Thread:CirUmeUela/@comment-27496405-20180307074410/@comment-26838855-20180530162753

The Wikia Editor wrote: A crossover in Runaways: Season 2 sounds like a really fun idea. But yeah, them being on different networks would undoubtebly get in the way, at least at the moment.

We'll have to wait and see when the show is set. I did notice that at the beginning of this trailer, Tyrone has a smartphone with a touchscreen. The first commercially available smartphone with a capacitive touchscreen was the LG Prada, which was first released in May 2007. The first generation of iPhone was first released on June 29, 2007. Nice catch. It looks like not just one of the first touchscreens, but more of a modern one. I guess we'll see in a week's time.

The Wikia Editor wrote: Cool. Although it should be noted that Thanos and Eros can't be too far apart in age. It's been stated on several occasions that they grew up together (with Eros being Thanos' only true childhood friend) as well as the fact that Thanos killed their mother when he was 12.

As for how long Titans can live, the answer is that they can live pretty much indefinitely.

The backstory is that, about 1 million years ago, the Celestials experimented on several tribes of Homo erectus. The result was the creation of two distinct species, the Eternals (Homo immortalis) and the Deviants (Homo descendus).

The Eternals built an isolated city, Titanos, in Northern Asia, where they would live for thousands of years. Around 750,000 years ago, the brothers Uranos and Kronos would fight for control of the city, with Uranos wanting to conquer the rest of the world while Kronos preferred peaceful isolation. Kronos eventually won and Uranos and his followers left the Earth, first settling on Uranos (named after Uranos himself) and eventually forming a permanent settlement on one of the moons of Saturn, which they named Titan in memory of their ancestral home.

About 5,000 years ago, Kronos seemingly died when his experiment involving cosmic energy exploded (although he continued to exist as a disembodied mind). The explosion destroyed the city but also imbued the surviving Eternals with cosmic energy, rendering them all immortal (in the sense that they can't get sick and don't age much, they can still die if they suffer any fatal injuries).

Afterwards, Kronos' son Zuras became the leader of the Eternals while his brother A'Lars, not wanting to cause another civil war, went into voluntary exile to Titan, where he met Sui-San and eventually had his two sons (it should be noted that, in the original telling of this story, Titan had been ravaged by a devastating war, which had killed everyone on the planet except for Sui-San, she and A'Lars subsequently repopulated and rebuilt the world).

It was once implied that Eros had inspired the Greek/Roman god Eros/Cupid during a visit to Earth in the distant past, but we can take that with a grain of salt as the actual deity exists within the marvel universe.

Also, in a recent story, Thanos met a future version of himself from millions of years into the future. This version has evidently aged, but he had summoned his younger self because he needed someone strong enough to kill him, as he couldn't die of natural causes.

It's a bit long, I admit, but I hope it gives an idea of how long the Titans can live, at least within the comics. Ah good point about him having killed their mother aged 12, that was a big oversight on my part!

As for him being old millions of years in the future - maybe as they get older, their ageing continues to slow. The best rough guess I can find from some quick use of this site is something along the lines of "[age in human years] = 11.48067*[Titan actual age]^0.132632". This would mean at age 12, he's about 15-16 in human years, at age 20 when he leaves Titan he's about 17 in human years, at age 100 when he has gathered his armada he's about 21 in human years, you'd be in your human 30s from about 1400-12,000, your human 40s from about 12,000-66,000, and eventually your human 70s from about 830,000-2.3 million, 80s from 2.3 million-5.5 million, 90s from 5.5 million-12 million, 100s from 12 million to 25 million. So he'd be roughly the right ages at 12, 20, and 100, Starfox would be roughly the right age for his appearance when he's "well over 1000", and millions of years in the future, Thanos is an old man.

Comic Thanos must be no more than 12 years older than Starfox, and if Starfox is about 35ish, then that translates to about 4466. + 11 years, say, would make Thanos about 4477ish, which translates back to about 35.01104 in human years.

Going by this approximated comic-based ageing curve, a Titan at 47.355 in human years (Josh Brolin's rough age as above) would be more like 43,641.

So we've got film Thanos being an adaptation of the comic version of the character (which would make him about 4477) vs. Thanos' appearance in the films (which would make him about 43,641). Going with roughly the middle of these two figures' human ages would be 41.18302 in human years.

That translates to Thanos being about 15,228 in actual years.

It's, er, well, it's very rough. Basically though, the comics would then suggest that this Thanos is somewhere between 1000 and 50,000...