Here is the official informative website if you want to learn more about Titus, the main antagonist of Hoppers.

This website gives a deep dive into biography, plot summary, and trivia. In addition, it gives important resources allowing readers to have a full picture of Titus as a whole, as well as important communities for fellow Titus fans to communicate.

Recently on June 5, 2026 on X (formerly Twitter), the director of Hoppers, none other than Daniel Chong himself, has SPOKEN about Titus on a thread he made about Hoppers he made right after it was released on Disney+ two days prior. And its none other a reveal on on who voiced Titus, debunking any previous claims people have made in the past. Without further ado, let's dive right into this.

Many of us may know Dave Franco, but truly he mainly voices the Jerry Robot (robotic clone impersonating the male mayor Jerry Generazzo (Jon Hamm)). It is implied the same actor behind the Jerry Robot only voiced the butterfly out of convenience given how as soon as Robot Jerry's silicon mask is gone, the voice glitches like a mechanical robot would when it loses key parts such as the silicon mask. Basically in universe, the robot voice and butterfly voice are not the same voice, BUT because of convenience they are anyway, which still makes sense given the butterfly lacked sufficient screentime and spent less than 5 seconds. It appears three times: First time was just a shadow and it never speaks it just flies into the Jerry robot. Second time it was because it lost conscience of Robot Jerry after Mabel's backup plan to severe the connection after he confronted Mabel who confronted him to stop killing people at the rally he invaded and posed as Jerry at, and in there, he actually speaks calling George a "milk-drinker" but almost immediately regains conscience of the Jerry robot. The third was when the robot is completely destroyed, but he says one line and suddenly meets his demise at the hands of the Amphibian King. No one knows the true voice behind the butterfly in universe. It may or may not be the same as the caterpillar. What is known is Franco voiced the butterfly mainly to keep consistency as it transfers back and forth between his Robot Jerry form and his butterfly form, with Robot Jerry dominating more than 95% of his screentime spent as his Insect King form alone in the robot form.

It is often mistaken that Dave Franco also voiced the caterpillar, given his fame at Hollywood and name being well-known and the common misperception that a character is always voiced by the same actor, on top of how Titus' actor for the caterpillar form, Eman Abdul-Razzak, is not a well known actress at all. This tweet has this exact message: while the Insect King (Robot Jerry) is Dave Franco, the true actor behind Titus is none other than Abdul-Razzak herself, who he himself admits is not an actress but a Pixar artist. Prior to this reveal, Abdul-Razzak was known through LinkedIn and other Pixar official socials as the Lighting Technical Director at Pixar and had several interviews as said position. As such, through search she is known through official socials and interviews. Even then, because it is not promoted as much and she is not an actress, she is not a known household name overall. Plus, her name Eman Abdul-Razzak is a foreign name which is often mistaken as masculine or neutral amongst foreigners despite Eman being a feminine name in Arab culture. As such, because the actor is not known and because the name is neutral enough to the audience who is not wary of Arab culture, it is often mistaken to be a child actor if not Franco himself. Before watching the movie, many who saw the promotional posters who did not research actors only knew of Franco and thought the actor was a child. Even after, some did not know a woman voiced the caterpillar form, so they naively conclude the supposed child actor (or Franco himself) is talented to pull off different kinds of voices, albeit it having a feminine voice rather than a childlike voice. Especially because those who knew it was Abdul-Razzak and not Franco see Eman as a neutral name. A third group who did recognize its feminine voice even mistook the character as voiced by Grey DeLisle due to its similarities to Azula of Avatar or Vicky of The Fairly OddParents, both of whom were voiced by DeLisle herself, and how unknown Eman Abdul-Razzak was as a whole in the acting industry.

Is that Azula's VA, yes it sure is, duh! Just kidding lol *laughs maniacally like Titus*.

Unlike most boys voiced by women like Bart Simpson (voiced by Nancy Cartwright) or Timmy Turner (voiced by Tara Strong), Titus sounds more like a female than a child which is more neutral than feminine or masculine. Because of this it was often speculated that Abdul-Razzak did not train her voice to sound like a boy unlike Cartwright or Strong. Chong confirmed this exact speculation through claiming it was her "natural voice". He even credited her for lighting his pupation scene. The fact that she not only voiced the most important forms of real Titus (his caterpillar form) but his pupation scene, truly shows she was the true shape of Titus, even amidst her not being a professional or famous voice actress or actress unlike Dave Franco. Chong in this post alone is trying to show how Abdul-Razzak was the true voice of Titus and not Franco.

For months, Franco participated in interviews of Titus, with some even embedding his caterpillar scenes because of how much screentime the butterfly lacked and how they did not want to spoil his impersonation as Jerry, which he almost spends all of his screentime voicing. Many of this lies to how Abdul-Razzak was not an actress and as such could not interview him, especially given how in international dubs, such as the Japanese dub, when the caterpillar is voiced by an actual actor (in this case Ikue Otani), the voice behind the caterpillar (Abdul-Razzak's counterpart) gets attention, not Franco's counterpart (which would be Junya Hirano). Love Hirano's performance in the Japanese dub too though, ngl, but this was the right way to go.

Because Titus' voice was so feminine, many international dubs to the point of nearly half casted women to voice him, rather than young boys. While it may seem usual given it was standard for women to voice boys, under Disney/Pixar and modern studios this is an anamaly. While young Nick Wilde who was voiced by Kath Soucie in Zootopia had more flexibility given this was a flashback and not a major character like Titus the Insect Prince himself, even for Nick this did not translate well into international dubs the way Titus did. While boys did voice both characters in some dubs, for Titus it is far fewer than the young Nick and is more half and half, if not minority, than Nick's majority, despite both being voiced by women in the original dubs, respectively. Even Glordon from Elio was almost always voiced by boys and in fact was voiced by Remy Edgerly, a boy, in the original dub, despite his design being the inspiration for Titus himself. This fits well though: Abdul-Razzak has done scratch voices for Titus and possibly Glordon himself, as well as possibly many of the boy (and girl) characters for Pixar, to see how the story flowed well, BUT because Titus was so feminine and his personality fits so well with that voice because he was so bratty like a teenage girl and Abdul-Razzak's higher-pitched voice was enough to give off this energy, her natural voice stayed for Titus while it was replaced by actual child actors for the other counterparts (male or female), as her voice was too feminine for a boy BUT not too feminine for someone like Titus who was already feminine herself. Not to forget, Nienke van Dijk (Abdul-Razzak's Netherlands counterpart) was heavily promoted with even behind the scenes showcasing her voicing Titus, in contrast to Florus van Rooijen (Franco's counterpart) who was not even known UNTIL months after the film was released. In fact, it was only after Hoppers came out on Disney+ worldwide that a viewer was able to show screenshots of said credits. Van Dijk was previously not known for boy roles and yet here she is voicing a boy?? How can it be?? Well, Titus' personality explains it all: (s)he' a whiny bratty impulsive helpless girl as a caterpillar basically and she has had experience with Abby of Turning Red who while nice gets mad easily or Lime Chiffon in Strawberry Shortcake who also while nice gets manic in small bursts, very similar to Titus in both his(her) caterpillar and butterfly forms.

Overall the fact that Franco promoted Titus more than Abdul-Razzak and yet the said tweet is trying to uplift Abdul-Razzak, on top of her counterparts being promoted far more than Franco's in contrast in countries where the actor behind the caterpillar is a known actor and not like Abdul-Razzak, all of this shows who truly shaped Titus, which was Abdul-Razzak. Even before teasers were released it was explicitly known of Abdul-Razzak, and she even was in the casting credits, but no one cared to explain...

Let's dive deep into a transmasculine/masculine reading of Titus, the main antagonist of Hoppers, and how that makes or does not make sense of in the story canon.

Who is Titus? Titus is the vengeful and unhinged ruler of the insects. He starts off as a monarch caterpillar as the spoiled, bratty son (daughter?) of the Insect Queen. Given how he pupates himself not only into a butterfly but into a robotic clone of the male mayor Jerry Generazzo (Jon Hamm), he is voiced by two actors: Eman Abdul-Razzak for his monarch caterpillar form (Insect Prince) and Dave Franco for his Robot Jerry form (Insect King). His monarch butterfly form is also voiced by Franco like his Robot Jerry form, though it is implied this could be out of convenience rather than genuinely the same voice of Robot Jerry voicing the butterfly in universe given the butterfly lacks sufficient screentime and how Franco's voice glitches as the robot is destroyed like a robot.

