History WhatAnIdiot / GodOfWar

'''Instead:''' [[spoiler:He hastily "reveals" that he has a way to get into a secret passage to Asgard despite the fact that he never once suggested it when Atreus ran away there. He also tries to sneak the mask away even though it wasn't "Tyr's" to begin with and even goes as far as the call him "Loki" in a moment of impulsiveness. This caused to call him out on all this to the point that his disguise fell through as Odin stabs Brok out of rage and holds Atreus at knifepoint in a desperate attempt to claim the mask. Not only did he fail to take the object but his murder of Brok is also what ultimate convinced Kratos to actively start Ragnarok in order to avenge the former's death]].

'''Instead:'' [[spoiler:He hastily "reveals" that he has a way to get into a secret passage to Asgard despite the fact that he never once suggested it when Atreus ran away there. He also tries to sneak the mask away even though it wasn't "Tyr's" to begin with and even goes as far as the call him "Loki" in a moment of impulsiveness. This caused to call him out on all this to the point that his disguise fell through as Odin stabs Brok out of rage and holds Atreus at knifepoint in a desperate attempt to claim the mask. Not only did he fail to take the object but his murder of Brok is also what ultimate convinced Kratos to actively start Ragnarok in order to avenge the former's death]].

* Zeus at the beginning of the game, becomes fearful that Kratos would overthrow him and take the throne of Olympus for himself, taking into account that Kratos is becoming more and more scornful towards the gods. The invasion of Rhodes turns out to be the last straw for Zeus

'''You'd Expect''': Gaia to respect Kratos' suffering and tell him to cling to her with everything he has or find some other way back up.\\

* To prevent the Aesir from finding them and prevent Ragnarok, Kratos and Atreus creates a protection stave around their house.\\

'''Instead:''' Kratos doesn't dwell on it and doesn't bring it up again.

'''You'd Expect:''' Odin would take any opportunity of peace and make nice with the giants. He's been married to his beloved Jötunn wife Fjörgyn, so he knows Jötunns aren't naturally barbaric. Tyr and Mimir have been trying to persuade him into peace and have shown him that the Jötunns aren't interested in fighting and are more than willing to let go of their part in the war.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' That with the glowing eye in his reach that is a gift from the Giants, Odin would closely examine the eye and since it resembles Tyr's eye, he would use it on a piece of shrine he took so he could find a passage to Jötunheim and finish off the Jötunns once and for all. Failing that, either destroy it or at least keep it within his treasury in Asgard since he blocked off any possible passage without his permission, making it highly unlikely that anyone would even be able to find it.\\

'''The result''': Kratos just gets stronger, gets new weapons, recovers the Blade of Olympus and continues killing gods.

'''You'd Expect''': Zeus or any other god (or more appropriately Hades since Kratos is now on his domains) to make sure that Kratos is dead, and in this case, finish him now that he is weakened, specially considering that they all know how dangerous is Kratos, who just killed Poseidon a few minutes ago, and both Zeus and Hades have reasons for want Kratos dead.\\

'''You'd Expect''': Zeus or any other god (or more appropriately Hades since Kratos is now on his domains) to make sure that Kratos is dead, and in this case, finish him now that he is weakened, specially considering that they all know how dangerous is Kratos, who just killed Poseidon a few minutes ago, and both Zeus and Hades have reasons for wanting Kratos dead.\\

* After falling from Gaia, Kratos ends up in the domains of Hades, more specifically, in the river Styx, where souls take away his vitality, magic and power.
'''You'd Expect''': Zeus or any other god (or more appropriately Hades since Kratos is now on his domains) to make sure that Kratos is dead, and in this case, finish him now that he is weakened, specially considering that they all know how dangerous Kratos is, the fact that he just killed Poseidon a few minutes ago, and both Zeus and Hades have reasons for wanting Kratos dead.
'''Instead''': No one goes for Kratos after this, so he just gets stronger, gets new weapons, recovers the Blade of Olympus and continues killing gods.

