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| “ | The Gem was born of evil's fire. The Gem shall be his portal. He comes to claim, he comes to sire, The end of all things mortal! |
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| ~ The prophecy of Trigon's arrival. |
| “ | THE EARTH IS MINE! | „ |
| ~ Trigon upon being summoned to Earth. |
| “ | Go forth and conquer! One by one, worlds shall fall, until every being in this entire dimension bows down to worship Trigon the Terrible! | „ |
| ~ Trigon ordering his minions to conquer the universe. |
Trigon the Terrible is the overarching antagonist of the Teen Titans TV series and one of the two main antagonists (alongside his 2013 counterpart) of Cartoon Network's 8th animated feature film Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans.
He is an inter-dimensional demon with immense power and the father/arch-nemesis of Raven, one of the members of the Teen Titans. His goal was to take over the universe after destroying the Earth. He even recruits the Teen Titans' arch-nemesis Slade in order to assist him in his goals.
In Season 1, he was voiced by Keith Szarabajka, who also portrayed Daniel Holtz in Angel and voiced the Ur-Didact in Halo 4, and Joshua Graham in Fallout: New Vegas. In Season 4, he was voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson, who also voiced Mammoth in the series as well as his 2013 Counterpart in Teen Titans Go!, Joker in The Batman, Captain Gantu in the Lilo & Stitch franchise, Dark Laser in The Fairly OddParents, Temutai in Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness and Kamek in The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
Appearance[]
Trigon is a gigantic, muscular, kaiju-sized, scary-looking demon with red skin, long white hair, stag-like antlers, pointed ears, four red eyes, black stripes on his torso and hoofed goat-like feet. In "Nevermore", he was shown having yellow eyes, no horns and human feet instead of hoofed feet like an elk or a horse.
Personality[]
| “ | The rule of mortals has ended. This world belongs to me. | „ |
| ~ Trigon after conquering Earth. |
Trigon is described as an immensely powerful, dangerous and destructive demon who cares about nothing but himself as his main goals were world domination and destroying the entire Earth. He is depicted as a ruthless, heartless, sadistic, malicious and brutal creature, though this was what led to his defeat thanks to his daughter Raven and the Teen Titans ending his reign of terror. Despite being Raven's father and serving as Slade's master, it is revealed that he actually does not show any care for them since he was just using them as tools. Deceptive and cunning, Trigon is capable of subtly manipulating even the sharpest of minds, such as Slade, into doing his bidding and fooling them into believing his sincerity.
Biography[]
Teen Titans (2003)[]
Trigon first appears, unnamed and with a different appearance from his actual introduction, in the season 1 episode "Nevermore" as a manifestation of Raven's anger within her mind. Beast Boy and Cyborg see her fighting the evil copy to free herself of the anger she had while fighting Dr. Light.
Trigon later appears as the main antagonist in the fourth season in the three-part finale "The End". Trigon resurrects the Titans' foe Slade to force Raven into releasing him upon the Earth. He does not keep his word to Slade and betrays him telling him that Raven gave up willingly enraging the latter into attacking the demon, only for the former to strip him of his pyrokinetic abilities. Trigon finally emerges and destroys the Earth, turning it into a post-apocalyptic state. Trigon also reduces Raven into a 9 year old in order to carry out his plans for the Earth and uses the Titans disintegrated tower as his throne. The Titans are spared from turning into stone by a fraction of Raven's power, which she had given them before releasing Trigon. The foursome attempt to combine Raven's power and attack him with the power which seemingly hurts him however he easily defeats them stating that not even a "farewell blessing" from his daughter could not hurt him. Trigon mutters "begone" and blasts them with his eye beams back to the ruined site of the old library where they are joined by Slade.
While Robin and Slade reluctantly team up and went to go find Raven, Trigon uses Nega Beast Boy, Nega Cyborg and Nega Starfire to attack their good selves and are evenly matched. The clones have knowledge of their inner demons, Nega Cyborg taunts his counterpart of the death of his mother, Nega Beast Boy taunts his counterpart over Terra's duplicity and Nega Starfire taunts her counterpart that when she wins Robin will be all hers. The three titans knew that they have to keep fighting their counterparts in order to stall Trigon so that he does not go after Robin. The clones over hear this and Nega Starfire flies over to him to tell him of their plan to which Trigon reveals that he already knew. He taunts the trio that that the Raven they knew is gone forever and thus their plan is no threat to him. the Three titans win by switching opponents outsmarting their evil copies. Trigon approaches them and points out that their victory is meaningless stating all that they did was "prolong their suffering". Trigon summons a herd of fire demons after Cyborg, Starfire and Beast Boy prompting the trio to retreat. Meanwhile, Slade gets his flesh back by killing the Guard and Robin manages to find Raven who was reduced to a small child.
Robin eventually returns with Raven as Trigon sends his army throughout the universe intending to conquer every world and have all of them bow down to him. The Teen Titans are joined by Slade wielding the guards ax (who claims he is not a sidekick to anybody), so they launch an all-out assault on Trigon, but are ultimately too weak to defeat him and Slade is eventually knocked out but survives. Trigon knocks the Titans out and Raven runs to them. Trigon asks Raven “What hope can a mere child have of defeating her all-powerful father?” before all hope seems gone. Thanks to Robin not giving up on Raven in the end, it is Raven who defeats him, she is restored to her proper age while denouncing Trigon as her father and claims her real family is the monks of Azerath and the Teen Titans. In a white robe she uses her own powers to banish Trigon, undoing the destruction he had caused in the process and the potential conquest of every world in the cosmos by his demonic followers.
