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* FaceHeelTurn: Ares betrays Zeus and side's with Hades
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Hades]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Hephaestus makes one.]]
** [[spoiler: Zeus as well.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Despite having a change of heart by siding with Zeus and ultimately forgiving him, 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: [[spoiler: Poseidon, Ares, and Zeus]]
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** Only one of them though
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* FaceHeelTurn: Ares betrays Zeus and side's with Hades
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Hades]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Hephaestus makes one.]]
** [[spoiler: Zeus as well.]]
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** Only one of them though
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* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: Zeus was dying from his injuries, then Hades appears and resurrects him]]
* FaceHeelTurn: Ares betrays Zeus and side's with Hades
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Hades]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Hephaestus makes one.]]
** [[spoiler: Zeus as well.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Despite having a change of heart by siding with Zeus and ultimately forgiving him, 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.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Hephaestus makes one.]]
** [[spoiler: Zeus as well.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Despite having a change of heart by siding with Zeus and ultimately forgiving him, 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: [[spoiler: Poseidon, Ares, and Zeus]]
* NonIndicativeName: Subverted. Now there ''are'' Titans.
** Only one of them though
* FaceHeelTurn: Ares betrays Zeus and side's with Hades.
* 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.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Despite having a change of heart by siding with Zeus and ultimately forgiving him, 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: [[spoiler:Poseidon, Ares, and Zeus]]
* NonIndicativeName: Subverted. Now there ''are'' Titans. Only one of them, though.
* 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.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Despite having a change of heart by siding with Zeus and ultimately forgiving him, 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.]]
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* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: Zeus was dying from his injuries, then Hades appears and resurrects him]]
* EverybodyHatesHades: Played straight[[spoiler: , then subverted when Hades performs a FaceHeelTurn]]
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* 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 {{Aesop}} supposed to be that [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop powerful people can get away with anything?]]
** The first 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.
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* 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 [[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 {{Aesop}} supposed to be that [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop powerful people can get away with anything?]]
** Thefirst 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.
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* SadlyMythtaken: The Kraken is from Norse Mythology, 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.
* SadlyMythtaken: The Kraken is from Norse Mythology, 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.
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* SadlyMythtaken: The Kraken is from Norse Mythology, the Gods won the Titanomachy bythemselves..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.
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** The original idea for the movie was a CrossoverCosmology with [[SumerianMythology Tiamat]] waging war against the Greek pantheon and Perseus being assisted by [[EgyptianMythology Thoth, Osiris]], [[SumerianMythology Marduk]] and [[TheBible Yahweh]]. He would also apparently have a romantic affair with some "Cthonian Earth goddess." (The filmmakers apparently have something against Andromeda for some reason...)
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** The original idea for the movie was a CrossoverCosmology with [[SumerianMythology Tiamat]] waging war against the Greek pantheon and Perseus being assisted by [[EgyptianMythology Thoth, Osiris]], [[SumerianMythology Marduk]] and [[TheBible [[Literature/TheBible Yahweh]]. He would also apparently have a romantic affair with some "Cthonian Earth goddess." (The filmmakers apparently have something against Andromeda for some reason...)
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: [[http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2010/04/01/gal_clash-titans_medusa.jpg Medusa]] (a site [[http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/galleries/clash_of_the_versions_which_titans_is_better/clash_of_the_versions_which_titans_is_better.html#ixzz1Uq0GAc5x even asked]] "why is a monster whose face is supposed to be able to turn any man into stone being played by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_Vodianova one of the world’s most beautiful models]]?")
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: [[http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2010/04/01/gal_clash-titans_medusa.com/polopoly_fs/1.99245.1313907675!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_630/image.jpg Medusa]] (a site [[http://www.([[http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/galleries/clash_of_the_versions_which_titans_is_better/clash_of_the_versions_which_titans_is_better.html#ixzz1Uq0GAc5x the source of that image]] - page 5 of the slideshow - even asked]] asks "why is a monster whose face is supposed to be able to turn any man into stone being played by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_Vodianova one of the world’s most beautiful models]]?")
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*SadlyMythtaken: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrath_of_the_Titans#Premise Oh, God.]]
*TheOtherDarrin: Rosamund Pike replaces Alexa Davalos as Andromeda.
