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Titania (Mary MacPherran) is a character appearing in
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, the character
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in ''
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'' #3 (July 1984). MacPherran is the second character called Titania. She is the rival of the
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, in later years, she has reformed into more of an
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and the
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at various points in her history. The character made her live action debut in the
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series '' She-Hulk: Attorney at Law'' (2022), portrayed by
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.


Development


Concept and creation

Mary MacPherran is a real-life Marvel production assistant who was asked by Jim Shooter if it was permissible to name a character after her. In 2011, Shooter posted a photo on his blog of a group of Marvel staffers, with a caption identifying the real MacPherran. In a comment, Shooter said of MacPherran:


Publication history

Titania debuted in ''
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'' #3 (July 1984), created by writer
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and artist
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. She appeared in the 2015 ''Illuminati'' series, by Joshua Williamson.


Fictional character biography

Born prematurely in a suburb of
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,
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, Mary MacPherran grew up scrawny and short-statured, inspiring the popular Vanessa Ashwood at school to nickname her "Skeeter" (a slang word for mosquito). While a high school senior, Mary works as a salesclerk alongside her only friend, Marsha Rosenberg, to support her struggling family. Consistently bullied since childhood by the wealthy and cruel Vanessa and her friends, Mary grows resentful and fantasizes about gaining superpowers to become admired, and exact retribution on her tormentors. After the second
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(Julia Carpenter) makes one of her early appearances in their town, Marsha remarks that the new superheroine's reddish-blonde hair color matches Mary's. Mary then falsely confides to her friend that she is secretly Spider-Woman. Shortly afterward, Mary is invited to a fancy party at Vanessa's house where she realizes that her newfound popularity is due to Marsha spreading the false Spider-Woman rumor. In the middle of the party, their section of Denver is torn from
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and incorporated into the
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's
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. When the real Spider-Woman arrives on the scene to save the guests from a collapsing structure, the now-enraged Vanessa and her guests turn on Mary and Marsha, chasing them into the forests of Battleworld.''She-Hulk'' #10 (2004). Marvel Comics. Scared and exhausted, the two girls are found by
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. Realizing how emotionally malleable they are, he offers to give them powers if they will serve him; both girls agree.''Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars'' #3. Marvel Comics.


''Secret Wars''

Using the highly advanced alien technology found in Doombase and by harnessing immense energies from the ferocious alien storm outside, Doom is able to reconstitute both Mary and Marsha from a molecular level and grant them new superhuman bodies. While Rosenberg (now known as Volcana) receives a fiery form composed of ionized plasma, MacPherran becomes tall, muscular, and physically attractive - the diametric opposite of her previous self. Titania's physical changes come with changes in personality. Whereas Mary MacPherran had been small and timid, the newly named Titania (seemingly as strong as a
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) is brash and confident. When Volcana melts machinery into a large pile of red-hot
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, Titania simply picks the heated mass up without harm or concern before hurling it with incredible ability. Soon after, she challenges Carl "Crusher" Creel, the
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, to a fight which he refuses, stating that he has "nothing to prove... to a dame." Titania begins to work for Doom in earnest and joins his forces when they attack en masse. She battles
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, Rogue and
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, as well as the
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. She eventually gets the better of
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, beginning a long rivalry between the two. When the heroes later storm Doombase to rescue She-Hulk, Titania is pitted against
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. Initially confident since he is much smaller and less imposing than She-Hulk, she panics upon realizing that Spider-Man's vastly superior speed, agility, reflexes, intelligence and years of experience against more powerful foes allow him to not only easily avoid her but also attack her with complete impunity. The fight ends when Spider-Man beats her into the ground, then picks her up and disdainfully tosses her through an exterior wall. During this fight, Titania's newfound arrogance quickly evaporates, giving way to what Spider-Man mockingly calls the "whining little wimp-ette" — it is clear that her arrogance masks the same insecure, fragile personality that she has always possessed. Mindful of this beating, Titania avoids coming into contact with Spider-Man while on Battleworld, and harbors a fear of him for some time after returning to Earth.''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #283 (1986). Marvel Comics. After her run-in with Spider-Man, the Absorbing Man and Titania begin a relationship. Once Owen Reece, the
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, manages to seal off the chunk of Denver and navigate it toward Earth, Creel and MacPherran finally abandon Doom's cause for the chance to go home. Upon finally reaching Denver, MacPherran takes the opportunity to track down Vanessa Ashwood, whom she beats up and mocks before tearing her house down. However, she finds that getting revenge brings her no satisfaction, and that if anything, she genuinely regrets harming someone who poses absolutely no threat to her now.