His monarch caterpillar form is commonly known as Young Titus given both the monarch butterfly (albeit its lack of screentime) and Robot Jerry are voiced by Franco and how pupation is often associated with puberty and development. If portrayed as a young boy, it brings homage to women voicing boys like Bart Simpson is portrayed by Nancy Cartwright or how Ikue Otani is known for her boy roles rather than female roles (she was also the voice of the Insect Prince in the Japanese dub). However, the ideal of women voicing boys is declining and these days modern studios cast actual children in child roles. This is especially unusual given Hoppers is a Pixar movie and Pixar's long-running standard mandate of voicing actual boys in boy roles, such as Nemo who was voiced by Alexander Gould in Finding Nemo, released in 2003, a time where women voicing boys was still standard, and even Remy Edgerly was cast as Glordon in Elio, who has many similarities with Titus in a visual sense despite their opposite personalities. Titus is especially unusual given he is voiced by women in nearly half of international dubs, while Nemo and Glordon are rarely, if ever, voiced by women internationally. Unlike most boys voiced by women whose actresses and behind the scenes are laid low on promotions on official channels in every country to give the allusion that the character is a young boy to avoid confusing the audience, the official Disney account in Netherlands, Korea, and Japan promoted behind the scenes of Nienke van Dijk voicing him in the booth, Lee Su-ji talking about her dual roles as Titus and his mother or behind the scenes of recording both characters in the booth, or actors behind the Animal Council cosplaying their characters where the actress behind the Insect Prince, Ikue Otani, cosplayed him as a "female prince" rather than crossdressing like people would if it were a boy role (while Pikachu can be cosplayed as either gender it does not have male titles unlike the Insect Prince which has a male title, somehow Otani didn't cosplay Pikachu but cosplayed the Prince in a more feminine fashion). Even the young Nick Wilde, despite being voiced by Kath Soucie in the original version, was mostly voiced by boys despite being a flashback character. Minor characters are also almost voiced by boys but have more flexibility just as flashback characters like young Nick do. Titus, however, is a major character and not just a flashback of a main character. Young Simba was almost always portrayed by male actors in the 1994 dub. In fact, in the original, Jonathan Taylor Thomas voiced Young Simba. Insect Prince Titus is just as significant if not more important than Young Simba, and not just a younger version unlike young Nick Wilde. While the Insect Prince is voiced by a boy in some countries, this is mainly due to his titles and does not outweigh the unusual amount of women that do voice him. Not to forget, in the original English version, Daniel Chong recently revealed in a recent tweet the following:

This already confirms suspicions that were said from the beginning: Titus sounds like a teenage girl rather than a child when he was a caterpillar. It was already known Eman Abdul-Razzak voiced him, as seen in posters, and it was also known she works as a Pixar lighting artist, but she is not known as an actress and as such she is mistaken as a child actor. Or better yet, because people mistaken that characters only have one actor, people often mistaken her for Dave Franco given Abdul-Razzak is not known and also with how the butterfly lacked screentime and the caterpillar got more screentime than his butterfly form they needed to portray the insect form and conveniently used the caterpillar, leading fans to believe Franco voiced the caterpillar. In fact, in her official post which revealed she was going to voice Titus, Nienke van Dijk even mistook Franco as also the voice behind the young Titus, in fact, because of how unknown Abdul-Razzak is in the acting industry.

Chong's post just confirmed what was already suspected from the beginning and gave a reality check to those who mistook Franco as the voice of the caterpillar. This also explains how Titus sounded more like a teenage girl than a child in the English dub: the actress was using her natural voice and did not train to sound like a prepubescent child, unlike Nancy Cartwright did as Bart Simpson. Abdul-Razzak, still nevertheless, is talented given how high pitched the voice was, albeit its femininity behind its tone and word usage.

Enough of the actors though, let's now dive into Titus's own personality. When he was a caterpillar, he was known to be rude and disrespectful to others, even his own mother. He bullied Mabel calling her a "web-footed commoner". In addition, even during meetings such as meeting with the Animal Council, he would rudely tell his mother to go home and never stopped munching on leaves and was shown to be overweight, showing his lack of respect. Despite this lack of respect, he acts like a helpless, whiny girl, rather than a boy, given he always sits on a branch with leaves and it is only through whining and screaming he shows his sadism, showing how spoiled and bratty he was.

This aligns well with the mean girl archetype given his attitude and his brattiness. After his mother dies, he pretends to cry for his mother's death, aligning with how mean and spoiled teenage girls tend to fake their niceness to look nice. However almost immediately it becomes laughs and almost immediately he steals the crown of his mother, henceforth becoming the next Insect Queen.

He declares himself King... only to test out the robot software of Hopper technology given him and the Animal Council discovered humans were hopping onto animal bodies... previously the Animal Council (including the late Insect Queen and evidently Titus himself) were planning to kill Jerry after Mabel and George revealed Jerry's plans to drive animals, including the council and its subjects, away from their lands so he can expand the highway or build more land for his citizens of Beaverton, the main thing Mabel is advocating against throughout the film, which Mabel and George were against when the Council wanted to kill ("squish") Jerry, something they plan to still stop Jerry through alternative means.

Titus seems to have a deep hatred for humans (especially Jerry) given his mother was squished by Mabel, a beaver which was actually a human hopping herself in a beaver robot, and how he evidently realized Mabel was one of the humans who hopped onto animal bodies and especially Jerry after the council (aside from George and Mabel) unanimously called for Jerry to be "squished". He especially has a deep hatred for Jerry but later he makes use of the Hopper technology to opposite use, but before that he demands his subjects to attend him while he completes his metamorphosis into a repulsive butterfly, which would later be the Jerry Robot he forced scientists and the council to help him invent so it could be successfully worked out. Evidently the King title was more so a mockery of Jerry, given his hints at using technology almost immediately after and how he was forced to attend council meetings which shows he is a legitmate heir, and how still despite all they were hesitant to hail him as king. It is more plausible to be because he is actually female given his lack of a father and insects being matriarchal. After he completes metamorphosis, he is seen as the robotic clone of Jerry, also known as Robot Jerry.

Titus seems to be happy being a male, especially given he proudly talks about how his "voice has dropped" and he has "pupated into a man". After he shows off his gestures and wonders what happened to his original body, he exclaims how his body is "weak and small" and liked "this body better".

However, none of this shows he genuinely enjoys being male, especially since this is downplayed on how he impersonates Jerry, a man he has hatred for even plotting to have killed. If anything it shows his hatred has turned to obsession given his remarks about his voice, his old body being small, all of which are used to mock Jerry rather than genuine enjoyment. Plus despite this supposed Jerry enjoyment, he even removes the tie of the Jerry robot, which is often dismissed as if he did not know humans wore ties despite the fact he engineered this entire robot himself and had an intelligent plan on how to build this robot and how to make scientists and animals build it, and calls it a "tail for [his] neck," showing his first time struggles navigating as a male reminiscent of female characters who struggled when they first disguised themselves.

Plus when he impersonates Jerry at the rally he remarks about how it is a good time to be human, further showing all his enjoyment is more satirical and obsessive than genuine. He even mockingly asks the citizens if they ever squished an insect trying to act like a human showing his obsession rather than genuine enjoyment. He is often claimed to act like a "frat bro" given his seemingly enjoyment of being male, when in reality all of it is just extreme obsession wrapped around due to his extreme sadism which he already exhibited even when he was a caterpillar, and his status as the insect equivalent of a teenager, given his previous "teenage girl" childhood he had as a caterpillar and his sudden pupation which lasted less than two days.

This shows that evidently in canon he is not genuinely masculine or enjoying being male, rather all of this is more obsession and the extremities it can take given he is even willing to impersonate the very man he hates. Plus, he has a hyperfeminine personality especially when he was a caterpillar which he evidently did not lose even when he becomes Robot Jerry given his mockery of male puberty and his removal of Jerry's tie, all indicating struggles of a male disguise albeit obsession. Plus to add onto why he does not make sense as male, is shown when his father is never known, plus how after his well-deserved death at the hands of the Amphibian King, he is succeeded by a female ant as the next Insect Queen, showing the insect matriarchy is meant to be matriarchal.

Not to forget, in real life ant and beaver colonies are matriarchal, but somehow butterflies have female symbolism unlike the latter two, all of which indicate George should have been female and not even a leader of his colony. However, unlike Titus who is entirely backed by two queens he is sandwiched between (his mother Insect Queen and the female ant who succeeded him after his death), George reveals his backstory is patriarchal given his abusive father who banished him (rather than a mother) or his uncle (his father's brother) who usurped his father's throne (rather than an aunt). Plus Titus has no siblings known and if they were known they would have attend the council with him. The two butterflies which accompanied Titus when he was a caterpillar cannot be his siblings given they are much smaller than both his mother and Titus himself and especially since they are only used as transport to transport him and the branch higher and leave when him and the branch is at a stable place to sit at. On top of that if he had siblings they would also be attending the council as they too would be legitimate heirs.

