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DC comics character

Raven
Raven, every bit she appeared on the encompass of Tales of the New Teen Titans #2 (July 1982) Art by George Pérez
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	DC Comics Presents #26 (October 1980)
Created by	Marv Wolfman and George Pérez
In-story information
Alter ego	Rachel Roth
Species	Cambion (Demon–human hybrid)
Place of origin	Azarath (Globe)
Team affiliations	Teen Titans Sentinels of Magic Justice League Night Force Justice League Dark
Abilities	Empathy / emotional manipulation / empathic healing / emotion negation / empathic precognition / psychic link / force emotion / darkness & darkforce manipulation / energy manipulation / mastery of magic / telekinesis / telepathy / teleportation / flight / superhuman physical attributes / psionic powers / matter manipulation / anarchy & superpower manipulation / elemental & organic manipulation / molecular manipulation / biological & bond manipulation / psychokinesis & chronokinesis / umbrakinesis

Raven is a fictional superheroine appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character showtime appeared in a special insert in DC Comics Presents #26 (October 1980), and was created past writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Pérez.^[1] A Cambion, girl of a demon male parent (Trigon) and human being mother (Arella), Raven is a powerful empath who tin sense emotions and control her "soul-self", which tin fight physically, as well as act equally Raven's optics and ears away from her physical body; more recently, she's been shown as beingness adept with diverse types of magic and sorcery. She is a prominent member of the superhero squad Teen Titans. The character also goes by the alias Rachel Roth as a faux civilian name.

Raven has appeared in numerous cartoon television receiver shows and films, including as one of the Teen Titans in Cartoon Network's eponymous series, voiced by Tara Strong, and in the 2014–2020 DC Animated Movie Universe, voiced by Taissa Farmiga. Rachel Roth makes her alive adaptation debut in the DC Universe and HBO Max series Titans, played by Teagan Croft.

Character biography [edit]

First life of Raven [edit]

Raven initially approached the Justice League for assistance, just they refused her on the advice of Zatanna, who sensed her demonic parentage.^{[2] [3]} In desperation, she reformed the Teen Titans every bit the New Teen Titans to fight her father. The team consisted of Robin, Kid Flash, Wonder Girl, Starfire, Cyborg, and Animal Boy (then known as Changeling).^[4] Raven and her new friends later came to retrieve of one another as family unit.

Trigon soon took Raven to his dwelling house dimension. The Titans defeated Trigon and sealed him in an interdimensional prison with the assist of Arella, who stayed at the interdimensional door as Trigon's Guardian.^[v] However, Raven continued to fight her begetter's influence, and her face started irresolute. For a menses of time, Raven lost command several times in stressful situations, but managed to regain control earlier Trigon could assert himself.

Eventually, Trigon escaped his prison and destroyed Azarath, came to World, and took control of Raven. The Titans were manipulated to unfriend Raven, thereby allowing the souls of Azarath contained inside the ring of Azar to possess her and use her as a channel to kill Trigon. Afterwards this battle, Raven rose from the ashes, cleansed of Trigon'south evil, and vanished.^{[half dozen]}

Raven [edit]

Subsequently Raven's disappearance, Arella went around the earth in search of Raven. She tracked Raven down, but both of them were kidnapped past Blood brother Blood. The minions of Brother Blood used Raven to command Nightwing (formerly Robin) as part of Claret's plans. The Titans rescued them both and prevented Brother Blood from returning to power.^[7]

As a result of the defeat of Trigon, Raven was gratis to experience emotions for the first time in her life. Raven found she was able to not but sense, but command others' emotions.^[viii] She learned to handle this power only afterward unintentionally making The Flash believe that he loved her when she thought that she was in dearest with him. Raven also fostered a relationship with technopath Eric Forrester, who was using the life force of women he seduced to regain some of his lost humanity. Forrester knew that Raven's soul-self could aid him to permanently retain his humanity. This attempt was cut brusque by the intervention of Joseph Wilson (Jericho), who helped Raven overcome her love for Forrester past destroying Forrester and saving Raven.^[9]

Evil Raven makes her appearance in the "Terror of Trigon" storyline, which began The New Teen Titans (vol. two). Art past George Pérez.

