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Raven- Storm

We speak here of the one of the premiere superheroines ever conceived, and indubitably the best-known comic book character of African descent.

We also speak of a character who best known by non-nerds as the sullen, sarcastic goth girl from the Cartoon Networks version of the Teen Titans. Her relative popularity on the program has inspired a similar characterization in the current DC diaspora, which I think is quite dumb.

Commonalities:
Both are otherworldly, exotic, mystically oriented and occasionally tormented characters, and each is key to their respective franchises.

Differences:
Raven is an empath, can fly, teleport and project her “soul-self” into combat. Whereas Storm is the weather-witch nonpareil.

Alternate histories:

RA: Orphan Rachel Roth discovers her quasi-mystical abilities and upon reaching her teens is worshipped by a pacifist cult. Taking the code name Raven, she’s enlisted into the Teen Titans, and after several years as a valued member leads the team upon the departure of Nightwing. Raven remains with every iteration of the Titans until she marries another superhuman operative and world leader; the two briefly joined the Doom Patrol.

ST: A woman named N’Dare Munroe is enthralled and then raped by Belasco, a extradimensional demonic tyrant. Their daughter, Ororo, is raised by her mother in a pacifist cult; when she realizes that Belasco intends to enlist her in his campaign to dominate the Earth, she brings together Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Iceman, Nightcrawler, one other mutant and an alien (both to be named later) as the new version of the X-Men; the team successfully opposes her father. Adopting the code name Storm, she stays with the X-Men until she‘s compelled to join her revived father’s campaign to conquer the Earth. She apparently dissipates, only to be resurrected a number of times in both benevolent and malevolent iterations. Storm spent time with a group of younger X-Men, but has lately rejoined her original compatriots.