'''Instead''': Helios just says Kratos will never kill Zeus, after which Kratos [[OffWithHisHead rips Helios's head straight off of his neck]].

'''You'd Expect''': Zeus to immediately go down to Rhodes and fully strip Kratos of his powers while having the other gods arrest Kratos and then have him face eternal punishment in the underworld.

'''The result''': Years later, when Ares is destroying a temple dedicated to Athena, the same perfect warrior proceeds to gain Pandora's Box and ultimately murder him. Granted, in ''God of War III'', Kratos does manage to destroy all of Olympus as Ares wanted. It's just that the former God of War is not alive to see this.

'''Instead''': They try to fight Kratos with magic and weapons and when they are near death, they kill the Oracle by destroying her platform and they also try to destroy the arena in an [[TakingYouWithMe attempt to take Kratos with them]], but Castor ends up dead and Pollux is left wide open for Kratos to kill.

* In ''Chains of Olympus'', Persephone has [[spoiler: tricked Kratos into giving up his power. She has also set Atlas free and given him Helios' power to destroy the pillar holding up the world.]]\\

* In that same scene Kratos [[spoiler: gives up his powers and goes to Elysium (the Greek equivalent of Heaven). There's he reunited with his daughter Calliope, whom he had accidentally killed as shown in flashbacks in the first game, but because of Persephone's plan, he is forced to permanently leave her in order to save her]]\\

'''Instead''': [[spoiler: Kratos doesn't say anything to her and he forcefully pushes her to the ground and then he kills multiple spirits which leaves her in tears. In the ending it's shown that she’s completely traumatized by the experience and now refuses to play her flute (which Kratos crafted for her) which was something that she enjoyed doing as a past time.]]

'''The result:''': Years later, when Ares is destroying a temple dedicated to Athena, the same perfect warrior proceeds to gain Pandora's Box and ultimately murder him. Granted, In ''God of War III'', Kratos does manage to destroy all of Olympus as Ares wanted. It's just that the former God of War is not alive to see this.

* Near the start of the second game, Zeus has just offered Kratos the Blade of Olympus, telling him that he can use the blade to defeat the Colossus, but he has to first give his godly powers to it. Keep in mind that not only did Athena previously warn Kratos that the gods were angry with him, but Kratos is also currently doing well against the statue, having chopped off one of its hands, among other things.\\

* The fight with Perseus in the second game, who has an [[InvisibilityCloak Invisibility Helmet]], and which takes place in an area that is all but covered in ankle-deep water.\\

* After somehow escaping the Underworld, Icarus makes it to the Great Chasm in the Island of Creation. Right after it is a temple that will take to him to the Sisters of Fate.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' For Kratos to realize the full possibilities of what he can do with time travel, and maybe take this chance to "fix" any of his mistakes. For example, he could have gone back and stopped himself from accidentally killing his family back when he was serving Ares.\\
'''Even Better:''' Remembering the events of ''Ghost of Sparta'' and the role that the gods had played in Deimos' fate, Kratos could have gone as far back in time as his childhood, and saved his brother somehow, before proceeding to stop himself from accidentally killing his family. True, there would still have been much in the way of hardships in the time coming thereafter, and a confrontation with the gods would have still been inevitable, in light of the prophecy of the marked warrior who would go on to ruin Olympus to its very foundations. But at the very least, the two brothers would not have had the big fight they had in ''Ghost of Sparta'', instead remaining as steadfast allies.\\
'''Instead:''' He ''blows'' this GOLDEN opportunity to fix his past mistakes, all in the name of getting revenge on Zeus.

* Near the end of the second game, Kratos suddenly surrenders to Zeus and invites him to kill him, as part of an ISurrenderSuckers plan.\\

'''Instead''': He decides to use the [[{{BFS}} Blade of Olympus]] to do the job. Kratos counters his blow with the Golden Fleece and turns the sword on him. Zeus would've been killed early if not for Athena arriving at that point to stop the fight.