Raven was later kidnapped by the Wildebeest Gild during the "Titans Hunt" storyline.^[10] The Wildbeest, led by the Trigon-possessed souls of Azarath, were going to use several Titans to bring about the return of Trigon. During a massive battle, Raven was possessed by the evil souls and once over again became the evil doppelgänger of her father. Arella, along with Danny Chase, used the power of Azar's soul to cleanse Raven. In the aftermath, Raven'southward body was destroyed, and Arella and Danny sacrificed themselves and joined the apple-pie souls of Azarath to go Phantasm.^[xi]

Evil Raven [edit]

Raven appeared possessed by her evil censor and attempted to implant Trigon'south seed into new bodies. She interrupted Nightwing and Starfire's wedding and implanted a seed of Trigon into Starfire. Instead of corrupting her, she really implanted the soul of the adept Raven. This caused Starfire to leave Earth in lodge to escape from the evil Raven. The Titans were able to defeat Raven only considering of the help they received from Phantasm.^[12]

Raven later returned, still evil, in gild to destroy the proficient version of herself implanted in Starfire. With the assistance of the Titans, evil Raven was reduced to ashes, and the good part of Raven was given a new, gold spirit trunk, which was completely free of her father'south demonic influence. In New Tamaran, Starfire and the golden spirit form of Raven revealed that implanting Raven'south soul in Starfire was actually her plan to get rid of her demonic soul.^[xiii]

Spirit [edit]

In her bodiless spirit class, Raven returned to Earth to help extract Cyborg's soul and consciousness from the Technis planet'southward computer mind.^[14] Later, she was instrumental in defeating Imperiex by aiding Wonder Woman and Tempest in re-powering Darkseid.^[15] As a spirit, Raven wandered the Globe, looking for her place in the world.

Rebirth [edit]

While the spirit of Raven was looking for her place in the world, Brother Blood came to merits her. Her spirit was instilled into the body of a teenage girl by the Church of Claret. The Teen Titans (reformed again), discovered that the Church of Claret were worshipers of Raven'due south male parent, Trigon. They too plant a prophecy which told of the marriage between Brother Blood and Raven that would effect in Armageddon. The new team interrupted the nuptials, and Raven forced the cult to escape. She and so joined the new Teen Titans and enrolled at a high school every bit Rachel Roth, using her mother's original surname.^[sixteen]

After her rebirth, Raven began developing romantic feelings for her teammate, Garfield Logan (Animal Boy), and the two became romantically attached.

52 [edit]

In 52, after the expiry of Superboy, the Titans began to fall apart. Robin joins Batman, and Wonder Girl left the team. Beast Boy struggled to maintain the team, and new members who joined were only interested in seeking fame and honor rather than actually looking to fulfill justice. When Animal Boy decided to help Steel on a mission, most of the members left, leaving just Raven and Zatara. Later, Beast Male child, Raven, Offspring and Aquagirl assist Steel in launching an assault on LexCorp. Raven also participated in World War III. Eventually, Robin, Wonder Girl, and a few new members join the Titans, making the team whole over again. Beast Boy and Raven were among the but members that remained in the squad during this period.

"One Year Later" [edit]

Raven's new look in "One Year Later".

Raven quits the team after she and Beast Boy end their relationship.^[17] Letting the others think she is leaving because of Garfield, Raven actually leaves because she has uncovered a clandestine of ane of the other Titans.

Raven takes advantage of this power with a volume of unclear significance.^[eighteen] Raven has a diskette containing Jericho's soul. She performs a cleansing ritual over his soul and transfers it into a new trunk^[nineteen] before returning to the team as a full fellow member.^[20]

Without alarm, the Titans are captured by the villainous Titans East and transported to the original Titan Island in New York Metropolis, where Raven is placed in the "care" of Enigma and Duela Dent, who took to torturing her psychologically. Raven manages her escape. Afterwards chirapsia the Titans East, she gives hints that she withal loves Garfield, but he refuses to dwell on the matter, leaving their relationship uncertain.^[21]

Following the death of Bart Allen, Raven, forth with the other adult Titans, decides to exit the team. Raven decides to pursue her risk at attending high school, having never had the opportunity before.

Raven stars in a five-result miniseries written by Marv Wolfman, with art past Damion Scott. It takes place during the missing year, following Raven'southward attempts at living equally a normal teenage girl and attending high school. Unfortunately, she gets inadvertently drawn into a mystical fight involving the Medusa Mask and has to boxing for the lives of her classmates. In the Wizard #177 magazine, Wolfman briefly described the series, proverb, "She needs to be on her own and in accuse of herself for the first time in her life. This is more than only a 'tale of Raven'; it sets up her new life".

Titans [edit]

Raven discovers that Trigon had more than than one child, and that a trio of children devoted to her male parent are behind the attacks. She is affected along with many of the other Titans by these three beings. Raven'south three one-half-brothers apply her and Animal Male child as keys to open a portal to Trigon'due south realm. Raven uses her ain power to influence greed in others to brand her half-brothers steal what little ability Trigon had left. The portal is closed and Trigon's sons, believing they accept gained smashing ability, leave.

