History Main / OurTitansAreDifferent

* As a consequence of the above two traits, the titans often have a rivalry/animosity/connection with the [[OurGodsAreDifferent gods]] of the setting. [[DeathOfTheOldGods This may have led to their doom]].

* In many recent works they are often portrayed as {{Elemental Embodiment}}s. This has basis in antiquity - they involved Okeanos, where we get the word 'ocean' came from, Gaia and Uranos. Many historians assume that the clash of Greek gods and Titans is a metaphor for the combat with pre-Hellene peoples of the region.

Compare OurGiantsAreBigger, OurGodsAreDifferent, and TheOldGods. For the moon by that name, see UsefulNotes/TheMoonsOfSaturn. See also TitanomachyRoundTwo for a stock plot involving the Titans.

* The titular monsters in ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' are called ''Kyojin'' (lit. Giant People), which is usually translated "Giants", but the English version localizes it as "Titan". They are mysterious, giant (starting from 3 meters, to ''60 meters'' tall), NighInvulnerable[[note]]save for their AchillesHeel on their nape[[/note]] {{Humanoid Abomination}}s with a powerful HealingFactor and varying intelligence who [[ToServeMan eat humans]] (despite gaining no sustenance from it) and have been attacking humanity for just over a century.
* In ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademiaTheEnchantedParade'' a Titan is [[SealedEvilInACan buried beneath the town's stone circle]]; it gets woken up when the mayor tries to remove them, then powered up by the presence of the Shiny Rod. When it fully emerges it looks like a RockMonster with exposed bits of skeleton, which it magically covers up with metal in the vicinity. Its powers include attacking the heroes with tendrils of darkness and bringing inanimate objects to life.

* ''Comicbook/TheIncredibleHercules'' -- The Titans and Cronus are imprisoned behind sealed doors, and they break free when the Hulk accidentally breaks the seal. The exception is Atlas, who is placed at The Axis of the world (center of the world that sometimes moves, changing the political situation of the world, and can also serve as a nexus to all the mystical foundations of the world).

* The Titans from the [[ComicBook/TeenTitans New Titans]] story "ComicBook/WhoIsWonderGirl" ([[MultipleChoicePast one of the earlier attempts to give]] ContinuitySnarl/DonnaTroy [[MultipleChoicePast an actual origin]]) were absolutely indistinguishable from their Greek and Roman children, falling on the "nice" end of the morality scale as a result by abducting random orphan baby girls throughout the cosmos, raising them to have super powers, then rewriting their memories to forget this before sending them back to their homeworlds (which somehow atones for the whole "eating their offspring" bit from myth). This also subconsciously influenced [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Donna]] to suggest the name "Teen Titans" via retcon.
* Titans in ''Comicbook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise'' are the largest of all Cybertronians. In robot mode, they stand multiple miles tall, while their alt-modes are actual cities. Metroplex functions as the capital city for Cybertron, while Metrotitan is Autobot City on Earth. They're also ShroudedInMyth, playing heavily into Cybertronian religious religion and [[TimeAbyss so old]] that not even Alpha Trion, one of the original Thirteen Primes, knows their true origin.

** Deities who are between 100,000 and 1 million years old are classified as "Titans", and fits the definition by being older than recorded history and extremely powerful. Ispita, Luminiferous, Terraton, Pakak, Queen Mab II, and the Three Deaths are a few examples.
** Older than Titans but still fitting the definition of 'primordial, immensely powerful deities' are Antecedent (1 million - 10 million years), Preeminent (10 million - 100 million years), and Primeval (anything older than that). These are typically extremely huge, extremely powerful, primordial entities. Golden Scepter, Isati, Mzazi, Canteros, Amarelthea, Ergaleía, Exosus, Skotádi, and the Shadowed Ones are a few examples.

