Titan's Hook

Every hero has their hook. Batman saw his parents murdered before his eyes. Superman uses his powers to protect his adopted home. Spider-man learned the hard way through the death of Uncle Ben that with great power comes great responsibility. Originally I intended the hook with Titan to be that Michael Novak was actually a small time criminal himself, a criminal with a heart of gold if you would. Then the ring would seek him out because deep down he was still noble and true of heart, and with the help of guide Azure would fight his instinct to do bad and stay good. I just wasn't feeling it the way I wanted in the end. I just felt that the Azure and ring would not choose someone that was a criminal in any way to be Titan. Michael also started out being 18 years old as well. So a fair bit changed over that time in the development cycle with Michael. Michael will however continue to struggle with watching and trying to intervene as others around him succumb to doing bad things from his neighbourhood. So in the end I suppose the hook is that Michael was pure and noble and strong despite his environment and neighbourhood elements and was specifically chosen to be Titan and stand tall above the rest. Michael will still struggle with his own noptions of good and evil as we kind of see in The Midnight Hour, but mostly he is just the one chosen.