The next comprises spoilers for Titans Season 4, Episode “Mom Mayhem,” now streaming on HBO Max.
Titans Season 4 seems to be incorporating a robust facet of Raven’s character, one seen within the animated Teen Titans cartoon.
The HBO Max collection launched its two-episode premiere on Nov. 3, the latter of the 2 titled “Mom Mayhem.” In direction of the tip of the episode, the Titans go up in opposition to the titular villain, performed by Franka Potente, and their defeat causes a serious change for Rachel Roth aka Raven (Teagan Croft). Rachel is left unconscious after the battle, her hair turned white and her crimson brow gem gone, which can be Titans’ means of adapting White Raven for the present.
In animation, White Raven is a robust model of the character that may consequence when Raven is separated from the affect of her demonic father, Trigon. Raven dons her White look a number of occasions within the Teen Titans cartoon from the early 2000s, together with the present’s three-episode “The Finish” story arc in Season 4. After Trigon efficiently takes over the Earth and turns it right into a fiery hellscape, White Raven is rescued by Robin and learns to harness her full potential, unleashing her energy to destroy her father and revert the complete world again to regular.
Teen Titans’ White Raven, Defined
White Raven seems equally throughout the DC Animated Film Universe. In Justice League Dark: Apokolips Warfare (2020), after Trigon’s spirit is drawn out of Raven by John Constantine, she makes use of her magic to heal a dying Damian Wayne, turning her into White Raven. As for Titans, as a result of Raven’s brow gem goes lacking, this might imply she is now absolutely minimize off from her father, as depicted in different media.
Some consider Titans could also be drawing from Teen Titans comics’ “Raven Rising” arc written by Geoff Johns and illustrated by Michael McKone, which focuses on Raven and the villain Brother Blood (Joseph Morgan), who’s primed to be a core antagonist of Season 4. Within the comics, the Titans be taught that the satan the Church of Blood worships is none apart from Trigon. Raven, reborn and purified, is depicted as White Raven within the arc, who Sebastian Blood ceremonially marries and controls as a way of summoning Trigon’s demonic military on Earth.
Trigon (Seamus Dever) was the antagonist of Titans’ very first season, lurking within the background till he lastly appeared within the episode “Koriand’r.” Rachel seemingly destroyed her father within the Season 2 premiere, “Trigon,” and he has but to be seen since.
The primary two episodes of Titans Season 4 and prior seasons can be found to stream on HBO Max. New episodes launch weekly on Thursdays.
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