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** "Still wanting to kill my husband, I suppose? Can't say I blame you." If this line is any indication, Hera had about as much love for Zeus in this game series as she did for him in actual mythology.
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* DemonicSpiders: The puppy Cerberoi in the second game. Very maneuverable and hard to hit. Take too long to kill them, and they evolve into full-grown Cerberus mini-bosses. (The [[ZeroPunctuation Fuck-You Button]] is the most effective way to deal with them - not to mention the only way, at higher difficulties.)
** Likewise the Satyrs, who don't evolve but are aren't susceptible to grabs, and are practically impossible to stagger, meaning you spend more time dodging their attacks than countering.
** There are several of these in the PSP version - or perhaps they just get introduced into gameplay more quickly. The worst ones are guys who are DualWielding: you ''can't'' block their attacks, they have five-second-long combos, and they always come in packs. So: Dodge, dodge, dodge, dodge, dodge, dodge, [[CherryTapping land one hit]], Lather Rinse Repeat. (Actually, if you're quick, you can stagger them out of their attack patterns, but if you miss that first dodge, it's them juggling you.)
** The ''Goddamn'' Satyrs and Wraiths in III.
*** Not so much the Wraiths once you know how to rip them out of the ground like Saddam out of a spider hole.
** Sirens in ''Chains of Olympus'', who have picked up the mannerisms of aformentioned wraiths, sink into the ground when they land after a knockback, and leap out of the ground to put you into an action sequence, this wouldn't be too annoying on its own, except the lunge is ridiculously fast, tracks you, and is one of two attacks in the game (the other belonging to armored cyclops) that can knock you out of your block + attack invincibility frames, did I mention there's a part where you have to fight three of them and an armored cyclops at once? Good luck getting an attack in before you have to mash L and R.
** Likewise the Satyrs, who don't evolve but are aren't susceptible to grabs, and are practically impossible to stagger, meaning you spend more time dodging their attacks than countering.
** There are several of these in the PSP version - or perhaps they just get introduced into gameplay more quickly. The worst ones are guys who are DualWielding: you ''can't'' block their attacks, they have five-second-long combos, and they always come in packs. So: Dodge, dodge, dodge, dodge, dodge, dodge, [[CherryTapping land one hit]], Lather Rinse Repeat. (Actually, if you're quick, you can stagger them out of their attack patterns, but if you miss that first dodge, it's them juggling you.)
** The ''Goddamn'' Satyrs and Wraiths in III.
*** Not so much the Wraiths once you know how to rip them out of the ground like Saddam out of a spider hole.
** Sirens in ''Chains of Olympus'', who have picked up the mannerisms of aformentioned wraiths, sink into the ground when they land after a knockback, and leap out of the ground to put you into an action sequence, this wouldn't be too annoying on its own, except the lunge is ridiculously fast, tracks you, and is one of two attacks in the game (the other belonging to armored cyclops) that can knock you out of your block + attack invincibility frames, did I mention there's a part where you have to fight three of them and an armored cyclops at once? Good luck getting an attack in before you have to mash L and R.
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* GoddamnBats: Harpies. Fairly easy to kill on their own, but they tend to show up while you're fighting tougher enemies or bosses, and often disrupt your combos or distract you enough to get clobbered. They also like to knock you off narrow beams.
** The Feral Hounds in III may just have the harpies one-upped in terms of sheer goddamn-ness in that they render you a total sitting duck for other stronger enemies if even just one latches onto you.
** The Feral Hounds in III may just have the harpies one-upped in terms of sheer goddamn-ness in that they render you a total sitting duck for other stronger enemies if even just one latches onto you.
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* AnticlimaxBoss: Hermes. After bragging about his super speed and leading you on a chase through collapsing architecture to his fight, he's.. not very fast, and his attacks are girlish slaps that do almost no damage. This fits his spoiled brat/schoolyard bully character, though.
** It's implied he's facing a few shattered bones from Kratos' improvised catapult by the time you actually fight. It's still a letdown (especially after the [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Hades fight]]), but it's understandable.
** The final bosses of the second game are also a bit of a disappointment, not because they themselves are particularly easy (they aren't), but because they're preceeded by a gauntlet of DemonicSpiders with no sense of MookChivalry. If you can survive that, 1-on-1 duels with polite bosses are nothing to sweat over.
** Cronos in III. The "fight" against him can basically be described as a series of mook fights with environmental hazards and where floors sometimes happen to turn into walls, peppered with a couple of quick time events. The visuals and the battle theme are nice though.
** It's implied he's facing a few shattered bones from Kratos' improvised catapult by the time you actually fight. It's still a letdown (especially after the [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Hades fight]]), but it's understandable.
** The final bosses of the second game are also a bit of a disappointment, not because they themselves are particularly easy (they aren't), but because they're preceeded by a gauntlet of DemonicSpiders with no sense of MookChivalry. If you can survive that, 1-on-1 duels with polite bosses are nothing to sweat over.
** Cronos in III. The "fight" against him can basically be described as a series of mook fights with environmental hazards and where floors sometimes happen to turn into walls, peppered with a couple of quick time events. The visuals and the battle theme are nice though.
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!! Assorted character YMMVs
All the gods
* [[spoiler:AlasPoorVillain]]: [[spoiler:With the exception of Ares, no one of the gods were actually evil by choice or birth. Their evil came from the evils that were released from Pandora's box by Kratos. Before that, they seemed to had been hard yet benevolent rulers who tried to bring order in Greece from all the monsters and Greece's mortal enemies that attacked Greece and her people. Poseidon seemed to had been the only god who remained uncorrupted, Hephaestus just wanted to protect Pandora and Hera is just loyal to her husband.]]
Zeus
* [[spoiler: AlasPoorVillain]]
* CompleteMonster: Such a douchebag to everyone and everything, from Kratos, to Hephaestus, to Pandora, to mankind, to the Titans and he didn't even gave a shit when [[spoiler: Athena was stabbed by Kratos]]. Subverted in the third game when it's revealed that [[spoiler: he wasn't evil by choice, but by the powers of Pandora's box which possessed him after Kratos released them.]]
