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Superhero Origins: Raven


she’s the mysterious hero that United
the Teen Titans welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we will explore the comic book
origins of Raven wings can’t spread
there’s nothing to burn Azarath metrion
good idea Raven as with most comic book
characters there are often reimagining
and different versions to a character’s
past we’ve chosen to primarily follow
the storyline which unfolded in 1980s DC
Comics presents number 26 which was
expanded upon in the New Teen Titans
number one and 1984 s New Teen Titans
vol 2 number 1 in her debut appearance a
special Teen Titans preview Raven was
first encountered when she gave Robin a
vision of the future this involved
transporting him to the yet unfounded
New Teen Titans team at their base of
operations called Titans Tower their
Robin met his future team who were
unaware that he was from the past before
the future version of Raven appeared in
dramatic fashion bursting forth from
fire while Robin wondered if she was yet
another member of the team while making
a snide comment about her resembling the
Wicked Witch of the West
Raven cryptically warned that a new
danger had appeared a magical hero Raven
used her powers to put an image of
danger in their minds this was that of a
scientist in a laboratory who had opened
a portal to another dimension in his
haste he accidentally allowed a
dangerous alien life-form to cross back
to earth
Raven then warned the team that the
creature must be returned to its home
dimension as it began altering Earth’s
atmosphere changing the oxygen to
methane finding the alien Raven
instructed the team to hold off until
she could investigate how to defeat the
foe this involved
Raven shifting into her astral form
using her bird-like soul to locate its
weakness however she was taken by
surprise when the creature managed to
grab on to the souls aura with her body
collapsing she told the team that she
didn’t have long to live unless she
could save her soul with the team
battling the creature cyborg used his
technology to zap it with a zillion
decibels of sound causing the alien to
flee as it was stunned Ravens soul was
given the opportunity to return
it’s body following this the Teen Titan
team found the STAR Labs where the
creature was pulled into their dimension
and used its equipment to send it back
to where it came from with Robin
believing that this was all a nightmare
Raven stood watching him whispering to
herself that the future he saw was
closer than he could possibly imagine
shortly afterwards the New Teen Titans
were officially formed as Raven
personally visited each of the young
heroes gathering him together to fight
evil aliens who had begun to launch an
attack on earth this process began with
Raven appearing to Robin as he slept at
the Wayne Foundation during one of his
many reoccurring nightmares in which he
relived his visit to the Future finally
meeting the hero in the present Raven
formally introduced herself and
explained that she was not a witch but
rather his friend she explained that she
had shared their future with him so he
could understand the importance of the
team and to recognize and trust her she
also revealed that the time had come to
assemble the new Teen Titans team as
evil forces were at play following this
Raven continued to serve with the team
giving them valuable insight and guiding
them towards dangers while avoiding
combat whenever possible as she was more
of a pacifist throughout several issues
Raven was eventually revealed to
actually be a half demon half human
hybrid the daughter of an evil demon
named Trigon the terrible which led her
to flee her home dimension of Azeroth to
protect Earth from his evil hatred shall
rule let’s just say
I have issues with my father it was also
revealed that she had three lives as
well as various hidden cells not all of
which were pleasant though Ravens powers
are numerous among her most prominent is
her ability to heal injuries and
manipulate time energy and emotions she
can also use astral projection to
project her soul self as a means of
travel and to teleport great distances
when she does this she often transforms
into a giant Raven Raven can also
generate and control pure shadows and
has potentially limitless power when she
allows her emotions to take control of
her though she often receives visions of
the future she cannot control this
ability and these visions come to her at
random in the years that followed Raven
became a mainstay in the comics as well
as in the Teen Titans animated
adventures taking on a much younger and
angst-filled persona enough we need to
control our emotions are you a fan of
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