Titus (comics)

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Titus is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Publication history

Titus first appeared in Nova Vol. 5 #1 and was created by Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness.

Fictional character biography

Titus is an unnamed

Following the desertion of Jesse Alexander, Titus was attacked by the Chitauri which led to the loss of Titus' right eye and arm causing him to replace his missing parts with cybernetics. After serving the Chitauri for several years, Titus came to Earth in search of Jesse Alexander's Nova helmet.^[2]

Titus lies to Sam Alexander telling him that he had killed his father. This is not true because Jesse Alexander is being held captive by the Chitauri. When Titus finds Sam, he threatens not only him, but everything he holds dearly to him in exchange for the Ultimate Nullifier he stole from their ship. Sam then gets back his helmet from Titus and takes them both to outer space, expecting the lack of oxygen to kill Titus. When that plan fails, Sam takes out the Ultimate Nullifier and tells Titus to take his forces and leave. Titus and Sam then struggle for the Ultimate Nullifier and Sam accidentally triggers it killing Titus and an entire fleet of Chitauri.^[3]

Titus somehow turned up alive when he and Death's Head ambush Sam and Richard Rider in Knowhere.^[4]

Powers and abilities

As part of the Nova Corps, Titus wields a Nova Gun and can breathe in outer space.

In other media

Television

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• Titus appears in Guardians of the Galaxy, voiced again by JB Blanc.^[5][6] This version joined the Nova Corps to become involved in the intergalactic black market. Following a minor appearance in the episode "Origins", Titus appears in the episode "Take the Milano and Run" when the Guardians of the Galaxy encounter him on the space station Conjunction. Titus and the Nova Corps attempt to arrest the Guardians, but they defeat him before leaving Conjunction. In the episode "Can't Fight This Seedling", Titus pursues the Guardians, but ends up crash-landing on a nearby planet and contacts his superiors to request the use of an anti-matter missile. Though they deny him, he attempts to use it anyway, only for Drax the Destroyer to redirect it into an asteroid. Titus later tries to arrest the Guardians again, but is stopped by the alien locals. In the episode "Undercover Angle", Titus catches the Guardians while they are infiltrating the Nova Corps's headquarters, but chooses not to arrest them in exchange for them infiltrating the Black Order, ostensibly to keep them from finding Ronan the Accuser's Universal Weapon. Amidst the Guardians and Black Order's fight over the weapon, Titus attacks both groups to claim it for himself and give it to the Collector, forcing the two groups to temporarily work together to stop Titus. During the fight, Star-Lord records Titus confessing his true motives for joining the Nova Corps and sends it to his superiors. While he defeats the Black Order, Titus is defeated by the Guardians in turn and arrested by the Nova Corps, vowing revenge. In the episode "Rock Your Baby", a rogue Nova Centurion helmet enables Titus to escape his imprisonment and pursue vengeance against the Guardians. After tracking them down, he attempts to convince Adam Warlock to destroy the Guardians, but Warlock traps Titus in his gem. Subsequently, Titus makes a minor appearance in the episode "You Can't Always Get What You Want".