* ''Fanfic/UnderTheNorthernLights'': The "aunts" and "uncles" (and, presumably, parents) of Luna and Celestia. They are vast elemental beings which created the world and its intelligent species (learning the latter from the much younger Luna and Celestia [[spoiler:when their toys turned into the first ponies because the sisters loved them so much -- so yeah, ponies originated as toys of two little girls]]). The one seen in the fic is the water being called Karhu-Akka by reindeer. She combines traits of bear, cow, squid and whale, and now sleeps in the shape of a huge glacier. If she awakes, horrible things will happen. [[spoiler:Her rolling over in her sleep when Discord got free is one of the causes for the crisis in the fic, one which might kill all life in a country.]] Luna, however, remembers her as a kind aunt who played with her and Celestia by the sea and gave them wonderful toys. Their greatuncles and greataunts, however, are pure EldritchAbomination, seen in a vision as "lights... sounds... patterns of magic in a black sphere that itched the brain and made the soul cry". Discord is one of them.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'', the Titans are AlwaysChaoticEvil [[ElementalEmbodiment elemental beings]] (and one ClassicalCyclops) that terrorized the world centuries ago before they were imprisoned by [[TopGod Zeus]]. Hades' EvilPlan is to free them and use them to storm Mount Olympus and take over.

* In ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans1981'', [[LastOfTheirKind the last of the titans]] is the Kraken.[[note]]Sai Kraken is actually a giant [[FishPeople fish-man]] monster rather than [[KrakenAndLeviathan a traditional kraken]].[[/note]] To defeat it, the Fates advise "a titan vs a titan" by using the head of Medusa the gorgon to [[TakenForGranite turn it into stone]].
* ''Film/MonsterVerse'' -- Emma Russell refers to the {{Kaiju}} as the Titans and completes the metaphor by declaring them the rightful rulers of the world. While searching for Godzilla, [[spoiler:spoiler:some of the characters discover vast sunken ruins within the HollowEarth much older than even Egypt, and carved onto the monolithic walls, Godzilla being worshipped by ancient men, confirming that kaiju were "the first gods".]]
* An early concept for the first ''Franchise/StarTrek'' movie, ''Star Trek: Planet of The Titans'' would have focused on Starfleet and the Klingon Empire searching for the home planet of a race of BenevolentPrecursors called the Titans. The end of the movie would have revealed that the Titans were Kirk's crew from the future.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'''s mix-and-match approach to mythology means that while the Gods are mostly [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greco-Roman]] in nature, the Titan-like figures they overthrew are the [[Myth/NorseMythology Ice Giants]].

* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'':
** The Titans look almost exactly like normal humans with a couple of exceptions. Kronos is [[spoiler:[[DemonicPosession possessing]] Luke]] and so looks just like him except for having [[SupernaturalGoldEyes solid gold eyes]]. The Titans are about as tough as the Olympians, and Kronos is apparently even more so at his [[OneWingedAngel original level of power]].

* In ''Series/Charmed1998'', the Titans are a group of supernatural beings who terrorized ancient Greece and were then [[SealedEvilInACan imprisoned until the present day.]] They are certainly powerful enough to be worthy of the myths of the Titans, enough so to scale the heavens and kill almost all of [[CelestialBureaucracy the Elders]] (angels), but they don't seem to have the kind of cosmic significance you might expect from a creation myth.
* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', an amnesiac [[spoiler:Prometheus]] shows up in season eight.
* In ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'', Gabrielle once read a scroll and woke up three Titans, 30 foot giants who repaired the town. The three Titans had a cunning plan to make Gabrielle read the second scroll which would awaken 1,000 other Titans and destroy the world.

* Myth/ClassicalMythology, of course, is the TropeNamer for Titans, and their Protogenoi/Primordial parents count as well.
** It should be noted that there are a lot of common misconceptions about the Titans. First off, they were not the first generation of gods, that would be their parents the Primordials (of which Gaia and Ouranos are a part of. They aren't Titans either.) Second, the Titans were not gigantic. They were in fact about the same size as the gods. The reason that people continue to assume they were giant is because later writers started lumping them in with the giants (who actually were, you know, giant) which were an entirely different group of Olympian enemies.

** Inverted in UsefulNotes/{{Zoroastrianism}}, where the 'Ahuras' are the good guys and the 'Daeva' are 'false gods' . It helps to know that the two regions where they were worshiped are neighbors, so it's more a case of opposed [[CrossoverCosmology cultures and pantheons]], than direct succession. There's even etymological & [[BloodKnight behavioral]] links between the the Ahura/Asura and the Norse Aesir, further confusing the matter.