Ares
* CompleteMonster: He is the reason why Kratos had become what he is now, and so is indirectly responsible for everything that happened, including the [[spoiler:murder of Kratos' family.]] Plus, [[spoiler: he doesn't have the excuse of being turned by the evils of Pandora's Box]].
Danaus
* AnticlimaxBoss: Goes down with one blow.
Hades
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: And wait to see his [[OneWingedAngel second fo-]] UUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!
Hephaestus
* [[spoiler:AntiClimaxBoss]]
* UglyCute
* TheWoobie: He's one of the only sympathetic gods of the game, and that's saying a lot.
Prometheus
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: His curse (including the sight of his intestines regenerating) and his [[KillItWithFire demise]].
Hermes
* AntiClimaxBoss
Hera
* [[spoiler:AntiClimaxBoss: If you can even consider her one.]]
Clotho
* NauseaFuel
Erinyes
* CompleteMonster: From Gaia's description of her (see "Anthropomorphic Personification" above), it's implied that she certainly qualifies.
Perses
* AntiClimaxBoss
Perseus
* WhatAnIdiot: Stepping into shin-deep water before turning invisible, and ''talking''.
Clotho
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel
Lakhesis
* WhatAnIdiot: Helping Kratos into her place when she should know that bad things are gonna happen once he has come.
** This makes her a perfect example of GenreBlindness.
Atropos
* WhatAnIdiot: Bringing Kratos with her when she attempted to change the past.
Helios
* WhatAnIdiot: [[spoiler: He could have survived if he hadn't enraged Kratos by taunting him, then trying to blind him with his light.]]
Charon
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: His face is like a skull, and he has ''severed heads'' on his belt.
Pandora
* TheWoobie
Boat Captain
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Admit it, you cheered when he cameoed in the second game.
The Last Spartan
* EnsembleDarkhorse
Calliope
* TheWoobie
Daedalus
* TheWoobie
King Midas
* TheWoobie
Poseidon's Princess
* DamselScrappy
Callisto
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Her monster form.
Gyges
* NightmareFuel
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All the gods
* [[spoiler:AlasPoorVillain]]: [[spoiler:With the exception of Ares, no one of the gods were actually evil by choice or birth. Their evil came from the evils that were released from Pandora's box by Kratos. Before that, they seemed to had been hard yet benevolent rulers who tried to bring order in Greece from all the monsters and Greece's mortal enemies that attacked Greece and her people. Poseidon seemed to had been the only god who remained uncorrupted, Hephaestus just wanted to protect Pandora and Hera is just loyal to her husband.]]
Zeus
* [[spoiler: AlasPoorVillain]]
* CompleteMonster: Such a douchebag to everyone and everything, from Kratos, to Hephaestus, to Pandora, to mankind, to the Titans and he didn't even gave a shit when [[spoiler: Athena was stabbed by Kratos]]. Subverted in the third game when it's revealed that [[spoiler: he wasn't evil by choice, but by the powers of Pandora's box which possessed him after Kratos released them.]]
Ares
* CompleteMonster: He is the reason why Kratos had become what he is now, and so is indirectly responsible for everything that happened, including the [[spoiler:murder of Kratos' family.]] Plus, [[spoiler: he doesn't have the excuse of being turned by the evils of Pandora's Box]].
Danaus
* AnticlimaxBoss: Goes down with one blow.
Hades
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: And wait to see his [[OneWingedAngel second fo-]] UUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!
Hephaestus
* [[spoiler:AntiClimaxBoss]]
* UglyCute
* TheWoobie: He's one of the only sympathetic gods of the game, and that's saying a lot.
Prometheus
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: His curse (including the sight of his intestines regenerating) and his [[KillItWithFire demise]].
Hermes
* AntiClimaxBoss
Hera
* [[spoiler:AntiClimaxBoss: If you can even consider her one.]]
Clotho
* NauseaFuel
Erinyes
* CompleteMonster: From Gaia's description of her (see "Anthropomorphic Personification" above), it's implied that she certainly qualifies.
Perses
* AntiClimaxBoss
Perseus
* WhatAnIdiot: Stepping into shin-deep water before turning invisible, and ''talking''.
Clotho
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel
Lakhesis
* WhatAnIdiot: Helping Kratos into her place when she should know that bad things are gonna happen once he has come.
** This makes her a perfect example of GenreBlindness.
Atropos
* WhatAnIdiot: Bringing Kratos with her when she attempted to change the past.
Helios
* WhatAnIdiot: [[spoiler: He could have survived if he hadn't enraged Kratos by taunting him, then trying to blind him with his light.]]
Charon
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: His face is like a skull, and he has ''severed heads'' on his belt.
Pandora
* TheWoobie
Boat Captain
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Admit it, you cheered when he cameoed in the second game.
The Last Spartan
* EnsembleDarkhorse
Calliope
* TheWoobie
Daedalus
* TheWoobie
King Midas
* TheWoobie
Poseidon's Princess
* DamselScrappy
Callisto
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Her monster form.
Gyges
* NightmareFuel
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* DesignatedHero: Kratos is, by any rational standard, a monster. It's his plight that makes you feel sympathy for him - in any other situation he'd be the villain.
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* CharacterDerailment: [[spoiler: Athena]] in III. In the first two games had actually aided Kratos, raised him to Godhood, kept the wrath of Olympus off his back as much as possible and eventually died protecting Olympus. Sure [[spoiler: Athena]] had done questionable things but even then showed regret at what "had to be done" for Olympus. But in the third game suddenly becomes a ManipulativeBastard who wanted power all along and ''[[FridgeLogic somehow]]'' figured dying into this masterplan too.[[spoiler: Could be justified in that she may have been affected by the evil within Pandora's Box and that it's effects only truly corrupted her ''after'' she became a spirit.]]
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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''. Thought Hermes and Helios may be exceptions.
** [[spoiler: The fight with Deimos in ''Ghost of Sparta'', followed by them settling their difference and teaming up to kill Thanatos.]]
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The fight against the Colossus in God of War II. A giant eagle steals your powers and brings a wonder of the ancient world to life with blue lightning. By sheer determination and whats left of his powers, Kratos breaks its arms in a water wheel, launches a boulder the size of a house at its head and blinds it. He punches it in the face with its own severed hand, then slashes his way inside, and destroys it, leaping out of its mouth. Ladies and gentlemen, [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/3/19/ that was the punchline.]]\ to rant at the gods. Thanks to this, he fails to avoid being ''squished like a bug'' by the hand of the falling giant.
