Talk:Titania (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

Some quick checking
on where Shakespeare got "Titania" might be good. --Wetman 03:13, 6 September 2005 (UTC)


 * 'Tis done. The Singing Badger 19:39, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Any loud-and-clear proof available that this name is unrelated to 'Tatiana'? There's some confusion both on the web and the Tatiana disambiguation page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.18.31.28 (talk) 11:08, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Almost all the modern influences are unsourced
Here is all of it but the one bit with an actual source:

Modern references

 * She has occasional cameo roles in Neil Gaiman's Sandman comic series, and is a major supporting character in The Books of Magic. In the mythology of those comic series, she is a mortal woman, who has lived and ruled in fairy land so long that no one remembers she once looked (and still is, under her magical seeming) human. It is hinted, though never outright stated, that she may have once been the lover of Dream, the protagonist of the Sandman series. It is eventually revealed that she is the mother of Timothy Hunter, the protagonist of the Books of Magic series. The character recently returned in her own graphic novel God Save the Queen.


 * In Disney's Gargoyles, Titania was the queen of the fairies, but a millennium before the main events of the series, she apparently greatly angered her husband Oberon, causing them to divorce and him to banish her and all other members of their race from Avalon to teach her to "grow up." It is possible that she manipulated Oberon into that action though, as she was shown to make several such clever feints and ploys during her appearances in the series.  The royal pair eventually reconciled and remarried. She was voiced by Kate Mulgrew.
 * Titania and Oberon appear as major characters in the novel Magic Street by Orson Scott Card.
 * Titania is the queen of the Summer Court of the Faeries in Jim Butcher's Dresden Files books.
 * In King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride, Titania and Oberon must save the world of Eldritch. This is her only appearance in the series and is the mother of Edgar and the sister of Malacia which are both made up characters.
 * In Frewin Jones's The Faerie Path, Titania is the mother of the book's main character, Tania.
 * In E.D. Baker's book Winged Titania plays the Queen of the Fairies whom the goblins dislike because of her rules and judgment of what the goblins do in the human world.
 * In the Doubled Edge series by Mercedes Lackey and Roberta Gellis, Titania is the High Queen of the Sidhe (elves) and the consort to Oberon. She is the patron and protector of the young magician Elizabeth Tudor. It is hinted that Titania is in fact Hera.
 * Titania is the aunt of the Raven King The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke
 * In Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3, Titania is a Persona of the Lovers Arcana, while Oberon is a Persona of the Emperor Arcana.
 * In The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, protagonist Dr. Miles Bennell quotes the opening line of Oberon's poem; "I know a bank where wild thyme blows".
 * Titania is the name of the axe-wielding knight in the English versions of the Nintendo Video Games, Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. She was second-in-command of a small mercenary group called, "Greil's Mercenaries".
 * Titania and Oberon both appear as the king and queen of the fairies in the TV film, Voyage of the Unicorn.
 * In Final Fantasy Legend II, the final evolution of the Fairy-class was called Titania.
 * Titania is the heart, the mind, the spirit, the soul of the Starship Titanic. novel and video game by Douglas Adams.
 * In an episode of The Simpsons, Titania is a large-breasted woman who competes in a contest sponsored by Duff brewery.
 * Titania is mentioned in the Star Trek episode Time's Arrow. While traveling back in time to save Data, the rent on the lodging for Picard and his crew in the 20th century is due. When the landlord comes in to collect it, Picard pretends to have an acting troupe and has the landlord read the part of Titania.
 * Titania is the name of a fictional planet in the Star Fox video game series.
 * Titania appears as the King of Pride in the Little Fears RPG.
 * Titania appears in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game (TCG) as a Plant-type monster known as "Tytannial, Princess of Camellias", which is currently one of the strongest Plant-type monsters in the game.
 * Titania is also the nickname given to Erza Scarlet, the strongest woman in the Fairy Tail guild, in the manga Fairy Tail by Hiro Mashima.
 * In Summer Dream Titania is an elven queen.
 * Titania is the wife of Oberon of the Summerdream family in the PC life simulator game The Sims 2.
 * In the children's book series The Sisters Grimm, Titania and Oberon both feature in book four, "Once Upon a Crime", as the parents of Puck, one of the main characters. They argue most of the time they are seen interacting, but when Oberon is murdered during a party, Titania morphs into a fire-breathing monster and threatens to kill everyone to avenge her love if the murderer is not found.
 * Regina Titania is ruler of the Seelie Court in the 2009 novel "Midwinter" by Matthew Sturges. She is enemy to the Unseelie Queen Mab.
 * UA Fanthorpe's poem "Titania to Bottom"
 * Titania and Oberon appear (although not mentioned by name) in Terry Pratchett's book Lords and Ladies, which is a partial parody of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Ekwos (talk) 00:42, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

it's the same! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.184.60.235 (talk) 16:55, 20 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Titania and tits may be 1 root 176.65.96.79 (talk) 20:45, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

Requested move 16 June 2021

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Lennart97 (talk) 18:10, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

– Given that the Shakespearian character gets |Titania_(Marvel_Comics)|Titania_(moon)|Titania_(DC_Comics)|Titania_(disambiguation)|HMS_Titania less than half of all long-term pageviews, and is not itself even the original use of the term, there is no clear primary topic for this term. This is only going to be exacerbated now that it has been announced that the Marvel Comics character will appear in the highly anticipated Disney+ She-Hulk TV series. The proposed disambiguator would match other ambiguous characters from the work (e.g., Lysander (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream), and Helena (A Midsummer Night's Dream)). BD2412 T 17:43, 16 June 2021 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Titania → Titania (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
 * Titania (disambiguation) → Titania
 * Support per nom. That dab page has quite a few entries. -2pou (talk) 18:41, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Support per nom.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 19:11, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Support per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 20:00, 16 June 2021 (UTC)