Raven's one-half-brothers later return and provoke her demonic side, causing her to leave the Titans and join them. However, the squad was able to track them down and convince Raven to bring together the side of good once more than. She later provided a number of other artifacts, all capable of killing her, to the Titans as terms for her staying with the team.^[22]

Wyld [edit]

Beast Boy and Raven osculation, cementing their beloved for each other.

With the Titans in a country of disarray in the wake of Justice League: Weep for Justice, Raven left the squad and was promptly attacked past a demonic being calling itself "Wyld".^[23] Battered and dazed, Raven arrived at Titans Belfry, where she was rescued past the newest roster of Teen Titans. While she was recovering, Brute Boy stated that he was nevertheless in love with her and would remain so, despite any difficulties were involved.^[24]

Raven decided to stay with the Teen Titans, now interim as a mentor to the younger members. When the Teen Titans attempted to return home, Raven was kidnapped and taken to some other dimension by Wyld.^[25] Wyld reveals that Raven was the one who created him. When Raven was traveling dimensions looking for her father, her soul cocky acquired all of the animals she visited to merge into ane existence: the Wyld. The Titans enter the Wyld World to rescue Raven. Wyld is eventually destroyed by Static.

In the final issue of this incarnation of the Titans, Superboy-Prime number and his Legion of Doom attack Titan'due south Tower. Raven stops Child Flash just earlier he tin kill Inertia. So she reveals her soul-cocky to Headcase, terrifying and in so defeating him. Afterwards the Legion of Doom is defeated and Superboy-Prime is bound to the Source Wall, Brute Boy and Raven accept a talk virtually her difficulty in reading Solstice's emotions, and their encounter with Headcase. Eventually, Raven starts to open up virtually her true feelings. While information technology was her inner darkness that scarred her entire life, she was fifty-fifty more frightened of what her love for Fauna Male child might cause her to do. Beast Boy makes it clear he doesn't want to escape from whatsoever part of her. Touched, Raven decides that she needs to cover the positive feelings inside her rather than just her negative ones. Creature Boy assures her this is function of existence man, and points out, "I think you've worried plenty about the bad...and so why don't we focus on the expert for a change?" With that, they share a heartfelt kiss to renew their human relationship and ultimately embrace their love for each other. Realizing that they are each others one and only true beloved and knowing they are each others soul mates for life.^[26]

The New 52 [edit]

After the events of the 2011 "Flashpoint" serial, the history of the DC Universe was altered, resulting in The New 52. Raven makes her New 52 debut in the first effect of the Phantom Stranger. In that location she is shown as a girl in a black and white striped sweater condign distraught at a funeral over the level of overwhelming emotion that is emanating from the people there. The Phantom Stranger takes Raven to Stonehenge, the portal betwixt World and the realm of Trigon. Beingness told past a "higher power" what must be done, the reluctant Stranger unwillingly hands her over to Trigon.

Teen Titans [edit]

Raven makes her first Teen Titans advent in Teen Titans #xvi. Raven, sporting a new costume, is introduced by Trigon as his "Black Bird of Terror" to his minions. It is strongly suggested that Raven has been controlling Robin's emotions. During Trigon's invasion on Earth, she approaches a about dead Beast Boy who had been assaulted by Deathstroke earlier in the remains of the Ravagers facility.^[27] After beingness touched by Raven, Beast Boy awakens and when he asks if Harvest has sent her, she apologizes stating that she brought him into the fray much sooner than she expected, and says, "Hush. We are birds of a feather now... You are mine to control", as Raven listen-controls him and teleports them to New York where Trigon and the Teen Titans are in battle.^[28]

Raven'south origins revisited [edit]

Trigon reveals more of Raven'south origins. He has a son from each world he's conquered, but Raven is his but daughter. Trigon let Raven's mother, Arella, live because he considered that Raven needed to be raised by humans so she could recreate the seven under-realms in her own image. Arella fled with her daughter to Azarath where the monks taught her how to control her dark side and avoid Trigon'south influence on her. Years afterward, she escaped from Azarath in lodge to protect her mentors and planet from Trigon and fled to the Earth where Phantom Stranger captured her for Trigon.^[29]

Raven spent time in the under-realms where time flows faster or was compressed. Trigon idea he only needed to liberate her and not command her to brand Raven have her own image. Patently impressed, Trigon handed her the Throne of the Nether-realms to rule the place equally Queen.^[29]

Return of Trigon [edit]

Dorsum in New York, Trigon's three sons, Belial, Ruskoff, and Suge, assault the Teen Titans to take Raven back. Raven, Brute Boy, and the Titans defeat them, simply Trigon himself appears again and takes control of the Titans save for Ruddy Robin, Raven and Beast Boy. The manipulated Titans attack, and while Raven and Creature Boy distract them and Trigon, Tim cuts through Trigon'due south eyes with his inertrite wings. Trigon, pulling out the wings from his optics, compliments Tim earlier of a sudden disappearing. Soon later, a woman and a group of suited men come up through a portal, informing that they will take Psimon into custody and make the incident appear equally if it had never happened. When questioned about the police officers Psimon has killed, the woman reveals it has been a hallucination by Trigon, so therefore information technology has never happened.