* In the first game, Kratos uses PandorasBox, which contains the power to kill a god, to kill Ares. In ''III'', he looks for it again in order to find a supposedly "greater" power inside, so he can kill Zeus. Along the way, he [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown slaughters]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill the fuck]] out of the gods and goddesses he hasn't already killed yet, mostly in self-defense, or because they kept pestering him.\\

* Near the beginning of the third game Kratos is about to fall off from Gaia as a result of Zeus's massive lightning attack\\

'''Instead''': She tells Kratos that [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he has outlived his usefulness]]. This only serves to piss off the chronic god-killer and turn him against the Titans for the rest of the game. Thus, after Gaia gets pinned down (while also having the ''gall'' to ask the recently-returned Kratos for help) by enemy forces, Kratos wastes no time getting payback on her by severing her hand from her body and making her fall all the way off Mount Olympus.\\
'''The result:''' By the time Gaia finally gets back up, Kratos has killed all of the Greek gods, thus causing tons of natural disasters to the world, and is currently in the middle of fighting Zeus. When she attempts to kill them, they both dive inside her giant body and their continued fight destroys her heart, killing her and destroying the Titan race.

'''You'd Expect''': For Kratos to quickly grab ANY of his weapons and just quickly murder Icarus with them (and while Icarus here is shown tough enough to survive colliding with boulders, even he wouldn't resist being stabbed.)\\

'''You'd expect:''' For Kratos to realize the full possibilities of what he can do with time travel, and maybe take this chance to "fix" any of his mistakes. For example, he could go stop himself from accidentally killing his family back when he was serving Ares.\\
'''Instead:''' He ''blows'' this GOLDEN opportunity to fix his past mistakes in getting revenge on Zeus.

'''You'd Expect:''' That with the glowing eye in his reach that is a gift from the Giants, Odin would closely examine the eye and since it resembles Tyr's eye, he would use it on a piece of shrine he took so he could find a passage to Jötunheim and finish off the Jötunns once and for all. Failing that, either destroy it or at least keep it within his treasury in Asgard since he blocked off any possible passage without his permission, making it is highly unlikely that anyone would even be able to find it.\\
'''Instead:''' He just approach the dwarves and have them built a statue in Midgard to place his eye on despite the fact that anyone with a sharp eye in Midgard could easily retrieve the eye for their own use. Indeed when Kratos and Atreus come to ask for Mimir's eye, Brok revealed about the statue that Odin convinced him to built allowing them to retrieve the eye and made it to Jötunheim first before Odin even knew about it.

'''Instead:''' Right after killing his wife and child, Ares proceeds to reveal that now nothing is holding him back from becoming the perfect warrior which made Kratos realize that Ares tricked him and has now turned against him, causing him to become a servant to the gods.

* The entire segment with Icarus is just one stupid moment after the other, unsurprising due to him being a symbol of hubris. After somehow escaping the Underworld, Icarus makes it to the Great Chasm in the Island of Creation. Right after it is a temple that will take to him to the Sisters of Fate.\\
'''You'd Expect''': For Icarus to JUST FUCKING FLY over the goddamn chasm! He thinks it's his "test", so he might as well do it!\\

'''You'd expect:''' For Kratos to realize the full possibilities of what he can do with time travel, and maybe take this chance to "fix" any of his mistakes. For example: he could go stop himself from accidentally killing his family back when he was serving Ares.\\
'''Instead:''' He ''blows'' it

'''You’d expect:''' For Kratos to sneak up on Zeus, stab him with the Blades of Athena, restrain him, and THEN quickly grab the Blade of Olympus from his past self and stab Zeus to death. Boom, vengeance complete, the end.\\

'''Instead''': He decides to use the [[{{BFS}} Blade of Olympus]] to do the job. Kratos counters his blow with the Golden Fleece and turns the sword on him. Zeus would've been killed if not for Athena arriving at that point to stop the fight.

