History NightmareFuel / GodofWar

* The Colossus of Rhodes in the second game. Zeus steals Kratos godly powers and imbues it into the great Colossus, animating the gigantic statue and seemingly gives it a monstrous intellect, enough to make it zero in on Kratos and chase him across the whole island. Its incredibly disturbing to see the blank, frozen face of the Colossus peer in through the windows of the buildings as it searches for you. This is especially bad if you happen to have a fear of statues. Its even worse the times it breaks its blank facial expression and ''screams''. Imagine a Weeping Angel that is a 100 feet high.

* You'd think that running around as pretty much gaming's ultimate badass, who stumbles upon [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Moments of Awesome]] with every step, and hacked his way out of hell three times, would excuse one from this. You'd be dead wrong. Ares decides to MindRape Kratos by having him fall to the same church where he slaughtered his family, with them still alive in it, and pale(r) copies of Kratos emerging from holes in the ground to do them in. Fighting against these true monsters as they seem to spawn endlessly, your family screaming in terror, the numbers overwhelming you as the church begins to break apart in the void. At the end, when after you have defended them to your last, your chains are ripped from your body, and used to kill them anyway.

* Every time a god dies, something horrible happens. Poseidon? The ocean levels rise to flood the world except for the highest mountaintops. Hades? The dead wander the world aimlessly. Helios? The sun is blocked by perpetual storm clouds. Hermes? A plague of biting insects bursts from his evaporating body and infects everyone with disease. Hera? All plant life in the world withers. Zeus? The whole world falls into complete chaos.

Considering the series is about one man carving a path of carnage and death throughout the world of Greek Mythology, there's nightmares aplenty. Especially caused by man in question.

Considering the series is about one man carving a path of carnage and death throughout the world of GreekMythology, there's nightmares aplenty. Especially caused by man in question.

* In the third game, when [[spoiler: Hephaestus tries to kill you]] by slamming his glowing hot chisel down on you, fail the quick time event and [[SchmuckBait see what happens.]]

* How about we start with [[VillainProtagonist Kratos himself]]? That this single petulant, PsychopathicManChild is willing to essentially destroy reality itself purely in a fit of pique is bad enough. The cruelties he inflicts on innocents and monsters alike are the stuff of nightmares. That you have to play him is worse.

* You'd think that running around as pretty much gaming's ultimate badass, who stumbles upon SugarWiki/{{Moment of Awesome}}s with every step, and hacked his way out of hell three times, would excuse one from this. You'd be dead wrong. Ares decides to MindRape Kratos by having him fall to the same church where he slaughtered his family, with them still alive in it, and pale(r) copies of Kratos emerging from holes in the ground to do them in. Fighting against these true monsters as they seem to spawn endlessly, your family screaming in terror, the numbers overwhelming you as the church begins to break apart in the void. At the end, when after you have defended them to your last, your chains are ripped from your body, and used to kill them anyway.

* Charybdis. There is nothing more frightening than seeing a monster in the pitch black of the ocean swimming towards you with its mouth ready to devour you.
** The scene before it comes into view is also quite terrifying, with Kratos dumped into the [[NothingisScarier pitch black ocean After fighting massive tentacles, not quite knowing what will come out.]] [[OhCrap And then the Charybdis' piercing eyes come into view...]]

* The Hecatonchires in ''Ascension'' is having a pretty tough time. [[AndIMustScream Bound in rock,]] [[BodyHorror hollowed out to make a prison dedicated to torture,]] and slowly [[EatenAlive infested/disfigured]] [[DeathByAThousandCuts one tiny bit at a time,]] he's probably rethinking his decision to break his blood oath about now.

* At the end of the challenge of Hades, you turn a wheel and the gigantic locked gate, which itself is rather creepy, unlocks partially. Suddenly, something very big and very angry starts pounding on it furiously, trying to get out, the screen shaking with each impact. When you enter the room, the door locks behind you and you get a closeup of the gate being pounded ominously. You might think you're supposed to break down the door with the log-shooter, but it does nothing. So you approach the door, and dramatic music plays as you hear the SickeningCrunch noise of the strong chain holding the door shut cracking with each impact, about to break... and the door finally gives way and the creature behind the door, a ''gigantic'' Minotaur covered in armor with GlowingEyesOfDoom, charges through.

