Killing one of its main team members could’ve been a satisfying finale, but the spirit of the show always seemed to lean toward a happier ending for its characters. For as dark as Titans tended to be, its core has always been optimistic to a fault. This isn’t to say that Starfire needed to die in the finale. Both were seemingly killed in a fiery explosion - but after the camera lingered on the Titans as they mourned and slowly turned to leave, Starfire descended, alive, without explanation. In the final moments of the battle, faced with the fact that Brother Blood could not be contained and needed to be killed, Starfire flew them both up into the air. The Titans spend a lot of time arguing over the inevitability of Starfire’s sacrifice, and their attempts to circumvent it were thwarted. Much of the season was spent building to a prophesied confrontation between Starfire ( Anna Diop) and Brother Blood ( Joseph Morgan), a battle that would leave them both dead. The recent series finale of Titans is a textbook example of this phenomenon.
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