* In the first game, Kratos uses PandorasBox, which contains the power to kill a god, to kill Ares. In ''III'', he looks for it again in order to kill Zeus. Along the way, he [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown slaughters]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill the fuck]] out of the gods and goddesses he hasn't already killed yet, mostly in self-defense, or because.\\

'''Instead''': He [[ForgotICouldFly forgets that he has the Icarus wings]] and subsequently falls into the River Styx, losing all his old powers and causing the entire journey of God of War 3.

'''You'd Expect''': That Gaia respect Kratos' suffering and tell him to cling to her with everything he has, or find some other way back up.\\
'''Instead''': She effectively tells Kratos that [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he has outlived his usefulness]]. This only serves to piss off the chronic god-killer and turn him against the Titans for the rest of the game.
* Also in the third game, Kratos has [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown thoroughly beaten down]] Helios, god of the sun. Helios, invoking Kratos saving him from Atlas in a previous game, promises to repay Kratos if he lets Helios live. Kratos, in return, asks to know where the Flame of Olympus is.\\

* After having sex with Aphrodite, she suggests to Kratos to go seek Hephaestus if he wanted to cross the bridge and reach Pandora.\\
'''You'd Expect''': For Kratos to simply ask a new weapon that would allow him to cross the bridge and if prompted by Hephaestus, claims that he’s going to save Pandora from being tortured by Zeus to "fulfill" his promise to the smith god.\\
'''Instead''': He straightforwardly and bluntly says that he’s seeking the Labyrinth which, when added to his previous mention of seeking the Flame, causes Hephaestus to put the two together and realize that Kratos intends to sacrifice his daughter to the Flame. This directly causes Hephaestus to turn against Kratos, first by sending him to his death by Kronos and later, attempting to kill him after claiming his new weapon, forcing Kratos to kill one of the very few gods that he trusted.
* Hephaestus learns that Kratos is after his daughter, Pandora, as her sacrifice is needed to retrieve Pandora's Box. He then [[UriahGambit sends Kratos to find an object he'd use to make Kratos a new weapon, but the object is in the belly of a vengeful titan]]. Kratos returns with the object and is angry with Hephaestus for sending him on a suicide mission, but Hephaestus claims he was confident that Kratos could do it. Fearing that his daughter will soon be sacrificed, Hephaestus decides to pull a desperate move and make a weapon for him before using it to channel the electric flow towards him.\\

* In the prequel game ''Ascension'', the Furies have captured Kratos as well as all of his items including the very eyes design to directly counter the furies.\\
'''You'd Expect''': For them to destroy the items after capturing him or at least put it in some place where Kratos won't find it.\\
'''Instead''': They kept it with them allowing Kratos to reclaim back the items and subsequently caused Alecto and Tisiphone's downfall.
* When Castor and Pollux decide to fight Kratos in order to stop him from reaching the Oracle, they show that they are able to teleport and mainly use this ability in their fight with Kratos.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Since the furies have told them to stop Kratos from reaching the Oracle under the threat of torture for failing, they'd teleport themselves to the Oracles location and then take her and themselves to a far away location so that Kratos will never find them. If they still believe that they could kill Kratos, they could have also teleported the Oracle to the Furies so that they can imprison her or do whatever they please to her and then return to the fight with Kratos.\\

'''Instead''': She gloats about it to Kratos, stating that [[spoiler: Kratos' daughter Calliope will also be killed due to the destruction of the pillar. This gives Kratos the resolve to push Calliope away for her sake, reclaim his power and kill Persephone as well as stop the plan.]]
* In that same scene Kratos [[spoiler: is reunited with his daughter, whom he had accidentally killed in the first game but because of Persephone's plan, he is forced to permanently leave her in order to save her]]\\
'''You'd Expect''': Kratos would ask for his daughter's forgiveness for what he did so that he can forgive himself and end his nightmares by being at peace with his past, or at least give her some last words so that he can redeem himself in her eyes.\\
'''Instead''': [[spoiler: Kratos doesn't say anything to her and he forcefully pushes her to the ground and then he kills multiple spirits which leave her in tears. In the ending it's shown that she’s completely traumatized by the experience and now refuses to play her flute which was something that she enjoyed doing as a past time.]]

