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| “ | I know all about your grandfather, he was a demon, and believe me...I know my demons. | „ |
| ~ Raven to Damian Wayne. |
| “ | Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos! | „ |
| ~ Raven's iconic spell |
Raven, also known as Rachel Roth, is the deuteragonist of the 2016 movie Justice League vs. Teen Titans, one of the tritagonists of its 2017 sequel Teen Titans: The Judas Contract, and one of the main protagonists of the 2020 movie Justice League Dark: Apokolips War.
She is a half-human, half-demon daughter of the inter-dimensional demon Trigon and the human woman Arella. Her birthplace and home realm is Azarath. She's a prominent member of the superhero team Teen Titans. As the years go by, she eventually falls in love with her teammate Robin (Damian Wayne).
She was voiced by Taissa Farmiga, who also portrayed Zoe Benson and Violet Harmon in American Horror Story, and Sister Irene from The Nun films in The Conjuring universe.
History[]
Origins[]
Trigon gave her life to have a conduit to invade Earth. Raven's mother Arella was a member of a cult who married her off to the powerful demon Trigon. After her mother was impregnated, she escaped from her husband because she discovered what a monster he was. She was saved by the Azarathians, a people from another dimension, where she found a safe haven from Trigon. There she could raise Raven.
Raven wanting to learn more about her true nature, summoned her father, unaware that it would lead to the demise of Azarath and her mother's death. Trigon took Raven to his Hell dimension in preparation to conquer Earth, however, she managed to exploit his arrogance to trap him in magic crystal; after acting as sentinel for a while, her loneliness and desire for a real family caused her to teleport to Earth to find one. Later Raven was recruited to Teen Titans where she found her first friends who became a foster family for her.
Justice League vs. Teen Titans[]
Raven is first seen training with Beast Boy and Blue Beetle under leadership of Starfire. Beast Boy noted that they noticed Raven had nightmares the night before, and asked if she needed to talk about it; Raven deflected the concern by claiming it was just a bad dream. Damian Wayne AKA Robin is introduced to them by Nightwing, but his lack of respect for the others causes tension. Blue Beetle feels like the new recruit is angry, but Raven senses that he is actually just sad.
Since Robin was hogging the training simulator for hours, it sparked an argument between him and Blue Beetle, then Robin insulting Starfire leads to a fight between the two boys which ends with the Blue Beetle's Scarab blasting an energy beam to severely burn Robin's face. Raven heals him, but during the healing process her empathic powers unconsciously link their minds, tapping into each other's memories and causing her to pass out.
At night, she cast a protection spell on her fellow Titans, until Robin interrupts her meditation to offer somewhat reluctant thanks to Raven for saving his life but criticises her for reading his mind, which he admitted he could sense. Raven clarifies that she mostly read emotions, rather than memories, and she was so disturbed by his experiences that she needed to meditate, though she offers sympathy for his horrid upbringing in the League of Assassins, but Robin argues that it was necessary for him to save the world, just as his grandfather, Ra's al Ghul intended; however, Raven counters that Ra's was a demon, which she proved by claiming that she knows demons well. Robin then confronts her about a strange entity he saw in her mind; however, Raven has no intention to talk about it, defensively stating that he can't judge her life, and then teleports away.
Starfire struggled to determine how to better deal with Damian's incompatibility with teamwork in a video call with Nightwing, but he inadvertently gives her an idea of team-building fun. Starfire takes her group to a carnival, so Damian Wayne could integrate with the rest of the Titans. Raven and Damian start to make a bond. As they were seated together on a Ferris wheel, during their sight-seeing, they briefly make eye contact that appeared to make them self-conscious. They laugh from their warped reflections in funhouse mirrors. He wins a ring toss game easily, so exchanges his tickets for a glowing toy sword; a little girl looks at the sword with interest, so Damian gifts it to her, which a nearby Raven noticed, so slightly smiles in admiration. She gives him cotton candy and tries to tell jokes; when the jokes don't land with him, she acknowledged that neither of their lives have been amusing. Raven then claimed that she realised something about Damian that he himself may not know, which she tells him that he's a difficult person, but he has a kind and generous soul; the observation made Damian react with surprised uncertainty, since he doesn't believe that he is anything but a weapon.
While the team are distracted by a dancing context between Damian and Beast Boy, Raven encounters her half-brothers and her father Trigon, but the latter in an incorporeal spirit form, who wants to find her so he can finally conquer the Earth. Raven resists and fights the emissaries, with the help of the Titans.
