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|image = [[File:Raven_render.png|thumb]]
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Raven_render.png|Hooded
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Raven teen titans.png|Unhooded
|fullname = Raven
 
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|alias = *Rachel Roth
 
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|fullname = Rachel Roth
*The Gem
 
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|alias = {{Scroll box|Raven<br>
* The Portal
 
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The Gem<br>
*Rae/Ray
 
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The Portal<br>
*Witch (by Terra)
 
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Rae/Ray<br>
*Rae-Rae (by Mother Mae-Eye)
 
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Witch <small>(by Terra)</small><br>
*Sunshine (by Val-Yor)
 
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Rae-Rae <small>(by Mother Mae-Eye)</small><br>
*Henchy (as a self-thought up villain alias in "Revved Up" by Starfire)
 
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Sunshine <small>(by Val-Yor)</small><br>
*Mistress of Magic
 
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Henchy <small>(as a self-thought up villain alias in "Revved Up"; by Starfire)</small><br>
|origin = ''Original Teen Titans''
 
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Mistress of Magic <small>(by Control Freak)</small><br>
|occupation = Teen Titan
 
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The Blue Girl <small>(by Melvin)</small><br>
|skills = *Vast Magical Power
 
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[[Starfire (Teen Titans)|Starfire]] <small>(when she's in Starfire's body)</small>}}
*Astral Projection
 
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|origin = ''{{w|Teen Titans (TV series)|Teen Titans}}'' <small>(2003)</small>
*Force-Field Generation/Creation
 
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|occupation = Member of [[Teen Titans (2003)|Teen Titans]]<br>
*Empathy
 
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Superheroine
*Levitation
 
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|skills = {{Scroll box|Vast Magical Powers<br>
*Umbrakinesis
 
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Astral projection<br>
*Flight/Levitation
 
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Force-Field Generation/Creation<br>
*Poisonic Abilities
 
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Empathy<br>
*Advanced Telekinesis
 
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Levitation<br>
*Telepathy
 
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Umbrakinesis<br>
*Thought Projection
 
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Flight/Levitation<br>
*Spiritual Powers
 
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Poisonic Abilities<br>
*Healing Magic
 
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Advanced Telekinesis<br>
*Mediumship
 
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Telepathy<br>
*Soul-Sealing
 
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Thought Projection<br>
*Spell-Casting
 
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Spiritual Powers<br>
*Telekinetic Spells
 
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Healing Magic<br>
*Pseudo-Intangibility
 
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Mediumship<br>
*Incredible Knowledge
 
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Soul-Sealing<br>
*Combat Proficiency
 
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Spell-Casting<br>
*Necromancy
 
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Telekinetic Spells<br>
|hobby = *Meditating<br>
 
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Pseudo-Intangibility<br>
*Reading
 
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Genius-level intelligence<br>
|goals = *Make up for her destiny to destroy the world (succeeded)<br>
 
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Combat proficiency<br>
*Keep Earth safe from Trigon's arrival (succeeded)<br>
 
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Necromancy<br>
*Protect her friends
 
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Starbolts <small>(when in Starfire's body)</small>}}
|family = *[[w:c:villains:Trigon (Teen Titans)|Trigon]] (Father; Deceased)<br>
 
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|hobby = Meditating.<br>
*Arella (Azarathian Mother)<br>
 
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Reading.<br>
*Monks Of Azarath (Guardians/Caretakers)<br>
 
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Being with her friends.
*Maiden and Bedford (Aunt and Uncle)
 
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|goals = Make up for her destiny to destroy the world.<br>
|friends = *[[Beast Boy (Teen Titans 2003)|Beast Boy]]<br>
 
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Keep Earth safe from Trigon's arrival.<br>
*[[Starfire (Teen Titans 2003)|Starfire]]<br>
 
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Protect her friends and Jump City from danger.<br>
*[[Cyborg (Teen Titans 2003)|Cyborg]]<br>
 
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Defeat the Brotherhood of Evil <small>(all succeeded)</small>.
*[[Robin (Teen Titans)|Robin]]<br>
 
*[[Jinx (Teen Titans)|Jinx]]<br>
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|family = [[w:c:villains:Trigon (Teen Titans)|Trigon]] <small>(father)</small><br>
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[[Arella Roth]] <small>(mother)</small>
*[[Jericho (Teen Titans 2003)|Jericho]]<br>
 