* In ''TabletopGame/ArsMagica'', the Greek titans and Norse jotnar are powerful beings of the Magic Realm. More generally, the Kosmokrators and Protogonoi are immensely powerful magical beings governing cosmic principles such as time, love, or night. Very few magi are powerful enough to get involved with them.
* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', [[http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Titan titans]] are a race of [[OurSpiritsAreDifferent outsiders]] (creatures native to the outer planes) who happen to be about 25 feet tall, so they're not only ''celestial'' giants, they are taller than the tallest "normal" giants. Every aspect of them is [[UltimateLifeForm perfect]]. In addition, they can cast powerful spells and speak several languages as standard abilities for the race. At a starting CR of 21, a titan with no other skills is equal to an epic-level PlayerCharacter in battle. In contrast to their usual portrayals, they're also (slightly) weaker than the gods and act as their servants. They are traditionally ChaoticGood and live on the plane of Arborea (also known as Olympus), though the Greek titans (Cronus, et al) are imprisoned in Carceri (Tartarus). In 5th edition, they are renamed Empyreans and given the Titan tag.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' has the Primordials, eldritch beings of vast power who built Creation and then created the gods as their slave janitors. The gods got fed up with their cruddy jobs and had the Exalted overthrow the Primordials (while they stole their bosses' crack stash), but it turns out that [[DividingByZero killing]] some of them [[NiceJobBreakingItHero broke the universe.]]

* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': The titans were the first creations of the gods, and were made to be tall, mighty and beautiful. They grew to covet their creators' power over life and matter, and plotted to take it for their own. Their first attempts ended in failure -- they lacked the gods' inherent connection to the universe, and their attempts to replicate it only led them to create a few powerful but highly dangerous artifacts such as the Codex of the Infinite Planes. Eventually, driven by jealousy of the gods' worship by the mortal races, they rose in open rebellion and attempt to overthrow their creators and exterminate all mortals. The current titan kindreds are divided by what role they took in the war and what fate befell them afterwards.

* In the ''TabletopGame/RoleAids'' supplement ''Giants'', the Titans were the first giants. They had godlike abilities and powers, including the ability to cast any spell at will, and have artistic abilities that outmatch those of any other culture.
* In ''TabletopGame/ScarredLands'', the Titans held sway over the planet Scarn, treating it as their plaything, creating and destroying casually as they went. Their children, the major gods, objected to this, as the Titans were laying waste to the world and their worshippers, and went to war against them; since the Titans could not be truly killed, the gods imprisoned and/or crippled the Titans so they could no longer roam free. One Titan, Denev the Earth Mother, sided with the gods, and remained free after the war, bending her efforts towards restoring Scarn. The setting's present day is about 150 years after the war ended, and there's a ''long'' way to go before Scarn is healed.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}'', Titans are {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, elemental embodiments of fundamental concepts such as Sky, Fire, Darkness, Time, and Chaos, who are free of human shaping, hard to comprehend, and [[RealityWarping shape reality]] simply by existing. The Titans spawned the earliest gods, who sought to avoid being devoured by their predatory parents by anchoring themselves to humanity. Doing so allowed the gods to rise up against the Titans and imprison them; unfortunately, in the last few decades, the Titans have broken free, and once more seek their children's destruction.

* The Titan unit from ''VideoGame/AgeOfMythology: The Titans''. In-game, Titans serve as the Pantheon of the Atlantean civilization, with [[BigBad Kronos]], [[LightIsNotGood Oranos]] and [[TokenGoodTeammate Gaia]] as main gods, and others serving as minor ones. Barring Oceanus (who is blue-skinned, but otherwise human-looking) and Kronos (who is a giant rock demon), all of them look like Olympians. Furthermore, it's possible for each civilization to summon a gargantuan, city-destroying Titan to fight for them: Greeks have [[HellHound Cerberus]], Egyptians have [[NobleBirdOfPrey Horus]], Norse have [[OurTrollsAreDifferent Ymir]] and Atlantineans have [[MagmaMan Perses]]. Yes, they took a little artistic license here and there....

