God of War Series – Titans / Characters

The Titans were the race of deities who ruled the world before the Olympian Gods came to existence. They were the ones who aided Kratos in his quest for vengeance against Zeus but they became the secondary group of antagonists upon Gaia's betrayal.

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In General

Barbie Doll Anatomy: Most of the Titan appear to lack proper genitalia, such as Cronos and Atlas (who have smooth, rounded bumps instead of proper genitals). Rhea is a notable exception.
Crippling Over Specialization: The Titans' size is not indicative of any superiority in magical abilities making the gods able to easily evade the lumbering giants they face and deliver incredibly effective blows.
David Versus Goliath: They're the Goliath regardless of whether they're fighting either Kratos or the other gods, since the latter are only about as big as their fingertips at best.
Death of the Old Gods: These were the beings who ruled the world before the gods, but most of them fell in the Titanomachy when the gods rose to power. They try to avert this during the second Titanomachy, but they end up failing just as easily as before.
Divine Conflict: They entered into one with the gods before the current setting, causing the first Titanomachy. They try to pull a second one during the start of III, with about the success you'd expect.
Everybody's Dead, Dave: Not a single titan remains standing by the end of III: most of them perish just trying to reach the top of Mount Olympus, and Kratos kills the two who did manage to get there; Perses with the Blade of Olympus, and Gaia as collateral damage during his fight against Zeus.
Elemental Embodiment: Each of the Titans are a personification of a certain element of nature. Gaia is the embodiment of Earth; Perses is a living volcanic eruption; Oceanus is made of water; etc.
Family Extermination: The Titans are related to the Gods of Olympus through Cronos, and the entire point of the second Titanomachy is to overthrow them. Kratos is also related to them through Zeus, and he ends up killing the majority of them either directly or indirectly.
Fish out of Temporal Water: The Titans, with the help of Kratos, are sent forward in time to the beginning of III in order to execute a second Titanomachy.
Giant Equals Invincible: Not really. The titans are massive embodiments of the elements, but this also means that not only are they slow, but much bigger targets than the gods they fight against. Couple this with them being Unskilled, but Strong with little use of their elemental powers, and they're quite easily dispatched.
Humanoid Abomination: They're vaguely human in shape, but have very little in common with humans otherwise.
Informed Ability: Other than Atlas using his quake ability to save Cronos, the titans are never seen using their magical power despite giving Kratos their own magic.
Kill the God: This was their original intent during the first Titanomachy, but the gods proved to be so much more powerful than them even without their myriad of powers that the Titans fell like flies with little hassle. They try this again during the second Titanomachy, but are about as successful as before.
Lesser of Two Evils: While they're not the nicest people, nor do they seem particularly concerned with the welfare of humanity, they don't go out of their way to antagonize them nor act like the tyrants that their offspring, the Olympians, do.
Mighty Glacier: Next to the Olympians, the Titans of both the First and Second Titanomachy are slow but fairly durable. Downplayed somewhat in that they're still very easily taken down by the gods due to a variety of factors.
Minor Major Character: The Titans are one of the fundamental aspects of the Greek mythology and subsequently, the God Of War universe but aside from Gaia and Atlas, none of them play any substantial role in Kratos's story.
The Old Gods: These beings were the rulers of the world before the gods came into existence.
Our Titans Are Different: While they share their mythological counterparts' status as the gods before the gods, they're weaker than them and are absolutely huge (compared to the more human-sized Titans of Greek Mythology). They're also a good deal less malevolent by comparison.
Paper Tiger: They can crush puny mortals and cause destruction with ease, but for living embodiments of nature of immense power, they are not so tough to the Olympians or Kratos. When they are brought back to the current timeline to wage a second Titanomachy against Olympus, they are all soundly defeated by the Gods at the start of the game.
Unskilled, but Strong: The Titans are incredibly strong, being capable of tearing down pieces of mountain and throwing them with ease, coupled with their elemental powers giving them a bit of an edge they otherwise wouldn't have on their own. But as shown in their rise towards Olympus, they're so slow that the Olympians have more than ample time to consider their options and strike a counterattack.
Villain Forgot to Level Grind: Back during the Titanomachy, they were at least somewhat capable of battling the Olympians. However, by the time of God of War III the Titans have spent thousands of years stuck in Tartarus while the Olympians have had free reign to develop their powers; the result is that they're massively outclassed despite their imposing appearance with all but two (Gaia and Persus) being easily swept off Olympus' slopes in the opening battle. Even then, the remaining two don't fare so well - Kratos casually one-shots Persus with the Blade of Olympus, while Gaia ends up being repeatedly dismembered then killed during the last battle of the game.
The Worf Effect: Want to establish how badass the gods that Kratos will face are? Have them easily defeat giant beings that are literal embodiments of elements.
Your Size May Vary: Cronos is much smaller in the Titanomachy backstory than he is in the actual game; he's about the same height as a cliff, rather than the 1600-foot tall giant faced by Kratos.

