The Best Episodes Written By Tom Pugsley

#1 - Nevermore

Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 8/30/2003

Raven's creepy tantrum of crackling black energy leaves Dr. Light begging for mercy, and the Titans see a new side of Raven, her temper. But, when Cyborg and Beast Boy find a Mysterious Mirror in Raven's room, they're suddenly transported to a strange nightmare world that's somehow connected to Raven.

Director: Michael Chang

Writer: Tom Pugsley

#2 - The Prophecy

Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 6/4/2005

Ever since Slade's return, the Titans have been searching high and low for answers, including looking for theories as to the 'S' mark on his forehead. However, Raven knows why he's back, and the Titans are about to discover the truth themselves after Slade launches another attack.

Director: Ben Jones

Writer: Tom Pugsley

#3 - Masks

Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 9/20/2003

A thief called Red X, who knows the Titans’ every weakness, shows up. Every time the Titans try to catch him, they are badly defeated. Meanwhile, Robin - who has been obsessed with capturing Slade - isolates himself more and more from the team.

Director: Michael Chang

Writer: Tom Pugsley

#4 - Leverage

Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 7/2/2019

A new Gamma Squad team is sent out on its first mission to investigate rumors of meta-trafficking in Russia.

Director: Vinton Heuck

Writer: Tom Pugsley

#5 - A Bat Divided!

Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 2/5/2010

The Riddler torments Booster Gold and Batman. Later, Batman bears witness to the creation of Firestorm. Unfortunately, in the explosion, Batman is divided into three different aspects of himself.

Director: Ben Jones

Writer: Tom Pugsley

#6 - Cry Freedom Fighters!

Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 11/12/2010

Batman, Plastic Man and the Freedom Fighters try to stop an Earth invasion.

Director: Ben Jones

Writer: Tom Pugsley

#7 - Alpha Male

Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 10/7/2011

Already exhausted and rattled after a home turf invasion of The Cave, the team learns that Aqualad - their friend and leader - withheld vital information that put them all at risk. When Batman sends the Team and new "den-mother" Captain Marvel to India to investigate bizarre reports of armed animals attacking human beings, can Aqualad pull his fractured team together?

Director: Jay Oliva

Writer: Tom Pugsley

#8 - Denial

Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/18/2011

When the team investigates the disappearance of Kent Nelson (formerly Doctor Fate), the scientific-minded Wally West is forced to confront his disbelief in magic while battling Abra Kadabra and Klarion the Witch Boy, for the ultra-powerful Helmet of Fate.

Director: Michael Chang

Writer: Tom Pugsley

#9 - Wavelength

Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 10/23/2004

Brother Blood is back, and this time, it's personal. Cyborg learns that Blood stole his blueprints--and the villain is using Cyborg's technology to create a doomsday device. Can Cyborg take charge of the team and lead a mission to stop his archenemy?

Director: Ben Jones

Writer: Tom Pugsley

#10 - Nose Mouth

Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 1/8/2014

Raven's past powers may cause consequences to the other Titans.

Director: Scott O'Brien

Writer: Tom Pugsley

#11 - Dog Hand

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/30/2013

Raven's dad cozies up to her friends in hopes of luring her over to the dark side.

Director: Luke Cormican

Writer: Tom Pugsley

#12 - Black Magic

Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/2003

While attempting to stop the Enforcers from getting the fourth oni mask, it accidentally lands on Captain Black's face. He uses the powers of the mask to help him easily take down the Enforcers. Jackie and the rest of the group become worried when Captain Black becomes very intrigued and excited by his newfound abilities. Captain Black's true good side is able to ward off the influence of the mask for a while, but the dark power of the oni begins to slowly corrupt and take hold of him. When the darker oni Captain Black finally emerges, he attempts to take advantage of his full access to Section 13. Jackie, Jade, Uncle, and Tohru race to work on a way to keep the other three stored masks away from Black as they search for the ingredient needed to perform a removal spell.

Director: Brandon Vietti

Writer: Tom Pugsley

#13 - J2: Rise of the Dragons

Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 1/31/2004

The J-Team unites to battle the anti-J-Team, and Jade casts a spell that backfires and turns the J-Team into toddlers.

Director: Seung Eun Kim

Writer: Tom Pugsley

#14 - Relics of Demons Past

Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/11/2004

Drago breaks out of Section 13 on a mission to absorb the demon chi that is held in the original artifacts used to defeat the demons so many years ago. He finds the Enforcers at a petting zoo and transforms them into dragon-human hybrids. Drago locates the fan that holds the chi of the Wind Demon. Meanwhile, Jade gets into the nasty habit of burping. Jackie and Captain Black hunt Drago down to a Chinese-themed car wash, where the fan is located. Unbeknownst to everyone, Jade absorbs the demon chi. At school, her burps create powerful wind storms, and she begins to transform into a frog. Drago attacks Jade at school in order to absorb the chi, but Uncle and Tohru arrive to capture it instead. Drago fires the Enforcers and turns them back into their old human selves after they prove that they are weak and useless.

