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** Evacuation apparently doesn't exist in Argos' dictionary since they never try to just book it from their city considering Hades only ever said the Kraken would destroy their home.
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* CurbStompCushion: The Greek army, despite being outmatched by Cronos's Makhai, manage to take down a good number of them.
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* NoSell: The Djinn is immune to Medusa's gaze because his body is made of rock. When she tries petrify him, he just laughs in her face.
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** 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 at least 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.
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** The Makhai toss around the Greek soldiers as if they were pebbles, and the Minotaur does the same to Perseus.
** The Makhai toss around the Greek soldiers as if they were pebbles, and the Minotaur does the same to Perseus.
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* CurbStompBattle: Perseus versus Ares, which is kind of understandable when you're a (relatively) regular demigod fighting the ''god of war himself.'' Heck, ares vs anyone is basically this.
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* 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.
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* MadeOfIron: The team members who survive the scorpion fight, having ot smacked around by the scorpions. Draco and Perseus take this UpToEleven.
* MagicSkirt: Io's dress follows the trope during the scorpion battle.
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* MadeOfIron: The team members who survive the scorpion fight, having ot got smacked around by the scorpions. Draco and Perseus take this UpToEleven.
UpToEleven. Perses while an infant survives being locked in a coffin and thrown into the sea while his mother who was with him died. Justified in his case because he is a demi-god.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Medusa not only retains her archery skills from the original movie, but she now also adds SuperStength and StealthExpert to her assets, and is able to strangle people like a boa snake, and keeps fighting '''''after her head is cut off!''''' And now her arrows hit with enough force to chip marble and a glancing hit caused Perseus to be BlownAcrossTheRoom into two of his teammates and knocking them away as well.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Medusa not only retains her archery skills from the original movie, but she now also adds SuperStength SuperStrength and StealthExpert to her assets, and is able to strangle people like a boa snake, and keeps fighting '''''after her head is cut off!''''' And now her arrows hit with enough force to chip marble and a glancing hit caused Perseus to be BlownAcrossTheRoom into two of his teammates and knocking them away as well.
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* AdapatationalBadass: Medusa not only retains her archery skills from the original movie, but she now also adds SuperStength and StealthExpert to her assets, and is able to strangle people like a boa snake, and keeps fighting '''''after her head is cut off!''''' And now her arrows hit with enough force to chip marble and a glancing hit caused Perseus to be BlownAcrossTheRoom into two of his teammates and knocking them away as well.
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* AdapatationalBadass: AdaptationalBadass: Medusa not only retains her archery skills from the original movie, but she now also adds SuperStength and StealthExpert to her assets, and is able to strangle people like a boa snake, and keeps fighting '''''after her head is cut off!''''' And now her arrows hit with enough force to chip marble and a glancing hit caused Perseus to be BlownAcrossTheRoom into two of his teammates and knocking them away as well.
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* 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. Medusa is played by a supermodel -- but gets a GameFace when she uses her powers.
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* 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. Medusa is played by a supermodel -- but gets a GameFace when she uses her powers.powers.
* AdapatationalBadass: Medusa not only retains her archery skills from the original movie, but she now also adds SuperStength and StealthExpert to her assets, and is able to strangle people like a boa snake, and keeps fighting '''''after her head is cut off!''''' And now her arrows hit with enough force to chip marble and a glancing hit caused Perseus to be BlownAcrossTheRoom into two of his teammates and knocking them away as well.
* AdapatationalBadass: Medusa not only retains her archery skills from the original movie, but she now also adds SuperStength and StealthExpert to her assets, and is able to strangle people like a boa snake, and keeps fighting '''''after her head is cut off!''''' And now her arrows hit with enough force to chip marble and a glancing hit caused Perseus to be BlownAcrossTheRoom into two of his teammates and knocking them away as well.
* RasputinianDeath: Medusa. A magic bomb, pierced by a stalactite, has her head cut off before falling into a lava pit.