*[[Terra (Teen Titans 2003)|Terra]]<br>
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|friends = {{Scroll box|[[Teen Titans (2003)|Teen Titans (2003)]]<br>
*[[Aqualad (Teen Titans 2003)|Aqualad]]<br>
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*[[Beast Boy (Teen Titans)|Beast Boy]] <small>(close friend and teammate)</small><br>
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*[[Starfire (Teen Titans)|Starfire]] <small>(best friend and teammate)</small><br>
*[[Shallas]]<br>
 
*[[Melvin (Teen Titans)|Melvin]]<br>
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*[[Cyborg (Teen Titans)|Cyborg]] <small>(teammate)</small><br>
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*[[Robin (Teen Titans)|Robin]] <small>(close friend and teammate)</small><br>
*[[Timmy Tantrum]]<br>
 
*[[Teether]]<br>
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[[Terra (Teen Titans)|Terra]]<br>
*[[Bobby (Teen Titans)|Bobby]]
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[[Speedy (Teen Titans)|Speedy]]<br>
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[[Bumblebee (Teen Titans)|Bumblebee]]<br>
|enemies = *Trigon<br>
 
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[[Aqualad (Teen Titans)|Aqualad]]<br>
*Slade<br>
 
*The H.I.V.E. Academy<br>
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[[Más y Menos]]<br>
*Terra (formerly)<br>
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[[Hot Spot]]<br>
*Control Freak<br>
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[[Mento]]<br>
*Malchior<br>
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[[Elasti-Girl]]<br>
*The Puppet King<br>
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[[Robot Man]]<br>
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[[w:c:dc:Lawrence Trainor (Teen Titans TV Series)|Negative Man]]<br>
*Jinx (formerly)
 
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[[Jericho (Teen Titans)|Jericho]]<br>
|type of hero = Powerful Demonic Sorcerer}}
 
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[[Kid Flash (Teen Titans)|Kid Flash]]<br>
{{Quote|You may have created me, but you were never my father. Fathers are kind. Fathers protect you. Fathers raise you. I was protected by the monks of Azarath. I was raised by my friends. They are my family, this is my home, and you are NOT welcome here! Azarath Metrion ZINTHOS!|Raven, as she denounces Trigon as her father while proceeding to completely destroy him.}}
 
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[[Thunder (Teen Titans)|Thunder]]<br>
'''Raven''' is one of the five main protagonists of the 2003 animated series ''Teen Titans ''and the movies'' Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo ''and'' Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans.'' She is a half-demon, half-human hybrid from the inter-dimensional world Azarath, one of the five founding members of the [[Teen Titans]], and the daughter of Trigon the Terrible. Initially, she is an aloof ally to the Titans, only with them because she has nowhere else to go. Overtime, however, she starts to open up to them, especially [[Starfire (Teen Titans 2003)|Starfire]] and [[Beast Boy (Teen Titans 2003)|Beast Boy]], being lifelong best friends with the former and having an implied crush on the latter.
 
