The Titans are a race of incredibly ancient and powerful supernatural beings. They are notably the predecessors of the Old Gods.
History[]
Overthrow[]
At some point in time, the Titans and the Old Gods battled restlessly for over ten years. However, the Old Gods eventually won the conflict and the Titans were overthrown.[1]
At some point, Atlas, a Titan who possessed immense stamina[2] was known to have his powers transferred to the wizard Shazam after he was slain, which was granted centuries later to Billy Batson and the Shazam Family by Shazam.[3]
Confinement[]
After the death of Zeus and the other Old Gods by Ares, the Titans took over Mount Olympus and ruled with a heavy hand. This led the humans to rebel against them and the council of magicians to take away their powers. After draining the magic of Olympus, the wizard Shazam erected a barrier between the realm of the Gods and the human realm, enclosing the surviving Gods and Titans.
Prometheus' Punishment[]
- "The word 'philanthropist' comes from the Greek, meaning 'a lover of humanity'. It was coined about twenty-five hundred years ago. Prometheus went with us, and ruined Zeus' plan to destroy Mankind and for that, he was given the thunderbolt. Choo!"
- ―Lex Luthor[src]
According to Greek mythology, the titan Prometheus, who watched mankind suffer, decided to gift them with the knowledge of fire. For this act he was punished by Zeus to a tremendous torture: he was chained to a rock and every night an eagle would come to eat his liver.[4]
Present[]
Millennia after Atlas' death, his daughters Hespera, Anthea, and Kalypso sought to recover their father's stamina from the Shazam Family and to restore their home realm using the Golden Apple.
After Billy broke the magical staff, the Olympus barrier was broken, allowing the sisters to descend from heaven to earth to put their plan into action.
While their objective was mostly successful, Kalypso also intended to terraform the Earth into their home realm. When Hespera and Anthea objected, Kalypso mortally wounded Hespera and depowered Anthea before planting the Golden Apple and attacking Philadelphia with an army of mythical creatures. However, Billy defeated Kalypso, with aid from Hespera, albeit at the cost of his own life. Later, after Billy's revival, Anthea's powers were restored with the Wizard's repaired staff.[5]
Physiology[]
The titans seem to have a very similar physiology to that of their successors, the Old Gods, but is is unclear whether they share the latter's ability to gain power from the worship of mortals.
Like the gods, the Titans have powerful magical powers linked to different aspects of nature, but the titans are more linked primordial powers itself such as time, elements, stars, chaos, space and reality itself.
Like the gods, the Titans can have divine or semi-divine offspring, since Atlas had 3 daughters, all immortal and with divine powers, Hespera, Kalypso, and Anthea.
Notable Titans[]
References[]
External Links[]
Titans on DC Database- Titans on Wikipedia
