History Awesome / GodOfWar

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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Zeus "I banish you to the pits of Tartarus!", before using his own crafted blade to create a storm cleansing the field of Titans.
** Zeus also gets "''PETULANT CHILD! I will tolerate your insolence'' '''''NO MORE!'''''" before blasting Gaia and Kratos off his mountain.
*** To be fair anything Zeus says with Corey Burton's voice is bound to sound epic.
** His brother Poseidon also has some pretty awesome lines. "''You challenge me MORTAL?!''..'''''A GOD OF OLYMPUS?!'''''" It must be a family trait.
** Really, it's hard ''not'' to sound epic when you're a freaking ''God''. The exception being Hermes, and possibly Aphrodite who was [[MsFanservice pure sexy.]]
** [[spoiler: The fight with Deimos in ''Ghost of Sparta'', followed by them settling their difference and teaming up to kill Thanatos.]]
* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'', after you kill the Hydra by impaling its head onto the ship's mast. And for players new to the world of Kratos, ''VideoGame/GodOfWar II'' has him rip ''the Colossus of Rhodes'' apart from the inside. One can only imagine how the third one will top this.
** Stabbing Zeus through the eye with the Lighthouse of Alexandria?
*** Dropping the Moon of Titan ON the Titans?
*** Burning the Pleiades alive with...well, with the Pleiades?
**** None of the above - the Ultimate weapons combo. The Blade of Olympus is shoved into the ground. The blades catch Zeus under his body, launching him to the air. Kratos uses the chains to pull himself up. Finally, the gauntlets are used to punch him down, impaling him on the Blade of Olympus. Kratos lands, picks up the blade, then launches a laser attack up into the air, launching Zeus into the air, a hole in his stomach, his back broken, his front bleeding, his powers sapped.
**** Considering what the newest trailer showed us, the ambitions of the team and the power of the hardware they have to use, these will probably all seem mild compared to what he actually does.
**** [[spoiler:It seems they TookAThirdOption. At the climax of the final confrontation against Zeus in God of War III, you're required to mash the Circle button while Kratos bashes Zeus' head against a rock. Since you're in first-person mode, Zeus' blood slowly obscures your vision while Kratos keeps hammering away at Zeus' skull ''and you have to keep mashing the circle button.'' In theory, until the whole screen is covered in red. [[RefugeInAudacity In PRACTICE, however, you can keep going]] [[OverlyLongGag for as long as you want,]] [[CatharsisFactor until you are done laughing like a maniac as you hear the sound of the fists crashing on Zeus's face.]] ]]
* As awesome as Kratos is, his most badass moments are probably in the last couple of hours in the second game. [[spoiler: He kills the Fates - you know, the ones which were supposed to be UNKILLABLE, the creatures that even the GODS feared - even after they decided he wouldn't, providing one of the most literal subversions of YouCantFightFate anywhere, and he beats up Zeus while still technically a mortal]].
* [[BarroomBard This Troper]] thinks its fair to say, the ''entirety'' of both games is an [[SerialEscalation ever escalating series]] of [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Crowning Moments of Awesome]].
** No love for the handheld?
** Essentially anytime [[ActionCommands there's a circle above an enemy's (especially bosses') head]], it's time for Kratos to do something awesome.
* When Ares [[spoiler: hurls a spike out into the distance for apparently no reason. We then cut back to Kratos who is then SPEARED through said spike right through the chest. Understand? The God of War chucked as spike halfway across the planet and hit the guy DEAD CENTER of his chest. Holy shit.]]
** Well, he IS the GOD OF WAR!
** It was hardly halfway across the planet - it was across half a city and a bit of desert. But it was a moving target.
* The following exchange [[spoiler: between Kratos and Ares, moments before Ares is killed.]]
--> [[spoiler: Ares: I was trying to make you a great warrior!]]
--> [[spoiler: Kratos: You succeeded. (Stabs Ares.)]]
* A little irregular, but this troper wants to nominate the game's control scheme, which is now the standard by which he judges control layouts. A game is only as fun as it is easy to control, and ''God of War'' is phenomenal in this regard.
* Final boss fights in God I and II. First game, Kratos uses Pandora's box to grow into a giant to fight Ares. So with all the cool attacks thrown between them, there is the extra awesomeness from the fact that the two of them are giants. In the 2nd game, you've got epic music, a desolate scenery, and thunderstorm in the background. Add points for the moments of badassery when Zeus or Kratos takes the Blade of Olympus. Zeus will pick Kratos up, with one hand, and uses the other to toss him to the other end of arena, while Kratos will manage to wrestle the blade from Zeus and then impale him with it.
* Speaking of final boss fights, the final confrontation with Zeus in III. [[spoiler:You not only get to [[ShakyPOVCam slice Zeus with the Blades of Exile from first-person view]], but right after, mashing the circle button repeatedly will produce [[{{Gorn}} so much blood, that your view of the beating is blocked.]] Only when you stop does Zeus finally kick the bucket, which means you can beat on him [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential as much as you want.]] And really, after everything Zeus has said and done by that point, it feels ''so'' satisfying.]]
** It's a great metaphor for the games, too: "You can go as long and as far as you want, it's only going to get darker, bloodier, and more over the top."
* Poseidon jumping down from Olympus and colliding with a Titan, KNOCKING IT OFF THE MOUNTAIN. He then proceeds to curb stomp nearly every single invading Titan by himself, including Gaia whom he very nearly kills.