Afterward, they demand answers from Raven about her origin, which she provides, teleporting them to a destroyed universe to explain. Raven condemned her mother Arella for being gullible, revealing she became a pawn in a Satanic cult that summoned Trigon in human form; on their wedding night, Trigon revealed his true demonic form to horrify her, thus changing her willing consent into the opposite. The compassionate people of Azarath rescue Arella, whose realm exists in a plane that is inaccessible to Trigon; however, wanting to learn about her father, child Raven summoned Trigon, thus allowing him to bypass the Azarathan warding. Trigon killed Arella and the Azarathans, but kept Raven alive to use her to repeat the ritual on Earth; but Raven managed to ambush Trigon, trapping him within a magic crystal at the core of his Hell dimension, after which she went to Earth to find sanctuary and a home, which she did with the Titans. Blue Beetle and Beast Boy wonder why she didn't return to Azarath, and she revealed that the ruined reality in which they stood *was* Azarath.
Raven teleports the team back to the Tower, also confessing that she put protection wards on them without asking, so apologises for it and the fact she withheld the truth of her origins; therefore, Raven is prepared to bid farewell to spare them future danger. However, instead the Titans offer their support to Raven in defeating Trigon, with Robin noting that if they can't save one of their own, they can't save anyone, but their solidarity is interrupted as Batman, The Flash, Cyborg, and Wonder Woman arrive in order to take Raven away.
Robin is the first to object, revealing his genetic connection to Batman to the team. The Titans refuse to surrender Raven, creating a tense impasse, but before the argument continues, Trigon's Corruptors appear to possess the League members and turn into demon emissaries. However, Batman prevented his own possession by injecting himself with a neural toxin. The Titans fight the League, fighting well for a while, but eventually lose; the possessed threaten to execute the defeated team unless Raven surrendered herself, which she does, though ordered them to release the Titans, with the demonic servants obeying. Raven solemnly said goodbye, though when the possessed League depart through Raven's portal, Blue Beetle launched a powerful electrical probe onto Cyborg's nape, with the powerful electricity purging the Corruptor. From Batman's self-envenoming and Cyborg's electrocution, the team realise that the possession ends if the host body becomes too weak or damaged. Robin locates Raven in the Middle East, revealing he put a tracer on her and all of the Titans after meeting them.
Titans use Cyborg's boom tube to travel to the Middle East close to Kahndaq City, where they find a gigantic ring that is absorbing energy from Raven. On a fall down, Robin stabs Superman with a chunk of kryptonite, which purges the Corruptor from his body. Superman is able to free the Flash by breaking one of his legs, then Wonder Woman by using her Lasso of Truth on her.
The ring stops taking energy, dropping Raven but Starfire caught her; the rescuers think the danger had passed, yet unfortunately the ritual was completed and thus the gate was opened, allowing Trigon to take physical form on Earth and begin his conquest. Realising the only way to stop him is to return him to his crystal prison, Raven prepares to go to Hell alone, but Robin and the other Titans and Cyborg insist on accompanying her. Meanwhile, the Justice League works to delay Trigon, although understand that they can't defeat him.
In Trigon's Hell dimension, the team are attacked by flying serpents, and then three Sons of Trigon, who fused to shapeshift into a three headed hydra beast; the team volunteer themselves to distract the demons, allowing Raven to fly to the centre of the realm, where the crystal waits. Before she can reach the crystal, a sword boomerangs, shattering it, then returning to the hands of what seems to be Ra's al Ghul, who kicked her to the ground adjacent the crystal pieces. Robin senses something wrong, so ascends the edifice to help Raven.
Ra's al Ghul welcomes Robin, revealing that he is present because the Lazarus Pits were gifts from Trigon, with his new existence courtesy of the Old God, and Ra's invites his grandson to execute Raven so that they can fulfill their destiny of ruling the world that Trigon will leave for them; Robin admits that he would do anything to restore his grandfather, but doesn't believe a dark deal with Trigon should be done. When Ra's pressured him, he rejects the offer, due to moving beyond his original grooming to rule, as well as understanding the reality that Trigon won't leave the world habitable. Ra's is angered by perceived disloyalty, accusing Robin of failing to be an al Ghul, however, the boy retorts that he is a Titan. Robin and Ra's engage in a vicious duel of blades.
