Starfire (Teen Titans)

Princess "Kory" Koriand'r, mostly known as Starfire, is one of the five titular main characters of the 2003 animated series Teen Titans, and the films Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo, and Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans. 
She is an alien princess from the distant world, Tamaran and one of the five founding members of the Teen Titans. She is also Robin's main love interest and finally becomes his girlfriend in the series finale movie. 
She is voiced by , who also voices Jenny McBride in The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue, Nia Teppelin, Princess Bubblegum, Alice, Wendy (after Kathryn Beaumont retired), and her reboot incarnation.
==Overview==
Starfire is the second of the three children of the Royal Family of Tamaran, born to King Myand'r and Queen Luand'r. She, her older sister Blackfire and their younger brother, Wildfire were all raised by Galfore, their guardian. When Starfire was young, her planet was attacked and devastated by the Gordanians. Blackfire made a peace settlement with the invaders by giving them her younger sister as a slave. This devastated the king and queen. Unfortunately for her captors, Starfire, while apparently rather naive and gentle by Tamaranian standards, was too much for them to handle, breaking loose and flying to Earth.
===Joining the Teen Titans===
As revealed on the prequel episode "Go," Starfire ended up escaping to the town of Jump City, California. Starfire was frightened and alone on the new planet and she started wreaking havoc on Downtown and scaring all of the civilians. However, she was stopped by four teenagers, Robin, Raven, Cyborg and Beast Boy. Robin realized the reality of the situTion when he saw she was shackled and alone. He was the first person who ever showed her kindness and removed her shackles. Understanding, Robin helped free her. 
After being freed, Starfire suddenly kissed Robin and instantly understood Earth's English languages. She then grabbed Robin and threatened to destroy them if they didn't leave her alone. However, Koriand'r showed a softer side when Robin was the first person to hero her. The group of teens realized the true threat was Koriand'r's former jailers, the Gordanians who would lay waste to the city if it's citizens did not turn Koriand'r over to them. The group banded together and saved the city from complete destruction. As the days past, Starfire changed from her prison uniform to her iconic costume. Robin asked the Tamaranean girl her real name because they never learned it. Koriand'r felt that her name was hard to pronounce in English, so she gave them its translation, Starfire. The group soon founded the Teen Titans together. 
As she lived on Earth, Starfire developed romantic feelings for Robin. 
==Appearance==
As is typical of the Tamaranean race, Starfire has orange skin and completely green eyes with no whites or visible pupils. Her hair is also unusually long and thick compared to that of humans. She also has green eyes and long, auburn hair. Starfire's outfit consists of a sleeveless violet crop top with a matching violet miniskirt, a silver belt, and thigh-high violet boots with silver soles. For armor, she wears a silver gorget with a round green gem embedded into it, silver bracers with green gems on the back of each hand, and a silver armband on her upper right arm.
==Personality==
Starfire is happy, emotional, naive and somewhat insecure, but her naivete is not to be mistaken for stupidity. Though it is this naivete that endears her to others, especially to Robin. She and Robin are the closest out of all the Titans, and he takes time out to explain the ways of Earth to her. 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. She 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. Above all, she wishes to be friends with everyone she meets, and for everyone to get along. Starfire possesses a strange mixture of personality traits; most of the time, she acts quite gentle and demure, possibly due to expectations of Earth culture and desire to better assimilate in her adopted home, but when the need arises, she can be as much the fearsome warrior as any of her comrades. 
==Powers and Abilities==
Starfire possesses great strength despite her rather slim phasique. In early promos for her original appearance in the new Teen Titans, it was said that she "has the strength of eight men." However, Starfire has repeatedly demonstrated that she is far stronger than that since she can out-muscle her Titans teammates, including Cyborg. This would indicate that Starfire has at least class-100 strength as well, though her strength level has never been accurately quantified.
When sufficiently angered, Starfire can go into a berserker state, granting her even greater strength, invulnerability, and immunity to many forms of damage. She is highly resistant to injury and can even survive unharmed in the cold vacuum of space.
In the episode "Switched," she uses Raven's telekinesis when she's in her body.
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==Trivia==
* Starfire is the only member of the Titans who is from another planet instead of Earth, not counting Raven.
* She is the only Titan in the series to not have a season's story arc specifically for her.
** There was one planned involving her sister, Blackfire, however, the series was cancelled before it could happen.
*Starfire is allergic to metallic chromium (allergies to chromium are very common in Tamaran).
*Unlike other versions of Starfire except her Go! counterpart, her belly button (if it's exposed) is drawn occasionally.
*While the original comic version was romantically adventurous, as this is a younger version in a show for kids, she was made naive and innocent about relationships further than friendship and sisterhood.
*Starfire's powers, like Raven's, are fueled by her emotions. As such, her power is determined by her emotional state. But the difference is that she freely expresses herself to gain the power, while Raven needs to keep her emotions in check.
**This was explored in an episode in which they body swap.
*Her favorite colors are pink and orange.
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