History Characters / TheCampHalfBloodSeriesForcesOfGaia

* DropTheHammer: Carries a giant sledgehammer.

* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn]]: He pulls one after [[spoiler:being saved from [[YouHaveFailedMe Commodus trying to kill him for losing in a skirmish against some Hunters]]]].

* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:Her ultimate defeat. She only wakes up for less than five minutes, during which she's lured to the sky, charmed to sleep, and finally finished off by a ball of fire. Embarrassingly, she's defeated by a trio of mere ''demigods'' (well, four, if you count Octavian), unlike the giants, who need a demigod/god combination to be killed. What a primordial being.]]
* DishingOutDirt: She is the Earth. Like in the original mythology, she does not have nature-based powers (this was the domain of Pan).
* TheDreaded: Everybody's scared of her. She is, after all, ''the earth''.

* StealthPun: The son of the God of the forge seems more invested in forg'''ery'''.

* AbusiveParents: She is abusive to her sons but doesn't think it's wrong, yet considers herself to be a bad mother because she didn't abandon her children.

* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler: Her ultimate defeat. She only wakes up for less than five minutes, during which she's lured to the sky, charmed to sleep, and finally finished off by a ball of fire. Embarrassingly, she's defeated by a trio of mere ''demigods'' (well, four, if you count Octavian), unlike the giants, who need a demigod/god combination to be killed. What a primordial being.]]

* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: The entire plot is about preventing Gaia from waking up, since this trope is what's going to happen if she does. [[spoiler: She does manage to wake up in the climax of ''The Blood of Olympus'', but she's swiftly defeated before she can do much destruction (and she doesn't cause them, as the fight takes place outside of Camp Half-Blood).]]

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Her first husband, Ouranos, is incapacitated because she arranged for the Titans to mutilate him while he's in his most vulnerable: when he visited earth and thus was away from his domain, the sky. [[spoiler: Come the end of the series, and Gaia is incapacitated the same way: being lured into a place she is the most vulnerable: the sky.]]
* KarmicDeath: While not truly dead for good, [[spoiler: She does get vaporized by the same trick she and the titans used on Ouranos, and as a consequence she can't reform for slightly less the eternity just like her husband and son Kronos (who she callously ignored during his second uprising). For bonus points she tried to kill and manipulate everyone involved and actually succeeded in killing a few of their loved ones.]]
* KickTheDog: She [[spoiler: threatened to kill Leo's mother and in a way succeeded in doing so in particularly cruel manner. She caused Leo to set fire to his mom's workshop and accidentally kill her.]]
* LogicalWeakness: Because she ''is'' the all-powerful Earth Mother, [[spoiler: she's near-powerless when in the air]].

* OffingTheOffspring: Presumably did this to [[spoiler: Damasen and Bob.]]
* OrcusOnHisThrone: He fathers monsters with Gaia and serves as a respawn point for all monsters, but he doesn't really get involved himself. At the current point in time, he's only formed a corporeal form once. [[spoiler: In fact, he doesn't participate in the final battle.]]

* TheUnfought: The heroes never even ''try'' to touch him, while [[spoiler: Damasen and Bob's sacrifices]] simply distract him long enough for the heroes to flee before [[spoiler: Tartarus possibly kills them.]] Thanks to this, [[spoiler: he's one of Gaea's two major allies (alongside Python) to survive the Second Gigantomachy.]]

* BackForTheFinale: Come back regenerated and just as ready to destroy the demigods as ever in ''The Blood of Olympus.'' [[spoiler: Of course, now that Reyna and Nico manage to unite the warring camps and cure the gods' schizophrenia, they are disposed of fairly easily.]]

* CurbStompBattle: In the last book, [[spoiler: He is on the receiving end of one at the hands of Zeus and Jason. Zeus nearly kills him with his Master bolt before Jason blows him off a cliff and Zeus uses another lighting blast to reduce him from ash. His own spear is sliced in half and he fails to mount any sort of defense or offense.]]

* CurbStompBattle: In the last book, [[spoiler: Both gives and receives one. He fights Percy in the water and his poison instantly takes Percy out, but is on the receiving end of one from Jason and Kymopoleia.]]

* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler: The one who kills him for the second time is not identified.]]

* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler: As with other giants, he's easily defeated for the second time by Annabeth and Athena.]]

* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler: Offed for the second time by Percy and Poseidon.]]

* PeoplePuppets: [[spoiler: Controls Annabeth, Percy and Leo (and even corpses in the tombs of the Necromanteion) and uses their mouths to speak for him.]]
* SuperSmoke: Controls smoke that absorbs all Mist and magic. [[spoiler: It also is used to steal people's voices and drain their life force.]]

* VoiceForTheVoiceless: [[spoiler: Doesn't use his own mouth, rather he steals people's vocal cords and communicates using their mouths.]]

* HeroKiller: The giant with the most number of named casualties. He kills [[spoiler: Phoebe, Kinzie, Naomi, Celyn, plus countless other elite Amazons and Hunters of Artemis, all in one fell swoop.]]

* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler: At the hands of Piper and Aphrodite.]]
* DesignatedGirlFight: Her on-screen opponents are all women. [[spoiler: She's first tasked to capture Annabeth, then has to face her and Piper. Later, when the gods arrive, she's killed at the hands of Piper and her mother, Aphrodite.]]
* HarmlessFreezing: [[spoiler: Is frozen by Piper's Boread sword, but manages to thaw herself later.]]
* ImpaledPalm: [[spoiler: Piper charmspeaks her to miss her knife shot and impale her own palm.]]

* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Piper cuts his right hand while he is performing a ritual to sacrifice Percy and Annabeth. He reattaches it back, though.]]
* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler: By the Moirae.]]

* TapOnTheHead: [[spoiler: Gets smacked by the Moirae's clubs multiple times. Jason describes it as the weirdest thing he sees of all the giant battles, considering that the Moirae take the form of old women.]]

* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler: Perishes alongside the other giants but the one who defeats him is not identified.]]

* TheDogWasTheMastermind: [[spoiler: Gaia's agent among the Wind Gods.]]

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* ManipulativeBitch: Oh, so very much. By the fourth book, she's successfully played Zeus, Hera, and Aeolus for chumps, and [[spoiler: convinced Boreas and her brothers to serve Gaia.]]

* AndIMustScream: The three we see in ''The Mark of Athena'' [[spoiler: end up forever fused to the remains of several completely trashed Automatons. Yeah, payback's a...]]

* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler: She shows up in person for literally about half a second in ''The House of Hades'', trying to kill Annabeth, only to get killed by Percy.]]