Raven's Ultimate Form Is Revealed in Titans' Worst-Case Scenario

Warning: Spoilers for Titans #14 ahead!

Summary

Raven becomes the Dark-Winged Queen, absorbing the power of her demonic brothers and the Spectre.
Raven manifests as a towering demon with Trigon’s features, heralding doom for the Titans.
Titans
#14 fulfills the prophecy of Raven bringing about the end of the world alongside Trigon.

The Titans‘ greatest fear has come to pass: possessed by her dark aspect, Raven has fully come into her own as the harbinger of destruction, the Dark-Winged Queen. Her new form shows the true extent of Raven’s demonic potential…and the depths of the Titan’s deepest nightmares.

Months of machinations have finally reached fulfillment in Titans #14 by Tom Taylor and Lucas Meyer, as Raven absorbs her demonic brothers and takes their power. In an act of divine intervention, the Spectre himself arrives to stop her – only to be absorbed as well, providing the last piece needed to unlock her full aspect as the Dark-Winged Queen.

Shedding her mortal form, Raven manifests as the Dark-Winged Queen for the first time: a towering demon bearing massive raven wings and Trigon’s four eyes, with her fallen foes enshrined as gems in a crown across her brow.

Raven’s Nightmarish Other Self Unlocks Her Full Potential

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The arrival of the Dark-Winged Queen is the culmination of decades of storytelling. As the demon Trigon’s daughter and unwilling herald, it has been prophesied that Raven will bring about the end of the world; a version of this dark future is first seen in The New Teen Titans #3 by Marv Wolfman, George Pérez, Romeo Tanghal, Adrienne Roy, and Bob Lappan, when Raven becomes the portal for Trigon to enter the mortal realm. However, this technically does not fulfill the prophecy; while Raven was the vessel that allowed Trigon to arrive on Earth, the destruction that followed was technically his doing, not hers.

To see Trigon’s takeover of Earth, check out the classic Teen Titans storyline
The Terror of Trigon
by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez, available now from DC Comics.

Titans #8 gives readers the first foreshadowing of the Dark-Winged Queen, with Trigon showing Raven a vision of her ultimate form; this continues in Titans #10 when Raven learns how to begin forging the crown that will unlock her true potential. Titans #14 is the payoff of the entire arc, with the Dark-Winged Queen finally made real. Unlike her previous demonic forms, this is not Raven channeling Trigon’s power; this is her own power, her own doing. As the Dark-Winged Queen, Raven brings destruction herself, standing on equal footing with Trigon rather than merely being his lieutenant or herald.

Titans
#8 is by Tom Taylor, Stephen Segovia, Annette Kwok, and Wes Abbott.
Titans
#10 by Taylor, Lucas Meyer, Adriano Lucas, and Abbott.

The Dark-Winged Queen Spells Doom for the Titans

Will the Team Survive?

The Dark-Winged Queen frees Trigon to her side.

When Trigon first took over the Earth, it took the combined might of the Titans, the spirit Azar, and the death of Raven to stop him. With Raven now having joined Trigon and equaling – or even surpassing – him in strength, there seems to be little chance for victory. As the Dark-Winged Queen, Raven is poised to be the agent of destruction at last, no longer just its messenger – and unless a miracle occurs, the Titans will fall at her hands as prophesied.

Titans #14 is available now from DC Comics.