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* You'd think that running around as pretty much gaming's ultimate badass, who stumbles upon {{Moment Of Awesome}}s with every step, and hacked his way out of hell three times, would excuse one from this. You'd be dead wrong. Ares decides to MindRape Kratos by having him fall to the same church where he slaughtered his family, with them still alive in it, and pale(r) copies of Kratos emerging from holes in the ground to do them in. Fighting against these true monsters as they seem to spawn endlessly, your family screaming in terror, the numbers overwhelming you as the church begins to break apart in the void. At the end, when after you have defended them to your last, your chains are ripped from your body, and used to kill them anyway.
* The hydra's roar in the first game. Jesus ''Christ''.
* In the first ''God Of War'', in order to proceed, Kratos must "escort" a trapped, live, innocent soldier to a room, where he is sacrificed to open a door, which is bad enough, in and of itself.
** The worst part is he's begging for his life the whole time and his pleas get more and more frantic and desperate the further you progress. When you finally reach the chamber, he's crying out for the gods to save him only to be ''burned alive'' shortly afterwards. Curiously, the preceding scene seems to imply that [[EvenEvilHasStandards even Kratos isn't happy about having to do this.]]
** Strangely, sometimes the live soldier is replaced with a trapped zombie warrior/cannon fodder enemy and Kratos SMILES seeing this, knowing what he has to do.
** For bonus horror, the soldier in question is voiced by none other than Creator/RobPaulsen. That's right, [[WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain Pinky]]/[[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} Yakko]]/[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 Raphael]] is begging you for mercy while you (probably a late teen or twenty-something at the time of the game's release) ''kill your own childhood.''
* Clotho, the Fate who spins the threads of life, from ''God Of War II'' is creepy. For one thing, her lair is dark and ominous, as opposed to the rest of the Temple of the Fates, which is bright and majestic. Plus, her lair is strewn about with threads in a way that is reminiscent of cobwebs. As for Clotho herself, she's so massive she even makes Jabba the Hutt look like Calista Flockheart, and her skin is a sickly dark gray and zombie-like. To top it all off, she has multiple breasts and spindly little arms sticking out of her body. And last but not least, there's that little speech she makes when you first see her: "It is through my threads that all life is born. You must not tamper with destiny, Kratos. You will destroy everything!" Kratos may not be afraid of anything, but we're not so lucky.
* Kratos himself. That this single petulant, PsychopathicManChild is willing to essentially destroy reality itself purely in a fit of pique is bad enough. The cruelties he inflicts on innocents and monsters alike are the stuff of nightmares. That you have to play him is worse.
* ''Ghost Of Sparta'' give us Scylla: Let's see: a giant part-shark part-squid part-narwhal part-crab monster which lurks in the water and has a penchant for sneak attacks and will chase Kratos even in an ''active volcano'' to kill him. The part where you fall into the water and the first thing you see is this giant monster rushing towards you with gaping maws open is quite scary.
* Hades. Both the character in ''God of War 3'' and the place itself in the first game: navigate through platforms made of flesh, bones and blood.
* Charybdis. There is nothing more frightening than seeing a monster in the pitch black of the ocean swimming towards you with its mouth ready to devour you.
** The scene before it comes into view is also quite terrifying, with Kratos dumped into the [[NothingisScarier pitch black ocean After fighting massive tentacles, not quite knowing what will come out.]] [[OhCrap And then the Charybdis' piercing eyes come into view...]]
* The Hecatonchires in ''Ascension'' is having a pretty tough time. [[AndIMustScream Bound in rock,]] [[BodyHorror hollowed out to make a prison dedicated to torture,]] and slowly [[EatenAlive infested/disfigured]] [[DeathByAThousandCuts one tiny bit at a time,]] he's probably rethinking his decision to break his blood oath about now.
** Hell, most of the bosses in Ascension, which could easily be renamed "BodyHorror parade". Castor and Pollux are reimagined as siamese twin mutants, instead of zombies the Furies use parasitical arthropods that hideously mutate their victims, the Furies themselves. It's like someone decided to remake ''Film/TheThing1982'' in classical Greece.
*** Actually, Pollux is made to look like [[spoiler: [[Film/TotalRecall1990 Kuato]]]]. The game's achievement for killing him is called [[spoiler: "QUAID!!!"]]
* You know the horrible brutality Kratos inflicts on his enemies? The horrible part is that almost all of them deserved it, especially the bosses. If they arent horrendous, rampaging mindless monsters, theyre cruel, petty gods or arrogant "heroes". The worst part of the world of God Of War isnt what Kratos turned it into, its that everyone he killed along the way absolutely refused to accept any responsibility for what happened. Ares, Zeus, The Fates, the Furies, all of them are just as responsible as Kratos.
* The games show ''just'' what kind of world would realistically exist under the Greek Gods of Olympus. It is a world where [[YouCanNotFightFate no matter how hard you try, you can't escape your destiny through any normal means]] ([[spoiler:though Kratos did it by ''killing'' those who controlled his destiny]]); [[TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed giant monsters are constantly shown throughout the land slaughtering innocent folk]]; and [[CosmicHorrorStory human beings are completely under the dominion of sociopathic and divine beings who see them as little more than ants]].