While Trigon telepathically taunts Raven for her failure, he also claims that she belongs to him and they are always meant to be together. Robin manages to decapitate Ra's, whose face and body transform into one of Trigon's demons, implying that either it was an imposter or that Ra's had traded his soul for power so became his namesake.
Raven telepathically replied to her father's taunts to express her remorse for seeking him out, but retorted to his insults by declaring that the Titans are the love and connection that he wasn't able to provide. Raven also revealed that they gave her strength, thereby she is able to cast the Azarathan spell of imprisonment, conjuring her Soul Bird to encompass Trigon on Earth, dragging him into the shadows, then leaving him trapped in an astral prison within a gem left from the larger crystal.
With the threat over, Raven bids her friends farewell, as she believes that it is her obligation to remain in Hell to watch over her father, as Hell is her home. However, Robin cited a Robert Frost poem about home being the place where if one has to go there, then it has to accept them, thus attempting to convince her to return to Earth with the team. The Titans echo the invitation with the promise that she can remain with them on Earth *and* guard Trigon; thus, Raven keeps the gem on her forehead, in a twist on Trigon's claim of being together forever.
Ten days later, the Justice League hold a video conference with the Tee Titans where they reveal that there was no sign of Trigon's manipulations left, and then expressing pride for the Titans. Raven and Damian smiled at each other. While the Titans enjoy pizza courtesy of Cyborg, he asks Raven about the gem, which she wryly remarks with "you can take the girl out of Hell." Raven enjoys time with her found family, while Trigon helplessly rants from within the gem.
Teen Titans: The Judas Contract[]
One year after the Trigon incident, Raven still remains close to Damian. On a mission with newest recruit Terra and guest leadership from Nightwing, the Titans infiltrate a HIVE facility. The team manage to dispatch all of the henchmen, although the commanders of Mother Mayhem and a collaborating scientist escaped. Like the other Titans, Raven is amused as Nightwing clumsily invited Starfire to move in with him, which she accepted.
While still including sardonic remarks, her sense of humor had developed to also be more light-hearted, as she makes a joke to Damian after Starfire beats Nightwing during a sparring session; similarly, when Blue Beetle defeats her in their sparring match, she mentions Trigon's anger about her loss, and makes a wry remark about how she's glad she lost because it upset her demonic parent.
She tries to help the Terra with apparent nightmares, but Terra irritably refused her offer, accusing her of being creepy; when Terra left, Damian mentioned that Terra was untrustworthy, while Raven attempted to be understanding to her by reminding him that Starfire was the leader, not him, and bluntly telling him that they all have complicated pasts.
The Titans follow a lead that allowed them to find the HIVE scientist; after the team defeated the drones, Raven kept him trapped by conjured shadow scissors around his neck to prevent his escape. However, before the interrogation could begin, Deathstroke controlled one of the fallen drones to fire a lethal shot that killed the scientist.
Raven thought of the idea to throw a one year anniversary party for Terra to help her feel more welcome; Terra initially reacted out of paranoia due to her unrevealed double agent status, but eventually the present Titans help her enjoy a supportive, fun, and kind time, despite her still aiming to fulfill Deathstroke's plan, which combined his desire for vengeance against Robin with a contract from Brother Blood, who had a machine constructed to steal the Titans' powers and skills.
Later, Terra ambushed Raven and yielded her to Deathstroke; among the other Titans, except Nightwing, she is trapped in Brother Blood's machine that nullifies their abilities, and allows Blood to transfer powers into himself, however, thanks to uncaptured Nightwing, the machine is destroyed before the process is completed, thereby she retains most of her powers; Blood had managed to acquire enough of their strengths to be a threat, yet his lack of practice and incomplete harvest left him at the disadvantage. After the Titans essentially defeat Blood, she casts a spell to purge the powers from his body, returning the powers back to her and the team, and leaving him helpless and weaker than his original state. Blood's right hand, Mother Mayhem, executed him to spare his eternal life from prison; both are crushed as Terra's emotional breakdown takes down the temple.
Raven and the other Titans escape the temple as Terra, in remorse for her deception, betrayal, and realisation of Deathstroke never caring about her, brings down the entire temple, crushing herself under it. Beast Boy is able to recover her from the rubble, but Terra died from her injuries regardless, although appeared at peace and grateful for the Titans.