* CombatPragmatist: Perseus has no problems fighting dirty to win. Considering the stakes and who he was fighting, he had to.
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* CurbStompBattle: Perseus versus Ares, which is kind of understandable when you're a (relatively) regular demigod fighting the ''god of war himself.''
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** Zeus and Hades deliver this to the Makhai while they are delivering one to the greek army.
** Cronus then delivers one to them.
** Perseus delivers one to the Minotaur.
** Zeus and Hades deliver this to the Makhai while they are delivering one to the greek army.
** Cronus then delivers one to them.
** Perseus delivers one to the Minotaur.
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It was not about her sex. It was because she prayed to him
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* MenAreTheExpendableGender: When Ares starts massacring Andromeda's army, the lone female's death is depicted as uniquely horrible and a personal betrayal, while around half a dozen male soldiers are killed with no fanfare.
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* MenAreTheExpendableGender: When Ares starts massacring Andromeda's army, he kills about five male soldiers with no fanfare. But when he stabs the lone female, it's presented as a MoralEventHorizon.
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"If the story requires random anonymous characters to die just to move the plot forward, they'll likely be male. If the plot requires a tragic death that motivates the protagonists or shows how evil the villains are, the victim will be female."
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It was treated as a moral event horizon because she had just prayed to him for help but he killed her anyway, her sex had nothing to do with it
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* MenAreTheExpendableGender: When Ares starts massacring Andromeda's army, he kills about five male soldiers with no fanfare. But when he stabs the lone female, it's presented as a MoralEventHorizon.
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* AncientGrome: Greek soldiers are seen dressed in Roman armour and wielding gladiuses.
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* AncientGrome: Greek soldiers are seen dressed in Roman armour and wielding gladiuses.gladii.
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* AbusiveParents: Kronos is easily one of the oldest examples in history/mythology - he ''ate'' his children (Hades and Poseidon among others) out of fear of getting dethroned by them if they grew up. No wonder the later Greek pantheon is not overly fond of him.
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* TooDumbToLive: Perseus warns everybody not to pray to Ares, since a god can hear and locate anybody who prays to them and Ares is their enemy. Eventually, Korrina gives in to fear and prays to Ares, thinking he will save her. Ares teleports to the heroes' location and starts slaughtering everybody, including Korrina.
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** Perseus warns everybody not to pray to Ares, since a god can hear and locate anybody who prays to them and Ares is their enemy. Eventually, Korrina gives in to fear and prays to Ares, thinking he will save her. Ares teleports to the heroes' location and starts slaughtering everybody, includingKorrina.Korrina.
** It's safe to assume that Kronos recognizes that one and only weapon in the world that can defeat him when he sees it, yet he can think of no better tactic to fight off Perseus on Pegasus-back than opening his giant mouth, thus providing Perseus with a more than convenient way of delivering the Spear of Trium where it needs to be to kill the Titan once and for all.
** Perseus warns everybody not to pray to Ares, since a god can hear and locate anybody who prays to them and Ares is their enemy. Eventually, Korrina gives in to fear and prays to Ares, thinking he will save her. Ares teleports to the heroes' location and starts slaughtering everybody, including
** It's safe to assume that Kronos recognizes that one and only weapon in the world that can defeat him when he sees it, yet he can think of no better tactic to fight off Perseus on Pegasus-back than opening his giant mouth, thus providing Perseus with a more than convenient way of delivering the Spear of Trium where it needs to be to kill the Titan once and for all.
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* GutturalGrowler: Kronos speaks in an incredibly deep voice, as befits a mythical creature from the advent of time that's well over half a kilometer tall.
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* 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.
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* HollywoodTactics: Exactly how fire is supposed to stop the burning LegionsOfHell or how a phalanx is going to stop a [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever hundred-foot several-hundred-meters 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.
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* NoSell: The Djinn is immune to Medusa's gaze because his body is made of rock. When she tries petrify him, he just laughs in her face.
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** 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.
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** 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 UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire should cover the Mediterranean and Christianity should be around if Djinn have Muslim names.
