Raven (DC Comics) Character Review
Raven is a superheroine who appears in comic books published by DC Comics. The Character first appeared in a special insert in DC Comics Presents (October 1980), and was created by writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Pérez. Raven is an empath who can teleport and control her "soul-self," which can fight physically, as well as act as Raven's eyes and ears away from her body - More about Raven (DC Comics) Character Review...keep reading !!
Raven's chronology is typically separated into three lives. Her first life, 18 years, was spent in the Temple Azarath and creating The New Teen Titans.
Her second life began once she started wearing the garb of White Raven,
and lasted under two years. Her third life is her current form. Unlike
the transition between her first and second lives, with her third life
came a new, younger body.
Fictional Character Biography
First Life - A character with a morbid past and origins, Raven is the half-breed daughter of a human mother named Arella and the interdimensional demon Trigon. She grew up in an alternate dimension called Azarath, with pacifistic
inhabitants whose spiritual leader was the mystic Azar. She was taught
to "control her emotions" by Azar, in order to suppress her inherited
demonic powers. Essentially, it was feared that if Raven was allowed to
feel any emotion that was too strong, she could become a demon like her
father.
During this time, Raven rarely saw her mother and grew detached from
her. Upon Azar's death, Arella began the task of raising and teaching
Raven. Around this same time, Raven's demonic heritage was revealed, as
she met her father face to face for the first time. Soon after her 16th
birthday, Raven learned that Trigon planned to come to her dimension;
she vowed to stop him.
Raven initially approached the Justice League, but they refused her on the advice of Zatanna, who sensed her demonic parentage. In desperation, she reformed the Titans as the New Teen Titans to fight her father. The team consisted of Robin, Wonder Girl, Kid Flash, Starfire, Cyborg, and Beast Boy. Raven and her new friends later came to think of one another as family.
Trigon soon kidnapped Raven to his home dimension. The team defeated
Trigon and sealed him in an interdimensional prison with the help of
Arella, who stayed at the interdimensional door as Trigon's Guardian. However, Raven continued to fight her father's influence, as he was not
completely destroyed. For a period of time, Raven lost control several
times in stressful situations, but managed to regain control before
Trigon could assert himself.
Popular storylines such as "The Judas Contract" took place during this period. Eventually, Trigon escaped his prison, came to Earth, and took control
of Raven, destroying Azarath in the process. The Titans were manipulated
to kill Raven, thereby allowing the souls of Azarath contained inside
the ring of Azar to possess her and use her as a channel to kill Trigon.
After this battle, Raven rose from the ashes, purged of Trigon's evil,
and vanished.
Second Life (White Raven) - After Raven's disappearance, Arella went around the world in search
of Raven. She tracked her down but both of them were kidnapped by Brother Blood. The minions of Brother Blood used Raven to control Nightwing
(the former Robin) as part of Blood's plans of resurrection. The Titans
rescued them both and prevented Brother Blood from returning. Raven
then donned a white cloak to represent freedom from her father's
influence.
After being free to feel, Raven found she was able to not only sense, but control others' emotions.
She learned to handle this power only after unintentionally making
Nightwing believe that he loved her when she thought that she was in
love with him. Raven also fostered a relationship with technopath
Eric Forrester, who was using the life force of women he seduced to
regain some of his lost humanity. Forrester knew that Raven's soul-self
could help him to permanently retain his humanity. This attempt was cut
short by the intervention of Joseph Wilson (Jericho), who helped Raven overcome her love for Forrester by destroying him and saving herself.
Raven was later kidnapped by the Wildebeest Society during the "Titans Hunt" storyline. The Wildbeest,
led by the Trigon-possessed souls of Azarath, were going to use several
Titans to bring about the return of Trigon. During a massive battle,
Raven was possessed by the evil souls and once again became the evil doppelgänger of her father. Arella, along with Danny Chase,
used the power of Azar's soul to cleanse Raven; in the result, her body
was destroyed, and Arella and Danny sacrificed themselves and joined
the cleansed souls of Azarath to become Phantasm.