After Tara's death, she and the team mourned her and she is seen growing close to Damian. While Damian is dwelling on the discarded mask of his arch-enemy, Deathstroke, she comforts him by bringing him a black Great Dane puppy that he would name Titus.
Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans[]
Raven appears in this movie, where she meets her counterpart from the Go! universe, with her universe named the "dark serious world."
When Go! Trigon consumes Teen Titans Trigon, he evolved into the even larger Hexagon; to counter this power boost, Teen Titans Robin executes the plan to recruit Teen Titans from across the multiverse, and battle against the joined demonic gods. Despite some initial success, Hexagon's power proves too immense to defeat.
Realising a different way, Teen Titans Raven explains that Go! Raven needs to similarly consume her and the other Ravens, to achieve a strength capable of beating their evil fathers, and Go! Raven can accomplish this because her more chaotic animation style allows her to defy physics. With all of the Ravens eaten, Go! Raven evolves into an equally gigantic being called The Unkindness. The Robins destroy the Worlogorg - the multiverse travel-enabling artefact - thus keeping Hexagon from escaping into another universe again.
Eventually, with help from the other multiverse Titans, The Unkindness breaks Hexagon's forehead gemstone, and drags out Go!'s demon; since the demon was all that allowed Teen Titans Trigon to remain in reality, when it is taken, he loses his body, returning to his spirit form that fades into the afterlife, and leaving Go! Trigon in his original state that is essentially too pathetic to be a threat. The Go! Worlogog is used to banish Go! Trigon into a zombie dimension.
With the threat ended, The Unkindness fusion ended, allowing all of the Ravens to return to their normal states, while Go! Raven accepts her demon side back into herself. The remaining Worlogog transports each of the Teen Titan teams back to their home realities.
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War:[]
Raven makes an appearance during the Justice League's meeting to wage war on Darkseid, as the Teen Titans listen in on the meeting via telecommunication at Titans Tower. Raven is afflicted by Trigon's attempt to free himself slightly as Damian checks on her, but she reassured him she was fine, about which he appeared doubtful. A few days later, after the defeat of the Justice League, Darkseid's army of Paradooms, the genetic hybrids of Parademons and Doomsday, raid Earth sent by the New God, and the Teen Titans are violently killed. Raven is among the very few survivors of the attack.
Shortly after the attack, Damian Wayne invited her to join him in leading the League of Assassins, but Raven refused, so Damian departed alone and saddened, though also ignorant of the fact that she refused his invitation because Trigon is threatening harm on Damian in particular, owing to her affection for him. Raven was alone after the death of the Titans. Wanting to end the pain and prevent making the apocalypse worse with her father's release, she tried to kill herself, but was stopped by Superman, recently de-powered by Darkseid, and the two console each other, as he becomes like an adopted father.
Two years later, Raven and Clark Kent, Superman's human identity, locate John Constantine, who is accompanied by a depressed Etrigan, and convince him to join their mission, although Raven is disdainful of him due to his ostensible cowardice in abandoning Zatanna for his own escape; due to the argument, three Parademons locate them and burst into the pub. Raven prepared to attack, but her strength had been so sapped by Trigon that she is helpless, likewise Clark, who had lost his powers thanks to Darkseid's injection of liquid kryptonite. Constantine frustratingly kills two of the creatures, while Etrigan killed the third with a fire breath.
Despite Constantine's own grudge against Clark for the failed attack, he invites him and Raven to join him and Etrigan in his home in the toppled Big Ben tower. Constantine wondered what they wanted, which they reveal it is for him to use a locator spell to find Damian; while Constantine doubts the point of finding Batman's son, he casts the spell. Tracking his location to the League of Assassins base in Nanda Parbat, Raven uses her powers to teleport herself, Clark, Constantine and Etrigan, but she is left severely weakened as Trigon continues to afflict her from the inside.
In the Assassins fortress, ninjas led by Lady Shiva attack to the group due to believing them to be invaders, however, when Raven is about to be hit, their master orders them to stop. Raven reunites with her former teammate, Damian the League's master, who had donned the attire and mantle of Ra's al Ghul. Damian still had Titus, the gift from Raven, though the Great Dane was now clearly full-grown. Seeing Clark, Damian prepared to unsheathe his blade, but stopped when Raven's attempt to stop him ended with her collapse from overexertion, so he gently caught her to prevent her fall. Damian carries her to a barracks, permitting the others follow.