* In ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'', Titans are explained to be gigantic, multi-eyed world-ending creatures that will form in an event called the Roaring if too many Dark Fountains are created.
* The world of ''VideoGame/Dota2'' was forged by vaguely bull-like {{Precursors}} called Titans. Elder Titan, a playable character, is one of these. It should be noted that they aren't gods themselves, simply the first creatures in the universe.
* In the ''Franchise/DragonAge'' setting, there are stories about mysterious, possibly mythical beings called Titans that live underground. As it turns out, [[spoiler:the Titans have most of the usual titan traits; they're the largest and possibly the most powerful beings in the setting, they're extremely old, and they were defeated in a war similar to the Titanomachy.]] What sets them apart from many other examples is that [[spoiler:they seem to have a symbiotic relationship with dwarves, which live in cities inside of them and are linked to their Titans and each other through some kind of HiveMind. It also is revealed that Lyrium is their blood.]]
* Titans in ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' are, essentially, ginormous [[MixAndMatchCritters randomized]] [[OurMonstersAreWeird creatures]] spewing things like fire or random disease carrying clouds which can literally be made of anything. They're usually [[ThatOneBoss a bitch to kill]], as they're immune to traps, temperature (including magma), pain, hunger, drowning, and a lot of other things. This varies significantly with ''what'' material, though: ones made of metals rival [[ImplacableMan Bronze Colossi]] for NighInvulnerability, but you'll occasionally get one made of a liquid that breaks into pieces with a single strike. Forgotten Beasts are a similar class of creature except found underground instead of above-ground.

* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'', barring those who look like Olympians such as Helios, Prometheus and Rhea, all the other Titans are mountain-sized beings that look somewhat human-ish. Some also are ElementalEmbodiment(s) like Perses (Lava), Oceanus (Water/Lightning), Epimetheus (Rock), Gaea (Nature) and Typhon (Wind), who [[SadlyMythtaken wasn't even a Titan in the myths]]. [[note]]In fact, he was the father of all the famous Greek monsters like the Hydra, and was described as a mountain-sized beast with a dragon's head, writhing serpents for fingers, and wings that stretched across the sky while his arms could scrape the stars. Also, he was the only thing Zeus was afraid of.[[/note]]
* Similar to the original myths, the Titans in ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'' are long gone, with the Olympians now dominating Greece. Those that met them describe them as essentially [[AbusivePrecursors horribly abusive parents]] (keeping up with the depiction of the Greek gods as one BigScrewedUpFamily), but not that different from the Olympian and Chthonic gods in terms of power. Of note is that, like the other gods, they possessed a form of resurrective immortality. As a result, unlike other depictions where they were simply killed or imprisoned, in this version of the tale they were [[NotEnoughToBury chopped up into a red paste]] and spread all across the pits of Tartarus so they couldn't regenerate. The result, Titan Blood, ''is still alive'' and lusting for violence, so Zagreus can use it to awaken and improve his weapons.
** And for the sequel, VideoGame/HadesII, Chronos has come back and is now the main antagonist.
* Titans are powerful units, lightning-wielding-giants, on the Wizard/Academy side in the ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic'' games.

* The Titans in ''VideoGame/OgreBattleMarchOfTheBlackQueen'' are upgraded Giants, who are large, club-wielders, and are Wind/Lightning-aligned, and PaletteSwap(s) of the other Giant upgrade classes like Frost/Fire Giants and vice versa.
* ''VideoGame/{{Rygar}}'' has Titans as the main enemies. Some of them are living statues - some of them are apparently little worm-monsters.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' Titans are a race of {{Magitek}}-using demi-gods who have the self-imposed duty of bringing order to the cosmos. They travel from world to world, terraforming them and populating them with seed races, usually golems or mechanical in nature though they were corrupted by the Old Gods to be made of flesh. After their work is done they depart for new worlds, leaving behind Watchers to maintain any facilities. [[spoiler:At least, that was how it was until their strongest champion [[TheParagon Sargeras]] [[GoMadFromTheRevelation went crazy after he had to kill an unborn Titan to prevent a greater threat and the others shunned him for it]], then started a universe-destroying crusade to destroy everything his kind built [[WellIntentionedExtremist to (in his mind) save the universe from said greater threat]]... and ended up killing all of them when they tried to stop him]].

* Despite the name, ''WesternAnimation/ClassOfTheTitans'' isn't about a classroom of Titans. However, it does have Cronus as the BigBad. He isn't depicted much different to the Olympians in terms of power; he's the same size as a human (most of the time), he's human-looking, and [[CompleteImmortality he's completely immortal]] just like them. Oh, and he's a TimeMaster too.
* ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'': [[spoiler:The 12 Titans are ancient, eldritch and malevolent entities that were sealed away in [[TheNamesake Final Space]] because when let loose, they destroy everything in their path. Lord Commander's plan is to free them because he believes that will turn him into one of them. The only Titan who is non-malevolent is one named Bolo. The reason the other Titans are all malevolent is because a purely evil entity named Invictus corrupted them all, with Bolo being the exception.]]
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' animated series has appearances by Prometheus and Atlas, who are more human-looking and considerably more benign than the AlwaysChaoticEvil Titans in the film, though Atlas is still a self-centered jerk.