In canon it makes better sense for Titus to be a female rather than a male or trans male, something Pixar fails to explore and leaves ambiguous due to their hesitancy to brand Titus as a female villain when he had everything (his hierarchy, his struggles disguising as a man, his bratty and helpless girl personality). He even had female actors voicing his caterpillar form, with Abdul-Razzak using her natural voice unlike boy voice specialists like Cartwright who train their voices tirelessly to sound more like boys, which shows their perception of him as female albeit their hesitancy to officially brand him as such. Plus not to forget in the movie he was never called an Insect Prince aside from credits or official promotions on social media, he was only called Titus by his mother, showing if he were a princess it only takes script and promotion changes not modifications of the film in itself. Hopefully this is a marketing scheme and he is revealed to be actually female, but if not it shows poorly given he had all the potential and still remained male. Plus if he were male, it would also make no sense given Hoppers already has a large amount of female antagonists and is the Pixar film known for having the most significant amount of such kind (albeit minor rather than always major), with Diane Shark, Fish Queen, Titus' own mother, and the Reptile Queens (three antagonists), so adding Titus as a female antagonist would be more like breathing rather than hesitant changing. Especially since one of them was his own mother and he had no father to begin with, if he were male his mother could've also been a male character. Even as a female he could've still been voiced by Dave Franco, he needed a male voice for the robot and if it sounded like a female he would not have even succeeded the moment he spoke at a rally plus it was a robot indicating a mechanical body that needed a mechanical voice anyway. Even if Pixar were to bring queer representation, all of his intentions of supposedly enjoying being male are more so due to obsession with male robot, henceforth even in that scenario it becomes headcanon rather than canon to say that he enjoyed being male.

That being said, in the headcanon sphere, people can headcanon him however they want. This explores possible headcanons for what if he were not to identify as female but rather as transmasculine or cismasculine. In the transmasculine angle, one possible headcanon: could his hatred of Jerry be so obsessive to the point he idolizes him as sometimes hate with enough obsession becomes love in the headcanon space? And no I am not trying to ship him with Jerry. Not especially when Titus is still a teenager and Jerry is a middle aged adult and given when Jerry sees this robotic version of himself he is scared of him; plus even if Titus were in his butterfly form, he would be scared that a butterfly is flying around approaching his face, henceforth him developing a two-sided relationship isn't possible, something required of to make a ship in the first place. Rather seeing him as an idol to worship rather than developing a relationship. If this were the case maybe just maybe given his love of Jerry, he wants to be like him seeing him as a role model he dreams of becoming and only kills him so that no one can stop him from stealing Jerry's identity. It's an interesting perspective to take and would explain how he enjoyed being male. While this is too mature to be canon, this could make a good headcanon and bring back queer representation, headcanoning Titus as a trans man who initially was raised by a girl by his mother but after hearing Jerry's name he wants to kill the idol he loves so he can become that idol himself and enjoys being that idol so much its the same as him enjoying being male. Again, not canon, but an interesting angle for a transmasculine headcanon. Another perspective, if cismasculine, would be how he was mistaken as a girl from the day he was born. This would explore how because he was mistaken as a girl, he somehow became the legitimate heir due to those mistakes which was how he was able to attend council meetings or how because he looked like a girl thanks to this incompetency they were hesitant to hail him or explain how he never got familiar with male customs explaining also his female struggles later on as Robot Jerry especially with Jerry's tie. Alternatively would be how his mother raised him from day one to be a girl given her strong insistence on a female heir despite her knowing Titus to be a boy, and how with Jerry he gets freedom from the female childhood he once hated and eventually his obsession turns to idolization which was how he impersonated Jerry, as explored similarly with the transmasculine headcanon discussed before. Again both themes are too mature to be canon given the audience is children so they may not understand how he was actually male raised as a girl or how his mother abused him forcing him to be a female heir, but in the headcanon space where older audiences are more prevalent, they are more mature enough to see these things and as such, these headcanons certainly can explain more about him. None of these alternative angles can be canon as it defeats his entire purpose as a villain given his hatred of humans and makes it more confusing, but for headcanon spaces, anything is possible and if anything it explores him better alternatively one step at a time. Nevertheless,

i use she/her for titus cus i feel this is the best way he is interpreted as after all the research i done, like many of his fans call him wife and make him feminine because they are his REAL fans, i do it just like any normal real titus fan who has been there since the beginning, i do it because i know him better, i care about him, and i want to help him get the support he deserves. he does not have nearly as many fans as pawbert lynxley (zootopia 2 villain) even though titus is a great villain he isnt appreciated enough which is why i started making a blog for him. in fact i never loved a villain more since titus and he is the only thing i care about and my only priority. i originally didnt want to watch hoppers as i rarely watch movies but a friend got me into hoppers and i surprisingly fell in love with titus and i cant believe i love him more than any other character i ever knew of, he is my fictional husband for life almost, thats why i became his fan and eventually started ulting him. because of him i havent had time to get back to other characters he is just so amazing lovely and adorable and so diva coded. i love the energy he gives and how unhinged he is. the reason i even am here is because i want to support him and show my support for him, as well as to spread awareness about who he really is so we are on the same page, as well as to hype him up so he can get love and support. mind you i do all this hundreds of hours hours on my posts especially my analyses (and this post too mind you). only to be told i don't know his gender which is funny and insulting to say the least. like use your brain for once and read the actual POST or read my profile for once before saying those shitty comments at me.

also regarding the "titus is female antagonist" post i made, i made it twice i think, i did it to support him and get recognition. i received multiple negative comments (similar to the "titus is male" comments) for calling him a female antagonist on several posts multiple times which i had to block, i had to delete all these comments. i'm gonna clarify i'm not gonna change those posts and remove him from female antagonist or villain i'm sorry. it doesnt make sense that he is male and the story heavily implies he is female or at least shouldve been female. unlike traditional where women voice boys for decades with timmy turner or bart simpson pixar (and disney) has strict mandations against voicing boys for titus which they have done for elio and nemo (like disney has done for many of their boys), with only boys voiced by women being flashback character which even then is rare, but somehow couldnt follow for titus (sure he is young titus meaning at first glance he is as much of flashback as young nick wilde who was voiced by kath soucie, but still he spent significant time as the caterpillar just like young simba which also was always voiced by boy for similar reasons because titus and simba (young ver) are significant not flashback unlike young nick wilde type of characters). and on top of that unlike most boy voiced by women where his actress doesnt cosplay the boy and children dont know ever these boy are voiced by women and are shocked, for titus disney post on social media which children watch (with parental consent ofc) and see how these actresses cosplay him or voice him behind the scene esp ikue otani or nienke van dijk, which if it cannot imply he is female it at least confuses the audience, esp when otani not once for any role she did (male or female) had to cosplay a boy she voiced on an official social media account, plus not to forget he only has a female hierarchy with only his mother, the insect queen, and his successor was also a female ant not a male ant even tho king george wasnt female and came from patriarchy even tho in real life beaver and ant colonies are strictly matriarchal, plus with how he acted during the movie he gives whiny girl and cramping girl vibes as a caterpillar and he sounded like a teenage girl. i think with how bratty he is his attitude and hierarchy, i think they knew he was female coded and the energy he gave was more bratty compared to most pixar boys and that its hard for a boy to channel it unless he has talent, which is why the number of actresses internationally who voiced him compared to most pixar boys, even minor boys who may be exempt and can be voiced by women more, is much higher than most, even with young nick voiced by a woman had less, i think seeing this they knew better but they just were cowardly to admit who he really was so they only took it the partial way which is why they became flexible as to whether a boy or a woman can voice which was also how boys like elian garces and danylo miazato (glad i finally spelled that name right thank fucking god it took me ages to remember how to spell that name) and boy voice specialists like ikue otani, faustine legrand, and sonal kaushal were able to voice him and women with no experience of voicing boys like nienke van dijk, when for most boy they wouldnt even allow those 2 category only the 1st and rarely if ever the 2nd category.

so the reason i make those post is, i figured if pixar wont make him female antagonist or treat him as one when he clearly is one in everything but his name and titles and official canon i will support him and get him the recognition and support he deserves its not wrong and its not false info its recognition he deserves better for. plus pixar has already so few pixar female antagonist so titus shouldve been female esp with this evidence that show he doesnt make sense to be male, i honestly dont get and am so disappointed in why they make him male, to be honest it makes me uncomfortable that they did that, but i still love him, i feel bad for him, and am willing to appreciate the art with alternate perspectives because i am a hopeful person, i see in the good of people. i really hope all of this is used to heavily imply he is actually female which is why i sometimes say its heavily implied he is female even though i'm pretty sure they wont meaning maybe i shouldnt be hopeful given he already died and he probably wont return even tho people say he will cus he was swallowed whole by amphibian king and even if he did return i think with their cowardliness theyre not willing to acknowledge these mistakes they made when writing titus, but i still am because i think thinking negatively isnt healthy its better to see the positive and help him get the support he deserve even if he is flawed i still love him. i'm also concerned with the screentime he got and also feel bad for dave franco, especially with franco, a known actor who probably liked the villain role, only for him to voice the jerry robot and for his butterfly form despite it being on posters, to not get the screentime it deserved and seeing the jerry robot voice glitch it imply dave franco voice is the robot voice, which is why people (including me) feel franco didnt truly voice titus and why i debunk post stating he was voice by dave franco when he wasnt and debunk comments claiming he voiced the caterpillar when he didnt and he barely voice titus. but at the same time this isnt hatred for franco in actuality this make me feel bad for franco and its miraculous that despite these hardships franco got to enjoy his role he got in hoppers even if he didnt truly get titus fully, it shows his courage bravery which not many people get these days. i think he needs some positivity to recognize him as who he really is, even in these dark times especially when he is still a beautiful girl deep down despite how evil he is or how disney treat him poorly, a girl mistreated is still lovely and gorgeous soul, if she can be one so can titus himself.

