Beast Boy

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**Garfield "Gar" Logan**, (April 12, 1994) also known as **Beast Boy** and **Changeling**, is a meta-human; who can shapeshift; into several different types of animals.

Gar is a former member of the Doom Patrol and a member of the Teen Titans. He is the jokester of the team and likes to mess around; but he is also very loyal to his friends. Even after losing his family and his adoptive family, and being sold out; by his first girlfriend, Gar seems care-free and easy going preferring to look on the bright side of life; instead of submitting to sorrow and angst.

Although Gar has a very easy-going nature. he received his powers; when an untested serum was used to protect him from a virus transmitted through animal bite. Orphaned at a young age, he eventually found a loving family as the adopted son of Mento and Elasti-Girl. Raised as a kid hero in the Doom Patrol, he grew up and moved to the Teen Titans later in his career.

## Biography

Biologists Mark and Marie Logan took their two year old son Garfield with them to the African country of Upper Lamumba, where they were conducting research on genetic codes. Gar came down with a rare tropical disease that was believed only animals could survive. In a desperate move to save his son, Professor Logan treated Gar with an untested machine which he originally developed to isolate the common genetic bond shared between humans and animals.

Gar managed to recover, but a side effect turned his skin green. A few years later, Marie Logan was threatened by a deadly Black Mamba snake, and Gar's desire to rescue his mother brought forth his powers, changing him into a mongoose. Several years later, his parents died in a boating accident, an incident which Gar still feels he could have prevented. After the death of his parents, Gar was raised by King Tawaba, a friend of the Logans and chief of the local tribe. Mobu, the tribe's witch doctor, had hated the Logans so much that he arranged for two Americans to kill Gar in exchange for Mobu revealing the whereabouts of a temple containing fabulous treasure. The temple collapsed and killed Mobu, but the two American looters rescued Gar and brought him back to the U.S. in order to force him to commit crimes for them. The two men eventually killed each other, and the courts set out to appoint a legal guardian for Gar.

It was decided that Gar's guardian would be Nicholas Galtry, an evil man who was the attorney for the Logan estate. While the young Logan was missing in Africa, Galtry had embezzled funds from Gar's inheritance. When Gar was found, Galtry plotted to kill the boy and have all the wealth for himself. he is the ex-boyfriend of Ryan Anders/Darkfire.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Meta-human Physiology:** As a young boy, Gar Logan contracted with a rare illness called Sakutia and was cured by a serum from a green monkey. This serum had the unintended effect of turning his skin and hair green but gave him the ability to change into any animal form.
	+ **Terrestrial Metamorph:** Beast Boy has the ability to morph into any animal he knows of. He can change into extinct animals and even animals from different planets. When he changes, it only takes a couple of seconds. It does not matter how big or small. It does not put strain on him to do this. He can stay in an animal's form indefinitely. He has changed into multiple animals such as a swarm of fireflies and a group of barnacles. The only problem is no matter what form he takes the animal's skin and hair color will always be green. Beast Boy can also change into a hybrid, which has all the animals' powers rolled into one. He cannot control this so he does not turn into a hybrid unless absolutely needed. He has demonstrated the ability to transform into animals many times larger than their actual forms: among others, he has been seen transforming into a human-sized tarantula and a giant snake. He has also been seen transforming into mythical animals such as a phoenix and a dragon. Whether this is a progression of his abilities or a new power altogether is unknown.
	+ **Animal Mimicry:** Beast Boy has the power to mimic the abilities of any animal he knows of while he is in their form. The ability apparently gives him intuitive understanding of the animals and what abilities they have that may be useful in the situation.
	+ **Animal Empathy**

### Abilities

* **Martial Arts**
* **Acting:** As Rita Farr was an actress, he too learned some acting skills. He was a good enough actor to star in several TV shows.