** When Aphrodite's slave girls BreakTheFourthWall in ''God of War III''.
*** ''Especially'' when they [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] the game's M rating.
** During the battle against Hercules, Hera says, "You boys play nice!"
** First words to Hermes, "To catch a fly from the ass of Zeus is not worth my time, Hermes." Later, Hermes, [[spoiler:upon being killed by Kratos, explodes into a swarm of flies. And Kratos smishes one.]]
** The silly costumes for 1, 2 and CoO. And the scene where Kratos killed David Jaffe while congratulating the player.
** 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''. Thought Hermes and Helios may be exceptions.
** [[spoiler: The fight with Deimos in ''Ghost of Sparta'', followed by them settling their difference and teaming up to kill Thanatos.]]
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The fight against the Colossus in God of War II. A giant eagle steals your powers and brings a wonder of the ancient world to life with blue lightning. By sheer determination and whats left of his powers, Kratos breaks its arms in a water wheel, launches a boulder the size of a house at its head and blinds it. He punches it in the face with its own severed hand, then slashes his way inside, and destroys it, leaping out of its mouth. Ladies and gentlemen, [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/3/19/ that was the punchline.]]\ to rant at the gods. Thanks to this, he fails to avoid being ''squished like a bug'' by the hand of the falling giant.
** When Aphrodite's slave girls BreakTheFourthWall in ''God of War III''.
*** ''Especially'' when they [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] the game's M rating.
** During the battle against Hercules, Hera says, "You boys play nice!"
** First words to Hermes, "To catch a fly from the ass of Zeus is not worth my time, Hermes." Later, Hermes, [[spoiler:upon being killed by Kratos, explodes into a swarm of flies. And Kratos smishes one.]]
** The silly costumes for 1, 2 and CoO. And the scene where Kratos killed David Jaffe while congratulating the player.
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* FridgeBrilliance: One may wondered why the writer of GOW III decided to make the gods' individual deaths catastrophic for the world, then realized that if functioned as a reset button of sorts, removing the Desert of Lost Souls and killing of all of the big bad beasties that populated Kratos's world.
* FridgeLogic: At the end of God of War 3, [[spoiler:why was Athena scared of getting killed by Kratos? She was already dead.]]
** [[spoiler:It's safe to assume that, if the Blade of Olympus combined with the power of hope is capable of killing a god, it's capable of killing an angel.]]
** In ''God of War 2'', when Kratos [[spoiler: killed the Fates and got control of their powers]], why didn't he use them to go back in time and stop every tragic part of his life from happening? He could have stopped himself from [[spoiler: making the deal with Ares, killing his wife and daughter, opening Pandora's Box, letting the gods have their way]], and so on. There might not have been a God of War 3, but he could've saved himself years of anguish and some serious trouble.
*** Maybe Kratos has been so corrupted by power that he would rather be the [[spoiler: god of war (or even head god)]] than back with his family. We've already established that he's evil. And personally, I would throw my family under a bus to be an incredibly powerful, immortal, apparently [[MemeticSexGod well-endowed]] god.
*** We all know that Kratos [[UnderStatement tends to not make the best decisions when he's angry]]. Maybe he was so blinded by rage and need for vengeance that it never occured to him.
** In part two, How did the last spartan get to the Island of Creation or even know how to find it? Kratos had to fly there, and getting onto the surface of it wasn't exactly a walk in the park either!
** [[spoiler: How did Daedalus write his final letter anyway? I mean his hands is handcuffed.]]
** In ''God of War 3'', [[spoiler: why did Hera's death kill the planet's vegetation? She's the goddess of women and marriage, and if a natural disaster is supposed to correspond to what the gods' were in control of, why did her death kill plants?! Isn't that Demeter's department?]]
*** [=GoW=] seems to have [[SadlyMythtaken mashed the portfolios of several gods together in multiple places]], probably in order to [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters keep the cast size manageable]]; [[spoiler: in addition to the above, it seems like they give Hermes all of Apollo's authority over medicine, perhaps because Hermes' rod and personal symbol, the caduceus, is the nigh-universal symbol for medical care in the real world]]
*** [[spoiler: Hermes']] release of disease upon his death makes sense using the following justification. [[spoiler: Messenger of the gods=travelling=spread of diseases. With all the running around he has to do, it makes sense that he's an avatar of so many diseases.]]
*** [[spoiler: Wait, Hera's the goddess of Marriage? Well that explains the ever-increasing rates of divorce.]]
** Yet another ''God of War III'' example: [[spoiler: if the huge majority of the Olympians dislike Pandora so much, why are there statues of her all over the place? Wouldn't the rest of the Gods want to chuck Hephaestus' statues instead of putting them on prominent display in several places?]]
** Again in the GOW 3, much is said about Hephaestus' status as a freak, and little seems to be said about Hades. This is justifiable in the myths, as Hades was supposed to be just about as attractive as his brothers and his black smith nephew was the ugliest of all deities, but it is rather strange that Hephaestus is the one discriminated when his uncle looks like a decaying demon, while he looks like an old man with a slightly distorted face.
* FridgeLogic: At the end of God of War 3, [[spoiler:why was Athena scared of getting killed by Kratos? She was already dead.]]
** [[spoiler:It's safe to assume that, if the Blade of Olympus combined with the power of hope is capable of killing a god, it's capable of killing an angel.]]
** In ''God of War 2'', when Kratos [[spoiler: killed the Fates and got control of their powers]], why didn't he use them to go back in time and stop every tragic part of his life from happening? He could have stopped himself from [[spoiler: making the deal with Ares, killing his wife and daughter, opening Pandora's Box, letting the gods have their way]], and so on. There might not have been a God of War 3, but he could've saved himself years of anguish and some serious trouble.
*** Maybe Kratos has been so corrupted by power that he would rather be the [[spoiler: god of war (or even head god)]] than back with his family. We've already established that he's evil. And personally, I would throw my family under a bus to be an incredibly powerful, immortal, apparently [[MemeticSexGod well-endowed]] god.
