Line #63 Characters/TitanAE


1	A list of characters featured in ''Titan A.E.''
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5	[[folder:Cale Tucker]]
6	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/titan_ae_disneyscreencapscom_1682.jpg]]
7	->Voiced by: Creator/MattDamon (adult), Creator/AlexDLinz (child)
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9	The main protagonist. 15 years after witnessing Earth get destroyed, he grows up to be a jaded young man. When contacted by Korso, a man who worked with this father on the Titan Project, he finds out the ring he was given by his father is a map to the Titan, humanity's last great hope.
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11	* NinetiesAntiHero: He is a bitter and jaded person without a shred of altruism in his body at the start of the film. His "rebel without a fuck" attitude, while definitely a bold choice compared to other films of its era, is often seen as one of the film's major problems, especially since the trope had already become a bit dated when the film was released.
12	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Due to most of the galaxy viewing his race as an "intergalactic joke", he was constantly marginalized by his alien co-workers, with Tek as the sole noteworthy exception.
13	* AnimeHair: Not as bad as Akima's, but it kind of resembles ShonenHair.
14	* BreakTheCutie: He seems to have undergone some of this between the ages of 6 and 21. But, as he says, [[EarthShatteringKaboom "having your planet blown up will do that to you]]." As will [[FantasticRacism being considered a third-class race by most of the galaxy]].
15	-->'''Cale:''' Everyday I wake up and it's still the present. [[CrapsackWorld The same grimy, boring present]]. I don't think this "future" thing of yours exists.
16	* BrokenAce: Cale is able to fix things pretty quickly, and is usually smart enough to figure out things, such as escaping the Drej prison cell or powering the ''Titan'' back up. But despite his many skills, he's such a bitter and unhappy person that he has trouble functioning as part of any kind of group.
17	* TheChosenOne: Cale is the only one able to operate the ultimate TreasureMap to humanity's salvation.
18	-->'''Akima:''' What exactly are we looking for?\
19	'''Cale:''' This ship's gonna help us save mankind.\
20	'''Akima:''' [[RepeatedForEmphasis What exactly are we looking for?]]\
21	'''Cale:''' Not a clue.
22	* TheChosenZero: At least as far as Akima and Preed are concerned at the beginning:
23	-->'''Akima:''' This is just great. We cross half the galaxy and nearly get our butts shot off by the Drej just so we can rescue the [[ItMakesSenseInContext window washer]].\
24	'''Cale:''' Hey! I happen to be humanity's last great hope!\
25	'''Preed:''' [[DeadpanSnarker I weep for the species...]]
26	* DarkAndTroubledPast: As a young boy, Cale witnessed Earth be destroyed... while his father disappeared after promising to find him.
27	* DeadpanSnarker: Like most of the crew, he can hardly go a minute without snarking.
28	* {{Fanservice}}: He shows us more skin than just about any other character in the movie.
29	* FemaleGaze: Quite a bit. He walks in a sleeveless shirt that shows off those nice arms, and he gets two [[ShirtlessScene Shirtless Scenes]]. We also see him completely naked from the back, followed by a nice ModestyTowel shot.
30	-->'''Cale:''' I'm... uhhh... still naked here.\
31	'''Akima:''' [[SarcasmMode Gee, I hadn't noticed.]]
32	* InkSuitActor: Strongly resembles Creator/MattDamon at the peak of his fame.
33	* MissingMom: Nothing much is said about his mother, but the novelizations do reveal that she is in fact, deceased.
34	* OfficialCouple: With Akima by the end.
35	* SpeedDemon: Cale displays traits of this when performing flashy stunts after Korso gives him permission to fly the ship just once.
36	* TwoFirstNames: "Tucker" can also be used as a first name.
37	* UsedToBeASweetKid: Cale went from a naive boy to a jaded adult.
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40	[[folder:Akima Kunimoto]]
41	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_m2e0cjpjen1r1fm8jo1_500.jpg]]
42	->Voiced by: Creator/DrewBarrymore
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44	The pilot of the ''Valkyrie'' and Cale's LoveInterest.
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46	* AcePilot: Akima's biggest skill is her ability to pilot almost any ship.
47	* ActionGirl: She flies, she shoots, she scores!
48	* AllThereInTheManual: She is expanded upon in the tie-in novel ''Akima’s Story''.
49	* ButNotTooForeign: According to WordOfGod, she's of partial Eastern European heritage, despite having a Japanese name.
50	* DamselOutOfDistress: Akima is kidnapped, but by the time the the rest of her crew shows up to rescue her, she's sitting on a pile of unconscious prison {{Mooks}}, not distressed in the least. She then asks what took them so long.
