Titan in Fiction - Comics and Anime

Comics and Anime

• Judge Dredd, part of the 2000 AD comic series. Titan is used as a penal colony, but, due to a writer's error, is placed in orbit around Jupiter. This was later explained as being due to a scientific experiment in teleportation. This was revealed in the Games Workshop adventure for the Judge Dredd Roleplaying Game - Judgement Day (Not to be mistaken for the Zombie Takeover) where the Judges discover that the soul of Judge Caligula is still alive and is attempting to take over Megacity 1. The players in their investigation get to go to Titan. In the introduction that tells the GM about Titan, it reveals about the Teleportation Experiment that went wrong. (A fact that was said in the White Dwarf review of this adventure to be a very neat solution to the writer's error.)
• Space Battleship Yamato (Star Blazers) (1974). The Yamato crew land on Titan to mine "titanite", a mineral necessary for energy transmission units.
• "The God Gambit" (1985), episode of Transformers animated cartoon. Titan is home to a primitive civilization of humanoids who worship Transformers as gods.
• "Money is Everything" (1986), episode of The Transformers animated cartoon. In the year 2006, Titan has been terraformed by humans.
• Cowboy Bebop (1998), anime. Titan was the site of a war over hydrocarbon extraction in the year 2068. It is unclear whether there was a colony on the moon.
• Chi-Chian comics, animated series, and a role-playing video game by Voltaire. The albino character Nahm flees from her oppressive childhood on Titan, which is home to a colony of bigoted genetic purists.
• In the animated TV show Futurama, titanium mines on Titan cave in, causing the value of titanium to skyrocket, convincing Bender to sell most of his body, save his own head.
• Aim for the Top 2! (2004), anime. Titan is the location of the Titan Variable Gravity Well. A living habitat exists on Titan to house the team attempting to extract the artifact as well featuring plush facilities for visiting members of Topless and their Buster Machines.
• In the Marvel Comics Universe, Titan is home to a colony of Eternals, a godlike race of men and women created from primitive humans by the powerful 'space gods' the Celestials as part of an experiment, and also spawned the super villain Thanos, and the final resting place of Mar-vell. Also, the Stone men of Saturn briefly lived around Titan.
• In the DC Comics Universe, Titan is home to a race of very powerful telepaths, originally genetically adapted Terran immigrants. Depending on what part of the continuity you are reading, they may have been seeded there in the late 20th century as a colony by Lar Gand (variously known as Mon-El, Valor and M'Onel). Among them is 30th century Telepath Imra Ardeen (aka Saturn Girl), who appeared as a founding member of the Legion of Super-Heroes in Adventure Comics #247 (April 1958).
• In the 1979 anime movie Galaxy Express 999, the 999 makes a stopover on Titan, which has been terraformed to support human life. Titan is a "paradise" planet where there's no rule or no law.
• In one Wonder Woman story Titan is shown to be in a state similar to Earth millions of years ago, with dinosaurs and various other pre-historic reptiles on it. Wonder Woman saves a group of caveman and bestows wisdom to them, which she thinks will help them gather civilisation.
• In Marvel Family #16 the mightiest being of Titan appears. It is metallic, and claims on Titan they eat metal. He is kidnapped by a Plutonian tyrant to fight other beings and is beaten by Captain Marvel.