Raven and Beast Boy are re-accepted into the Teen Titans. Raven brings controversy to the squad past revealing the flirtatious relationships Tim had when under Trigon's control. Raven goes into her room, leaving the awkward situation behind. At that place, she summons her father, saying, "Begetter, I am one of them. Your plan worked perfectly", leaving questions on what side she is really playing for.

Meanwhile, Tim calls Raven aside, telling that if something happens to him, the team volition look upward to her to lead them.

Forever Evil [edit]

After the events of "Trinity War", the Globe'south greatest heroes are gone and the Crime Syndicate of America has taken over the world. The Teen Titans claiming the Crime Syndicate, but are easily overpowered past Johnny Quick and Atomica and and so flung into the fourth dimension stream. While the Titans are constantly flung through time, Raven is sent a few thousand years back in time. There, she is challenged past Etrigan the Demon, who recognizes her as Trigon's daughter and tries to impale her. Raven is saved by Wonder Girl, who suggests that the way to stop Raven's powers, since she was born and raised in a world between worlds, is to dispense the energy within the time stream. Raven succeeds in anchoring the Titans with her soul-self, teleporting them through time.

The Titans arrive xx years into the futurity, where the son of Superman, Jon Lane Kent, has massacred almost of World's superheroes, leaving only a few, including Animal Boy (Garfield Logan), at present calling himself Beast Man, and Rose Wilson. Superboy Kon-El and Jon battle, and Kon triumphs. Only Kon is sent elsewhere by an unknown power, and a severely injured Jon is swapped unknowingly equally Superboy by Logan and Wilson. The Titans depart once again, now to an alien planet in the 30th century, where Child Flash is actually a rebel leader and state of war criminal, Bar Torr. While the Titans stay to witness the Trial of Kid Wink, Raven deduces Superboy is actually Jon, and helps send him back to the present time then that he can find a cure for his deteriorating body condition.

Leaving Kid Flash and Solstice in the future, the Titans return to their original time and are united with Bunker, Fauna Male child, and Skitter. Raven finds out that their journey has severed Trigon's control over her. Followed by an attack by the villain Grimm, the Titans plan a final attack on Harvest's new colony. Raven is reluctant to bring together considering of her past deportment, but Bunker tells her that everybody deserves a second chance, and Raven changes her mind. In the colony, they are surprised to find that everyone is returned to normal, and even the victims of the Alternative have been restored to life. Raven plays a crucial part by finding out Harvest's scheme to extract all the metagenes to create a massive DNA strand for his usage. This is destroyed past Raven's soul-self and Harvest is finally defeated.

Rebirth [edit]

Some time later on leaving the Teen Titans, Raven set out to learn more virtually her human relatives in San Francisco. Raven attempted to conceal her powers before having a misadventure and and then later abducted by Damian Wayne who recruited her to be part of the new Teen Titans team he was establishing to take down his grandfather Ra's al Ghul. Information technology is then revealed that the Demon'southward Fist, a team initially led by Damian before he decided to follow Batman, were hunting each of the assembled Titans that Damian had abducted for their initiation into the League of Assassins. Raven turns out to be the target of the assassin by the proper noun of Plague, whose hands can rot, decay and take the life out of annihilation she touches.

Powers and abilities [edit]

As a Cambion, Raven has an array of abilities; she is firstly an empath, able to sense and alter the emotions of others. She can induce calm, suppress negativity, and even make someone autumn in love with her. By absorbing the pain of the wounded into herself, she can induce rapid healing for the affected person. Raven can astral project a solid blackness energy form that takes the shape of a bird, chosen her soul-self. Her soul-self tin travel long distances, become intangible, and is able to telepathically communicate. It tin human action as a shield as it tin can blot a limited amount of energy and solid thing, regurgitating them before reintegrating with Raven. Using her soul-self, she can convert her physical body into her soul-self and carry or teleport herself and others over a express altitude. Her soul-self can mentally subdue at least i person past enveloping them inside of itself. Raven's soul-self could initially stay outside her trunk for exactly five minutes; failure to reintegrate in time would crusade mental torment for her, though she eventually overcame this limitation.^[30] In her third torso, Raven acquired the ability to wing. Raven is shown to exist able to fly unaided in space.

