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Teen Titans: The Judas Contract

2017 animated film directed by Sam Liu

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 13, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Teen Titans: The Judas Contract is a 2017 American animated superhero film directed by Sam Liu from a screenplay by Ernie Altbacker based on The Judas Contract storyline by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez. It is the 29th film of the DC Universe Animated Original Movies, the ninth film of the DC Animated Movie Universe and the sequel to Justice League vs. Teen Titans (2016). The film features the voices of Miguel Ferrer and Christina Ricci as Deathstroke and Terra, respectively. It was released three months after Ferrer's death in January 2017 and is his final film role.

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The public source identifies “Teen Titans: The Judas Contract” as 2017 animated film directed by Sam Liu. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Teen, Titans and Judas.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Teen, Titans and Judas providing the first useful test.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 13, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2017 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Teen Titans: The Judas Contract” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.