*** We all know that Kratos [[UnderStatement tends to not make the best decisions when he's angry]]. Maybe he was so blinded by rage and need for vengeance that it never occured to him.
** In part two, How did the last spartan get to the Island of Creation or even know how to find it? Kratos had to fly there, and getting onto the surface of it wasn't exactly a walk in the park either!
** [[spoiler: How did Daedalus write his final letter anyway? I mean his hands is handcuffed.]]
** In ''God of War 3'', [[spoiler: why did Hera's death kill the planet's vegetation? She's the goddess of women and marriage, and if a natural disaster is supposed to correspond to what the gods' were in control of, why did her death kill plants?! Isn't that Demeter's department?]]
*** [=GoW=] seems to have [[SadlyMythtaken mashed the portfolios of several gods together in multiple places]], probably in order to [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters keep the cast size manageable]]; [[spoiler: in addition to the above, it seems like they give Hermes all of Apollo's authority over medicine, perhaps because Hermes' rod and personal symbol, the caduceus, is the nigh-universal symbol for medical care in the real world]]
*** [[spoiler: Hermes']] release of disease upon his death makes sense using the following justification. [[spoiler: Messenger of the gods=travelling=spread of diseases. With all the running around he has to do, it makes sense that he's an avatar of so many diseases.]]
*** [[spoiler: Wait, Hera's the goddess of Marriage? Well that explains the ever-increasing rates of divorce.]]
** Yet another ''God of War III'' example: [[spoiler: if the huge majority of the Olympians dislike Pandora so much, why are there statues of her all over the place? Wouldn't the rest of the Gods want to chuck Hephaestus' statues instead of putting them on prominent display in several places?]]
** Again in the GOW 3, much is said about Hephaestus' status as a freak, and little seems to be said about Hades. This is justifiable in the myths, as Hades was supposed to be just about as attractive as his brothers and his black smith nephew was the ugliest of all deities, but it is rather strange that Hephaestus is the one discriminated when his uncle looks like a decaying demon, while he looks like an old man with a slightly distorted face.
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* HoYay / IncestYay: The relationship between Kratos and his brother, Deimos, seems to be some close (at least on Kratos' side; Deimos hates his brother, although FoeYay could occur...).
** The reality is that Kratos feels a sort of guilt for not being able to save his brother and the game was his quest to "fix" that. There is YMMV, and then there is just plain making up things to appeal to your fetish.
** The reality is that Kratos feels a sort of guilt for not being able to save his brother and the game was his quest to "fix" that. There is YMMV, and then there is just plain making up things to appeal to your fetish.
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* ChaoticEvil: A Type 4 if there ever was one. Regardless of how one [[FreudianExcuse feels about his motivations]], Kratos could best be described as a murderous, AxCrazy [[CompleteMonster psychopath]]. He follows no rules and pledges alliegiance to no one except himself, and will gladly sacrifice anyone/anything to get his way. The line between his normal temperment (simmering anger) and berserker rage is razor-thin, and even in his better moods he sees people/gods/titans/everything as [[JerkAss tools to be used then discarded]].
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*** We all know that Kratos {{Understatement [[UnderStatement tends to not make the best decisions when he's angry}}.angry]]. Maybe he was so blinded by rage and need for vengeance that it never occured to him.
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*** Maybe Kratos has been so corrupted by power that he would rather be the [[spoiler: god of war (or even head god)]] than back with his family. We've already established that he's evil. And personally, I would throw my family under a bus to be an incredibly powerful, immortal, apparently [[MemeticSexGod well-endowed]] god.
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*** Maybe Kratos has been so corrupted by power that he would rather be the [[spoiler: god of war (or even head god)]] than back with his family. We've already established that he's evil. And personally, I would throw my family under a bus to be an incredibly powerful, immortal, apparently [[MemeticSexGod well-endowed]] god. god.
*** Either that, or he was so blinded by rage that it never occured to him.
*** Either that, or he was so blinded by rage that it never occured to him.
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* NauseaFuel: [[spoiler: The Chronos Boss fight. How has this NOT been mentioned? Tearing off his blistered fingernail, cutting open a scab, getting swallowed and then graphically cutting your way out of his stomach with the Blade of Olympus? Disgusting]]
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* {{Narm}}: Highlighting the following spoiler will ruin the third game's theme song for you. [[spoiler:But those lyrics are ''so'' "KRA-TOS! PE-NIS!" repeated over and over.]]
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* CharacterDerailment: [[spoiler: Athena]] in III. In the first two games had actually aided Kratos, raised him to Godhood, kept the wrath of Olympus off his back as much as possible and eventually died protecting Olympus. But in the third game suddenly becomes a ManipulativeBastard who wanted power all along and [[FridgeLogic somehow]] figured dying into this masterplan too. [[spoiler: Could be justified in that she may have been affected by the evil within Pandora's Box and that it's effects only truly corrupted her ''after'' she became a spirit.]]
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* CharacterDerailment: [[spoiler: Athena]] in III. In the first two games had actually aided Kratos, raised him to Godhood, kept the wrath of Olympus off his back as much as possible and eventually died protecting Olympus. Sure [[spoiler: Athena]] had done questionable things but even then showed regret at what "had to be done" for Olympus. But in the third game suddenly becomes a ManipulativeBastard who wanted power all along and [[FridgeLogic somehow]] ''[[FridgeLogic somehow]]'' figured dying into this masterplan too. too.[[spoiler: Could be justified in that she may have been affected by the evil within Pandora's Box and that it's effects only truly corrupted her ''after'' she became a spirit.]]
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* DracoInLeatherPants: Kratos gets this a lot for his badassery.
** It's a strange case, since it's the male fans that do this.
** And again, this is probably how Greek mythologies want us to react to the story. They have an entirely different concept for heroism from ours in modern days.
** It's a strange case, since it's the male fans that do this.
** And again, this is probably how Greek mythologies want us to react to the story. They have an entirely different concept for heroism from ours in modern days.
