The familiar names and large sizes of the Titans have made them part of popular culture.
General or collective references In the 2011 movie Immortals, starring Henry Cavill and Mickey Rourke, the Titans are imprisoned in Mount Tartarus until King Hyperion releases them using the Epirus Bow. The Titans resemble gods, but wear dark orange helmets and have rock-colored skin, and there are seemingly more that appear in the film than in actual mythology. In the 1997 Disney animated film Hercules there are five Titans, who bear little similarity to their mythological counterparts. Four of them, the Rock Titan, Ice Titan, Lava Titan, and Tornado Titan, embody the four classical elements, while a fifth Titan, the one-eyed Cyclops, is not associated with any element. They terrorize Earth until Zeus imprisons them; however, Hades later releases them to aid in his attempt to usurp Zeus . Later, in the animated series, the Titan Kronos is mentioned. The Disney versions of the Titans also appear in various games in the Disney-Square Enix video game franchise Kingdom Hearts. In the 1981 film Clash of the Titans, the Kraken, actually an entity from Norse mythology, is presented as "the last Titan". It also describes the usage of the head of Medusa, who is actually a Gorgon, to fight him, as "a titan against another titan". In the 2010 remake, the Titans are mentioned at the beginning, when it is claimed Hades created the Kraken to defeat them. Kronos appears in the sequel Wrath of the Titans, where Ares has turned to darkness and plans to revive his grandfather using Zeus' life force. The Italian sword-and-sandal film Arrivano i titani initially shows the Titans as prisoners in Tartarus, before they are latter liberated by Zeus to take down the megalomanic King Cadmus. The video game series God of War, which is based on Greek mythology, features many of the Titans, mainly Gaia, Cronos, and Atlas. They attempt to reignite their Great War with the Olympians with help from Spartan warrior Kratos, who became the God of War after killing Ares and sought vengeance against the Olympians after their king Zeus, later revealed to be his biological father, betrayed him. They serve as allies in God of War II, but become antagonists in God of War III following Gaia's betrayal. The Titans appear in the Charmed episode "Oh My Goddess", where Cronus, Demtrieus, and Meta battle the Charmed Ones, who are transformed into Goddesses, before being destroyed by Piper Halliwell. The Titans occasionally appear or are mentioned in Renaissance Pictures' Hercules/Xena franchise. In the Xena: Warrior Princess episode "The Titans," many Titans were turned to stone by the Olympians, which Crius, Hyperion and Theia seek to undo. In the Hercules: The Legendary Journeys episode "Let There Be Light," it is said that the Titans successfully defeated Dahak, but the battle left them too weak to resist the Olympians. In the Hercules series finale "Full Circle," Oceanus, Helios, and Atlas appear, having made a deal with Ares to destroy the Olympians but spare him. Titan appears as a regular Earth-based summon in the video game series Final Fantasy. The Titans are a race of Eternals (gods) in the Warcraft universe, depicted as tall figures with metallic-colored skin. They defeated the Old Gods, who originally ruled Azeroth long ago, before the invasion of the Burning Legion. In the tabletop game Warhammer 40,000, Titans are large war machines with destructive power, often referred to as "god-Machines" by Imperial forces due to being virtually unstoppable; generally, the only threat to a Titan on the battlefield is a Chaos Titan, or similar constructs created by other races. The largest class of combat vessels in the MMORPG Eve Online are classified as 'titans', and several of the Gallente faction vessels are named after Greek deities. In the series Percy Jackson and the Olympians, the Titans are the main villains, attempting to take over Mount Olympus and rule civilization once more after most of them were imprisoned in the Underworld. In DC Comics the Titans of Myth were exiled to another world after their defeat, which they called New Cronos, while Kronos was imprisoned in a tree. The Titans raised Donna Troy, also known as Troia, and gave her her powers. Titans are depicted in Dante Alighieri's Inferno. The tabletop roleplaying game Exalted features several titan-like Primordials who were usurped by the gods prior to the First Age. The NVIDIA GeForce Titan was released in 2013, and at the time was the most powerful GPU sold. In 2004, the Japanese automaker Nissan began production of a full-sized pickup truck for the North American market called the Titan. In Resident Evil Outbreak File #2, the giant zombie elephant rampaging throughout one scenario is called Titan. In the Dune series, created by Frank Herbert and continued by his son, Brian Herbert, a group of rebels calling themselves Titans conquer the Old Empire, with their reign being known as the Time of Titans. The Age of Empires spin-off, Age of Mythology, initially contained three civilizations and mythologies: The Norse, the Greeks, and the Egyptians. A later expansion added a fourth civilization, Atlantis, which worshipped the Titans. Titans are portrayed, as a whole, largely neutral, with some Titans even switching sides at some points in the game. There are three Major Titans that can be worshipped: Chronos, Gaia, and Ouranos. Gaia is shown generally as good and Chronos as evil, while Ouranos is mostly portrayed as a good force. Though Ouranos' followers are on the side of evil at one point, Ouranos is still the major god of the protagonists in one of the final battles. In the Brütal Legend video game, Titans are a race of benevolent creatures who invented music and left it for the modern world. In Dennou Boukenki