** The entire sequence with Posideon is made of awesome. To wit: You fight against the God of the Seas as a colossus made of his domain while riding on Gaia. Kratos takes him out of the colossus by ''riding Gaia's hand as she punches him.'' After that, you beat the ever-loving shit out of him ''while watching from his point of view.''
* The battle with Hades in III, which ends with Kratos throwing Hades's "YourSoulIsMine" taunt right back in his face by [[spoiler:[[HoistByHisOwnPetard taking HIS soul using the claws he just took from him]]]].
* The entire battle with [[spoiler:Cronos]], the mother of all {{Colossus Climb}}s, which has you [[spoiler:fighting loads of monsters on his surface, doing nasty things to the guy's fingers, getting eaten at one point and then slashing your way out in pure {{Badass}} fashion before then driving a crystal right through his jaw, climbing right on his face, and then finishing him off with the Blade of Olympus right through his forehead]].
* The battle with Hercules in III, where Herc reveals that [[spoiler: Stealing his heavy armor and [[PowerFist Nemean Cestus]] just makes him faster, able to now pull off a ''FlashStep'']]. Then, he rips the entire arena out of the ground, [[spoiler: only for Kratos to pin him under it, and pound his head until it caves in]].
* "''ARES!'' There is '''nothing''' you can put in my way to stop me! I ''will'' save my family!" Even if you hate Kratos, you can't help but think '''YES''' when he shouts that at Ares [[spoiler: after he summons a bunch of Doppelgangers of Kratos himself who are closing in on avatars of his family. Especially since this line comes right after Calliope cries "Daddy!"]] Not only does that get the PapaWolf out of Kratos, but the player as well (MamaBear if the player is female) which makes it double as a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.
* Start up God Of War 2. Push the button for Poseidon's Wrath. Feel the awesome.
--> Kratos: [[BadassBoast I AM THE GOD OF WAR!]]
* Similar to the Hydra example above, in the second game, killing the Kraken by impaling it on a BRIDGE.
* I'm surprised no one put this. At the end of God of War 2 [[spoiler: Zeus is shooting his lightning at you (Kratos) while you block with the Blade of Olympus. Then Kratos says "[[ISurrenderSuckers I lay down my arms down, Zeus]]." and stabs the Blade into the ground. Zeus takes the Blade and prepares to splice your head into two, (at this point the rest of the game is a quick-time event) but you block it, smashes Zeus's head into a rock, stabs both of his hands, and stabs him. In fact, if Athena didn't interfer, you would kill Zeus. Just a note, you fail at the quick time event, Zeus kills you.]]
* The final boss battles of ''Ghost of Sparta''. [[spoiler:Kratos and Deimos fighting side by side]] is just ''awesome''.
** [[spoiler: You almost feel bad for what's about to happen to Thanatos after he kills Deimos.]]
* In God of War 3, most people don't reconize it, but, when you grab a normal and hitting Triangle splits him in half, right? Well, do that exact same thing except hold on to triangle the entire time, and we get a camera zoomed in at Kratos as he brutally rips an enemy in two with blood flying all over him and blood flying everywhere.
* The final scene from God of War II. Watching a very pissed Kratos ascend the mountain with the Titans. Combined with one of the most [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1br_h51dD4 kickass music tracks]] ever. Nothing topped it until the third installment.
* The opening battle with Magaera and Aegaeon in Ascension.
* The epic battle between Megaera and Tisiphone against Kratos.
* The final battle of Ascension. [[spoiler: Alecto transforms into a Titan-sized sea-beast and battles against Kratos in a maelstrom on oil with Tisiphone assisting throughout.]]
* The default blades combo itself. It's a series of complicated chain blade swings that is surprisingly smooth-flowing and artistic. It's only maxed up to eleven when Kratos leaps into the air with the slow-motion awesomeness, then proceeds to slam his fully-charged blades into the ground, creating large explosion and shaking the ground.
* From VideoGame/GodOfWar II, we have The Last Spartan, the baddest man in Sparta. Yes, even badder than Kratos. Because he not only survived the death wave that killed every other soldier regardless of allegiance in Rhodes, he returned to Sparta where he survived a SECOND Zeus attack. After that, he got up, dusted himself off, and hurried off to the see the Fates, making it further FASTER than the demigod aided by the Titans. Had he not run into Kratos (whom he put up a Hell of a fight against), it's very likely he would have made it to see the Fates.
*** [[FridgeBrilliance His arriving faster than Kratos makes sense when you factor in the time Kratos took in Typhon's Mountain, and fending off the Dark Rider before and after the mountain on his way to the Island of Creation]]. But we still don't know how he got to the island in the first place, without meeting any of the challenges Kratos did, which means he either took an alternative route OR was smart enough to go through the same route WITHOUT having to find all keys and kill all monsters, not to mention crossing the chasm WITHOUT needing Icarus' Wings, which makes him an ActionSurvivor, GuileHero and/or StealthExpert, as well as being Badass enough to put up a good fight against Kratos, [[BadassNormal WITHOUT having powers or divine bloodline]]! There should be a HeroOfAnotherStory comic for this guy, he would make [[Film/ThreeHundred Leonidas]] proud!!
* A bit understated, but one of the first awesome things Kratos ever does is during the first segment of the first game. During a conversation with one of the ship crewmen and under volleys of arrows, he just looks up and casually dodges one shot right at his head. ''He doesn't even raise an eyebrow''. It's at that moment the game lets you know that you're playing as a real {{Badass}}.
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* A bit understated, but one of the first awesome things Kratos ever does is during the first segment of the first game. During a conversation with one of the ship crewmen and under volleys of arrows, he and looks up and casually dodges one shot right at his head. ''He doesn't even raise an eyebrow''. It's at that moment the game lets you know that you're playing as a real {{Badass}}.

