| “ | If you're going to hunt humans, you should know we travel in packs. | „ |
| ~ Joseph Korso saving Cale Tucker |
| “ | Maybe we can beat'em after all. | „ |
| ~ Joseph Korso redeeming himself, his most famous quote |
| “ | Korso: Uh-oh. We got a problem (Korso jumps into the breaker room) Go! They’re joining the mother ship. Cale: But the breaker! Korso: Cale, she’s preparing to fire! Cale: You can’t stay out here. Korso: I’ll take care of it, so let’s move. (Cale grunts, refusing to let Korso do this alone. Korso takes him and throw him to the exit.) Korso: Get on. Get out of here. Akima:(speaking through earphone) Cale, where are you? Korso: Go. It’s better this way. Cale: Uh… (realises Korso’s intention and nods silently) |
„ |
| ~ Korsos last conversation before sacrificing himself. |
Captain Joseph Korso is a major character in Titan A.E, being the tritagonist and one of the secondary antagonists. He is the captain of the Valkyrie and his crew and the leader of the quest for the search of the titan.
Following the distruction of earth and a hopeless search for Sam Tucker he searched for Sam's son Cale Tucker who wears the ring of his father, which containts a map to the Titan, a giant ship which has the ability to create a new planet and a new home for humanity. Somewhere in this timeline he betrays the human race by closing a pact with the villainous Drej queen to sell the Titan when he found it not only out of greed but more out of despair and hopelessness for the human race because the Drej are a species made out of pure energy and he deemed them unbeatable with his long experience in the war with the drej. However after he witnessed the plan from Cale to use this energy to start the Titan, which completely lost all of it's energy when it fled while the distruction of earth, he immediatly redeems himself and while he was part of the Titan Project which constructed the Titan in the first place, he was also one of the main reasons why this mission to beat the Drej and to build a new planet was a success.
He is voiced by Bill Pullman in his first heroic role.
His Good Ranking[]
What Makes him Close to Being Pure Good?[]
- Before the events of the movie took place, he was formidable military officer who fought against the drej when they first came to earth.
- He was part of the team who developed the Titan Project in the first place. So indirectly he is one of the key reasons that the human race still has a chance.
- He escorted Sam Tucker to the Titan.
- Considering that the earth was destroyed just seconds before the flight of the Titan took place, this was extremely dangerous.
- It’s hinted that he was a very decent captain.
- He found Cale Tucker at Tau-14. Immediately he helped Cale when he was in the middle of a fight.
- He saved Cale to flee from Tau-14 when they were attacked by the drej and when they were without astronaut suits in orbit for a few seconds.
- He was a father figure for Cale. Giving him fatherly advice, teaching him and letting him fly the Valkyrie.
- He leaded the crew into the search for the titan on the planet Sesharrim.
- When Cale and Akima were captured, he immediately impeded that Stifh and Preed shoot down the drej ship which them inside.
- With his remaining crew he rescued Akima from some traders.
- When Preed betrayed him and threats to kill all people on the Titan, he eliminated the threat by killing him.
- While killing Preed by broking his Neck was brutal, but it was needed to survive and deserved as Preed was about to betray them to the Drej.
- It was also a quick death.
- When he heard by Cale how the drej could be defeated, he immediately redeemed himself by freeing Cale from the pinned ship and provided cover so Cale could go into the maintenance hatch.
- When he saw what the drej had planned he went down the maintenance hatch himself, so that Cale go back to the Titans control deck and begin the terraforming process. He stays to repair the broken circuit breaker.
- In the end he sacrifices himself by using himself as a conductor between the two switches. With this action, the plan worked, the humans defeated the drej and the Titan build up a new home planet for the human race.
- While you can say that most of his efforts are for a self-serving reason, but without Korso they would never have found the titan as he was the captain who enlisted the crew, and he was the one who knew how to activate the map in the ring.
- Korso managed to reach the admirable standards of the movie by playing a major role in the build and the Location of the Titan, by redeeming and even sacrificing himself for the sake of humanity.
What Prevents Him From Being Pure Good?[]
- He thought that the situation of the human race is so hopeless that he had planned to sell the Titan to the drej and so became a fallen hero for a long time of the movie. However, he did nothing in particular to really help the drej on their way as they got the direction by Cale themselves and in the end after his redeeming process, he was a key element that the humans could beat the drej, so this is a minor prevention.
- After the part of his betrayal, he was intimidating and quite rude to his crew.
Trivia[]
- Currently he's the only person of Titan A.E. to be Near Pure Good.
- Joseph Korso serves as the counterpart of main protagonist Cale Tucker. As Korso found Cale he was a cynical young man with no hope in the future whatsoever but with Korsos and Akimas efforts he began to believe at their chance. Right in this process however it’s clear that Korso himself had lost any hope in the human race and was more interested in the financial gain for a possible sale of the Titan to the drej. His conviction was that the drej are simply unbeatable. Only Cale’s determination and his plan to use drej energy gave Korso this little bit of hope that was enough to redeem himself.
- He is one of the seven Near Pure Good heroes who also qualifies as Inconsistently Heinous, along with The Animator, Arbiter Thel 'Vadam, Sonic the Hedgehog, Cedric the Sorcerer, Grace Monroe, Kaworu Nagisa, and Sunset Shimmer.
External Links[]
- Joseph Korso on the Heroes Wiki
- Joseph Korso on the Villains Wiki
- Joseph Korso on the Inconsistently Heinous Wiki
- Joseph Korso on the Titan A.E. Wiki
- Joseph Korso on the Don Bluth Wiki