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* BigCreepyCrawlies: Giant scorpions.
* HarpingOnAboutHarpies: They show up as the flying, devilish minions of [[EveryoneHatesHades Hades]]. Although they don't resemble bird-women at all, they do serve the purpose of snatching people up and pulling them into the Underworld.
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* ImprobableHairstyle: How does Perseus manage to maintain that buzzcut of his?
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* ItHasBeenAnHonor: Just before they begin their apparently suicidal quest, Perseus says something akin to this to the companions who chose to remain with him. He remarks that his father was, at least initially, the only great man he knew. Now, he could say he knew ''four'' great men. He then directs his attention to Io and the Djinn, amending his statement with: "And one woman. .... and whatever the hell you are."
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: Just before they begin their apparently suicidal quest, Perseus says something akin to this to the companions who chose to remain with him. He remarks that his father was, at least initially, the only great man he knew. Now, he could say he knew ''four'' great men. He then directs his attention to Io and the Djinn, amending his statement with: "And one woman. .... and whatever the hell you are."
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* LiterallyShatteredLives: Medusa does this to her victims.
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* ConvectionSchmonvection: Cronos is a mountain-sized man made of molten rock that apparently does not give off any heat. Notably, in the climax Perseus [[spoiler:flies Pegasus down his throat]] and gets slightly singed for his trouble.
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* TimeSkip: It begins ten years after the previous film ends, significantly longer than the actual amount of time that elapsed between their respective releases.
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* KillTheCuite: Eusebios, clearly the youngest of the group of heroes, is turned to stone by Medusa after watching his companion die, and his body is then smashed to pieces at Perseus' feet.
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* KillTheCuite: KillTheCutie: Eusebios, clearly the youngest of the group of heroes, is turned to stone by Medusa after watching his companion die, and his body is then smashed to pieces at Perseus' feet.
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* TheAgeless: Io was cursed by the gods with agelessness. She mentions the burden of living on while her loved ones grew old and died.
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* AnachronismStew: The gods are wearing medieval European suits of armor! Contrast with the goddesses, who wear classic Hellenic attire.
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* GigglingVillain: Medusa.
* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: One of the main points in the war between the gods and man.
* GorgeousGorgon: Medusa.
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* GorgeousGorgon: Medusa.
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* GigglingVillain: Medusa.
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* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: One of the main points in the war between the gods andman.
man. Zeus and most of the Olympians sustain their immortality through the prayers of humans. This provides a problem when humans not only stop worshiping Olympus, but actively try and starve the gods of badly-needed prayers through blasphemy. As one would expect, it doesn't go well... especially since Hades doesn't need people to ''pray'' to him, as he draws power from people's fear of death.
* GoldAndWhiteAreDivine: Zeus' outfit.
* GoOutWithASmile: When CynicalMentor Draco aids Perseus in his battle with Medusa, he knowingly sacrifices himself to stall her by impaling her tail with a stalactite. As she turns her petrifying gaze towards him, he calmly tells the hero to tell all that "men did this," before smiling smugly as he is turned to stone.
* GorgeousGorgon:Medusa.Medusa is a scaly, serpent-tailed thing, but her face is very good looking due to being played by Russian model Natalia Vodianova. However, when she goes to turn men to stone, her [[GameFace entire face changes into something a lot less attractive]].
* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: One of the main points in the war between the gods and
* GoldAndWhiteAreDivine: Zeus' outfit.
* GoOutWithASmile: When CynicalMentor Draco aids Perseus in his battle with Medusa, he knowingly sacrifices himself to stall her by impaling her tail with a stalactite. As she turns her petrifying gaze towards him, he calmly tells the hero to tell all that "men did this," before smiling smugly as he is turned to stone.
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* HollywoodCostuming: The gods are wearing medieval European suits of armor! Contrast with the goddesses, who wear classic Hellenic attire.
* {{Kaiju}}: The Kraken.
