History Film / ClashOfTheTitans

* ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|1981}}'', the 1981 film starring Creator/HarryHamlin.

* ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans1981''
* ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans2010''

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->''"Release the Kraken!"''

''Clash of the Titans'' is the 1981 film adaptation of the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek myth of Perseus]]. Stop motion animation was used extensively in many special effects, and the monsters were created by Creator/RayHarryhausen, who retired from filmmaking shortly after ''Clash'' was released. Stephen R. Wilk wrote in 2000 that "most people today who are aware of the story of Perseus and Medusa [[PopCulturalOsmosis owe their knowledge to the 1981 film]] ''Clash of the Titans''."

A remake was released in April, 2010. A sequel, ''Wrath of the Titans'',[[note]]which coincidentally is the title used in Brazil and all Spanish versions for the first movie[[/note]] was released in April 2012. Miraculously, this one features actual Titans.

Not to be confused with ''WesternAnimation/ClassOfTheTitans'', ''[[Franchise/CrashBandicoot Crash Of The Titans]]'' or TrashOfTheTitans.

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[[folder:''Clash of the Titans (1981)'']]
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Perseus's magical sword can slice through marble. It never really needs to, but it ''does'' need to quickly behead Medusa, whose scales are as hard as iron.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: Medusa never speaks, and one could say that she's doing little more than [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation defending her home against trespassers.]] Viewers can make their own conclusions.
* AdaptationDistillation: Creator/AlanDeanFoster[='=]s novelization goes to great lengths, and largely succeeds, in reconciling the story with more standard Myth/GreekMythology.
* AdaptationalBadass: A minor case with Medusa, who got taken out ''while she was asleep'' in the myths. Here she fights back against her would-be attackers not only with the powers of a Gorgon, but also with a bow and arrows. This was continued in the remake, where she is even more dangerous The bows and arrows were also a cause of BrokenBase.
* AesopCollateralDamage: The goddess Thetis demands the sacrifice of Andromeda after Queen Cassopeia boasts that she is more beautiful than the goddess.
* AncientGreece
* BalefulPolymorph: Calibos, who is turned into a beastman by Zeus as a punishment.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: "Find and fulfill your destiny."
* BigBad: Thetis pretty much sets up the need for Perseus to set off on a quest to defeat the Kraken.
* BigDamnHeroes: Oh no! The Kraken is about to eat Andromeda! Perseus and Pegasus ([[NoRespectGuy and Bubo]]) to the rescue!
* BloodyMurder: Medusa's blood becomes scorpions when it falls on the ground after Calibos stabs her severed head.
* CausticCritic: David Ansen of ''Newsweek'' memorably titled his review of this, "Thud of the Beefcake."
* ChainedToARock: Andromeda.
* {{Claymation}}: Seeing as computer animation was in its infancy at the time, stop-motion animation was used for the monsters.
* ClockworkCreature: Bubo the clockwork owl, sent by Athena as a guide.
* ColdSniper: Medusa. As if the [[TakenForGranite petrifying gaze]] wasn't enough...
* {{Constellations}}: The original film ends with Perseus, Andromeda, The Hydra and other characters becoming constellations. Fitting too as the movies are based on [[Myth/GreekMythology the myths of Perseus]].
* CoolOldGuy: Ammon.
* DamselInDistress: Andromeda, near the end.
* DisproportionateRetribution: In retaliation for his lover and son being sentenced to death, Zeus orders the death of their attempted killer, King Acrisius of Argos. Fair enough. But then he orders the destruction of all of Argos and the deaths of all its inhabitants, too. Later in the film, Thetis does the same thing, declaring that all of Joppa must die in retribution for Calibos's maiming and Cassiopeia's insult.
* DivineChessboard: Perseus and Calibos are both guided by opposing gods, Zeus and Thetis respectively... in a very literal fashion, too! The gods have clay statuettes of their favorites that they move about as they wish in a model amphitheater.
* DramaticNecklaceRemoval
* DullSurprise: Harry Hamlin's performance as Perseus.
* DwindlingParty: All the soldiers end up dead.
* EngagementChallenge
* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: Hello, Olympus! (And even more so in the 2010 film, with its computer-generated sparkles and shines.)
* EvilPoacher: Not the biggest reason Calibos was cursed, but likely what crossed the line in Zeus' eyes; after being given the Wells of the Moon to rule by his mother, he overhunted it, and as the final straw, killed all of Zeus' sacred flying horses, the one survivor being Pegasus.
* EvilSlinks: Medusa, snake woman with an attitude. Also true in the 2010 version.
* {{Expy}}: Calibos = Caliban from Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/TheTempest''.
* EyelessFace: The three Stygian Witches (i.e. Graeae) had no eye sockets, but they traded a single crystalline "eye" between them. Perseus steals it to get information from them.
* TheEyesHaveIt: The statue of Thetis when she's about to throw down.
* FantasyKitchenSink: The Kraken is from Myth/NorseMythology. The original creature was Cetus, a giant whale, but it was apparently switched because the writer thought "kraken" [[RuleOfCool sounded cooler]]. Creator/RayHarryhausen changed the look from a giant squid or octopus to a four-armed humanoid because he thought it looked cooler.
** Not to mention that Calibos is an {{expy}} of Caliban from ''Theatre/TheTempest'', who has nothing to do with Greek mythology at all.
* FertileBlood: Calibos sticks his trident into Medusa's head, which Perseus has hung on a branch while resting, giant scorpions are created from the blood as it drips on the ground, which proceed to attack Perseus and his men, killing many of them.
* GenreSavvy: Ammon, due to being a poet and playwright of stories very much like Perseus' and dealing with some of the same characters, including Medusa.
* GiantFlyer: Calibos' pet vulture. Mr. Harryhausen dug his giant flying beasties.
* GoForTheEye: Perseus says this exact phrase when he orders Bubo to steal Stygian Witches' crystal eyeball.
* GrandpaGod: Zeus.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Perseus, as a demigod, fits this trope.
* HandSignals: Perseus uses them twice: once before meeting Bubo and while approaching Medusa's lair.
* TheHerosJourney
* HollywoodTorches: In Calibos' encampment and in Medusa's lair.
* JerkAssGods: Played with mainly with Zeus and Thetis. Both tend to be very protective of their children and fond of disproportionate retribution. Zeus at least only acts when someone has committed an injustice, is letting to let Perseus' defiance slide, and appears to be willing to allow the gods one day to be forgotten. The rest of the gods come off as indifferent rather than malicious.
