* Why hasn't Artemis appeared in person yet? She's the only Olympian who talked to Kratos at Pandora's Temple who hasn't appeared since then. In [=GoW=] III all the bosses were gods, titans, and the most iconic greek hero...and then they throw a giant scorpion at you. They could have had Artemis pestering Kratos throughout the Labyrinth.
** The Giant Scorpion may be the one Artemis sent to kill Orion the Hunter. So, she "appears" somehow.
** In the myths Apollo was the one who sent the scorpion to get rid of Orion and keep him away from Artemis.
*** Depending from version to version. There's at least once where Artemis, jealous of Orion's skills, send a small scorpion to kill him (successfully), and another one where the scorpion was sent by Gaia (something about Orion swearing to kill all the monsters of the world).
** Maybe she's Genre Savvy enough, being a hunter and all, to know that going up against Kratos in person is just a bad idea. Admittedly, this is some sort of WMG or just my mind trying to do some Fridge Brilliance on my part.
** In the God of War I novelization by Robert E. Vardeman, Artemis does make an appearance by killing off most of Ares's minions. Athena also states she doesn't like to get involved in battles all that much, so that'd explain it.

* Why did Kratos killing Hera affect the vegetation of the world? Did the developers confuse her with Demeter?
** Unlikely, Demeter herself is mentioned in one of the games...
** And besides, only the vegetation in ''her'' garden dies. That makes more sense, if it were only for her plants.
** You might want to look at that scene again. If you look closely, you can see the trees and fields beyond the garden die as well. I think the developers simply wanted Hera's death to have a huge impact on the world like Poseidon's flooding the world or Helios' blotting out the sun but couldn't think of a way to visualize ''marriage'' being destroyed. Certainly not in a destructive, apocalyptic way. So, since they knew that Demeter wasn't getting in the game, they decided to give Hera the whole vegetation sphere-of-influence. Kind of like the Romans dumping Helios' job as the God of the sun on Apollo.
*** As Leta doesn't appear in this game, Hera would also be the goddess of motherhood, so everything that is cared for would die.
*** When you first meet Hera she berates Kratos while bemoaning her dying garden saying "I'm doing everything I can to keep them alive." Sorta implying that Hera is the last thing keeping that remaining bit of non-fubar'd aspect of nature from going kaput.
** Maybe because Hera is the goddess of plants, while Demeter is the goddess of harvest. That’s why Demeter is usually associated with wheat.
* In the first game, an astute player will notice copious amounts of blood and corpses in the Temple of Pandora, right up to the last challange room. This tells us that not only have others tried to retrieve Pandora's Box, but came pretty close to succeeding. Not a problem on its own, but throughout the temple, Kratos is breaking barriers and pottery, looting untouched chests, moving keys from one place to another, even retrieving Poseidon's Trident, a priceless artifact in its own right. So, who is putting everything back together between attempts?
** That would probably be the various humanoid monsters, like the skeleton zombie knight dudes (never was sure what to call them)
** You do remember that undead groundskeeper you encounter at the entrance to the temple? One would assume his duties extend beyond simply burning corpses.
*** Well, judging from his lack of functional limbs, I'd think there are other things re-adjusting the labyrinth inside. Monsters, maybe?

* On a related note, in the second game, Kratos meets someone he ran into at the beginning of the game, a person Kratos tells to head to Sparta while he travels to the "Ends of the World" (to quote the trailers). Bearing in mind that Kratos was traveling via a Pegasus with flaming wings, how did the guy he met arrive that far in the palace BEFORE Kratos did?
** He says he was attempting to obtain an audience with the Sisters so he could save Sparta. DeusExMachina: [[{{A wizard did it}} a God did it?]]
*** Well, he IS a Spartan.
*** Kratos first made a detour to Typhon who, judging by the substantial difference in weather (arctic vs. tropical), is probably half a planet away from the Sisters' Island. After making that roundtrip, Kratos went to the island and landed about as far away from the Sisters' Temple as humanly possible. We don't know where the Spartan guy landed, but it can't have been further than Kratos did, and he went there without visiting the arctic first.
*** In the God of War II novelization by Robert E. Vardeman, it's revealed that the Spartan was taken to the Island of Creation by an eagle AFTER Kratos. That means he braved through the island faster than the Ghost of Sparta himself at the same time.

* Is Kratos a demigod, or mortal now? All a god is is a human with god like powers. Kratos was a demigod before the end of God of War 1. Then, between that time to the end of the first level of God of War 2, he is 100% god. But then, Zeus takes "all his godly power" rendering Kratos "a mere mortal". Does this mean he is 100% human now? All the dialogue seems to point to it, but he still maintains his superstrength that no human should have. So which is it?
** He has his own internal demi-god powers. Then he absorbed the powers of Ares. Then he got those (and the gifts from God of War 1) sucked out.
*** Kratos is specifically stated at the end of GoW 2 to be Zeus' son, probably in much the same way Hercules is. As such his enormous strength and superhuman abilities, even the ones he had before he killed Ares, were probably because of his heritage. He might not have the power he got from killing Ares anymore, but he's still half god. Also, gods aren't just really powerful humans, they're more like forces of nature incarnated into humanoid form.
*** The [=PS4=] game confirms that he's still a god. Much to his own consternation.
* The maze designed to protect Pandora's Box in the first game, and the isle of the Sister of Fate in the second were both supposed to be really hard to reach, right? Just look at what Kratos had to go through to get to them. Now even if Kratos took the hardest route possible, it still seems to me that there were an AWFUL lot of people in both places that were supposedly incredibly hard to reach.