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[[Lighting]]<br>
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[[Kole]]<br>
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[[Gnarrk]]<br>
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[[Red Star (Teen Titans)|Red Star]]<br>
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[[Melvin (Teen Titans)|Melvin]]<br>
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[[Timmy Tantrum]]<br>
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[[Teether]]<br>
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[[w:c:dc:Bobby (Teen Titans TV Series)|Bobby]]<br>
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[[Herald]]<br>
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[[Argent (Teen Titans)|Argent]]<br>
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[[Pantha]]<br>
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[[Wildebeest]]<br>
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[[Killowat]]<br>
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[[Tramm]]<br>
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[[Jinx (Teen Titans)|Jinx]]<br>
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[[Bushido]]<br>
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'''Go! counterparts:'''<br>
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[[Teen Titans (Teen Titans Go!)|Teen Titans (TTG!)]]<br>
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*[[Robin (Teen Titans Go!)|Robin]]<br>
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*[[Cyborg (Teen Titans Go!)|Cyborg]]<br>
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*[[Raven (Teen Titans Go!)|Raven]]<br>
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*[[Beast Boy (Teen Titans Go!)|Beast Boy]]<br>
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*[[Starfire (Teen Titans Go!)|Starfire]]<br>
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'''Other counterparts'''<br>
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[[Teen Titans (DC Animated Movie Universe)|Teen Titans (DCAMU)]]<br>
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*[[Nightwing (DC Animated Movie Universe)]]<br>
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*[[Starfire (DC Animated Movie Universe)]]<br>
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*[[Raven (DC Animated Movie Universe)]]<br>
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*[[Cyborg (DC Animated Movie Universe)]]<br>
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*[[Beast Boy (DC Animated Movie Universe)]]<br>
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[[Teen Titans (DC)|Teen Titans (Prime Earth)]]<br>
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*[[Nightwing (DC)|Nightwing/Robin (DC)]]<br>
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*[[Starfire (DC)]]<br>
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*[[Raven (DC)]]<br>
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*[[Cyborg (DC)]]<br>
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*[[Beast Boy (DC)]]}}
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|enemies = {{Scroll box|[[w:c:villains:Slade (Teen Titans)|Slade]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Terra (Teen Titans)|Terra]] <small>(formerly)</small><br>
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[[w:c:villains:Red X|Red X]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Trigon (Teen Titans)|Trigon (OG)]] <small>(archenemy)</small><br>
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[[w:c:villains:Trigon (Teen Titans Go!)|Trigon (TTG!)]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Brother Blood (Teen Titans)|Brother Blood]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Kotarou|Kotarou]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Uehara Daizo|Uehara Daizo]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Locrix|Locrix]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Cironielian Chrysalis Eater|Cironielian Chrysalis Eater]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Mother Mae-Eye (Teen Titans)|Mother Mae-Eye]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Thunder & Lightning (DC)|Thunder and Lightning]] <small>(formerly)</small><br>
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[[w:c:villains:Jinx (Teen Titans)|Jinx]] <small>(formerly)</small><br>
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[[w:c:villains:General Immortus|General Immortus]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Monsieur Mallah (Teen Titans)|Monsieur Mallah]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:The Brain (Teen Titans)|The Brain]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Blackfire (Teen Titans)|Blackfire]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Mammoth (Teen Titans)|Mammoth]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Gizmo (Teen Titans)|Gizmo]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Billy Numerous (Teen Titans)|Billy Numerous]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Dr. Light (Teen Titans)|Dr. Light]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Cinderblock (Teen Titans)|Cinderblock]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Madame Rouge (Teen Titans)|Madame Rouge]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Control Freak (Teen Titans)|Control Freak]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Puppet King|The Puppet King]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Killer Moth (Teen Titans)|Killer Moth]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Mad Mod (Teen Titans)|Mad Mod]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Mumbo Jumbo (Teen Titans)|Mumbo Jumbo]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Plasmus (Teen Titans)|Plasmus]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Overload (Teen Titans)|Overload]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Kyd Wykkyd|Kyd Wykkyd]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:See-More (Teen Titans)|See-More]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Fang (Teen Titans)|Fang]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Kitten|Kitten]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Adonis (Teen Titans)|Adonis]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Johnny Rancid|Johnny Rancid]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Malchior|Malchior]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Master of Games|Master of Games]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Glgrdsklechhh|Glgrdsklechhh]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Kardiak|Kardiak]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:White Monster (Teen Titans)|White Monster]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Atlas (Teen Titans)|Atlas]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Radiation Creature|Radiation Creature]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Professor Chang|Professor Chang]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Punk Rocket|Punk Rocket]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Soto (Teen Titans)|Soto]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Space Monster (Teen Titans)|Space Monster]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Katarou|Katarou]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Nya-Nya|Nya-Nya]]<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Trogaar|Trogaar]]<br>
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Psimon<br>
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XL Terrestrial<br>
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Sammy<br>
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Cash<br>
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[[w:c:villains:Trident (Teen Titans)|Trident]]}}
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|type of hero = Nihilistic Hybrid}} {{Quote|You may have created me, but you were never my father. (Trigon: Wretched insignificant--ARRGH!) Fathers are kind. Fathers protect you. Fathers raise you. I was protected by the monks of Azarath. I was raised by my friends. They are my family, this is my home, and you are NOT welcome here! Azarath Metrion ZINTHOS!|Raven, as she denounces Trigon as her father while proceeding to completely destroying him.[[File:Raven's speech to Trigon.mp3|noicon|300px|right]]}}
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{{Quote|Evil beware, we have waffles.|Raven's famous line.[[File:wegotwaffles.mp3|noicon|300px|right]]}}
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{{Quote|Azarath. Metrion. Zinthos.|Raven's catchphrase.}}
   
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'''Rachel Roth''', also known as '''Raven''', is one of the five titular main characters of the {{w|Cartoon Network}} TV series ''{{w|Teen Titans (TV series)|Teen Titans}}'', its 2006 series finale movie, ''{{w|Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo|Trouble in Tokyo}}'', and the deuteragonist of the 2019 direct-to-video crossover film, ''{{w|Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans}}''.
She is one of the tetartagonists in Season 1 and Season 3, the deuteragonist in Season 2, the main protagonist in Season 4, and the tritagonist in Season 5.
 