!!''Wrath of the Titans'' contains examples of:
*AscendedExtra: Given Andromeda spent the remake being DemotedToExtra, seems like she's back in her place.
*PutOnABus / SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Io is absent, so it's either one of those.
*SadlyMythtaken: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrath_of_the_Titans#Premise Oh, God.]]
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->''"Release the Kraken!"''
''Clash of the Titans'' is the 1981 film adaptation of the [[ClassicalMythology Greek myth of Perseus]]. Stop motion animation was used extensively in many special effects, and the monsters were created by [[HarryhausenMovie Ray Harryhausen]], 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. Reception has been mixed, but pretty much all have described it as 120 minutes of monsters, with little explanation of the plot. Which only vaguely resembles the plot of the original anyway. And by "vaguely" we mean "the monsters are the same, mostly." [[JustHereForGodzilla Whether that works is completely up to you.]] A sequel, ''Wrath of the Titans'',[[hottip:*:which coincidentally is the title used in Brazil and all Spanish versions]] is coming in 2012.
Not to be confused with ''ClassOfTheTitans'', ''[[CrashBandicoot Crash of the Titans]]'' or TrashOfTheTitans.
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* 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.
* AdaptationDistillation: AlanDeanFoster's novelization goes to great lengths, and largely succeeds, in reconciling the story with more standard GreekMythology.
* AlternateDVDCommentary: Courtesy of {{Rifftrax}}. DVDPodblast blasted the remake, as well.
* AmusingAlien: Bubo the robot-owl.
* AncientGreece
* BalefulPolymorph: Calibos, who is turned into a beastman by Zeus as a punishment.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: "Find and fulfill your destiny."
* BigDamnHeroes: Oh no! The Kraken is about to eat Andromeda! Perseus and Pegasus 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}}
* ClockworkCreature: Bubo the clockwork owl, sent by Athena as a guide.
* ColdSniper: Medusa. As if the [[TakenForGranite petrifying gaze]] wasn't enough...
* CoolOldGuy: Ammon.
* 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.
* DistressedDamsel: Andromeda, near the end.
* 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
* {{Expy}}: Calibos = Caliban from WilliamShakespeare's ''TheTempest''.
* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: Hello, Olympus! (And even moreso in the 2010 film, with its computer-generated sparkles and shines.)
* 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.
* FantasyKitchenSink: The Kraken is from NorseMythology. The original creature was Cetus, a giant whale, but it was apparently switched because the writer thought "kraken" [[RuleOfCool sounded cooler]]. RayHarryhausen changed the look from a giant squid or octopus to a four-armed humanoid because he thought it looked cooler.
* FridgeLogic: See [[HeadScratchers/ClashOfTheTitans here]].
* 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. [[HarryhausenMovie 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.
* HarryhausenMovie: It was more about the animated beasties than the actual plot, really.
* TheHerosJourney
* 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}}: ↑
* 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.
* MeaningfulName: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_horned_owl Bubo the Owl]].
* {{Medusa}}
* MoneyDearBoy: Part of the reason LaurenceOlivier was cast as Zeus. Probably the same with Maggie Smith.
* MsFanservice: Danae and Andromeda show some T&A.
* 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."
* 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.
* 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).
* OwlBeDamned: Subverted by the serene Bubo the owl and his comic relief robotic counterpart.
* {{Pegasus}}
* RedShirt: Any soldier who goes with Perseus on his quest.
* SadlyMythtaken: Amphitrite is the wife of Poseidon in Greek mythology, while Thetis is generally a sea nymph, though some suggest that she was a full goddess, as the film portrays, although she was certainly not among the central circle who dwelt on Olympus.
* SnakePeople: Medusa
* 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 ''TwentyMillionMilesToEarth'', also animated by 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 "it's nothing, leave it".
* StandardHeroReward
* StayInTheKitchen: "Too perilous [a journey] for a princess."
** To which Andromeda responds [[YouGotSpunk with all due spunk]], "You are not my lord and master. 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: Medusa's victims.
* TeamPet: Bubo the robot-owl.
* TheEyesHaveIt: The statue of Thetis when she's about to throw down.
* 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!"
** [[SadlyMythtaken Yet neither is a Titan...]] (it's a Gorgon vs. a sea monster)
* TheUnintelligible: Bubo, except to Perseus.