Gaia

"Fight, Spartan. You are not meant to die here. This is not the end."

Voiced by: Linda Hunt (English, God of War II), Susanne Blakeslee (English, God of War III)^{additional VAs}

"I am the Titan, Gaia; ever-present Mother of Earth. I have watched you become a powerful warrior, and I have been with you through all the events of your life, but I can no longer simply watch."

The mother of the Titans and the Titan of Earth. After being banished to the Underworld after the Titanomachy, Gaia forges an alliance with Kratos so she can get her own revenge against the Gods.

An Arm and a Leg: One of her arms gets blasted part by Zeus' lightning bolt during the beginning of the game, before Kratos finishes the job by hacking it apart, leading her to fall to her supposed death.
Adaptation Species Change: Gaia in the original myths was one of the primordial deities who created the universe. In here, she's a Titan just like the rest of her children.
Betrayal by Inaction: She completely ignores Kratos' pleas for help when he's left dangling on her back after being sent plummeting by Zeus, instead focusing on trying to return to the top of Mount Olympus, leading Kratos to lose his grip and fall to his death.
Big Bad Ensemble: She is one of the three main antagonists in God of War III, alongside Zeus and Athena. Much like the latter, Gaia manipulates Kratos for her own benefit; and by the end of the game, she wants the protagonist dead, much like the former.
Big Bad Wannabe: Between she, Zeus, and Athena, she proves to be the least effective of the trio of main antagonists in the third game; Zeus at least manages to put up a decent fight against Kratos, and Athena manages to manipulate him until he discovers he has Hope within him and kills himself to deny her the chance to use it. Gaia? She manages to work with Kratos for all of the prologue before she casts him away, gets betrayed by him with her unable to do anything about it, and is killed in the final battle between Zeus and Kratos as collateral damage.
The Chessmaster: She manipulated Kratos (whom Zeus even refers to as Gaia's "pawn") in her plan to destroy Zeus, but in her haste to get to Zeus betrayed him and cast him aside, pitting herself and the Titans against the former God of War.
Deuteragonist: Serves as Kratos's guide in the second game.
Evil All Along: Kratos initially believed that Gaia and the Titans were on his side by the end of the second game, or if not, then their shared hatred of the Olympians would give them a common ground to not screw each other over and instead focus on them. Then Gaia leaves Kratos to die when they're both sent plummeting down Mount Olympus and she regains her grip, and it becomes clear she never cared for Kratos, only seeing him as a pawn to achieve her revenge.
Evil Matriarch: She's the mother of all the Titans, and she uses Kratos as a pawn to get to Olympus, effectively ditching him when she finds him no longer useful.
Gaia's Vengeance: Gaia is the embodiment of nature and is determined to overthrow Zeus by any means possible after he banished the Titans. She later turns on Kratos as well, due to his slaughter of the Olympians leading to most of the world being devastated.
Genius Loci: Her body itself is an ecosystem, one in which Zeus actually spent his childhood.
Gruesome Grandparent: Wants to take down her grandson Zeus for overthrowing and imprisoning the Titans, all for the sins of just one. She later turns against her great-grandson Kratos.
Ironic Echo: Some of her words admitting that she treated Kratos like a pawn are tossed right back at her when they meet again and Kratos tears her hand off of a mountain. Notably, Kratos declared that she was merely his simple pawn and flipped the script by saying it was his war vs Zeus, not the Titans'.
Manipulative Bitch: She played Kratos like a fiddle. And boooy does it bite her hard in the ass.
Morton's Fork: After Zeus sends her plummeting down Mount Olympus with one divine lightning bolt and she regains her grip by sheer luck, Kratos is left dangling on her back, desperately clinging to the Blade of Olympus and slowly losing his grip. At this point, she can either not help Kratos, all but adding her onto his ever expanding hit list for betraying him, or she does help him... and risk losing her grip due to her broken arm, sending them both down to a certain death anyway.
Moral Myopia: She's outraged that the person she betrayed and manipulated wouldn't help her again. In fact, it's a perfect mirror of the earlier situation: Kratos chooses to cut her down after he has to climb back up to where she clung to on Mount Olympus, when earlier she had refused to help Kratos climb back up to face Zeus.
Narrator All Along: At the beginning of II. She narrated the previous game, but reveals herself to be an actual character when she brings Kratos back to life.
Never My Fault: When she returns for the final battle between Kratos and Zeus, she angrily blames Kratos for the destruction of the world brought on by the death of the gods, conveniently ignoring the fact she and the Titans were battling to destroy Olympus themselves, which likely would have resulted in the same outcome.
Not Quite Dead: In the third game, Kratos severs her hand and sends her tumbling into an abyss. She returns in the climax of the game and attempts to kill both Zeus and the protagonist.
Revenge Before Reason: She's so hellbent on getting her revenge on Zeus that she throws Kratos, one of the only factors allowing her second Titanomachy to even last longer than a few seconds, down the bus in order to get a shot at returning to the top of Mount Olympus to take down Zeus himself.
Sadly Mythtaken: Though their mother, Gaia herself isn't a Titan. Specifically, she was one of the Primordial Gods, who were overthrown by the Titans.
The Smurfette Principle: While not the only female Titan featured in the series, she's the only one who takes part in the second Titanomachy against the Olympian gods.
Too Dumb to Live: Lets see, Gaia makes the decision to betray Kratos and let him fall off Olympus, when he's knocked off her shoulder and asking her for help. Helping him would've been impossible for her to do, however rather than explain that to him, she tries to invoke You Have Outlived Your Usefulness, despite being well aware of just how dangerous Kratos is, and how vengeful he can be. Even worse, it's implied that the gods have grown to be far more powerful than the Titans, meaning Kratos was essential in their plan to overthrow the gods. Had Gaia been successful in getting Kratos killed, she would've just gotten absolutely destroyed by Zeus.
Treacherous Advisor: She only saw Kratos as a pawn and discarded him once things got hard for her.
Ungrateful Bastard: Despite the fact that Kratos saved her multiple times from Poseidon's assault^note, when they both are about to fall, rather than simply telling him that she is a bit busy for the moment or give him some encouragement, she straight up tells Kratos that he is simply a pawn in her game and discards him the moment he no longer becomes useful to her.
Villain Ball: Grabs this hard at the beginning of III - telling Kratos to his face that she considers him a worthless pawn and leaving him to die was a bad move, considering that she's well aware that he's killed multiple gods by that point and has escaped the Underworld at least thrice. What's worse: Gaia was playing the "You Have Outlived Your Usefulness" trope even though he definitely didn't yet, as the Titans were clearly outmatched by the Gods and Kratos was their only hope of winning, and while she could not reasonably reach back to grab him in her state, she could have just apologized or ignored him rather than gloating pointlessly.
Villain Has a Point: While she's doing it to get rid of him, Gaia isn't exactly wrong when she refuses to help Kratos at the start of III: Zeus had just blasted one of her freaking arms apart and sent her plummeting down Mount Olympus, with Gaia only being able to regain her grip through sheer dumb luck. Couple that with Kratos being essentially the size of a flea in her gargantuan body, and even if her arm was left intact, the risk in helping the spartan would prove too great and lead to them dying anyway.
Walking Spoiler: She's the narrator of the first game and the deuteragonist of the second. In the third one, her true nature is revealed.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: She definitely becomes this by the end of the third game, when the war scarred the world too bad for her to handle. It wasn't better that she survived a murder attempt by Kratos and had to climb the whole of Mount Olympus again.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: When Zeus attacks Gaia and Kratos at the beginning of the third game, the latter starts losing his grip on the Titan's body and asks for help. Gaia coldly responds that he was nothing but a pawn to her, and lets him fall to his death.