* The Boiling Isles setting of ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' is a GiantCorpseWorld inside a giant Titan skeleton, which is humanoid but for a pair of [[HornedHumanoid backwards-pointing horn]]. It was powerful enough that it caused the local MageSpecies to develop magic and their emperor claims to be able to communicate with it and follow its will. [[spoiler:Moreover, King's backstory reveals that, despite appearing humanoid and mammalian (albeit with a SkullForAHead), [[WhaleEgg Titans lay eggs]] and [[GiganticAdultsTinyBabies start off no larger than a puppy]].]]
* As learned in Season 8, ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' has the two titans [[spoiler:Pops and Anti-Pops,]] who fight every 14 billion years. Every fight so far has ended in a draw, resulting in the destruction and rebirth of the universe.

In Myth/ClassicalMythology, the [[Characters/ClassicalMythologyTitans Titans]] were ancient godly beings that had ruled reality, until they were overthrown by the [[Characters/ClassicalMythologyOlympians Olympians]] in the [[DeathOfTheOldGods Titanomachy]]. The Titans were originally considered [[OurGodsAreDifferent true gods]], simply an earlier generation from the ones making up the current set. Later Classical writers started confusing them with Giants, but this was not the usual representation. Usually, the name Titan sometimes only refers to the first generation, although usually the non-nymph, non-Olympian children of Titans are also called Titans. The Titans were themselves depicted as the children of the [[Characters/ClassicalMythologyProtogenoi Protogenoi or Priomordials]], such as Gaea and Ouranos, who were the first beings to emerge from Chaos and were usually depicted as being both the gods of broad, phyiscal concepts such as the Earth, sky, day or night and as also literally being those things.

In Myth/ClassicalMythology, the [[Characters/ClassicalMythologyTitans Titans]] (and their [[Characters/ClassicalMythologyProtogenoi Primordial parents]] before them) were ancient godly beings that had ruled reality, until they were overthrown by the [[Characters/ClassicalMythologyOlympians Olympians]] in the [[DeathOfTheOldGods Titanomachy]]. The Titans were originally considered [[OurGodsAreDifferent true gods]]. Later Classical writers started confusing them with Giants, but this was not the usual representation. Also, the name Titan sometimes only refers to the first generation, though usually the non-nymph, non-Olympian children of Titans are also called Titans.

* [[TheMaker They probably created the world/universe the setting takes place in]]. Or ''[[GeniusLoci are]]'' the setting.

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* ''Webcomic/{{Erfworld}}'' was [[TheMaker created]] by the Titans of Ark, who look like giant Elvis Impersonators.

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* ''Webcomic/DeepRise'': The 'Royals' are ''living eldritch mountains'' that can fire laser beams, excrete acid fog, bleed lava, defy the laws of physics, explode with the force of a hydrogen bomb, and in-universe ''nothing'' gets past their armor. Their one 'weakness' is that they're literally a suicidal species, so they intentionally let their guard down just so the protagonists can put them out of their misery, and it always results in mass destruction. [[spoiler:And they're ''everywhere'' in the galaxy, ''especially space'']].
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[[caption-width-right:343:[[FourElementEnsemble From left to right]]: [[RockMonster Rock Titan]], [[AnIcePerson Ice Titan]], [[LivingLava Lava Titan]], and [[BlowYouAway Tornado Titan]].]]

* ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfWonderWoman2016'': The Titan that the gods (falsely) claim destroyed the world outside of Themyscira turns out to be a giant from outer space whose consciousness is formed from the souls of a dead world and is this universe's version of [[spoiler: the Manhunters created by the [[Franchise/GreenLantern Guardians of the Universe]]]].

* ''Fanfic/UnderTheNorthernLights'': The "aunts" and "uncles" (and, presumably, parents) of Luna and Celestia. They are vast elemental beings which created the world and its intelligent species (learning the latter from the much younger Luna and Celestia [[spoiler: when their toys turned into the first ponies because the sisters loved them so much -- so yeah, ponies originated as toys of two little girls]]). The one seen in the fic is the water being called Karhu-Akka by reindeer. She combines traits of bear, cow, squid and whale, and now sleeps in the shape of a huge glacier. If she awakes, horrible things will happen. [[spoiler:Her rolling over in her sleep when Discord got free is one of the causes for the crisis in the fic, one which might kill all life in a country.]] Luna, however, remembers her as a kind aunt who played with her and Celestia by the sea and gave them wonderful toys. Their greatuncles and greataunts, however, are pure EldritchAbomination, seen in a vision as "lights... sounds... patterns of magic in a black sphere that itched the brain and made the soul cry". Discord is one of them.