so with all that in mind, its not that deep as it should be as to why i list him as female antagonist or why i use she/her for him daily. in real life i told my brother all about titus and he agrees with everything i said and he is pissed too. i told some my friends too in real life as well about my views and they feel the same way so its not just me. plus i literally researched everything about him like i literally research all his actors/actresses for all international dubs, which is something most dont even care about or know of and i doubt most even know ikue otani voiced him in japanese dub which is why i wrote about it in first place, only to be told somehow miraculously i dont know he is male and somehow skipped this part when researching his actors. if anything i know i just have stuff against it and am trying to support him in these hard times. i'm not some fake fan and if anything people who dont know he is (supposedly) male are fake fan which is something i'm not. but ok lets pretend i didn't if i didn't know i wouldnt even call him insect prince or insect king. mind you even in my mira drawing i called him INSECT PRINCE not INSECT PRINCESS even though the latter made more sense, if i didnt know he was prince i wouldve said INSECT PRINCESS mind you while i do call him insect queen and princess sometimes again thats because i want to spread positivity plus these posts arent formal and just shitposts, for my analysis post where i get serious such as this one, i use prince or king. so yeah i do know let's not cap that i don't. i'm not a fan who doesn't know his gender, i'm just here trying to support titus, i know he isnt female (officially) but nevertheless as someone who genuinely cares about him and want to get his word out and spread positivity, being a female villain this is who he really is deep down even with all this madness going on. this is especially why i am yapping here abt these comment.

Official sources have revealed just today that Hoppers will be released on June 3 on Disney+. This is an amazing milestone, not just for Hoppers but for the Insect King Titus, has already gained lots of love since February 6, 2026, solidifying as one of Pixar's most beloved characters, villain or hero, and will be gaining more and more fans to come after this big milestone. That being said, let's take the time to explore the villains that inspired this amazing, magnificent villain, shall we?

Scar

Let's start with Scar, the main antagonist of The Lion King. He is the younger brother of Mufasa, Simba's father, who seeks to take over the throne as the king of Pride Rock, even if amoral.

The main similarity Titus has with Scar is the fact that both are power-hungry monarchs. Titus, the bratty and entitled son of the Insect Queen, always wanted to take over his mother's throne as the Insect Queen, just as Scar always wanted to take over Mufasa's throne as the King of Pride Rock. Although he is a legitimate heir as shown when he attends council meetings during the film, even whining to his mother he wanted to go home indicating it was mandatory to go knowing he would eventually be heir, he is revealed to have felt relief, rather than grief, after his mother's death, as shown when he cried only for his sorrows to turn to laughs as he happily steals his mother's crown declaring himself "Insect King". Scar takes a step further and not only did not feel grief for Mufasa, but engaged in a regicide plot against Mufasa and Simba, which would eventually lead to Scar killing Mufasa. Mufasa died by being thrown off the stampede after Scar betrayed him, which is similar to the Insect Queen, who was also thrown off, except the key difference is she was accidentally killed by Mabel Tanaka, a human who hops herself onto an orange beaver robot. The reason Mabel and the Insect Queen got into a fight was because Mabel and George arranged a meeting with the Animal Council to stop Mayor Jerry Generazzo, the corrupt mayor of Beaverton, from executing his plans of building more residential areas and highways which would drive animals away from their habitats, which he does through using fake trees with lethal sound waves. While Mabel and the Insect Queen lead to an agreement that Jerry is hurting their habitats, the Insect Queen plans to have Jerry killed, which Mabel is against and has other ways to stop him, leading to a fight, which was how the Insect Queen died.

Another similarities is the way they were willing to use others for their plans and dispose of them after they were no longer useful. Scar uses the hyena clan as minions, with the lead hyenas being Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed, to help him execute his plans of killing Simba and anyone that opposes him, in exchange for a promise to end their exile and grant them unlimited food in the Pride Lands. Titus manipulates the Animal Council as his minions, forcing them to help him build a robotic clone of Jerry, the same person who the council planned to kill, using a reverse version of Hopper technology that humans used which was what allowed Mabel to hop herself onto the body of an orange beaver in the first place, as well as kidnapping Jerry and Mabel so they cannot escape and using trees to enable sound waves that would kill humans, something he is able to enable with settings by stealing Jerry's phone. He plans to kill humans given his hatred against humans following his mother's death at the hands of a human. Once both are put to use, they both betray their pawns. During Scar and Simba's final battle, Scar blames the hyenas for Mufasa's death. Hearing Scar's betrayal, the hyenas turn against and eventually kill Scar. As his robot body gets destroyed, losing the silicon head, the mechanical voice of the robot that Titus engineered glitches. Titus still does not hesitant to speak even as his mechanical voice starts glitching, as he reveals with the glitched voice that he not only plans to kill Jerry and humans, but also every vertebrate. Overhearing the glitch robot, they realize his true colors. He approaches them, only for the Amphibian King to kill him by devouring him alive.

Evelyn Deavor

Speaking of Titus disguising himself as someone else, this brings to Evelyn Deavor, the main antagonist of Incredibles 2. She is the former co-CEO of DevTech who seeks to destroy the reputation of superheroes (known as supers) and make them illegal.

One major similarity both share in common is how their tragedies led to their downfalls. After Mabel and the Insect Queen fall into a disagreement on how to stop Jerry from executing his plans to drive animals away from their habitats so he could build homes and highways, Mabel accidentally squishes the Insect Queen, leading to her falling to her death. The crown drops, which Titus picks up and steals to become the next Insect queen. Because of this death at the hands of a human, Titus has grown an intensive hatred for humans, leading to his plans of a genocidal revolution against them. Meanwhile, one night, a group of burglars invaded the household of the Deavors. Instead of hiding, Evelyn's father attempts to use a direct phone line to call supers for help, leading him to expose himself to the intruders and fall to his death. He was not aware that the Super Relocation Act was in effect, an act passed by the government which banned supers from using their powers, which was why supers were unable to reach out to him. His wife dies shortly after of heartbreak following her husband's death. Because of these deaths, Evelyn has developed hatred for supers, just as Titus has for humans. The main difference is that while both tragedies were what motivated their vengeful plans with Titus against humans and Evelyn against supers, Titus did not show sorrow for his mother's death despite it being a motivating factor for his schemes just like Evelyn's, as he happily steals his mother's crown and declares himself the next ruler of the insects.

This brings to the next similarities, which is how both use advanced technology to execute their plans. Realizing how the Hoppers program uses scientific technology to build highly lifelike animal robots which would allow humans to transfer their consciousness into these robots to explore nature from an animal's perspective after the Animal Council discovered a robotic arm belonging to one of the Hoppers, Titus reveals his plans to use a reversed version of this technology. It is heavily implied (or at least makes more sense) that he is female, especially given after Titus declared himself the "Insect King," the council was hesitant to hail her despite her being the legitimate heir. Especially given George came from a patriarchy as revealed by his backstory about his abusive father and uncle with no mentions of a mother figure, which is opposite to Titus as only her mother is mentioned and after Titus' death her successor, while not a butterfly unlike the previous two Insect Queens, was also female. This also strengthens due to her bratty personality which is often associated with teenage girls rather than boys. All that connected together this shows that she was supposed to be Queen like her mother, but nevertheless declared herself the "Insect King" for ulterior motives. Almost right after she declared herself the "Insect King", she becomes determined over the Hopper technology, hinting at her plans to make use of it. All of that combined shows she only became King to make use of the technology. As he undergoes pupation, he forces the Animal Council and scientists to make use of the technology and build a human robot that he would later hop himself onto. After he undergoes metamorphosis to become a butterfly himself, almost immediately he hops onto the robot, which is revealed to be none other than Mayor Jerry, the false main antagonist. Previously he served as the main antagonist for nearly most of the film given his attempts to destroy human's habitats, which goes against Mabel Tanaka, the protagonist who aims to stop his plans given her love of animals and nature. Robot Jerry then impersonates and sabotages the real Jerry at his political rally, planning to kill people at the rally as part of Titus' genocidal plans against humans. It is revealed Titus also used advanced technology when killing people. While Mayor Jerry uses fake trees with sounds to drive animals away from their habitats, Titus engineers trees so that they use loud sound waves which are lethal so that when the sound is loud they would die and steals Jerry's phone so that he can use Jerry's phone to control how loud the trees are.