** Well at least in GoW2 most of those people are either demigods, heroes and special people of the Greek mythology (not counting Theseus since he acted as a guard). Such Perseus, a son of Zeus and champion of the Gods, and if you know your mythology very favoured by the Gods. Jason and his Argonauts, which were badass (although not that badass) warriors and just guessing they might also can be Spartans. Icarus, sure not much heroic about him but he could easily fly to the point you encounter him. The Last Spartan, well... he is a Spartan, and also to presume one of high status since he was in charge of Sparta's defenses.
** Getting to the temple was probably the relatively easy part; what the monster/guy/whatever at the entrance emphasized was how often he had to burn the bodies of those who did make it there, but never came back out. Even his tone of voice indicates this. "Oh goody, ''another'' dumbass looking for Pandora's Box whose body I'll have to burn later."

* In God of War 2, a big deal is made about Kratos going back in time to before he was killed by Zeus to change his fate. The problem is, at the point in time he returns to, Zeus had already impaled past-Kratos with the Blade of Olympus before present-Kratos sucker-punches him. We even see Kratos pull the Blade of Olympus out of the body of his past self (though it is offscreen at the time). Despite all this, Kratos is no worse off for any of this.
** It might be justified though, since he had to die, otherwise he wouldn't have made the trip to the sisters of fate in the first place.
** There are ''other'' issues with pulling a sword out of yourself and then having yourself disappearing... okay, look, time travel in the God of War universe appears to work by having only one version of a person at any point in time. If you time travel back to say, an hour ago, you replace yourself. This is kinda weird, and it brings up questions of what happens if you do what Kratos did with the Titans, rescuing them before they go and get imprisoned (including ''Gaia who talks to him during the game'') ... ''anyway'', it doesn't matter since the Fates' chamber appears to have exploded after that. Kratos suckerpunches Zeus, replaces himself, and then reabsorbs his own godly essence from the sword. If he had saved himself from being impaled, his scar would probably have disappeared.
*** Except that's not true, he was fighting one of the sisters while he past self was fighting Ares. They both still existed.
*** The replacement obviously doesn't happen instantly, since Kratos ''suckerpunches'' Zeus as Zeus stands over Kratos' past self.
** On a related note: why doesn't Kratos, armed with the power to change time, go back and save his family? Had it really been so long that that he had forgotten about them? Did they just not matter?
*** Most likely case IMO: the thought didn't cross his mind. It's a bit of a weak excuse, but this is a guy whose mind is constantly on one thing, vengeance. The temple of fate was collapsing, he might just not have had enough time to pull the string any longer.
*** While were at it, perhaps we should also mention that the Sisters of Fate should be alive when Kratos went back because he hadn't killed them yet, or one could theorize that they were still alive and were in fact controlling the events of God of War III.
*** After Kratos time travels back to stop Zeus he tells him that the sisters are dead. It sort of implies that the Sisters, as well as their realm, operates outside of our idea of "time".
** Here's an explanation: both Kratos exist at the same time and justify why both events can happen. "Past" Kratos is stabbed and dies, climbs out of Hades, and sets off to find the Sisters of Fate. "Future" Kratos meanwhile punches Zeus and the two fly away in the ensuing battle. Kratos finishes the fight, returns to the Fates chamber, and goes back to grab the Titans for the war on Olympus. This sequence is all finished before "Past" Kratos returns from Hades. For this to work, Kratos would still have to have killed the Fates and control the time traveling mechanism. Think of the progression for a particular Kratos as everything up to the Fates (Past Kratos), Kratos goes back and fights Zeus (Past Kratos is now Future Kratos), Kratos pops back just the moment after he left the "present" to fight Zeus. In essence, Past Kratos exists and goes through the story never being aware of Future Kratos until he ends up at the point in time where he is now Future Kratos. It's a causality loop that technically only has 2 Kratos "existing" at once for the length of Kratos' fight, and even then one is dead. This would also give more reason to Zeus's destruction of Sparta: he doesn't fear another Kratos arising, he knows Kratos is back and has bested the Fates, so he wants to stamp out potential allies: Ares shows destroying a city is little effort for a god, and Zeus is presumably stronger than Ares.
* This troper is very confused. Over all three games Kratos has demonstrated the ability to return from the dead by climbing out of the underworld. So... Why can't you do this during regular gameplay? Is this a case of [[CutscenePowerToTheMax Cutscene Power To The Max?]] Because otherwise, logic would dictate that every time the player should have gotten a game over, it would instead be transported into some kind of mini level that has to be finished to continue... It actually sounds like an interesting mechanic.
** Well, in God of War 1, he needed that gravedigger to dig him an opening so that he could escape through there. In God of War 2, he needed Gaia to motivate him to get revenge on Zeus, thus making him climb out. Then, in God of War 3, you're in Tartarus for a while, but then you kill Hades himself, so you probably wouldn't have anywhere else to go if you died.
** In each case he had a god revive him. In GOW1 one can argue Zeus or another god restored him to life. In GOWII Gaia restored him to life. In GOWIII he did not die. He physically fell into the underworld. Otherwise, when he died he would just be shade with his body and weapons staying on Earth. Not every body was pulled physically into the underworld only one's spirit went. So it makes more sense to think various gods are bringing him back to life.