Back to Earth

Once back on Earth, Titania and Absorbing Man continue to work as professional criminals by joining
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's incarnation of the
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. Their first assignment is to recruit Moonstone, which also prevents them from joining the main group in the assault on
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. To kill time, Titania robs a jewelry store and attracts the attention of Spider-Man. Too afraid to fight him, she runs but encounters him again at
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. Titania avoids fighting, having Creel do so on her behalf. The sight of his near-defeat at Spider-Man's hands proves enough for Titania to temporarily overcome her 'arachnophobia', charging in to save her boyfriend. Creel ends the fight by threatening to destroy a plane full of innocents if Spider-Man refuses to leave the scene, which he reluctantly does. The villain couple receive another assignment from the Masters: to kill
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who had been gravely injured by the Masters and was hospitalized. Despite being guarded by only
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, Hercules survives. Creel is stung by insects in human form and Titania is shrunk to the size of Wasp. She is taken to the Vault, a superhuman penitentiary. The stay in the Vault does not last long. When
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begins the
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(the battle to destroy or disable all enhanced armor types based on stolen Iron Man designs), it inevitably leads him to the Guardsmen, The Vault's wardens. The ensuing conflict creates a power failure, allowing Titania and Mister Hyde to escape. While
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manages to subdue and capture Mister Hyde, his colleague D-Man is unsuccessful in apprehending Titania. When allowed the opportunity for a rematch, D-Man simply lets her escape because she is far stronger than him. Using her newfound freedom, Titania travels to Washington, D.C. After losing a succession of battles with She-Hulk, Titania willingly returns to jail after falsely promising to end their feud. Broken out yet again, Titania joins with the Wizard,
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and
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to become the new
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. Battling the
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with Titania taking on the
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and Ms. Marvel, the team only wins due to help from Professor Gregson Gilbert's creation Dragon Man and Aron, the Renegade Watcher. In the rematch, the Fantastic Four prevails only to have both teams imprisoned by Aron in suspended animation, using clones of the Fantastic Four to act out adventures he wished to witness. When both teams are freed, Aron chooses to witness the dreams of his clones instead and transports the Frightful Four back to The Vault, as a service to the Fantastic Four. Titania permanently overcomes her fear of Spider-Man during the 1989–1990 "
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" crossover, in which a conspiracy between
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and the Wizard teams supervillains to fight enemies not usually their own. Titania is dismayed when Doctor Doom, her partner, tells her she would face She-Hulk and not Spider-Man. With the help of a behavior modification device secretly affixed to Titania, Doom stokes her pride and anger, allowing her to engage Spider-Man at the
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offices. After the Puma's claws tear Doom's device from her she cowers from Spider-Man, but he makes her realize that she had been fighting him the whole time, and resumes attacking. At the time, Spider-Man was temporarily bonded with the
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, making him Captain Universe. This grants him the power to render Titania unconscious in one massive energy discharge. She is freed on the way to the Vault by
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who also collects the
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and the
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. All had been humiliated by Spider-Man in the Captain Universe guise and along with
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and
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, they make a failing attempt to take revenge. Titania is once again humiliatingly defeated when Spider-Man tricks her into colliding with a city bus.


Finding romance

Escaping The Vault once again, Titania joins
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's Femizons, as foes of
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and the
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. This does not work out and Titania resolves to track down her old flame – the Absorbing Man, finding him battling the Eric Masterson Thor. When she appears injured by a blow from Mjolnir, Creel intervenes and confesses his love for her, which she gladly reciprocates. Seeing this, Thor allows them to leave. Though Creel decides to give up on crime and try to go straight, Titania quickly goes back to holding up stores. Concerned, Creel attempts to "scare her straight", collaborating with Thor in a ploy involving an exhibit at the
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. While the appearance of Spider-Man and special police unit Code: Blue complicates matters, ultimately Titania remembers her love for Creel and the couple are ultimately given parole. Creel continues to get mad at Mary for not managing to stay legal and violating their parole. In order to alleviate her stress, he arranges an official bout with She-Hulk, but Titania nonetheless decides to cheat and ends up losing the fight. Titania and the Absorbing Man's wedding is attended by many supervillains. While the Avengers interrupt the ceremony, they soon depart. Titania quickly grows bored with her law-abiding reform, and after Absorbing Man tries to buy her a Valentine's present but is nonetheless attacked by the police, they accept having to live a life on the run from the law. In need of funds the pair assumes the guises of Thunder Girl and Lightning Bolt in order to hunt Spider-Man for the reward offered by
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. Despite Titania briefly contracting severe skin burns as a result of this escapade, the pair remains unable to reform and commit more robberies. Titania also continues to clash with She-Hulk.