* IfICantHaveYou:
-->'''Thetis:''' If my son is not to marry her, then no man will. ... As my Calibos suffers, so will Andromeda.
* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis:
-->'''Ammon:''' This would make a fine heroic poem you know. Or perhaps a play...
* {{Kaiju}}: The Kraken.
* {{Kraken}}: ↑
* LetsGetDangerous: Bubo will unquestioningly fly into battle when called upon and apparently can be quite fearsome, frightening off the much larger and ostensibly scarier-looking giant vulture at one point.
* LoveAtFirstSight:
-->'''Perseus:''' Just believe me when I say I that I ''did'' see you. And the sight of you burst straight through me like an arrow. ... From that moment, I knew that I loved you.
* MagiBabble:
-->'''Stygian Witch:''' (Medusa's blood) is deadly and poisonous. But you have touched the eye. Just as it has the power to give us sight, so it can make your cloak -- your ''red'' cloak -- proof against the blood.
* MassOhCrap: The city people in the temple when Thetis declares the Kraken will destroy them all if they don't sacrifice Andromeda.
* MauveShirt: Thallo. Up until Calibos deals with him.
* MeaningfulName: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_horned_owl Bubo the Owl]].
* {{Medusa}}
* MisplacedWildlife: The snake that shows up is a boa constrictor. Boa constrictors live in the Americas- they would have definitely not been found in Ancient Greece.
* NippledAndDimed: Averted. Danae and Andromeda show some T&A [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids even though the film is rated PG!]][[note]]In the U.S., the PG-13 rating was only three years away from being created[[/note]]
* NonHumanSidekick: Bubo
* NonIndicativeName: The title would seem to have you believe that at least two titans will clash at some point in the film. No actual Titans from Greek mythology show up. The Kraken is, at one point, called "the last of the Titans," which would seem to preclude it from clashing with any others. They might has well have left that line out and just tried to play off that "Titan" is supposed to mean "monster." The closest thing we get to an actual clash is the near TitleDrop seen below.
* {{Novelization}}: A very nicely done one by Creator/AlanDeanFoster, which does a fair job of reconciling the plot to traditional Greek mythology.
* OffingTheOffspring: Queen Cassiopeia must sacrifice her virgin daughter Andromeda because she pissed off Thetis. ''[[WhatAnIdiot In her own temple.]]'' King Acrisius also tries to off Perseus as a child, which would actually be Offing the Offspring's Offspring.
* OffstageVillainy: Calibos' crimes that were the cause of his transformation are only described but not shown.
* OhCrap: Cassiopeia, upon realizing her insult has doomed her daughter and/or her city to the wrath of an angry goddess.
* OhMyGods: Ammon's CatchPhrase is, "By the gods!"
* OverprotectiveDad: The film's explanation for why Acrisius "grew jealous and kept (Danae) guarded from the eyes of men, locked behind iron doors" (in the original myth, this was partly due to a prophecy that his grandson would kill him, but YouCantFightFate).
* PapaWolf [=/=] MamaBear: Both Zeus ''and'' Thetis show this trait in ''spades'' Zeus destroy Argos out of retribution for his lover and son's sentence, while Thetis curses Joppa for what happened to Calibos, then orders Andromeda's sacrifice out of revenge for him being mutilated (partially).
* {{Pegasus}}
* PoisonIsCorrosive: Medusa's blood.
* {{Prequel}} To Ray's previous film Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts. Both stories being based off of ClassicalMythology, Perseus is the great-grandfather of Hercules, it's all there.
* RedShirt: Any soldier who goes with Perseus on his quest.
* RobotBuddy: Bubo, a [[ClockworkCreature clockwork owl]] fashioned by Hephaestus in the shape of Athena's pet owl Bubo, to be Perseus' companion.
* RuleOfCool: After being turned into stone the Krakken breaks into pieces for no reason but this
* SadlyMythtaken: Amphitrite is the wife of Poseidon in Greek mythology, while Thetis is generally a sea nymph. Some suggest that she was a full goddess, as portrayed in the film, but even then she was certainly not among the central circle who dwelt on Olympus.
* SandalPunk: The film is set in a version of Ancient Greece where fantasy monsters are real.
* ScaryScorpions: The giant scorpions that Calibos creates by causing Medusa's blood to drop on some normal scorpions.
* ShadowDiscretionShot: Calibos' transformation from man to monster. Necessary in that such effects were otherwise impossible to render cheaply in 1981.
* ShoutOut: The Kraken bears a strong resemblance to Ymir from ''Film/TwentyMillionMilesToEarth'', also animated by Creator/RayHarryhausen. In the remake there was also a brief scene where Perseus was getting ready to depart from Argos with the rest of the group, he pulled out the mechanical owl from the original film and asked what it was, to which was the response [[KickTheDog "it's nothing, leave it"]].
* SnakePeople: Medusa
* SneakyDeparture: While on the journey to Medusa's island, Perseus and his soldiers take off in the middle of the night, leaving Andromeda behind (and Ammon to look after her).
* StandardHeroReward
* StayInTheKitchen: "Too perilous (a journey) for a princess." To which Andromeda responds [[YouGotSpunk with all due spunk]], "You are not my lord and husband. Not yet!" and comes along on the trip to the Stygian Witches anyway. Perseus later ''does'' ditch her for her own safety when he finds out he has to fight Medusa.
* SummonBiggerFish: Using Medusa on the Kraken.
* SupernaturalAid: Perseus' helmet, sword, shield, and Bubo.
* SwordAndSandal: The fantasy subtype thereof.
* TakenForGranite: All of Medusa's past victims that are exhibited in her temple, one of Perseus' soldiers and the Kraken.
* TeamPet: Bubo the robot-owl.
* ThisWayToCertainDeath: The statues outside Medusa's lair.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: How Perseus finishes off [[spoiler: Calibos]].
* TitleDrop: Close -- one of the Stygian Witches refers to Perseus using Medusa to defeat the Kraken as "A Titan against a Titan!"
* TooDumbToLive: Cassiopeia declares her daughter Andromeda to be "more beautiful than the goddess Thetis herself!" This she does while standing '''in Thetis' own temple''', directly beneath '''a giant statue of Thetis'''. Needless to say, it does not go well for anyone. Even the film itself {{lampshade|Hanging}}s how ridiculously stupid this gaffe is.
* TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot: Perseus' journey back to Joppa on Pegasus as Andromeda's sacrifice is being carried out.