As the one-half-demon daughter of the inter-dimensional demon Trigon, Raven is very powerful and displayed a vast amount of abilities. She has displayed the ability to control, manipulate and or generate pure shadows and darkness. Raven can dispense free energy, time, and emotions. This latter ability manifests in different variations, from causing supremely subversive hurting, inducing tension, fear-based illusions, and stealing emotions from others. In a number of instances, Raven has deep knowledge of magic and has also displayed sorcerous abilities, such every bit inducing unconsciousness on Tim Drake with a touch, releasing balls of burn "within the folds of her cloak" (as in The New Teen Titans Annual #4 (1988), or hurling electric blasts strong enough to take down all her brothers and all of the adult Titans. She was seen to completely demolish the demon army of Rankor numbering more than than iii thousand individuals and which contained powerful individual demons that had taken the Titans downwards in ambushes previously.

Similar her brothers, Raven can induce and amplify one of the seven deadly sins (in her case, pride) or all of them, in whatever living being, however doing and so will crusade her to suffer spells of nausea and vomiting for several days afterward every bit side effects.

Raven also has limited precognition, which allows her to predict future events that are about to happen, although this happens involuntarily and infrequently. She has likewise been shown to be an first-class hand-to-hand combatant, despite the fact that she rarely uses these abilities.

Collected editions [edit]

Raven

	Title	Textile collected	Pages	Publication Date	ISBN
All	Raven	Collects issues #ane–6		2017	978-1401268985

Raven: Girl of Darkness

	Title	Material nerveless	Pages	Publication Date	ISBN
1	Raven: Girl of Darkness Vol ane	Collects issues #1–6		2018	978-1-4012-8473-ii
2	Raven: Daughter of Darkness Vol 2	Collects bug #7-12		2019	978-ane-4012-8963-8

Other versions [edit]