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* Plotting to overthrow Zeus and become the new King of Olympus, Ares devices a plan to create a perfect warrior that will be strong enough to triumph over all the gods and found one in the form of Kratos who begged for the god to spare his life in return for a pledge of loyalty. To ensure that he becomes the perfect machine of destruction, he has Kratos devise three blood tests; the blood of his enemies, blood of innocents, and the blood of his loved ones. To ensure that the last test is fulfilled, Ares plans to trick Kratos into murdering his wife and child.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That right after his family was murdered, Ares would claim that an opposing kingdom had intentionally placed them in the village just to spite him, thus fueling his desire for vengeance. Afterwards, Ares would manipulate him even further by helping him massacre the kingdom that is supposedly responsible and then eventually, with nobody to hold him back, he would refuel his bloodlust by convincing him to continue slaughtering innocents and eventually the Olympians.\\
'''Instead:''' Right after killing his wife and child, Ares proceeds to reveal that now nothing is holding him back into becoming the perfect warrior which made Kratos realize that Ares tricked him and has now turned against him, causing him to become serviant to the gods and later on when destroying a temple of Athena, the same perfect warrior proceeds to gain Pandora's Box and ultimately murder him. Granted Kratos does manage to destroy all of Olympus like Ares wanted, it's just that the God of War is not alive to see this.
* Using Zeus's Bolt of Lightning, Kratos manages to break the chain that was holding Pandora's Box and decides to approach it for its power.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' For Ares to... ''do something'' like either pick him up hoping he could brainwash Kratos into his servant again, or simply killing him because he’s no longer useful to him.\\
'''Instead:''' Ares [[TransformationIsAFreeAction just stood there and did nothing]] as Kratos opens Pandora's Box in order to obtain his godly powers. Unsurprisingly, this leads to Ares's death.
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* Near the start of the second game, Zeus has just offered Kratos the Blade of Olympus, telling him that he can use the blade to defeat the Colossus, but he has to first give his godly powers to it. Keep in mind that not only did Athena previously warn Kratos that the gods were angry with him, Kratos is currently doing well against the statue, having chopped off one of its hands, among other things.\\

'''The Result:''' Zeus then arrives, takes the blade from a very injured Kratos, and [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice stabs Kratos through the stomach with it]].

'''You'd Expect''': For Kratos to quickly grab ANY of his weapons and just quickly murder Icarus with them (and while Icarus here is shown tough enough to survive colliding with boulders, even he wouldn't resist being stabbed with the Blades of Athena)\\

* Near the end of the second game, Kratos surrenders to Zeus, and invites him to kill him, as part of an ISurrenderSuckers plan.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Zeus to be suspicious, and throw a bolt of lightning at Kratos.\\
'''Instead''': He decides to use the [[{{BFS}} Blade of Olympus]] to do the job. Kratos counters his blow with the Golden Fleece and turns the sword on him.
* Atropos tells Kratos that she can destroy the Blade of the Gods and prevent Kratos' victory over Ares.\\

'''Instead''': She not only blabs this critical information, but she waits until Kratos is in a position to successfully stop her before attempting to destroy the Blade.
* After finally going back in time to the point where Zeus betrayed him, Kratos arrives to see Zeus stabbing his past self.\\

* In the first game, Kratos uses PandorasBox, which contains the power to kill a god, to kill Ares. In ''III'', he looks for it again in order to kill Zeus. Along the way, he [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown slaughters]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill the fuck]] out of the gods and goddesses he hasn't already killed yet.\\

'''Instead''': He wanders all over Olympus looking for it and continues killing gods, bringing natural disasters on the world and practically destroying it, and gaining and losing a MoralityPet.

