Más y Menos
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| Más y Menos | |
 Más y Menos poised for action. |
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| Publication information | |
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Teen Titans animated television series Season 3, Episode 12: Titans East, Part 1 DC Universe: Teen Titans #38 (September 2006)(Photo Only) |
| Created by | Sam Register, Glen Murakami, David Slack, Alex Soto |
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| Team affiliations | Teen Titans |
| Abilities | Super-speed only when they are physically touching. May be achieved if they are both holding a proper conduit (rope, wire, etc.) |
Más y Menos are fictional teenaged superhero characters, around the age of 12, from the Teen Titans animated television series, affiliated with the Titans East team. They are the only heroes on the series not to have originated in the comic book. Taken out of context, their names translate to "More" and "Less," but in their particular context (i.e. the symbols on their chests and their rallying cry), their names mean "Plus and Minus," as both "más" and "menos" can be used as mathematics terms. Más y Menos are both voiced by Freddy Rodríguez.
They are a pair of Spanish-speaking twins from Guatemala who can move at super speed, but only when they are in contact with each other. Their battle cry is "¡Más y Menos, sí podemos!" which means, "Plus and Minus, yes we can!" in Spanish. It is likely that this is a pun, based on the Spanish saying "mas o menos" ("more or less").
The speedy kids make their first appearance in "Titans East Part 1" as Titans East members, a Teen Titans team set up in Steel City for the purpose of hunting down Brother Blood. Cyborg arrives to help the team build their tower, but Brother Blood attacks with his Cyborg-drones and defeats the Titans. Unbeknownst to Cyborg, Blood places all the members of the Titans East team under mind control and later forces them to attack Cyborg. The original Titans arrive following Cyborg's S.O.S., and Cyborg battles Blood while Titans West battles Titans East. With Brother Blood's defeat, Titans East is freed. Más y Menos also develop a crush on Starfire when they meet her; both twins fight for her affection.
In the episode "For Real", Control Freak uses the "Spanish to English" option on his remote control (he doesn't speak or understand Spanish) to make Más and Menos "talk in English" (for the very first time), which they do throughout the episode. In the Chinese version, however, since they only speak Mandarin, Control Freak stated that they scared themselves during the translation scene. This effect is not permanent, as they speak Spanish when they reappear in "Calling All Titans" in which they battle Johnny Rancid and Cinderblock and are separated when Menos is captured but Más escapes. He seeks Beast Boy for help and demonstrates he can sense where Menos is located and can realize Menos is in pain. However, when Menos is frozen, Más can no longer sense his brother. In the fight in the Brotherhood of Evil's lair during the episode "Titans Together", Más unfreezes Menos and they thaw the remaining captured Titans and freeze the villains.
[edit] Comics
At the DC Nation panel, current Teen Titans writer Geoff Johns announced that Más y Menos are to appear in the mainstream DC Comics. This is the first time a character from the Teen Titans show will make the transfer to comics.
In Teen Titans #38, Más y Menos joined the Teen Titans during the missing year after the Infinite Crisis. They are also portrayed as being older than their animated counterparts.
In Final Crisis #1, they appear prone at the feet of the Mirror Master, impaled with shards of glass.
[edit] Powers
Más y Menos appear to have metahuman powers that allow them to move at superspeed whenever they are touching each other. A comment by Kid Flash in Teen Titans Go! #34, however, indicates that their powers are based in the Speed Force. They can also "cheat" the requirement that they must be touching if they both hold a good conductor (such as holding a row of clothespins). In "Titans East: Part 1," some of their powers are described. Their maximum velocity is stated to be seven times the speed of sound. However, if their powers are based within the Speed Force in regular DC Comics continuity, it remains to be seen how this could be during the missing year, since the Speed Force was seemingly excised from the universe following Bart Allen's venture into it.
Más has shown the ability to sense where his brother is when he is conscious (whether it's a 'twin thing' or their magnetic powers is debateable). He is also able to vibrate Menos at an extreme rate to cause heat. It is assumed that they both share these powers.
The twins also seem to understand English, even though they do not speak it. This is shown when Control Freak asks them how they can travel so fast, and they answer the question in Spanish.
