Mandy is the opposite of her mother in so many ways: she's gloomy, she's fat, she dyes her vibrant orange hair black, and she doesn't have access to her Tamaranean powers yet. Like Father, Unlike Son: Gender-inverted.Luckily he's reprimanded by Mandy's crush, but still. Heck, in the climax when Starfire is fighting Blackfire to give Mandy a chance to escape, one of them jeers " Run Forrest!" as she does so. Kids Are Cruel: Mandy's classmates see as her as a loser for not having powers like Starfire, furthered when she became a grumpy fat goth as a response to years of being treated this way.Then Blackfire shows up with her own idea of "initiation", which is essentially as Mandy described. Joke and Receive: Mandy scares Claire's beta bitches by jokingly claiming that instead of going to college, she's going through a Tamaranean passage of initiation in which she finally gets her powers and has to fight a terrifying monster.Hollywood Genetics: Even with her hair un-dyed to its natural orange color and green eyes, that's pretty much the extent of Mandy's resemblance to her mother.Starfire is adamant it's not Nightwing, and Mandy is definitely sure that it's not Beast. Heroic Bastard: Mandy's biological father is not in the picture and neither she or Starfire want to talk about who it is.Goth: Mandy leans into both the "Gloomy" and "Lone Psycho" stereotypes without falling over into either of them.Fly Or Die: With Starfire down and ready to be slain by Blackfire, Mandy is finally able to awaken her powers and confront Blackfire.Flipping the Bird: Mandy once flipped Claire off.Evil Aunt: Blackfire, Starfire's sister, comes down to Earth solely to kill Mandy as a precaution to keep her from claiming Tamaran's throne.Does This Remind You of Anything?: Lincoln compares Starfire's parenting to his own Vietnamese immigrant parents Starfire is an Education Mama, speaks in broken English, and wants a better life for her child than she had.Didn't Think This Through: Mandy clearly has no idea what she wants to do with her future, as thinks she can just move to France and relax there for the rest of her life.Starfire managed to escape and fled to Earth to hide from her sister, though Blackfire eventually found her and her daughter. Out of anger and jealousy, Blackfire left and assembled an army before returning to claim the throne, in the process killing their parents and then imprisoning her sister. Her older sister Blackfire was meant to inherit the throne, but because she was a late bloomer for her powers and Starfire was already stronger than her, their father wanted to make Starfire his new heir.
Close-Call Haircut: Blackfire throws a halberd past Mandy's head, cutting her cheek and lopping off part of her Girlish Pigtails.The Cameo: The other names in the fan's collection of autographs from Teen Titans include "Robin IV(?)" (either Damian Wayne or Stephanie Brown), Aqualad, Speedy, and Kid Flash.The Cavalry Arrives Late: The rest of the Titans show up after the matter with Blackfire has been resolved, having been on a mission off-planet when she attempted to attack Starfire and Mandy.Cassandra Truth: None of her peers believed Mandy growing up when she said she doesn't have any powers, and presume she's lying to hide them.
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