had the same isotopic signature as him. He had his first love on a would-be hero, Terra, only to have his heart broken by her betrayal. However, Beast Boy never gave up on her and never believed she was as evil as her master, Slade. After defeating Killer Moth, Beast Boy defied Robin's orders and secretly kept a larva as a pet he named Silkie. And much like Robin and Cyborg's signature infallible Sonic Boom technique, he tried to devise his own, the Beast Boy Blitz and met with failure. Upon meeting Nosyarg Kcid of Diemnsion 498, Beast Boy renamed him Larry, much to the imp's liking.

Beast Boy continued to surprise everyone, too. While in the form of an amoeba inside Cyborg, Beast Boy multiplied himself exponentially to destroy a viral core he accidentally created. Or during one Independence Day, Beast Boy suggested the Titans attack Mad Mod in a resistance formation. One of his more frightening experiences was his reaction to an electrochemical reaction during a battle against Adonis in an animal testing lab. Recombinant DNA merged with his and unleashed a primal and aggressive state. Even after Cyborg cured him with an antidote, Beast Boy was hesitant to accept the monster was completely synthetic and something that was always in him. Then in a 360 turn, Beast Boy's powers were altered by Mad Mod and he could only change into appliances such as a lamp, phone, foghorn, and phone booth. Soon after, he defeated Control Freak with the Hak Joon Chant, a fictional verse acquired from years of television viewing. When Robin journeyed to Asia to train under the True Master, Beast Boy dressed in Robin's attire and convinced everyone else to follow suit.

Beast Boy's dream of owning a moped came to its epic conclusion when he tried to get a job to buy one. He tried to be a video game tester for Gamestation Labs but blew up their only prototype of the Gamestation Turbo Extreme. He then tried his luck as a door to door salesman for the Hose-a-Tron X9 vaccuum cleaner. When that failed, Beast Boy became a park clown and made balloon animals for children. Nearly defeated and depleted, he gave in and filled in an application to work at Mega Meaty Meat. To his shock, the employee of the month would win a Tidwell-3000, the best moped in all the world. He slowly uncovered the fast food chain's diabolical secret. With the christened B-Ped, Beast Boy defeated his manager, Bob, and the Source, and saved Jump City. However, the Tidwell collapsed from the strain of battle soon after. Despite this, Beast Boy came to realize the fruition of his dream and attracted dozens of girls in Tokyo while trying to uncover the secret of Brushogun.

After years of searching, the Doom Patrol finally located the Brotherhood of Evil in the Amazon but were captured. A locator orb was dispatched to find Beast Boy and summon him to action. During the ordeal, Beast Boy repaired his relationship with Mento and earned his respect. The Titans then elected to warn the super heroes of the world about the Brotherhood. After months of travel, the Titans separated for one last mission. Beast Boy traversed the isolated mountains of Sector 19 to find Jericho and give him a Titans Communicator. However, once the mission was a success, the Brotherhood attacked everyone at once. Beast Boy was dispatched to Sector 7 to help Aqualad only to be attacked by Kardiak. He survived the battle and found himself alone. He initiated Robin's emergency plan and made his way to a secret outpost to lead a ragtag group of survivors against the villains. In the final battle, the Titans defeated the Brotherhood and Beast Boy defeated Monsieur Mallah, one on one.

Upon returning home, Beast Boy was horrified to see his favorite block in downtown Jump City slated for demolition. That feeling was short term as the Titans were attacked by a mysterious albino monster. During the fight, Beast Boy saw Terra and pursued her. Despite her memory loss, Beast Boy kept trying to remind her of her past life. However, an unlikely source, Slade, convinced him that he was only hurting her chances at a new life. After a final conversation with Terra, Beast Boy let go and left to help the Titans defeat the albino monster at a recycling plant.

20 years later, after the Teen Titans disbanded, Beast Boy tried to be a solo super hero but was routinely defeated. He eventually retired and opened a One Man Zoo circus act. Much to his delight, Beast Boy put on weight and became bald. When the Titans reunited, he was less than pleased that everyone else was in better shape, especially Nightwing.