Raven (Prime Earth)

Raven
Mainstream Universe‎‎, 2011‎-present
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Real Name	Raven
Other Aliases	Rachel (birth name) · Rachel Roth (alias she uses on Earth)
Relatives	Trigon (father) Arella (mother) Alice Williams (aunt) Jack Williams (uncle) Belial (half-brother, deceased) Suge (half-brother) Ruskoff (half-brother) Bertok-Raaf (cousin) Mary-Beth Williams (cousin) Billy Williams (cousin) Jessica Williams (cousin) Etrigan (nephew) Merlin (nephew)
Affiliation	Justice League, Night Force, Titans · formerly Teen Titans, Trigon, Sons of Trigon, Justice League: Team Mystery
Base Of Operations	Hall of Justice, Washington, D.C. · formerly Titans Tower III, San Francisco, California · Azarath
Status
Alignment	Good
Identity	Secret Identity
Marital Status	Single
Occupation	Teacher
Characteristics
Gender	Female
Height	5' 10"
Weight	110 lbs (50 kg)
Eyes	Blue
Hair	Black
Origin
Universe	Prime Earth
Creators	Marv Wolfman · George Pérez
First Appearance	The Phantom Stranger Vol 4 #1 (December, 2012)

I will not stop. This man must pray for his crime.

— Raven (Prime Earth)

Raven is the daughter and herald of the demon Trigon and a member of the Teen Titans.

History

Origin

The woman later known as Raven was born of the demon Trigon, a demonic entity who had conquered many worlds and fathered many sons; however this was his first and (so far) only daughter. Trigon murdered the women who birthed his sons, however he allowed his daughter's mother Arella to live, believing that his daughter needed to be raised by a human in order to help her reshape the under-realms in his image. Afraid of what Trigon had in store for their daughter, Raven's mother took her daughter and fled to the dimension of Azarath, which was beyond Trigon's reach, where she named the child Rachel. Over time, the monks of that realm trained Rachel to control her powers and overcome her father's influence. When Trigon finally found her again, Rachel fled from Azarath to Earth in order to protect her mother and teachers. Eventually she was found by the immortal Phantom Stranger on Trigon's behalf. When she returned to Trigon's realm time itself flowed differently, and it was revealed that Trigon was impressed by her natural abilities, allowing her to have free will and shape her own destiny. He gave her a seat at his throne, and renamed her Raven.

Return of Trigon

Raven returned to Earth to interfere with the fight between Trigon and the Teen Titans. She recruited Beast Boy, who had been left for dead in the rubble of an unknown facility. There Raven used her empathy powers to mind-control Beast Boy, making him her thrall. With Beast Boy in tow, Raven teleported to the middle of a battle between the Teen Titans and the psychic villain Psimon. Using Beast Boy she was able to knock out Psimon and cause his defeat. Meanwhile Trigon's three sons, Belial, Ruskoff, and Suge, assaulted the Teen Titans in an attempt to take Raven back. Raven, Beast Boy, and the Titans defeated them, but Trigon himself appeared again and took control of the Titans save for Raven, Beast Boy, and Red Robin. When the manipulated Titans attacked, Raven had Beast Boy distract them and Trigon long enough for Red Robin to cut through Trigon's eyes with his wings on his costume. Trigon, pulling out the wings from his eyes, complimented Red Robin before suddenly disappearing. Soon after, a woman and a group of suited men came through a portal, informing everyone that they would take Psimon into custody and make the incident appear as if it had never happened. When questioned about the police officers Psimon had killed, the woman revealed it had been a hallucination by Trigon, so therefore it had never happened. Raven and Beast Boy were re-accepted into the Teen Titans. While apart of the team Raven made things awkward for them by revealing all the relationships Red Robin had when under Trigon's control. Raven went into her room, leaving the awkward situation behind. There, she summoned her father, saying, "Father, I am one of them. Your plan worked perfectly," leaving questions on what side she was really playing for. Meanwhile, Red Robin called Raven aside, telling her that if something happened to him, the team would look to her to lead them.