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* CharacterDerailment: [[spoiler: Athena]] in III. In the first two games had actually aided Kratos, raised him to Godhood, kept the wrath of Olympus off his back as much as possible and eventually died protecting Olympus. But in the third game suddenly becomes a ManipulativeBastard who wanted power all along and [[FridgeLogic somehow]] figured dying into this masterplan too. [[spoiler: Could be justified in that she may have been affected by the evil within Pandora's Box and that it's effects only truly corrupted her ''after'' she became a spirit.]]
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* DracoInLeatherPants: Kratos gets this a lot for his badassery.
** It's a strange case, since it's the male fans that do this.
** And again, this is probably how Greek mythologies want us to react to the story. They have an entirely different concept for heroism from ours in modern days.
** It's a strange case, since it's the male fans that do this.
** And again, this is probably how Greek mythologies want us to react to the story. They have an entirely different concept for heroism from ours in modern days.
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** The reality is that Kratos feels a sort of guilt for not being able to save his brother and the game was his quest to "fix" that. There is YMMV, and then there is just plain making up things to appeal to your fetish.
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** [[spoiler: The fight with Deimos in ''Ghost of Sparta'', followed by them settling their difference and teaming up to kill Mephisto.]]
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** [[spoiler: Persues and Icarus in two come to mind, Icarus at least has the excuse he's a [[{{Understatement}} little]] unstable]]
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* {{Too dumb to live}}: Arguably, anyone who knew who Kratos was and still decided they were going to try and kill him, you can hardly feel sympathy for people who go into a fight knowing you killed a god and not just running.
** Special mention goes to [[spoiler: Hermes, who doesn't stop running his mouth until Kratos chops his legs off, and Helios, who could have just answered honestly and gotten away with his life.]] Still, considering what Zeus would have done to them if they didn't try to stop Kratos, it's a lose-lose situation.
** Special mention goes to [[spoiler: Hermes, who doesn't stop running his mouth until Kratos chops his legs off, and Helios, who could have just answered honestly and gotten away with his life.]] Still, considering what Zeus would have done to them if they didn't try to stop Kratos, it's a lose-lose situation.
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** [[Spoiler: The fight with Deimos in ''Ghost of Sparta'', followed by them settling their difference and teaming up to kill Morpheas.]]
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** Really, it's hard ''not'' to sound epic when you're a freaking ''God''. Thought Hermes and Helios may be exceptions.
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** Really, it's hard ''not'' to sound epic when you're a freaking ''God''. Thought Hermes and Helios may be exceptions. exceptions.
**[[Spoiler: The fight with Deimos in ''Ghost of Sparta'', followed by them settling their difference and teaming up to kill Morpheas.]]
**[[Spoiler: The fight with Deimos in ''Ghost of Sparta'', followed by them settling their difference and teaming up to kill Morpheas.]]
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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Zeus. In the third game, it's revealed that he wasn't actually evil, he was just consumed by the evils of Pandora's box, which came out when Kratos opened it.]]
** [[spoiler:He's still an unrepentant, selfish ass, if one is to go by GreekMythology, and the Box's contents only made it worse.]]
** [[spoiler: Zeus still did things like chaining Prometheus and having a bird eat his intestines every day for helping humanity. The box may have enhanced his paranoia but he was an evil jackass long before that.]]
* DracoInLeatherPants: Kratos gets this a lot for his badassery.
** It's a strange case, since it's the male fans that do this.
** And again, this is probably how Greek mythologies want us to react to the story. They have an entirely different concept for heroism from ours in modern days.
** [[spoiler:He's still an unrepentant, selfish ass, if one is to go by GreekMythology, and the Box's contents only made it worse.]]
** [[spoiler: Zeus still did things like chaining Prometheus and having a bird eat his intestines every day for helping humanity. The box may have enhanced his paranoia but he was an evil jackass long before that.]]
* DracoInLeatherPants: Kratos gets this a lot for his badassery.
** It's a strange case, since it's the male fans that do this.
** And again, this is probably how Greek mythologies want us to react to the story. They have an entirely different concept for heroism from ours in modern days.
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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: From the first game - "''ARES!'' There is '''nothing''' you can put in my way to stop me! I ''will'' save my family!" Even Kratos' detractors can't help but think ''damn straight'' and cheer for the HeroicSociopath when he shouts this in defiance at Ares [[spoiler: after the God of War 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!"]] HeroicResolve if I've ever seen it. Also counts as a CrowningMomentOfAwesome. [[spoiler: Subverted, in that Kratos - despite his best efforts - fails in preventing his family dying a second time, which turns this sorta into a TearJerker.]]
is so unpleasant. Well except the few who aren't, but you already know Kratos is going to end up killing them so why does it matter? [[spoiler: ''[=GoW=] III'' makes very obvious attempts at averting this with the last few plot sequences and the ending, and boy, they ''work''.]]
is so unpleasant. Well except the few who aren't, but you already know Kratos is going to end up killing them so why does it matter? [[spoiler: ''[=GoW=] III'' makes very obvious attempts at averting this with the last few plot sequences and the ending, and boy, they ''work''.]]
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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: From the first game - "''ARES!'' There is '''nothing''' you can put in my way to stop me! I ''will'' save my family!" Even Kratos' detractors can't help but think ''damn straight'' and cheer for the HeroicSociopath when he shouts this in defiance at Ares [[spoiler: after the EarWorm: God of War summons a bunch 2's theme. "Hold Devil's Pot of Doppelgangers Tea, Hold Devil's Pot of Tea, Hold Devil's Pot of Tea Mulan!"
* EpilepticTrees: As pointed out on the WMG page, there are 3 murals showing different parts of history in the Halls of Time. The first one is the events of God of War I & II. The second is Kratoshimself who are closing in on avatars of his family. Especially since this line comes right after Calliope cries "Daddy!"]] HeroicResolve if I've ever seen it. Also counts as a CrowningMomentOfAwesome. [[spoiler: Subverted, in that Kratos - despite his best efforts - fails in preventing his family dying a second time, which turns this sorta into a TearJerker.]]
is so unpleasant. Well except the few who aren't, but you already know Kratos is going to end up killing them so why does it matter? [[spoiler: ''[=GoW=] III'' makes very obvious attempts at averting this with the last few plot sequencesand the ending, titans triumphing over the gods. The third one? Three [[strike: kings]] men following a star in the desert...
* EsotericHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Yes, Kratos kills the evil gods andboy, they ''work''.releases hope into the world, ''but look at the state the world's in''.]]
* EpilepticTrees: As pointed out on the WMG page, there are 3 murals showing different parts of history in the Halls of Time. The first one is the events of God of War I & II. The second is Kratos
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* EsotericHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Yes, Kratos kills the evil gods and
* GoodBadBugs: Due to the way the game is designed, some GameBreaker bugs exist that allow you to have - among other things - infinitely regenerating magic and maxed out weapons early in the game. Also, holdover features remain from when the game was in "test" phase, including invisible ledges, which can lead SequenceBreaking. There are a whole bunch of gamers dedicated to finding and refining them in order to perform better [[SpeedRun speed runs]].
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* HoYay / IncestYay: The relationship between Kratos and his brother, Deimos, seems to be some close (at least on Kratos' side; Deimos hates his brother, although FoeYay could occur...).).
* IKnewIt: Seriously who didn't see [[spoiler:the Titans' betrayal]] coming? The only difference is it happens much faster then anticipated.
** Also how Kratos "defeats" Aphrodite. Not to mention the fact that Aphrodite would be the...ahem..."opponent" for the sex minigame.
*** Indeed, that was a very "hard" fight... Heh.
* JerkassWoobie: Kratos
* MemeticBadass: The reason there are no more Greek gods, deities or mythological creatures anymore? Kratos killed all of them. ''All of them''.
** Not all of them. He left Aphrodite alive after, um, consorting with her, and there were several gods he didn't even meet in any of the games.
* MoralEventHorizon: The game makes it clear that you're put in control of a character who starts as a HeroicSociopath only to evolve right into class-A douchebag.
** The developers have stated that they originally wanted to give Kratos a cute little dog to follow him around, as a way to give him some humanity and remind him of better times. [[PlayerPunch He would then have to kill the dog before]] [[TragicMonster it turned into Cerberus]]. They eventually decided that was too cruel even for the series.
*** The concept lives on in the Cerberus monster. Little Cerberus pups quickly grow into mature Cerberus, and the easiest way to deal with them is to grab the puppies before they mature and [[KickTheDog grind their skulls into the ground.]]
* MostAnnoyingSound: In the first game. "What are you doing? Athens crumbles as you waste time!"
* {{Narm}}: Highlighting the following spoiler will ruin the third game's theme song for you. [[spoiler:But those lyrics are ''so'' "KRA-TOS! PE-NIS!" repeated over and over.]]
* PlayerPunch : Brutal, and possibly the most poignant and well-written part of the game it appears in. Toward the end of God of War 3, [[spoiler: Kratos retrieves Pandora from the Labyrinth. Kratos needs Pandora because she is literally the key that will get him past the Fires of Olympus and open the box that bears her name. To serve her function as the key, though, Pandora has to die in the Fires of Olympus. She willingly goes with him, and as they journey together, for whatever reason, Pandora speaks with Kratos as though he is someone she trusts. She bares her heart (figuratively) to the guy who has been going around butchering the world by proxy. And you start to see just a hint of decent human being re-emerge in Kratos: she clearly reminds him of his own lost daughter. Enough that when they finally reach the Flame of Olympus, as Pandora is walking toward it, Kratos grabs her arm and refuses to let her continue. Pandora ''struggles'' with him, pointing out this is what he brought her there for. Which means all the soul-baring she did, all the things she said to him were words said to the man she ''knew'' was functionally her executioner. She then yells "Let go, you're hurting me!" at the guy who ''has spent the whole game'' murdering helpless opponents, slaughtering friend and foe alike, and killing the world by proxy. And his hand snaps off her like he's been burned. And then Zeus shows up, and it [[ItGotWorse just gets]] [[TearJerker worse...]] ]]
* SoCoolItsAwesome: Let's just say that pre-ordering any given game is a sound investment and leave it at that.
* {{Squick}}: The sacrifices in the second game.
** The fight with [[spoiler:Kronos]] in the third game has Kratos slashing open blisters and ripping out fingernails. Not to mention slicing open his stomach - ''allowing the guts to start falling out'' - and ''[[NoKillLikeOverkill driving a crystal shaft through his chin]]''.
* ThatOneBoss: The Kratos Doppelgangers from the first game. Even on normal difficulty its easy to lose this fight if you're not paying attention to [[spoiler: Kratos' family's]] health bar.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: In ''Chains of Olympus'', [[spoiler:you have to find Helios, the sun god, and restore him to the sky to fend off the assault of Morpheus. Not only do you ''[[TheUnfought not]]'' fight Morpheus in the game, but it turns out the real BigBad is Persephone, and Morpheus just took advantage of Helios' disappearance without ever knowing why the sun vanished.]]
* WhatAnIdiot: [[spoiler:Helios has Kratos legitimately interested in the prospect of sparing him, only to totally blow it by saying that he cannot defeat Zeus. He then uses the ''LIGHT OF THE SUN'' to blind him. In a remarkable (and extremely funny) display of practicality, the Spartan just sticks his hand in front of his eyes, walks over and unceremoniously tears off Helios' head.]]
** [[spoiler:Hephaestus. He knows all too well of what Kratos is capable of, especially considering that Kratos had just returned from killing Cronos, with only anger towards Hephaestus ailing him. Upon making the weapon he had promised for Kratos, he tries to kill Kratos right then and there with lightning, only to be killed in possibly one of the shortest QTE's ever. He [[strike: becomes TheWoobie again by asking for forgiveness]] reaffirms his status as TheWoobie by begging Kratos to spare Pandora as he draws his last breath.]]
** [[spoiler:Gaia refuses to save Kratos when they start falling down Olympus, saying that he was just a pawn in the Titans' revenge plans, and allows him to fall into the River Styx. When Kratos escapes Hades (yet again), he almost immediately runs into an injured Gaia, who begs for help. No points for guessing Kratos' response.]]
** [[spoiler:Kronos sort of counts for this too. After trying to smash Kratos and even getting to the point of eating him, after Kratos slices his way out of Kronos' gut and gets the stone he came for, Kronos replies with this little gem: "You have found what you came for, so leave me alone!" [[SarcasmMode Yeah, Kronos, I'll get on that ASAP.]]]]
