Silkie

Kitten (adoptive sister)

**Silkie (Larva M3-19)** is a supporting character in *Teen Titans Go!* and the mascot of the Teen Titans. He is Starfire's pet moth caterpillar, but seems to have average relationships with all of the Titans. His voice from "Missing" and his noises throughout the series are provided by Tara Strong.

## Appearance

Silkie is a small, pink, mutant moth larva with light green eyes. Most of the time, Silkie has his eyes closed. He has six, nub-like legs and two antennae. He also seems to have a spot-like design on his body.

Inside his mouth, he has pointed yellow teeth, resembling that of a dog's. However, there are several rows of them, seen in "Little Buddies" during Cyborg's "Little Buddy Showdown". Silkie has the appearance of a large maggot, although he is technically a moth caterpillar rather than a fly.

## Personality

Not much is known about his character, but Silkie is characterized as being lazy, gluttonous and prone to barfing, yet intelligent and loving towards Starfire.

## Trivia

* A running gag in the series, Silkie throws up in nearly every episode he is in, ever since "Nose Mouth."
* Silkie has the most cameos of any character in *Teen Titans Go!*.
* Silkie mostly appeared as an obstacle in most *Teen Titans Go!* games.
* In the original series, Silkie is a mutated moth larva created by the villain, Killer Moth. Beast Boy secretly takes him in but then gives him to Starfire, who ends up being his permanent keeper.
* It is revealed in "Starliar", his favorite food is canned food of some sort. Possibly canned cat or dog food.
* Silkie resorts to eating nearly everything he comes across when he's not fed within a certain time frame. He's even willing to eat the contents of Beast Boy's litter box. In the episode "In and Out", Beast Boy invented a new game called "What's Inside Silkie" and pulled out a top hat on his first try. In "Little Buddies", Silkie ate Pain Bot, displaying his enormous mouth full of teeth.
* Silkie is the only main character to never have died before.
* In "Dog Hand", it's revealed that Silkie's wish is to grow wings and fly, revealing that he is indeed a moth caterpillar.
* Raven uses Silkie to act as "Princess Silkie Soft" when she plays with her *Pretty Pretty Pegasus* figures.
* Beast Boy has also been shown transforming into a Silkie in "La Larva de Amor".
* Silkie gets spliced together with a rabbit by B'wana Beast in "You're Fired!".
* When Silkie eats Tamaranian berries in "Driver's Ed" and swells up, it is a subtle reference to the original series when Starfire fed him zorka berries from Tamaran and he became enormous.
* Silkie is quite possibly the luckiest character on the show, as seen in "La Larva de Amor." He averted death and disaster many times without trying.
* Silkie also gained immortality upon eating the Legendary Sandwich until he threw it up.
* Tara Strong revealed in an interview that she provides Silkie's voice.
	+ Tara Strong replaced Dee Bradley Baker for voicing Silkie. Baker was Silkie's voice actor in the original series.
	+ Strong also provides the voice of Silkie in "Missing", using whatever voice she used for Bubbles on *The Powerpuff Girls*, which is the same voice she uses for Fisher Price's Little Mommy baby dolls.
* Starfire frequently refers to Silkie as a "Bumgorf", which is a Tamaranian term from the original series used as a term of endearment and roughly translates to "prodigy" or "child".
* Various pictures of Silkie in various costumes can be seen in the hallway leading to the Titans' rooms. The costumes include a bee, a flower, and Batman.
* Silkie's eyes usually remain shut, but some episodes like "Starliar", "Brain Food", and "Dreams" have revealed they are green. However, in some episodes, Silkie had white eyes instead of green. For example, "Legendary Sandwich".
* In "Matched", Silkie is referred to as a "bug of the cloth". This may be otherwise meant as a bed bug.
	+ Or since Silkie represents the common silkworm used to create silk. (A type of "cloth"), hence his name.
* It is revealed in "Starliar" that Silkie dislikes tofu, which is consistent with the original series.
* As seen in "In and Out", Silkie is capable of eating inedible objects and keeping them inside his tummy.
* Silkie is one of the two *Teen Titans Go!* characters outside of the Teen Titans to be made into merchandise by Jazwares, the other being Trigon.
* In "Missing", when Silkie is picked up, he makes a noise the Zombie makes in the video game Terraria.
* Silkie seems to be very close to Beast Boy, he is seen hanging out with him in various episodes and in "Missing", Beast Boy gave Silkie a bath.
* As of "Money Grandma", Silkie has six outfits, with two jobs associated with some of them, a hennin it wears as Princess Silkie Soft, a crown it wore temporarily after eating the "Legendary Sandwich", a two piece bikini Starfire bought for it in "Hey Pizza!", a clerical collar for his job as an ordained priest in "Matched", a pair of glasses it gained when Beast Boy accidentally made it smart in "Brain Food", and a suit and necktie and a gavel for it's job as a political debate moderator in "Money Grandma".
* Robin and George Washington understood Silkie's questions and comments during the presidential debate in "Money Grandma".
* Out of all the little buddies on the show, Silkie appears in the most amount of episodes.
* Silkie is the only one of the Teen Titans not to appear in every episode.
* Silkie appears less frequently in more recent episodes than the other two seasons.
* Silkie is revealed to genuinely love Starfire, as shown in "Dreams" and "Missing".
* Silkie loves to be licked behind the ear.
* He likes being given "tummy farts" as seen in "Missing".
* Despite being male, Silkie has been seen wearing feminine attire.
* Silkie has some similarities to Gary from *SpongeBob SquarePants* and Plank from *Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy*.
* Silkie also appears as cameos in the *DC Super Hero Girls* webseries.
* According to Eric J Pringle, Silkie was killed when Slade blew up Titans Tower in *Teen Titans Go! to the Movies*. Despite this, Silkie appeared in "TV Knight 4" which aired after the movie (due to the show having broken continuity).
* Raven refers to him as a maggot, although he is technically a caterpillar.
* Robin thinks of himself as Silkie's father figure.
* His silk spinnerets look more like centipede pincers.
* Unlike real-life caterpillars, Silkie has six legs. In real life, caterpillars have multiple legs, but are lowered to six when they become moths or butterflies.
* In Ask The Titans, the Titans consider his barfing as normal bug behavior.