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Forever Evil

When all of Earth's greatest heroes were gone and the Crime Syndicate of America had taken over the world, the Teen Titans attempted to challenge the Crime Syndicate. However, they were easily overpowered by Johnny Quick and Atomica and were then flung into the time stream. While the Titans were constantly flung through time, Raven was sent a few thousand years back in time. There, she was challenged by Etrigan the Demon, who recognized her as Trigon's daughter and tried to kill her. Raven was saved by Wonder Girl, who suggested that the way to stop Raven's powers, since she was born and raised in a world between worlds, was to manipulate the energy within the time stream. Raven succeeded in anchoring the Titans with her soul-self, teleporting them through time. The Titans arrived 20 years into the future, where Jonathan Lane Kent had massacred most of Earth's superheroes, leaving only a few, including Beast Boy, now calling himself Beast Man, and Rose Wilson. Kon-El and Jon battled, and Kon triumphed. Kon was then sent elsewhere by an unknown power, and a severely injured Jon was swapped unknowingly as Superboy by Beast Boy and Rose Wilson.

Trial of Kid Flash

While traveling through time Raven and the Titans arrived to the 30th century, where they found out that their teammate Kid Flash was actually a rebel leader and war criminal, named Bar Torr. It was during this time that Raven deduced that the Superboy with them was actually Jon, and she helped send him back to the present time so that he could find a cure for his deteriorating body condition. After leaving Kid Flash and Solstice in the future, Raven and the others returned to their original time where she discovered that her connection with Trigon had been severed.

The Culling

Following an attack by the villain Grimm, the Titans planned a final attack on Harvest's new colony. Raven was reluctant to join because of her past actions, but after Bunker told her that everybody deserved a second chance, Raven changed her mind. In the colony, the Teen Titans were surprised to find that everyone is returned to normal, and even the victims of the Culling had been restored to life. Raven played a crucial role by finding out Harvest's scheme to extract all the metagenes to create a massive DNA strand for his usage. Raven destroyed it using her soul-self, leaving Harvest to finally be defeated.

The White Carnival

After the Titans separated, Raven found out that her mother had a sister living in San Francisco. She decided to visit her aunt so that she could learn more about her mother's side of the family. Raven was surprised to discover that her Aunt Alice and her family are dedicated Christians. During her stay, Raven attended Madison High School where she cast a spell on several students, in order to have a group of friends and fit in. She soon came across one student that was seemingly under the control of a mysterious white orb which had begun to grow near a carnival. The orb fed on the souls of the young, and Raven did her best to try and stop it. After several attempts, she failed, until her aunt and the citizens of San Francisco gave her the strength that she needed to defeat the orb and wipe everyone's memories of the event.

Rebirth

Some time after leaving the Teen Titans, Raven set out to learn more about her family and her father Trigon. During this time she lived in a museum, until one day she found herself knocked unconscious. When Raven came to, she found herself in an unknown location alongside several other young superheroes including her former teammate Beast Boy, the new Kid Flash, and Starfire. The identity of her captor was revealed to be Robin who explained that he had kidnapped them in order to recruit them to his new Teen Titans team. He went on to explain that he needed each of their unique skills in order to take down his grandfather Ra's al Ghul and the League of Assassins. She is targeted by one called Plague.

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Daughter of Darkness

Raven was spending time with her friends from Madison High School at a beach party when she senses someone in need of help. Using her Soul Self, Raven flies through the woods and finds a hooded female running from a group of specially trained soldiers. Assuming that the girl is the victim, Raven attacks the squadron. However, she begins to have doubts about the side that she chose when the girl attacks her with illusions of Trigon in order to escape.

The next morning, Raven returns home to her Aunt's place where she finds the family decorating for Christmas. They invite Raven to join in the celebration, but Raven is still haunted by the mystery surrounding the hooded girl. She does some investigating which leads her to a company called 2morrowTek. She finds the mysterious girl, named Azure, inside the facility attacking its soldiers. Raven catches her and unhoods her to reveal a rather disturbing sight -- Azure has no mouth or nose, and very large eyes.