This is similar to how Evelyn executes her plans, as she is revealed to be the mastermind behind the Screenslaver. She uses DevTech's advanced technology to build the Screenslaver. She creates special hypnotic goggles which, when worn, turn the victim into a puppet completely controlled by her mind while also hiding the victim’s identity behind the glowing lenses and mask-like design. She programs commands into the Screenslaver through flashing visual patterns and psychological conditioning, forcing them to obey her instructions without understanding what they are doing. Using communication systems and hidden broadcasts, she remotely directs the controlled person to carry out attacks, deliver speeches, and spread fear while she secretly remains behind the scenes. The victim she chooses to use is none other than a Pizza delivery guy she kidnaps and manipulates, dressing him in her black Screenslaver costume. The Screenslaver uses hypnotic signals such as spirals, flickering lights, and static patterns to ensure people can only obey him. He first demonstrates this on a maglev train in New Urbem, forcing it into dangerous reverse motion until Elastigirl manages to stop the situation. Afterwards when Elastigirl is interviewed, the Screenslaver hijacks the broadcast and brainwashes viewers near screens to spread fear and issue threats, including talk of targeting the ambassador she had met earlier. As the story continues, it is revealed that these actions are part of a larger plan controlled by Evelyn Deavor, who is the real mastermind behind the Screenslaver identity and uses the hypnotic system to stage all of these events. While the Screenslaver is not a robot unlike the Mayor Jerry robot, it is like a robot given it is completely under Evelyn's control and obeys every command. The Screenslaver is the obvious villain until it is revealed to be none other than Evelyn herself behind the Screenslaver.

Both the Screenslaver and Robot Jerry are male proxies controlled by the real masterminds. While Mayor Jerry is a real person who Titus impersonates later on through Robot Jerry, the Screenslaver is a proxy Evelyn builds which she brainwashes a pizza delivery man to hop onto so she can control the machine and use to execute her crimes so she remains hidden. Up until Incredibles 2 was released only the Screenslaver was revealed to be the villain, with Evelyn not revealed as a villain at all. It was only during the movie which revealed she was the mastermind behind the Screenslaver. Titus also had a similar twist. Titus was revealed as a character only one month before Hoppers was released, which is unusual for a villain given most are announced earlier. Just as the Screenslaver was played to be the main villain pre-release, everyone thought Mayor Jerry was the main antagonist prior to Titus' announcement. The Screenslaver, while the character who opposes the protagonists, is revealed to be controlled by Evelyn, as Evelyn pretends to bond with Elastigirl, who has encountered the Screenslaver and fought against, but later reveals she is the true mastermind behind Screenslaver. The body inside the Screenslaver is a Pizza delivery man Evelyn has brainwashed to the point he remains completely a puppet under her orders. Jerry is also like the Screenslaver given his opposition to the protagonists, given his attempts to destroy animal's habitats which angers Mabel Tanaka, the protagonist. Evelyn's counterpart, Titus, isn't revealed until much later. Jerry is revealed to be redeemable after his later bond with Mabel given her alternative ways of stopping him rather than killing him and the movie's later reveal Titus is the main villain as while he also wanted to stop Jerry he also too wanted to kill humans and later vertebrates which is just as bad as what Mabel was initially against if not worse, just as the Pizza delivery man is just an innocent man with the Screenslaver body Evelyn tried to control. The difference is Jerry is a real person Titus tries to impersonate as Robot Jerry so that he can use him to kill humans and the real Jerry is still conscious and not unconscious unlike the Pizza delivery man as he is still able to stop Robot Jerry from killing people at his rally and be scared by Robot Jerry. To the audience this is a great way of seeing Jerry/Screenslaver act as the obvious villain while the real masterminds act on sidelines: the butterfly sits on a machine doing nothing as it becomes unconscious given it steals Robot Jerry's body therefore Robot Jerry not Titus can be framed for genocide, while Evelyn before her reveal as Screenslaver pretends to ally with the heroes so the Screenslaver rather than Evelyn can get caught as the mastermind behind brainwashing people.

Robot Jerry is voiced by Dave Franco as the voice Titus engineers a mechanical voice onto while he forced scientists and the Animal Council to build the robot, while the real Jerry was voiced by Jon Hamm. Meanwhile, Screenslaver was voiced by the Pizza guy's voice, Bill Wise. Titus is voiced by Eman Abdul-Razzak and Evelyn is voiced by Catherine Keener. Abdul-Razzak is listed not in all credits at all with Franco as the lead star, alongside Jon, despite him being promoted when Titus was already released, only for him to voice Robot Jerry and he only voiced butterfly out of convenience given its lack of screentime and had it had more screentime it would've still been voiced by Abdul-Razzak, hiding spoilers about Robot Jerry and the butterfly and mostly revealing caterpillar despite it not being voiced by Franco, to still make suspense and allow fans to still find possibility Jerry could be the main villain, like fans did for Screenslaver until release day which after watched was revealed to be Evelyn with Screenslaver as a proxy, just as Jerry is a proxy used by Titus except the real Jerry is another person who redeems himself and the proxy that resembles Jerry is a reversed Hopper robot.

Hopper

Speaking of the program name, let's dive into a character with a similar namesake, which is none other than Hopper, the main antagonist of A Bugs Life. He is a grasshopper who serves as the leader of the grasshoppers.

First similarity that comes to mind is the names used. Hopper's namesake has a similar name to the program Titus tried to hijack and make reverse technology of, which is Hoppers, which also is the title of the film Titus came from. But of course, unlike Titus, Hopper does not have a proxy robot to impersonate.

Next is how both are insect villains who serve as xenophobic tyrants. Both do everything they can to ensure their species are at the top of the food chain. Titus later reveals (as Robot Jerry) that not only would he kill humans but he would kill the vertebrates, revealing his true intentions that only insects will remain supreme. Hopper does the same exact thing: he seeks to keep the ants under his control so that they would remain inferior to grasshoppers. He plans to take over Ant Island and plots to assassinate the Ant Queen so that he could sterilize the ant colony and sterilize them so that grasshoppers become superior. The main difference is Titus causes a massive wildfire as his robot gets destroyed but since he dies right after he is not able to see how his plans take into effect.

Another similarity is how both of them died, as both of them become prey/food to predators. Hopper is devoured alive by a bird out of natural instinct given his much smaller size compared to her as well as weaknesses. As he was devoured alive, she fed his body to her baby chicks. Meanwhile, Titus was also eaten alive by the Amphibian King, except this time it was because he actually wanted to stop him intentionally unlike the bird who just needed food to feed to her family. When Titus revealed his plans to kill vertebrates, the Animal Council overhears his plans, something he is unaware of. When he returns to the council given Robot Jerry is destroyed, he reveals they have ignored him and reveals him plans only for them to kill him, being unaware that they have overheard and turned against him given their previous loyalty they had to him when they helped him build Robot Jerry.

One key difference that comes into mind is the way they approach about their mothers. Hopper cares for his mother and keeps his promise to not kill his brother Molt, despite having abused Molt himself. Meanwhile, Titus revealed he does not care about his own mother as shown when after she died he almost immediately steals her crown and the throne as the next Insect Queen and even admits later on he was waiting for her to die so he would take over the throne.

Glordon

Titus starts from somewhere, which is a caterpillar. The design of his caterpillar form is resemblant of none other than Glordon, the deuteragonist from Elio. He is a prince and the son of Lord Grigon, the ruler of the planet Hylurg.

Both Titus and Glordon share the "prince" title. While Glordon is an alien, he resembles a caterpillar, and his design was taken as inspiration to design the caterpillar form of Titus himself while the creative team was creating designs for Titus. As a result, both have a similar design, given both share a pudgy, slug-like physical foundation, except Glordon is purple while Titus is green/yellow. This is why despite being most likely female as mentioned earlier, on top of his male title "Insect Prince" or "Insect King" which would've in most cases indicate he is male, some countries still nevertheless cast young boys to voice him because of his ties with Glordon. For example, in the Portuguese (Brazil) Dub, Danylo Miazato, who voices Glordon, voices Titus.

Of course aside from design these two characters are very different. Glordon comes from a male hierarchy where he tries to make amends with his father, Lord Grigon, while Titus comes from a female hierarchy with his mother, the Insect Queen. Their other parents are either not mentioned or nonexistent or irrelevant to their respective stories, though Glordon does imply he has a close relationship with his mother he is more focused on his deeply-rooted insecurities and fears of disappointing his father. In that sense Titus (and his mother) can be said to be a female version to Glordon. Plus there also is another big difference which is their personalities which are very opposite. Titus is a bratty, spoiled girl who acts like an entitled teenager and is rude and disrespectful to others even at his caterpillar stage and bullies the protagonist (Mabel Tanaka) and aspires to be the next Insect Queen after his mother to control his people, unlike Glordon who is very friendly and kind and befriends the protagonist (Elio Solis) who does not live to the toxic expectations of his father and is not interested in his kind's tradition of becoming a warrior.