* TheUnintelligible: Bubo, except to Perseus. Ammon eventually figures out what he's saying.
* VirginSacrifice
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Harry Hamlin as Perseus.
* WaxMuseumMorgue: Medusa's temple, Albeit stone instead of wax.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: There were three giant scorpions, but only two were killed...
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Calibos can be perceived sympathetic and at least worthy of pity, especially because we are only [[OffstageVillainy informed of his cruelty]] before the transformation. Indeed, Perseus says that's why he spared his life, in spite of all he had put Andromeda and the city through. But Calibos comes back on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge anyway.
* TheXOfY
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Yay, Joppa's free of its curse! Let's throw a party!...
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[[folder:''Clash of the Titans (2010)'']]
* ActionGirl: Io.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Medusa is a complicated example. The first myths of her state that she was so hideous, the sight turned men to stone. Other myths state that Medusa retained her mortal beauty as some kind of cruel irony, and that the powers were in her eyes. A third set offer a compromise and state that Medusa was both beautiful and terrible at the same time. The third appears to be the school of thought this movie is following. The Medusa of the original film was a monstrous creature. Here she's played by a supermodel - but gets a GameFace when she uses her powers. She also provides the page image for GorgeousGorgon.
* AlternateDVDCommentary: Courtesy of Podcast/{{Rifftrax}} and Podcast/DVDPodblast.
* AnachronismStew: The gods are wearing medieval European suits of armor! Contrast with the goddesses, who wear classic Hellenic attire.
* ArchnemesisDad: Played with - Perseus starts off with a RageAgainstTheHeavens directed at the gods in general, including an [[IHateYouVampireDad I Hate You, Olympian Dad]] towards Zeus, then reluctantly accepts his help against Hades, and eventually [[AngstWhatAngst forgives/forgets]] Zeus' [[KarmaHoudini numerous crimes]] by the end, [[ValuesDissonance including]] the fact that Zeus ''[[DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal raped]] Perseus' mom''.
** Played straight in the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1pW_71h3rk alternate ending]].
* TheArtifact: As Andromeda isn't Perseus's love interest any more, there's very little reason for her to appear - other than to be sacrificed to the Kraken. WordOfGod is that she was the love interest originally - but the studio preferred Io for that role instead. Likewise Calibos has very little reason to appear, as he's not Perseus's romantic rival - nor is Thetis an antagonist in the story.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Quite possibly. Zeus' totem is either a bald eagle (which are native to North America and which the Greeks wouldn't have known about) or an African fish eagle (native to Africa which they probably would have).
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Io always looks considerably better groomed than the rest of the men, who are all grubby and sweaty after the fight with the scorpions. Granted she's not involved in the fighting as the others are, but she still looks very good for someone travelling in the wild for a week.
* BigDamnHeroes:
** How else would you describe Perseus riding in on a flying horse to kill the Kraken, simultaneously saving the girl and the day?
** The two monster hunters appearing in the same scene on one of the scorpions to defend Perseus from some of the harpies.
* {{Bishonen}}: Perseus's friend and fellow warrior Eusebios.
* BloodyMurder: An interesting (and awesome) variation. Through the magic of Hades, Calibos' blood [[spoiler:becomes giant scorpions when it strikes the ground]].
* BoltOfDivineRetribution: Naturally, considering we're talking about Zeus here.
* BrokenAesop
-->'''Perseus:''' Screw you, Dad! I'm going to live as a man! [''Flies away on Pegasus with immortal girlfriend and magic sword.'']
** This was in the reshoot 'final' version, originally... He was meant to fly into Olympus and throw down the sword to his feet as a big ShutUpHannibal. The gods that helped him were Apollo and Athena, and Zeus (not Hades) was cast more in a villainous light.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Zig-zagged with Perseus toward Zeus. Played straight in the alternate ending.
* CleanCut: When the hero slashes Medusa, she's standing right up for a few moments before her head finally falls off her shoulders.
* CompositeCharacter: Acrisius, Perseus' father, was melded with Calibos, TheBrute, into the same person.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Prokopion the zealot.
* CurbStompBattle[=/=]AntiClimaxBoss: Hades himself finally enters the fray! Oh this is gonna be the big climactic awesome battle -- [[spoiler:oh wait, all Perseus needed to do was just toss his sword at him and Hades just.... goes home?]] Somewhat justified in that [[spoiler:it's stated that when Perseus slays the Kraken, Hades will be drastically weakened and Zeus supercharged it with a BoltOfDivineRetribution as Perseus held it aloft.]] However, this does not make it less of a curb-stomp.
* CursedWithAwesome: Perseus thinks Io is this when she tells him she's cursed with agelessness because she rejected a god's advances (which she didn't do, in the actual myths). Io then tells him the tragic consequences of bearing such a curse: [[WhoWantsToLiveForever watching her loved ones die while she continues to live]], explicitly comparing it to the death of his family when Hades first appeared.
* CuteMonsterGirl: Medusa (except when using her petrification powers).
* DarkerAndEdgier: To the point of only giving Bubo the mechanical owl a cameo (probably as they thought it would be too much of a JokeCharacter). Pretty-boy Perseus in the white toga is replaced with buzzcut grim Perseus in even more anachronistic medieval leather armor; Bubo is briefly show then as quickly cast aside; most of the winged horses are white but the Pegasus Perseus tames is jet black; and the toga-wearing Olympian thespians now wear late medieval plate armor. Of course, as the original was Extremely Cheesy, the remake has only been bumped down to a Quite Cheesy.
* DarkIsEvil: Hades.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The Djinn, probably to compensate for [[EverybodyHatesHades Hades being bad]]. Pegasus is also dark colored too. However, the Djinn aren't good either... So, we can say that Dark Is Neutral,at least...
* DefiledForever: Zeus knocked up your queen? Kill her to get back at him.
* DemotedToExtra: Literally the case with every deity bar Zeus (and Hades because he wasn't in the original film). Also Cassiopeia and Andromeda -- the former [[spoiler:is killed by Hades very quickly]] and the latter [[spoiler:is demoted from love interest and has only a few minutes of screen time.]]
* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Note to Acrisius: When attempting to murder your wife and the bastard son of the thunder god, refrain from doing so on top of a cliff, in a storm while waving your sword around like a lightning rod. [[FateWorseThanDeath The results are... unpleasant to say the least.]]
