Starfire (Teen Titans)

Princess Koriand'r, also known as Starfire, Star, Twinkle Star, Troq, Dr. Amazing Mumgon the Terrible, Alien Powerhouse, Sister Dear, Bumgorf, Little Ms. Cranky Pants and Kory Anders, is one of the main characters from the Teen Titans series.
== Charactah Account ==
Starfire is the second of the three children of the Royal Family of Tamaran. Starfire later joins the Teen Titans and became close to Robin, and the two would later become a couple.
Starfire is very cheerful and sweet, yet somewhat naive and considerably insecure, but her naivete is not to be mistaken for stupidity. An alien and an outsider, she is still rather new to Earth and its customs. This leads to much confusion for her and others, such as the awkwardness in casually drinking mustard as a beverage, and thinking cotton candy and cotton balls are the same thing. Presumably, because English is not her first language, Starfire speaks without contractions and misuses idioms. Additionally, she uses several Tamaranean nouns, such as "bumgorf" (term of endearment towards one's own child), "K'norfka" (parent or guardian), "clorbag varblernelk" (insulting term), "G'lufnog" (bless you; said after one sneezes), and "shlorvak" (dream). She also insists on sharing her own customs with other members of the team, but Starfire doesn't generally take offense when they don't understand or refuse her. In one instance, she lies about a holiday celebrated by destroying drapery and blows up a window to explain an accidentally torn curtain; an act that barely registers as odd behavior by the others.
Starfire takes friendship very seriously, and is easily distressed when others, especially her friends, argue or fight. She is arguably the most social of the Titans, regularly meditating with Raven, or lifting weights with Cyborg. She can also be particularly indignant to the point of snubbing her teammates when she believes they do not care for her friendship or company. Above all, Starfire wishes to be friends with everyone she meets, and for everyone to get along. This is in part probably, as before coming to Earth, Starfire didn't have real friends apart of her adoptive father, as she mentioned in Go! to Robin that "nice" is not a common word in her planet and that no one had been so nice with her apart of him and her own guardian. 
== Appearance ==
=== Cartoons ===
* New Teen Titans
* Teen Titans
* Teen Titans Season 2
* Teen Titans Season 3
* Teen Titans Season 4
* Teen Titans Season 5
=== Comics ===
* Teen Titans Go!
=== Movies ===
* Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans
* Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo
=== Video Games ===
* Tag Team Titans
* Teen Titans
* Teen Titans (GBA)
* Teen Titans 2
* Teen Titans Battle Blitz
* Teen Titans: Calling All Titans!
* Teen Titans: Lonely Warrior
* Teen Titans: One-On-One
* Teen Titans: Titanic Ambush
== Trivia ==
* Like Raven, Starfire technically goes by her real name instead of a superhero alias like the other team members do. Since "Koriand'r" is just her Tamaranean name in English.
* Starfire is the only member of the Titans who is from another planet instead of Earth, not counting Raven.
* Starfire is the only member of the Titans not to be human.
* Starfire appears in a total of sixty-three episodes of the series; one of which she has no spoken lines. In addition, she appears in the series finale, Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo, and all video games based on the series.
* Mother Mae-Eye's nickname for Starfire is "Twinkle Star," a reference to the poem/song "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star".
* Starfire is addressed by her real name (Koriand'r) by Galfore in "Betrothed" when they are yelling at each other in Tamaranean.
* Of all the main characters, Starfire's personality has probably undergone the most dramatic change from her original incarnation. In the comics, she is much more arrogant, aggressive, and hot-tempered, a sharp contrast from her naïve and modest portrayal in the show.
** In almost all her appearances, Starfire is animated without a navel, even though her animation sheet shows her with one.
* Starfire is the only Titan in the series to not have a season's story arc specifically for her.
* Although Starfire was freed from the clutches of the Gordanians and the Citadel, her memories of her imprisonment still haunt her: upon seeing The Creature from Jones Lake, she screams in terror—possibly due to its resemblance to a Citadelian.
* Interestingly, Starfire's powers, like Raven's, are tied to her emotions. The emotional Starfire's powers come from her emotions, while the restrained Raven's powers require amazing emotional control.
* Starfire is allergic to metallic chromium, (allergies to chromium are very common in Tamaran).
* In "Mother Mae-Eye", Starfire stated that she has nine stomachs, which may explain why she eats so much.
* Starfire and Cyborg are the only Titans that Slade has never taunted.
* There have been times where Starfire uses her lack of understanding of Earth's customs and strange habits to her advantage. For example, in "Can I Keep Him?" when Starfire was hiding Silkie, Cyborg and Raven came to call her, Raven saw that one of Starfire's curtains was torn. When Raven asked about it, Starfire lied and said it was her people's festival of berating drapery and proceeded to destroy the rest of her curtains. Later in that same episode, Starfire was looking for Silkie and ran into Robin, who asked her if she had seen the sofa, which had been eaten by Silkie. Fortunately for Starfire, she was able to act like she did not know what a sofa was and left.
* In "Transformation", it is shown that Starfire is aware of her great beauty, but does not tend to think so much of it.
* Jon Suzuki drew the Starfire model based on Glen Murakami's drawings.
* Starfire's skin color is meant to be orange. In the comics Tamaraneans have golden skin. While some art can make it harder to tell that she is orange, it is possible that this is often avoided since giving her bright orange skin may have ended up being distracting against the other colors on the show.
* All Tamaraneans are naturally born with the ability to shoot out energy blasts on the show but in the comics Starfire and Blackfire got these abilities from forced alien experimentation.
* While Dick Grayson is her main love interest and she was almost supposed to get married to him in the comics, until that got ruined by a Trigon possessed Raven, Starfire had two other former husbands she was married to. The first one was Karras who was the prince of the Southern States of Tamaran. It was only a political marriage set up by the kings and queens to make peace with the warring states of the more dominant North and the less dominant South. While Starfire and Karras respected each other, neither were in love with each other but were in love with somebody else and wished to be with them instead. The other was a marriage out of genuine love with a man named Phy'zzon who was a general and supreme commander at a specific time of war during his appearance. Both Karras and Phy'zzon end up becoming deceased.
** Her set up marriage to Glgrdsklechhh seems to take inspiration from how Starfire was set up to be in an arranged marriage she didn't want.
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== External Links ==
* Starfire at Teen Titans Wiki
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