51	* DeadpanSnarker: Like most of the crew.
52	* DelinquentHair: Her bangs are dyed purple.
53	* {{Fanservice}}: She has these moments, such as her ModestyTowel scene, where we also get to see her SexySilhouette as she's putting on her clothes.
54	* MeaningfulName: "Akima" is alternative way to read a Japanese word for outer space.
55	* NiceGirl: She'e very brave, loving, compassionate, and levelheaded.
56	* OfficialCouple: With Cale by the end.
57	* SpeedDemon: Korso is able to deduce that Akima is piloting a ship they picked up on radar when Stith describes it as "recklessly fast".
58	* WrenchWench: Akima is highly skilled in building/fixing things.
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61	[[folder:Joseph Korso]]
62	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/joseph_korso.jpg]]
63	->Voiced by: Creator/BillPullman
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65	The captain of the ''Valkyrie'' and an old colleague of Sam Tucker.
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67	* AntiHero: Korso may be trying to take down the Drej, but he's not exactly heroic.
68	* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:He's later revealed to have been working with the Drej. From what we can gather from the few hints dropped in the movie, Korso might have just [[DespairEventHorizon lost all hope of being able to beat the Drej]] and decided to take what he could get. Watching them destroy his home planet and allow the human race to slowly die out within fifteen years might explain his actions along with some other possible reasons that happened off-screen between the prologue and the start of the movie. He does make a HeelFaceTurn during the climax of the film. Whether it's out of remorse, because he had nothing left to lose, or both, he did ultimately help save humanity.]] It's also worth noting that [[spoiler:his actions during the prologue suggest he sincerely believed in the Titan Project and Sam, but when Sam died and the ''Titan'' vanished into the aether, he lost all hope.]] When Cale comes up with a way to defeat the Drej that actually makes sense, Korso comes around.
69	* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Korso is the leader of his crew because he's an ex-soldier who can beat anyone into submission.
70	* FallenHero: It's mentioned that he's ex-military.
71	* FieryRedhead: He sports short red hair and he's got quite a temper.
72	* NeckSnap: How he kills [[spoiler:Preed, who turned on him]].
73	* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:He dies redeeming himself, using his gun and his body to complete one of the ''Titan's'' circuit breakers and begin the planet-forming process.]]
74	* ShadowArchetype: To Cale, being what Cale would probably become if he had let his cynicism and bitterness run away with him.
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77	[[folder:Preed]]
78	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/titanae2229.jpg]]
79	->Voiced by: Creator/NathanLane
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81	Korso's first mate.
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83	* AbhorrentAdmirer: He's ''introduced'' sexually harassing Akima.
84	* AliensAreBastards: He is an alien and a complete scumbag to top it all off.
85	* BastardUnderstudy: [[spoiler:He loyally follows Korso until he decides to betray him when his back is turned.]]
86	* BatOutOfHell: An evil, treacherous alien that vaguely resembles a flightless humanoid fruit bat.
87	* BeastMan: He's an Akrennian, a species that resembles a fruit bat.
88	* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: He betrays other people when they are no longer of any use to him.
89	-->'''Korso:''' You back-stabbing...
90	-->'''Preed:''' Well, I learned from the best.
91	* DeadpanSnarker: With Creator/NathanLane giving the performance, what did you expect?
92	-->'''Preed:''' Just out of curiosity, do we ''have'' a Plan B?
93	* TheDragon: [[spoiler:Initially, to Korso after he betrays Cale. Upon reaching the ''Titan'', Preed betrays Korso and reveals he's been working for the Drej all along, with the intent to kill everyone and let the Drej destroy the ''Titan'', in exchange for life insurance.]]
94	* DragonWithAnAgenda: [[spoiler:He's Korso's right-hand man, but is actually a Drej agent and looking out for himself. Once they reach the ''Titan'', Preed is quick to turn on Korso.]]
95	* EarNotch: Over half of his right ear is gone.
96	* EvilSoundsDeep: His voice drops during his more sinister moments.
97	* EvilerThanThou: [[spoiler:To call Korso evil would be a stretch, more a man who's lost all hope, but Preed is ''certainly'' the more vile of the pair, evident by him selling out all of his allies to the Drej.]]
98	* FatalFlaw: His [[{{Pride}} arrogance]] eventually does him in.
99	* FauxAffablyEvil: Acts like a snarky little gentleman, even when scheming and double-crossing people.
100	* TheFriendNobodyLikes: No one else on the crew can stand him. Eventually, he's nobody's friend in the end.