* KillTheCuite: Eusebios, clearly the youngest of the group of heroes, is turned to stone by Medusa after watching his companion die, and his body is then smashed to pieces at Perseus' feet.
* KillTheGod: Various rulers are trying to do this to the Olympians by [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly destroying their temples and denying them worship]]. While it does weaken them, the gods are still powerful enough to inflict misery on the commonfolk, whose suffering their arrogant rulers ignore. It also doesn't do anything to weaken Hades, since he draws power from their fear of death.
* KillTheGod: Various rulers are trying to do this to the Olympians by [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly destroying their temples and denying them worship]]. While it does weaken them, the gods are still powerful enough to inflict misery on the commonfolk, whose suffering their arrogant rulers ignore. It also doesn't do anything to weaken Hades, since he draws power from their fear of death.
* MagicSkirt: Io's dress follows the trope during the scorpion battle.
* MeaningfulRename: Acrisius changing his name to Calibos after he was turned into a demon by Zeus.
* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Almost every secondary character dies over the course of the movie but the death of TheChick is a much bigger deal to Perseus; later Zeus brings her back to life, but everyone else stays dead.
* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Almost every secondary character dies over the course of the movie but the death of TheChick is a much bigger deal to Perseus; later Zeus brings her back to life, but everyone else stays dead.
* ObiWanMoment: Draco is mortally wounded during the fight with Medusa. Aware his time his short, he uses the last of his strength to stall and weaken her. Confident that Perseus could finish what they started, the normally stern Draco gives the hero a peaceful smile, reminding him to tell all that, "men did this." Medusa then turns him to stone and shatters his body.
* OrganicBra: Medusa.
* OurGeniesAreDifferent: The Djinn appear as black-colored humanoid creatures with bright blue eyes that use blue fire magic that seems organic based (they tame scorpions, heal the hero and are claimed to rebuild themselves of wood). And they also can [[SuicideAttack suicide bomb themselves]].
* OurGeniesAreDifferent: The Djinn appear as black-colored humanoid creatures with bright blue eyes that use blue fire magic that seems organic based (they tame scorpions, heal the hero and are claimed to rebuild themselves of wood). And they also can [[SuicideAttack suicide bomb themselves]].
* ScaryScorpions: Massive killer scorpions caused by the blood of Calibos, who has been given godly powers by Hades. The scorpions seem to be better at the job than Calibos was. The scorpions kill two Argosian soldiers (as opposed to Calibos's four), but they tend to make more of an impression, being, you know, giant scorpions.
* SnakePeople: Medusa.
* SnakesAreSexy: Medusa is half-woman, half-snake, all sexy.
* SnakesAreSexy: Medusa is half-woman, half-snake, all sexy.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Perseus chucking his Olympian sword at Hades. Thankfully, Zeus helps out with some lightning assistance, otherwise it probably wouldn't have succeeded.
* TwentyFourHourArmor: The gods always appear dressed in their super-shiny armor -- though gods can presumably wear whatever they want regardless of the occasion.
* TwentyFourHourArmor: The gods always appear dressed in their super-shiny armor -- though gods can presumably wear whatever they want regardless of the occasion.
* ImmortalsFearDeath: Hades and Ares join Cronus on the condition they keep their immortality. Gods [[CessationOfExistence cease to exist upon death]] and that thought terrifies them.
* MenAreTheExpendableGender: When Ares starts massacring Andromeda's army, he kills about five male soldiers with no fanfare. But when he stabs the lone female, it's presented as a MoralEventHorizon.
* MortalityEnsues: The [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly level of prayers to the gods]] has dwindled so much that the gods have lost their immortality and many have died before the movie even started. The gods who are left still have their powers, but they are fading and they are vulnerable to being killed.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Perseus warns everybody not to pray to Ares, since a god can hear and locate anybody who prays to them and Ares is their enemy. Eventually, Korrina gives in to fear and prays to Ares, thinking he will save her. Ares teleports to the heroes' location and starts slaughtering everybody. When Korrina reveals herself as the person who prayed to him, Ares kills her without a second thought.
