Argent (real name Antonia Louise Monetti) is a major protagonist in the 2003 Cartoon Network's Teen Titans. She possesses the power to generate and manipulate red plasma energy constructs with her hands, as well as levitate and fly at supersonic speeds.
A devoted superheroine and passionate goth, Argent is strong-willed young woman who takes her duties seriously and works hard as both a member of the Teen Titans and as a protector of the innocents. She is also one of Starfire's and Robin's close friends.
Argent is based on the character of the same name from DC Comics.
Origin
Antonia Monetti is a H'San Natall/Human hybrid who is the daughter of a former U.S. Senator from New Jersey. She was originally created to be part a sleeper agent program created by the H'San Natall, with the intent to destroy the super-powered beings already on Earth. However Toni rebelled against them and became the vigilante Argent, a member of the Teen Titans when it was reconstructed the comics, New Teen Titans.
Biography
Background
Antonia Louise Monetti was born and raised in London, England. As a teenager, she was rebellious often skipping school and maintained a strong interest in gothic activities like rock bands. This caused her to have an estranged relationship with her parents, who disapproved of her lifestyle. One day however, Argent was accidentally exposed to a strange form of radiation which gave her the powers to fly along the ability to manipulate and generate energy from her hands. It also left her with silver skin and part of her hair to turn red. Deciding to use her powers for good, Argent ran away from home and started her career as a loner superheroine. She gained a strong reputation for herself as she traveled around the world fighting supervillains and saving lives. This earned her praise and respect from many other heroes, despite her young age.
Teen Titans
War with the Brotherhood of Evil
Meeting Starfire
Argent meeting Starfire as attempts to fix a broken dam in New Zealand.
Argent's travels eventually take her to New Zealand, where uses her powers to repair a dam in the middle of a large canyon. While repairing the dam, Argent is met by the Teen Titan member Starfire. Starfire inquires about Argent’s identity making sure she is indeed the young heroine. While she does confirm this, Argent calmly asks Starfire who she is as well.
Argent and Starfire teaming up to fix the dam before it collapses.
After Starfire introduces herself, Argent asks her if she is a Teen Titans member. Starfire answers yes for which Argent stoically states her catchphrase of “cool” before attempting to finish fixing the dam. Starfire happily offers her assistance in repairing it, which Argent accepts when the dam increasingly falls apart.
Argent receives a communicator from Starfire, thereby inducting her into the Teen Titans.
While assisting the fellow super-heroine, Starfire warns Argent about the Brotherhood of Evil and provides Argent with a Teen Titans’ communicator to use incase she is ever in need of assistance. Argent accepts the communicator and is thus officially made an honorary member of the Teen Titans. She also takes a particular fondness to the communicator since it is partially black; her favorite color.
Capture
Argent being confronted by General Immortus.
With her mission complete, Starfire leaves to rejoin her teammate, while Argent finishes repairs on the dam. However, after she is finished, she is confronted by the Brotherhood of Evil’s leading strategist, General Immortus. Initially, Argent believes him to be alone and prepares herself for battle. However, she is caught off guard when he reveals he has brought an entire legion of robot soldiers; equipped with jetpacks and heavy blasters. Knowing she is outmatched, she retreats with the robots pursuing her. During the battle, the robots destroy part of the dam as Argent attempts to fly away. She contacts Robin with her communicator and asks for assistance. Starfire heads back to assist her but will not be there for some time. In the meantime, Argent’s attempt to escape is cutoff by General Immortus, who personally tries to attack her with his hovercraft.
An outnumbered Argent being forced into retreat from the pursuing robots.
She manages to knock him back using her powers, but his soldiers attack forcing Argent to fly away. As she is relentlessly pursued and shot at by the attacking robots, Argent uses her powers to defend herself. As the battle rages she manages to destroy half of Immortus’s robots. However, while one squad of the robots concentrate their fire on Argent directly, which force her to form a large shield to defend herself, another sneaks up behind her and blast her. She is instantly knocked unconscious, but before she can fall into the running water below, one of the robots catches her and takes her prisoner. With the battle won, Immortus and his surviving robots return to the Brotherhood‘s secret headquarters in Paris.
An unconscious Argent following her defeat and capture by Immortus’s troops.
After Robin is captured and brought to the base, the Brain presents to him some of the multiple honorary Titans he has captured. Argent is among them, being shown to Robin unconscious as one of her robot kidnappers carries the insensate girl over its shoulder.
Final Battle
Like with the other captured Titans, Argent was was flashed-frozen in a tube by Professor Chen and his scientists, and then displayed with her comrades on the Brotherhood’s “trophy case” at their secret base in Paris, France. Fortunately, however, the Titans that managed to escape the Brotherhood’s onslaught attacked the base. During the ensuing battle, Argent and the others were unfrozen by Mas y Menos, whereafter they promptly joined the fight. During the battle, Argent fought and defeated Johnny Rancid.
Apprehending Doctor Light
Argent with the other Titans apprehending Doctor Light
Following the battle she joined all the other Titans in Jump City to arrest Dr. Light before going to back to England.
Teen Titans Go!
Titans North
Argent fighting alongside Titans North
Sometime following her return home, Argent joined the newly formed Titans North, under the leadership of Red Star. One morning, in "Teen Titans Go#41", when Robin called her and woke her up, and didn't mind being woken by him, messaging she and Robin have become friends.
Personality
Argent’s usual stoic disposition.
Before becoming superheroine, Argent was loner who preferred being on her own and didn’t make many attempts to make friends with others. She was very introverted who kept to herself and liked doing this her own way. She was very gothic with black being her favorite color. She also somewhat of a rebel and did not care very much for authority as she would constantly cut class regardless of the consequences. However, despite her attitude and bad habits, Argent had an incredibly strong morale compass, deciding to use her powers for good immediately after acquiring them, and without a second thought.