Illness and recuperation

Despite her enhanced durability, Titania contracts
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. Lacking both
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and money, Creel is forced to move her from the hospital to an abandoned building. Creel kidnaps Dr. Jane Foster and brings her to the abandoned building to treat Titania, whose condition is rapidly deteriorating. Due to a battle between Creel and Thor, the building collapses upon the two women. Weakened and barely conscious, but still massively strong, Titania is nonetheless able to save Foster from being killed by holding up the falling debris. Foster then uses her hospital privileges to get Titania a room and the treatment she needs. In a "silent" story containing no word balloons, Captain America fights the Absorbing Man on Christmas Eve, then learns that Creel was trying to get enough money to buy a Christmas present for Titania. Cap then secretly delivers the present in Creel's place and remains outside their apartment window long enough to watch Titania pick up the gift. In an accompanying script excerpt, writer
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explains that Titania's illness has been cured. During Christopher Priest's run on ''
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'', Titania appears as a roommate of Deadpool and the supervillain Constrictor, but is later revealed to be the shapeshifter Copycat. She was originally intended to be the real Titania, but Marvel editors came up with the Copycat explanation in order to resolve the continuity conflict with Dan Jurgens' cancer storyline simultaneously occurring in ''Thor''.


Wielding the Power Gem

Titania proves unable to stay away from She-Hulk and undergoes an intense physical regimen to boost her abilities. However, She-Hulk had done so more efficiently, briefly reaching levels almost approaching those of the
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himself. Battered and inadvertently humiliated by her, Titania is offered the chance at revenge after obtaining the Power Gem, one of the legendary
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, from its former owner, the former
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, now known as the Fallen One because of his own defeat at She-Hulk's hands. The Fallen One had agreed to cease using the Power Gem as a condition of his defeat but was free to gain his own revenge by proxy through Titania. After an initial defeat by the newly empowered Titania, She-Hulk tricks her into believing that she had killed the Jade Giantess in a second battle; Titania's initial rush of triumph suddenly melts into uncertainty, as she realized that her life now had no meaning or focus without the object of her obsessive hatred. She-Hulk (in her normal form as Jennifer Walters) then takes advantage of Titania's confusion to pluck the Power Gem from the criminal's forehead and uses the Gem's power to knock Titania out with a single punch.''She-Hulk'' #12 (April 2005). Marvel Comics. Titania is incarcerated in the
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Memorial Penitentiary, a.k.a. the Pym Experimental Prison #2, a prison in which superhuman inmates are shrunk with Pym particles to less than an inch in height, to reduce both their chances of escape and their threat to guards and the public. Titania appears as a member of
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's Frightful Four, battling the Fantastic Four on Saturn's moon,
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. Titania is shown having been returned to the Pym Experimental Prison. In the next issue, having escaped (though still shrunken to diminutive size), she is reunited with the Absorbing Man, and clashes again with She-Hulk. To save She-Hulk from the Absorbing Man, her friend, the
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, uses the shrunken Titania as a hostage and throws her into the mouth of a shark. Titania survives this somehow, as she encounters
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and is later seen at the Raft, commenting along with other female inmates on the prowess of the new warden
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.


Fear Itself

During the '' Fear Itself'' storyline, one of the seven Hammers of the Worthy lands near Titania after it was launched to Earth by Serpent. When she lifts it, her body becomes possessed by Skirn, Breaker of Men. Skirn then helps Creel find his own hammer in the capital of Hell. When they find his hammer, they come across a well-known thief who has a personal history with Skirn. The thief tries to take the hammer as his own, but Skirn quickly defeats him.
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, Iron Fist, and their allies appear and try unsuccessfully to keep the hammer from Creel, who becomes the host body for Greithoth, Breaker of Wills when he grasps it. Shortly after the Worthy are defeated, a distraught Titania is shown in her prison cell imploring Raft personnel to stop Crossbones from stealing Skirn's hammer and committing atrocities with it.