** Same goes for comparing your daughter's beauty to that of a goddess when humanity-divinity relations are already strained to the breaking point. Cassiopeia learns this lesson the hard way.
* DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal: Medusa and Danae, both of whom get punished for being raped.
* TheDragon: Calibos to Hades.
* DullSurprise: All of Sam Worthington's performance as Perseus. He's recently apologized for his unconvincing acting in the movie and promised to do "[[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] better".
** His acting in the original cut of the film is noticeably better, especially the ending. See WhatCouldHaveBeen in the trivia section.
* DwindlingParty: Don't get too attached to all those soldiers.
** They wore red. [[RedShirtArmy They brought it on themselves.]]
* EldritchAbomination: The Kraken is an incredibly huge monster older than the entire human race, that sleeps on the bottom of the ocean, it killed the Titans, and even the GODS fear it. Plus, there's the fact that its design is rather... alien.
* ExtraEyes: The Kraken has ''six'' eyes.
* EverybodyHatesHades: Hades is the villain, but has no more malice towards humanity than any of the other gods. He's only doing what he does because he's tired of [[JerkassGods Zeus' BS]], not ForTheEvulz so it doesn't hit HijackedByJesus levels. He constantly gloats about feeding off of humanity's fear and making them quake in terror of him, while the others consistently speak of wanting humans to love them again. His anger with Zeus is also purely personal, for being stuck with the sucky realm.
* EyelessFace: The three Stygian Witches' shared eye still has its ocular nerves, which attach in an eye socket in their palm.
* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: While the movie does have a PG-13 rating to it, there is a scene where Calibos graphically rips a man in half with his bare hands. And yes, it is shown on the screen with blood splattering. It's over very quickly (probably how the film managed to keep the PG-13), but it does still cause a "Did they just ''do'' that?" moment.
* {{Fauxshadow}}: The two hunters who join the group proclaim; "It is death who should fear us!" [[spoiler: They are the only surviving members of the group who do not journey to the Underworld]].
* GameFace: Medusa, when using her petrification powers.
* GenreThrowback: To old Harryhausen movies, obviously.
* GigglingVillain: Medusa.
* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: One of the main points in the war between the gods and man.
* GorgeousGorgon: Medusa. She's even the trope image.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Perseus gets double points, as he is played by Creator/SamWorthington, who's pulled this off [[Film/TerminatorSalvation twice]] [[Film/{{Avatar}} before]]. Also, Io.
* HealingShiv: Sheik Suleiman's blue fire. [[spoiler: Except when it's a weapon...]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Suleiman and Draco both die to buy Perseus enough time]].
* HijackedByJesus: [[EverybodyHatesHades Hades is a villain]] who acts as a {{Satan}} expy who wishes to overthrow Zeus ({{God}}) and unleash "hell on earth" and must be defeated by Perseus, the son of God.. Given that the original myth specifically states that Hades ''helps'' Perseus on his quest (giving him the invisibility hat), and that in the fables Hades was perfectly content with his position , and is one of the few Gods who is decent.
** On the other end, Zeus represents the Abrahamic God. Here, he is the creator of humanity who loves them and wants their love in turn. He is repeatedly merciful such as not outright destroying Calibos and his entire army instead only embarrassing him and has allowed humanity to grow advanced enough that they no longer need the gods for survival. His son, born of a human mother is the who who has to save humanity from Hades.
* HomeGuard: The DwindlingParty of soldiers assigned to help Perseus in his mission are from an Honor Guard, distinguished soldiers too old to fight on the front lines or young inexperienced soldiers who look good on display. They are all he gets because the rest of the Argosian army had recently been wiped out after picking a fight with Zeus and Hades.
* HumanSacrifice: Zeus should have just asked for a fruit basket.
* ImprobableHairstyle: How does Perseus manage to maintain that buzzcut of his?
* InNameOnly: There are ''many'' large deviations from the original, but many scenes are taken from the original, and the basic premise is unchanged -- Zeus has earned himself a whoopin.
** Zeus was largely uninvolved in the original. Sure he was a jerk (as he should be), but no one dared to step too far out of line because he was ZEUS. The one who receives the most punishment in the original is Thetis, her son Calibos being denied Andromeda's hand in marriage and transformed into a beast for a HandWave reason. Thetis then lashes out at Andromeda and her family at the slightest provocation because that's all she can do (because he's ZEUS). So, yeah. There is no "whoopin" delivered to Zeus. And he opened the movie by destroying an entire CITY because the king threw his daughter and one of Zeus' illegitimate sons into the sea. Why not just punish the king? Because he's ZEUS, the ultimate KarmaHoudini.
*** More to the point, he overwhelmingly favors Perseus and helps him at every opportunity. He and the hero aren't in opposition at all; he's Perseus's benefactor. Thetis and Calibos are Perseus's enemies in the original.
* JerkassGods: To be expected of the Greek pantheon - with the possible exception of Apollo though in Zeus' case toned down from the myths.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Zeus. Seriously, he is ultimately behind just about every bad thing that happens in the story, really doesn't suffer at all for his actions, does little to nothing to fix anything, and is even forgiven by Perseus who was [[WhatTheHellHero calling him out on it]] for the whole movie.]]
* KneelBeforeZod: When Hades appears on Earth, he demands that mortals kneel before him.
* LightIsNotGood: The Gods wear really, really shiny armor.
* LostAesop: For the first part of the film, the human heroes are preparing to go to war against the gods in revenge for their tyrannical mistreatment, but then about halfway through [[spoiler:Zeus realizes what Hades is up to and decides to secretly help Perseus on his quest to defeat him. After Hades is dealt with, the humans declare their RageAgainstTheHeavens to be over]], even though Zeus, who was acting like a prick and preparing to put the mortals in their place ''before'' Hades arrived on the scene, receives no comeuppance whatsoever. Is the {{A|nAesop}}esop supposed to be that [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop powerful people can get away with anything]]?
** The original film, like classic myths, punished those possessing hubris and rewarded those who humbly went about their world-saving. The remake gave a middle finger to the divine throughout.
* MadeOfExplodium: [[spoiler:The Djinn Sheik Suleiman, serving as a HeroicSacrifice to distract Medusa.]]
** FridgeBrilliance! [[spoiler:He's made of wood. Wood is flammable.]]
*** FridgeLogic. [[spoiler:Then how did he survive that long when he was made of wood and fire?]]
*** AWizardDidIt He's a Djinn, aka Genie
* MassOhCrap: When Hades makes his appearance in the throne room scene, it's obvious everyone is thinking OhCrap, especially the queen who had just finished saying [[AGodAmI that they were the new gods.]]
