TRIGON

Real Name: Trigon The Terrible

Class: Extradimensional demigod

Occupation: Dimensional conqueror

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: Arella (wife), Gluttony (son), Jack (son), Jacob (Lust, son), James (Greed, son), Jared (Wrath, son), Jesse (Envy, son), Raven (daughter), unnamed father, unnamed mother (dceceased)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Dimensional planes

First Appearance: New Teen Titans I #4 (February, 1981)

Powers: Trigon was a supreme sorcerer and had nearly unlimited demonic powers that let him cross dimensions, change size, project energy bolts, drain the souls of millions and reshape dimensions to suit his own fiendish purposes.

History: <Over 900 years ago> A group of cultists led by a woman named Azar renounced their evil ways, left Earth and founded the community of Azareth in another dimension. The magic they used to purtge themselves of their evil nature couldn't destroy it, instead the evil flowed out into other dimensions through Azareth's Great Door. In another dimension, the last inhabitants of a dying world succeeded in mating a woman to their god during a demonic rite. The evil of the Azareth cul;tists found a home in her womb, and the demigod Trigon was born as a manifestation of pure evil. He slew his mother on birth, and destroyed his homeworld by age six. By age 30 he ruled his entire dimension, but would not be satisfied until he ruled all dimensions.

Trigon mated with the human Arella, but his daughter Raven turned her back on evil, and became a heroine on Earth, serving with the New Teen Titans, and continually battling her father.

(Titans II #1-4) - Trigon was resurrected under unrevealed circumstances, and was bent on destroying Earth with the aid of his children. He met many enemies and spread himself too thin in his wars across dimensions, leaving him immensely weakened, but still powerful enough to destroy Earth. He wanted to kill every Titan, past and present, because they were the only ones to ever have beaten him. His demons destroyed the fledgling Teen Titans East, killing Power Boy, and his horde kept up a relentless assault on the other heroes to name themselves Titans. His violence led to a reformation of the original Titans, and Raven contacted him on the mental plane, and he gladly divulged his plans to her, and shared his secret, that she had a brother, sired in a Satanic rite much like herself. Raven and the Titans tracked down Trigon’s other brides, only to find that they’d died years ago. Trigon had not one son, but many, and they kept the Titans off balance by exposing them to the seven deadly sins, and then confronted them. They attacked the Titans and used Raven to open up a portal to Trigon’s dimension. The battle went for Trigon’s children and they used Beast Boy’s Trigon seed, the smallest spark of which was still in him, to finish the portal, and Trigon prepared to step through, telling his boys they would rule at his side.. Raven used her own ability to tap into the seven deadly sins, which greatly sickened her, to overcome her brothers with greed. They stole Trigon’s last vestiges of power, and then retreated to learn how to manipulate their newfound magic. Trigon was proud that his sons were as deceitful, manipulative and power-hungry as he was. Raven was pleased at having tricked them. In his dilapidated state Trigon could not have given them much of a magical boost.

Comments: Created by Marv Wolfman & George Perez.

Trigon received a profile in Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #24.

Trigon had cameos in Action Comics #650 and Titans II #5.

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