All-New Thor

When Absorbing Man and Titania rob an armored car, the female Thor appears to thwart their plans. Upon meeting the female Thor, Creel mocks her for being a woman and for having taken Thor's name for herself, which she answers by breaking his jaw. Titania then appears to confront her. Out of respect for what Thor was doing, she knocks out her husband with his own weapon and surrenders. Despite this surrender, and despite Titania having once saved her life, Thor hits her hard with Mjolnir, knocking her out.


Illuminati

Titania makes a serious attempt to reform; with She-Hulk's help, she gets a job running security for a pawnshop. Though she successfully stops a robbery by thugs armed with energy weapons, her powers attract the attention of Luke Cage and Iron Fist. Despite her innocence, the Heroes for Hire view her with suspicion and attempt to subdue her. In the middle of the fight, the
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teleports Titania against her will back to his lair, where he invites her to join his incarnation of the
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, promising a way out of supervillainy. She reluctantly agrees to join. It is revealed to the reader that Hood engineered the robbery and is manipulating Titania. Of her new teammates, Titania is closest with her friend, the Wrecking Crew member Thunderball. Over the short life of this team, she fights various supervillains, has a rematch with Thor, and temporarily exhibits new mystical powers, which manifest themselves as purple energy discharges while she uses her super strength. During the '' Avengers: Standoff!'' storyline, Titania and Hood attack Pleasant Hill to extract Absorbing Man. There is some brief tension between the reunited couple when Titania overhears Creel confess that he had feelings for Elektra while he was under Kobik's brainwashing. In the final issue of ''Illuminati'', the Hood, having expanded his team of supervillains with the former inmates of Pleasant Hill, plots to kill the Avengers' family members out of revenge for the events of ''Avengers: Standoff!'' Titania feels that this crosses a moral line and refuses to go along. In the ensuing argument, Hood reveals that he manipulated Titania into joining the team and that he used his dark magic to give her new powers. They fight, and Titania, suspecting that Hood's mystical cloak and use of dark magic is corrupting his mind, destroys the cloak (which also removes her new powers) telling Hood that she is saving him from himself. Titania and Absorbing Man then resign themselves to remaining supervillains, though after seeing his wife stand up to the Hood and defeat him, Creel tells Titania that he can't believe that he ever had "mixed-up feelings for Elektra".


Teaming with Black Bolt

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and a telepathic alien girl named Blinky. Creel is seemingly killed fighting the prison's jailer, but successfully frees his fellow inmates. Black Bolt and Blinky travel to Earth to inform Titania of her husband's heroic sacrifice. She mourns his death and arranges his funeral, which is attended by Captain America, Thor, and the Wrecking Crew. After the funeral, Black Bolt is attacked by Lash. Titania helps fight off the Inhuman villains, but is unable to prevent them from kidnapping Blinky. At the time when Jailer has possessed Blinky's mind to kill Black Bolt, Lockjaw took Titania to Parkwood Cemetery where Absorbing Man suddenly emerged from his grave. Absorbing Man and Titania helped Black Bolt fight a Jailer-possessed Blinky until they managed to drive Jailer out of him.


Working with Weapon H

Dario Agger hires Titania and an ex-
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operative named Angel to help a team led by
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and
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on a mission to
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. She calls Absorbing Man, warning him to stay out of trouble while she is away. As Weapon H leads the mission to Weirdworld, they are attacked by a tribe of blue-skinned humanoids called the Inaku, who blame them for breaking the Earth and allowing a shapeshifting race called the Skrullduggers to take their queen. After Weapon H frees his comrades, Titania knocks out Protector Hara, resulting in the Inaku's protective dome being damaged. As
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's
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fortifies the Inaku village's defenses, Titania and Korg stay behind while Weapon H, Angel, and a
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-infected human named Blake go on a stealth mission to the Roxxon outpost. She and Korg help the Inaku set up a pit filled with spikes coated in berry poison. When the Skrullduggers attack, Man-Thing, Korg, and Titania assist the Inaku in defending their fortified village from the Skrullduggers until they suddenly go in one direction. Titania, Korg, and Man-Thing find Weapon H with the Skrullduggers under
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's control as they attack the Inaku village. Thinking that Weapon H is in a battle frenzy, Korg reminds Titania that Weapon H is part-
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. When Morgan le Fay of Earth-15238 shows up and is identified as the missing Inaku queen, Titania and Korg are attacked by Protector Hara, the Skrullduggers and Weapon H. Man-Thing comes to Titania's defense. Titana and Korg catch up to Weapon H, where they find that Dario Agger has transformed into Minotaur. She is among those that are evacuated through the portal. When Titania tries to get a Roxxon scientist to close the portal, she is blasted by Sonia Sung, Weapon H's wife and a Roxxon employee. After Dario pays them the terms of their contract, Titania takes Blake, Korg, and Man-Thing out to a burger joint down the street.