101	* {{Gonk}}: With a face like that, it would be surprising if there were any women that found him remotely desirable.
102	* HatedByAll: His repulsive personality has not earned him any friends to say the least.
103	* HateSink: He has absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
104	* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler:He betrays Korso and has no qualms about screwing over humanity's last hope for a future if it means saving himself.]]
105	* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Shows some concern for his fellow crewmembers early on, [[spoiler:but turns out to be completely false]].
106	-->'''Gune:''' Preed! Aren't you supposed to be watching for the Drej?
107	-->'''Preed:''' Yes, caveman. Drej bad, we good. Now go look at something shiny for a while.
108	* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Betrays Korso, who goes on to [[NeckSnap snap his neck]] in a fight]].
109	* LeanAndMean: He's tall, skinny, and definitely not a nice guy.
110	* ManipulativeBastard: His main defining trait is using and double-crossing others for his own agenda.
111	* MusclesAreMeaningless: He's very thin and lanky but surprisingly a very vicious and competent fighter as it turns out.
112	* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Preed is introduced as one of the comic relief aliens, [[spoiler:but when he's revealed to be be a Drej agent, he shows a cold lack of hesitation in trying to kill Cale and Akima, leaving Stith and Gune with a bomb which nearly kills Gune, and is actually a rather dirty and brutal fighter.]]
113	* NumberTwo: He is Korso's first mate on the ''Valkyrie''. [[spoiler:He later turns out to be Korso's [[TheDragon Dragon]] after TheReveal.]]
114	* PreMortemOneLiner: He gives quite a chilling one as his true colors shine through.
115	-->'''Preed:''' Is Gune there with you?
116	-->'''Stith:''' Yeah?
117	-->'''Preed:''' Then please tell him goodbye for me, won't you?
118	* SlimeBall: He is a backstabber who is just as immoral as he is untrustworthy.
119	* SmugSnake: Preed is extremely arrogant, which ultimately leads to his [[PrideBeforeAFall downfall]]; in particular, he doesn't seem to acknowledge the fact that [[spoiler:Korso is well-trained in physical combat, as he seems to assume that just forcing him to give up his weapon and tossing said weapon away is all he needs to defeat him]].
120	* TheSociopath: Preed is pretty much a walking, talking textbook example of someone with anti-social personality disorder, having no qualms against backstabbing or killing people for his own selfish benefit.
121	* TokenEvilTeammate: He's the most unpleasant of the main cast, so much that the rest of the crew barely tolerates him. True to the trope, he [[spoiler:ends up betraying everyone and shows himself to be a cold, sadistic thug]].
122	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:He does this to Korso, which eventually comes back to bite him hard.]]
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125	[[folder:Gune]]
126	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gune.jpg]]
127	->Voiced by: Creator/JohnLeguizamo
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129	Korso's chief scientist.
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131	* AbsentMindedProfessor: Pretty much summed up by this:
132	-->'''Gune:''' Does this look familiar? Do you know what it is? Neither do I. I made it last night in my sleep. Apparently I used gindrogac--highly unstable. I put a button on it, yes. I wish to press it, but I'm not sure what will happen if I do...
133	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: If the above quote wasn't enough evidence for you.
134	* BunnyEarsLawyer: For all of his weirder traits, he's still a genius and even Korso acknowledges it!
135	-->'''Cale:''' I'll tell you a secret, this guy's ''nuts!''\
136	'''Korso:''' I'll tell you one more, he's ''never wrong''.
137	* DisneyDeath: Gune saves Stith from [[spoiler:a bomb Preed placed on her wrist, only for it to detonate and leave him wounded]]. As Gune goes out, he mutters "I'll just take a little nap." Later, just when the Drej are about to destroy the ''Titan'', [[spoiler:Gune, alive and well, comes to the rescue]].
138	-->'''Gune:''' [[spoiler:I finished my nap!]]
139	* FrogMen: He's a Grepoan, a species that vaguely resembles short, squat anthropomorphic frogs.
140	* MoralityPet: If he wasn't around, we wouldn't see [[HotBlooded Stith's]] softer side.
141	* PlatonicLifePartners: With Stith.
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144	[[folder:Stith]]
145	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/x8jvt.jpg]]
146	->Voiced by: Creator/JaneaneGarofalo
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148	The ''Valkyrie'''s munitions officer.
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150	* ActionGirl: Stith is a kick-ass screaming Amazon with not only a great big gun, but a freakin' weapons turret in a spaceship. Although "Amazon" might be an understatement for someone who is naturally around 10 feet tall.