** Perhaps the biggest of all is Kratos in the third game. [[spoiler: A large chunk of the game revolves around his quest to find and open Pandora's Box, having been told that it contains the power to kill a god and would thus grant him the power to take down Zeus. For whatever reason, he doesn't stop to consider that 1) he already opened the box in the first game, 2) he had already killed numerous gods at that point, and 3) he had Zeus beaten once before, and would have killed him were it not for Athena's intervention. The game does a very good job of undermining that last one in the actual final battle, but still, Kratos has no reason to suspect what occurs there before it happens.]]
*** To be fair, he was doing this on the advice of Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom, after she had regained his trust.
*** He did consider the first of those. When Athena first tells Kratos in III that he needs to get the power inside the box, he mentions he already used it to kill Ares. She insists there's another power inside it, thinking Kratos drew on the evils of the box when he killed Ares.
** Or the start of the second game. Athena tells Kratos that Olympus is growing angry at his slaughter. Then Zeus throws down a sword and tells him to drain his power into it. When Kratos asks why he's told that it's done "for the good of all Olympus". He then proceeds to weaken himself ''three times''by draining his power into the blade, rendering him mortal. Then Zeus kills him. Apparently he didn't see this coming.
** Hermes. [[spoiler: He knows full well how powerful Kratos is, having seen him kill multiple gods. Any rational person would expect him to put as much distance between himself and Kratos as possible, especially considering how he taunted him. Instead, he barely keeps ahead of Kratos, all the while taunting him for being slow. Three guesses as to what happens to him, and the first two don't count.]]
** Everybody who betrays Kratos and most of the people who try to fight him count. He killed the God of War in a fair fight and tears out of death LikeABadassOutOfHell! He's unstoppable.
* TheWoobie: Hephaestus.
** Don't forget [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman Pandora]] and [[FateWorseThanDeath Prometheus]].
** Or Daedalus.
** [[BlessedWithSuck Midas]]
* IKnewIt: Seriously who didn't see [[spoiler:the Titans' betrayal]] coming? The only difference is it happens much faster then anticipated.
** Also how Kratos "defeats" Aphrodite. Not to mention the fact that Aphrodite would be the...ahem..."opponent" for the sex minigame.
*** Indeed, that was a very "hard" fight... Heh.
* JerkassWoobie: Kratos
* MemeticBadass: The reason there are no more Greek gods, deities or mythological creatures anymore? Kratos killed all of them. ''All of them''.
** Not all of them. He left Aphrodite alive after, um, consorting with her, and there were several gods he didn't even meet in any of the games.
* MoralEventHorizon: The game makes it clear that you're put in control of a character who starts as a HeroicSociopath only to evolve right into class-A douchebag.
** The developers have stated that they originally wanted to give Kratos a cute little dog to follow him around, as a way to give him some humanity and remind him of better times. [[PlayerPunch He would then have to kill the dog before]] [[TragicMonster it turned into Cerberus]]. They eventually decided that was too cruel even for the series.
*** The concept lives on in the Cerberus monster. Little Cerberus pups quickly grow into mature Cerberus, and the easiest way to deal with them is to grab the puppies before they mature and [[KickTheDog grind their skulls into the ground.]]
* MostAnnoyingSound: In the first game. "What are you doing? Athens crumbles as you waste time!"
* {{Narm}}: Highlighting the following spoiler will ruin the third game's theme song for you. [[spoiler:But those lyrics are ''so'' "KRA-TOS! PE-NIS!" repeated over and over.]]
* PlayerPunch : Brutal, and possibly the most poignant and well-written part of the game it appears in. Toward the end of God of War 3, [[spoiler: Kratos retrieves Pandora from the Labyrinth. Kratos needs Pandora because she is literally the key that will get him past the Fires of Olympus and open the box that bears her name. To serve her function as the key, though, Pandora has to die in the Fires of Olympus. She willingly goes with him, and as they journey together, for whatever reason, Pandora speaks with Kratos as though he is someone she trusts. She bares her heart (figuratively) to the guy who has been going around butchering the world by proxy. And you start to see just a hint of decent human being re-emerge in Kratos: she clearly reminds him of his own lost daughter. Enough that when they finally reach the Flame of Olympus, as Pandora is walking toward it, Kratos grabs her arm and refuses to let her continue. Pandora ''struggles'' with him, pointing out this is what he brought her there for. Which means all the soul-baring she did, all the things she said to him were words said to the man she ''knew'' was functionally her executioner. She then yells "Let go, you're hurting me!" at the guy who ''has spent the whole game'' murdering helpless opponents, slaughtering friend and foe alike, and killing the world by proxy. And his hand snaps off her like he's been burned. And then Zeus shows up, and it [[ItGotWorse just gets]] [[TearJerker worse...]] ]]
* SoCoolItsAwesome: Let's just say that pre-ordering any given game is a sound investment and leave it at that.
* {{Squick}}: The sacrifices in the second game.
** The fight with [[spoiler:Kronos]] in the third game has Kratos slashing open blisters and ripping out fingernails. Not to mention slicing open his stomach - ''allowing the guts to start falling out'' - and ''[[NoKillLikeOverkill driving a crystal shaft through his chin]]''.
* ThatOneBoss: The Kratos Doppelgangers from the first game. Even on normal difficulty its easy to lose this fight if you're not paying attention to [[spoiler: Kratos' family's]] health bar.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: In ''Chains of Olympus'', [[spoiler:you have to find Helios, the sun god, and restore him to the sky to fend off the assault of Morpheus. Not only do you ''[[TheUnfought not]]'' fight Morpheus in the game, but it turns out the real BigBad is Persephone, and Morpheus just took advantage of Helios' disappearance without ever knowing why the sun vanished.]]
* WhatAnIdiot: [[spoiler:Helios has Kratos legitimately interested in the prospect of sparing him, only to totally blow it by saying that he cannot defeat Zeus. He then uses the ''LIGHT OF THE SUN'' to blind him. In a remarkable (and extremely funny) display of practicality, the Spartan just sticks his hand in front of his eyes, walks over and unceremoniously tears off Helios' head.]]
