Titan (Final Fantasy VII)

Titan is a Summon Materia in Final Fantasy VII. It summons Titan, who performs the attack Anger of the Land, an Earth-elemental attack that damages all enemies.
The Titan Materia has the Earth element, which can be linked with the Support Materia Elemental.
Titan is summonable by Barret in the 1997 demo version.
==Obtained==
The Titan Materia is found in the destroyed mako reactor in Gongaga, first accessed in "Gongaga, the Village of Sadness". It is not visible when the player can first visit, but can still be obtained by examining the ruins of the reactor. If the player returns after they have the Highwind and has not already obtained the Titan Materia, the Materia will be visible to the player.
==Stats==
===Growth===
:See the Summon sequence here.
Level	AP required
1 	0
2 	15000
3 	30000
4 	60000
4 	80000
===Ability===
Ability	MP cost	Power	Effect
 	46 	33 	Earth-elemental damage to all enemies.
==Use==
Summoning Titan costs 46 MP, and performs Anger of the Land that deals Earth-elemental damage at 2.0625x the base magic damage to all enemies and cannot be reflected. The attack is very powerful, but will be ineffective against flying enemies, and is costly in MP.
The Titan Materia has small stat changes of -2% HP, but +2% MP and +1 Magic. These changes are small enough to not be detrimental, and are identical to those from the Earth Materia with no Strength penalty. This makes Titan a good choice to link with the Elemental Materia on a weapon or armor. If used on weapons, it will deal Earth-elemental damage, which is useful when given to characters with a higher Strength geared towards physical damage, including Cloud, Barret, Tifa, and Cid, as it allows them to also exploit enemies' weaknesses to Earth and deal more damage. If used on armor, it can be used on anyone to resist, nullify, or absorb Earth damage.
Titan is the only pure Earth-elemental summon. Anger of the Land is outclassed by Quake3, though it must be paired with Support Materia to be most useful. Typhon also deals greater Earth-elemental damage than Titan, but this is mixed in with other elements, meaning enemies weak to Earth may still resist the other elements.
==Other appearances==
=== Mobius Final Fantasy ===
The Final Fantasy VII incarnation of Titan appeared as a dark-elemental Ranger ability card for players to summon during the Final Fantasy VII collaboration events. It allowed player characters to perform the Dark Fang ability, which dealt dark damage to a single foe.
==Behind the scenes==
Early in development Titan was to be acquired from a treasure chest in Kalm, but this was scrapped. The chest remains in the final product, but cannot be opened. It was likely moved for the purposes of the traveling salesman, who was intended to appear in Gongaga Village where he hints at the existence of Titan.
Yasui Kentarou, who was in charge of the game's magic and summoning effects, has mentioned Titan as his favorite summon from the game due to the effort it took to create his summoning animation. Tetsuya Nomura, who storyboarded the summoning sequences, had dictated Titan should flip over the ground the enemies were on by peeling off a slab of the land. At first Titan was programmed to come in on normal ground and to flip the same slab of ground no matter the current terrain, but Kentarou deemed that looked boring and worked to include the battlefield textures in the animation.
==Etymology==
==Citations==
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