Damian wonders if Raven can be healed, which Constantine confirms it could be done easily by removing Trigon, however, that would unleash the demon upon an already ravaged world. Within the astral realm, Raven repaired the broken magic chain that bound Trigon; she declares that she had the strength to keep him imprisoned, while he angrily bemoans that if she died, he would remain imprisoned forever. Trigon orders his daughter to release him, threatening that if she doesn't, he will escape anyway and kill Damian.
When Raven awakens from her distressing conversation, Damian escorts her and Clark to show that he used the Lazarus Pit to revive Nightwing after his death in the Paradoom attack but it left him in a mentally handicapped and insane state; the revelation is much to Raven's disappointment in Damian, which he accepts, yet earnestly admits Dick was his brother, so he had to try. Clark explains that the brainwashed Batman can be freed by Damian, as Clark himself saw it almost break when he learned of Dick's death. Hesitant, but Damian is convinced to join the mission to try and break Darkseid's programming over Batman, or killing him to spare his father further pain of being used as the conqueror's instrument of evil. Before departing, Damian changed into his Robin uniform.
Raven uses her powers again to transport the group to Metropolis, leaving her sick and weary, thus Damian allows her to lean on him. The group meet with Lois Lane, who has recruited the members of Suicide Squad for their operation. As Raven struggled with pain from her father, Damian asked Squad leader Harley Quinn if there was anywhere they could rest, though she cheekily teases them as she perceived their connection, although since he was serious, he was irritated by her jest; Harley tells Cheetah to escort them to the infirmary. Raven and Damian share a moment alone, where she apologises for her fragile state that he needs to help, noting that he must find her weak, but he instead counters that she is one of the strongest people he knows. Damian also confessed that he asked her to join the League of Assassins with him not for her remarkable powers, but because he had feelings for her, and as such if she refused due to not sharing that connection, then she made the correct choice; Raven, however, herself confesses that the truth was far from that, with the reason being Trigon's desire to kill him, which she couldn't risk after experiencing so much loss already. Therefore they reconcile their feelings for each other as they tenderly held hands. Raven later attends the briefing of the destruction of Apokolips, effortlessly calming Damian when he finds similar faults in the new plan as the original one.
Darkseid had sent colossal devices called Planet Reapers that pierced strategic positions around the Earth for the purpose of harvesting the molten core. The superheroes direct available forces to attack the Reapers, so that the Paradooms will be sent from Apokolips, leaving the dark world less defended. The creatures are successfully lured to the Reapers.
Raven is present when the remaining heroes assault LexCorp Tower to make their way to the boom tube, their only means of traveling to Apokolips. At the entrance of the lab and boom tube control, Lex Luthor in a warsuit halted them. When Damian stabbed the top of Luthor's battle suit, he is knocked down by a painful electrical current, so Raven temporarily loses control and almost kills Luthor, but Clark's words help her regain composure; afterwards Luthor revealed he was the mole, Sleeper, who had aided Lois during the 2 year occupation, with his present resistance serving as superficial evidence of "loyalty" to Darkseid, thus Luthor allowed their access to the top floor's headquarters. Recovered, Damian doubts Luthor's trustworthiness, as he seems to change sides only to benefit himself, and would likely betray them just as easily, although, Luthor refuted the claim.
As all prepare for the upcoming battle, Raven asks Constantine if he has a means of preventing Trigon's escape with him killing her, and the explanation that her death needs to be thorough, and so Constantine reveals that he does have a method with a legendary dagger, but he will not have to as long as Raven continues to remain in control, but she resolves that the potentially ruthless sorcerer must be prepared to kill her to keep Trigon trapped. Raven made the request while away from Damian's earshot, as she knew he would try to prevent her sacrifice.
After Luthor supplies the group with Kryptonite-infused weaponry, Raven departs for Apokolips with Clark in one of Luthor's warsuits, Damian, Constantine, and Etrigan, while the rest stay behind to operate the portals and defend the area. Shortly after arriving at Apokolips, the group is confronted by Darkseid's Furies; members of the Justice League and Starfire who were crippled or killed, but revived, converted into cybernetic and brainwashed soldiers. Starfire fights Raven, who tries to reason with her to no avail. Etrigan sword fought with Wonder Woman, maintaining equal strength, but she managed to overpower and kill him, but to his delight because of a worthy duel. Etrigan's sacrifice allowed enough time for Constantine to gain access to Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth which - due to compatibility with her Amazonian nature - he used to break her brainwashing, thus the freed Diana fights off the Furies, allowing the group make their way to the power generator.
