Titania (Marvel Comics)
| Titania | |
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Titania.
Art by Alex Saviuk. |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Secret Wars #3 (July 1984) |
| Created by |
Jim Shooter Mike Zeck |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Mary MacPherran |
| Team affiliations |
Masters of Evil Femizons Frightful Four The Worthy Illuminati |
| Partnerships |
Doctor Doom Absorbing Man |
| Notable aliases | "Skeeter", Skirn: Breaker of Men |
| Abilities | Expert street fighter Immense superhuman strength Superhuman stamina High-level resistance to physical injury |
Titania (Mary MacPherran), is a supervillainess appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She is notable for being one of Marvel's strongest human female characters, and the wife of the Absorbing Man. Created by then-Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter and introduced in the 1984 crossover limited series Secret Wars, Titania has since then become a rival of the She-Hulk, and has also been a member of several incarnations of the Masters of Evil and the Frightful Four.
MacPherran is the second Marvel supervillainess to use the name. The first Titania (Davida DaVito) was a female wrestler and member of The Grapplers who was murdered by the Scourge of the Underworld. Upon DaVito's resurrection, her powers were expanded and she took the name Lascivious, as MacPherran had become much more strongly identified with the name Titania.
Titania was introduced in Secret Wars #3, and has appeared in many Marvel comics since then.
Mary MacPherran is the name of 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,
Wonderful, gentle, sweet Mary Mac was indeed a smidgen of the basis for Titania, who was a willowy young woman who became uber-robust and Hulk-level strong. If MM minded that I had a tough bad-girl inspired by her, and made the nod in her direction, she never mentioned it. And wicked-smart Volcana had a bit of Mary Jo Duffy at her core. It was a thing we did back when. Now, I suppose the creators would be sued.
Titania is one of the main characters in the 2015 series Illuminati.
Born prematurely in a suburb of Denver, Colorado, Mary MacPherran grew up scrawny and short-statured, inspiring a popular girl at school, Vanessa Ashwood, to nickname her "Skeeter" (a slang word for mosquito). As a high school senior, to help support her struggling family, Mary works as a salesclerk alongside her only other friend, Marsha Rosenberg. Consistently bullied since childhood by the wealthy and cruel Vanessa and her friends, Mary grows resentful and bitter, and fantasizes about gaining superpowers to become admired, and exact retribution on her tormentors.
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