Titan
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| Titan | |
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| Occupation | Fighter ("Live or Die" web series) |
| Powers and Abilities | Super strength, super stamina, invulnerability |
| Played By | Kane (Glen Jacobs) |
| Status | Deceased (Combat) |
| Appeared In | Zod, Combat |
Titan was a powerful humanoid alien who was inadvertently freed from the Phantom Zone by Clark Kent. Unlike most other Zoners, he still possessed his body.
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[edit] Physical Appearance
Titan was a fighter and lived for combat. A Kryptonian tattoo on his right arm underlines that he seemed to embrace the way of the warrior and was "enhanced for combat". Titan wore mostly dark colors which consisted of green, brown and black, and looked human in his appearance. On his right arm, Titan had a bone spike which he would use to skewer his defeated victims.
[edit] Powers and Abilities
Titan possessed great physical strength rivaling that of a yellow sun-powered Kryptonian. Furthermore, he demonstrated super stamina and agility when he battled with Clark. He also displayed high level of durability but nevertheless, he was impaled on his own stake and died.
Due to his amazing strength and titanic battle with Clark, Titan was certainly one of the physically strongest of the Zoners. The reason for his defeat (when even Aldar, another Zoner who almost killed Clark in hand-to-hand combat, failed) as most likely due to the fact that Clark was willing to let go and fight at his full strength, a feat he had never done before due to his fear of killing anyone. When he was willing to fight at his full potential, the battle with Titan became a much easier obstacle for him to overcome.
- Super strength - Titan is almost a match for Clark Kent. He is weaker then Aldar.
- Super stamina - Titan has a high stamina.
- Super durability - Titan is highly resistant to physical injury.
[edit] Season Six
Titan landed in Omaha, Nebraska, where he started fighting locals. He then looked for a place where he could fight more "worthy" opponents on a more permanent basis. Eventually, Titan found and joined an underground fight club ("Live Or Die") that was streaming webcasts of fights from a secret location (Fort Ryan). Here he would have the opportunity to fight strong human opponents.
Oliver Queen found out about the illegal fighting club and asked Clark Kent to check it out. Clark eventually discovered the Fort Ryan location, but was forced to enter the ring against Lois Lane, who was also investigating the club for the Metropolis Inquisitor. However, Titan saw Clark and recognized him as Kal-El, and was unable to resist the chance to enter the ring and fight a Kryptonian. In his zeal to reach Clark, Titan knocked out Lois and killed the host of the webcast, Richtor Maddox, with a single punch. Clark cut off power to the cameras and engaged in a brutish battle with Titan. In the brawl, Titan at first seemed to be stronger than Clark, literally beating Clark to a bloody pulp, but Clark soon gained the upper hand and gave back what Titan had done to him in spades. Titan eventually died from a mortal wound caused by falling on his own bone-like weapon, but not before smiling and congratulating Clark on his fighting prowess.
Clark later relates that he felt conflicted about his mission to clean up the Zoners he let free. He felt particularly uncomfortable with having to kill Titan in order to accomplish that goal. As a matter of fact, a darker side is shown to Clark while fighting Titan, as he smiles in a sadistic fashion shortly before impaling Titan on his own weapon.
Nothing else is revealed about Titan, except that he knows Clark's real name and race. After his demise, Titan's DNA was used by Lex Luthor in his 33.1 experiments, to anchor a multitude of powers unto a single host and to grant super-strength to super-soldiers, such as Wes Keenan. It remains unknown if the Zoner's real name was "Titan" or if he was just referred to as "Titan" by Richtor Maddox.
[edit] In the Comics
In the comic books, Titan was a New God from the planet Apokolips, part of Darkseid's elite. Like Smallville's version, he was large, and a fierce fighter.
[edit] Notes
- The character of Titan shares a few traits in common with the comic book villain, Doomsday. He is shown to be obsessed with combat, has monumental super-strength, a bony spike coming out of his arm, and instinctively knows Clark Kent is of Kryptonian origin. Coincidentally, Glen "Kane" Jacobs, who portrays Titan, went by the name Doomsday at one point in his wrestling career. However, the announcement of Doomsday's appearance in Season 8 - where he also possesses the human identity of paramedic Davis Bloome - has ended speculation that Titan was Smallville's version of Doomsday.
- According to Clark, Titan crash-landed in Omaha, Nebraska. This is the birthplace of Marlon Brando, who portrayed Jor-El in Superman: The Movie.
