History Main / TitanomachyRoundTwo

-> '''Hades:''' Brothers! Titans! Look at you in your swalled prison! Who. ''Put you down there!''\\

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' has Hades trying to free the Titans to use them to overthrow Zeus. They are not individually named except in supplemental material, but are all elemental giants, including one made of lava. Hercules, Zeus' son and a demigod trying to attain full godhood, is tasked with defeating them.

** ''VideoGame/GodOfWarII'': Rare protagonist version. Kratos (son of Zeus) gathers the Titans to lead an assault on Olympus and Zeus. In this version, Cronos is one of the few Titans who doesn't get involved.

** ''VideoGame/GodOfWarIII'': We get to see the war in full action -- [[EverybodyDiesEnding and neither side wins]]. Gaia blurts out that she was planning to discard Kratos, who then decides to kill both sides while they're busy fighting one another.

# To fit the infernal imagery, Cronus will often be depicted as a gigantic monstrous figure, often of flame or lava, as opposed to his classical depiction of a scythe/sickle-and-harp-wielding old man. The rest of the titans are often given motifs equating them to [[{{Satan}} the Christian Devil]], such as hellish, fiery, or demonic traits. Tartarus may be depicted like the Christian {{Hell}}, with [[FireAndBrimstoneHell fire and flames all over]].

The stock plot derives as a follow up to the Greek tale of the ''Titanomachy'', wherein Cronus[[note]]Sometimes called Cronos or Kronos. The examples will use the spelling featured in their respective works. Greek Mythology also had a being called Chronos, who was the AnthropomorphicPersonification of [[FatherTime Time]]. The Greeks would themselves sometimes combine or confuse him for Cronus; as such it's not rare for modern works to also combine them and use the name Chronos[[/note]], the leader of the Titans, devoured all his children for fear that one would usurp him. His youngest son Zeus avoided this fate when his mother swapped him with a rock. Once grown up, Zeus freed his siblings from his father's stomach and [[DivineConflict led them in rebellion against Cronus and the Titans]], imprisoning them in Tartarus. Zeus and his siblings would take over, beginning the Olympian Gods' rule over the Earth.

# To fit the infernal imagery, Cronus will often be depicted as a gigantic monstrous figure, often of flame or lava, as opposed to his classical depiction of a scythe/sickle-and-harp-wielding old man. The rest of the titans are often given motifs equating them to the Christian devil, such as hellish, fiery, or demonic traits. Tartarus may be depicted like the Christian hell, with fire and flames all over.
# The person trying to free Cronus is a demigod or one of the Olympian gods.

%%* ''VideoGame/HadesII'': This essentially is the IncitingIncident. Chronos has escaped from Tartarus and captured Hades, his former captor. Hades' daughter Melinoë is trying to kill Chronos and save her father.

!!Examples

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* ''Literature/CallMeTitan'' by Creator/RobertSilverberg is told from the viewpoint of Typhon (insisting on being call Typhoeus) who broke out of his imprisonment under Etna in modern times and wants a rematch with Zeus. The apparent DeathOfTheOldGods makes this problematic.

* Defied in ''Manga/RecordOfRagnarok'' where we find out that Titans ''tried'' to escape when Greek Gods were distracted by the events of Gigantomachy, but Hades stopped them by single-handly killing every Titan approaching the Gates of Tartarus.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' has Hades trying to free the Titans to use them to overthrow Zeus. They are not individually named, but are all elemental giants, including one made of lava. Hercules, Zeus' son and a demigod trying to attain full godhood, is tasked with defeating them.

The stock plot derives as a follow up to the Greek tale of the ''Titanomachy'', wherein Cronus[[note]]Sometimes called Cronos or Kronos. The examples will use the spelling featured in their respective works. Greek Mythology also had a being called Chronos, who was the AnthropomorphicPersonification of [[FatherTime Time]]. The Greeks would themselves sometimes combine or confuse him for Cronus as such it's not rare for modern works to also cobine them and use the name Chronos[[/note]], the leader of the Titans, devoured all his children for fear that one would usurp him. His youngest son Zeus avoided this fate when his mother swapped him with a rock. Once grown up, Zeus freed his siblings from his father's stomach and [[DivineConflict led them in rebellion against Cronus and the Titans]], imprisoning them in Tartarus. Zeus and his siblings would take over, beginning the Olympian Gods' rule over the Earth.

The stock plot derives as a follow up to the Greek tale of the ''Titanomachy'', wherein Cronus[[note]]Sometimes called Cronos or Kronos. The examples will use the spelling featured in their respective works[[/note]], the leader of the Titans, devoured all his children for fear that one would usurp him. His youngest son Zeus avoided this fate when his mother swapped him with a rock. Once grown up, Zeus freed his siblings from his father's stomach and [[DivineConflict led them in rebellion against Cronus and the Titans]], imprisoning them in Tartarus. Zeus and his siblings would take over, beginning the Olympian Gods' rule over the Earth.

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules And you thought YOUR family had issues.]][[note]]Zeus was actually the YOUNGEST of Cronus's children, so he would be their little brother...[[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules And you thought YOUR family had issues.[[note]]Zeus was actually the YOUNGEST of Cronus's children, so he would be their little brother...[[/note]]]]]]

** ''VideoGame/GodOfWarChainsOfOlympus'' (a prequel to the first game): [[spoiler:Persephone, Hades's niece and wife]], secretly releases the Titan Atlas from Tartarus so he can destroy the Axis Mundi (portrayed as a large pillar underneath the Earth that holds the entire world above).[[note]]In retrospect, that may have merely been the load-bearing pillar preventing the Mediterranean Sea from ''drowning the underworld beneath it.[/note]]
** ''VideoGame/GodOfWarIII'': We get to see the war in full action - [[EverybodyDiesEnding and neither side wins]]. Gaia blurts out that she was planning to discard Kratos, who then decides to kill both sides while they're busy fighting one another.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules And you thought YOUR family had issues.]]]][note]Zeus was actually the YOUNGEST of Cronus's children, so he would be their little brother...[/note]