** Ammon eventually figures out what he's saying.
* VirginSacrifice
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Harry Hamlin as Perseus.
* WaxMuseumMorgue: Albeit stone instead of wax.
* TheXOfY
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Yay, Joppa's free of its curse! Let's throw a party!...
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!!The 2010 film further contains examples of:
* [[ThreeDMovie 3D Movie]]: Although it wasn't filmed that way.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: [[http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2010/04/01/gal_clash-titans_medusa.jpg Medusa]] (a site [[http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/galleries/clash_of_the_versions_which_titans_is_better/clash_of_the_versions_which_titans_is_better.html#ixzz1Uq0GAc5x even asked]] "why is a monster whose face is supposed to be able to turn any man into stone being played by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_Vodianova one of the world’s most beautiful models]]?")
* AnachronismStew: The gods are wearing medieval European suits of armor! Contrast with the goddesses, who wear classic Hellenic attire.
* TheArtifact: Andromeda. There is no real need for her to appear in the remake given she has [[DemotedToExtra lost her role as Perseus' love interest]] and her city has already done more than enough to anger the gods even without her mother's hubris in proclaiming her beauty. She only seems to have been retained at all because Perseus rescuing Andromeda is such a big part of the original story. Meanwhile, Io seems to have been added in as the [[PromotedToLoveInterest replacement love interest]].
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Io always looks like she's just stepped off the set of a shampoo commercial even if everyone else is completely filthy from traveling across wilderness for several days. Not to mention, none of the male heroes get so much as a single change of clothes, while she throws on multiple outfits. Pulled out of {{Hammerspace}}, apparently, since they never say where it came from.
* BeyondTheImpossible: Just how much bigger can the Kraken get?
* 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.
* {{Bishounen}}: 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.]]
* {{Bolt of Divine Retribution}}: 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.
* ColdFlames: Sheikh Suleiman.
* CompletelyMissingThePoint: The filmmakers for the remake stated they wished to do away with the "cheesy chessboard manipulation of characters." Nevermind that A) said manipulation is supposed to be a crucial element of Greek mythology. And B) their version isn't any different from similar attempts made in the last decade.
* 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 {{Bolt of Divine Retribution}} 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).
* {{Darker and Edgier}}: 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 armour; 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 armour. 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 screen time.]]
* TheDragon: Calibos to Hades.
* 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.]]
* 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".
* 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.
* FauxActionGirl: Io, who does next to nothing. She does cut the tail off a scorpion and help Perseus train to fight Medusa, but the first incident was brief and at long range while the second ended up with [[NotWhatItLooksLike Perseus on top of her]].
* {{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.
* GigglingVillain: Medusa.
* GorgeousGorgon: Medusa
* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: One of the main points in the war between the gods and man.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Perseus gets double points, as he is played by SamWorthington, who's pulled this off [[{{Terminator}} twice]] [[{{Film/Avatar}} before]]. Also, Io.
* HealingShiv: Sheik Suleiman's blue fire. [[spoiler: Except when it's a weapon...]]
* 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.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: Eventually, Hades' motive boils down to this. He wants to take over the world as vengeance for Zeus and Poseidon tricking him into becoming Lord of the Underworld, allowing them to get all of humanity's love, while he gets only their fear.
* ImprobableHairstyle: How does Perseus manage to maintain that buzzcut of his? Or even get one?
* 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 Hera, her son Calebos being denied Andromeda's hand in marriage and transformed into a beast for a HandWave reason. Hera 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.
* JerkassGods: To be expected of the Greek pantheon.
* 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 {{Aesop}} supposed to be that [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop powerful people can get away with anything?]]
** The first 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.
* {{Made of Explodium}}: [[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?]]
* 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.
* 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 [[{{Terminator}} 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.
* 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).
* 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 [[GodOfWar another story...]]).
* RapeIsOkayIfItsDivineOnMortal: Medusa and Danae, both of whom get punished for being raped.
* RedHerring: One of those soldiers sounds exactly like 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.
** Not to mention the entire 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.
* {{Rule of Cool}}: 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, [[{{Batman}} Two-Face]] in a tunic.
** The only monsters fought that wasn'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 Norse Mythology, 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 Pegasus 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). [[IGotBetter She got better]], though.
** 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.
** Pegasus (there was only one, not a herd) sprang forth from Medusa's blood.
* [[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]].]]