* In ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans1981'', [[LastOfTheirKind the last of the titans]] is the Kraken[[note]]which is actually a giant [[FishPeople fish-man]] monster rather than [[KrakenAndLeviathan a traditional kraken]][[/note]]. To defeat it, the Fates advise "a titan vs a titan" by using the head of Medusa the gorgon to [[TakenForGranite turn it into stone]].
* ''Film/MonsterVerse'' -- Emma Russell refers to the {{Kaiju}} as the Titans and completes the metaphor by declaring them the rightful rulers of the world. While searching for Godzilla, [[spoiler: some of the characters discover vast sunken ruins within the HollowEarth much older than even Egypt, and carved onto the monolithic walls, Godzilla being worshipped by ancient men, confirming that kaiju were "the first gods".]]

* ''The Dragon Crown War'' has the Oromise who fill the "titan" niche. The oldest intelligent beings in the universe, they were also the creators of many other races[[note]]creators of everyone, to hear them tell it; the dragons, the second-oldest race, say otherwise[[/note]] and were in general beings of tremendous magical power to the point of being essentially gods. However, they had a falling-out with their closest peers, the dragons, that ended with them getting [[SealedEvilInACan imprisoned beneath the earth]]. By the time of the series, barely anyone remembers they existed, and even the eldest dragons can no longer recall what they looked like [[spoiler: although BigBad Chytrine -- and possibly her predecessor, Kirun -- works to restore them to power, in exchange for magic and arcane knowledge no other mortal possesses]].

** The Titans look almost exactly like normal humans with a couple of exceptions. Kronos is [[spoiler: [[DemonicPosession possessing]] Luke]] and so looks just like him except for having [[SupernaturalGoldEyes solid gold eyes]]. The Titans are about as tough as the Olympians, and Kronos is apparently even more so at his [[OneWingedAngel original level of power]].

* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', an amnesiac [[spoiler: Prometheus]] shows up in season eight.

* In the ''Franchise/DragonAge'' setting, there are stories about mysterious, possibly mythical beings called Titans that live underground. As it turns out, [[spoiler: the Titans have most of the usual titan traits; they're the largest and possibly the most powerful beings in the setting, they're extremely old, and they were defeated in a war similar to the Titanomachy.]] What sets them apart from many other examples is that [[spoiler: they seem to have a symbiotic relationship with dwarves, which live in cities inside of them and are linked to their Titans and each other through some kind of HiveMind. It also is revealed that Lyrium is their blood.]]

* ''VideoGame/TitanQuest'': there are the Telkines, eldritch-looking sorcerers with tentacles instead of legs that are said to be remnants of the Titans. In the last part of the game [[spoiler: you have to defeat Typhon, a huge four-armored behemoth with tons of attacks.]]

* The Boiling Isles setting of ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' is a GiantCorpseWorld inside a giant Titan skeleton, which is humanoid but for a pair of [[HornedHumanoid backwards-pointing horn]]. It was powerful enough that it caused the local MageSpecies to develop magic and their emperor claims to be able to communicate with it and follow its will. [[spoiler: Moreover, King's backstory reveals that, despite appearing humanoid and mammalian (albeit with a SkullForAHead), [[WhaleEgg Titans lay eggs]] and [[GiganticAdultsTinyBabies start off no larger than a puppy]].]]

* ''LightNovel/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'': [[spoiler:The [[OurGiantsAreBigger Giant]] [[MaouTheDemonKing True Demon Lord]] Dagruel]] is known only to the oldest beings in the world as the great Titan whose duty was to protect the gates of Heaven itself. His duty was essentially superfluous once the angels themselves after [[GodIsDead Veldanava's death]] sealed off the gates, but he kept at his duty and so he chose to establish a dominion upon the earth [[spoiler:because he needed to watch over one of his evil sealed brothers.]]

* ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'': The main bosses of the games are the Titans, a group of {{Mechanical Abomination}}s built by the [[{{Precursors}} Ancients]] that absolutely ''tower'' over all the other robot enemies in the game, even the [[HumongousMecha Guardians]]. Sonic is tasked with destroying them all to rescue his friends from Cyberspace, but they're so powerful that he can only beat them in his SuperMode, and even ''then'' they can still kill him if he acts too careless. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, destroying them also ends up releasing [[EldritchAbomination The End]], which the Titans were created to fight and imprison in the first place, and it takes a combination of Super Sonic and the last Titan (piloted by Sage) to destroy it for good.]]

* In many recent works they are often portrayed as {{Elemental Embodiment}}s. This has basis in antiquity - they involved Okeanos, where we get the word 'ocean' came from, Gaia and Uranos. Many historians assume that the clash of Greek gods and Titans is a metaphor for the combat with pre-hellene peoples of the region.

** To elaborate, the death of several Primordials in the setting's equivalent of the Titanomachy is the reason TheUnderworld exists. One of the Primordials who surrendered, as a parting shot before her imprisonment, ''[[RetGone erased, by some estimates, ninety percent of Creation from existence down to a conceptual level.]]''

** 5th edition lack any proper Titan monster, but the Titan tag is given to creatures directly created by, or related to, gods. The Tarrasque and krakens (both weapons created by gods), atropals (undead god-fetuses), astral dreadnoughts (created by Tharizdun) and empyreans (equivelant to titans of previous editions) all have this tag.

** The Old Gods are also somewhat of a fit to this trope, chaotic beings who sowed the first forms of life on Azeorth, controlled the elements, and were eventually defeated by a new pantheon. Though defeated the Old Gods are not gone and have been working to undermine the work of the Titans and reclaim Azeroth for themselves.
* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'' has the entire universe be composed of an endless sea where the two titans stand. These country-sized titans[[note]]WordOfGod says that they are the size of the Japanese archipelago[[/note]] are the organic Bionis and the mechanical Mechonis. It is said that they waged in battle ages ago, before eventually reaching a stand-still. As the years passed, this lead to life growing in them, and the growth of a conflict between the people of Bionis and the [[KillerRobot Mechon]] from Mechonis. [[spoiler:In reality, while the titans' physical shells are dormant, their spirits are very much alive. Also, the soul of Mechonis is the benevolent one who would like for her people to eventually grow independent of her, while the soul of Bionis views the life growing on him as food to grow stronger and stay alive.]]

* The Titan unit from ''VideoGame/AgeOfMythology: The Titans''. In game, Titans serve as the Pantheon of the Atlantean civilization, with [[BigBad Kronos]], [[LightIsNotGood Oranos]] and [[TokenGoodTeammate Gaia]] as main gods, and others serving as minor ones. Barring Oceanus (who is blue-skinned, but otherwise human-looking) and Kronos (who is a giant rock demon), all of them look like Olympians. Furthermore, it's possible for a civilization to summon a gargantuan, city-destroying Titan to fight for them: Greeks have [[HellHound Cerberus]], Egyptians have [[NobleBirdOfPrey Horus]], Norse have [[OurTrollsAreDifferent Ymir]] and Atlantineans have [[MagmaMan Perses]]. Yes, they took a little artistic license here and there....

Compare OurGiantsAreBigger, OurGodsAreDifferent, and TheOldGods. For the moon by that name, see UsefulNotes/TheMoonsOfSaturn.

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' continues this tradition. Titans are massive creatures (sometimes flying, sometimes swimming, occasionally both) that people [[TurtleIsland inhabit and build cities on]]. [[spoiler:They're also the final evolution that [[LivingWeapon Blades]] eventually reach after multiple cycles of incarnation and storing up data from their various lives. Also, the world the Titans inhabit is what's left of ''our'' Earth [[AfterTheEnd after the universe-shattering experiment that created the world from the first game]]. And The Architect is the good half of the man who started that experiment and now sought to reseed life on Earth/Alrest, while his evil half became the soul of Bionis in the new universe.]]

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'' has the entire universe be composed of an endless sea where the two titans stand. These country-sized titans[[note]]WordOfGod says that they are the size of the Japanese archipelago[[/note]] are the organic Bionis and the mechanical Mechonis. It is said that they waged in battle ages ago, before eventually reaching a stand-still. As the years passed, this lead to life growing in them, and the growth of a conflict between the people of Bionis and the [[KillerRobot Mechon]] from Mechonis.
* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' continues this tradition. Titans are massive flying creatures that people [[TurtleIsland inhabit and build cities on]].

