Please, as an adult, try watching some old Teen Titans and tell me its not cringey. There was a time and a demographic, but it certainly hasnt aged well thematically.
Go is certainly overplayed, but hugely underrated by fans of the original.
I don't know. Last I remember somebody named Slade was fighting Robin and eventually Robin was forced to become his villainous sidekick because Slade had embedded nanobots in his friends that he could detonate at any minute unless Robin did his bidding. That sounds like a pretty dark and serious dichotomy to subject a young demographic to imo.
And then at the end of that story when robin infects himself with the nanobots as a last ditch effort to save his friends Slade, in all his great wisdom, chooses to let robin and the rest of the teen titans go instead of murdering them all right there and removing his biggest roadblock in one strike. I really like the original dont get me wrong but its certainly not unassailable.
As for ttg its got some really funny stuff if you go into it trying to be entertained instead of disgusted. it is definitely played too much though
In that instance, Slade wanted to use Robin as a side kick, and didn't want to kill him. It wasn't about ready removing roadblocks in that instance. Slade and Robin had an interesting relationship that you seem to have missed.