Meanwhile, Baron Winters has been watching over Raven and comes to the conclusion that she must die on Christmas Eve.

Azure attacks Raven and disappears, leaving Raven no choice but to return home to her aunt's house and contemplate the mysterious threat that she is dealing with. However, she gets distracted when she finds out that her friend Teri's grandmother is dying and Teri has no family left. To help her friend through her pain, Raven invites the gang over to her aunt's place to help decorate the Christmas tree.

While everyone is together, Alice Williams believes she sees her sister Angela (Raven's mother) outside. But it is actually Azure casting an illusion as she sneaks into Raven's room through the window. Raven senses someone nearby and sends her soul self to follow Azure only to be taken down by soldiers of 2morrowTek. Azure dies in the crossfire. Raven teleports herself to 2morrowTek HQ where she sees a brief vision of Baron Winters spying on her. Before she can get answers, the vision disappears.

Raven investigates the laboratory, which is filled with several different species. Suddenly a black tentacle grabs ahold of her.

Raven wipes the illusion of the black tentacle to reveal a specimen similar to Azure. Raven dubs this one "Ash". The two battle it out until 2morrowTek staff arrive. Security tries to take down both girls but Raven teleports to safety again. Baron Winters tries to locate Raven in his flames only to witness a surprise as Raven pulls her way through the flames and into Wintersgate Manor.

Raven puts Merlin the Leopard to sleep and chases after Baron, through the halls, demanding answers. Raven follows him outside where she discovers that she is back in San Francisco, only now it is 1906! As she explores her surroundings, the Great San Francisco Earthquake takes effect. After it's over, Raven tries to help as many of the civilians as she can.

Raven finds her way back to Wintersgate Manor and confronts Baron Winters yet again. Baron refuses to answer her questions forcing Raven to link her mind with both Baron and Merlin. She discovers that both Azure and Ash are actually her own sisters! Girls that Trigon had conceived on another world.

Baron pushes Raven back into the fire where she is transported to a funeral home to find her family and friends all mourning the loss of Teri's grandmother. While trying to console her friend, Raven was greeted by her mother, Angela Roth.

Ash breaks out of her laboratory prison, at 2morrowTek, and tries to free her other sisters before security can stop her. She is able to free some but with fatal cost. After escaping, the sisters go after Raven. Raven's mother Angela has returned to try and bring her daughter back to Azarath. But Raven refuses stating that she is not ready to return. Before the argument can finish Verdant, the Green Faceless Girl, uses knockout gas to take out Raven's aunt and her family. Raven and Angela escape after wiping their family's minds of the situation and making them think that is was Carbon Monoxide that knocked them out.

Raven teleports her mother to the woods where they continue their personal conversation. However, the two are soon attacked by soldiers of 2morrowTek. They capture Raven and Angela and fly them off in a chopper. Suddenly, Ash's sisters shoot the chopper down and make ready to kill Raven for good.

From his home in Wintersgate Manor, Baron Winters watches the situation in the flames when suddenly, someone else takes control of the flames and three mysterious lifeforms begin to enter the room.

Raven and her mother were snatched up by 2morrowTek and taken to their laboratory. Raven could easily take them all out, but she decides to take this opportunity to figure out their plan. One of the scientists explains that they are breeding an army for Trigon and they want to study Raven because she is the only child of Trigon to have developed perfectly, while all of the others were deformed. They want to see what makes her so special and try to repeat the process to prepare for Trigon's return. They use Raven as a portal to bring Trigon to Earth only to have the other Daughters of Trigon arrive and interfere.

While researching a species known as the Shadow-Riders, Baron Winter's watches as Raven slowly dies in the crossfires of the battle on Christmas Eve.

As Raven slowly dies, Violet possesses her and provides her with more strength to resist Trigon's power. Baron Winters watches in the fires of Wintersgate Manor. Suddenly, Trigon senses Wintersgate's presence and jumps into the portal towards the Manor instead. Raven realizes that Trigon actually plans to go back in time to an age where there will be no one to resist him and he can easily take control of the Earth.