* The Boiling Isles setting of ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' is a GiantCorpseWorld inside a giant Titan skeleton, which is humanoid but for a pair of [[HornedHumanoid backwards-pointing horn]]. It was powerful enough that it caused the local MageSpecies to develop magic and their emperor claims to be able to communicate with it and follow its will. [[spoiler: Moreover, King's backstory reveals that, despite appearing humanoid and mammalian (albeit with a SkullForAHead), Titans lay eggs and start off no larger than a puppy.]]

* ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'': The main bosses of the games are the Titans, a group of [[MechanicalAbomination mechanical abominations]] built by the [[{{Precursors}} Ancients]] that absolutely ''tower'' over all the other robot enemies in the game, even the [[HumongousMecha Guardians]]. Sonic is tasked with destroying them all to rescue his friends from Cyberspace, but they're so powerful that he can only beat them in his SuperMode, and even ''then'' they can still kill him if he acts too careless. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, destroying them also ends up releasing [[EldritchAbomination The End]], which the Titans were created to fight and imprison in the first place, and it takes a combination of Super Sonic and the last Titan (piloted by Sage) to destroy it for good.]]

* In ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans1981'', [[LastOfTheirKind the last of the titans]] is the Kraken[[note]]which is actually a giant fish-man monster rather than [[KrakenAndLeviathan a traditional kraken]][[/note]]. To defeat it, the Fates advise "a titan vs a titan" by using the head of Medusa the gorgon to [[TakenForGranite turn it into stone]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'', the Titans are AlwaysChaoticEvil [[ElementalEmbodiment elemental beings]] (and one {{Cyclops}}) that terrorized the world centuries ago before they were imprisoned by [[TopGod Zeus]]. Hades' EvilPlan is to free them and use them to storm Mount Olympus and take over.

* ''WesternAnimation/ClassOfTheTitans'' (which, despite the name, isn't about a classroom of Titans) has Cronus as the BigBad. He isn't depicted much different to the Olympians in terms of power; he's the same size as a human (most of the time), he's human-looking, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick he's completely immortal]] just like them. Oh, and he's a TimeMaster too.

** In many recent works they are often portrayed as Elemental Embodiments. This is justified - they involved Okeanos, where we get the word 'ocean' from, Gaia and Uranos. Many historians assume that the clash of Greek gods and Titans is a metaphor for the combat with pre-hellene peoples of the region.

[[caption-width-right:343:[[FourElementEnsemble From left to right]]: [[RockMonster Rock Titan]], [[AnIcePerson Ice Titan]], [[MagmaMan Lava Titan]], and [[BlowYouAway Tornado Titan]].]]

* The titular Titans of ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' (''Kyojin'', or ''Giants'' in the original Japanese) are mysterious, giant (starting from 3 meters, to ''60 meters'' tall), NighInvulnerable[[note]]save for their AchillesHeel on their nape[[/note]] {{Humanoid Abomination}}s with a powerful HealingFactor and varying intelligence who [[ToServeMan eat humans]] (despite gaining no sustenance from it) and have been attacking humanity for just over a century.

* Fanfic/{{Paradoxus}}: Not only the [[WesternAnimation/WinxClub Great Dragon]] is presented as being a wayward ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' Titan with all of it entails (being a creating entity rather than opposing some higher deities), but he's also lazier than should be allowed to a divine being. That's the true reason why nymphs and bearers of his power exist in the first place. He just won't bite the bullet and protect his creations nor care about their well-being beyond ensuring his Flame can only be wielded by non-malicious, non-power-hungry females. And that reincarnation won't spare his nymphs any suffering by amnesia if they happen to fail their assigned task. Unsurprisingly, people in Magix are all atheists or agnostics at best who can't bring themselves to profess faith in the Great Dragon.

* ''Comicbook/TheIncredibleHercules'' -- The Titans and Cronus are imprisoned behind sealed doors, and they break free when the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]] accidentally breaks the seal. The exception is Atlas, who is placed at The Axis of the world (center of the world that sometimes moves, changing the political situation of the world, and can also serve as a nexus to all the mystical foundations of the world).
** There are also [[HumanSubspecies Eternals]] that live on the moon of Titan, [[DeathSeeker Thanos]] being the most famous of them. Eternals were always mistaken for the traditional pantheons and those on Titan are no different.