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Trigon the Terrible
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.
