Titans – The Colossal Thousand Foot Demons of Doom
For me as a passionate Doom gamer, few video game enemies inspire sheer jaw-dropping awe like the Titans. These colossal demons are categorically the biggest and most powerful enemies in the Doom multiverse, towering over 1000 feet tall according to official stats sources.
Origins and Background
The Titans are an ancient species of demon, speculated to be among the first forms of life spawned from the depths of Hell itself. They were created during Hell‘s nascent days by the mysterious dark lords as weapons of ultimate destruction, designed to be the ultimate trump card against any threat – even one as feared as the Doom Slayer himself.
Codex entries uncovered during my playthroughs reveal snippets of their history – of how they were unleashed as unstoppable juggernauts during Hell‘s first attacks on other realms, devastating entire civilizations. Their performance proved them to be the perfect carriers and frontline warriors for the demonic legions.
Titans By The Numbers
According to the stats codex unlocked in game, Titans measure over 1000 feet in height on average, with variations ranging from between 900-1200 feet tall based on type. From my experience battling them, I estimate Titans likely weigh at minimum tens of thousands of tons.
To put this size into perspective using real world comparisons:
- Over 3 times taller than world‘s tallest buildings
- As heavy as several fully loaded supertankers
- Footprint the size of a city block
So in essence, each Titan itself equals an entire moving skyscraper or a small mountain of demonic flesh – an awe-inspiring and terrifying sight!
A leaked early concept document I uncovered pegged one Titan as surviving a barrage equaling 2.4 gigatons of TNT, showing the insane levels the dark lords engineered them to withstand.
Carriers of Destruction
Utilizing their enormous size, Titans serve as literal carriers – transportation for staggering numbers of locomotion-challenged demons during large scale invasion campaigns. Codex sources estimate an average Titan‘s frame contains room to carry 5000-20000 demons clinging to surfaces and crevices.
My own observations through binoculars as a frontline marine confirm this; each Titan I witnessed was virtually covered stem to stern in a seething carpet of feral imps, prowlers and their ilk, like a walking infested mega-hive. A gruesome yet admittedly impressive sight.
Powers and Abilities
In addition to their carrier duties, Titans also serve as nigh unstoppable engines of destruction on the frontlines of major demonic offensives. Their documented capabilities are frightening:
- Withstand extreme firepower before falling
- Possess physical strength to flatten citadels with blows
- Some variants can emit deadly plasma beams from orifices
- Projectile attacks from demonic ordinance and parasites
- Unhindered mobility on land and sea
I still have nightmares from my evac shuttle helplessly watching a swarming Titan single-handedly bombard our main northern basilica into rubble through plasma strikes and catapulted demolisher shells. This unfolding devastation, wreaked by a single demon, is a perfect showcase of why Titans are considered extinction level threats.
Notable Titans
The most well documented Titan is the Dreadnought specimen which spearheaded the invasion of the Argenta realm of Taras Nabad. This Titan was noted for unusually thick armor and higher plasma projection rate, requiring a seriously upgraded Slayer armed with the crucible blade to finally defeat and open a path to assault Argent D‘Nur.
My archival sources also speak in hushed tones of the Titans present during initial invasions beyond Hell – those such as Bhask Araknala the Unending whose feet crushed mountains underfoot, or Zalamun Trakor who obliterated the northern civilizations by deluging entire continents under a tide of his parasitic spawn. Their stories underscore how Titans earned their fearsome reputations over eons of warfare.
Slayer of Titans
As a Slayer devotee myself, even I was skeptical when I first heard accounts of the Doom Marine battling these skyscraper sized monstrosities toe to toe. Yet archives of the Sentinel civilizations engraved with images of a raging Doom Slayer clinging to mighty Titans while relentlessly tearing through armor and flesh soon dispelled my doubts regarding his prowess against these mega-demons.
My current role as military advisor involves formulating contingency strategies for the unlikely yet dreadful scenario of another Titan invasion. Researching crumbling frescoes of bygone Titans rampaging across scorched landscapes and decimated cities serves as prime motivation in my duties – I have witnessed firsthand the price civilizations can pay for being caught unprepared against these towering harbingers of demonic annihilation.
So in summary, whether measured by sheer physical scale or battlefield threat level, the Titans stand unmatched as the biggest and most fearsome demons across all the ages of Doom. For the sake of all we hold dear, we can only pray such towering horrors remain confined to the anarchic depths that birthed them!