* 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''.
* SoMyKidsCanWatch: LiamNeeson took on the role of Zeus because his sons thought it would be awesome.
* TakingYouWithMe: The [[spoiler:Djinn]] does this to [[spoiler:Medusa]]. It doesn't quite work, but does provide a crucial distraction.
* 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.
* WagTheDirector: It has been revealed that there's a significantly different edit that has a plotline much closer to classical mythology. The reason why it wasn't released is unclear, but there are indications that Sam Worthington successfully argued that it wouldn't be entertaining to children.
* WeCanRebuildHim: [[{{Cyborg}} The djinns]] [[WasOnceAMan were once human]].
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Matthew Belamy was writing the score, but had to abandon midway through as Music/{{Muse}} started a tour.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1pW_71h3rk The original ending]] is closer to the original myth and movie.
*** Perseus slapping Zeus with a fish would've been closer to the original myth than the release ending.
** The original idea for the movie was a CrossoverCosmology with [[SumerianMythology Tiamat]] waging war against the Greek pantheon and Perseus being assisted by [[EgyptianMythology Thoth, Osiris]], [[SumerianMythology Marduk]] and [[TheBible Yahweh]]. He would also apparently have a romantic affair with some "Cthonian Earth goddess." (The filmmakers apparently have something against Andromeda for some reason...)
* 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 [[YMMV/ClashOfTheTitans Woobie Destroyer Of Worlds]].
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: See CursedWithAwesome above.
* YouFailBiologyForever: Zeus' totem is a bald eagle. Bald eagles live in North America. The ancient Greeks would not have known about bald eagles, since bald eagles do not live anywhere known by the ancient Greeks. SomewhereAnOrnithologistIsCrying. Could be YouFailGeographyForever and YouFailHistoryForever as well.
** The movie flunked out of history on a dozen points, not the least of which being ancient Greek gods in medieval plate armor.
** In-universe, this would be ok, since the Gods would have had knowledge of any creature, and the Greeks would have just carved/sculpted/whatever any animal they were told/shown.
** Our-of-universe, it's probably ViewersAreMorons at work, as it's the one species of eagle the filmmakers could be sure audiences would recognize ''as'' an eagle, rather than some kind of hawk.
* 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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->''"Release the Kraken!"''
''Clash of the Titans'' is the 1981 film adaptation of the [[ClassicalMythology Greek myth of Perseus]]. Stop motion animation was used extensively in many special effects, and the monsters were created by [[HarryhausenMovie Ray Harryhausen]], 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. Reception has been mixed, but pretty much all have described it as 120 minutes of monsters, with little explanation of the plot. Which only vaguely resembles the plot of the original anyway. And by "vaguely" we mean "the monsters are the same, mostly." [[JustHereForGodzilla Whether that works is completely up to you.]] A sequel, ''Wrath of the Titans'',[[hottip:*:which coincidentally is the title used in Brazil and all Spanish versions]] is coming in 2012.
Not to be confused with ''ClassOfTheTitans'', ''[[CrashBandicoot Crash of the Titans]]'' or TrashOfTheTitans.
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!!The 1981 film contains examples of:
* 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.
* AdaptationDistillation: AlanDeanFoster's novelization goes to great lengths, and largely succeeds, in reconciling the story with more standard GreekMythology.
* AlternateDVDCommentary: Courtesy of {{Rifftrax}}. DVDPodblast blasted the remake, as well.
* AmusingAlien: Bubo the robot-owl.
* AncientGreece
* BalefulPolymorph: Calibos, who is turned into a beastman by Zeus as a punishment.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: "Find and fulfill your destiny."
* BigDamnHeroes: Oh no! The Kraken is about to eat Andromeda! Perseus and Pegasus 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}}
* ClockworkCreature: Bubo the clockwork owl, sent by Athena as a guide.
* ColdSniper: Medusa. As if the [[TakenForGranite petrifying gaze]] wasn't enough...
* CoolOldGuy: Ammon.
* 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.
* DistressedDamsel: Andromeda, near the end.
* 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
* {{Expy}}: Calibos = Caliban from WilliamShakespeare's ''TheTempest''.
* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: Hello, Olympus! (And even moreso in the 2010 film, with its computer-generated sparkles and shines.)
* 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.
