Tilian

**Animated** | Episode 26 (A.T.O.M.)

**Tilian** is a fictional character from the *A.T.O.M. – Alpha Teens on Machines* series.

He is a clone of Axel Manning that was merged with the DNA of a cobra, a crocodile, a gecko, and a chameleon.

## Personality

Tilian is quite aggressive and gets angry easily. Sometimes he even forgets reason and attacks without thinking first if someone provokes him (cf. "Resurrection", where Axel makes fun of him to make Tilian attack him). As Axel's clone he is the natural leader of the Mu-Team and manages to keep it together. There is a deep aversion for Axel that causes Tilian to fight and try to destroy him. At first, Tilian escapes from the lab to hunt him down. For a long time his only purpose and goal seems to be Axel's destruction.

Firekat respects him as the leader of the team and apparently these two get along best. On the other hand, since Wrecka is not the most clever one in the team, Tilian does not think very high of him (just like everyone else). Yet he and the others go to look for Wrecka in "The Oddest Couple", but that is most likely because Janus Lee ordered them to do so, since no one noticed he was missing in the first place. It is hard to say much about Tilian and Stingfly other than that they are teammates and have to work together for Mr. Lee. And the same goes for Rayza. Tilian is not very fond of his male teammates as they complain a lot about Lee's orders.

He respects Lee's decisions and follows his orders without asking. Tilian feels indebted to Lee who gave him and the others life. He defends Lee until he wants to kill the Alpha Teens in "Full Circle". Tilian hesitates to finish off Lioness as she had saved his life earlier, which he did not understand. As he cannot kill her, he turns against Lee and decides that they should help the Alpha Teens to defeat him, or else Lee would destroy the Mu-Team. Whether or not he turns good remains unknown, since he had to help Axel to help himself.

## Appearance

He has green scales, a snake-like tongue, and orange hair. The area around his mouth is of a lighter green colour, just like his chest and the scales on his forearms. Being a mutant clone his appearance differs a lot from Axel's. Tilian is taller, bulkier and slightly more muscular. He has completely red eyes without a visible pupil. His teeth are pointed, the fangs are a little longer.

He wears a dark green mission outfit with a design very similar to Axel's outfit in the first season. There are light green and orange details. His shoes are also coloured in light green, orange and grey. He bears the red Mu-Team insignia on his chest.

## Biography

### A.T.O.M. – Season I

He first appears in the last episode of the first season. Tilian is seen in the Janus Lee's secret laboratory.

### A.T.O.M. – Season II

Tilian appears in the first episode of the second season by tracking down Axel Manning. Tilian was defeated by Axel and he fell down a rock face under Mr. Lee's mansion, which left him gravely injured. Mr. Lee recovered him and made him apparently ten times better by mixing Axel's DNA with Mutanium (an unstable chemical) and putting it into Tilian.

## Abilities

He can shoot venom from his fangs that hardens and immobilizes any body part it touches temporarily, talk and command snakes (maybe even other reptiles) to do his bidding (in "Zoo Story" he orders a snake to tie up Axel to immobilize him), change color to blend in with surfaces like a chameleon, make his snake-like tongue longer than a chameleon's tongue, and regenerate lost limbs.

As Axel's clone he fights with a similar style. It resembles Jo-Lan a lot, yet he cannot use his spiritual power to produce energy waves, etc. He is very strong and can even deform metal (in "A Shock to the System" he tears off the cover of Axel's Airjet with his bare hands).

## Gallery

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