Raven
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Real Identity: Raven
Affiliations: Teen Titans
Appearances: Justice League vs. Teen Titans and Teen Titans: The Judas Contract
Powers/Skills: Soul Self, Empathy, Healing, Portal Generation, Flight, and Knowledge of Magic
Voiced By: Taissa Farmiga
Raven was the child of Trigon, an interdimensional demon and conqueror, and a woman on Earth who fell in with a Satanic cult. During an ancient ceremony, Trigon appeared to the cult as a man. The woman selected to be his bride was impregnated. After she learned the truth about Trigon, she ran away. People from another dimension saved her and took her to their realm, Azarath. Raven was born and rasied there. Due to her parentage, she didn't fit in. Raven came to believe if she knew more about her father, she would be able to make more sense of herself. She accidentally summoned Trigon. He destroyed Azarath and took Raven back to his realm. Raven could hardly bear the horrors she saw there. She learned Trigon wanted to conquer Earth but needed a powerful conduit to open it to his control. Raven was half-human and could function as his way in. Trigon, however, underestimated Raven's magic. She trapped him within a crystal. She then formed a towering structure around it.
Raven escaped her father's realm and yearned for a home. Starfire took her in at the Titans Tower. The night of the Hall of Justice's unveiling, Raven, now 14 years old, had a nightmare. The next day, during training, Beast Boy asked about it but Raven dismissed it as just dreams. Upon meeting Robin, Raven sensed sadness. The next day, Raven healed Robin after Blue Beetle's Scarab blasted him in the heat of battle. She said the words "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos" and saw flashes of Robin's past. The Titans escorted Raven to her room to recover. Raven was unable to shake off what she felt from Robin. That night, Raven went outside and cast a protection spell on the team, without their knowledge, from being corrupted by Trigon. Robin appeared and thanked her for healing him. He didn't appreciate the part where she was in his head. She made it clear she wanted to left alone but he asked about the one that looked like a man. Raven dismissed it was a nightmare. Robin wasn't so sure. Raven became irate and told him it was none of his business then went through a portal.
During Starfire's night of mandatory fun at the carnival, Robin and Raven laughed at each other's expense when they found some funhouse mirrors. Raven observed that while he was insufferable, in his heart, he was a kind and generous soul. While watching Beast Boy and Robin compete in a dance off, the Corruptors reached to Raven to go to the hill beyond the tents. Trigon initiated contact and stated it was their destiny to be together. He reminded her she could bring him to Earth. Raven realized he was still trapped and vowed to fight him at every turn. The Corruptors blasted her. Trigon warned her. He observed how weak and lonely she became, aligning with chattel. It was beneath his contempt and he vowed she would know his glory. The battle spilled over into the carnival. The other Titans came to her aid. Raven informed them the Corruptors were demonic emissaries sent by her father. Eventually, Raven transformed and summoned her soul self, a powerful force within her, and banished the Corruptors from their plane.
Starfire recalled Raven told her she didn't have a father. Raven teleported them to Azarath and explained her past. They returned to the Tower but Raven decided she was not staying and felt she had to keep moving to throw Trigon off her trail. Robin disagreed and believed she stood a better chance of beating Trigon by staying with the Titans. Batman, Cyborg, Wonder Woman, and Flash suddenly arrived and asked Raven to come with them for questioning. Robin protested and stated the Titans could protect her. Raven refused to leave with the Justice League then realized Trigon wanted them there. The Corruptors appeared and possessed the Leaguers. The Corruptor in control of Wonder Woman informed Raven that Superman unearthed the Infernal Shrine, an ancient structure with magical properties built by Satanists. Another Corruptor stated Raven was the shrine's final piece. The Titans challenged the Corruptors but were defeated. Raven agreed to go with them if they spared the Titans' lives.
They arrived in the Middle East, 60 miles north of Kahndaq City. Raven went to the shrine and powered it. Raven begged Trigon to spare Earth but he refused. 24 hours later, the Titans and Cyborg boomed to the shrine. They freed Superman first. While he dealt with Wonder Woman and the Flash, the Titans went for Raven but they were too late. Trigon crossed over. While the League tried to hold off Trigon in vain, Raven had a plan. She needed the crystal to trap Trigon again. The Titans and Cyborg went to Trigon's realm. Since the structure around the crystal was shielded, they had to head to it on foot instead of using teleportation. They battled demon spawn then Corruptors, who formed into a hell beast. Raven went ahead and unlocked the structure but another Corruptor shattered the crystal with a sword. It took on the form of Ra's al Ghul, Robin's deceased grandfather. Trigon vowed to Raven he would make her pathetic friends suffer and soon the souls of Earth would be his. He implored Raven to give up because she was weak like her mother.
