He is an adversary of the Teen Titans and the Justice League, the father and arch-enemy of the superheroine Raven, and husband of the human Arella.

[2] Centuries ago, a pacifistic group following their spiritual leader Azar fled Earth to escape its violence.

Raven learns of Trigon's intentions to conquer the Earth and vows to stop him; she initially approaches the Justice League, but they refuse her on the advice of Zatanna, who senses her demonic parentage.

[7][8]Trigon is later resurrected under unspecified circumstances, but his sons, Jacob, Jared and Jesse, betray him and steal his powers.

[12] In The New 52 reboot, Trigon is a minor demon of an unspecified species targeted for extermination by an alien group calling themselves the Divine.

To circumvent this, he summons a woman from the realm he attempted to cross over to and impregnates her, before sending her back to her home world.

Trigon begins a quest to sire as many children as possible to aid him in his conquests, however, only three boys survive, and he considers them failures.

Raven, feeling lonely at the prospect of one day ruling Earth alone, begins to magically spy on the Titans.

[15] However, Raven ultimately loses the ability to contact Trigon[16] and finds joy in the fact that she no longer has to obey him.