Argent possesses a fondness for gothic fashion.
Upon becoming a superheroine, Argent retained most her pre-hero personality, but also developed a more serious and professional attitude as well. This actually made her nearly similar to both Raven and Robin. She stays focused at the task at hand does so with a calm attitude, rarely losing her composure. She remains introverted but too a much less extent than before, as she does except help from others and is appreciative of aid even when she does not ask for it. This sentiment, increases after joins the Teen Titans; becoming far less introverted and forming close, practically familial, bonds with her teammates. She also considers protecting civilians to be the first priority of a hero and only fights when she is sure no innocent bystanders will get hurt. When she does battle she is fierce and not afraid to deal serious, though nonfatal, injuries on to her opponents.
While on duty, Argent tries to act as serious, calm, and professional as possible. She also retains a sarcastic/dry sense of humor. However, it has also been shown that deep down Argent is, in truth, fun-loving, laid back, and joyful, though she tends not to show this side of hers. She enjoys listening to rock bands and has a strong fashion statement for gothic clothing. When these subjects are brought up she becomes much more happy and excited.
Despite this, Argent isn’t without her insecurities; some of her seriousness and calmness is used to hide her secretive stress of being a superheroine, as worries she is truly meeting her own expectations. Another insecurity is her relationship with her parents, with whom she very estranged from, so much that she didn’t even say goodbye when she left home and never contacted during her time as a heroine.
Physical Appearance
Argent is an 18 year old woman with silvered colored skin, red eyes, and spiked black hair with red bangs. Her outfit consist of a black shoulder-less top, a short red skirt with black stripes, black-fingerless sleeves, red and black boots, and black stockings that extend to just below her knees. She also sports a capitalized “A” tattoo on her chest.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
- Flight: Argent can levitate off the ground without the use of wings. She uses this ability to fly at supersonic speeds through the air.
- Red Plasma Energy Constructs: With enough concentration, Argent can generate crimson: colored energy from her hands and use them to form solid objects of her own imagination. These can range from solid metal shapes to weapons in combat.
- Superhuman Durability: Argent is much stronger than the average human, being able to withstand blows that would kill an ordinary person, such as being struck by laserfire.
Abilities
- Intelligence
- Skilled Combatant: In addition to her powers, Argent is a skilled fighter and combatant. While Argent is talented fighter, she is not invincible and can be worn-down and overwhelmed when she is outnumbered by multiple opponents both by her powers, which was how she was captured by the Brotherhood of Evil.
- Fashionista
Weaknesses
- Power Overloading
Gallery
Relationships
Starfire
Despite their differing personalities, Argent and Starfire are shown to be close friends.
Starfire was the first member of the Teen Titans that Argent met. When the Brotherhood of Evil started that kidnapping young heroes, Robin sent Starfire to warn Argent about their threat, and have her inducted into the Teen Titans as an honorary member. To complete this task, Starfire traveled to New Zealand where she found Argent using her powers to repair a fracturing dam in a large canyon. When Argent first met Starfire, she could instantly tell that the young heroine was of no threat and the two became fast friends, despite their opposite personalities. They also showed impressive teamwork when the dam began to further fracture, with Starfire aiding Argent in resealing it up. After this, Argent accepted Starfire inducting her into the Teen Titans as an honorary member. She was even fond of the Titans communicator that Starfire gave her for her protection, due its black color.
When Argent was attacked by General Immortus’s robot army, Starfire immediately went back to help her new friend but arrived too late to prevent her kidnapping. When Starfire realized that she didn’t make it back in time to help Argent she was shown to be saddened and deeply worried for her new friend. Fortunately, however, Argent and Starfire would fight alongside each other against the Brotherhood in the final battle in Paris. Following the war with the Brotherhood, Argent and Starfire remain close friends and are shown to stay in contact despite being stationed with different Titans teams.
Robin
Argent and Robin maintaining a close friendship.
Argent maintains a good friendship with Robin and possesses a deep respect for him as the leader of the Teen Titans. When the Brotherhood of Evil was kidnapping young heroes, Robin sent Starfire to help ensure her safety by inducting her into the Titans as an honorary member and to give her a communicator if she was ever in need of assistance. Argent warmly accepted Robin’s invitation into the Titans and has since shown respect for him as her leader. When General Immortus attacked her she had no problem asking Robin for help, which he accepted without hesitation. He was also concerned for her when Starfire reported that arrived to late to prevent her abduction.
When Robin himself was captured by the Brotherhood, Argent was the last of the captured heroes to be presented to him by the brain, being horrified and saddened upon realizing that she had been taken down along with so many others. Once both were freed from captivity, they would fight alongside each other against the Brotherhood. Following the battle in Paris, Argent and Robin are shown to remain in close contact with each other despite being stationed in different parts of the world. In one instance, she didn’t mind Robin waking her up early and did her best to offer him whatever help he needed. She is shown to be very loyal to Robin and is shown to have a very healthy friendship with him. This likely stems from their similar introverted personalities.
Episode Appearances
Teen Titans
Season 5
- "Homecoming - Part 2" (Cameo)
- "Lightspeed" (Cameo)
- "Calling All Titans!"
- "Titans Together"
New Teen Titans shorts
- "Kidz Korner 4 Kidz" (Cameo)
Teen Titans Go!
- "The Great Race"
- "Troy"
- "Stupid Cupid"
- "Bad Girls"
- "Graduation Day"
Trivia
- The coloring of Argent's plasma energy constructs differs between the comics and the television series: while in the series they are red, they are silver in the comics instead.
- This iteration of Argent marks her first animated appearance.
- Argent and Starfire share the same voice actress.
- Argent was the only female Titan to be captured by the Brotherhood of Evil.