** The arrival of the Kraken seems to sum this up.
* MickeyMousing: During the battle with the scorpions, the musical "stings" accompany the scorpions' attacks.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: The Kraken.
* MythologyGag: Perseus and his men, with great effort, manage to fight and kill a small number of scorpions, which are roughly as big as the ones from the original movie. [[OhCrap Then their bigger brother comes out...]]
** Perseus finds a small mechanical owl in a box. "What the hell is ''this''?" The commander simply tells him to put it back in. Probably intended as a TakeThat at the 1981 film, for which the owl has been disparaged for being included just to ripoff R2-D2.
* NayTheist: Many characters.
* NightmareFace: Medusa's face transforms into something like a demon snake when she petrifies her victims (or in one case, tries to).
* NoManOfWomanBorn: Medusa's gaze can turn any creature of flesh into stone. [[spoiler:A Djinn]], on the other hand...
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Perseus is played by [[Film/TerminatorSalvation Sam]] [[Film/{{Avatar}} Worthington]], whose Aussie accent remains intact.
* OhCrap: As if a shadowy black figure materializing in your throne room whilst killing all of your guards wasn't reason enough to have this reaction, Cassiopeia then asks for his name: "I am Hades". Cue Cassiopeia and about half the room looking like they've just soiled themselves.
** Also the scene where after a deadly battle with a ''single giant scorpion,'' they find themselves surrounded by half a dozen or so giant scorpions. Eep.
** Medusa seems to have a double moment of this, first when she finds that her power doesn't work on someone, and then is shown that same one is about to attempt a TakingYouWithMe.
* OhMyGods: Largely averted, at least with Perseus. Sam Worthington seems fond of saying "What the hell is/was this/that?" instead of "Tartarus" or something along those lines.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Io.
* OneToMillionToOne: Hades can teleport by having demon imps fuse into him (and he can de-fuse into said imps).
* OnlySaneMan: Andromeda, who is the only one to realize provoking the gods will have negative consequences.
* OptOut: The monster hunters ([[KnowWhenToFoldEm probably wisely]]) decide to leave the party just before they head off to fight Medusa.
* {{Pegasus}}
* PlotHole: The entire plot of the movie hinges on internal contradictions.
** The gods supposedly need human prayer to survive, yet they predate humanity and even fought a cosmic war with the titans without so much as a single worshiper to empower them.
** The Kraken is a monster so powerful that even gods and titans could not defeat it. However, the gaze of Medusa's severed head, whose powers were the result of a curse cast on her by Athena [[JerkassGods in a fit of pique]], can instantly turn it into stone. [[ForgotAboutHisPowers Somehow it never occurred]] to any of the gods to just make another such monster in order to stop the Kraken, and by extension Hades.
* ProgressivelyPrettier: You got sexy in my [[GorgeousGorgon Medusa]]!
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: Aside from Hades, Zeus and many of the other gods are portrayed as being all-around bastards, which is the primary source of the story's conflict. This leads to Perseus spending much of the film trying to act in denial of his divine parentage.
** Even further on the alternate ending, where Perseus flies to the Olympus to confront Zeus (though mostly verbally, fighting him is [[VideoGame/GodOfWar another story...]]).
* RedHerring: One of those soldiers sounds exactly like Creator/LiamNeeson. Considering Zeus' penchant for disguising himself as a supporting character, you'd think something was going to be made of this... But nope, it's just a normal soldier who happens to sound exactly like Liam Neeson.
** Poseidon is frequently mentioned in the beginning of the film as being one of the gods to stand up to the titans, the ruler of the sea who (at least in the eyes of Spyros) is responsible for the lack of fish, and the guy who raped Medusa. Yet he shows up as often as the other gods, besides Zeus and Hades. Hell, even Apollo had a bigger role in the film than Poseidon, and Apollo had all of one scene of dialogue.
** The first group of soldiers that Perseus teams up with. They seem to have at least a little bit of characterization. They survive all the way back to Argos, basically the beginning of the First Act.
* TheRemake: Of the 1981 film (see above).
* RuleOfCool: A lot of the human storylines are dropped so the audience can see Perseus fight more monsters. Which a lot of viewers are [[JustHereForGodzilla perfectly fine with]]. Oddly, while the monsters are impressively animated, the filmmakers have done relatively little to make them distinctive in contrast to the original. Calibos, for instance, has gone from a deformed half-saytr ''thing'' to, well, Comicbook/TwoFace in a tunic.
** The only monsters that weren't in the original were the harpies, and the fight with the two-headed dog was removed. So overall, the number of monster fights is actually even.
* SadlyMythtaken: The Kraken is from Myth/NorseMythology, the Gods won the Titanomachy by themselves... Io isn't even from the same myth as Perseus. About three days into their seven day journey (on foot mind you), they enter a desert and encounter Djinn. While there ''were'' deserts in the traditional definition of "Greece", which included Turkey (and also explains the Doric ruins), it still doesn't explain how they got there from the Peloponnese in three days, or why they even got that far off course.
** The original myth has Perseus seeking Medusa's head for a completely unrelated reasons to Andromeda's plight. He saves her because he happens to be flying home on Hermes' winged sandals and comes across this poor VirginSacrifice strapped to a rock. And so they were married.
** In Greek mythology Hades was not an adversary of the other gods, just a member of the pantheon that oversaw of an area of concern (the afterlife) that most people would rather not think about. He was even married to his beautiful [[IncestIsRelative niece]] Persephone.
** One thing weirder about Sheik Suleiman? While the title Sheik and legends of Djinn predate Islam, Suleiman is a very Islamic name for something set in the same vague time period as Mythological Greece. TheRomanEmpire should cover the Mediterranean and Christianity should be around if Djinn have Muslim names.
** In Greek Mythology Io wasn't "cursed with agelessness"; she was a priestess of Argos [[EmergencyTransformation who was turned into a cow]] by Zeus to hide her from his jealous wife Hera when she caught the two canoodling (she certainly didn't spurn Zeus' advances).
** Contrary to the reference by one of the Stygian witches, Medusa and the Kraken were not Titans. The Titans were Elder Gods, who were overthrown by a race of younger gods, their descendants, a.k.a., the Olympians.