   
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She is a half-demon, half-human hybrid from the inter-dimensional world Azarath, one of the five founding members of the [[Teen Titans]], and the daughter of Trigon the Terrible. Initially, she is an aloof ally to the Titans, only with them because she has nowhere else to go. Overtime, however, she starts to open up to them, especially [[Starfire (Teen Titans)|Starfire]] and [[Beast Boy (Teen Titans)|Beast Boy]], being lifelong best friends with the former and having an implied crush on the latter.
She is voiced by Tara Strong, who also voices her own [[Raven (DC Super Hero Girls)|2015]] & [[Raven (Teen Titans Go!)|reboot incarnations]], [[Ashi (Samurai Jack)|Ashi]], [[Batgirl]], [[Timmy Turner|Timmy Turner,]] [[Ben Tennyson]], [[Talwyn Apogee]], [[UniKitty|Unikitty]], [[Penny Gadget]], [[Melody (Disney)|Princess Melody]], [[Juliet Starling]], [[Twilight Sparkle]], etc.
 
   
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She is voiced by {{w|Tara Strong}}, who also voices her own [[Raven (DC Super Hero Girls)|2015]] & [[Raven (Teen Titans Go!)|reboot incarnations]], [[Ashi (Samurai Jack)|Ashi]] in ''Samurai Jack'', [[Batgirl (Batman: The Killing Joke)|Batgirl]] in ''Batman: The Killing Joke'', [[Timmy Turner|Timmy Turner]] and [[Poof]] in ''The Fairly OddParents'', [[Bubbles (The Powerpuff Girls)|Bubbles]] in the ''Powerpuff Girls'', and [[Ben Tennyson (Ben 10)|Ben Tennyson]] in the ''Ben 10'' series.
==Character History==
 
Arella, Raven's mother, was chosen to become the bride of the demonic Trigon. Abandoned by the demon rather than her becoming his queen, Arella was bent on suicide (while carrying Raven) when she was taken in by the pacifistic disciples of Temple Azarath, a group who had centuries earlier forsaken life on Earth to pursue their own nonviolent lifestyle.
 
   
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==Overview==
In their inter-dimensional world, Raven, Arella's daughter by Trigon, was born. Fearing that the child would bring evil among them, Juris, a magistrate of Azarath, attempted to cast the infant Raven into Limbo, only to be destroyed himself. Azar, the spiritual leader of the temple, then took the young Raven under her personal tutelage, instructing her in the truth of her parentage, and in pacifism, meditation, and the submergence of her emotions to resist Trigon's influence, while perfecting her powers of teleportation, astral projection, and empathic healing.
 
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Raven is the half-human daughter of Arella Roth, a human woman who managed to find her way to the other dimension of Azarath/a native of Azarath and Trigon the Terrible, a dread and powerful demon lord who intended to use his daughter to open a portal that would enable him to enslave Earth. As a result of her race, Raven has powerful telepathic and psychokinetic abilities that are destabilized by her emotional level. If she fails to keep her negative emotions tightly in check, her psychic power runs rampant, breaking and destroying her surroundings until she calms down. Presumably due to her birthplace, she is also versed in a wide variety of occult lore and a skilled practitioner of magic. She also has the power to astral project, dispatching her soul from her body to teleport herself or others, and to heal, though it's left unclear if these are Psychic Powers innate to her or mystical powers she has learned from her studies.
   
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==Appearance==
Later, after Azar's death (in which she entered another plane of existence), when Raven was plagued by prophetic dreams of Trigon and, defying her teachers, she confronted her demon father in Limbo at his bidding. Trigon spared her and Arella after satisfying himself that, upon his return when she reached adulthood, he could seduce Raven into becoming his ally. When Raven turned 16/18th birthday, she sensed Trigon's power returning and fled to Earth.
 