Within the citadel, they learn that the Flash was the source of the planet's power, as a replacement for the reactor destroyed in the raid two years ago; after freeing him, they realise there is nothing to explode to destroy Apokolips. Despite lacking an alternate plan, they opt to keep moving with the hope of an improvised solution. Raven continues to slowly lose her control over Trigon; in a laser rigged hallway, one of the lasers clips Damian's leg, which compels Raven to destroy the hallway, which Trigon encouraged, and carry the group to the throne room - although, her father briefly possesses her to threaten Damian.
The group comes into contact with Cyborg, who is fused with the fortress itself and subservient to Darkseid. After Cyborg is freed of his programming by Constantine, they are confronted by Batman and Darkseid. The brainwashed Batman degrades and rejects Damian as his son; while Raven tries to reassure Damian the words are merely coming from Darkseid, he still begins fighting his father. Batman fights and defeats his son, but before he lands the killing blow, he is freed of his programming as his son's helpless state reminded him of his past, thereby returned to his true self; when Darkseid demands that Batman finish killing his son, the liberated Dark Knight instead throws his son's sword at the New God, stabbing an eye and exploding, yet he remained unharmed.
Disappointed in Batman, Darkseid fires his omega beams, but Damian cuts in front of his father, causing the beams to hit him instead and so he suffers fatal burns. Witnessing this, Raven's emotional stability collapses as she yells for Damian; when losing control of Trigon, she alerted Constantine that he's breaking out, so begged him to kill her. Constantine goes forth with his own contingency plan, using the dagger to pry off Raven's forehead gem, summoning it to his hand, then dropping it to shatter the gem prison under his foot, unleashing Trigon's summoning circle, so Trigon emerges, but in spectral black cloud form; when Constantine offers his own body as a host for Trigon, the demon has other plans, choosing Clark as his host, burning out the liquid kryptonite, restoring the Kryptonian strength, augmented by his own, and killing Constantine by snapping his neck.
Mourning over the loss of Damian, Raven hugged his body; her declaration of love unlocks her true powers that allowed her to revive him and restore herself to full health; he is surprised and grateful that she saved him, to which she kindly repeated his words about needing to try. Constantine is restored to life due to Zatanna and the forces of destiny. Batman has Cyborg project Lois Lane's final message to Clark, which causes him to peer through the possession; when Lois died in the LexCorp Tower self-destructing explosion, the rush of emotions allow Superman to purge Trigon from his body, with the demon trapped in an energy sphere generated by Darkseid.
While Superman battles Darkseid, Cyborg plans to send the heroes to Earth so he can send Apokolips into a void of nothingness, yet it can't be done unless Darkseid is distracted. Not wanting to leave Superman behind, Constantine and Raven come up with the plan to combine their magic to give Trigon a physical form, and he takes over the battle against Darkseid, partly since as an Old God he finds disdain for one who implies superiority as a New God, thus his pride is also at stake. While the heroes are transported to Earth, Raven says goodbye to her father, who thanks her for the gift of fighting Darkseid and tells her to be well.
Back on Earth, the Justice League lament over their countless losses, despite vanquishing Darkseid. Batman announces to the group that despite the Planet Reapers being destroyed, significant damage was done, and the Earth lost 31% of its molten core, compromising the planet's orbit, as well as threatening over a billion more lost from the population before even a temporary solution could be realised. Superman tries to motivate a solution due to their prior successes over impossible odds. However, Constantine decides the only option is for Flash to trigger another Flashpoint, but the speedster is reluctant due to promising his late wife, Iris, he would not repeat such a risk; however, Constantine convinces him that the best option is to reset reality, to undo the deaths and prevent imminent more.
Among the survivors at the base of the ruined Titans Tower, Titus comforted Mera, Starfire is able to keep Nightwing docile on her lap, and Raven and Damian sit close together, with his arm wrapped around her. Feeling that Constantine was correct, Flash runs to reset the timeline, creating a third Flashpoint; as it begins, Raven finally shares her first and last kiss with Damian. The white void encompasses all, as the universe is once more rewritten.