Raven admitted her only weakness was loving him and hoping to be loved in return. She had friends she would give her life for and who gave her love and strength to do the right thing. She chanted and a shard of the crystal rose. Raven projected her soul self to Earth. It appeared beneath Trigon then engulfed him and dragged him into the shard. Raven knew Trigon would spend every minute trying to escape again. She would return everyone to Earth but she decided to stay and guard the shard. Robin didn't think it was her home and quoted Robert Frost, saying home is the place where when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Raven looked at the shard then decided to go back to the Tower. She wore the shard on her forehead like a chakra. In an ironic way, they could be together as Trigon once said. 10 days later, the Justice League confirmed no more signs of the Corruptors and congratulated them for saving the world and them from Trigon. Trigon ordered Raven to release him and vowed to kill everyone she loved. The Titans partied into the night with Cyborg.
A year later, the Titans conducted another raid on a H.I.V.E. base. Raven was uneasy with Terra lifting them up to the base then became annoyed with Blue Beetle and Robin quarreling over the Scarab. Raven immobilized an exo suit, allowing Robin the opening to slice an arm off. She generated her Soul Self and slammed several soldiers through a wall. The next day, Raven meditated in the training room while Starfire battled holograms of Gordanians. Terra took refuge inside to avoid Beast Boy for awhile. She asked Starfire if it was true Raven's father was trapped in the jewel in her head. Starfire confirmed it and suggested she should talk to her more. Terra declined on account she found Raven too creepy and left. Raven opened her eyes amid disembodied whispers around her. The next night, Terra had another one of her super powered nightmares. Raven tried to connect with her and touched her face but Terra came to and pushed Raven away. Grayson asked how often that happened. Starfire only replied it happened enough.
Robin voiced his concern and asked Raven if she saw anything in her mind. Raven claimed she saw nothing but added if she did, it wasn't his business. Robin stated everything that happened in the Tower was his business and should be everyone else's. Raven reminded him Starfire was the one in charge. The next day, Raven was paired off with Blue Beetle for a training session. She enveloped him in her Soul Self. The Scarab refused to lose and pierced it with a powerful blast that decked Raven. Raven stated she was fine but informed everyone Trigon felt she disgraced herself. Terra lost control during her spar with Beast Boy. Raven offered to calm her mind but she refused. That night, Raven admitted to the team she sensed something off about Terra. Nightwing stressed understanding over surveillance. Raven got an idea to hold a party for Terra to celebrate the one year anniversary of her joining the team. She went to Terra's door, offered to teach her some meditation techniques that could help her stay in control, then informed her the team was assembling in the common room.
Terra became unnerved by Raven acting nice and suspected they found out she was a spy but was moved by the surprise party. The Titans gained a lead on a molecular biologist from the confiscated files and raided his personal lab. The biologist attempted to flee but Starfire sent Raven after him. She generated constructs around his neck and walked him back to the team but a H.I.V.E. drone targeted and killed him before they could interrogate him. They found write-ups and photographs of the Titans in his briefcase, including theories on Raven's power. The next day, Terra ambushed and fought Raven one-on-one in the Titans Tower while Deathstroke took out the others one by one in the city. Raven was kept unconscious by Enervator machine of Brother Blood, leader of H.I.V.E. and Deathstroke's client. It duplicated some of Raven's powers but didn't account for her demonic nature. Blood fought Blue Beetle, Beast Boy, Starfire, and Raven. Beast Boy and Blue Beetle kept attacking him.
Blood became enraged and declared he was the chosen one. Before he could finish, Terra rammed him with her construct as she raced over to Deathstroke to kill him. Beast Boy and Blue Beetle ignored Blood's threats and kept attacking him in tandem. Blood generated a shadow blast and knocked them away. He called them demon filth. Raven offered to show him a real demon. To his horror, Raven used her soul self to drain away the effects of the Enervator and reduced Blood to an emaciated old man. Raven was weakened by the ordeal and held up by Starfire. Mother Mayhem refused to allow Blood to be imprisoned and shot him three times in the chest. Robin held Deathstroke's mask atop the Titans Tower some time later then Raven presented him with a puppy. It lifted its left ear and whined at Robin. He raised an eyebrow at it. Wonder Girl, the Teen Titans' new member, flew past them.