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Raven keeps a dark and mysterious appearance throughout the series. She is very slender, with pale gray skin, purple eyes, and somewhat thick black eyebrows. She has straight, angled, purple hair and a prominent widow's peak. She also has a red gemstone outlined in black located in the center of her forehead (or her "Ajna chakra", as Blackfire puts it). Raven, being half-demon, has used her demonic appearances on several occasions, though often the use of her demon form causes her to lose control. When Raven is in her 'demonic' state, a second pair of eyes appear where her eyebrows are.
   
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Her superhero outfit primarily consists of her favorite color, navy blue. She usually wears a blue hooded cloak, matching ruffled ankle-boots with gray soles, and a black long-sleeved legless leotard with blue cuffs. Her cloak is decorated with a round, red jewel (similar to a brooch), which helps keep the cloak shut. It covers her T-communicator and it is fixed to beep/glow when there is trouble, as seen in some episodes. Occasionally, the silhouette of a raven head appears inside the jewel. She also wears a thin, gold belt with decorated with several of the same type of jewel.
She arrived at Jump City, where she met several super-powered youths fighting a rampaging alien girl. Raven managed to discern the girl's true reason for her demolition work and convinced the others into a more peaceful approach, which won them the alien's friendship. Despite Raven's obvious insecurity, the others invited her to join them in defeating the truly hostile aliens the Gordanians, who had attempted to enslave the girl and her presence proved ultimately essential to the motley crew's triumph over the Gordanians. Afterward, the group decided to stay together and formed the original Teen Titans.
 
   
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==Personality==
Though Raven, still feeling alienated from her new friends, remained distant to them, the other Titans soon came to learn more about her origins. First, Beast Boy and Cyborg inadvertently ended up stranded inside Raven's own mind, where they met the personifications of her separated emotional aspects and also encountered and fought the manifestation of Trigon's heritage inside her. Soon afterward, a backfired plot by the Puppet King left Raven and Starfire stuck in each other's body, creating a new sense of empathy between the girls. Finally, when Robin was haunted by a drug-induced hallucination of his enemy Slade, Raven linked with his mind and saw glimpses of Robin's past, including his initiation by Batman and the death of his parents.
 
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Because of her background and powers, Raven is a solitary, quiet individual who prefers to avoid interacting with others much. She displays no emotion; knowing when she does it causes her power to go haywire and is normally very serious which counteracts with people like Beast Boy and Cyborg's upbeat and energetic demeanor. She rarely speaks, and when she does, it is a biting, acerbic wit at best and condescendingly scathing at worst.
   
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One of Raven's notable traits is her constant broodiness and her tendency to almost never smile. She much more prefers to meditate in silence and can be cold to people like Terra or even her fellow Titans nor does she divulge about her past which they deem her as "creepy". However in later episodes she becomes more open with people she trusts such as Robin. Because of her purpose to bring her father to Earth, Raven can be intensely self-loathing and more than often isolates herself from the rest of the Titans. She also opens up to people whom she thinks to understand her such as Malchior, a character from an enchanted book who was, in reality, corrupting her with dark magic.
Raven helped the Titans for years, working alongside the other four to protect Jump City from villainous menaces. She was consistently invaluable to their success. Eventually, however, Raven's past caught up with her: On her birthday, Slade (who had been presumed dead) reappeared, wielding new powers and marked with a symbol which Raven could not fail to recognize. Slade deliberately led the Titans to the place where Raven's true destiny was to be fulfilled to serve as a living portal for Trigon to conquer Earth. Seeing no other choice, Raven finally told her teammates the truth about her past — but instead of being rejected, the other Titans remained with her and took the greatest pains to prevent this from happening.
 
   
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While inside her mind, Beast Boy and Cyborg discover Raven of her that she normally keeps hidden from the other Titans; despite her insistence otherwise, she actually does think Beast Boy is pretty funny, even if she doesn't laugh out loud at his jokes, though she also secretly worries that he doesn't like her. Additionally, although she insults them frequently, Raven is in fact very regretful and apologetic about every little thing she said to Cyborg and Beast Boy, to the point that she spends an entire journey through a maze apologizing for all of it (much to their annoyance).
Slade and an army of Trigon's fire demons attacked Titans Tower to fetch Raven. The Titans decided to fight him, but Raven, unwilling to see her dearest friends hurt on her behalf, knocked them out of the fight and secretly imbued them with some of her powers to protect them from the apocalypse to come. When the portal was opened with her powers, Raven was apparently consumed, but in fact, her human half remained alive in Trigon's domain, regressed to childhood and left powerless.
 
