Raven (comics)/Temp
Raven is a fictional character, a superhero in the DC Comics universe.
In the Teen Titans comics
She is a prominent member of the Teen Titans.
She possesses psychic and telekinetic powers and the ability to heal wounds.
A dark, moody character, Raven is the halfbreed daughter of a human mother and the demon overlord Trigon. She grew up in a pacifist place called Azarath, where she was taught to "control her emotions" in order to suppress and control Trigon's demonic powers that she was born with.
She reformed the Titans as the New Teen Titans to fight her father.
In the Teen Titans animated series
In the Animated Series "The Teen Titans" (2003-), Raven appears much younger (as do all the other characters) then in the comic book variants, her custom though is relativity unchanged. Raven's personality is also more child-like and emotional and slightly more sterotypically gothic. Raven is straightforward, moody as well as sarcastic. However, she does show signs that she cares very much for her friends.
Her powers are pretty much the same as in the comics, except for the fact that she has to say "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!" to help her focus her powers. She has to meditate often to make sure her powers remain at bay. When she gets excessively emotional, her powers tend to take a form, called her "Soul Self" in the comic books (Her soul self is not recognized by name in the animation, but it is featured.) Her soul-self tends to take the form of demonic under-the-bed sort of creatures, like pitch black four-eyed baby birds or rats, or obviously, a giant raven. Her soul-self can also transform her bodies appearance to a variety of demonic forms and sizes. Worst of all, when she can't control her anger, she transforms into a demonic Raven usually with four glowing-red eyes and sprouting black tentacles from under her cloak, also referred to by fans as Red Raven. The four eyes seem to symbolize her demon father, Trigon.
Raven often has a complex that her fellow Titans don't like her, probably because she's the daughter of a demon and has a very unique and complex lifestyle that her friends don't really understand. Her room inside Titans Tower is decorated with things from her past as well as statues and pictures about of the creepy-crawlies her powers like to conjure up. Needless to say, she gets mortally offended when anyone steps foot in it.
In the first season, episode 6 Nevermore: Raven's is angered by a villain and transforms into Red Raven, grabs the villain with her tentacles and drags him under her cloak (What happened to the villain under the cloak is only perverted speculation) seriously traumatizing the villain. Later Beast Boy and Cyborg find a mirror in her room, which accidentally transports them into her subconscious. Here, they discover that Raven is slightly schizophrenic (each personality represented as wearing a different colored robe, including Green (bold), Gray (shy and apologetic), Pink (ditzy), Orange (uncouth), etc.). When they find the real Raven, she tells them that Red (anger) was let out by accident. When Red Raven (complete with four glowing-red eyes) transforms into a huge hulking beast, questions about whats going on occur and Raven comments "Let's just say I have issues with my father," obviously a hint in the animated series that the beast is a incarnation of her father, and refering to a background story based off her comic book variant. After the episode, Red Raven was let loose briefly during Raven's famous battle with Terra in a giant mud pit (Season 2, Episode 25 Aftershock (1). After her furious personality was unleashed, she could have easily killed Terra if she had remained calm and restrained her self.
Ravens father in the animated series may have a different name then in the comic book, this would not be unusual as some the character have rare or skewed names based on the comics. In episode 6, one of Ravens personalities refers to her fathers influence as Ada.
Many fans of the comic books question how deeply Ravens upcoming plot with her father will enter into the demonic, apocalyptic and mortality, mainly because of the show's more child oriented style. Based off brief descriptions of future episodes on the net it may not be expected that Ravens possession and battles with her father will lead to her inevitable death (or repeated deaths and reincarnations) as in the comic series. In most resent episodes though Ravens apocalyptic destruction of the earth and battles with her father seem inevitable, though the show reveals as few clues as possible, the hints seems horrific enough to sit well with comic book fans of the series.