* FantasyKitchenSink: The Kraken is from NorseMythology. The original creature was Cetus, a giant whale, but it was apparently switched because the writer thought "kraken" [[RuleOfCool sounded cooler]]. RayHarryhausen changed the look from a giant squid or octopus to a four-armed humanoid because he thought it looked cooler.
* FridgeLogic: See [[HeadScratchers/ClashOfTheTitans here]].
* 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. [[HarryhausenMovie 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.
* HarryhausenMovie: It was more about the animated beasties than the actual plot, really.
* TheHerosJourney
* 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}}: ↑
* 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.
* MeaningfulName: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_horned_owl Bubo the Owl]].
* {{Medusa}}
* MoneyDearBoy: Part of the reason LaurenceOlivier was cast as Zeus. Probably the same with Maggie Smith.
* MsFanservice: Danae and Andromeda show some T&A.
* 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."
* 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.
* 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).
* OwlBeDamned: Subverted by the serene Bubo the owl and his comic relief robotic counterpart.
* {{Pegasus}}
* RedShirt: Any soldier who goes with Perseus on his quest.
* SadlyMythtaken: Amphitrite is the wife of Poseidon in Greek mythology, while Thetis is generally a sea nymph, though some suggest that she was a full goddess, as the film portrays, although she was certainly not among the central circle who dwelt on Olympus.
* SnakePeople: Medusa
* 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 ''TwentyMillionMilesToEarth'', also animated by 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 "it's nothing, leave it".
* StandardHeroReward
* StayInTheKitchen: "Too perilous [a journey] for a princess."
** To which Andromeda responds [[YouGotSpunk with all due spunk]], "You are not my lord and master. 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: Medusa's victims.
* TeamPet: Bubo the robot-owl.
* TheEyesHaveIt: The statue of Thetis when she's about to throw down.
* 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!"
** [[SadlyMythtaken Yet neither is a Titan...]] (it's a Gorgon vs. a sea monster)
* TheUnintelligible: Bubo, except to Perseus.
** Ammon eventually figures out what he's saying.
* VirginSacrifice
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Harry Hamlin as Perseus.
* WaxMuseumMorgue: Albeit stone instead of wax.
* TheXOfY
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Yay, Joppa's free of its curse! Let's throw a party!...
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!!The 2010 film further contains examples of:
* [[ThreeDMovie 3D Movie]]: Although it wasn't filmed that way.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: [[http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2010/04/01/gal_clash-titans_medusa.jpg Medusa]] (a site [[http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/galleries/clash_of_the_versions_which_titans_is_better/clash_of_the_versions_which_titans_is_better.html#ixzz1Uq0GAc5x even asked]] "why is a monster whose face is supposed to be able to turn any man into stone being played by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_Vodianova one of the world’s most beautiful models]]?")
* AnachronismStew: The gods are wearing medieval European suits of armor! Contrast with the goddesses, who wear classic Hellenic attire.
* TheArtifact: Andromeda. There is no real need for her to appear in the remake given she has [[DemotedToExtra lost her role as Perseus' love interest]] and her city has already done more than enough to anger the gods even without her mother's hubris in proclaiming her beauty. She only seems to have been retained at all because Perseus rescuing Andromeda is such a big part of the original story. Meanwhile, Io seems to have been added in as the [[PromotedToLoveInterest replacement love interest]].
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Io always looks like she's just stepped off the set of a shampoo commercial even if everyone else is completely filthy from traveling across wilderness for several days. Not to mention, none of the male heroes get so much as a single change of clothes, while she throws on multiple outfits. Pulled out of {{Hammerspace}}, apparently, since they never say where it came from.
* BeyondTheImpossible: Just how much bigger can the Kraken get?
* 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.
* {{Bishounen}}: 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.]]
* {{Bolt of Divine Retribution}}: 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.
* ColdFlames: Sheikh Suleiman.
* CompletelyMissingThePoint: The filmmakers for the remake stated they wished to do away with the "cheesy chessboard manipulation of characters." Nevermind that A) said manipulation is supposed to be a crucial element of Greek mythology. And B) their version isn't any different from similar attempts made in the last decade.
* 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 {{Bolt of Divine Retribution}} 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).
* {{Darker and Edgier}}: 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 armour; 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 armour. 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 screen time.]]