Personality[]
Raven is initially highly introverted - this is due to remorse of her opening a portal to allow her father, Trigon, access to Azarath, making her an unwitting accomplice in his annihilation of the entire realm, causing the deaths of everyone, including her mother, with Raven herself spared because Trigon arrogantly believed she would become his key to enter another dimension. Another reason for her asocial attitude is because of fear of loss; having already suffered the horror of losing her mother and everyone in Azarath, Raven is reluctant to build strong connections for fear of experiencing further loss. Further reasons for her self-isolation is that she felt self-loathing from being Trigon's daughter, thus believing she is unworthy of kindness and consideration, despite desperately wanting it.
In spite of her initial aim to remain isolated, Raven's loneliness drove her to join the Teen Titans. Due to her empathic powers, she is able to understand her team members, thereby is capable of communicating with them in a manner that achieves a sense of amiability, although, while still keeping herself at an emotional distance. Raven found challenges with Damian Wayne and Terra - Damian, due to them being similar people, and such a kindred spirit made her feel uncomfortable at first; and Terra, due to the fact that she was a mole sent by Deathstroke, so Terra kept her distance to avoid being read, which made Raven suspicious, but not judging her due to understanding complex origins because of struggle from her own past.
Raven held a nihilistic view on life because of her father, Trigon, and the chaos he had unleashed upon countless worlds. Although, because of the support she had gained from the Titans, she was able to once again imprison her seemingly almighty father. After Trigon is defeated, Raven is able to move beyond her trauma, thanks to her teammates; she also starts to carry a more optimistic outlook, though still maintaining her generally sober and occasionally deadpan persona. While she initially chose barriers to keep others from getting too close and always kept her hood up, after trapping her father and bonding with her teammates, she would only have her hood up during missions, and left it down in the Tower, and spent more time with the group, reflecting how she could become relaxed due to trust in her friends. She tended to be honest, although she was similar to Damian in that her insecurity generally prevented her from revealing deeper, intimate emotions; although, unlike him, she was more willing to believe in the best of people, such as her sincere attempts to connect to Terra.
However, after the Justice League is defeated by Darkseid, her original negative viewpoint returned, which was made worse by Trigon's prison weakening, during which he made continuous threats against Raven's friends, especially Damian, since she cherished him the most. She reaches her lowest, as she almost commits suicide until stopped by Superman; motivations behind her attempted suicide were her overwhelming despair and to protect Damian from Trigon, thus showing how greatly she valued him. After Darkseid's final defeat, a sense of subdued optimism is restored, but it is tempered by the bitter realism of the Earth's imbalance and then the imminent Flashpoint, which will erase their entire existences, with no certainty of return in the new reality.
Raven's most significant personality shifts were mainly centred around three elements: the evil of Trigon, the support from the Titans, and the harmony with Damian. Trigon's cruelty had numbed Raven to any further emotional stimuli, but thanks to the Titans and Damian in particular, she began to open herself up again. Upon meeting Damian, she starts making wry and witty comments; while she had usually made glib remarks, the frequency of them increased as she grew more comfortable with her team and him. Once seemingly freed from Trigon, the rate of her jocular remarks is increased, as does her connection with Damian grow, as well as her appreciation for her fellow Titans. Despite the initially dysfunctional and abusive manner of Trigon's predominant interactions with her, due to her growth with the Titans and her love with Damian, she was able to move on from her grief.
As Trigon battled Darkseid - out of selfish pride, but still pivotal assistance - Raven was able to make peace with her demonic father, who in turn was able to finally provide kind words due to the "gift" of an opponent as powerful as Darkseid, but also admiration for her strength being capable of halting him, therefore they parted on amiable terms. Although, even before his first expression of kindness, Raven read his emotions while he was imprisoned for five years, which made her realise that despite his malice and cruelty, even he had a small level of redemption in that he did actually care about her.
It is because of her friends and eventual boyfriend that she was able to face every danger without fear; as the Flashpoint commenced, instead of lamenting the loss of the love and belonging she found with her teammates - her found family - she instead kissed with Damian, facing oblivion without fear and full of love.