* The entire segment with Icarus is just one stupid moment after the other, unsurprising due to him being a symbol of hubris.
** After somehow escaping the Underworld, Icarus makes it to the Great Chasm in the Island of Creation. Right after it is a temple that will take to him to the Sisters of Fate.

'''You'd Expect''': For Icarus to JUST FUCKING FLY over the goddamn chasm! He thinks it's his "test", so he might as well do it!

'''Instead''': Icarus climbs under the bridge to scare away anyone who also wants to get across, rather than do his "test" immediately. This leads to him butting heads with KRATOS, who despite having lost his godly powers, can still murder him if he wishes.

'''You'd THEN Expect''': For Icarus to realize he's talking to the Ghost of Sparta and immediately hightail it out of there.

'''Instead''': He decides to pick a fight with Kratos by stating that he'll never get to the Fates. This leads to Kratos threatening to rip off his wings, thus leading to Icarus tackling both of them over the chasm.

* Kratos is no better during the boss fight.
'''You'd Expect''': For Kratos to quickly grab ANY of his weapons and just quickly murder Icarus with them (and while Icarus here is shown tough enough to survive colliding with boulders, even he wouldn't resist being stabbed with the Blades of Athena)

'''Instead:''' Kratos punches Zeus, thus giving himself away, grabs the Blade, and fights him, despite the fact that it would’ve been easier for him to kill Zeus if he just snook up on him.

'''Instead:''' He just approach the dwarves and have them built a statue in Midgard to place his eye on despite the fact that anyone with a sharp eye in Midgard could easily retrieve the eye for their own use. Indeed when Kratos and Atreus come to ask for Mimir's eye, Brok revealed about the statue that Odin convince him to built allowing them to retrieve the eye and made it to Jötunheim first before Odin even knew about it.

* Throughout the whole game, it is continually proven that Kratos possesses [[SuperStrength immense strength]], being able to push titan sized arms and feet and lift cages with little effort.\\

'''You'd Expect''': For Kratos to simply ask a new weapon that would allow him to cross the bridge and if prompted by Hephaestus, claims that he is going to save Pandora from being tortured by Zeus to "fulfill" his promise to the smith god.\\
'''Instead''': He straightforwardly and bluntly says that he is seeking the Labyrinth which, when added to his previous mention of seeking the Flame, causes Hephaestus to put the two together and realize that Kratos intends to sacrifice his daughter to the Flame. This directly causes Hephaestus to turn against Kratos, first by sending him to his death by Kronos and later, attempting to kill him after claiming his new weapon, forcing Kratos to kill one of the very few gods that he trusted.

'''You'd Expect:''' For Ares to... ''do something'' like either pick him up hoping he could brainwash Kratos into his servant or simply killing him when he is no longer useful to him.\\

'''You'd Expect''': Thera to tell Kratos she is too weak and can give Kratos her power only if she is freed, which means he has to keep her alive, so they can team up to destroy Atlantis and escape together.\\

'''Instead''': Kratos steals her power and leaves her alone. He then sinks Atlantis, with the flood water killing Thera. Oh, and this pisses off Poseidon who swears vengeance on Kratos. [[spoiler:Atleast Gaia's plan faired a bit better and coincidentally she fought Poseidon alongside Kratos in ''God Of War III''.]]

'''Instead''': [[spoiler: Kratos doesn't say anything to her and he forcefully pushes her to the ground and then he kills multiple spirits which leave her in tears. In the ending it's shown that she is completely traumatised by the experience and now refuses to play her flute which was something that she enjoyed doing as a past time.]]

'''Instead:''' He orders the genocide of the Jötunns; believing that even if one giant lives then all of creation is doomed. He also imprisons Tyr (as shown in the trailer for ''Ragnarok'')for supposedly conspiring against him and tortures Mimir for the same reason. When the Jötunns flee Midgard and seal the exit, Odin's done irreparable damage to the Jötunns and has destroyed any chance of truly preventing Ragnarok.