Beast Boy

Origin

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 manged recovered, 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.     
 

Doom Petrol

  
 Gar hated Galtry, but things took a change for the better when he met Rita also known as Elasti-Girl Farr of the Doom Patrol and Steve Dayton also known as Mento . Gar tried to join the Doom Patrol and the Teen Titans, but was rejected from both groups because he needed his guardian's permission; Galtry was not aware of Gar's identity as Beast Boy. A bitter Gar happened upon an evil circus owner who immediately used Gar as his star attraction and thief. A hypnotized Beast Boy, in the shape of an albino baboon, mesmerized the crowds into turning over their money and jewels. The Teen Titans discovered the ruse and, after battling Gar as a giant gorilla/boa-constrictor, put an end to the criminal activities.
Eventually, Gar began working alongside the Doom Patrol, so Galtry secured the services of various villains in attempts to kill Gar and the Doom Patrol. Once Rita Farr and Steve Dayton were married, the couple adopted Gar as their son after winning a court battle against Nicholas Galtry.

Gar was allowed to work alongside the Doom Patrol and served well until the Patrol was killed by Madame Rouge and General Zahl. Needing a change of scenery and wanting more from his life, Gar left home and traveled to Hollywood where he became an actor in the television show Space Trek, 2022, playing an alien metamorph named Tork. Both Gar's acting ability and the show's episodes were less than memorable, and soon Gar found himself out of a job and looking for a place to stay.

Out of work after the series cancellation, Gar was reunited with his high-school girlfriend, Jillian Jackson, only to have the criminal known as Arsenal return and kidnap her. Trailing the armored villain to his castle hideout, Beast Boy discovered that the Arsenal was actually his former guardian, Galtry, who had hired the original Arsenal to eliminate the Doom Patrol and who had now usurped that costumed criminal's identity himself. His goalwas to hold Jillian for ransom and regain the money he had lost when Gar Logan's guardianship had been taken from him. Gar was unable to attain the needed ransom money. Galtry then left him trapped in an airtight room while he attempted to get the ransom paid by Jillian's father instead. Escaping, Beast Boy battled Galtry/Arsenal, shattered the villain's armored costume, and defeated him. 
 

Titans West

While on the West Coast, Gar became a member of Titans West. By that time, the human face portion of Gar's animal transformations was beginning to fade. His powers began to change him into all-green versions of animals, each with its appropriate face. However, Beast Boy's shape changing duration was now directly related to the size of the animal assumed: the smaller the animal, the longer he could stay that way; the larger the animal, the less time the shape could be kept, and the weaker Gar became, requiring more time between transformations. Eventually this would not be a problem. 
     

Teen Titans

 
After changing his name to Changeling on the advice of his public relations team, Gar became an official member of the New Teen Titans.

Gar’s adopted father Dayton continued to perfect his helmet and helped out the Doom Patrol, until their deaths at the hands of Madame Rouge and General Zahl. Dayton vowed vengeance and spent much time and money in search of his wife's killers only to be captured by them. Several months after Dayton's disappearance, Gar Logan, now Changeling, asked Robotman to help him find Mento. The two old friends, plus Gar's new friends, the Teen Titans, rescued Mento from General Zahl and Madame Rouge; both villains died in the ensuing battle.

As a member of the New Teen Titans, Gar often felt insecure compared to the other older, more confident members. He often masked this insecurity with humor. Gar also forged a close friendship with fellow Titan, Vic Stone (Cyborg) due to them both looking different, the two quickly became best friends. Changeling's time with the Titans has had its rough spots. He fell in love with Terra, a sociopathic teenaged girl who was working for the Titan’s arch nemesis Deathstroke the Terminator. Terra pretended to like Gar while she infiltrated the Titans. After Terra died in battle, Gar went berserk with grief and sought revenge against the Terminator. Gar refused to acknowledge Terra's duplicity until he learned from the Terminator that it was Terra who had killed King Tawaba.

Gar’s ex-girlfriend Jillian Jackson returned from boarding school in Europe and re-entered Gar's life. She was able to ease some of his loneliness and bitterness following the death of Terra, they resumed their romantic relationship.

Sometime later, Gar's adopted father, Steve Dayton confined himself to a wheelchair and began using a combination of his mental powers and Promethium to create this new Doom Patrol, which he called the Hybrid. The demented Dayton blamed Gar for the original Patrol's deaths, and used the Hybrid to attack Gar and the Titans. After a series of battles, Raven cured Dayton of his dementia and his cancer. Steve and Gar have resumed their father and son relationship, but Dayton forbade Gar from participating in any more of the Titans' adventures until his grades improved. Gar began to attend public school and took a leave of absence from the Titans.     
 

