Warning: The following contains SPOILERS for Titans season 4.According to one new theory, someone besides Brother Blood or Mother Mayhem made the heroes disappear in the mid-season finale of Titans season 4. This would explain one of the more confusing sequences at the end of the Titans season 4 episode "Brother Blood." It would also act as the pay-off to a seemingly pointless scene earlier in the same episode, which may have hinted at how the Titans escaped from certain doom and who was responsible for arranging it.
The Titans' disappearing act came during the climax of the Titans season 4 mid-season finale, as the heroes raided the Temple of Azarath. Unfortunately, the Titans' efforts to befriend Raven's half-brother Sebastian Sanger proved futile, and Sebastian embraced his destiny to become the Church of Blood's leader, Brother Blood. He turned on his friends, unleashing a sonic scream that seemed to disintegrate the Titans, repeating the end of Avengers: Infinity War. There is reason to believe, however, that the Titans' disappearance was the work of someone besides Brother Blood or Mother Mayhem.
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Theory: Jinx Sent The Titans Back To STAR Labs
The answer may lie in an earlier sequence in the Titans season 4 episode "Brother Blood," where the Titans' sorceress ally Jinx proposed a plan to use teleportation magic to rescue Sebastian Sanger from the Church of Blood, allowing them to avoid a confrontation with Mother Mayhem. Jinx explained that using magic to disassemble a person at the atomic level was simple enough, but that putting the pieces together somewhere else afterward tended to result in "a big mass of quivering jelly with one blinking eye." However, Jinx believed that the quantum computers at STAR Labs could manage the calculations, allowing her to teleport Sebastian back to STAR Labs safely.
This plan was ultimately abandoned when in an effort to emulate Lex Luthor, Superboy arrogantly went after the Church of Blood on his own and was captured. This necessitated that the rest of the Titans raid the Temple of Azarath directly, making the lengthy scene in which Jinx explained to the other Titans how magic could be used to teleport someone seem completely pointless in retrospect. It is possible, however, that the explanation scene is a Chekhov's gun, meant to foreshadow the Titans' eventual escape from the Temple of Azarath at the episode's end through Jinx's magic.
The chief problem with this theory is that Jinx seemed to be dead or dying when the Titans disappeared, having been impaled on Mother Mayhem's magic staff early on in the fight. It's possible the teleportation spell used up the last of Jinx's magic and life force, a gift to the heroes who had taken her in and treated her like one of their own. On the other hand, it could also hint that Jinx isn't dead and that her apparent death was an illusion meant to give her the time she needed to set up the complicated teleportation spell uninterrupted.
It should also be noted that the Titans season 4 mid-season finale, "Brother Blood," hints that Jinx may have some experience in using her magic to defy death. After confronting Mother Mayhem and being stabbed in the stomach, the Titans' sorceress ally Jinx cryptically muttered "Not again," before collapsing to the ground. This could foreshadow the possibility of Jinx having some sort of magical contingency plan in place that prevents her from dying violently. On the other hand, given Jinx's joking nature, it could also have been one final wisecrack, ironically suggesting that she had survived a clearly fatal attack before and that it wasn't a big deal.
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What Jinx Saving The Titans Would Mean For Season 4, Part 2
Presuming that Jinx is responsible for helping the Titans escape would significantly raise the stakes for the second half of Titans season 4. Ignoring that the fate of the world was at risk, the Titans would feel obligated to finish the fight with Brother Blood and Mother Mayhem to honor Jinx's heroic sacrifice. This would be particularly true of Raven, who regained her powers and transformed into White Raven because of Jinx's mentoring throughout Titans season 4, and Jinx's suggestion that Raven only lost her magic because she wanted to see what it was like to be normal.
That said, it seems unlikely that Jinx died in Titans season 4's mid-season finale. While revealing Jinx's death to be fake would be anticlimactic, it would also be in keeping with her nature as a trickster and a master of illusion magic, who reportedly engaged in battles of wits with the equally tricky John Constantine. It would also be incredibly wasteful, as Jinx had just revealed her costume from the comics for the first time just before she died. It would be even more anticlimactic and nonsensical for Titans to give Jinx her classic costume only to kill her off in the same scene.
Why Jinx May Not Have Teleported The Titans Away
The chief argument against the theory that Jinx saved the Titans is Beast Boy's visions guiding him to enter the Red during the same fight. Earlier in the Titans season 4 episode "Brother Blood," Beast Boy encountered a man who told him, "When the tower splits in half, go to The Red." This inspired Beast Boy to talk to The Red as the Temple of Azarath began collapsing, vanishing in a flash of red light. This was noticeably different from how the rest of the Titans faded away later. However, the Red would seemingly have no reason to save Beast Boy if Jinx were going to save all the Titans.
Additionally, the theory that Jinx used her magic to save the Titans presumes that she was in any shape to cast spells after being fatally wounded or that Jinx was faking her death with an illusion in Titans season 4's mid-season finale. The teleportation spell Jinx described earlier in the episode was largely theoretical and sounded extraordinarily complicated when she discussed using her magic only to move Sebastian Sanger. For Jinx to teleport herself and the rest of the Titans simultaneously would have been virtually impossible, even if she had somehow worked out the math in advance and weren't dealing with the stress of dying simultaneously.
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