** Zeus revolted against his father, Cronus and the other Titans, defeated them, and banished ''them'' to Tartarus, a dungeon in the Underworld. Hades was not banished. He drew lots with Zeus and Poseidon, for shares of the world. He drew the Underworld, making him also the god of the hidden wealth of the earth, including gold and silver. He was cool with it. The movie also says he was not worshiped and while he was seldom worshiped as Hades (that name mostly refers to his realm) he was often worshiped in Greece under the name Pluton, the god of wealth.
** Mankind was created by a Titan called Prometheus, not Zeus. By some accounts, Zeus delegated the job to brother Titans, Prometheus (the wisest Titan; his name means "forethought") and Epimetheus (the stupidest Titan; his name means "afterthought"). For the record, Epimetheus was granted a wife by the name of Pandora...
** Perseus was Acrisius' grandson, not his son.
** Zeus impregnated Acrisius' daughter by appearing as a shower of golden light, not as her husband. She was never married, due to this wacky prophecy about her son being the one who kills Acrisius (some versions make the murder intentional, others account his death by Perseus pulling out Medusa's head at a dinner party. It makes sense in context). Coincidentally, Hercules (aka Heracles) was the one created by Zeus masquerading as some woman's husband... Still another holds that Perseus entered a discus competition and his discus went astray and killed a spectator.
** Medusa doesn't live in the Underworld.
** There was only one Pegasus, not a herd, who sprang forth from Medusa's neck[[note]]Indeed, "Pegasus" actually means "he who sprang"[[/note]]. Pegasus was also not ridden by Perseus, but an unrelated hero named Bellerophon.
* [[SpiderTank Scorpion Tank]]: [[spoiler:The Djinn give the surviving giant scorpions a quick off-screen attitude adjustment.]]
* ScrewDestiny: The three witches predict that Perseus will die in trying to kill the Kraken. [[spoiler:And he... doesn't. In fact, it's [[AbortedArc never mentioned again]].]]
* SerialEscalation: Just how much bigger can the Kraken get?
* ShiningCity: Argos (somewhat). Olympus takes it UpToEleven.
* ShoutOut: The super-shiny armor of the Olympians? Apparently, they were modeled after the "cloths" of the Saints of ''SaintSeiya''.
** Also, the Stygian Witches look like Xenomorphs.
* SingleStrokeBattle: The fight between Perseus and Medusa where he finishes her with a single CleanCut.
* TakenForGranite: Medusa's victims
* TakingYouWithMe: The [[spoiler:Djinn]] does this to [[spoiler:Medusa]]. It doesn't quite work, but does provide a crucial distraction.
* ThatManIsDead: "There is no Acrisius. Only Calibos!"
* ThoseTwoGuys: Those two hunters who tag along with Perseus and the soldiers from Argos. They [[spoiler:chicken out]] when they head to kill Medusa, [[spoiler:but show up again, riding one of the Djinn-trained scorpions to help save the day at the end of the film.]]
* TooDumbToLive: Pretty much all of humanity in this movie. Because pissing off beings who govern the ''universe'' seemed like a good idea at the time. Incredibly cruel and fickle beings who govern the universe, even.
** The gods-fearing peasant is determined to see Andromeda's sacrifice go through. He probably doesn't even want Perseus to slay the Kraken.
* TheUnintelligible: The Djinn, sort of. Sheikh Suleiman was speaking Arabic in some scenes, especially when the Djinn saved Perseus and Co. from the scorpions.
* WeCanRebuildHim: [[{{Cyborg}} The djinns]] [[WasOnceAMan were once human.]]
* WhatMeasureIsANonCute: Out of universe example: the unprovoked killing of CuteMonsterGirl Medusa has gained a lot of criticism, however there wasn't much for the original, in which Medusa had the exact same backstory, but was a hideous [[SnakePeople Snake Woman]]. See WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: See CursedWithAwesome above.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Medusa in the remake. [[RapeAsDrama Rape victim]], [[KickTheDog cursed by a Goddess]] [[MoralDissonance of Wisdom]] for being raped, and [[FromBadToWorse sent to the underworld]] to dwell in squalor. Is it any wonder she spends her time [[AxCrazy gleefully hunting]] any man stupid enough to try to kill her?
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: "Huzzah! We've set fire to a bunch of temples and knocked over statues of the gods! That'll show 'em! Let's throw a- [[OhCrap Oh, hi there, Hades. What are you doing here?]] Man, this is awkward..."
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* AintTooProudToBeg: Andromeda's friend begs Ares for their lives. Unfortunately, he doesn't care and callously stabs her
* AlienBlood: When a Makhai is killed, it bleeds lava.
** Also, in the scene where Perseus jumps the Chimera and stabs its neck, a puff of glowing smoke comes out instead of blood.
* AntagonisticOffspring: Ares to Zeus, Zeus and Hades to Kronos. For that matter, Perseus still isn't all that thrilled with his dad.
* AnyoneCanDie: Unlike Myth/ClassicalMythology, in which the gods are completely immortal, the gods in this film ''can'' be killed. And some ''are.''
* AscendedExtra: Given Andromeda spent the remake being DemotedToExtra, seems like she's back in her place.
* BashBrothers: Zeus and Hades at full power. Bonus points for them being [[SiblingTeam actual brothers]].
* BigBadDuumvirate: Hades and Ares.
** BiggerBad: Kronos.
* BodyHorror: There's the Chimera, a two-headed monster with no skin on its faces and a sentinent tail. A minotaur with a deformed face. [[ConjoinedTwins Makhai]] warriors with two bodies joined at the waist. And Kronos, who is a massive titan made of molten magma with fists the size of a village.
* BreathWeapon: The Chimera can breathe fire, with the horned, rhino-like head vomiting gasoline-like fluid that the fanged, ape-like head ignites with hot embers.
* BrokenAesop: Same as the first movie, it makes a point of "humanity doesn't need gods". The operative issue here is that gods and demigods are, literally speaking, ''sacrifcing themselves by the droves to protect mankind'' and the only thing standing between mankind and utter annihilation.
* CainAndAbel: Ares is Cain to Perseus' Abel.
* TheCameo: Bubo the mechanical owl from the original (and the remake) reappears as a prop in Hephaestus' home, whom he considers to be some kind of oracle. See {{Cloudcuckoolander}} below.
* CarryABigStick: Ares uses a large mace as one of his weapons.
* CessationOfExistence: Apparently what happens to the gods when they die. Fear of this is what motivates Hades to side with Kronos rather than fight him.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}:
** Hephaestus has been alone for so long he talks to a broken mechanical owl (Bubo from the original) as if it were alive and inteligble. Andromeda manages to talk him down with a WhoopiEpiphanySpeech.