151	* BeastMan: She's a Sogowan, a species that looks vaguely like a kangaroo that was interbred with a raptor.
152	* EarNotch: She has one in ''both'' of her ears.
153	* HotBlooded: The most aggressive of the crew.
154	-->'''Preed:''' Fight the good fight, Precious!
155	-->'''Stith:''' Preed, I'll kill you! Okay? I ''will'' kill you!
156	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: As aggressive and hot-blooded as she is, she still cares for her fellow crewmembers (except Preed, but hey, [[TheFriendNobodyLikes no one likes him]]).
157	* KickChick: Her long kangaroo-like legs make great weapons.
158	* MixAndMatchCritters: For the most part, she looks like a mix between a kangaroo and a raptor (i.e. the bird of prey, not the dinosaur from ''Franchise/JurassicPark''). She has large and powerful legs like the former, and a head of similar shape, but also a beak and clawed digitigrade feet like the latter. And if that wasn't strange enough, she also has definitely [[NonMammalMammaries human-like mammaries]].
159	* NoIndoorVoice: In the Polish dub of the movie, her voice actress amps up her HotBlooded status by practically ''shouting'' most of her lines. Garofalo's Stith seems calm and collected by comparison.
160	* PerpetualFrowner: She almost always looks pissed off in most of her scenes. The amount of times she has other expressions can be counted on two hands.
161	* PlatonicLifePartners: With Gune.
162	* ToothyBird: She is not a bird (in fact, it's hard to tell ''[[MixAndMatchCritters what]]'' she is exactly), but she does have a beak which somehow comes complete with teeth.
163	* WrenchWench: Stith thoroughly averts this in that she is not the typical human (or alien) cutie and she hates doing repairs, though she is rather handy with weapons, as befitting her intelligent and aggressive but not at all mechanical character.
164	-->'''Stith:''' I am educated and well-read, I am not a mechanic! I have my pride!
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167	[[folder:The Drej]]
168	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_drej_queen.jpg]]
169	->Voiced by: Christopher Scarabosio (The Queen)
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171	The Drej are a race of aliens and serve as the main antagonists. Afraid of the dominance humankind may gain as a result of Project Titan (an extremely advanced planet formation project), they set out to destroy the human race.
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173	* AllThereInTheManual: The Queen's true name is Susquehana according to the Perrys' novelization. The novels also expand on the Drej as a whole, creating legitimate motivations for their actions and how their society works.
174	* BigBad: They blew up Earth in the film's opening.
175	* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: The higher-caste Drej are trying to assassinate the current queen so they can become queen themselves. Drej culture fully supports and encourages this: It constantly keeps the queen on her toes and keeps her from growing weak and complacent. That doesn't mean, however, that those that try to kill the queen and ''fail'' are let off lightly...
176	* TheDreaded: Feared by every other race in the galaxy, and rightly so. It helps that their name sounds an awful lot like the word dread.
177	* EnergyBeings: They are made of pure energy, which is both their greatest strength and their greatest weakness. It makes them virtually invincible in direct combat since even if you blow their physical form to smithereens, they will just reassemble in time. [[spoiler:However, it turns out to be their undoing when Cale, during the climactic battle, comes up with an idea to use them as a power source to revive the ''Titan'', draining them and wiping them out of existence]].
178	* FantasticCasteSystem: The Drej are apparently split into low-level drones who are not too bright and above them, more advanced castes that have more intelligence and personality. From any of these cases, one can ingest the orb artifact and become queen who leads the Drej and is capable of making more of them.
179	* HiveMind: {{Downplayed\|Trope}}. According to the novelization, while the Drej fully believe in the concept of putting their race before all other matters, in truth each Drej (or at least, the more advanced castes) have fully independent and unique personalities and are more than capable of plotting against one another (though even that is always ostensibly for the greater good of the whole race).
180	* KarmicDeath: The Drej destroyed the Earth in the DownerBeginning by making the planet spin so fast that centrifugal forces blow it up. [[spoiler:In the film's climax, the Drej were killed and absorbed by the Titan as it begins to spin, creating a new planet.]]
181	* KlingonPromotion: A Drej can become queen by killing the old one and ingesting the orb she carries (not an easy task, since LargeAndInCharge and RankScalesWithAsskicking are fully in play).
182	* LargeAndInCharge: The Drej Queen towers above all over members of her species.
183	* ScaryDogmaticAliens: Of the conquistador/Nazi variety. The Drej believe that it is their destiny and their right to spread themselves across the universe and eradicate all other species they encounter.
184	* StarfishLanguage: According to the novel, they communicate with flashes of light.
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