** His ability(inability in some cases maybe) of not dying, might be even more justified after the events in the Ghost of Sparta game, where he kills Thantanos the embodiment of death, and therefore and Zeus states in the end of the game that he had become "Death, the destroyer of world". So since Kratos now is death, he is even harder to kill. Also could explain why he might still be alive in the end of GoW3


* As the third game show, every time Kratos kills a god, it somehow majorly fucks up the planet, ie: killing Poseidon causes floods, killing Helios blocks out the sun, etc. Does this mean that killing Athena (even if it ''was'' by accident) made all knowledge and wisdom leave the world?
** Must...resist...urge...to...make...[[TakeThat horrible...joke...]] But seriously, I think Athena's ghost still being around might mitigate that. You know, there really should be some kind of clause for gods whose spheres of influence aren't tangible...
*** She is also a Goddess of War, so it's possible her the reason is same as Ares's.
** On a similar note, why didn't Persephone's death cause any calamities? The death of Ares can be handwaved by saying that this is why they immediately appointed Kratos to be his replacement, but the death of a nature goddess who became Queen of the Underworld should have done something. The same applies to Thanatos.
** During both of those times, the rest of the gods were around to handle the passing of power. For example, Thanatos's and Persephone's death responsibilities would have passed to Hades, and the changing of the seasons would be charged to Demeter. During the battle, those responsible for this (namely, Zeus and Gaia) were too busy to worry about little things like the planet.
* Why is it the gods constantly belittle and insult Kratos, calling him a mere mortal and a weakling? They know perfectly well he is a son of Zeus; that makes him a demi-god, which makes him more of a threat than any "mere mortal" could ever hope to be. Add to that the fact he has shown himself perfectly willing and capable of killing gods, otherwise they would never have asked him to kill Ares in the first place. Did the others really expect to be able to antagonize Kratos and get away with it?
** How nice would ''you'' be to someone who was killing off every member of your family? Also, they're the gods; phenomenal cosmic ego is kind of part and parcel. Unless you're [[DemotedToExtra Hestia,]] it probably goes something like "Oh, I'm SO much smarter / shrewder / better than (insert dead god's name here)!!"
** Valid point, though Gaia has no excuse for her "you were a pawn" speech. A simple "hold on until I can get my footing" instead would have saved her life (maybe) after Kratos left the underworld.
* In III, why is such a big deal made about Pandora's Box containing "The Power To Kill A God", when Kratos managed to kill Poseidon, Hades, Helios, Hermes, Hephaestus, Cronos and Hera ''without'' the damn thing? Also, he killed Hermes by cutting off his legs and he killed Hera and Poseidon by ''snapping their necks''. If Pandora's Box or the Blade Of Olympus is needed to kill gods, how can he kill them with what, to a ''god'', must be no more than a boo-boo?
** Not all gods are created equal. Zeus is much more of a big deal than any of his lesser siblings.
** That doesn't explain how Hera died of a snapped neck.
*** Some people didn't pay attention to the ending. [[spoiler: The Power To Kill A God was more than just "grow really big". Kratos had it the entire time he was killing gods, from the moment he fought Ares, to right up at the very end. That's why the box was empty; all the powers inside it had already been released, when he fought Ares, and never went back.]]
*** And to add unto that, it was explicitly stated that she was weakened by the plagues killing her plants and the death of the numerous Olympians.
** Furthermore, why didn't Kratos ever take into account that he's ''already opened the box in the first place''?
*** Because Athena was talking about it like there was still something in there, and he figured she knew best. Besides, not being really big anymore, he probably believed as she did that the power from the Box had returned to it.
** Why did Kratos go after the box anyways? He already beat Zeus at the end of the second game without it.
*** True, Kratos beat Zeus in GOW II, but that was specifically because he tricked Zeus. He pretended to give up so Zeus would let his guard down and then turned the tables on him and it seemed to be because he didn't have a solid way to take Zeus down in his giant form. Now, he ''could'' say screw it and face Zeus again without the box (Which is what ends up happening anyways), but there's no reason that he shouldn't go ahead and pursue it just to make sure that he can win without such tricks, especially if Athena's advising him to do so.
** Kratos was even killing ''the Titans'' without need for the power in that box.
** Kratos is something of a moron. He rarely if ever thinks beyond killing whatever he is angry at at the moment. He thinks enough brute force and violence will solve any problem. The only time he does think is when it is absolutely clear it is not enough. That is what enables him to be so easily manipulated. You just find some reason to get him angry/annoyed at something and let him go.
** Kratos knows that he's already taken the power from the box. He protests as much when he realises she's just brought him back to Pandora's Box. When Athena says there's more power that he didn't take in the box, he defers to her judgment because she ''should'' know better.
** Also, if I'm not wrong, another important part was putting out the Flame of Olympus around the Box, as it was like a power-source to Zeus. So, with the flame protecting the box gone you might as well open it and see if there's something left inside, you never know...
* In II, Kratos needed to get past Theseus to get onto the Isle of Creation. So how did Perseus and The Last Spartan get there first?
** By sailing to the Isle of Creation instead of to the island next to it that Kratos had the misfortune of landing on. Kratos had to get past Theseus to bring the two islands together so he could reach the Isle of Creation, but someone who just sailed to the Isle and scaled the cliffs wouldn't have the same problem.
** The Sisters of Fate claim that the only reason Kratos was able to reach them at all was because his antics amused them. This indicates that everything that happened in GoW2 was a sick game they were playing for their amusement. ''Fate itself'' probably allowed the Last Spartan get that far just to mess around with Kratos.