Director: David Hartman

Writer: Tom Pugsley

#15 - The Demon Beneath My Wings

Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 6/4/2005

After capturing the chi of Hsi Wu, the sky demon, Uncle attempts to place it in the chi containment unit. However it is broken, so the chi must remain in the chi-o-matic. Thinking that it is empty, Jade then takes Uncle's chi contraption with her on a school field trip to a haunted doorknob museum. Jade's teacher, Mrs. Hartman confiscates the chi-o-matic and accidentally infuses herself with Hsi Wu's chi. Things get worse in the haunted house when Drago appears and the ghosts get angry at the presence of two demons in their house.

Director: Kirk Van Wormer

Writer: Tom Pugsley

#16 - Stealing Thunder

Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 6/18/2005

After fully absorbing the chi of Tchang Zu, Drago sets out to magnify the power of the thunder chi by turning his new lair, Seattle’s Space Needle into his own personal electrical rod. Uncle reveals that the longer that Drago has the demon chi, it will become even more difficult for him to remove it.

Director: Kirk Van Wormer

Writer: Tom Pugsley

#17 - And Then There Were 10

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 12/27/2005

Average kid, ten year old Ben Tennyson, his Grandpa Max and his cousin Gwen's summer of adventure takes an odd turn when Ben discovers a watch like object that has been jettisoned from alien spacecraft high above the Earth.

Director: Scooter Tidwell

Writer: Tom Pugsley

#18 - Framed

Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 5/31/2006

At a city, Ben, Gwen, and Grandpa Max are waiting outside a video game store to purchase the newly-released Sumo Slammer video game. Gwen and Grandpa Max go the book store, but when they return to check on him, Four Arms comes out of the store by force. They return to the RV, and find that Ben is already there. Gwen yells at Ben for what he's done, but he has no clue of what she's talking about. But as she gives direct evidence that Four Arms was attacking the city, Ben heads out to find the perpetrator, using the identity of his aliens to ruin his current reputation as a hero.

Director: N/A

Writer: Tom Pugsley

#19 - The Silver Knights

Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 7/26/2019

Director: Yasuhiro Tanabe

Writer: Tom Pugsley

#20 - The Man Who Would Be Bat

Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/2004

A dangerous experiment turns a scientist into a hideous creature called the Man-Bat.

Director: Seung Eun Kim

Writer: Tom Pugsley

#21 - Washington B.C.

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/2006

Ben must fight Dr. Animo, a crazed scientist who has a DNA-altering device.

Director: Alex Soto

Writer: Tom Pugsley

#22 - Bullies

Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/2000

After having a fight with Shendu, Valmont keeps the Dragon Talisman of combustion for himself and not only busts into the U.S. Mint but puts Captain Black into the hospital as well. Valmont steals all the gold in the reserve, and Jackie must get the talisman, but this time, he has to use his brain to defeat Valmont because of Valmont's incredible powers.

Director: Rick Del Carmen

Writer: Tom Pugsley

#23 - Goodbye and Good Riddance

Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 4/15/2008

The summer finally ends. Ben and Gwen have to go back to their normal lives. Grandpa Max tells Ben to keep the Omnitrix a secret from everyone, even his parents. Ben agrees, but Vilgax arrives and he'll stop at nothing to get the Omnitrix.

Director: N/A

Writer: Tom Pugsley

#24 - Ghostfreaked Out

Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 7/25/2006

A terrorizing nightmare of Ghostfreak is half the trouble for an unnerved Ben, as a tour of an important academy that Gwen wishes to attend is disturbed by the uncanny alien's manifestations and the antics of Acid Breath, Frightwig, and Thumbskull.

Director: Sebastian Montes

Writer: Tom Pugsley

#25 - The Return

Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 4/7/2007

While driving on a Florida highway, a bus of escaped felons rams into the RV. Ben transforms into Stinkfly (though not intentionally) and tries to stop them. With a little help from Grandpa's handy driving, and a magic spell from Gwen, the felons are put back in jail. On the news, the Tennyson's hear about purple lightning delaying a space shuttle launch. Remembering the lightning from the encounter with the werewolf and mummy aliens, they head to Cape Canaveral. At the Space Center, Ben comes under attack by the werewolf and mummy aliens, and new Frankenstein alien. However, why is the purple lightning occurring, and what ties does it have to an old "friend"?

Director: Scooter Tidwell

Writer: Tom Pugsley