Thread:Anon421/@comment-37875052-20190414072723/@comment-31479589-20190414094005

Titan couldn't walk through the Gates for whatever reasons. And even if he can, he doesn't have the necessary force to conquer the human world. He usually gathers army by mind-controlling the inhabitants of the world he just conquered, and then uses said army to enslave the next world. It's implied that many of these mind-controlled soldiers died in the process of conquering a world, but that's not a problem, Titan can replace them by mind-controlling those defeated inhabitants. The cycle repeats again and again, until Titan stumbles into the Ancient race, which proven to be a trouble. You know what happened next, and there's a good chance that Titan lost many soldiers as usual, the difference this time is there are no replacements. That's my take on why Titan didn't just come to the human world; he waits the 6 demons to do the job and will only come after his victory is guaranteed, that is the power of Shadow's shadow.

Now, about Titan and the Gates and shadow energy. Think about it, why Titan didn't just drink the quenchiest shadow energy to empower himself in the first place? Why did he goes through all the trouble to set up the gambit in SF2 so he could take Shadow's power? I have two theory (again) regarding this:


 * 1) This one bugs me, but it seems that Titan himself cannot control shadow energy, as surprising as it sounds. Even though the energy, along with the Gates, are his properties. He probably wanted the power of someone strong enough to not only surviving the shadow emission, but to also retain their state of mind, and all of these traits might not exist in Titan. Titan then proceeds to experiment with the Gates releasing that shadow emission in many alternate universe, and it's implied many Shadow doppelgangers died. With only six surviving, but none of them retained their mind and ended up enslaved by shadow energy. Until the perfect result comes in the form of Shadow.
 * 2) Seems shadow energy can become stronger when contained within the capable host. These energy will not only become stronger, but will also gains its own intelligence and obtains sentience and a mind. Titan seeks out the best body to host the shadow energy to develop it to the fullest potential, and Titan will take that strongest shadow energy for him. The shadow energy that covered Shadow's body probably becoming stronger and stronger as time passes, and that energy is what we call Shadow Mind now.

Again, all of the above are theories and they could be 100% wrong 😅