* [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse What happened to Demeter? And Hestia, and Artemis, and Morpheus, and Apollo, and...]]
* Word of God stated that what ever gods were in the games were the gods they wanted in the story, so if none of the others are there its because they didn't find any use for them.
** Timesaving. Adding ''all'' the Greek gods would've made for quite a long game. Hell, we'd be on God of War '''16''' by now if we had to watch Kratos kill his way through the entire Greek pantheon. It might've worked if they'd limited the roster to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Olympians Twelve Olympians]] but jamming them all into one game simply wouldn't have been feasible.
*** Plus the precuels tend to solve this problem.
** Morpheus was executed by the gods after his attempt to TakeOverTheWorld in ''Chain of Olympus''. About the others, they may have survived, or have been killed offscreen by Titans, Zeus or by the fall of Mount Olympus.
* If Hercules is Perseus's great grandson, how come Hercules is clearly older than him?
** Remember that Chuck Norris lost his virginity before his dad did. Hercules, having some more Chuck Norris' blood than many others, could easily have done feats like that one.
** Because the devs decided research is for dorks.
** It could have been some strange effect of the island manipulating time.
** Dudes, Size has nothing to do with age. For example, this troper was the youngest and tallest student of his class. Sure, Hercules is indeed a giant of a man, but maybe he's younger than it looks. Or Maybe Perseus, as Demigod, aged far more slowly than mortals.
*** I'm inclined to agree with this theory. It also explains how come Hercules acted like some petulant ten-year-old kid, smashing Kratos around and then immediately turning to Hera (his sort-of mother figure) for acknowledgment
* In GOW III, Hephaestus explains how he hid Pandora's significance from Zeus, and it seems the other olympians were also unaware of her purpose, and thought her only a quaint plaything of Hephaestus'. If this was case, and they were unaware of her connection to the box, WHY was it named after her, and housed in a temple also bearing her name?
** Maybe they liked the sound of the name?
** Hephaestus probably only hid the fact that Pandora could extinguish the Flames of Olympus; other gods likely knew that Pandora was intended to somehow seal the Box away but assumed she was a failed attempt. As such, they named the successful version after the prototype, hence the Temple and Box of Pandora.
* After reading the above complaints, something occurred to me. To open Pandora's Box, one must sacrifice Pandora to the Flames of Olympus surrounding it so they vanish. Why were said flames not coating the box in the first game? Also, in the second game, you have to drop Prometheus into what are referred to as the Fires of Olympus. Why are they not only a different color than the FLAMES of Olympus, but in an entirely different location?
** Similar names but different flames?
** The one in II was the Primordial Fire that Prometheus stole to Hephaestus and brought to the mortals.
** In the first game, there's the whole damn trap-filled and monster-haunted temple between Kratos and the Box. In the third game Zeus didn't have the time for making another one, so he just put the box right in the middle of the Flames.
* So in the end of God of War 2, you go back in time and sucker punch Zeus when he was killing you. Does that mean that in the current timeline (That God of War 3 takes place in) that God of War 2 didn't happen? So Perseus, The Kraken, Sisters of Fate etc etc are all still alive? And for that matter, who fought Zeus, the past Kratos or the Kratos we control throughout the game?
** Zeus ''did'' kill him. All we see of Past-Kratos is Future-Kratos pulling the Blade of Olympus out of him. After Zeus and Kratos bolted for the final arena, Past-Kratos got dragged down to Tartarus by those hands, just like from the beginning. Kratos probably didn't see himself because he was unconscious.
** Also, with the Sisters of Fate dead, time probably doesn't work like you'd think it would.

* Now, a serious question: things have changed quite a lot during the preparation of the games, but why Hades (the location) ''keeps changing over and over'' in each game! Look at River Styx! It was a bloody swamp in Chains, I and II and then in III it becomes a black soul-infested river. Sob.
** Persephone. She keeps her interior decorator hopping because what ''else'' can she do to pass the time?
*** ''"because what else can she do to pass the time?"'' ...Hades?
*** Given the extreme lengths she went to in order to escape her marriage, Persephone would murder you for that suggestion.
** Persephone is dead by the end of ''Chains of Olympus'', which is cronologically the first game (second, now that ''Ascension'' is out), and the Underworld changes in the following games.
* Similar to the rant above, why the Domain of Death in ''Ghost of Sparta'', despite being the home of the most feared creature in the universe (Thanatos) looks so... earthly! Look at it! It just look like a foggy castle with spiked chains, huge plants and not-so-otherwordly traps!
** Thanatos probably doesn't have the same flair for the dramatic Hades has. It's not like he gets that many visitors anyway.
* The Spartans are the descendants of Hercules. So why in God of War 3 Hercules claims he was doing the 12 Labors, the quest that made him a legend, during the events of God of War 1 when he already done it before Sparta was founded?
** One of the problems with many adaptations of Greek mythology is that they tend to portray many if not all of the greek myths happening at basically the same time. This, of course, isn't helped at all by how much greek myth itself ignores any type of continuity.
*** Yeah, I'm pretty sure at least one reading of the myths has it that Haphaestus is responsible for his own birth.
* Kratos killed Thanatos, Death itself, so how in Olympus's name is he able to kill the other gods, or anyone really, with DEATH dead?
** Thanatos is more like the "personification" of Death, not exactly Death itself. Since people still die in the sequels (II and III) it's safe to assume that Thanatos wasn't vital to the world.
