History AwesomeBosses / GodOfWar

* The first boss fight in the entire series is fairly epic. Fighting a hydra by pinning two of its heads into the deck of a ship, then slicing the hell out of the remaining central head until you use your chain-blades to haul it down and impale it on the jagged spike at the top of the mast is [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome awesome]]. And you do this in the ''first level of the first game''--you just know you're in for a good time after that. Also the fight against the giant minotaur was extremely cool, especially ''catapulting a huge burning battering ram into its chest cavity and nailing it to the wall.'' While these might seem less impressive these days in light of the amazing boss battles from its two sequels, these were awesome at the time.

* The first fight with [[BloodKnight The Stranger]] / Baldur in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'', while much smaller in sheer scale than prior bosses in the series, is a suitably epic return for Kratos. After [[EstablishingCharacterMoment the Stranger's memorable intro]], you engage in an [[{{Foil}} equally matched]] fight that ravages the surrounding landscape from sheer force, even though the Stranger is mostly [[GoodOldFisticuffs fighting with his fists]]. The choreography and brutality is nearly unmatched in the series thanks to the shift in perspective, and Kratos is forced to go all-out and beyond to put his opponent down. And since his opponent has CompleteImmortality, Kratos's best is barely enough to slow him down for a few hours.

** Hercules. As befitting the most famous hero of Greek Mythology, his battle against Kratos is a definite highlight. As the fight progresses, Kratos tears off his armour, kills his minions for a one-on-one fight, and takes Hercules own gauntlets to bash his half-brother black and blue. The visual indicators of Kratos' progress make this battle feel the most like a slugfest out of any other in the game, and even then, Hercules barely slows down. It's not until Kratos smashes his face to mush that Hercules in finally brought down.

** Hades from the third game. Let's do the short version: you duel the King of the Underworld inside his own palace, literally ripping pieces of flesh off his body and trashing the palace in the process. This leads to a tug-of-war - with the River Styx as the boundary. Once you pull Hades in, you obtain his magical chain-claws...but then the Lord of Death returns once more, so ravaged by your assault that his skull is sticking out of his flesh. After giving him a few more good hits, you sink his own weapon into him and ''tear his soul right out of his body and absorb it'', leaving his body to rot in the Styx as the souls of the dead fly back to the mortal world.

** Poseidon. Not the dude covered in TronLines from the previous game, but a huge construct of rock and seawater you have to fight with Gaia's help, culminating in [[spoiler: riding a MegatonPunch from Gaia to force Poseidon out, and then beating him to death from ''his'' Point of View.]]

* The final battle against [[spoiler:Peresephone]] in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarChainsOfOlympus'' is awe-inspiring. [[spoiler:You're fighting the ''goddess of the underworld'' inside the tower that ''holds the world together''. At one point, you even have to scale ''Atlas himself'' when Peresephone knocks you out of the tower.]]
* Erinys in ''Ghost of Sparta''. After seeing what she [[KickTheDog did]] [[TheWoobie to your soldiers]]?! Sweet revenge! Then there's her father, Thanatos. After rescuing Deimos and giving him the Arms of Sparta, Kratos joins him to fight ''the God of Death''. [[spoiler:Deimos is eventually killed by Thanatos during the fight.]] [[UnstoppableRage You almost feel bad for what's about to happen to Thanatos after that.]] But it was ''awesome''.
* The first fight with [[BloodKnight The Stranger]] / [[spoiler: Baldur]] in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'', while much smaller in sheer scale than prior bosses in the series, is a suitably epic return for Kratos. After [[EstablishingCharacterMoment the Stranger's memorable intro]], you engage in an [[{{Foil}} equally matched]] fight that ravages the surrounding landscape from sheer force, even though the Stranger is mostly [[GoodOldFisticuffs fighting with his fists]]. The choreography and brutality is nearly unmatched in the series thanks to the shift in perspective, and Kratos is forced to go all-out and beyond to put his opponent down. And since his opponent has CompleteImmortality, Kratos's best is barely enough to slow him down for a few hours.

* The first boss fight in the entire series is fairly epic. Fighting a hydra by pinning two of its heads into the deck of a ship, then slicing the hell out of the remaining central head until you use your chain-blades to haul it down and impale it on the jagged spike at the top of the mast is [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome awesome]]. And you do this in the ''first level of the first game''--you just know you're in for a good time after that. Also the fight against the giant minotaur was extremely cool, especially ''catapulting a huge burning battering ram into its chest cavity and nailing it to the wall.'' While these might seem less impressive these days in light of the amazing boss battles from its two sequels, these were CrazyAwesome at the time.