* You know the horrible brutality Kratos inflicts on his enemies? The horrible part is that almost all of them deserved it, especially the bosses. If they arent horrendous, rampaging mindless monsters, theyre cruel, petty gods or arrogant "heroes". The worst part of the world of God Of War isnt what Kratos turned it into, its that everyone he killed along the way absolutely refused to accept any responsibility for what happened. Ares, Zeus, The Fates, the Furies, all of them are just as responsible as Kratos.

** For bonus horror, the soldier in question is voiced by none other than Creator/RobPaulsen. That's right, [[WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain Pinky]]/[[WesternAnimation/Animaniacs Yakko]]/[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 Raphael]] is begging you for mercy while you (probably a late teen or twenty-something at the time of the game's release) ''kill your own childhood.''

*** Actually, Pollux is made to look like [[spoiler: [[TotalRecall1990 Kuato]]]]. The game's achievement for killing him is called [[spoiler: "QUAID!!!"]]

*** Actually, Pollux is made to look like [[spoiler: [[TotalRecall1990 Kuato]]]]. The game's achievement for killing him is called [[spoiler: "QUAID!!!"]]

** Hell, most of the bosses in Ascension, which could easily be renamed "BodyHorror parade". Castor and Pollux are reimagined as siamese twin mutants, instead of zombies the Furies use parasitical arthropods that hideously mutate their victims, the Furies themselves. It's like someone decided to remake ''Film/TheThing1982'' in classical Greece.

** Hell, most of the bosses in Ascension, which could easily be renamed "BodyHorror parade". Castor and Pollux are reimagined as siamese twin mutants, instead of zombies the Furies use parasitical arthropods that hideously mutate their victims, the Furies themselves. It's like someone decided to remake ''TheThing'' in classical Greece.

* The Hecatonchires in ''Ascension'' is having a pretty tough time. [[AndIMustScream Bound in rock,]] [[BodyHorror hollowed out to make a prison dedicated to torture,]] and slowly [[EatenAlive infested/disfigured]] [[DeathByAThousandCuts one tiny bit at a time,]] he's probably rethinking his decision to break his blood oath about now.

* You'd think that running around as pretty much gaming's ultimate badass, who stumbles upon {{MomentOfAwesome}}s with every step, and hacked his way out of hell three times, would excuse one from this. You'd be dead wrong. Ares decides to MindRape Kratos by having him fall to the same church where he slaughtered his family, with them still alive in it, and pale(r) copies of Kratos emerging from holes in the ground to do them in. Fighting against these true monsters as they seem to spawn endlessly, your family screaming in terror, the numbers overwhelming you as the church begins to break apart in the void. At the end, when after you have defended them to your last, your chains are ripped from your body, and used to kill them anyway.

* The Hecatonchires in ''Ascension'' is having a pretty tough time. [[AndIMustScream Bound in rock,]] [[BodyHorror hollowed out to make a prison dedicated to torture,]] and slowly [[TheInfestation infested/disfigured]] [[DeathByAThousandCuts one tiny bit at a time,]] he's probably rethinking his decision to break his blood oath about now.

* Charybdis. There is nothing more frightening than seeing a monster in the pitch black of the ocean swimming towards you with its mouth ready to devour you.

* Hades. Both the character in ''God of War 3'' and the place itself in the first game: navigate through platforms made of flesh, bones and blood.