** Actually, the Gravedigger implies YouKillItYouBoughtIt. By killing Death, Kratos becomes Death (the destroyer of worlds). So the real question is why don't things die sooner?
*** Maybe the implication is that the even the gods can't control certain forces like death, life or destiny and are just "pretending" to manipulate them like some sort of scam?
*** Hades and the Fates dont actually control the forces of death or destiny, but they can manipulate them, and Hades is in charge of the spirits of the dead. People will still die without him, but the spirits wont just go to the Underworld, and can just roam around now. The Sisters deaths dont really affect anything either, as they dont actually make things happen, they can simply decide what will happen because of their powers over time.
* So in God of War we learn that Kratos is white because Ares stuck the ashes of Kratos's family onto him as punishment for murdering them, to mark his sins. At the END of God of War Athena absolves Kratos's sins so surely that means his skin should go back to normal, he should no longer have to wear that mark?
** She also said something like "Only you can forgive yourself".
*** Food for thoughts: it isn't really clear that Ares was the one to curse Kratos with the ashes in that scene. In fact, it's probably wasn't Ares, but Athena. It was a village that worshipped her, a temple dedicated to her, and the old creepy hag was very probably a priestess of Athena. Heck, maybe it was Athena herself, Zeus did pull off the same trick with the gravedigger. Cast a new light on her characterization.
*** [[spoiler: ''Ascension'' resolves the crone's identity with a [[PlayerPunch Player Punch]].]]
-->[[WhamLine They were not there by chance, Spartan!]]
** This sorta goes back to the original Greek myths. Gods had a lot of powers, but one thing they explicitly could ''not'' do was reverse something that had already happened. Like Orpheus, for example. He was blinded by Hera for siding with Zeus in a disagreement[[note]]If you're curius, Zeus and Hera were debating who has more pleasure during sex. Hera said guys do, Zeus said women. They asked Tyresias, who had [[GenderBender been turned into a woman earlier in life]], and he said he had more fun as a woman.[[/note]]. Zeus (though it might've been Hera in a moment of remorse, I can't remember just at the moment) felt sorry for the guy but couldn't restore his sight, and so gave him the power of prophecy instead.\\\
So, going by that, Athena couldn't have removed the white mark, and none of the gods could have just removed the nightmares either.
*** Greek Mythology ''does'' have a God of Dreams, and a magic river that causes memory loss. Between those, they could have resolved Kratos' problems.
*** People on this page seem to keep assuming something that existed in Greek mythology must also exist in the games. If there ''is'' a god of dreams or an amnesia-inducing river in the GOW universe, someone probably would have brought it up. Even if there really is, the gods would probably come up with some reason why they couldn't be used.
*** Chances are Lethe would wipe everything from Kratos rather than LaserGuidedAmnesia. The gods aren't likely to allow a useful pawn like Kratos to become a blank slate

* If the Flame of Olympus can kill any mortal or god that touches it, why did Kratos even bother with the whole Pandora's Box deal and just [[KillItWithFire chuck Zeus into the flames]]? Or if Zeus was immune to the flames, why didn't Kratos use Zeus's arm (either [[PeoplePuppets arm-locking him into pushing the lid off the box]] or [[AnArmAndALeg hacking the arm off and working from there]]) to open the box?
** Because the inherent flaw in using Zeus to open the box is that it requires either a great deal of cooperation on Zeus's part, or for Zeus to be so overpowered by Kratos that the Box wouldn't even be necessary anymore. If Kratos, at the time, had believed he could take Zeus in a straight-up fight, he wouldn't have been jumping through hoops to get the Box open in the first place.
** Plus, Zeus was the lord of Olympus after all. The flame wouldn't have worked on him.
* In ''God of War II'', how come Zeus survived when Kratos fought him, slashed him repeatedly, battered him around, blasted him, impaled him, slashed him some more, and impaled him some more for good measure... and then Athena dies (spectacularly, at that!) when Kratos ''accidentally'' impales her? You know it's bad when the freaking ''gods'' are MadeOfPlasticine.
** Um, because Zeus is ''the ruler of all the gods'' maybe? He's a lot more powerful than Athena.
*** It's still kind of a weak excuse. You'd expect the gods, ESPECIALLY MAJOR GODS like the Olympians (since the in-game universe ignores the myths and doesn't even count the Titans as gods) to be made of sterner stuff by default.
*** Zeus MADE the Blade using his own essence, is a veteran of Titanomachy, is stronger that Athena AND was empowered by the Flames of Olympus. Why is it so surprising that he was able to tank the Blade better than Athena?
* In God of War 3, after Kratos [[spoiler: kills Helios,]] the sun is blocked by clouds and it starts raining. In the Icarus Ascension (where you're flying in a vent), you meet up with Perses, that lava titan, [[spoiler: and he attacks you. You stab him in the eye with the Blade of Olympus and continue flying upward.]] In that entire sequence, it was perfectly sunny and not raining. The next time you see the outside at the top of Olympus, it's dark and raining again. What's up with that?
** Maybe it was a small mistake. That, or the fact that Helios was freshly killed, so there weren't much clouds.
* The Titan's total ineptitude and failure to ''matter'' in God of War 3. Poseidon and Hades spend the first few minutes of gameplay casually dispatching Titans not carrying Kratos left and right, and by the halfway point they basically stop showing up at all, until Gaia arrives at the final battle... and fails to do much more than provide the battleground for Kratos and Zeus.