Left in a world turned into a living horror, the Titans still refused to give up without a fight. With some help from Slade, (who had been betrayed by Trigon) Robin made his way to Trigon's underworld, found Raven and took her back to the surface, even though she was spiritually shattered by her role in the shaping of events. Finally, the Titans and Slade faced Trigon in a final onslaught. But even as they were struck down, Raven realized that all was not hopeless, and this realization sparked a new hope within her soul, allowing her to regain full maturity along with her powers. Under righteous wrath, she used the sum of her powers to destroy Trigon, reverting Earth back to the way it was and finally ridding herself from the last vestiges of her dreaded heritage.
 
   
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==Abilities==
=== Demon Family ===
 
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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.
   
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Raven is able to conjure and project darkness from her body, usually in the guise of her soul-self, an astral projection in the shape of a shadowy bird that she can use to see through and manipulate objects. Though the soul-self is normally intangible, it can be disrupted by magic and concentrated sound. Due to the time she spent with her father Trigon, Raven has gained a vast array of knowledge over the mystical arts, enabling her to cast magical spells for a variety of effects, such as healing, pyrokinesis, and advanced energy wielding capabilities.
As Raven has her own family, each one of them is known to be the member of Raven's family tree:
 
   
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Raven is able to teleport herself and others with herself to different locations, which is taxing her more than her other abilities. She can also use this power to travel interdimensional with relative ease.
*"[[w:c:villains:Trigon (Teen Titans)|Trigon]]": Raven's terrifying demonic father, who she was associated with. Even though they don't get along, Raven still hates Trigon and his personality. Just once, Raven never accepts as her father.
 
   
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In the episode "Switched", she uses starbolts when she's in Starfire's body.
*"Arella": Raven's mother, who she only loves. She loves her, because of her goodness.
 
   
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==External Links==
*"Monks of Azarath": The caretakers of, Raven.
 
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*{{Wiki|Raven|Raven|teentitans|Teen Titans}}
 
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*{{Wiki|Raven (Teen Titans)|Raven|inconsistently-admirable|Inconsistently Admirable}}
*"Maiden": Raven's aunt, her mother said that Maiden is in the boarding treasure as a treasurer. She was only mentioned, Maiden was Raven's closest aunt who Raven is also associated with.
 
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*{{Wiki|Raven (Teen Titans TV Series)|Raven|dc|DC Database}}
 
*"Bedford": Raven's uncle, her mother mentioned that he is also in boarding officers as a secretary. Raven may not see him, but her mother still mentioned it.
 
 
== Appearance ==
 
Raven's appearance is seen as dark and mysterious throughout the series. Despite her withdrawn nature, her outfit isn't particularly conservative, as it leaves the entirety of both her legs exposed. It is mostly made up of her favorite color, dark blue/indigo. She usually wears a blue cloak with a hood, with matching blue ruffled ankle-boots with blackish-grey soles, with a one-piece bathing suit-like long-sleeved shirt that is blueish-black with cuffs at her wrists of the same blue of her cloak. On her cloak, she has a circular black/red jewel set in a gold plate that attaches the whole thing together; it covers her T-communicator and it's fixed to beep/glow when there is trouble as seen in some episodes. The jewel also sometimes has a raven head shape in the jewel. Around her waist, she has a red and gold belt with the same jewels around it, while her legs are exposed. The belt ties at the back like a cord. Her hair and eyes are violet, and as seen in the episode "Birthmark", Raven cuts off the extra hair that she had grown. In "Switched", Raven despises Starfire's long hair, which may conclude why she likes to keep it short. She has a red and black bindi on her forehead, that she was born with. She has very pale, almost gray skin, which makes her appearance somewhat demonic.
 
 
Raven, being half-demon, has used her demonic appearances on several occasions, though often the use of her demon form causes her to lose control. Raven's demonic form has proven effective in getting results, such as bringing about Doctor Light's swift surrender (twice), and scaring Gizmo in Crash to get him to repair a virus-contaminated Cyborg.
 
 
When Raven wears Robin's uniform in The Quest, she fits it just fine, as she is the closest to Robin's height and build.. When Mother Mae-Eye infiltrates the Tower and puts the Titans under her control, she turns Raven's blue cloak into a yellow Shirley Temple dress with matching bows in her hair, but her boots remain blue in color. Mother Mae-Eye then says "Just because you're evil on the inside doesn't mean you can't look pretty on the outside." This outfit puts her at a disadvantage fighting Jinx, contributing to the team's defeat by the H.I.V.E. Five. However, despite her demonic appearance, she is shown to be quite attractive and beautiful, as Adonis took a liking to her, and in the Teen Titans Go! issue "The Great Race", Kid Flash considers her pretty and stops in the middle of the race to flirt with her. When she is in 'demonic' state a second pair of eyes appear where her eyebrows are.
 