Monarch Butterflies

Not characters, but big inspirations that built Titus as a whole is none other than the monarch butterfly species as a whole. In the movie we see firsthand how Titus pupates himself from caterpillar to butterfly. His wings as a butterfly are also inspired by the model behind female monarch butterflies. While male monarch butterflies have scent glands on their wings, she lacks those scent glands. Her wings also have larger veins resemblant of a female butterfly's wings. Her mother also is inspired by the same model but the veins are smaller and look rippled out as well as the lines being browner rather than black to reveal her old age. It is unknown what caterpillar was inspired to make Titus though given he is not like the typical monarch caterpillar. Maybe because he is like a monarch caterpillar but he needed to look like Glordon.

Conclusion

Titus shares a mixture of traits with Scar, Evelyn Deavor, Hopper, and Glordon, on top of traits and processes from typical female monarch butterflies. Together this was how his character was formed, showing how different traits from different characters can make him truly special. Like Scar he is power hungry and is willing to take over the throne after the predecessor is killed. Scar kills Mufasa which is how he becomes the king of the Pride Rock. This power hungry attitude to take over the throne was part of his character. Titus becomes queen of the animal council because of a more tragic backstory which brings in another part of his character which is Evelyn Deavor, whose parents died due to a burglar invading their home, leading Deavor to despise supers, just as Titus' mother dying at the hands of a human led her to despise humans. Both Titus and Evelyn use the false main antagonist proxies and are revealed as villains late: Evelyn uses the male Screenslaver, which she brainwashes a pizza delivery guy to use as a puppet to brainwash other humans, so that she isn't caught, while Titus uses the male Robot Jerry, which he hops his consciousness onto to use to kill humans while his butterfly body remains unconscious (like Evelyn is not active like Screenslaver). Using a proxy like Screenslaver was what helped bring the idea of Robot Jerry (the robot Titus impersonates and uses as a proxy to commit genocide) (and also the Hopper program as a whole) given it is basically a robot based on functionality alone and the way it lacks moral agency. The difference, aside from Mayor Jerry being another major character unlike the pizza delivery guy, is Titus later reveals he wants to also kill vertebrates not just humans and that Titus reveals he does not care about his mother, which makes him less tragic and brings Hopper, who seeks to make sure only grasshoppers remain super, and even Hopper, unlike Titus, cares for his mother, though both get devoured alive, with Hopper as food for the bird and her children, and Titus at the Amphibian King after he has enough of his tyrannical rule and him being used as his pawn to aid him in his schemes. His death is what inspired Titus' death to be similar but they made it more adjustable given he used a proxy like Evelyn Deavor AND is power hungry like Scar, not just a xenophobic insect. Plus while he had a tragedy, he like Evelyn AND Hopper did not care about his mother which makes him stand out as it also borrowed from Scar who did not care about his brother only about power as shown when he kills Mufasa. Glordon, despite his innocence, with his design, also inspires Titus' caterpillar design.

i love dave franco's performance especially when his voice glitches as the robot gets destroyed. it is hilarious!

Interestingly enough, at least two of the actresses who voiced Titus, the main antagonist of Hoppers, voiced characters from KPop Demon Hunters and its not just any character, but its none other than HUNTR/X!

The original version of Titus was voiced by Eman Abdul-Razzak (Dave Franco voices the Jerry Robot he impersonates after he pupates himself into a butterfly).

In the Finnish dub, she was voiced by Hanna Mönkäre, who voiced Rumi in the Finnish dub of KPop Demon Hunters. Rumi was voiced by Arden Cho, with EJAE providing her singing vocals, while Shin Na-ri voices her in the Korean dub.

In the Turkish dub, she was voiced by Ekin Ayça Gümüş, who voiced Zoey (singing) in the Turkish dub of KPop Demon Hunters. Zoey was voiced by Ji-young Yoo, with Rei Ami providing her singing voice, while Kim Yea-lim voices her in the Korean dub.

Meaning the missing HUNTR/X member that Titus is not affiliated with is Mira, though with her angry face he does give off Mira with his energy, so all the three boxes are filled. Seen above is the fanart of Mira cosplaying Titus, using her render but editing her hairstyle and clothing to resemble Titus in his caterpillar form. The full description of this art piece can be found here. Mira was voiced by May Hong, with Audrey Nuna providing her singing voice, while Kim Do-yeong voices her in the Korean dub.

Looking back Titus does fit well with HUNTR/X in a way. Yeah sure he is Pure Evil while HUNTR/X is Pure Good (Mira is Near Pure Good while Rumi and Zoey are Pure Good), but they are more similar than they are not.

Throughout the story, Mayor Jerry Generazzo is the corrupt mayor of Beaverton. He seeks to clear out the forest animals' habitats so he can build more residential areas and expand his business, even if it means paving away all the animals. He builds illegal mechanical, artificial trees, which emit high-pitched sound waves that can only be heard by animals and scare them, forcing them to leave their habitats for good, which is seen as animals having their lands taken away.

Titus is the spoiled, bratty, bloodthirsty son (implied daughter) of the Insect Queen. His mother, while wanting Jerry to be killed, plans to destroy humans for a genuine deed: so that animals can get their habitats back. After his mother's death at the hands of Mabel Tanaka, a human who disguises herself as an orange beaver, Titus seeks vengeance against his mother's death and against humans by doing a reverse plan of Jerry's plans by impersonating him and doing what Jerry did to animal except he does it to the humans who oppressed animals and had their habitats stolen. He later realizes Mabel is a human, which is how he becomes her arch-nemesis, given his (and his late mother's) hatred of humans.

Titus, in his own twisted way, fights so animals can get their lands back and seeks revenge, just as HUNTR/X fights and seeks revenge fighting against demons so that humans can get their lands back. In Hoppers, humans (especially Jerry, until he redeems himself) are seen as antagonistic (aside from Mabel who tries to help animals and cares about animals albeit her recklessness), with animals seen as the victims, for destroying animal habitats and invading their spaces, while in KPop Demon Hunters, demons (aside from Jinu later on when he falls in love with and even helps Rumi and eventually redeems himself) are seen as antagonistic for stealing humans' souls, with humans seen as the oppressed.

It is revealed later on though unlike his mother he wanted insects to dominate not just for animals to get their habitats back, especially when later she plans to kill not only humans but vertebrates, though one could think due to his immaturity (albeit his high intelligence) that this also could be impulsiveness and he isn't truly evil. He also is a spoiled, bratty girl, given her emotional whines and laziness like a vulnerable, spoiled princess, and her personality fits well with HUNTR/X's aesthetic even though HUNTR/X is far from bratty. Nevertheless while she brings negative feminine (her brattiness and desire to be insect queen) and HUNTR/X more positive/neutral qualities, still nevertheless she has female aura like HUNTR/X, even if in different ways, and as such she still can fit seamlessly. As such, while she is similar to HUNTR/X, he also shares some traits with the Saja Boys, as well as with Gwi-Ma, who people have foolishly theorized is Rumi's father (Rumi's father is an unnamed Jeoseung Saja Demon as revealed in an official photo drawn by official artist Scott Watanabe, shown above).

Like Gwi-Ma, Titus is tyrannical and plans to commit genocide against humans and lacks redeeming qualities. The differences however lie in that while Titus plans to kill humans slightly out of revenge for his mother's death at the hands of a human (Mabel), Gwi-Ma solely wants to steal human's souls.

Like the Saja Boys, she impersonates humans, as shown when the demons disguise themselves as a human boy band, which Jinu pleads to Gwi-Ma as part of a deal to have his memories forgotten, making him similar to Jinu for pleading for this impersonation scheme in the first place.

He also has other similarities to other Saja Boys members, aside from Jinu, the main vocalist and leader.

Titus is similar to Abby, the main dancer, when Titus removes his tie as she hops onto the Jerry Robot given Abby's emphasis on his body and also slightly unbuttoned shirt.

Titus is also similar to Mystery, the lead vocalist, given his lack of screentime as a butterfly and his face being unknown.

Titus is also similar to Romance, the sub vocalist, given both are attractive and Titus shows off his chest after he removes his tie, like Romance is the most charming member and tries to flirts with his fans.

Titus is also similar to Baby, the main rapper and maknae, given he has a false baby-like charm, similar to Titus who looks cute but is actually evil.

One interesting thing Nienke van Dijk, Titus' voice actress for the Netherlands dub, forgets to note is that the voice actor for Titus was Eman Abdul-Razzak, not Dave Franco.

However, this is understandable and interesting. It is a common misconception he was voiced by Franco due to him being a well known name unlike Abdul-Razzak, who is only a lighting artist and not a full-time voice actress. The reason his name is mentioned though is he does have ties with Titus later on, as he does voice him though it is mainly for the robot he hops onto after he becomes a butterfly. It is heavily implied Franco voiced the Mayor Jerry Generazzo robot (with the real Jerry voiced by Jon Hamm), not Titus himself, meaning Abdul-Razzak was the sole actress behind Titus, rather than Franco himself.