Titans Hunt

 
Shortly after this, current and former members of the Titans were hunted and captured by the Wildebeest Society, for unknown reasons. The remaining Titans Nightwing and Troia (along with new allies Arella, Phantasm, Pantha, Red Star and Deathstroke) found the Wildebeest lair and ultimately destroyed the Wildebeest Society. This event is catalogued as "Titans Hunt." During the Titans Hunt, Cyborg was nearly destroyed, Titans Tower was totally demolished, and Raven seemingly perished. Also, in order to defeat the society, Deathstroke was forced to slay his own son, Jericho, who was tainted by Trigon's evil year ago through Raven.

As the Titans recovered from the event of Titans Hunt, exposure to the Mento helmet unleashed a new side of Gar – a new darker side. Instead of taking the form of normal animals found in nature, Gar began to shape shift into strange demonic creatures – and found himself liking it. 
 

Everyone has a dark side

 
Raven later returned as a leather-clad evil avatar of Trigon; She planted ‘Trigon seeds' in Changeling, Supergirl, Magenta, Deathwing, and Thunder and Lightning. Under Raven's influence, Changeling attacked the Titans and helped Raven recruit other vessels to implant her seeds. Eventually, Raven and her demon allies came into conflict with the Titans. With the help of Phantasm, the Titans finally destroyed this evil incarnation of Raven (or so they thought). Gar was brought to S.T.A.R. Labs, where he could be purged of the ‘Trigon seed' that lay inside him.

Vic Stone - now known as Cyberion [he would later go back to Cyborg] after merging with the planet Technis - was reunited with his former teammates as Raven returned to destroy her good self (which lay dormant in the body of Starfire, who had returned to Tamaran). To ferret out Starfire, evil Raven incited a conflict in the Vegan star system. As a result, Tamaran was destroyed along with the Technis. During the conflict, Gar was able to free himself from the ‘Trigon seed.' Since being purged of the demonic seed, Gar resorted to shape shifting into normal animals, rather than demonic creatures.

The Titans were able to destroy evil Raven utterly, and restore good Raven into a new spiritual golden body. Starfire decided to rebuild her culture on a new planet; Raven, Minion and Garfield Logan elected to remain in space as traveling companions to Victor Stone, Cyberion.

Homecoming

 
Frightened by Cyberion's total embrace of technology, Gar left his friend and returned to earth. Having collected a planet-size assortment of technological debris, Cyberion journeyed to Earth to turn its moon into a new Technis world and populate it with his Titans allies. The JLA and the Titans (including Gar) first clashed, then united, to prevent Cyberion from destroying the planet while saving Vic's soul and downloading it into Minion's morphing battlesuit, the Omegadrome.      
 

Fresh start in L.A

The original five Titans [ Nightwing, Flash, Arsenal, Donna Troy and Tempest] then decided to re-form the team. Changeling was asked to join, but he declined; Gar decided to find his way in the world on his own. He did return to aid the team during a conflict with the H.I.V.E. and Tartarus.

Gar left the team to once again pursue his acting career. But he found his life in Hollywood was less than stellar. In Hollywood, it seemed that everyone recognized Gar Logan by his old code-name, Beast Boy. Since then, Gar has gone back to that code-name, whether he likes it or not! Gar was also framed for murder by Gemini, the daughter of Madame Rouge. Gar was cleared with the help of Nightwing and Flamebird.

Later, Gar's obnoxious cousin Matt took it upon himself to hold a membership drive party for an all-new Titans West. Gar reluctantly agreed to have the team re-form, and Titans West was re-dubbed Titans L.A. - with members that included Beast Boy, Flamebird, Herald, Bumblebee, Terra, Hero Cruz, Captain Marvel Jr. and Bushido. But Titans L.A. was over before it even began, No one had any real devotion to the team. Beast Boy once again found himself at loose ends.     
 

Mentor to the new Teen Titans

Shortly afterward, a mysterious android from the future known as Indigo attacked the Titans and Young Justice, resulting in the apparent deaths of Troia and Omen. At Troia's funeral, Nightwing disbanded this version of the Titans. Meanwhile, members of Young Justice, especially Wonder Girl, felt responsible for the tragic deaths. This led Wonder Girl, Robin, Impulse and Superboy to form a new group of Teen Titans under the guidance of the more experienced Cyborg, Starfire and Beast Boy.

Beast Boy found himself acting as the mediator between the older and younger Titans, a role he readily accepted. Upon rescuing a reborn Raven from the clutches of the new Brother Blood, Beast Boy discovered a burgeoning attraction to his former teammate.

But before Raven and Gar could fully explore their relationship, Beast Boy was called upon to help the Doom Patrol in Prague. With the Titans in disarray after the events of the Infinite Crisis, Beast Boy elected to remain with the Doom Patrol - for the time being.
 