* TheDragon: Calibos to Hades.
* 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.]]
* 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".
* 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.
* FauxActionGirl: Io, who does next to nothing. She does cut the tail off a scorpion and help Perseus train to fight Medusa, but the first incident was brief and at long range while the second ended up with [[NotWhatItLooksLike Perseus on top of her]].
* {{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.
* GigglingVillain: Medusa.
* GorgeousGorgon: Medusa
* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: One of the main points in the war between the gods and man.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Perseus gets double points, as he is played by SamWorthington, who's pulled this off [[{{Terminator}} twice]] [[{{Film/Avatar}} before]]. Also, Io.
* HealingShiv: Sheik Suleiman's blue fire. [[spoiler: Except when it's a weapon...]]
* 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.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: Eventually, Hades' motive boils down to this. He wants to take over the world as vengeance for Zeus and Poseidon tricking him into becoming Lord of the Underworld, allowing them to get all of humanity's love, while he gets only their fear.
* ImprobableHairstyle: How does Perseus manage to maintain that buzzcut of his? Or even get one?
* 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 Hera, her son Calebos being denied Andromeda's hand in marriage and transformed into a beast for a HandWave reason. Hera 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.
* JerkassGods: To be expected of the Greek pantheon.
* 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 {{Aesop}} supposed to be that [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop powerful people can get away with anything?]]
** The first 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.
* {{Made of Explodium}}: [[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?]]
* 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.
* 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 [[{{Terminator}} 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.
* 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).
* 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 [[GodOfWar another story...]]).
* RapeIsOkayIfItsDivineOnMortal: Medusa and Danae, both of whom get punished for being raped.
* RedHerring: One of those soldiers sounds exactly like 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.
** Not to mention the entire 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.
* {{Rule of Cool}}: 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, [[{{Batman}} Two-Face]] in a tunic.
** The only monsters fought that wasn'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 Norse Mythology, 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 Pegasus 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). [[IGotBetter She got better]], though.
** 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.
** Pegasus (there was only one, not a herd) sprang forth from Medusa's blood.
* [[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]].]]
* 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''.
* SoMyKidsCanWatch: LiamNeeson took on the role of Zeus because his sons thought it would be awesome.
* TakingYouWithMe: The [[spoiler:Djinn]] does this to [[spoiler:Medusa]]. It doesn't quite work, but does provide a crucial distraction.
* 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.
* WagTheDirector: It has been revealed that there's a significantly different edit that has a plotline much closer to classical mythology. The reason why it wasn't released is unclear, but there are indications that Sam Worthington successfully argued that it wouldn't be entertaining to children.
* WeCanRebuildHim: [[{{Cyborg}} The djinns]] [[WasOnceAMan were once human]].
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Matthew Belamy was writing the score, but had to abandon midway through as Music/{{Muse}} started a tour.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1pW_71h3rk The original ending]] is closer to the original myth and movie.
*** Perseus slapping Zeus with a fish would've been closer to the original myth than the release ending.
** The original idea for the movie was a CrossoverCosmology with [[SumerianMythology Tiamat]] waging war against the Greek pantheon and Perseus being assisted by [[EgyptianMythology Thoth, Osiris]], [[SumerianMythology Marduk]] and [[TheBible Yahweh]]. He would also apparently have a romantic affair with some "Cthonian Earth goddess." (The filmmakers apparently have something against Andromeda for some reason...)
* 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 [[YMMV/ClashOfTheTitans Woobie Destroyer Of Worlds]].
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: See CursedWithAwesome above.
* YouFailBiologyForever: Zeus' totem is a bald eagle. Bald eagles live in North America. The ancient Greeks would not have known about bald eagles, since bald eagles do not live anywhere known by the ancient Greeks. SomewhereAnOrnithologistIsCrying. Could be YouFailGeographyForever and YouFailHistoryForever as well.
** The movie flunked out of history on a dozen points, not the least of which being ancient Greek gods in medieval plate armor.
** In-universe, this would be ok, since the Gods would have had knowledge of any creature, and the Greeks would have just carved/sculpted/whatever any animal they were told/shown.
** Our-of-universe, it's probably ViewersAreMorons at work, as it's the one species of eagle the filmmakers could be sure audiences would recognize ''as'' an eagle, rather than some kind of hawk.
* 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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