Starfire gets a zit which turns out to be more than just a zit. She's transforming into something else. She doesn't want the other Titans to see what's happened to her so she starts wearing more and more clothing. First it is just a hat, the zit is on her forehead, but then something starts growing out of her neck so she starts wearing a scarf. After her fingernails get monstrously large she starts wearing oven mitts and so on and so forth.
Things come to a head during a battle with Plasmus. Her extra clothing is destroyed and her teammates see her as she has become. She is mortified and leaves Earth. She tries to find another planet to live on but she winds up scaring the inhabitants of every planet she visits. Finally, she meets a woman who kinda of resembles the White Witch from the Legion of Super-Heroes but who is actually a monster in disguise, a monster that wants to eat Starfire.
Meanwhile, the other Titans take off in a spaceship which Cyborg has built from their submarine. They go looking for Starfire. They arrive just in time to help her fight the alien who wants to eat her. In the end Starfire's appearance returns to what it was plus she now has the ability to shoot beams from her eyes.
Clearly the theme here is the way that bodies change over time, sometimes in ways that are very visible to others. There never is a complete explanation of why Starfire started changing but maybe the eye beams explain it. I haven't watched any further in the series (yet) so I have no idea if the eye beams are temporary or will be part of her power set on the cartoon going forward.
This was a fun episode a definite thumbs up although it might not be everyone's cup of tea.
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