* ShapeshifterGuiltTrip: Perseus fights and defeats a minotaur. As he's about to finish it off, the minotaur suddenly starts talking in his son's voice, begging his "father" not to hurt him. Perseus kills it anyway.
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* TooDumbToLive: It's really a very ill-advised idea to pray to the same gods you're presently fighting.
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* AdaptationalModesty: In the myth, Andromeda was sent out naked to be eaten by the sea monster. In the film, she gets some clothes.
* AdvertisedExtra: Promos gave special focus to Danny Huston as Poseidon, Luke Evans as Apollo and Alexa Davalos as Andromeda. None of them gets more than about five minutes of screen time. In the latter two cases, the movie underwent extensive re-shoots and their characters ended up severely cut down. There was also considerable hype about some of the other Greek Gods, such as Hestia and Artemis. They would have had only a couple of lines in group scenes.
* AdvertisedExtra: Promos gave special focus to Danny Huston as Poseidon, Luke Evans as Apollo and Alexa Davalos as Andromeda. None of them gets more than about five minutes of screen time. In the latter two cases, the movie underwent extensive re-shoots and their characters ended up severely cut down. There was also considerable hype about some of the other Greek Gods, such as Hestia and Artemis. They would have had only a couple of lines in group scenes.
* AncientGrome: Greek soldiers are seen dressed in Roman armour and wielding gladiuses.
* BackFromTheDead: Io. Because Zeus said so.
* BedTrick: Perseus is born as the result of Zeus disguising himself as King Acrisius and sleeping with his wife Danae.
* CanonForeigner: Io is from a completely different myth.
* ChildByRape: Perseus was conceived by a BedTrick as punishment to King Acrisius for daring to challenge the gods. Zeus disguises himself as King Acrisius and sleeps with his queen, who gives birth almost immediately. Acrisius still has it in for Perseus, even though it wasn't his fault.
* ChildByRape: Perseus was conceived by a BedTrick as punishment to King Acrisius for daring to challenge the gods. Zeus disguises himself as King Acrisius and sleeps with his queen, who gives birth almost immediately. Acrisius still has it in for Perseus, even though it wasn't his fault.
* DesignatedLoveInterest: Io.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Draco performing a HeroicSacrifice, in order to distract and pin down Medusa so that Perseus can kill her. His LastWords? "Let them know men did this." And then he ''smiles as Medusa turns him to stone''.
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* EyelessFace: The three Stygian Witches.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: The three Stygian Witches' shared eye still has its ocular nerves, which attach in an eye socket in theirpalm.palm.
* EyeSpy: The Stygian Witches have to share a single (magical) eye between the three of them. The witch who has it is apparently quite capable of seeing through while it's sitting in her hand.
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* EyeSpy: The Stygian Witches have to share a single (magical) eye between the three of them. The witch who has it is apparently quite capable of seeing through while it's sitting in her hand.
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* NonIndicativeName: As in the original movie, and despite the advertising tagline, no Titans appear, let alone clash.
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-->''Titans will clash!''
''Clash of the Titans'' is a 2010 fantasy adventure film with some passing resemblance to the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek myth of Perseus]]. It is a remake of ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans1981'', and like that film contains no actual Titans.
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. It does have Titans in it.
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* 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. Medusa is played by a supermodel -- but gets a GameFace when she uses her powers.
* 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, and his father Zeus in particular, then reluctantly accepts his help against Hades, and eventually forgives/forgets Zeus' numerous crimes by the end, including the fact that Zeus ''raped Perseus' mom''.
* 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. 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.]''
* CallingTheOldManOut: Zig-zagged with Perseus toward Zeus.
* 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: 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.
* 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 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:
** Every deity bar Zeus (and Hades because he wasn't in the original film).
** Cassiopeia [[spoiler:is killed by Hades very quickly]].
** Andromeda [[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.
* DwindlingParty: Don't get too attached to all those soldiers.
* 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. 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.
* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: Hello, Olympus!