 
===Cloaked White Raven===
 
White Raven is a special form that Raven has assumed under unique circumstances, four times throughout the series for multiple reasons. White Raven is Raven's most primal, significant and powerful version of herself, mostly shown as a symbol of her highest hidden power and her inner purity to fight, and thus free herself of the consuming evil influenced by her interdimensional-demon father.
 
 
The first instance occurs within the multidimensional realm of Raven's own mind, an ethereal place where Raven's separate emotional forms are capable of independently existing. Raven's emotions unbalanced and her rage unleashed from within during the Titans' brief but powerful clash with Doctor Light. The second when she was being tutored by Malchior, unknowingly being taught dark magic. The third instance occurred whilst and after she defeated her father and freed herself from his control. The fourth time actually occurred in the Titans Go! comics wherein Beast Boy (whilst babysitting Melvin, Timmy, and Teether) breaks her mirror and causes the several aspects of her personality to manifest in the real world; for a time Red Raven (who represents her father's influence and her own anger) is separate from the rest of Raven, and to symbolize her cheerfulness she dons a white cloak and leotard instead.
 
 
== Personality ==
 
Raven is emotionally unattached, apathetic and anti-social but is heroic and selfless like all Teen Titans. She displays no emotion; knowing when she does it causes her power to go crazy and is normally very serious which counteracts with people like Beast Boy and Cyborg's upbeat and energetic demeanor. She rarely talks, and when she does, her comments are bitterly sarcastic at best and condescendingly scathing at worst.
 
 
One of Raven's defining traits is her constant broodiness and her tendency to almost never smile. She much more prefers to meditate in silence and can be cold to people like Terra or even her fellow Titans nor does she divulge about her past which makes her appear "creepy" however in later seasons she becomes more open with people she trusts such as Robin. Because of her purpose to bring her father to Earth, Raven can be intensely self-loathing and more than often isolates herself from the rest of the Titans. She also opens up to people whom she thinks to understand her such as Malchior, a character from an enchanted book who was, in reality, corrupting her with dark magic.
 
 
Though Raven doesn't give in to emotion easily she is not emotionless; rather, she has to stay that way to keep her powers under control, and even tells Starfire at one point that she can't afford to feel anything. She also makes it perfectly clear she has a bad side, and whenever this occurs her cloak rises in height and only her mouth can be seen whereas her eyes turn into four and become red with her voice matched with an echo wrapped in a sinister undertone. Raven becomes considerably darker after this transformation, actually coming close to killing Doctor Light once she was provoked by the latter. In the same episode, Cyborg and Beast Boy discover that Raven's emotions are fractured, her rage is personified by the form of her father, Trigon.
 
 
While inside her mind, Beast Boy and Cyborg discover Raven of her that she normally keeps hidden from the other Titans; despite her insistence otherwise, she actually does think Beast Boy is pretty funny, even if she doesn't laugh out loud at his jokes, though she also secretly worries that he doesn't like her. Additionally, although she insults them frequently, Raven is in fact very regretful and apologetic about every little thing she said to Cyborg and Beast Boy, to the point that she spends an entire journey through a maze apologizing for all of it (much to their annoyance).
 
   
 
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Heroine Overview

You may have created me, but you were never my father. (Trigon: Wretched insignificant--ARRGH!) Fathers are kind. Fathers protect you. Fathers raise you. I was protected by the monks of Azarath. I was raised by my friends. They are my family, this is my home, and you are NOT welcome here! Azarath Metrion ZINTHOS!
~ Raven, as she denounces Trigon as her father while proceeding to completely destroying him.
Evil beware, we have waffles.
~ Raven's famous line.
Azarath. Metrion. Zinthos.
~ Raven's catchphrase.

Rachel Roth, also known as Raven, is one of the five titular main characters of the Cartoon Network TV series Teen Titans, its 2006 series finale movie, Trouble in Tokyo, and the deuteragonist of the 2019 direct-to-video crossover film, Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans.