All of this shows how well known Franco is compared to Abdul-Razzak, which is why people are misinformed he voiced Titus despite the fact he did not. In fact, Titus even received comments about how it is surprising Franco adjusted his pitch while voicing his different forms, when in reality there was no such thing, as he didn't voice him (he voiced the Jerry robot and the butterfly though the latter is out of convenience due to its minimal screentime), Abdul-Razzak did. Plus the fact Franco even promoted him while Abdul-Razzak never got the chance to talk about him further makes this more confusing.

In other countries this is different as Franco's counterpart is not promoted but instead Abdul-Razzak's counterpart is. The Netherlands dub is one such example. Following is the screenshot of the cast for Titus and Mayor Jerry, according to the Dutch Wikipedia.

It is interesting that the actor who voiced the Jerry robot and the real Mayor Jerry in the Netherlands remains a mystery. The fact that Titus is promoted in the Netherlands as his caterpillar self than the butterfly really does match how the butterfly lacks screentime. All of this shows the "Insect King" is a facade for the Jerry robot as he pupated himself into a male robot and we rarely see his butterfly form.

Plus, we have to not forget Titus was announced far later than Mayor Jerry, who everyone thought was the main villain. Titus only was called prince rather than princess to foreshadow his later disguise as Mayor Jerry, and Dave Franco was promoted as the Insect King only for the butterfly to have far less screentime compared to Titus when he disguises himself as Jerry and Titus when Eman Abdul-Razzak voiced him as a caterpillar. She even struggles with her male disguise as we see later on in the story. The fact that Jerry, the same person Titus disguised herself, is fooled to be the main villain only for Titus herself to be the real villain really does show and further prove she is meant to be a female villain, especially given the actors who voiced and promote her.

Not to forget how she sounds like an entitled woman rather than a boy unlike the many women who voiced young boys, which Pixar avoids due to its emphasis on realism, and how she has no father, only a mother plus after Titus dies at the hands of the Amphibian King, her successor is not a male ant but a female ant.

Pictured: Titus as the Insect Prince (left) and Titus as the Insect King in robotic Mayor Jerry disguise (right)

In Pixar's 30th full-length animated feature film Hoppers, the main antagonist Titus has two actors: one for the Insect Prince and one for the Insect King. Since Hoppers is a popular film, it has had multiple dubs to accommodate different languages, and as such this required various actors for each respective language.

Below is a compilation and analysis of the actors who voiced the Insect Prince and Insect King, respectively:

Insect Prince

Pictured (left to right, top to bottom): Dalia Georgieva (Bulgarian), Nienke van Dijk (Dutch (Netherlands)), Eman Abdul-Razzak (Original), Hanna Mönkäre (Finnish), Sonal Kaushal (Hindi), Andrea Fratoni (Italian), Ikue Ōtani (Japanese), Lee Su-ji (Korean), Danylo Miazato (Portuguese (Brazil)), Elian Garcés (Spanish (Latin America)), Ekin Ayça Gümüş (Turkish), Lăng Huỳnh Bảo Tín (Vietnamese)

Arabic (Egypt) - Mariam Elnems مريم النمس (female)

Arabic (Standard) - Mariam Elnems مريم النمس (female)

Bulgarian - Dalia Georgieva Далия Георгиева (female)

Cantonese - Fion Wong 王綺婷 (female)

Catalan - Arnau Cot (male)

Croatian - Pavo Đurović (male)

Czech - Jonáš Theimer (male)

Danish - Josefine Ellefsen (female)

Dutch (Belgium) - Kamiel Kolacny (male)

Dutch (Netherlands) - Nienke van Dijk (female)

English - Eman Abdul-Razzak (female)

Estonian - Unknown (unknown)

Finnish - Hanna Mönkäre (female)

French (Canada) - Léo Mai (male)

French (Europe) - Faustine Legrand (female)

Georgian - Damiane Navadze დამიანე ნავაძე (male)

German - Hannes Maurer (male)

Greek - Lydia Sgouraki Λυδία Σγουράκη (female)

Hebrew - Shachar Kadosh שחר קדוש (female)

Hindi - Sonal Kaushal सोनल कौशल (female)

Hungarian - Dávid Gáll (male)

Icelandian - Andrea Ösp Karlsdóttir (female)

Italian - Andrea Fratoni (male)

Japanese - Ikue Ōtani 大谷育江 (female)

Kazakh - Nūrnazar Serjan Нұрназар Сержан (male)

Korean - Lee Su-ji 이수지 (female)

Latvian - Unknown (unknown)

Lithuanian - Liucija Nanartavičiūtė (female)

Mandarin (China) - Pei Zicheng 裴子诚 (male)

Mandarin (Taiwan) - Lung Hsien-Huei 龍顯蕙 (female)

Norwegian - Maren Hallberg Solhaug (female)

Persian (Avazheh) - Unknown (unknown)

Persian (Saam Studio) - Unknown (unknown)

Persian (Soren Studio) - Unknown (unknown)

Polish - Ignacy Mickiewicz (male)

Portuguese (Brazil) - Danylo Miazato (male)

Portuguese (Portugal) - Afonso Soares (male)

Romanian - Andrei Voicu (male)

Russian - Kuanysh Baimukhambetov Куаныш Баймухамбетов (male)

Serbian - Unknown (unknown)

Slovak - Jonáš Tóda (male)

Slovene - Vita Škof (female)

Spanish (Latin America) - Elian Garcés (male)

Spanish (Spain) - André Fontalvo (male)

Swedish - Emilie Clausen (female)

Thai - Kritchanathip Rungrotwutthikun กฤษฎิ์ชนาธิป รุ่งโรจน์วุฒิกุล (male)

Turkish - Ekin Ayça Gümüş (female)

Ukrainian - Mykola Paradovsʹkyy Микола Парадовський (male)

Uyghur - Unknown (unknown)

Vietnamese - Lăng Huỳnh Bảo Tín (male)

Seeing this, the split between female actresses and male actors seems to be pretty even. While it is standard casting for studios to cast women as young boys due to labor laws or boys having less stable voices and Titus is supposedly one of these examples given Eman Abdul-Razzak, a woman, voiced his larval stage in the original dub (11), Pixar has stood away from this fashion for years, making it more unusual than standard, especially since Hoppers is a Pixar film.

For example, Pixar casted Alexander Gould and Hayden Rolence as Nemo in Finding Nemo and Finding Dory, respectively, Yonas Kibreab as Elio and Remy Edgerly as Glordon in Elio, Anthony Gonzalez as Miguel Rivera in Coco, Jacob Tremblay as Luca Paguro in Luca, and so on, to emphasize realism rather than cartoon standard voice acting, as while female actors can rehearse to sound like young boys/male creatures, the voice seems too perfect to be natural (Source). In fact, in Pixar, for every male character, at most 5% overall (usually 0%) of the voice actors in international dubs that voiced him are women, as the vast majority are boys or young men.

Titus has a far higher percentage as the Insect Prince, making him unusual, given the even split, especially since Titus is promoted as if he were a young boy given his pupation from caterpillar (larval stage) to butterfly and how after he becomes a butterfly none of these actors appear anymore in the film.

It is implied, however, that he is not actually a young boy, but rather a female caterpillar that delayed her puberty until her mother's death. After his mother, the Insect Queen, dies accidentally at the hands of Mabel Tanaka, who disguises herself as an orange beaver, he pretends to cry for his mother's death, only to later maniacally laugh and steal his mother's crown.

When he declares himself as the Insect King, the Animal Council, including the Bird King, is hesitant to hail him as king, despite the fact he is the legitimate and sole heir of his mother. As said before, the council is hesitant to hail him because to them, a female insect cannot be king, she should be queen. Despite their hesitancy, they still reluctantly hail him in the end given it is not like they have a choice in the matter: he is the only insect available to be hailed. It is implied he declared himself as king rather than queen (the correct title) given right after he becomes "king", he explains his plans to squish Mayor Jerry Generazzo, the mayor of Beaverton. Before his mother's death, Mabel Tanaka talks to the council about Jerry, leading the council to call him the Human King and leading to the council's plans to "squish" him. Since Jerry is the Human King and Titus impersonates him, as seen later on, this is why he declares himself king, not because he is a boy therefore he is king and not queen. If he were a boy or man, the council would not have been hesitant to hail him given he was the sole legitimate heir. If he were illegitimate he would not be attending the council and he would not have whined:

"Mother, I wish to go home! Now!"

implying he was forced to attend and he is a legitimate heir not some illegitimate boy who somehow wanted to overthrow and become king. He did not usurp his mother's throne given he was going to be Insect Queen anyway. While it seems like usurping at first glance given he is blood-thirsty, in actuality, he is the righteous heir; it is just that he was excited he got his righeous title and decided to abuse it by not only "squishing" Jerry but take a step further causing a genocide not only against humans but also vertebrates, as seen later on.

After he announces his plans to the council, almost immediately he pupates himself into a butterfly. It is implied he does so to execute his plans, not because he is ready to develop from a boy to a man, especially since he refuses to leave his leaf until his mother's death and showed no signs prior that he is ready for such a process. Given while he did not show sadness and faked his grief, he is genuinely shocked when his mother dies, showing his surprise and immaturity. If his mother never died, by the time Jerry did the political rally, rather than being a butterfly hopping himself inside a Jerry robot, he would have remained a caterpillar, still reliant on his mother. This implies that from caterpillar to butterfly he did not truly age significantly, but rather only doubled down on his villainy and remained the same age range throughout the entire story.