• In The Books of Magic Annual #iii, a version of the Teen Titans tin can be seen in Timothy Hunter'south culling reality. Raven'south counterpart is named "Moonchild", and is a sidekick to the Phantom Stranger.
• In the "Titans Tomorrow" storyline, Dark Raven, a future image of Raven, is a fellow member of the Titans Tomorrow. She is referred to the "Wicked Witch of the West" considering she consumed the emotions of most of the American continent in gild to maintain peace.
• In Amalgam Comics, an affiliation of Raven and Curiosity's Aliya Dayspring is called Raveniya Dayspring.
• In the Superman/Batman Mash-Up universe, Doctor Destiny trapped Superman and Batman in a universe where at that place are amalgamations of a number of DC characters. Ravanna was an amalgamation of Raven and Zatanna, and was a deceased member of the Justice Titans. Her costume is kept as a memorial.^[31]
• In DC/Wildstorm: DreamWar, Raven appears along with the rest of the Wolfman/Perez-era Teen Titans equally part of Chimera'due south dream-fueled plot to make Wildstorms, wherein normally very vicious heroes act like his dream heroes from the DC Universe. Initial advent had the original Titans Tower appear out of nowhere on superlative of the Riker'due south Island prison facility. Mr. Majestic is sent in to investigate only is brought depression past a Starbolt and a single impact from Raven before well-nigh of the Titans make their escape. She next appears alongside the other Teen Titans every bit they engage the members of Gen 13. Every bit the heroes of DC, animated every bit they are, realize they are being used past Chimera and cease fighting and revert to a more cautious approach to the globe effectually them, Chimera decides to dream upwardly villains such equally Doomsday to proceed with his wishes before resorting to hatching a Sun-Eater inside the moon. While most of the capable heroes travel to the moon to prevent the Sun-Eater destroying it, Raven along with the Midnighter, independently of each other, deducts where Chimera was hiding through Edgar Allan Poe's Purloined Alphabetic character, both deducing that Bubble was hiding in plain sight. After a brief fight with the Shadow-Thief, brought low by a glimpse into Raven's mind, they somewhen notice the shrunken Chimera before waking him upwards, causing all of the DC characters to disappear, only leaving the impairment backside.
• Raven is a major character in Tiny Titans, in which she lives at dwelling house with her father Trigon, who substitutes as a teacher at her school.
• In the Booster Gold serial, Black Beetle has moved back in time to decadent history. In battle betwixt the Teen Titans confronting Deathstroke and the Ravager, Blackness Beetle kills the Titans save for Raven, who had shown up a moment after. Booster Gold, Skeets, and Rip Hunter arrive at the scene and tell Raven that history has been rampaged, and ask her to help them track down Blackness Beetle. Raven accompanies them to an alternate time to come where the New Teen Titans never existed and Trigon had taken over the globe. They runway downward Black Protrude but he escapes into the timestream. They render to the time of the battle with the Ravager and to right the timestream. Booster knocks Deathstroke out, suits upwards in his armor, and replicates the scene. Before parting with Ravager'south body, Booster tells Robin, "Embrace your heritage and guide Damian". Meanwhile, Raven plants false memories into Deathstroke's mind, so that he will forever arraign the Titans for his son's expiry and will go the greatest adversary of the Teen Titans.^[32]
• In the alternate timeline of the "Flashpoint" storyline, Raven is a fellow member of the Hole-and-corner Seven, a grouping of powerful sorcerers of Earth. Raven, Zatanna, and Mindwarp are killed by Enchantress, who turns out to be a spy for the Amazon and has been ordered to infiltrate the Hugger-mugger 7. Enchantress is eventually killed by Superman. Curiously, Raven and Zatanna'southward relations to their fathers appear to accept changed in thist.
• In the alternate Injustice Timeline, Raven's father Trigon appears during a fight between the Regime and Insurgency; he is under the impression that the Government are responsible for Raven's disappearance, courtesy of John Constantine's manipulations. Raven is awoken from her enchanted sleep just as her father engages in a cosmic battle with Mister Mxyzptlk which threatens to engulf them all. Raven tries to reach her father, simply for Doctor Fate to arbitrate and banish her father and the imp to another dimension, killing Trigon. Yr Four sees Raven briefly securing herself in a pocket dimension where she is confused over her grief almost her father's decease, considering how much she detested him. She questions where she truly belongs due to her demon/homo status. In Year Five, Superman visits Raven to rejoin the Regime. She rejoins in Chapter 34 by using her dark magic to blackout Earth's power and Insurgency's plan to expose Superman'due south crimes. She and Cyborg capture Deathstroke at Southward.T.A.R labs.
• In the DC Bombshells universe, Raven'south mother was from Germany and cruel in love with the abominable mountainous spirit, Das Trigon. Despite the hate she received from the other villagers from bearing Trigon's girl, Azaria still raised Raven with care while teaching her some magic. After their village and townsfolk were killed by the Germans and Killer Frost, the Joker'due south Daughter took Raven in and forced her to use her magic to benefit the Tertiary Reich. She initially appears when John Constantine and Zatanna (also victims of the Joker's Girl) were cast into the ghetto, simply was revealed to exist Joker's Daughter in disguise who used Zatanna to know of the Bombshells' plans. Joker's Daughter and then summons the real Raven (who's still under her control), to thwart the Bombshells against her volition. However, some of her magic passes on to Miri Marvel, who works with Zatanna to break complimentary of the Joker's Daughter's expletive. She and then works together with the Bombshells to defeat and depower the Joker's Daughter and her army.^[33]

In other media [edit]

Television [edit]

Live action [edit]

• Raven appears as one of the master characters of the TV series Titans, portrayed past Teagan Croft.^[34] After her "mother" was murdered past an unknown male assailant, teenager Rachel Roth displays her uncommonly stiff telekinetic abilities out of sheer fury and flees town. She is speedily abducted and taken to the police station, where she meets superhero and police detective Dick Grayson, whom she recognizes from her nightmares, and asks for his help. Robin eventually forms a team of heroes to protect Rachel from her begetter and his acolytes while also training her to use her powers for good. Rachel eventually defeats her male parent and imprisons him.
  • Raven appears in the final part of the Arrowverse crossover Crisis on Infinite Earths via archive footage from the episode "Titans".^[35]

Blitheness [edit]

Many of Raven's appearances are voiced by Tara Potent.