** They overestimate themselves too much.
*** Another problem was that the attack group was like a fraction (it was about 8, maybe 9) of how many Titans there really was, by adding up the original tweleve, their offspring and apprently Gaea and Typhon, that's 26 of them. Even if some like Helios were on the Gods' side or Atlas, whose stuck holding up the world, going back in time could show other neutral ones like the other original female ones ones that the Gods winning wasn't a good thing. Or Hell, use the time-travel thing to bring back the Giants, who also hated the Gods and tried to help the Titans out in the Gigantomachy.
*** Maybe they're keeping Giants for the sequels. And again, remeber that God of War is ''based on'' Greek Mythology, not necessarly the very same Greek Mythology we're familiar with.
*** A problem was they had no real powers besides being big. Even being made of elements, none of them seemed able to project them like some of the Gods could.
*** The Titans were implied to have powers in God of War II, this game removed that element, and if they had no powers beyond their size, then why are the gods so afraid of them?
*** In greek myth- so, not necessarily within the game's canon- Hades destroyed the titans' weapons at the start of the war with them, presumably before the point Kratos pulled them forward from. Perhaps without their weapons they cant manifest their powers to any extend that would be useful against the gods.
** It was pretty simple: The gods won the war the first time, and they've had thousands of years of living the high life which either didn't diminish them, or made them stronger. The Titans, however, were chained up/dead/punished for thousands of years (or if they're right from the War itself, they're coming fresh from a raging battlefield).\\\
Also, each and every one of the Titans has to climb. That means that taking them out is only really a matter of knocking them off balance and/or whacking them in the hand until they have to let go. It is ''extremely'' difficult to fight while rock climbing.
*** The Titans were fine, Kratos prevented them from being imprisoned.
*** Thats right. History had proved that those who have the higher ground have a major geographical advantage and usually end up as the victors of a battle. Just look at the battles of Tours, Adrianopolis, Gettysberg, Hill 262, etc. They were all won by those who had the higher ground, while those who lost had to climb up of the hills or the mountains to attack them, wasting so much energy that they were too tired to fight proprably when they finally got to the defenders' lines. The Olympians have the higher ground in this battle, and Mt. Olymus is much higher than a hill so they have a major advantage over the Titans, who are spending their energy trying to climb up that thing.
** The reason the Titans fail can be attributed to 3 major factors. One, they lost during the first Titanomachy. Kratos goes back in time and pulls the exact same Titans from the past to the present, at the exact same moment that they were getting ready to lose the First Great War. So, why would the group that had already lost once or that was getting ready to lose once somehow perform better against the group that they lost/almost lost to the first time? This isn't to mention the fact that some of their members, specifically Cronos and Atlas, were still imprisoned in the present day, despite Kratos having gone back in time and retrieved them from the past. This actually means that the Titans were ''weaker'' during the Second Great War. Two, the Olympians are much, much stronger. During the First Titanomachy there should logically only have been 6 Olympians, the children of Kronos: Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Hestia, and Demeter. This is because the majority of other Gods, like Ares, Athena, and Hermes, wouldn't have been around yet, because they're children of Zeus and it's doubtful that Zeus would have taken the time to have 3 kids in the middle of a war, much less that they'd be fully grown in time for the war. The rest of the Olympians that aren't children of Zeus, like Helios and Aphrodite then shouldn't have been born or formed yet either, since it was still early in Olympian history and Mount Olympus itself probably wasn't even formed yet. This means that during the Second Titanomachy, the Titans were fighting a much larger force than they were the first time, during which they lost to said smaller, weaker force. Finally, three, Kratos. Regardless of what she says about him only being a pawn in the third game, Gaia made it pretty clear in the second game that he was the key player in victory for the Titans during the Second Great War. Whether she was lying or just had a case of carrying the IdiotBall, the third game shows that this most definitely would have been the case. By the time of the second game Kratos has already killed Ares and Persephone. During the third game we gradually see him kill Poseidon, Hades, and then Zeus, the three most powerful Gods in existence. Had Gaia not been so stupid, the Titans would have won the war solely because of Kratos being on their side. We could also speculate that the Olympians are a race that grow StrongerWithAge.
*** That's always bothered me as well. Why hype the Titans at all? ...Especially if the writers had always intended to make them such incompetent wimps? Surely this must be a case of "SADLY MYTHSTAKEN?"

* 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.
*** Yes except for the fact that himself said that power he had wasn't worth losing his family.
*** We all know that Kratos 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.
*** What was Kratos going to do? [[spoiler: Tell his past self the horror of his deal Ares? Kratos made that deal when he about to be kill by the barbarians so either accept Ares or be killed. Kratos could retired but you think Ares will let Kratos have a HappyEverAfter, a warrior with high promise such as him?]] Many Kratos knew all along that he is screw so this was his only option.
** 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? His hands are 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 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.]]
*** [[spoiler: An ''incompetent'' goddess of Marriage. Remember, Zeus was chronically unfaithful. 90+% of Zeus' children were born to women other than his wife.]]
*** [[spoiler: If you really want to get into it, that's more Zeus's fault than Hera's. The only reason she married him is because he tricked her into a rape pregnancy. She never ''wanted'' that marriage; he was her ''brother'' and the thought of it Squicked her. Hera was violent and hateful towards Zeus's transgressions, but it's a little more understandable given her circumstances.]]

* 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?]]
** They may despise the actual Pandora due to her nature, but have nothing against some finely crafted statues.

* 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.