One possibility is Titus is a young child who does anything for power and as such pupates himself only for power, when in real life caterpillars pupate when their age is ready not when they want to obtain power unlike Titus' case, indicating he did not age to an adult when he became a butterfly. The more likely possibility, despite his immaturity and reliance on his mother, is that he is a grown woman who delayed pupation because of his unusually high intelligence as shown in his ability to build robots to reverse Hopper technology. He sounds like a woman rather than a child, especially in the English dub. International voice dubs who cast boys to voice him do so out of his resemblance to Glordon due to their lack of awareness indicating he is actually meant to be a female character. While he is reliant on his mother like a child and can be immature at times as well as bratty, it makes sense for him to be a grown woman given how genius he is in executing his plans, albeit impulsive and lacking awareness of his own lifespan. While pupation in real life is about growing from a childhood to adulthood, in Titus' case it is about power and Titus remains the same age throughout.

Though one iffy thing is that these actors no longer appear after he becomes the Insect King. How does this still make sense nevertheless? Let's find out.

Insect King

Pictured (left to right, top to bottom): Ivan Velchev (Bulgarian), Luis Torrelles (Catalan), Dave Franco (Original), Pier-Luc Funk (French (Canada)), Hyun Lee (Korean), Jakob Oftebro (Norwegian), Józef Pawłowski (Polish), Carlo Vázquez Díaz (Spanish (Latin America)), Deniz Utku Karataş (Turkish)

Arabic (Egypt) - Ahmed Khairy أحمد خيري (male)

Arabic (Standard) - Ahmed Khairy أحمد خيري (male)

Bulgarian - Ivan Velchev Иван Велчев (male)

Cantonese - Ray Yuen 袁德基 (male)

Catalan - Luis Torrelles (male)

Croatian - Tit-Emanuel Medvešek (male)

Czech - Ondřej Rychlý (male)

Danish - Mikkel Boe Følsgaard (male)

Dutch (Belgium) - Pieter Verelst (male)

Dutch (Netherlands) - Florus van Rooijen (male)

English - Dave Franco (male)

Estonian - Robin Täpp (male)

Finnish - Paavo Kääriäinen (male)

French (Canada) - Pier-Luc Funk (male)

French (Europe) - Jean-Christophe Dollé (male)

Georgian - Lasha Bakht’adze ლაშა ბახტაძე (male)

German - Konrad Bösherz (male)

Greek - Lefteris Eleftheriou Λευτέρης Ελευθερίου (male)

Hebrew - Ido Mosseri עידו מוסרי (male)

Hindi - Rajesh Kava राजेश कावा (male)

Hungarian - Álmos Előd (male)

Icelandian - Arnór Björnsson (male)

Italian - Gianfranco Miranda (male)

Japanese - Junya Hirano 平野潤也 (male)

Kazakh - Talğat Nūrahmetov Талғат Нұрахметов (male)

Korean - Lee Hyun 이현 (male)

Latvian - Unknown (unknown)

Lithuanian - Lukas Malinauskas (male)

Mandarin (China) - Han Zheng 韩铮 (male)

Mandarin (Taiwan) - Sung Ke-Chun 宋克軍 (male)

Norwegian - Jakob Oftebro (male)

Persian (Avazheh) - Unknown (unknown)

Persian (Saam Studio) - Unknown (unknown)

Persian (Soren Studio) - Erfan Honarbakhsh عرفان هنربخش (male)

Polish - Józef Pawłowski (male)

Portuguese (Brazil) - Vagner Fagundes (male)

Portuguese (Portugal) - Pedro Leitão (male)

Romanian - Paul Ballo (male)

Russian - Dmitry Dyagilev Дмитрий Дягилев (male)

Serbian - Unknown (unknown)

Slovak - Dávid Hartl (male)

Slovene - Voranc Boh (male)

Spanish (Latin America) - Carlo Vázquez Díaz (male)

Spanish (Spain) - Javier Balas (male)

Swedish - Robin Fajardo (male)

Thai - Iyarin Peanjai อัยรินทร์ เพียรใจ (male)

Turkish - Deniz Utku Karataş (male)

Ukrainian - V'yacheslav Khostikoyev В'ячеслав Хостікоєв (male)

Uyghur - Unknown (unknown)

Vietnamese - Trung Coffee (male)

Seen here, all the actors are male and they are different from the actors he had a monarch caterpillar. In a normal case where a young caterpillar (boy) becomes a butterfly (man), this makes sense. The main issue is that, as said earlier, it is heavily implied in the story, Titus is not a boy who went through puberty, but rather a grown woman.

First of all, as soon as he pupates himself into a butterfly, almost immediately instead of showing his butterfly form, only his shadow is shown, as almost immediately he hops himself onto the robotic clone of Jerry he forced scientists to engineer. It is only when he fully becomes the Jerry robot that he reintroduces himself. After he becomes the butterfly he even mocks male puberty, rather than truly showing his voice dropped, as shown when saying this quote he flamboyantly shows off his robot form as he mentions the word "man".

As he tries to adapt to the Jerry hopper body he finds it difficult, which is more reminiscent of a woman struggling her first time disguising herself as a male rather than a male disguising as a male, which is more boring than a woman disguising herself as a man given a woman disguising herself as a man allows her to defy gender norms and learn to adapt to a new environment more so than the latter. Especially as shown when he removes his tie claiming

"What is this... A TAIL for your NECK?! A true king would bear the lushness of its plumage for all to see!"

While it is often claimed that he is not aware that humans wear ties, this is not the case given he engineered this entire scheme to create the Jerry robot and as such he did know. The issue is not that he did not know humans wear ties it is that he is uncomfortable performing masculinity even if it ruins his disguise, which is why he does so nevertheless.

Later on, these actors who voiced his robot form do voice the butterfly rather than the previous actors who voiced the larval stage, but it is portrayed as if it only happened because he lost consciousness in the robot due to Mabel and Jerry's successful attempts to stop him from killing people at the rally. This implies, especially given almost immediately it becomes the robot again, that they only voiced the butterfly out of convenience and that while to the audience they do, in universe they do not.

Especially given as soon as the mask of the Jerry robot is destroyed, this clip reveals his voice glitches as if it were a robot, implying that prior to becoming the robot, Titus himself engineered a voice onto the robot rather than genuinely sounding like that when he became a butterfly. Him voicing the butterfly does not change that given its lack of screentime. If it had more screentime, the same actor who voiced his larval stage would've voiced both forms. If the robot voice genuinely was his, it would not have glitched due to the loss of the mask but rather talked normally like it did before.

Plus Titus almost certainly, needed to engineer a voice in the robot, even if he were indeed male. Titus and Mayor Jerry are not the same person, and different people, regardless of gender, almost certainly sound different. The chances they even sound similar is extremely low, and there is no indication that Titus and Jerry sound similar in any way, shape, or form. If Titus did not engineer a voice onto the robot to distinguish from his real voice, almost certainly, people would immediately have found out he was not Jerry due to the difference in voice sounds and he would not get away during the rally and be arrested before he could speak more in the rally.

What does this imply? This implies Dave Franco and the 49+ other actors who are listed as "Insect King" did not voice Titus but rather voiced his Robot Jerry form. While they voiced the monarch butterfly and not just the robot to the audience, in universe they clearly only voiced the robot. The reason they can voice his butterfly form to the audience despite it clearly not being the case in universe is because it lacks screentime. If it had more screentime, the same actors who voiced his larval stage would've appeared again to voice the butterfly like they did for the caterpillar phase. Especially given while in usual cases a boy would change his voice when he goes through puberty (as do girls albeit less), Titus is heavily implied to not go through normal puberty given he only pupated because of his mothers death not because he was ready. Through all of this, to sum up:

I figured I would make a KPop Demon Hunters and Hoppers crossover as no one has done this before, given most are with KPop Demon Hunters and Zootopia 2 or Poppy Playtime for some reason. I wanted to give Titus and Hoppers some love to crossover with KPop Demon Hunters because Titus is such an amazing girl, prince, king, and many more!

The reason I decided to do the Insect Prince version instead of Insect King was that the Insect King is drawn more frequently than the Insect Prince and I wanted to give the caterpillar some love, especially with how peak diva coded she was in that stage more so than the butterfly where she basically spent more time as Mayor Jerry more than anything, plus I thought Titus' voice as a caterpillar sounds more reminiscent of HUNTR/X. Although Titus' voice sounds more like Zoey more than anything when she was a caterpillar (especially in the original dubs for both films), I decided to do Mira in the end instead of Zoey or Rumi, as Zoey rarely has an angry stare and I wanted to showcase Titus' angry emotions given how whiny she is and Mira can get angry at times.