• A teenage version of Raven appears in the Teen Titans blithe series. One of the program'due south breakout characters, she was so popular that her later portrayals in comics made attempts to be closer to this version of her. Her costume is relatively the same as her comic counterpart, but her blue apparel is replaced with a purple, hooded cloak and a black leotard in order to avoid several animation complications. Raven is depicted with light greyness pare, violet-blue eyes, and shoulder-length violet-blue, a-line-styled hair. Her origin every bit the daughter of human Arella and interdimensional demon Trigon is the same as in the comics. This version chiefly employs powers which resemble telekinesis encased in dark-colored mystical energy. Raven's power is displayed under various forms. She accomplishes this by putting a little piece of her spirit/soul into everything she telekinetically controls. She often chants the incantation "Azarath Metrion Zinthos" to focus her abilities even further, allowing her to perform much greater feats; she also uses this phrase equally a mantra while meditating. She has the ability to wing and levitate. Raven has also been seen as a fairly practiced hand-to-hand combatant, although she only occasionally uses this skill during battle. Another of Raven's chief abilities is her "soul-cocky", which allows her to detach her soul and spirit from her body in the class of a dark-free energy Raven. This power can be used to enter the minds of others, teleport herself and others across great distances, pass through solid matter or through burn down, and fifty-fifty modify her own appearance. Raven has displayed a number of seldom-used abilities. She can heal herself and others (to an extent), stop fourth dimension, and manifest her fears as monsters unintentionally. She keeps a library of numerous spell books in her room on the occult, as well every bit a number of immensely powerful items, charms and talismans. Raven's powers are entirely tied to her emotions, condign more powerful and more unstable with the intensity of the emotions fueling them. Raven is often giving sage communication to the others about various subjects, and generally stays calm even in desperate situations. She is also the most emotionally restrained of the Titans, actualization secretive and distant. The reason for her emotional restraint is due to the agin effects her emotions have on her supernatural abilities. However, she eventually warms up to her teammates and comes to see them as her family. The 4th season serves as an adaptation of the "Terror of Trigon" arc in the Teen Titans comics, and has five episodes that focus heavily on Raven. Over the course of the season, Raven tries to avert her destiny of becoming the portal that will release Trigon into their dimension. However, with Slade having been empowered by Trigon, Raven loses hope and resigns to her fate. She leaves her teammates with a pocket-size fraction of her powers to protect them from Trigon's petrification nail when he emerges. Raven regresses into a small five-year-old kid, and is rescued from the depths of Trigon's prison by Robin. Robin and the other Titans decide to fight anyway, though they are ultimately incapable of defeating Trigon. Their efforts convince Raven to step out of her father'south shadow, and she vaporizes Trigon with a pure-white version of her soul-self, returning the globe to normal in the procedure. In the fifth flavor of the show, she becomes more open up and friendly, although her disposition to Beast Boy does not change.
• Raven returns in the New Teen Titans shorts; and in ane, she goes on a date with the Goth Male child.
• Raven reappears in Teen Titans Go!. While her appearance remains by and large unchanged from the original Teen Titans serial, it is later shown that her short hair is now black with purple streaks instead of violet purple. Also, in the episode "Hey Pizza", her leotard is jokingly referred to as a "bathing suit". This version of Raven is significantly more communicative and social than in her original series appearance, although she does occasionally show her dark side (though mostly when she is provoked or agitated). In "Legendary Sandwich", it is revealed that she loves the bear witness Pretty Pretty Pegasus (a parody of My Little Pony, for which Strong voices Twilight Sparkle) but is afraid of any other "girly" affair (flowers, hearts, chocolates, and rabbits). Similar to the comics, she has a crush on Beast Male child which culminates in an actual common allure in "Rocks and H2o". They formally become a couple in the double episode "BBRae", which is titled after their "ship proper noun" used by their fans as a couple. She has another superhero identity called "Lady Legasus", a superhero clad in gold and with powerful legs, as her proper noun suggests.
• Raven appears as a non-speaking cameo in the DC Super Friends short.
• Raven appears in the DC Super Hero Girls season 4 two-part finale "Nevermore", in which her demon male parent is having apply her magic to open a portal to Metropolis. She returns in the spin-off feature Legends of Atlantis, where she employs her 2003 series' trademark incantation "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos".
• Raven appears on OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes in the special "Crossover Nexus". This marks the starting time time her character has appeared in a non-DC belongings.
• Raven was slated to appear every bit a supporting character in a planned Nightwing animated series.^[36]
• Raven appeared on the 2019 serial DC Super Hero Girls with Tara Strong reprising her role.

Film [edit]

• Raven appears in the Teen Titans blithe series film adaptation Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo, with Tara Strong reprising her office again.^[37]
• Raven appears as a main character in the animated film Justice League vs. Teen Titans, voiced by Taissa Farmiga. She is the centre of the story as it revolves around her father, Trigon, attempting to conquer Earth by possessing the Justice League, using Raven equally the portal.^[38] At fourteen years old, she bonds with Damian Wayne as they recognize each other as kindred souls. This version sports the dull-tinted skin tone of her 2003 Television series' version, and at one point also employs the latter's standard spell incantation ("Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos") to effect her magic. She manages to incorporate Trigon in a magical crystal, which she now wears on her forehead at all times.
• Raven appears in the animated sequel Teen Titans: The Judas Contract, and is around 15/16 years erstwhile, with Farmiga reprising her part. She remains a close friend to Damian and has softened upwardly emotionally, even corking the occasional joke, trying to assistance Terra with apparent nightmares, and also bringing in a blackness dog as a pet (for Damian).
• Raven appears in the animated film Justice League Dark: Apokolips State of war, with Farmiga reprising her role from the previous DCAMU films. She is Damian Wayne'south love involvement and the two are the simply surviving agile Titans as most of their teammates were killed during the Paradoom invasion when defending Titans Belfry, and the two share a osculation at the very end while Flash resets the timeline.^[39] She, along with John Constantine and Superman, are ane of the protagonists, with her struggles to keep Trigon contained a recurring conflict in the movie.
• The Teen Titans Go! and original Teen Titans animated series versions of Raven appear in Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans, with Tara Potent reprising the role for both. In addition, several alternating versions of Raven appear throughout the film, which include her counterparts from Tiny Titans, the New Teen Titans comic, and the DC Blithe Movie Universe.
• Raven appears in the animated flick adaptation of Injustice, merely with no speaking lines. As in the Yr 1 comic book series, Raven helps on the hunt for Mirror Master by forcing him out of the Mirror Dimension.