*** [[FridgeBrilliance His arriving faster than Kratos makes sense when you factor in the time Kratos took in Typhon's Mountain, and fending off the Dark Rider before and after the mountain on his way to the Island of Creation]]. But we still don't know how he got to the island in the first place, without meeting any of the challenges Kratos did, which means he either took an alternative route OR was smart enough to go through the same route WITHOUT having to find all keys and kill all monsters, not to mention crossing the chasm WITHOUT needing Icarus' Wings, which makes him an ActionSurvivor, GuileHero and/or StealthExpert, as well as being Badass enough to put up a good fight against Kratos, [[BadassNormal WITHOUT having powers or divine bloodline]]! There should be a HeroOfAnotherStory comic for this guy, he would make [[Film/{{300}} Leonidas]] proud!!
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*** [[FridgeBrilliance His arriving faster than Kratos makes sense when you factor in the time Kratos took in Typhon's Mountain, and fending off the Dark Rider before and after the mountain on his way to the Island of Creation]]. But we still don't know how he got to the island in the first place, without meeting any of the challenges Kratos did, which means he either took an alternative route OR was smart enough to go through the same route WITHOUT having to find all keys and kill all monsters, not to mention crossing the chasm WITHOUT needing Icarus' Wings, which makes him an ActionSurvivor, GuileHero and/or StealthExpert, as well as being Badass enough to put up a good fight against Kratos, [[BadassNormal WITHOUT having powers or divine bloodline]]! There should be a HeroOfAnotherStory comic for this guy, he would make [[300 Leonidas]] proud!!

