History Film / ClashOfTheTitans2010

* BloodyMurder: An interesting (and awesome) variation. Through the magic of Hades, Calibos' blood [[spoiler:becomes giant scorpions when it strikes the ground]].

* DesignatedLoveInterest: Io.

* DesignatedLoveInterest: Andromeda.

* AdaptationalBadass: Medusa not only retains her archery skills from the original movie, but she now also adds 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.

* 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).

* BrokenAesop

* CanonForeigner: Io is from a completely different myth.

* CompositeCharacter: Acrisius, Perseus' father, was melded with Calibos, TheBrute, into the same person.

** [[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.

** 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.

** 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. The best interpretation was that they probably didn't want to risk flipping off the gods even further.

* {{Expy}}: Kronos looks almost like Perses from ''VideoGame/GodOfWarIII''; he also resembles his own depiction in ''VideoGame/AgeOfMythology''.

* ALoadOfBull: Perseus fights a Minotaur in the Labyrinth. The Minotaur has a more human, yet deformed, face than the more common bull-headed depiction.

* BlasphemousBoast: Cassiopeia declares mankind the new gods. Which gets promptly responded to by Ares, who kills a bunch of her soldiers and then her.

* AintTooProudToBeg: Andromeda's friend begs Ares for their lives. Unfortunately, he doesn't care and callously stabs her.

* {{Bishonen}}: Perseus's friend and fellow warrior Eusebios.

* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Ares performs a vertical suplex on Perseus during the final showdown, to which Perseus later responds with a sleeper hold.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

** 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.

** The Kraken is from Myth/NorseMythology.

* NoSell: The Djinn is immune to Medusa's gaze because his body is made of wood. When she tries petrify him, he just laughs in her face.

** 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.

* 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]].]]

* WasOnceAMan: The djinns.

* 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]]?

** 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).

** 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.

* GuiltByAssociationGag: The reason that Persus family was killed by Hades was because they were within sight of the mob that Hades attacked for declaring war on the gods.