Miscellaneous [edit]

• In the four-issue miniseries Smallville: Harbinger, a immature girl is kidnapped by Brother Blood to be used equally an offer to summon the Sons of Trigon, the Vii Deadly Sins. The ritual is interrupted past Zatanna and Constantine. Zatanna frees the daughter simply Constantine runs abroad with the artifact he had been looking for; the Book of Magick. Blood brother Blood succeeds in summoning the Vii Sins using himself as a sacrifice, and the Sins chase afterwards Zatanna and the girl. Constantine, seeing the spirits of those who take been killed considering of him, changes his mind and uses Blood brother Blood'due south heart to defeat them. Later, Zatanna places the girl under Jay Garrick'due south intendance. When Speedy asks what to phone call her, she tells her name, "Rachel Roth", before last, "...merely yous tin call me Raven".

Video games [edit]

• Raven is a playable graphic symbol in the Teen Titans Game Boy Accelerate and console video games, with Tara Stiff reprising her role in the latter.
• Raven appears in DC Universe Online, voiced by Adriene Mishler. She has been possessed past her male parent Trigon as a function of a demonic invasion of Metropolis and Earth, using Raven. Hero and Villain players will fight with, or against the Titans to either costless or go on Raven under Trigon's control. If she is freed, she will join Hero players along with Zatanna, and Doctor Fate in contesting Blood brother Blood, who is the catalyst for Trigon's invasion. Through small info clips found throughout the game, the role player volition larn that Circe is quite aggravated that Raven refuses to requite in and desires her punished one time she has what she wants, while Wonder Woman considers her a true hero for containing the night forces within her and continuing the struggle against it. Outside of the primary story, Raven is located in the Watchtower's Magic Fly where she is a vendor of the Tier 1 armor set for the magically aligned heroes. If clicked repeatedly, she volition remark on how she is not e'er sarcastic when she speaks.
• Raven is a playable graphic symbol in Injustice: Gods Among Us, with Tara Potent again reprising her role but with a deeper and more demonic sounding phonation (although a trailer featuring Green Lantern in Story Mode had her with the aforementioned voice as the television incarnation, suggesting that Stiff's vox was filtered). Trigon appears as function of her super attack,^[40] and the Government's Raven notes in a confrontation with Wonder Woman that she serves her world's Superman as Superman's actions will aid in her father's render. In her single player ending, the "normal" Raven, afterward having expended a large amount of demonic energy defeating Superman, realizes too late that she has summoned her father Trigon into the world. Thanking her, he summons an ground forces of demons and sets nigh conquering the world.
• Raven appears as a downloadable content playable graphic symbol in LEGO Batman 3: Across Gotham.^[41]
• Raven, in her Teen Titans Get! incarnation, appears as a playable character in Lego Dimensions, with Tara Strong reprising her role.^[42]
• Raven makes a cameo in Starfire'south ending in Injustice two as the latter has a flashback of the Titans jubilant their victories. Starfire mentions that Raven's no longer with them as she's at present become a servant of Trigon.
• Raven appears as a playable character in Lego DC Super-Villains, voiced again past Tara Strong. Just like Animal Boy, she is a boss in the second part of the level "S.T.A.R.S in your Eyes", where she and Creature Male child try to stop the villains while Opposite-Flash is using the Cosmic Treadmill to travel to Earth-iii to observe evidence on the Justice Syndicate beingness villains, but is defeated as well equally Fauna Boy.
• Raven is part of the Boxing Laissez passer in Fortnite Chapter ii, Flavour vi as a playable skin with three styles. Raven'due south default fashion is based on her look in the Rebirth series, her second look is based on her classic look, and her last fashion is based on her civilian look as Rachel Roth.

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External links [edit]

• Titans Tower: Raven

littleberavi.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven_%28DC_Comics%29