Argent (Teen Titans)

**Antonia Louise Monetti**, also known as **Toni** and **Argent**, is a character from the *Teen Titans* series.

A young superheroine from New Zealand. In the tie-in comics, she joins Titans North.

In the XP4 fics, Argent debuted in the XP4 Heroes Coalition - Teen Titans.

## **Appearance**

Argent is a young woman of roughly 18 years of age. She has a silver/light gray skin and spiked, black hair with red bangs. Her dress is black up until her waist, where she has a red skirt with black stripes. She also wears long, black sleeves and black boots with a bit of red coloring on the bottom. Argent has a small 'A' tattoo on her chest, and her eyes are red with black pupils.

## **Personality**

Argent has been shown to be very quiet, calm, honorable, and very collected. She usually maintains a very calm yet serious demeanor, handling dangerous situations with little emotion or worry. She mostly keeps to herself making her somewhat of a loner and she can also be a little sarcastic with a somewhat dry sense of humor. Argent seems to be very goth or punk as black is her favorite color. Despite her usually introverted demeanor, she is not anti-social and is shown to be grateful if helped, even when she does not ask for it. Typical of a super-heroin, Argent also has a strong sense of justice, having helped many people in need several times.

Despite her cool exterior, she seems to have a bit of an insecure side. When approached by Starfire and questioned if she was Argent, Argent had to ask a couple of questions before seeing Starfire as a good guy. Once she realized Starfire was no threat and a fellow heroine, she seemed to be casual with her but also possessed a somewhat introverted attitude toward her, further showing her more loner attitude.

Despite her calm and serious disposition, Argent can be somewhat cocky when fighting opponents. She seems to put a fighting mode look on her face possibly to scare her opponents. When confronted by general Immortus, she assumed it would be easy to defeat him since he, at first, seemed alone. This could possibly show that Argent has a fair amount of pride in her powers and skills. It was only after Immortus’s soldiers appeared did she realized the true extent of the threat he posed.

When she is fighting she seems to be less calm and collected. However, really tries hard which pays off later on. She would also never surrender to a villain, preferring to fight till the end, outmatched or not. After fighting alongside the Titans against the Brotherhood of Evil, Argent seems to have warmed up to having teammates, having joined and moved in with the Titans North and forming close friendships with them.

## **XP4 Fanfics**

Argent is a member of the Heroes Coalitions and is part of the Teen Titans division. She also attends the Vanguard Academy as a student.

### **XP4 Heroes Coalition - Teen Titans**

In Chapter 7, Argent is present at the heroes assembly inside the Titan Tower in Jump City while getting themselves ready for the Toy Factory's attack.

In Chapter 8, Argent took part in the battle against the Toy Factory in Jump City.

In Chapter 10, Argent is present when Marcus "The Kane" McGee defeated Andy the Ragdoll and then witnessing the Toy Factory retreating into a portal. She is later present at the Toy Factory's base where it's been decided to destroy the toy machine and the remaining toys be donated to charity.

In the epilogue, Argent is revealed to have joined the Heroes Coalitions.

### **XP4 Heroes Coalition - AKB0048**

In Chapter 25, Argent is present in confronting the DES Soldiers in Neo-City.

In Chapter 29, Argent is amongst the thousands of AKB-fans gathered around the concert hall in a city somewhere Kasumigastar and later witnessed the return of Atsuko Katagiri and the rest of the missing idols, and had a great time watching the performances afterwards.

In Chapter 32, Argent took part of paying respects for Mace Wyndu's death by attending his funeral via burial at sea in Atamistar before witnessing the arrival of a fleet of Dimensional Defense Union ships whom paid their respects for Mace by gifting him with a Heroes' Tribute.

## **Abilities**

Argent's primary power is the generation and control of a form of crimson energy that she can release from her hands and then form into anything she wants, ranging from concentrated bolts of force to energy-hands or other item manifestations. She utilizes these abilities similar to the Green Lanterns from DC comics.

As a secondary power, Argent is capable of utilizing her ability to levitate and fly at high altitudes and speeds. During the flight, she has been shown to resist the damage of sudden change in air pressure and altitude.

## **Trivia**

* In the DC mainstream comics, Argent's powers and appearance are derived from her half-alien heritage. She was originally created to help the aliens defeat the super-powered beings on Earth, but rebelled and became a heroine instead. She is part of Titans North. In the comics, her energy constructs are silver rather than red. This may be due to the fact that Argent means silver in French.
* Argent's powers of energy, flight, and constructs are similar to that of Green Lantern.
* In one animation error, her powers are yellow-orange.
* She was very good friends with Hot Spot in the original DC Comics. In the Teen Titans series, their friendship is not focused on.
* Argent is fond of the color black. Black is also the national color of New Zealand.
* Despite supposedly originating from New Zealand, her accent in the Teen Titans series is inaccurate and more British. Although New Zealand is a UK Commonwealth country like Australia. \*\*Also, in Teen Titans Go#55, Argent is shown operating in London rather than New Zeland, heavily indicating she, in truth, British rather than New Zeland as initially believed. It is possible that she was merely visiting New Zealand when she was first introduced.
* Just before General Immortus attacked her, she is shown putting large brackets into the broken dam with her powers. When she finished this, the brackets were not made of her energy, but rather metal. This could mean that she can use her powers in a telekinetic way to pick things up, or her energy can materialize into other substances when she's done with it.
* Argent features in the *Teen Titans Go!* comic series — most notably in issue #34, "The Great Race", and issue #41, "Girl Trouble". In these episodes, she is shown operating in the United Kingdom.
* Her attire and appearance relate to Marvel Comics' character Nico Minoru from their award-winning series "The Runaways".
* In "Stupid Cupid", when Larry draws other characters to each other Argent gets paired with Wildebeest,even though the two had never even seen each other except possibly while battling the Brotherhood of Evil in Paris.
* Argent has much in common with Raven, having introverted attitudes and similarly sarcastic and dry senses of humor as well as both having the ability to fly. They also have rather dark themed outfits as well.