Trigon (comics)
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Trigon (also known as Trigon the Terrible) is a fictional villain who appears in Teen Titans comics published by DC Comics. Trigon is a large, red, four-eyed demon with antlers (shown as a crown made of antlers in the animated series). He is the mysterious father of the superhero Raven, a member of the Teen Titans.
Trigon was the all-powerful ruler of an alternate dimension, who governed in a sadistic and self-serving manner; he also desired to spread his evil to Earth's dimension.
[edit] History
Trigon was born in another dimension through the mating of a female member of a mystic sect and the god they worshipped. As a side effect of the pairing, he was filled with the cast-off evil energies of the inhabitants of Azarath, forming him into their personification. At birth, he killed everyone around him (including his own mother), and at age six, he destroyed an entire planet. By the age of thirty, he held dominion over millions of worlds in his dimension. Still not satisfied, he set out to invade Earth.
Arella, Raven's mother, was a depressed woman who decided to join a Satanic cult that was trying to bring Satan to Earth. (This has since been retconned as being the Church of Blood.) When the ritual was performed, Trigon emerged, disguised as a handsome male, and married Arella. Arella was soon impregnated by Trigon, at which time she discovered Trigon's true nature. After Trigon left her, Arella was on the brink of suicide when an extra-dimensional cult found her and brought her to Azarath (the otherdimensional home of the cult) where Raven was born and was taught to "control her emotions" in order to suppress and control Trigon's demonic powers that she was born with.
Eventually, Raven learned that Trigon was planning to conquer the Earth, and vowed to stop him. She initially approached the Justice League, but they refused her on the advice of Zatanna who sensed her demonic parentage. In desperation, she reformed the Teen Titans (who had disbanded earlier) with several new members in order to fight her father.
The team was eventually able to defeat Trigon and seal him in an interdimensional prison. However, Raven still had to fight her father's influence, as he was not completely destroyed. Trigon eventually escaped and came to Earth, taking control of Raven and destroying Azarath in the process. The Titans came together and killed Raven; this allowed the souls of Azarath to possess her and use her as a channel to kill Trigon, blasting him out of existence with a beam of purifying light.
Although Trigon is gone, his followers (led by the new Brother Blood) have tried to revive him several times.
[edit] Powers
The full extent of his powers are unknown. However, he has been shown to shoot beams from both his hands and his four eyes, contain his enemies in a sphere of energy, and create and command legions of demons. Since Raven got all her powers from him, it is likely that he can perform all of her abilities as well. He seems to also be able to summon flocks of four eyed ravens and other four eyed demons from his spells, which would explain why his daughter, Raven, takes on a bird-like form during her oversoul.
[edit] Teen Titans animated series
Outside of a first unofficial appearance in "Nevermore" (looking very different in that episode and voiced by Keith Szarabajka), Trigon appears as the main villain in the fourth season story arc of Teen Titans, voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson. In "Birthmark", Trigon resurrects the Titans' foe Slade from his molten burial to inform Raven of his coming and how she is his portal to the "world of mortals".
Slade is revived with new powers and an 'S' mark on his forehead. The 'S' is the Mark of Scath, another name used by the members of a demonic cult to refer to Trigon. In the three-part finale, "The End", Trigon finally emerges and turns everyone to stone, except for the Titans who are protected by one last gift of Raven's. Trigon also regresses Raven to the age of a 10-year-old in order to carry out his evil plans; he even creates evil clones of Cyborg, Starfire, and Beast Boy, from their dark sides. Robin and Slade travel underground to find the now-young Raven.
When Robin, Slade, and Raven return to the surface, Robin, Starfire, Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Slade launch an all-out assault on Trigon, but in the end, Raven uses her powers to restore her age and obliterate Trigon, while renouncing him as her father. Trigon's destruction also reversed all of the damage he caused to Earth.
Raven's mental image of Trigon also made an appearance in Teen Titans Go! #5.
