Sons of Trigon
The Sons of Trigon are a group that feature in DC Comics.
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History
Origin
The Sons of Trigon were six demonic children spawned by the demon Trigon from three human brides with all these offspring being siblings to his daughter Raven. (Titans v2 #3 The demonic Trigon created a cult on Earth to seduce women, and produce hybrid offspring with them to pave the way for his invasion of Earth. His firstborn Raven rebelled against her heritage and became a superhero, serving with the Teen Titans. Her brothers Jacob, Jared, and Jesse became disciplines of their father. When Trigon was ready for his invasion he empowered the half-brothers and set them loose to destroy every last Teen Titan, past and present. Trigon bragged to Raven about his plan, and the newly reformed Titans sought out the brothers, who manipulated their emotions, making them vulnerable. They confronted and 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. (Titans v2 #4)
Raven’s encounter with her half-brothers let her dark side out, and she subconsciously started thinking about killing the Titans, and this summoned her brothers. They took her by the hand and led her to Trigon’s dimension. Raven had given her teammate Troia the talisman Ramat Stone to locate her in just such a situation, because she always feared being lured to the dark side, and the Titans were transported to Trigon’s dimension. They met the rest of the Sons of Trigon, Greed, Gluttony, and Sloth, and were defeated. Raven turned against her brothers, proclaiming herself Pride, the sin from which all others sprung. She wanted to rule the Earth, but with the Titans at her side, and began imbuing them with the powers of the Seven Deadly Sins. This activated the Ramat Stone, Raven had given it a sliver of her pure essence, and the Raven that was loyal to the Titans emerged and merged herself with her demonic counterpart and returned the team to Titan’s Tower. (Titans v2 #6)
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events. The Sons of Trigon
The brothers later come under suspicion of having kidnapped the Stranger's family, weary of deception, the Phantom Stranger visited the brother's Lucky Devil casino with Deadman in tow. While playing a game of high risk poker with the brothers, Deadman learned that the aggressive Suge was "Exactly what everyone thinks." while the seemingly timid and slightly dim Ruskoff was "Not at all what he seemed." and the older Belial was "The last person you'd want as an enemy." While the brothers were cleared of suspicion, they were angered by what they believed to be a trick of the Stranger that made them act out and ultimately loose the game.
Overview
In appearance, the Sons of Trigon were a male demon group whose core elite members possessed highly varied, monstrous, and non-humanoid physical builds due to their corrupted extra-dimensional genetics. The siblings varied significantly in overall physical mass, featuring individual structures that ranged from gaunt, skeletal frames to broad, heavily muscled demonic silhouettes wrapped in vibrant orange or deep crimson hides. Several prominent brothers featured striking biological traits derived from their father's lineage, including multiple sets of pitch-black or glowing yellow pupilless eyes, highly elongated pointed ears, and sharp bony ridges lining their skulls. Their faces sported prominent, tooth-filled maws with protruding fangs, and several brothers displayed massive, curved horns extending directly outward from their foreheads. The entities completely eschewed standard human garments, wearing only dark tattered loincloths, heavy metallic wrist bracers, or completely bare, scaled skin to showcase their sharp talons, clawed hands, and jagged spinal columns. Each of the Sons were the demonic spawn of Trigon and thus inherited dark mystical powers each of whom had empathic powers based on one of the deadly sins allowing them to amplify such emotions in their target. (Titans v2 #4)
This group of demons possessed basic biological traits of immense physical strength, advanced longevity, and the ability to channel dark energy to fly or rapidly repair bodily harm. Their natural biology offered them high supernatural durability that allowed individual members to shrug off heavy kinetic impact and resist conventional human weaponry. They did not possess a unified scientific intellect, relying instead on specialized, innate empathy-warping magic that granted each brother the capability to instantly induce specific mental sins—such as absolute wrath, overwhelming envy, or destructive greed—within human targets. Their collective magical power allowed them to dominate mortal minds across vast geographic spaces, bypass the standard sorcery defenses of the Teen Titans, and drain the ambient energy of outside magical hosts to systematically convert raw human vice into a physical weapon. (Titans v2 #4)
Members
Original
- Jacob :
- Jared :
- Jesse :
Post-Flashpoint
- Belial :
- Ruskoff :
- Suge :
Notes
- The Sons of Trigon were created by Judd Winick and Joe Benitez where they made their first appearance in Titans v2 #3 (August, 2008).
- Following the Flashpoint, the original Sons of Trigon were wiped from continuity and instead replaced with three new sons.
Alternate Versions
- In Teen Titans Go! v2 #11 (2015), the Sons of Trigon appeared in the setting tied to the animated television series continuity. Children of the interdimensional demon Trigon where they were brothers of Raven. Raven encountered her brothers at a family party in the Netherworld, where they immediately began to bully her. Raven turned the situation around on them, pitting them against one another in order to cause them to fight.
In other media
Films
- In Justice League vs. Teen Titans, unnamed demons serving Trigon appeared in the setting of the 2016 animated film.
Video game
- In DC Universe Online, a DLC was introduced that was called the Sons of Trigon that had missions involving Trigon and his demon forces.
Appearances
- Titans v2 #1: (2008)
- Trinity of Sin: Phantom Stranger v4 #17:
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