Its main karstic springs are located around Ra's al -' Ayn, from where the Khabur flows southeast past Al-Hasakah, where the river turns south and drains into the Euphrates near Busayrah.

In time, through the use of Batman's notes, Ra's al Ghul was able to fashion a synthetic red kryptonite, this version turning Superman's skin transparent and leaving him almost exploding with power as the sunlight that gave him his powers was sent directly into his muscles without being filtered by his skin.

* Batman Beyond ( 1999 – 2001 ): In the episode " Out of the Past ," it is revealed that sometime in 2009, Batman fought Ra's al Ghul in an incident referred to as " The Near-Apocalypse of 09.

In the 2010 film Batman: Under the Red Hood, the explanation for Jason's escape from death was retconned to Ra's al Ghul obtaining his body and immersing it in the Lazarus Pit.

Damian Wayne is the child of Bruce Wayne and Talia al Ghul, thus the grandson of immortal terrorist Ra's al Ghul.

* Robin # 168 – 169: The Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul

", Speedy teams up with fellow sidekicks Aqualad and Robin to battle Ra's al Ghul.

He has often played villains, in films such as The Thirty Nine Steps ( 1978 ), Time After Time ( 1979 ), Time Bandits ( 1981 ), Tron ( 1982 ), Hanna's War ( 1988 ), and television series such as Batman: The Animated Series playing Ra's al Ghul, the anti-mutant scientist Herbert Landon in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, as well as rogue agent Alpha in the animated Men in Black series and the Archmage in Disney's Gargoyles and finally The Lobe in Freakazoid.

* Dusan, son of Ra's al Ghul

* Theodosiopolis ( Osroene ), also known as Resaina, the modern Ra's al -' Ayn in Syria

In the film, Jonathan Crane is the head psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum, where he uses his fear gas to conduct experiments on his patients, working closely with Gotham mob boss Carmine Falcone and international terrorist Ra's al Ghul, who provides the ingredients for his fear gas.

James Gordon and institutionalized in Arkham, but later escapes in the mass release of the asylum's inmates prompted by Ra's al Ghul as part of his plot to destroy Gotham.

As Ra's al Ghul unleashes Crane's fear gas on Gotham's slums, Crane, by then calling himself Scarecrow, pursues Rachel and a boy through an alley on a horse, dragging a dead mounted police officer from its stirrups.

Riddler uses one of Ra's al Ghul's Lazarus Pits to rid himself of the disease, and offers Elliot the chance to cure his mother as well, provided he pays a large sum of money.

The two of them agree to work together and the Riddler sets Killer Croc, Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, Joker, Clayface, and Scarecrow out to destroy Batman, with Ra's and Talia al Ghul, and Lady Shiva being temporarily drawn into the scheme as well.

In addition, Batman warns him that if he reveals the secret, it would give Ra's al Ghul a vital clue that he used a Lazarus Pit without his permission, and the League of Assassins would subsequently retaliate against him.

Various challenge maps show him having numerous henchmen working for him including TYGER Guards, Ra's al Ghul's ninja assassins, Mr. Hammer & his twin Mr. Sickle, a Titan-empowered henchman, and even Black Mask.

After his returns he confronts Two-Face and Ra's al Ghul, proving two of his mentor's greatest enemies that he is an equal to Batman after he defeated them.

Although the Khabur originates in Turkey, the karstic springs around Ra's al -' Ayn are the river's main source of water.

Two dams, Hasakah West and Hasakah East, have been constructed on tributaries to the Khabur between Ra's al -' Ayn and Al-Hasakah.

He provided the voice of Ra's al Ghul in the 2010 DC animated film, Batman: Under the Red Hood.

On occasion, Terry is also forced to face his mentor's old foes, such as a rejuvenated Mr. Freeze ; common criminals using Bane's strength-enhancing Venom substance in the form of slap-on patches ; the longevous Ra's al Ghul ; and even the Joker himself.

Ra's al Ghul ( Raʾs al-Ġūl ; " Demon's Head ") is a fictional character, a DC Comics supervillain who is one of Batman's greatest enemies.