* EvilSlinks: Medusa, snake woman with an attitude.
* 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.
* HalfHumanHybrid:
** Perseus is the son of a god and a human woman.
** 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 one 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?
* 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]]?
* MadeOfExplodium: [[spoiler:The Djinn Sheik Suleiman, serving as a HeroicSacrifice to distract Medusa.]]
* 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.]] 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.
** 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.
** The arrival of the Kraken.
* 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. 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 Sam Worthington, whose Aussie accent remains intact.
* OhCrap: 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}}: The film goes the "entire species of winged horses" route. Pegasus himself is marked out by being larger and a different color.
* 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.
* 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 ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans1981''.
* RuleOfCool: A lot of the human storylines are dropped to spend more time on Perseus fighting 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.
* SadlyMythtaken:
** The Kraken is from Myth/NorseMythology.
** 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.
** The Gods won the Titanomachy by themselves.
** Io isn't even from the same myth as Perseus. 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).
** 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.
** 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.
** 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.
** 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.
** 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.
** 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").
** 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 after she was killed. (Indeed, "Pegasus" actually means "he who sprang".) Pegasus was also not ridden by Perseus, but an unrelated hero named Bellerophon.
* 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 ''Manga/SaintSeiya''.
** The Stygian Witches look like [[{{Franchise/Alien}} 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.]]
* TheUnintelligible: The Djinn, sort of. Sheikh Suleiman was speaking Arabic in some scenes, especially when the Djinn saved Perseus and Co. from the scorpions.
* WasOnceAMan: The djinns.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Perseus thinks Io is CursedWithAwesome 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: watching her loved ones die while she continues to live, explicitly comparing it to the death of his family when Hades first appeared.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Medusa. Rape victim, cursed by a Goddess of Wisdom for being raped, and sent to the underworld to dwell in squalor. Is it any wonder she spends her time 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.
** When 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: The gods ''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.
* 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, sacrificing themselves in 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 reappears as a prop in Hephaestus' home.
* 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 intelligible. 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 [[spoiler:until he 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 another 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.
* 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/GodOfWarIII''; he also resembles his own depiction in ''VideoGame/AgeOfMythology''.
* FaceHeelTurn: Ares betrays Zeus and sides 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 Helius, all the while making him watch his father receive a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
* ForcedToWatch: Helius is forced to watch his father receive a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
* ForTheEvulz: Ares involves Helius as mentioned above for no other reason than this.
* 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 actually 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.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Kronos.
* 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 brings Perseus's son Helius to the temple he and Perseus were fighting so that the boy could watch him beat Perseus to death. Near the end of battle, Helius 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.
* 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 Creator/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.
* 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 Helius'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: Now there ''are'' Titans. Only one of them appears, though, so if you're hoping to see Titans clashing you're still going to be disappointed.
* 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.
* PapaWolf: Pretty much Perseus's entire motivation for the film.
* PluckyComicRelief: Agenor.
* 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.
* 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 ''TabletopGame/TombOfHorrors'':
--->'''Hephaestus:''' 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 ''Film/JohnCarter'', the "goat" head resembles the reek from ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', and the serpent tail looks like a [[Franchise/{{Alien}} 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]] gets just slightly more screentime here before getting killed off.
* SuperStrength:
** 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 at least 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: Ares attacks Andromeda with murderous intent and callously kills Andromeda's friend when she begs him for their lives.
* WouldHurtAChild: Ares tries to kill Helius, Perseus's son.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: 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 is composed 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.
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''Clash of the Titans'' is a 2010 fantasy adventure film with some passing resemblance to the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek myth of Perseus]]. It is a remake of ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans1981'', and like that film contains no actual Titans.
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. It does have Titans in it.
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!!These two movies contan examples of:
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* 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. Medusa is played by a supermodel -- but gets a GameFace when she uses her powers.
* 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, and his father Zeus in particular, then reluctantly accepts his help against Hades, and eventually forgives/forgets Zeus' numerous crimes by the end, including the fact that Zeus ''raped Perseus' mom''.