Powers and abilities

Titania possesses immense strength that originally enabled her to match other individuals (such as the Thing), owing to cellular augmentation through
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, but later increased after performing rigorous
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training, and rivals She-Hulk herself. Titania's muscles produce considerably less fatigue toxins than a normal human, thus granting her superior stamina. Her body is completely resistant to physical attacks. She can even withstand high caliber bullets, temperature extremes, falling from great heights, and severe blunt force trauma without sustaining injury. Titania has extensive experience in street fighting techniques.


Reception


Critical response

Renae Richardson of ''
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'' stated, "Titania has proved to be one of the strongest female villains in the Marvel universe. Based on the powers she has been given, she is invincible. She has super strength and endurance, which is unrivaled by many. Her strength fuels a weird entanglement between Titania and her nemesis. She-Hulk proves more than a worthy opponent." Drew Beaty of ''
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'' asserted, "While the shy Mary MacPherran may seem like a generic super-strong supervillain on the surface, Titania has gradually evolved from a B-list antagonist into a nuanced comic book character with over 30 years of Marvel Comics history behind her." Rob Bricken of ''
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'' included Titania in their "12 Marvel Villains Who Should Have Been in Thunderbolts" list. Mark Ginocchio of ''
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'' ranked Titania 4th in their "10 More Characters We'd Like to See in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season Two" list, writing, "Titania can be viewed as a viable threat as one of the Marvel Universe's strongest female characters." ''
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'' ranked Titania 27th in their "29 Best Marvel Villains" list. ''
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'' included Titania in their "15 Most Powerful She-Hulk Villains" list, and ranked her 7th in their "Fantastic Four: 10 Best Female Villains" list. ''
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'' ranked Titania 1st in their "Top 10 She-Hulk Villains" list, 1st in their "10 Villains Fans Hope To See In Marvel’s She-Hulk Series" list, 4th in their "10 Strongest Female Marvel Antagonists" list, 5th in their "Marvel: The 10 Strongest Female Villains" list, 8th in their "10 Most Powerful Members Of The Masters of Evil" list, and 10th in their "10 Most Evil Supervillain Couples In Marvel" list.


Other versions


Amalgam Comics

Big Titania, a fusion of Titania and DC Comics character
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from Earth-9602, appears in the Amalgam Comics one-shot ''Bullets and Bracelets''.


Earth X

An alternate universe variant of Titania from Earth-9997 appears in ''
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''.


House of M

An alternate universe variant of Titania from Earth-58163 appears in ''
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''. This version is a servant of the
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who later joins
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's resistance.


In other media


Television

* Mary MacPherran / Titania appears in the '' Avengers Assemble'' episode "Small Time Heroes", voiced by
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. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information. * Mary MacPherran / Titania appears in '' Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.'', voiced again by Clare Grant. Throughout the series, she battles
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and the eponymous Agents of S.M.A.S.H. before eventually befriending her and joins the
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's "Agents of C.R.A.S.H." * Titania appears in '' She-Hulk: Attorney at Law'' (2022), portrayed by
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. This version is a social media
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, skilled martial artist, and superhuman who seeks to prove herself the "strongest woman in the world". * Titania appears in ''Lego Marvel Avengers: Mission Demolition'', voiced by
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.


Video games

* Mary MacPherran / Titania appears as a boss in ''
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'', voiced by Shelley Futch. * Mary MacPherran / Titania appears as a playable character in '' Marvel: Future Fight''. * Mary MacPherran / Titania appears as a playable character in ''
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''. * Mary MacPherran / Titania appears as a playable character in ''
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''. * Mary MacPherran / Titania appears as a playable card in ''
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''.


References


External links


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