** Hades hides the worst of it behind that helmet of his. More importantly, he happens to be the ruler of the Underworld, is rarely seen by his brethren and is a member of the Big Three. It is also possible that Hades' appearance is due to him being disfigured by the stomach acids of Kronos and thus the gods cannot bring themselves to dispise him for his looks.

* Why is Hera so messed up?
** She's drunk off her ass.
** And why is Hera drunk? Because she's always getting cheated on by Zeus. She's the goddess of marriage and family, but is stuck with a guy who is eternally unfaithful to her. She can't leave him or engage in any affairs of her own either, since it would go against her divine nature. She's powerless to do anything about her situation, so she drowns her sorrows in wine.
* Why don't the other gods Kratos kills explode like Ares did?
** Well, each of the Gods when they die have some sort of release of what they personified, right? Well, what better then what looked like a A-Bomb going off for the God of War? So, it does make sense, to a degree.
* At the end of the first game, Kratos attempts suicide to escape his tortured memories. "Death would be his release from madness..."except for one thing...''Kratos knows for a fact that the afterlife is real.'' So he should know that's no escape...
** Dude, if you're in the state of mind where you're willing to ''kill'' yourself, I doubt you'd think that far ahead.
* Why does God of War 3 refer to Heracles by his Roman name, Hercules? Every other name is Greek, even the more obscure ones, but they leave Heracles out. Why?
** Because Herakles isn't well known in the public, while the character has ''always'' been called Hercules in every media depiction pretty much ever.

* So, seeing as how the Greeks and Romans shared their Gods, what sort of ramifications does the death of Jupiter and his ilk have for them? The Thracians too worshiped Ares, do they also worship Kratos? And finally, why wasn't Steve Blum in later games? The voice acting suffered greatly from his absence.
** As far as the Greek and Romans there may be none. Some fantasy settings have them as two completely different pantheons. This works some because in the real world the Romans had their own deities that lacked distinctive myths and personalities so they just adopted Greek religion. It makes a bit more sense when considering the different (sometimes radical) personalities and characteristics of the gods. So while Zeus may be dead Jupiter may still be out there.
* Why did Hephaestus make a key to Pandora's box if Zeus never wanted it opened?
** The same reason programmers write backdoors into programs that only they know.
* When Gaia tries to kill Kratos at the end of the game, she says that he left her no choice, as he was plunging her world into chaos. Out of curiosity, what exactly did she expect to happen when you killed the sun god, the ocean god, the king of the gods and, oh yeah, every other god on Olympus? Did she just assume that all would be hunky dory?
** She was intending on restoring the Titans back to the old jobs, so like Oceanus would replace Poseidon, Hyperion to Helios, so on and so forth. When she said that, pretty much all the God and Titans were all dead.
* In the end of III, [[spoiler: Kratos had to impale himself with the Blade of Olympus in order to release Hope into the world, right? So why is it that in GoWII, when Zeus stabbed him in the ''exact same place'' with the ''exact same weapon'', nothing happened?]]
** It could be that the Blade of Olympus acts as a vessel for such supernatural powers, and that when someone with power is killed with the Blade, the wielder gains the power for themselves. [[spoiler: So when Zeus stabbed Kratos, the power of Hope went into the sword, and Zeus had it with him, but when Kratos stabbed himself, the power of Hope had nowhere to go, and so it dispersed into the world.]]
** But the power of hope wasn't in the blade, it was in Kratos. You can see it in his eyes and hands during the final fight with Zues.
*** The power of Hope was buried under Kratos's feelings of regret. It literally couldn't get out.
*** Alternatively, it ''had'' to be a genuine, selfless sacrifice.
* How did Kratos kill Persephone if killing a god requires Pandora's Box?
** Never mind, actually playing that part seems to have answered my question: he uses ThePowerOfTheSun.
*** Persephone is more of a lesser god?
* Why does Atlas need to hold up the world? The rest of the pillar is there, it could hold it up.
** Ironic Hell?
* If Kratos got the title of God of War for killing Ares, does that mean he is in charge of every domain that he kills the god of?
** Kratos got the title of God of War by being awarded such a title by the gods of Olympus, as a reward for his service and because who better to be the God of War than the man who slew the previous?
* If, in the end of ''2'', Kratos went [[TimeTravel back in time]] and [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong prevented his own murder at Zeus' hands]], this means that he never would have gone to the Temple of Fates. Even if we take that they are still dead, does this mean that Icarus, Theseus, Perseus, the Kraken, and Eurayle are alive? Kratos indicates that they aren't, but, chronologically, he has never gone there to kill them anymore.
** He'd have to go to the Island and kill all those people so he could go back in time and save himself from Zeus. He's created a stable time loop.
** Kratos' past self has already been stabbed when Kratos travels back (he pulls the sword from his past self's body). Thus while he and Zeus fight his past self is going through the events that lead up to the fight. The only difference now is that Zeus didn't take the sword and leave, Kratos interrupted him.
* Why do none of the gods have the common sense to fly out of Kratos's reach and spam lightning bolts and stuff at him? Getting up close has proven to be tantamount to suicide. Also, speaking of flight, why couldn't Hermes fly when it's his entire shtick in Greek mythology?
** Same reason this never happens in any other fantasy universe when a mortal fights a god. In the end, pure physical power and short-distance attacks are no match for a true deity. Unless you have another deity fighting him the god has to be reduced to fighting on the mortal's level. Why didn't the Fates simply snip Kratos' lifeline? Why didn't Zeus aid Poseidon? The third game had to ignore a lot of questions to work.