Titans Together!!!

After reclaiming Titans Island on the East River, Cyborg set out to create an East Coast Titans team. But the team was brutally massacred by an unseen evil force. Soon, Titans members past and present were attacked by demonic entities across the globe. Raven, sensing Trigon's presence once again, called upon her former Titans allies to defeat her fiendish father.
But after investigating, the Titans learned that Trigon himself was not behind the attacks.

The bestial assaults were actually orchestrated by Raven's three half brothers Jacob, Jared and Jesse. Working together as a team, the Titans thwarted the Sons of Trigon and prevented Trigon's invasion plan. Following this adventure, Beast Boy decided to join his former teammates - and the Titans were together as a team once again.     
 
 

Powers

Shapeshifting

Other Versions

In Titans Tomorrow, Garfield takes on a more animal like form. Not taking showers and having uncontrollable fur grow around his face. This Garfield has the ability to multiple while in animal form. Such as when he grew into two bulls. Or a group of spiders. This can be done by utilizing an amoebas power while in a different animals form.

In the future, Beast Boy adopts the name Changeling again, and his power adapts to such an extent that he can no longer shape-shift into ordinary everyday creatures, but into whatever he imagines, gaining their various attributes. This is seen in the animated series Kingdom Come  
 

Other Media

  
Teen Titans 
 
Beast Boy appears in the Teen Titans animated series, voiced by Greg Cipes. In the series, Beast Boy nicknamed BB plays the role of the lighthearted jokester of the group, though often the butt of many jokes himself. He wears his old black and purple Doom Patrol uniform, complete with gray gloves and purple sneakers. He has the ability to transform into any animal he chooses just like his comic counterpart. Of the five Titans, Beast Boy and Starfire are the only members whose real name, Garfield and Koriand'r is explicitly stated.

Beast Boy is generally portrayed as a carefree, scatter-brained and immature individual. He is prone to making jokes no one but himself can laugh about, and generally displays few intellectual-based interests and little sense for tact. Beast Boy's closest friend among his teammates is Cyborg, with whom he shares a passion for video games and movies. Likewise they are prone to quarreling, especially about their diverging tastes in food, Beast Boy is a vegan who never gets tired of trying to persuade his teammates into adopting his culinary tastes.

Like in the comics, Beast Boy also had a romantic relationship with Terra. As in the comic book, Terra betrays the Teen Titans and allies with Slade. Ultimately, she receives redemption in helping the Titans defeat Slade; however, she is turned to stone in the process. In a departure from the comic book, Beast Boy retains strong feelings for Terra.

In the final episode "Things Change", Beast Boy encounters a girl looking like Terra although it is unclear whether or not it was the real Terra, as he was the only Titan who saw her, apparently suffering from amnesia. She does show hints of remembering when she tells Beast Boy that things were never the way he remembers. This is what makes him give up on her. Besides Terra, Beast Boy has no romantic connections with any other girls in the series, though he does share a love-hate relationship with Raven and they two have a number of sweet moments throughout the series, eventually becoming close friends.

In the Season 3 episode "The Beast Within", Beast Boy is doused with an experimental DNA compound, giving him a new, uncontrollable Werewolf form. Despite being cured at the end of the episode, "The End: Part 1" shows he can still use it, but apparently avoids doing so unless the situation is dire enough to warrant it.

Season 5 of Teen Titans focuses on Beast Boy a great deal, as it deals with his history as a member of the animated series' incarnation of the Doom Patrol. Until "Homecoming", in which his former teammates make a guest appearance, Beast Boy was the only member of the Doom Patrol to appear on the show. In the second episode of the fifth season, Beast Boy becomes the first male Titan in the series to be explicitly referred to by his real name Garfield. In "Titans Together", Beast Boy leads Herald, Jericho, Pantha, and Más on an assault on the Brotherhood of Evil and showed his abilities as a competent and accomplished leader during their infiltration and subsequent assault. He remains the leader even after other Titans such as Cyborg, Starfire, and Raven join the fight, and only stands down from leadership when Robin is thawed.

When he was younger, Beast Boy fell ill due to being bitten by a green monkey. To save him, his parents' attempts to cure him resulted in his shapechanging abilities. They later died in a flood, leaving Beast Boy as an orphan. Afterward, determined to join Doom Patrol, he broke into their quarters. He was treated as an intruder, but his effort to escape capture impressed them, thus earning his membership on the team.    

Video Games

 
Teen Titans

Beast Boy is one of the 5 playable characters in the game, his powers revolve around him changing into different animals for varying effects eg. a rhino and a bull to charge at an opponent or a monkey to throw bananas at an opponent, among many other animals.