* Poseidon jumping down from Olympus and colliding with a Titan, KNOCKING IT OFF THE MOUNTAIN.

** The entire sequence with Posideon is made of awesome. To wit: You fight against the God of the Seas as a colossus made of his domain while riding on Gaia. Kratos takes him out of the colossus by ''riding a punch.'' After that, you beat the ever-loving shit out of him ''while watching from his point of view.''

** Really, it's hard ''not'' to sound epic when you're a freaking ''God''. The exception being Hermes, and possibly Aphrodite who was [[MsFanservice pure]] [[AudioErotica sexy.]]

* From GodOfWar II, we have The Last Spartan, the baddest man in Sparta. Yes, even badder than Kratos. Because he not only survived the death wave that killed every other soldier regardless of allegiance in Rhodes, he returned to Sparta where he survived a SECOND Zeus attack. After that, he got up, dusted himself off, and hurried off to the see the Fates, making it further FASTER than the demigod aided by the Titans. Had he not run into Kratos (whom he put up a Hell of a fight against), it's very likely he would have made it to see the Fates.

** Really, it's hard ''not'' to sound epic when you're a freaking ''God''. Thought Hermes and Helios may be exceptions.

* The opening battle with Maegera and the Hecatonchires in Ascension.

* In ''GodOfWar'', after you kill the Hydra by impaling its head onto the ship's mast. And for players new to the world of Kratos, ''GodOfWar II'' has him rip ''the Colossus of Rhodes'' apart from the inside. One can only imagine how the third one will top this.

* I'm surprised no one put this. At the end of God of War 2 [[spoiler: Zeus is shooting his lighting at you (Kratos) while you block with the Blade of Olympus. Then Kratos says "I lay down my arms down, Zeus." and stabs the Blade into the ground. Zeus takes the Blade and prepares to splice your head into two, (at this point the rest of the game is a quick-time event) but you block it, smashes Zeus's head into a rock, stabs both of his hands, and stabs him. In fact, if Athena didn't interfer, you would kill Zeus. Just a note, you fail at the quick time event, Zeus kills you.]]

** His brother Poseidon also has some pretty awesome lines. "''You challenge me MORTAL?!''..'''''A GOD OF OLYMPUS?!'''''" It must be a family trait.

* [[BarroomBard This Troper]] thinks its fair to say, the ''entirety'' of both games is an [[BeyondTheImpossible ever escalating series]] of [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Crowning Moments of Awesome]].

* Speaking of final boss fights, the final confrontation with Zeus in III. [[spoiler:You not only get to [[RaimiVision slice Zeus with the Blades of Exile from first-person view]], but right after, mashing the circle button repeatedly will produce [[{{Gorn}} so much blood, that your view of the beating is blocked.]] Only when you stop does Zeus finally kick the bucket, which means you can beat on him [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential as much as you want.]] And really, after everything Zeus has said and done by that point, it feels ''so'' satisfying.]]

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* The battle with Hercules in III, where Hera reveals that [[spoiler: Stealing his heavy armor and [[PowerFist Nemean Cestus]] just makes him faster, able to now pull off a ''FlashStep'']]. Then, he rips the entire arena out of the ground, [[spoiler: only for Kratos to pin him under it, and pound his head until it caves in]].

* The battle with Hercules in III, where Herc reveals that [[spoiler: Stealing his heavy armor and [[PowerFist Nemean Cestus]] just makes him faster, able to now pull off a ''FlashStep'']]. Then, he rips the entire arena out of the ground, [[spoiler: only for Kratos to pin him under it, and pound his head until it caves in]].

* As awesome as Kratos is, his most badass moments are probably in the last couple of hours in the second game. [[spoiler: He kills the Fates, even after they decided he wouldn't, providing one of the most literal subversions of YouCantFightFate anywhere, and he beats up Zeus while still technically a mortal]].