Ra's al Ghul has been featured in various media adaptions, most notably the 2005 Christopher Nolan film, Batman Begins, where he was portrayed by actors Liam Neeson and Ken Watanabe ( the latter being an expendable decoy ).

He also voiced one of Batman's greater enemies, Ra's Al Ghul, in Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, and an episode of Batman Beyond.

McDowell has lent his voice to Lord Maliss in Happily Ever After, the Superman villain Metallo in Superman: The Animated Series, Mad Mod in Teen Titans, Merlyn in DC Showcase: Green Arrow, Arkady Duvall ( son of Ra's Al Ghul ) in Batman: The Animated Series and as the voice of a Death Star commander in a Robot Chicken episode parodying Star Wars.

The creature was then sealed away in the frozen wasteland of Antarctica, encased within ice, until it was released by Ra's Al Ghul, who used him as a pawn in his plan to use nuclear warheads to decimate Gotham as well as destroy a cluster of communication satellites, causing a major communications blackout, the end goal of his mission being to incite chaos and purge the Earth of the " cancer " that is civilization.

He has voiced Ra's Al Ghul in the Batman Begins video game.

Ra's al Ghul is an international criminal mastermind whose ultimate goal is a world in perfect environmental balance.

As told in Birth of the Demon, Ra's al Ghul is born over 600 years before his first appearance in Batman comics, to a tribe of nomads in a desert somewhere in Arabia, near a city whose inhabitants ' ancestors have journeyed to the Arabian Peninsula from China.

While these humans eventually rebelled and buried the Stargate, thousands of others had been taken to the other planet through the Stargate and used to mine the quartzite-like mineral on which all of Ra's technology is based.

Despite wearing fearsome armor in the forms of Anubis and Horus, Ra's guards and servants are human ; a blue-jewelled button on each of their wrist-guards is activated to retract the metallic god-masks over their heads and into their collars.

Sha ' uri is killed in the battle, but Jackson using a dead guard's wrist-mechanism activates the ring transporter and resurrects her in Ra's sarcophagus.

At times she is the eye of Ra and considered his daughter, but she is also considered Ra's mother.

Originally conceived to become a host for his maternal grandfather's soul as well as a pawn against the Dark Knight, Batman saved his child from this fate which forced Ra's to inhabit his own son's body, and Damian is affectionate to his father.

Funkadelic is a funk band with a psychedelic rock touch whose influences include the amplifier sounds of Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin, James Brown's funk, blues, Sun Ra's experimentation, Frank Zappa's and the Coasters ' humour, the concept albums of the Beatles and the Who and southern soul artists like Otis Redding and Screamin ' Jay Hawkins.

On Mothership Connection, Starchild first appeared ( inspired equally by Sun Ra's " Black Noah " and Jesus ); he is a divine alien being, who came to earth from a spaceship ( his arrival is " the Mothership Connection ") to bring the holy Funk ( with a capital " F ": the cause of creation and source of energy and all life ), to humanity.

Containing such songs as the proto-punk classics " Kick Out the Jams " and " Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa ", the spaced-out " Starship " ( co-credited to Sun Ra because the lyrics were partly cribbed from one of Ra's poems ), and an extended cover of John Lee Hooker's " Motor City is Burning " wherein Tyner praises the role of Black Panther snipers during the Detroit Insurrection of 1967.

The album is a notable example of the radical break which Sun Ra's music of that time had made with " previous notions of melody or harmony ".

Although heavily percussive, the music also dispenses with a continuous beat ; instead Ra's music is reconstructed around " interweaving compositional and improvisatory creative principles with programmatic affects ".

The planet Earth is destroyed after Ra's spaceship flies into the space.

Ra's greatest adversary in his quest is The Overseer, incarnation of evil in the Black community who poses himself to be a community leader and a man of charity.

Of the three people shown applying to Ra's " employment agency ", two are White, one of whom is a blonde woman attempting to seduce Ra.

Ra's Juby, ) is a cape on the coast of southern Morocco, near the border with Western Sahara, directly east of the Canary Islands.