12 Interesting Facts About Raven

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#001
The raven that flies past Raven in the intro is actually a cockatoo.
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#002
Raven is obsessed with a show called "Pretty Pretty Pegasus." The nod comes from Tara Strong, Raven's voice, who plays Twilight Sparkle on "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic."
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#003
At the end of "Caramel Apples," Trigon is sucked into a portal and yells "I'll be back for Thanksgiving!" At the end of "Dog Hand," Raven says "He'll be back- probably for Thanksgiving." Later in the series, Trigon turns up at the Titans' Thanksgiving dinner.
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#004
In the DC Comics, Raven is not telekinetic. The show's popularity, and that of her character, brought her comic counterpart back from the dead.
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#005
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After having her heart broken, Raven manages to contain Trigon in the magical ruby gems she wears on her forehead, just like her DCAMU counterpart.
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#006
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In the episode "A Farce," Raven's testimony recreates a scene from the film My Cousin Vinny.
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#007
Hanna-Barbera was working on a New Teen Titans cartoon in 1983 that would have taken the place of Super Friends (1980). Its lineup was to be the original New Teen Titans roster: Wonder Girl, Raven, Starfire, Cyborg, Changeling (also known as Beast Boy) and Kid Flash. Robin, the Titans' leader in the comics, was left out, presumably because he was occupied as a member of the Super Friends and the rights to the character belonged to the Batman license. Wonder Girl would have led the team instead, with Trigon and Blackfire among the villains. The project never got past development. The New Teen Titans did appear in an anti-drug commercial tied to the special anti-drug issues of the comic; since Keebler was sponsoring the comic and Robin was already licensed to Nabisco, George Perez created a new character, The Protector, who also appeared in the ad. The New Teen Titans only got an animated series 20 years later, when this show premiered in 2003.
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#008
Beast Boy may be the team's usual comic relief, but Raven delivered what is arguably the most famous and funniest line in Teen Titans history: "Evil beware. We have waffles."
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#009
Raven, whose civilian name is Rachel Roth, appears in the series with a gothic style and purple-dyed hair, echoing how the character looked in the Teen Titans (2003) animated show.
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#010
In the opening titles, Cyborg is the only Titan who does not appear alongside live-action footage in the background. Robin is paired with a shot of a lion, Raven with a raven, Beast Boy with various animals and Starfire with the sun.
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#011
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In this series, a woman named Melissa Roth raises Raven and gives her the name Rachel Roth, posing as her biological mother until she is forced to reveal the truth and is killed. Raven then discovers her real mother, Angela Azarath, held captive in an abandoned mental institution and in league with Trigon, Raven's evil demon father. In the comics, Raven was raised on Azarath by her mother Arella. The only thing the two stories share is that Raven was kept away from Trigon.
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#012
Finding the right voice for Raven proved difficult for the producers. Voice director Andrea Romano brought in Tara Strong, then known for her Batgirl voice, to read for the part. Before leaving the audition, Strong tried a raspy voice, and that landed her the role. Raven's final voice resembles a raspy Zelda Rubinstein.
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