** Agenor's speech and mannerisms are also rather loony.
* ComesGreatResponsibility: Uttered almost verbatim in one of the dialogues.
* CrucifiedHeroShot: The chained Zeus.
* CurbStompBattle: Perseus versus Ares, which is kind of understandable when you're a (relatively) regular demigod fighting the ''god of war himself.''
* {{Cyclops}}: The group encounters a trio of them in the film.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: When Ares tries to kill Perseus, the latter's son, Helius, briefly challenges Ares, buying his father time. From the look on Ares face, [[VillainRespect he was impressed]] by the boy's bravery
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Zeus was dying from his injuries, then Hades appears and resurrects him. But perhaps a subversion, since he shortly dies anyway.]]
* TheDragon: Ares served as Hades' dragon until...
** DragonAscendant: [[spoiler:...Hades defected.]]
* DungeonBypass: Hephaestus creates one[[spoiler:, while he builds the [[TheAlcatraz Tartarus]], since he built it from the outside to the inside and needed an exit for himself]].
* DynamicEntry: Ares uses one, leaping from other location in the world, to the front door of the Labyrinth, using the impact from his landing to knock everyone present into the ground with a shockwave. To reiterated, Ares. Jumped. Across. The World. And. Subdued. People. With his. LANDING. That's Dynamic Entry on an epic level.
* EldritchAbomination: Kronos.
* EndOfAnAge: The era of gods ruling over the universe and human destinies is quickly coming to an end.
* EverybodyHatesHades: Played straight at first, then [[spoiler: [[Main/SubvertedTrope subverted]] in the second half of the film when he makes amends with Zeus, finally putting EverybodyHatesHades to rest,]] though he's much more sympathetic here than in the prior film, [[spoiler: {{Main/Foreshadowing}} his eventual [[Main/HeelFaceTurn Heel Face Turn]]]]
* {{Expy}}: Kronos looks almost like Perses from ''VideoGame/GodOfWar 3''; he also resembles his own depiction in ''VideoGame/AgeOfMythology''.
* FaceHeelTurn: Ares betrays Zeus and side's with Hades. For certain values of "Face" anyway. Being the god of war, he was always kind of a dick.
* FantasyForbiddingFather: Mild case; Perseus discourages his son from dreaming about becoming a god. Considering the [[JerkassGods kinds of personalities]] the gods have, he's not entirely without reason.
* FauxActionGirl: Andromeda may lead an army now, but she loses every fight she gets into. She's much more competent as a strategist than as an actual warrior.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Ares is speaking very softly and in a kind tone to Helios, all the while making him watch his father receive the below mentioned NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
* ForcedToWatch: Helios as mentioned above
* ForTheEvulz: Ares involves Helios as mentioned above for no other reason than this. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard It backfired on him though]]
* FirstGirlWins: Technically speaking, Andromeda. Whilst Io had apparently been watching Perseus his entire life, she neglected to introduce herself to him until after he'd already met Andromeda. At the end of ''Wrath'', the two apparently begin a relationship (it's implied because of standing Hollywood expectations, but all that actuallys happens is he grabs her and pulls her in for a surprise kiss when she's talking about battle strategy and there hasn't been a hint of romance between them).
* GeniusCripple: Hephaestus.
* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: Zeus mentions that prayer is the only thing that keeps the gods immortal towards the beginning of the film.
* {{Gotterdammerung}}: The gods are dying out, but most of them aren't going without a fight.
* AHeadAtEachEnd: The Chimera's snake-headed tail.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Hades realizes that there's good left in him and saves his brother's life.]]
* HeroicSacrifice:
** [[spoiler:Hephaestus makes one.]]
** [[spoiler:Zeus as well.]]
* TheHighQueen: Andromeda.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The chimera in the first battle. Perseus impales the fuel head which causes it to continuously spew out flammable fluid on itself and the ground, then goads the ignition head into lighting it.
** Ares as well, overlapping with LaserGuidedKarma. He brings Perseus's son Helios to the temple he and Perseus were fighting so that the boy could watch him beat Perseus to death. Near the end of battle, Helios distracts Ares for some precious few seconds which Perseus uses to recover, snatch some weapons from Ares's belt and stab him to death with them
* HoistHeroOverHead: Ares does this to one of Andromeda's soldiers with one hand before throwing him far away.
* HollywoodTactics: Exactly how fire is supposed to stop the burning LegionsOfHell or how a phalanx is going to stop a [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever hundred-foot molten deity]] is left unclear. At the same time it's likely they were hoping that Perseus would be able to defeat Kronos while the Greek army held off the monsters. They did passably well against the Makhai, managing to kill multiple ones.
* HybridMonster: Instead of having a lion head and a goat head, the Chimera has one head resembling a manticore-gorilla and the other one like a deformed rhinoceros. And if you look closely, you just might notice - the Chimera's faces have no skin at all on them!
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Ares does this to Andromeda's female friend. [[spoiler:Perseus does this multiple times near the climax to kill Ares.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Despite having a change of heart by siding with Zeus, ultimately forgiving him, and helping to combat their insane father, Hades is still unpunished for the death's of Perseus' family and thousands of other people. Sure he lost his immortality, but he seems quite alright with his situation.]]
* KilledOffForReal: Many of the gods.
* KillItWithFire: The Chimera. Sort of a ChekhovsGun noting on how much they focus on the dual-fire system that was backfired on it.
* LadyOfWar: Andromeda, although more as a strategist considering she loses every physical fight she engages in.
* LargeHam: Hephaestus may not last long but BillNighy makes ''good'' use of his screen time.
* LastOfHisKind: By the end of the film, there's only one real god left, and even he is no longer immortal.
* LegendaryInTheSequel / RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun: Perseus is still hailed as a great hero for his victory over the Kraken and is given a salute of honour by Andromeda's army.
* LightningBruiser: The Cyclops move at the proportionate speed of humans despite being over forty feet tall. The Makhai are even faster.
* TheLoad: Andromeda. Perseus and Agenor do all the work. She loses every fight she gets into and Perseus has to rescue her at least three times. The only thing close to helpful that she does is charm Hephaestus into helping them.
* ALoadOfBull: Perseus fights a Minotaur in the Labyrinth. The Minotaur has a more human, yet deformed, face than the more common bull-headed depiction.
* LoveRedeems: [[spoiler: Hades of all people.]]