After freeing herself and her mother Raven flies to Wintersgate. Per Raven's instructions, Angela Roth frees the rest of Trigon's children from 2morrowTek. The creatures follow Raven through time until they find Trigon in 1906 San Francisco. The rest of Trigon's children give up their lives in order to give Raven enough power to seal Trigon away, back in his own dimension. After her victory, Raven is called back to Wintersgate Manor where Baron Winters offers her to lead his new "Night Force" team. Raven refuses and tells Baron to never call her again.

Raven returns home to her Aunt's place just in time to say goodbye to Teri before she leaves with her new family. Angela, again, asks her daughter to come home, to Azarath, with her but Raven turns her down saying that she would like to stay with her Aunt a bit longer. Accepting her daughter's decision Angela leaves as Raven joins her Aunt's family for Christmas Eve Midnight Mass.

Infinite Frontier

Raven, along with her fellow teamates Nightwing, Beast Boy, Cyborg, Donna Troy and Starfire started a new incriation of the Titans, the Roy Harper Teen Titans Academy.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

As the half-demon daughter of the inter-dimensional demon Trigon, Raven is very powerful and displayed a vast amount of abilities. It was noted by her father Trigon that she only uses a small potential of her power, and if she lets out her full inner demon, she may reach near-infinite power.

• Unique Physiology: As the daughter of a demon, Raven has a host of unique abilities.
  • Astral Projection: Through the use of her Soul-Self, Raven can project her consciousness for therapeutic purposes (to aid in her own meditation, or to help calm an agitated ally), or for offensive attacks, rendering her enemies unconscious.
    • Soul-Self: Raven can manifest her "Soul-Self" through astral projection. It normally takes the form of either her human shape or a giant raven.
      • Psychokinesis: Using her Soul-Self, Raven can telekinetically manipulate, arrange and alter matter and energy at the atomic level.
      • Flight: Raven can levitate off the ground and fly, without visible projection of her dark energy as is shown when she utilizes telekinesis.
      • Chronokinesis: Using her Soul-Self in conjunction with her demonic abilities she can force herself through the time-stream and even bring passengers.
      • Intangibility: Using her dark powers and abilities, she melts into walls and floors, sometimes in the form of a giant black raven (which is the form her Soul-Self usually takes on).
      • Teleportation: Raven can convert her physical body into her Soul-Self and carry or teleport herself and others across vast distances.
  • Empathy: Raven can sense the feelings of others with no filter. She constantly feels all the emotions of others and must learn to control them or they will overwhelm her.
    • Emotion Negation: She can also use her empathic abilities to steal emotions from others, rendering them emotionally "numb".
    • Empathic Healing: She can absorb the pain of others into her own body in order to rapidly heal others from any physical injuries, as well as heal herself by going into a trance of emotional calm.
    • Empathic Precognition: She can receive precognitive flashes of the future when exposed to extreme emotion.
    • Psychic Link: By using her empathic-based powers, Raven can enter another person's mind allowing her to see, feel and hear what they encounter.
  • Darkness Manipulation: Raven can generate darkness from herself and project it forward to attack her enemies. This darkness normally takes the form of a giant raven.
  • Psionics: Raven is able to read thoughts, project and broadcast her own thoughts, as well as scan and alter the memories of others.
  • Magic: Due to her demonic and mystical heritage, Raven can generate and control magical and mystical forces at will.

Notes

• Raven was created by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez, first appearing as part of the Teen Titans in DC Comics Presents Vol 1. However, in the rebooted Prime Earth continuity her first appearance as part of the DC Universe is in Dan DiDio and Brent Anderson's New 52 Phantom Stranger series.
  

Trivia

• As of Raven: Daughter of Darkness #11, Raven was 16 years old.

Related

• 310 Appearances of Raven (Prime Earth)
• 212 Images featuring Raven (Prime Earth)
• 19 Quotations by or about Raven (Prime Earth)
• Character Gallery: Raven (Prime Earth)

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