Webdiver, the final giant robot, Ditalion, is based on a Titan. The primary antagonists in the anime and manga series Attack on Titan are called "Titans", and are depicted as a species of mindless giants that attack and eat humans on sight. In the series, the Titans were created from a race of people known as Subjects of Ymir, the only people capable of turning into Titans. Despite being referred to as Titans, their Japanese name, Kyojin, translates to Giant rather than Titan. In the manga Saint Seiya Episode.G, the Titans are villains, attempting to rule civilization once more, with Leo Aiolia and the Gold Saints being assigned to stop them. The video game Titan Quest tells the story of how the Telkine manage to cut off the gods from the mortal realms and attempt to free Typhon, identified in the game as a Titan, to have him assault Mount Olympus. The player is a Greek soldier who rises to the challenge and defends the world from the onslaught of mythological beasts and monsters. The video game franchise Borderlands features various references to the Titans throughout each installment in the series. In the story, four characters called Vault Hunters end up on a planet called Pandora to search for a mythical alien Vault, said to contain a cache of rare and powerful weapons, which the Atlas and Hyperion Corporations also seek to discover. The Hyperion Corporation builds a massive, H-shaped space station in Pandora's orbit called Helios on which a fair portion of gameplay takes place in the third game of the franchise, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. One of the playable characters in the game is a “gladiator” known as Athena, who is an ex-employee of the now non-existent Atlas Corporation. The video game Catacomb Abyss (1992) features a level called The Battleground of the Titans, with the two titan races being trolls and demons. In the MonsterVerse, Godzilla, King Kong and other kaiju are referred to as Titans. They are enormous animals that originate from inside the Hollow Earth, which they use to travel across the planet's surface to reclaim the world they once ruled, clashing with humanity. In the animated television series The Owl House, Titans are shown to be an enormous extinct canine species, with King Clawthorne, one of the show's main characters and a juvenile Titan, being the last of his kind. The Boiling Isles, where the series primarily takes place, is formed from the remains of a dead Titan, later revealed to be King's father. The Titans were wiped out following a battle between them and the Collector's race, whose magic they were able to nullify. The video game Hades, which is based on Greek mythology, features many references to the Titans, but the sequel, Hades II, actually features them, Hecate as the protagonist (Melinoe) headmistress and foster mother, Selene as one of Melinoe's allies, and Chronos as the final boss of the game; Chronos has traits of Cronus, as he is known as the Titan of Time. In Honkai: Star Rail, the Titans are a group of gods born from the Coreflames sent down by the gods of Amphoreus. Each Titan has an associated Coreflame, and whoever conquers the Coreflame's Trial could inherit the Titan's power and become the demigod. The Titans were responsible for the creations of the first heaven, earth, morals, and the calendar; following the fall of the Titans, and the Chrysos Heirs are prophesied to take up the Coreflames.
Sports teams California State University, Fullerton Titans, a California State University. Gold Coast Titans, Australian rugby league team Newport Titans, a rugby league side who play out of Newport, South Wales. Titans cricket team, the Nashua Titans, a South African cricket team based in Centurion and Benoni Tennessee Titans, an American football team in the National Football League Titans of New York, former name of the New York Jets, an American football team in the National Football League New York Titans (lacrosse), a team in the National Lacrosse League Victoria Titans, former professional basketball team from Melbourne in the NBL Titan Robotics Club, International School, Bellevue, WA - FIRST Robotics Competition team #492
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Atlas In the God of War video game series, Atlas is encountered twice by protagonist Kratos. In the 2008 game Chains of Olympus, Atlas (voiced by Fred Tatasciore) is freed from his prison in Tartarus by Persephone in order to use Helios' power to destroy the Pillar of the World; Kratos destroys her and chains Atlas to the world, cursing him to hold it on his shoulders forever. In the 2007 game God of War II, while seeking The Sisters of Fate, Kratos is caught by Atlas (voiced by Michael Clarke Duncan) after falling down the Great Chasm battling Icarus. After breaking his chains, he attempts to kill Kratos, but is convinced to help him and helps him across the Great Chasm, wishing him luck and granting him the last of his magic, Atlas Quake. In Rick Riordan's The Titan's Curse of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, Atlas is the main antagonist. After being freed from the burden of the sky by tricking people into carrying it, near the end Percy and Artemis force him back under the Sky, though he kills his daughter, the nymph Zoe, in battle. He appears in The Last Olympian and tells the other Titans one of them should take his burden so he can fight, but is told that, due to his failure, Kronos is keeping him there. One of the models of Ford, Ford Atlas was named after the Titan. The Wizard Shazam gains stamina from Atlas, and grants it to Shazam. Atlas is the name of a weapons manufacturer in the video game Borderlands (2009) and sequel Borderlands 3 (2019). Atlas is featured in Smite as a playable guardian.
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