*** As the official ''VideoGame/GodOfWarII'' novel by Robert Vardeman reveals, the Fates hadn't cut Kratos' thread because one of them played with it too much and screwed up, and decided not to tell her sisters about it and fix everything by herself. As it figures, she didn't handled it, and by the time all Fates were acknowledged about her failure, Kratos' lifeline became slack and they weren't able to cut it, and in seconds after that nice revelation they got Kratos behind the Clotho's chamber doors.
*** Zeus didn't helped Poseidon maybe because he started to became paranoid and suspecting that his brothers wanted to overthrow him and claim his throne on Olympus. He was probably infested by sin called Fear if we can believe in what Athena has told Kratos in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarIII''.
* Why are trophies disabled if you use a bonus costume and/or Godly Possessions? What's the point of having the possession that extends the combo meter if the trophy for getting X hits is disabled?
* So, the gods kidnap Kratos's brother Deimos, trick him into killing his family, he serves them for ten years, even saving them from Atlas destroying the pillars and the furies overthrowing Olympus, they get him to kill Ares because of some bullshit about how gods can't wage war on each other even though that's what Ares is doing, they then don't take away his memories even though it's clear that's what he was asking for and then don't even let him die and force him to be the new war god, they make him kill his mother and his brother dies soon after reuniting with him. So he gets bitter and wages war on earth, Zeus steps in and kills him (what happened to gods not intervening on each other by the way?) and destroys Sparta, then the titans betray him after he pulled them out of the war and just generally go out of their way to antagonize him despite proving himself to be able to kill gods many times before. Did it really never occur to any of them to simply get Hades to release two measly little souls from his vast stock and just let Kratos have his family back and live happily together, no more anger, no more death, especially as a courtesy to a fellow god when he was made the new god of war, in fact why didn't Kratos request that himself?
** As the PSP games make clear, the Olympians were terrible people even before Kratos opened Pandora's Box. Zeus was also afraid that he would be overthrown by one of his children, and there was also a prophecy of a Marked Warrios that would destroy Olympus, hance why Deimos was kidnapped. His non-intervention law was probably just an out for not dealing with Area himself, lest Ares somehow become the Marked Warrior.
* At the end of ''VideoGame/GodOfWarII'' Kratos goes back in time to the Great War and rescues all of the Titans, returning with them to his present day to begin attacking Mount Olympus. Therefore, none of them were ever imprisoned in the first place. So why then is Cronos stuck in the Underworld with Pandora's Temple chained to his back and why is Atlas stuck holding up the world? Based on the previous games that's where they ''should'' be, but, again, the ending of GOW II was supposed to have negated that fate for them and they should be out there fighting with the rest of the Titans.
** It seems that Gaea just grabbed whatever Titans were closest when Kratos traveled back to his time.
* Where is the Spartan monarchy and/or military when Kratos is going around murdering everything in the name of Ares? Militaristic as they are, it's doubtful either group would be fine with one of their commanders (even if said commander is the God of War's champion) going around and slaughtering innocents.
** As said, Kratos was Ares's champion at the time. Besides his lethal skills and eagerness to use them, attempting to interfere might provoke retaliation from Ares himself.
* Do they ever actually explain what exactly Athena became? She said she ascended, and some people claim she became an angel, but in general she seems to just be a ghost, not exactly proving her claims, also she was still corrupted by the evils as per WordOfGod, she turns up in the 2018 game and is either a hallucination by Kratos or she is actually there stuck as a phantasm because she didn't have the power of hope.
** Maybe it has to do with her being stabbed by the blade of Olympus.
* Why was Kratos surprised to find out that he was Zeus’ son when Zeus referred to him as such moments earlier?
** He probably didn't assume Zeus was speaking literally - one of his epithets is "Father of Gods and Men", and as a patriarchal religious authority figure he likely uses "my son" and "my daughter" as a form of address in a broader figurative way, not unlike a priest might.
* In Ascension Kratos has his memories of killing his family blocked until the end of the game. Why then is he rebelling against Ares and the furies if he can't even remember the reason he turned against him in the first place?
** He knows that Ares arranged the death of his family, since the latter all but admitted it outright. What Kratos couldn't remember is the fact that he was the one who killed them in his bloodlust.
* Why does everyone defend and make excuses for Zeus? Oh, sure he was a JERKASS GOD before, but he only "really became evil after being infected by what was in Pandora's box? This logic is weak and flawed. He was evil before and remained equally evil after. It seems people give him a break because he's seen as a NECESSARY EVIL... Someone whose very existence brings stability to reality/the universe. But THAT does NOT make him a good person! Is this a case of "EVERYONE LOVES ZEUS?"
** "Everyone defending and making excuses for Zeus" hardly seems accurate. But to answer your question: while Zeus was undeniably a major jerk even before succumbing to Fear, his fall to evil happened only after Olympians' worst traits became supernaturally amplified, according to half the cast in GoW III. He had his positive moments here and there, but out-of-universe he is still seen as being in the wrong. However, at the time Kratos was ever worse than him and it was Kratos who got most of the Greece killed out of his need for vengeance. Heck, Zeus' background is actually pretty similar to that of Kratos and most people do consider Kratos' actions as justified.
* How did Kratos kill the Olympians with his bare hands in 3 when he was de-powered?
** Because Kratos had some help or a special weapon (Titans, etc.). Plus he knew his heritage at this point. If Atreus from the next game is any indication, just knowing about his divine heritage probably gave Kratos a power boost.