Titania (Marvel)



Titania is a supervillainess in the Marvel Comics universe, notable for being Marvel's strongest human female with the possible exception of the She-Hulk, and the wife of the Absorbing Man.

Origin
Mary MacPherran was born prematurely in a suburb of Denver, Colorado. As a result, she grew up frail and diminutive, earning her the nickname "Skeeter" (slang for mosquito) from Vanessa Ashwood, a girl at her school. Mary's physique left her subject to horrific bullying her entire childhood, even to the point where she had to take menial jobs just to survive. Mary became deeply resentful and bitter in response, and fantasized about gaining super powers to become admired, and revenge on her tormentors who included Vanessa.

One day, after the Julia Carpenter Spider-Woman appeared in their town, Mary's only friend Marsha Rosenberg remarked to her that this superheroine's reddish-blonde hair color matches Mary's. Mary responded by falsely revealing to Marsha that she is secretly Spider-Woman. Immediately Mary's fortunes changed and she was invited to a party at Vanessa's house. It becomes apparent that new found popularity was due to Marsha spreading around the false Spider-Woman rumor. Suddenly, the powerful being the Beyonder chose to rip their section of Denver from the Earth to become a part of the composite planet Battleworld - a stage for his planned battles between Earth's heroes and villains. The party now in disarray, the real Spider-Woman arrives on the scene to save the guests from a collapsing structure. The lie revealed to all, Vanessa and her guests are furious and turn on Mary and Marsha, chasing them into the forests of Battleworld.

Doctor Doom, looking for new metahuman allies to further his ambitions, happens upon the terrified pair. Mary and Marsha both agree to Doom's offer of power in exchange for serving in his army of supervillains, becoming the powerful Titania and Volcana respectively. Using the alien technology of Doombase, Mary was made into the polar opposite of her former self: tall, superhumanly strong, muscular, proud and arrogant.

Power and Abilities
Titania’s physical strength is tremendous, placing it on the highest echelons of the Marvel Universe. Her strength, from the moment she was empowered by Doctor Doom, was at a level that rivaled mainstays such as She-Hulk and The Thing which she then continued to increase through vigorous and relentless weight-training. Her current level of physical strength is unknown but is expected to be greater than that of She-Hulk’s.

Titania also possesses an extreme level of endurance and stamina as well as a body that is exceedingly difficult to injure. She can endure extremes in temperature, crashing into the planet from low Earth orbit, and severe physical trauma before sustaining injury. While Titania has also recovered from cancer to rise to even greater levels of physical power, it is unknown if she possesses any regenerative capabilities.