* 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. 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.]''
* CallingTheOldManOut: Zig-zagged with Perseus toward Zeus.
* 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: 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.
* 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 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:
** Every deity bar Zeus (and Hades because he wasn't in the original film).
** Cassiopeia [[spoiler:is killed by Hades very quickly]].
** Andromeda [[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.
* DwindlingParty: Don't get too attached to all those soldiers.
* 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. 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.
* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: Hello, Olympus!
* EvilSlinks: Medusa, snake woman with an attitude.
* 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.
* HalfHumanHybrid:
** Perseus is the son of a god and a human woman.
** 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 one 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?
* 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]]?
* MadeOfExplodium: [[spoiler:The Djinn Sheik Suleiman, serving as a HeroicSacrifice to distract Medusa.]]
* 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.]] 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.
** 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.
** The arrival of the Kraken.
* 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. 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 Sam Worthington, whose Aussie accent remains intact.
* OhCrap: 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}}: The film goes the "entire species of winged horses" route. Pegasus himself is marked out by being larger and a different color.
* 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.
* 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 ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans1981''.
* RuleOfCool: A lot of the human storylines are dropped to spend more time on Perseus fighting 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.
* SadlyMythtaken:
** The Kraken is from Myth/NorseMythology.
** 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.
** The Gods won the Titanomachy by themselves.
** Io isn't even from the same myth as Perseus. 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).
** 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.
** 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.
** 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.
** 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.
** 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.
** 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").
** 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 after she was killed. (Indeed, "Pegasus" actually means "he who sprang".) Pegasus was also not ridden by Perseus, but an unrelated hero named Bellerophon.
* 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 ''Manga/SaintSeiya''.
** The Stygian Witches look like [[{{Franchise/Alien}} 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.]]
* TheUnintelligible: The Djinn, sort of. Sheikh Suleiman was speaking Arabic in some scenes, especially when the Djinn saved Perseus and Co. from the scorpions.
* WasOnceAMan: The djinns.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Perseus thinks Io is CursedWithAwesome 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: watching her loved ones die while she continues to live, explicitly comparing it to the death of his family when Hades first appeared.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Medusa. Rape victim, cursed by a Goddess of Wisdom for being raped, and sent to the underworld to dwell in squalor. Is it any wonder she spends her time 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.
** When 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: The gods ''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.
* 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, sacrificing themselves in 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 reappears as a prop in Hephaestus' home.
* 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 intelligible. 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 [[spoiler:until he 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 another 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.
* 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/GodOfWarIII''; he also resembles his own depiction in ''VideoGame/AgeOfMythology''.
* FaceHeelTurn: Ares betrays Zeus and sides 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 Helius, all the while making him watch his father receive a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
* ForcedToWatch: Helius is forced to watch his father receive a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
* ForTheEvulz: Ares involves Helius as mentioned above for no other reason than this.
* 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 actually 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.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Kronos.
* 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 brings Perseus's son Helius to the temple he and Perseus were fighting so that the boy could watch him beat Perseus to death. Near the end of battle, Helius 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.
* 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 Creator/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.
* 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 Helius'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: Now there ''are'' Titans. Only one of them appears, though, so if you're hoping to see Titans clashing you're still going to be disappointed.
* 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.
* PapaWolf: Pretty much Perseus's entire motivation for the film.
* PluckyComicRelief: Agenor.
* 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.
* 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 ''TabletopGame/TombOfHorrors'':
--->'''Hephaestus:''' 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 ''Film/JohnCarter'', the "goat" head resembles the reek from ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', and the serpent tail looks like a [[Franchise/{{Alien}} 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]] gets just slightly more screentime here before getting killed off.
* SuperStrength:
** 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 at least 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: Ares attacks Andromeda with murderous intent and callously kills Andromeda's friend when she begs him for their lives.
* WouldHurtAChild: Ares tries to kill Helius, Perseus's son.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: 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 is composed 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.
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