Third Life - In her spirit form, Raven wandered Earth when Brother Blood came to
claim her. Her spirit was reincarnated in the body of a teenage girl by
the Church of Blood. A new incarnation of the Teen Titans discovered
that the Church of Blood were worshippers of Raven's father, Trigon.
They also found a prophecy that told of the marriage between Brother
Blood and Raven that would result in Armageddon.
The team interrupted the wedding, and Raven forced the cult to escape.
During this, her body age had been reduced from 23 to 16. She then
joined the Teen Titans and enrolled at a high school as "Rachel Roth" in
honor of her mother's birth name.
After her rebirth, Raven began developing romantic feelings for her
teammate, Garfield Logan (a.k.a. Beast Boy), and the two became
romantically attached.
Powers and Abilities (Raven)
Being a half-demon hybrid, Raven possesses a vast amount of abilities inherited from her father Trigon.
Raven can empathically absorb the pain of injured people to ease
their suffering, and induce rapid healing. She has the ability to heal
herself and others. This has limits, though, since she can't heal grave
injuries. She almost died trying to accomplish such a feat. Her most
prominent ability is to manifest her soul-self through a form of astral projection.
Through the use of her soul-self, Raven can project her consciousness
into the mind, for therapeutic purposes. It also serves as a way to
travel into other dimensions. In many instances, her soul-self has also
functioned as a shield and a method of attack, like absorbing objects
and energy and regurgitating them moments later.
Using her soul-self,
she can convert her physical body into her soul-self and carry or teleport
herself and others over vast distances in form of a giant black raven.
Her soul-self can stay outside her body for five minutes, without
risking any psychic pain.
Raven has also displayed the ability to control, manipulate and or
generate pure shadows and darkness Raven can also manipulate energy
blast, time, and emotions. This ability comes in different variations,
from having supremely destructive capabilities to causing pain, tension,
fear-based illusions, and steal people emotions. In a number of
instances, Raven has also displayed sorcerous abilities, such as
inducing unconsciousness on Tim Drake with a touch, releasing balls of
fire "within the folds of her cloak"(as in The New Teen Titans Annual
#4 (1988)), or hurling electric blasts strong enough to take down all
her brothers and all of the adult Titans. Recently, she has been shown
to completely annihilate the demon army of Rankor numbering more than
three thousand individuals and which contained powerful individual
demons that had taken the Titans down in ambushes previously. In her
third body, Raven has acquired the ability to fly. Raven is shown to be
able to fly unaided in space.
Raven has a very powerful telepathic mind, in her mind it consist of
her different emotions that she keeps bottled in like sadness,
happiness, anger, and more. She keeps these emotions bottled in because
her powers are fueled by emotions and if she show these emotions
especially anger she can cause mass destruction. Raven has a demonic
emotion which is caused when she is very angry this causes her power to
increase dramatically. She also possesses the ability of telekinesis,
allowing her to pick up and move people or objects with her mind.
Like her brothers, Raven can induce and amplify one of the seven deadly sins (in her case, pride) in any living being, however doing so will cause her to suffer spells of nausea and vomiting for several days afterward as side effects.
Raven also has limited precognition which allows her to
predict future events that are about to happen. But she cannot control
this ability, which is why it is only limited, as it only happens
randomly. She has also displayed telekinesis and has shown to be a good hand-to-hand combatant, despite the fact that she rarely uses these abilities.
In Other Media (DC Universe Online)
Raven appears in the video game DC Universe Online, voiced by Adriene Mishler.
She has been possessed by her father Trigon, who has begun a demonic
invasion of Metropolis and Earth, using Raven. Hero and Villain players
will fight with, or against the Titans to either free or keep Raven
under Trigon's control. If she is freed, she will join Hero players
along with Zatanna, and Doctor Fate in battling Brother Blood, who is
the catalyst for Trigon's invasion.
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