* MadeOfIron:
** Compared to the first movie, Perseus takes ''a lot'' of punishment, and it shows on his body, yet it's still much more than a normal human would be able to take - [[JustifiedTrope he's a demigod after all]].
** Agenor himself also displays demigod levels of MadeOfIron, considering He took a full-force blow from Ares' warhammer with Poseidon's trident not exactly providing the best shield in that situation. He was struck with enough force to knock him into a pillar, which exploded and collapsed upon impact. Despite this, he still managed to walk it off. Hades and Ares fall hundreds of feet and shake it off, especially Ares who is completely unharmed
* MagmaMan: Kronos could be the poster boy of this trope.
* MissingMom: Io is dead by the time the events of the sequel take place and is Heleus's mother. It never really is properly explained what happened to her.
* MobileMaze: The Labyrinth.
* MultipleHeadCase: The Makhai. If you look closely you can see that if one head is killed, the other one still fights.
* NeckLift: Ares does this to Hephaestus.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: When the Gods die, their bodies turn to dust.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Ares delivers a brutal one to Perseus near the end of the movie
* NonIndicativeName: Subverted. Now there ''are'' Titans. Only one of them, though.
* OffhandBackhand: Ares is so badass, He doesn't have to look behind him when one of the Spartans following Perseus and Andromeda, throws an axe at him, which He deftly catches and throws at his fellow Spartan with enough force to knock the poor bastard into a pillar and crush part of the pillar in the process. He doesn't even look behind him when said Spartan tries to back stab him. He merely turns right as the guy charges, picks him up and throws him like a doll.
* OrganAutonomy: The Chimera's tail, which for most of the fight just flails about like an ordinary mindless appendage, then halfway through it inexplicably comes to life and tries to bite Perseus! Subverted in that the tail has a small head at the end, but still...
* PapaWolf: Pretty much Perseus's entire motivation for the film.
* PluckyComicRelief: Agenor.
* RodentsOfUnusualSize: The Chimera. It does look like a big ugly rat in one of the posters.
* SecondLove: Andromeda to Perseus.
* ShoutOut:
** The Chimera's fire breath requires the two heads to work in tandem - [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon one head breathes gas, and the other head lights it.]]
** To the TabletopGame/TombOfHorrors:
--> This is the entrance to the labyrinth. There are hundreds of doors, all of which would kill you, ha ha... save one. You see, I designed it to play tricks with the mind. After all, the mind is the greatest trap of all.
** The Makhai look like Olympus Fiends (with two heads) from ''VideoGame/GodOfWar''.
*** Also Cronus looks a lot like the magma titan.
** The Chimera is a ''triple'' Shout Out: The "lion" head resembles a white ape from Disney's ''John Carter'', the "goat" head resembles the reek from ''Star Wars: Attack of the Clones'', and the serpent tail looks like a Xenomorph chestburster.
** Kronos's appearance as a MagmaMan might be one to ''VideoGame/AgeOfMythology'' (where he looked practically the same).
* ShutUpKiss: At the end of the film, Andromeda is discussing battle plans when Perseus plants one on her lips mid-sentence
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Io appears only as a tombstone.
** [[spoiler:Poseidon also gets just SLIGHTLY more screentime here before getting killed off.]]
* SuperStrength: In full force in this movie. Ares crumples his enemies like they were made out of clay, easily neck-lifting people and throwing them far away with one hand. Hell, being slapped by Ares looks like it hurts a lot. He even knocked Andromeda off her feet by [[BarehandedBladeBlock grabbing her sword]] and jabbing her with the hilt. He threw Hades trident over 50 feet to impale Zeus. He shoved Perseus through atleast three stone pillars casually, and then kicking Perseus hard enough to crack the stone tablets behind him. He can even generate minor shockwaves while hitting someone, presuming they are capable of surviving his blows, even generating shockwaves powerful enough to send people flying when using his warhammer. Zeus and Hades kick the crap out of the Makhai attacking the Unified Greek Army, pummeling these MadeOfIron {{Perpetual Motion Monster}}s with incredible feats of strength. Perseus is no slouch either, having used iron chains of questionable quality to ensnare the Chimera and restrain it long enough for it to kill itself, temporarily holding his own in a push-off against a 40 feet tall Cyclops who can easily rip apart and punch through trees and one hit kill ordinary humans, punching the super-strong Minotaur's horn off and beating him into unconsciousness with nothing but his bare fists and a tiny rock, smashing the chains holding Zeus into dust using a staff while Andromeda with a sword was able to do nothing, and he and Agenor together hold off a massive literal AdvancingWallOfDoom before [[TheWallsAreClosingIn it crushed them]]
* TooDumbToLive: It's really a very ill-advised idea to pray to the same gods you're presently fighting.
* TookALevelInBadass: Andromeda in the first film? DamselInDistress. Andromeda in the second? Leader of an entire army.
* TheUnfavourite: Ares views himself as this.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Ares betrays Zeus because he loathes that he casts his favor and affection more on Perseus, his mortal half-brother, instead of him.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Hades bargains with Kronos that if he would set him free, Kronos would allow Hades and the surviving Gods to keep their immortality. However, he does so knowing that Kronos will wreak havoc upon the earth and cause untold millions of mortals to die (And possibly lead to their extinction).
* WouldHitAGirl ''/'' WouldHurtAChild: Ares is full of this, attacking Andromeda with murderous intent and callously killing Andromeda friend when she begs him for their lives, and tries to kill Helios, Perseus's son.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Averted in the case of the Chimeras. Four were unleashed from Tartarus by Hades, but only one was encountered by Perseus. The other three is mentioned to have been killed by Andromeda's army (her general/commander? briefly mentioned they lost several hundred men to kill them during Andromeda's first scenes).
** What happened to the rest of the Greek Pantheon? The Olympian Gods were all seen in the last one, but here only Zeus, Poseidon, Ares, Hades, and Hephaestus appear. It is possible though that the others have already died due to a lack of prayer.
* WreathedInFlames: Kronos' body composes of magma and fire.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Ares performs a vertical suplex on Perseus during the final showdown, to which Perseus later responds with a sleeper hold.
* {{Xenafication}}: Andromeda is now a LadyOfWar.
** Subverted in that while she's a competent military leader now, she's a FauxActionGirl who loses every fight she gets into.
*** Which is justified since those fights were against superhuman opponents. And she lost only twice, once against Ares, then against the Makhai, [[CurbstompCushion and she even managed to kill one of the latter]]
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