Quotes[]
| “ | Raven: Everyone needs a home, Damian. You included.. Robin: Thank you for chiming in, witch girl. |
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| ~ Raven's first direct interaction with Robin met with passive aggression |
| “ | It's none of your business. Who are you to judge my life? You have other things to fix here. Just stay away from me, okay? | „ |
| ~ Raven being defensive against Damian due to his prying into her past |
| “ | You may be insufferable, but in your heart, you are a kind and generous soul. | „ |
| ~ Raven to Damian Wayne |
| “ | My only weakness was loving you, hoping I'd be loved in return. But all you were capable of giving was pain. So I ran away. And found friends. Friends I would give my life for. Friends who give me love, and the strength to do this... | „ |
| ~ Raven defying Trigon's assumptions and proclaiming how the Titans gave her the family and strength that he couldn't or wouldn't, as she prepares the spell to defeat him. |
| “ | "You can take the girl out of Hell" | „ |
| ~ Raven's dark sense of humor about imprisoning her father, Trigon |
| “ | Guess we know who's taking out the garbage at the new place. | „ |
| ~ Raven making a joke to Damian about Nightwing and Starfire's sparring result |
| “ | I told you he was a waste of time. All cowards are. | „ |
| ~ Raven expressing harsh condemnation of Constantine due to his seemingly selfish action of abandoning Zatanna. |
| “ | Oh, for f**k's sake! | „ |
| ~ Raven's annoyance at Constantine's dawdling preparation for teleportation, thus does it herself |
| “ | Trigon: Ungrateful witch. I will exact vengeance on you, daughter. Raven: No, never. |
„ |
| ~ Raven restraining Trigon, but unnerved when he threatens the life of Damian Wayne |
| “ | Batman cares about you. Even awful parents care about their kids. I should know. | „ |
| ~ Raven trying to convince Damian that his father - even brainwashed - could be reached by him |
| “ | Raven: You used a Lazarus Pit! You promised you wouldn't. Damian Wayne: I had to take the chance... He was my brother. |
„ |
| ~ Raven expressing disappointment that Damian used a Lazarus Pit to revive Dick Grayson, as they were made by her evil father |
| “ | Raven: You probably think I'm weak. Damian Wayne: Raven, you're one of the strongest people I know. |
„ |
| ~ Raven believing that Damian deemed her weak, only to be reassured about his belief in her strength |
| “ | Robin: So, how did you end up with Kent? Raven: You left and I was alone. I just wanted to end the pain. |
„ |
| ~ Raven confessing that she became Clark Kent's ward because he saved her from suicide. |
| “ | Raven: I'm sorry for not coming with you. Damian Wayne: When I asked you to join me in leading the League of Assassins, I wasn't doing it because you're a good fighter. I... I had feelings for you. If you didn't, you made the right decision. |
„ |
| ~ In a rare moment of vulnerability, Damian confessed about his love for Raven, who reciprocated them |
| “ | No one will mourn you! | „ |
| ~ Raven provoked to almost kill Luthor due to him badly hurting Damian Wayne |
| “ | Raven: You'll take care of it, won't you? If my father takes control. Constantine: You want me to add your soul to my ledger? |
„ |
| ~ Raven convincing Constantine to find a way to kill her if Trigon's escape begins |
| “ | Robin: Raven! Raven/Trigon: I will kill you, boy! |
„ |
| ~ A darkly comedic moment as Trigon briefly possessed his daughter to threaten her boyfriend |
| “ | Robin: You brought me back. Raven: I had to take the chance. |
„ |
| ~ Upon her transformation into White Raven, she revived her beloved Damian |
| “ | Trigon: What a wonderful gift, daughter. Be well. Raven: Goodbye, father. |
„ |
| ~ After keeping him at bay for half a decade, reaching a power beyond his, and helping create a body for him to fight against Darkseid, Trigon expressed the first and only positive interaction with his daughter, Raven, who similarly bids farewell with sentiment despite everything he had done. |
Trivia[]
- She is the most powerful member on the team due to her half-demon biology and heritage.
- Normally Raven and Starfire are relatively close in age, but in the DCAMU, Starfire is an adult (20's, possibly early 30's), whereas Raven is a teenager around 14-16, and is presumably around 18 in Apokolips War.
- Raven having an especially close relationship with a Robin isn't unprecedented, as in Teen Titans (2003) Raven seems to bond closest to Robin, particularly during the Trigon arc in season 4 as he acted as her primary emotional support, after which the usually emotionally restrained Raven hugs Robin. While that Robin was Dick Grayson, in terms of personality, the 2003 Grayson is fairly close to most iterations of Damian Wayne.
- She and Damian Wayne had a non-speaking cameo in Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths - Part Three as the final moments of their universe were shown by Constantine in his memories to Tomorrowverse Batman.