** [[spoiler:Hephaestus. He knows all too well of what Kratos is capable of, especially considering that Kratos had just returned from killing Cronos, with only anger towards Hephaestus ailing him. Upon making the weapon he had promised for Kratos, he tries to kill Kratos right then and there with lightning, only to be killed in possibly one of the shortest QTE's ever. He [[strike: becomes TheWoobie again by asking for forgiveness]] reaffirms his status as TheWoobie by begging Kratos to spare Pandora as he draws his last breath.]]
** [[spoiler:Gaia refuses to save Kratos when they start falling down Olympus, saying that he was just a pawn in the Titans' revenge plans, and allows him to fall into the River Styx. When Kratos escapes Hades (yet again), he almost immediately runs into an injured Gaia, who begs for help. No points for guessing Kratos' response.]]
** [[spoiler:Kronos sort of counts for this too. After trying to smash Kratos and even getting to the point of eating him, after Kratos slices his way out of Kronos' gut and gets the stone he came for, Kronos replies with this little gem: "You have found what you came for, so leave me alone!" [[SarcasmMode Yeah, Kronos, I'll get on that ASAP.]]]]
** Perhaps the biggest of all is Kratos in the third game. [[spoiler: A large chunk of the game revolves around his quest to find and open Pandora's Box, having been told that it contains the power to kill a god and would thus grant him the power to take down Zeus. For whatever reason, he doesn't stop to consider that 1) he already opened the box in the first game, 2) he had already killed numerous gods at that point, and 3) he had Zeus beaten once before, and would have killed him were it not for Athena's intervention. The game does a very good job of undermining that last one in the actual final battle, but still, Kratos has no reason to suspect what occurs there before it happens.]]
*** To be fair, he was doing this on the advice of Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom, after she had regained his trust.
*** He did consider the first of those. When Athena first tells Kratos in III that he needs to get the power inside the box, he mentions he already used it to kill Ares. She insists there's another power inside it, thinking Kratos drew on the evils of the box when he killed Ares.
** Or the start of the second game. Athena tells Kratos that Olympus is growing angry at his slaughter. Then Zeus throws down a sword and tells him to drain his power into it. When Kratos asks why he's told that it's done "for the good of all Olympus". He then proceeds to weaken himself ''three times''by draining his power into the blade, rendering him mortal. Then Zeus kills him. Apparently he didn't see this coming.
** Hermes. [[spoiler: He knows full well how powerful Kratos is, having seen him kill multiple gods. Any rational person would expect him to put as much distance between himself and Kratos as possible, especially considering how he taunted him. Instead, he barely keeps ahead of Kratos, all the while taunting him for being slow. Three guesses as to what happens to him, and the first two don't count.]]
** Everybody who betrays Kratos and most of the people who try to fight him count. He killed the God of War in a fair fight and tears out of death LikeABadassOutOfHell! He's unstoppable.
* TheWoobie: Hephaestus.
** Don't forget [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman Pandora]] and [[FateWorseThanDeath Prometheus]].
** Or Daedalus.
** [[BlessedWithSuck Midas]]
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*** [[spoiler: Wait, Hera's the goddess of Marriage? [[FridgeBrilliance Well that explains the ever-increasing rates of divorce.]]]]
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*** [[spoiler: Wait, Hera's the goddess of Marriage? [[FridgeBrilliance Well that explains the ever-increasing rates of divorce.]]]]]]
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Kratos is not a nice person, that's undeniable. But people seem to be split as to whether he's a tragic HeroicSociopath or an outright CompleteMonster. There's a good amount of support for each (with another argument to be made that he drifts between the two from game to game).
** The developers have [[WordOfGod implied]] that Kratos' position between sociopathy and monsterism depends on just how blinded by rage he is.
** The developers have [[WordOfGod implied]] that Kratos' position between sociopathy and monsterism depends on just how blinded by rage he is.
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*** While Ares and Zeus are pretty much unanimously labeled as abhorrently monstrous, Kratos is one big [[BaseBreaker base breaking dilemma]] when it comes to this. There As said above, there are those who label him as just an egotistical HeroicSociopath with some redeeming qualities, others who will label him as irredeemably selfish and assholeish, and YET others who will argue that he is in a very unstable point between the two, doing funambulism with the MoralEventHorizon. The argument is very heated, and all parts in it have plausible proof to back their claims. So, in the end, the only solution is for you to make [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation your own opinion about him]].
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*** While Ares and Zeus are pretty much unanimously labeled as abhorrently monstrous, Kratos is one big [[BaseBreaker base breaking dilemma]] when it comes to this. There are those who label him as just an egotistical HeroicSociopath with some redeeming qualities, others who will label him as irredeemably selfish and assholeish, and YET others who will argue that he is in a very unstable point between the two, doing funambulism with the MoralEventHorizon. The argument is very heated, and all parts in it have plausible proof to back their claims. So, in the end, the only solution is for you to make your own opinion about him.
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*** While Ares and Zeus are pretty much unanimously labeled as abhorrently monstrous, Kratos is one big [[BaseBreaker base breaking dilemma]] when it comes to this. There are those who label him as just an egotistical HeroicSociopath with some redeeming qualities, others who will label him as irredeemably selfish and assholeish, and YET others who will argue that he is in a very unstable point between the two, doing funambulism with the MoralEventHorizon. The argument is very heated, and all parts in it have plausible proof to back their claims. So, in the end, the only solution is for you to make [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation your own opinion about him.him]].
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*** While Ares and Zeus are pretty much unanimously labeled as abhorrently monstrous, Kratos is one big [[BaseBreaker base breaking dilemma]] when it comes to this. There are those who label him as just an egotistical HeroicSociopath with some redeeming qualities, others who will label him as irredeemably selfish and assholeish, and YET others who will argue that he is in a very unstable point between the two, doing funambulism with the MoralEventHorizon. The argument is very heated, and all parts in it have plausible proof to back their claims. So, in the end, the only solution is for you to make your own opinion about him.
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** Kratos himself could qualify when one takes a look at all he does throughout things. Sure, he may of been a puppet, but he brought majority of things on to himself and just made things worst as it went along.