She is a half-demon, half-human hybrid from the inter-dimensional world Azarath, one of the five founding members of the Teen Titans, and the daughter of Trigon the Terrible. Initially, she is an aloof ally to the Titans, only with them because she has nowhere else to go. Overtime, however, she starts to open up to them, especially Starfire and Beast Boy, being lifelong best friends with the former and having an implied crush on the latter.

She is voiced by Tara Strong, who also voices her own 2015 & reboot incarnations, Ashi in Samurai Jack, Batgirl in Batman: The Killing Joke, Timmy Turner and Poof in The Fairly OddParents, Bubbles in the Powerpuff Girls, and Ben Tennyson in the Ben 10 series.

Overview

Raven is the half-human daughter of Arella Roth, a human woman who managed to find her way to the other dimension of Azarath/a native of Azarath and Trigon the Terrible, a dread and powerful demon lord who intended to use his daughter to open a portal that would enable him to enslave Earth. As a result of her race, Raven has powerful telepathic and psychokinetic abilities that are destabilized by her emotional level. If she fails to keep her negative emotions tightly in check, her psychic power runs rampant, breaking and destroying her surroundings until she calms down. Presumably due to her birthplace, she is also versed in a wide variety of occult lore and a skilled practitioner of magic. She also has the power to astral project, dispatching her soul from her body to teleport herself or others, and to heal, though it's left unclear if these are Psychic Powers innate to her or mystical powers she has learned from her studies.

Appearance

Raven keeps a dark and mysterious appearance throughout the series. She is very slender, with pale gray skin, purple eyes, and somewhat thick black eyebrows. She has straight, angled, purple hair and a prominent widow's peak. She also has a red gemstone outlined in black located in the center of her forehead (or her "Ajna chakra", as Blackfire puts it). Raven, being half-demon, has used her demonic appearances on several occasions, though often the use of her demon form causes her to lose control. When Raven is in her 'demonic' state, a second pair of eyes appear where her eyebrows are.

Her superhero outfit primarily consists of her favorite color, navy blue. She usually wears a blue hooded cloak, matching ruffled ankle-boots with gray soles, and a black long-sleeved legless leotard with blue cuffs. Her cloak is decorated with a round, red jewel (similar to a brooch), which helps keep the cloak shut. It covers her T-communicator and it is fixed to beep/glow when there is trouble, as seen in some episodes. Occasionally, the silhouette of a raven head appears inside the jewel. She also wears a thin, gold belt with decorated with several of the same type of jewel.

Personality

Because of her background and powers, Raven is a solitary, quiet individual who prefers to avoid interacting with others much. She displays no emotion; knowing when she does it causes her power to go haywire and is normally very serious which counteracts with people like Beast Boy and Cyborg's upbeat and energetic demeanor. She rarely speaks, and when she does, it is a biting, acerbic wit at best and condescendingly scathing at worst.

One of Raven's notable traits is her constant broodiness and her tendency to almost never smile. She much more prefers to meditate in silence and can be cold to people like Terra or even her fellow Titans nor does she divulge about her past which they deem her as "creepy". However in later episodes she becomes more open with people she trusts such as Robin. Because of her purpose to bring her father to Earth, Raven can be intensely self-loathing and more than often isolates herself from the rest of the Titans. She also opens up to people whom she thinks to understand her such as Malchior, a character from an enchanted book who was, in reality, corrupting her with dark magic.

While inside her mind, Beast Boy and Cyborg discover Raven of her that she normally keeps hidden from the other Titans; despite her insistence otherwise, she actually does think Beast Boy is pretty funny, even if she doesn't laugh out loud at his jokes, though she also secretly worries that he doesn't like her. Additionally, although she insults them frequently, Raven is in fact very regretful and apologetic about every little thing she said to Cyborg and Beast Boy, to the point that she spends an entire journey through a maze apologizing for all of it (much to their annoyance).

Abilities

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.

Raven is able to conjure and project darkness from her body, usually in the guise of her soul-self, an astral projection in the shape of a shadowy bird that she can use to see through and manipulate objects. Though the soul-self is normally intangible, it can be disrupted by magic and concentrated sound. Due to the time she spent with her father Trigon, Raven has gained a vast array of knowledge over the mystical arts, enabling her to cast magical spells for a variety of effects, such as healing, pyrokinesis, and advanced energy wielding capabilities.

Raven is able to teleport herself and others with herself to different locations, which is taxing her more than her other abilities. She can also use this power to travel interdimensional with relative ease.

In the episode "Switched", she uses starbolts when she's in Starfire's body.

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