Likely because he was banished for good, Trigon is not among the villains featured in the Brotherhood of Evil led by the Brain.
Teen Titans Go vs Teen Titans[]
Trigon appears as one of the main antagonists. He is brought back to life after his 2013 version sucks 2013 Raven's demon power and brings him back after her father pits the 2013 titans against the 2003 titans. Then they take the Ravens to Trigon's dimension to finish absorbing Raven's power to fill his missing leg. The Ravens then trick their fathers into unintentionally release them as 2013 Trigon struggles to give his 2003 counterpart a soda, and both reach the 2003 Earth. The Trigons later catch up to the Ravens and after they torture 2003 Raven, 2013 Raven unleashes her demon self which leads to her powers being drained by the 2003 Trigon. As a result, 2013 Raven is now happy and the Titans arrive after escaping Santa Claus.
2003 Trigon insults his counterpart who gets fed up then 2013 Trigon absorbs 2003 Trigon's powers and transforms into a new powerful being named Hexagon. To combat the new threat, the Titans use the Worlagog to summon Titans teams throughout the multiverse. However, Hexagon proves to be too powerful, and worse 2013 Raven is too cheerful to understand the danger. She eventually evens the odds by absorbing all of her counterparts and transforms into a dragon known as The Unkindness, protecting the Robins and then proceeding to retaliate against Hexagon. The Titans destroy Trigon's Worlagog and assist Raven in getting her powers back, which gets rid of the 2003 Trigon. 2013 Robin uses their Worlagog to send 2013 Trigon to a zombie dimension.
Powers and Abilities[]
Trigon possesses vast reality manipulation powers, enabling him to reshape the surface of the Earth on a whim, revive the dead (either as superpowered undead servants or flesh and blood), and rip the fabric of space to transport his army vast distances. He can bring a person's inner darkness to life, creating an exact replica of that person, down to their powers and memories. He also possesses more generic superhuman abilities such as firing energy blasts, creating force-fields, and controlling fire, the latter of which he can impart to his servants.
Weaknesses[]
Despite being claimed to be the incarnation of pure evil and the source of all darkness, Trigon's ultimate weaknesses are his ego personality, obsession with power, sheer arrogance, and pure overconfidence; he had every opportunity of wiping out the Teen Titans when he had the chance, but instead he chose not to by merely stating that their rescue plan of Raven and their existence presented "no threat" to him. It is clear that Trigon failed to realize that he inadvertently underestimated the Teen Titans as well as his own daughter, which lead to his own downfall.
Quotes[]
| “ | Hatred shall rule! | „ |
| ~ Trigon the Terrible |
| “ | The Earth is mine! | „ |
| ~ Trigon |
| “ | Go forth and conquer! One by one, worlds shall fall, until every being in this entire dimension bows down to worship Trigon the Terrible! | „ |
| ~ Words of Trigon the Terrible. |
| “ | Farewell, dear daughter. | „ |
| ~ Trigon |
| “ | You may have retained some trace of my power, but you are still no threat to me, little girl. I am your creator, your master. You exist only to serve me. You survive only because I allow it. What hope can a mere child have of defeating her all-powerful father!? | „ |
| ~ Trigon to Raven. |
| “ | Wretched, insignificant-- | „ |
| ~ Trigon’s last spoken words in the series before Raven pummels him into oblivion |
| “ | Your gambit has failed, as predicted. We proceed with the true plan. | „ |
| ~ Trigon to his alternate self. |
| “ | How can you be so careless? So unfathomably stupid!? Oh, I know. It's because everything from your world is just a pea-brained, squashed-down, bobble-headed version of ours! | „ |
| ~ Trigon insulting his counterpart. |
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Given his powers from warping reality to creating fire servants and additional powers, Trigon is considered the most powerful antagonist the Teen Titans have ever faced and probably is.
- Trigon, along with Slade, is one of the few main antagonists to appear in more than one season. Whereas Slade appeared in all five seasons, Trigon appeared in three seasons: in season one he appeared in Raven's mind as a manifestation of her rage, he appeared as the main antagonist of season four and appeared briefly in Raven's story to the kids she was babysitting in Season 5.
- He is possibly the one who triggered Slade's mask in the episode "Haunted", due to the fact the mask's eye glowed red at the end of the episode.
- Much like Blackfire being Starfire's nemesis, he appears as Raven's nemesis despite being in her family.
- Keith Szarabajka was intended to reprise the role of Trigon during season 4 but declined due to scheduling conflicts. Kevin Michael Richardson assumed the role.
- Trigon appears as a villain in a three-parter (other than the episode "Nevermore", which technically is Raven's rage, and therefore not counting, as well as Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans). "Tri" means three, which means Trigon could possibly been in a 3-parter on purpose. It was the only three-parter in the series.
External links[]
- Trigon (Teen Titans) on the Pure Evil Wiki
- Trigon on the VS Battles Wiki
- Trigon on the Teen Titans Wiki
