Tivan Group

The Tivan Group's flag

The **Tivan Group** is an alien organization from the film *Guardians of the Galaxy* (2014).

## Description

The Tivan Group is an interstellar organization of collectors who acquire rare artifacts and organisms to keep within their teleporting fortress. The group holds the largest collection of relics and organisms in the Andromeda Galaxy (along with presumably the largest in the Milky Way). The Tivan Group is lead by Taneleer Tivan AKA, "The Collector", one of the *Elders of the Universe* who is obsessed with collecting.

The Tivan Group is highly amoral, keeping its possessions in inhumane conditions, kidnapping and enslaving sentient beings, putting guests in negligent conditions, acquiring exhibits through connections to the criminal-underworld, and using alien laws to legally commit their atrocities. Their main source of income for centuries has been harvesting organic matter from *Knowhere*, the decapitated head of a Celestial floating in space.

### Members

The Tivan Group includes many wranglers, security guards, and humanoid employees. The Collector himself is known to enslave various Krylorian females to serve as his, "Assistants".

## History

### Background

The Tivan Group was presumably founded by Taneleer Tivan. The group expanded to great power in the galaxy.

### Avengers Campus

Tivan travelled to Earth in the 2010s, following a mysterious figure that his bounty-hunter Jeutar Mörat observed travelled to the planet. It is presumed that this figure was the Celestial, Eson the Searcher who travelled to Earth around 2014 to try and steal the Nova Corps' Cosmic Generator, only to be defeated by the *Guardians of the Galaxy*.

By 2019, Tivan made a deal with Tony Stark to park his fortress in Stark's *Avengers Campus California*. Tivan promised to bring his fortress to *Avengers Campus California* and educate Earth's populace on his collection, and explained this at a demo where he also showed off a caged alien Vyloo.

While in the Campus, the Collector sent out various spam texts for promotions in the general area. During residency in Avengers Campus, the fortress was overrun by the rogue, "Spider-Bots" of W.E.B. member Peter Parker who used his *Spider-Man* moniker to infiltrate the fortress via the campus' utilidoors, and pacify the robots in webbing. The Collector contacted Avengers member Scott Lang AKA *Ant-Man* and stated that he liked Scott's ideas and wanted to discuss them over, "Sakaaran Cold Brew". It was likely that this was a trap set up by the Collector though the outcome of this incident is unknown.

### Mission: BREAKOUT!

Tivan invited Star-Lord of the *Guardians of the Galaxy* to attend with promise of a free tour. Tivan proceeded to kidnap the guardians for his collection and put them on display as his main attraction but failed in capturing their fellow member, Mantis. During their imprisonment, Star-Lord and Gamora sent messages for help to Avengers member Wasp while Rocket managed to send out an S.O.S. signal to the California area.

After escaping containment, Rocket Raccoon debriefed these contacts in the Collector's Office and orchestrated a plan to knock-out the fortress' generators by connecting it to Star-Lord's Walkman and using their guest ID hand-scans to hack into the system. This released all of the creatures in the Collector's possession while the Guardians escaped in their ship the Milano as piloted by Mantis, accompanied by Cosmo the Space-Dog. The Collector and his subordinates were left in the building as it was overrun with monsters.

## Appearances

### Doctor Strange: Mysteries of the Mystic Arts

The Tivan Group logo appears, representing Knowhere on a dimensional map within the Cabinet of Caballeros.

### Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: BREAKOUT!

The Tivan Group are central antagonists for this attraction.

### Marvel Super Hero Academy

On the Disney Fantasy, there is a poster for the Tivan Group.

### PYM Test Kitchen

The giant cellphones will receive spam texts from the Collector's Fortress. Ant-Man will text Wasp about the Collector saying that he liked his ideas and invited him to the fortress for a drink.

### Web Slingers: A Spider-Man Adventure

The Web Slingers enter the Collector's Fortress to fight off Spider-Bots.

## Trivia

* The Collector has connections to many entities from non Marvel Comics related Disney Parks properties.
	+ He is supplied his technology from X-S Tech, the evil corporation from ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter. It is signed by company chair L.C. Clench.
	+ At his desk in the pre-show is a figurine of the Hellhound from the Haunted Mansion.
	+ Within the Tivan Collection are:
		- Figment from Journey Into Imagination.
		- The Yeti from Matterhorn Bobsleds.
		- The robotic head of Tomorrowland's mayor Tom Morrow.
		- Dolores the octopus from Country Bear Jamboree.
		- The head of a doll from It's a Small World.
		- Assorted artifacts from the Hollywood Tower Hotel including bellhop hats and bookmarks with the hotel's logo.
* It is unknown if Tivan was connected to the tourism of Knowhere referenced in Disney Traders at EPCOT.

## References

1. ↑ https://dlnewstoday.com/2019/08/photos-a-closer-look-at-avengers-campus-projects-coming-to-disney-parks-at-d23-expo-2019/
2. ↑ https://disneycruiselineblog.com/2019/03/trip-log-day-1-7-night-western-caribbean-cruise-from-port-canaveral-port-canaveral/