Atlas

"May fate grant you passage, Kratos, for many rely on your success."

Voiced by: Michael Clarke Duncan (English, God of War II), Fred Tatasciore (English, Chains of Olympus)^{additional VAs}

"Who breaks my chains of torment?! You are strong, but you are far too small, even for an Olympian, to be a god."

The Titan condemned to hold up the world for all eternity. Brother of Prometheus and Epimetheus.

Dishing Out Dirt: Can create earthquakes, and gives this power to Kratos.
The Dragon: To Cronus in the Titanomachy and to Persephone in Chains of Olympus.
Elemental Embodiment: He has some earthern features and magma flows freely in his body.
Enemy Mine: While Atlas is understandably bitter towards Kratos following the events of Chains of Olympus, he decides to help the Ghost of Sparta because he hates Zeus more.
The Giant: Atlas is obviously the Robert Wadlow of the Titans, given just how massive he is even by their standards.
Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Unlike his mythological counterpart, Atlas sports two pairs of arms here.
Remember the New Guy?: He and Kratos have obviously met before when they encounter one another in II. Their first meeting is detailed in Chains of Olympus, the first prequel released a year after II.
Sealed Evil in a Can: He can't escape from his prison, although Persephone makes an attempt at springing him in Chains of Olympus.
Womb Level: Kratos navigates the inside of his back, and uses one of his vertebrae as a platform to navigate through his back and shoulder.
Your Size May Vary: In Chains of Olympus he appeared to be much smaller with Kratos being able to quickly chain his hands up to the ceiling of the underworld in a series of quick time events, while navigating his arm was a whole level in II.

Cronos

"Kratos! Your death will not be a gentle one!"

Voiced by: Lloyd Sherr (English, God of War II), George Ball (English, God of War III)^{additional VAs}

"You killed Ares out of your need for vengeance! But this time, retribution finally comes to me, Spartan!"

The King of the Titans and father of Zeus and several other Olympians, the rest of whom he devoured to keep them from overthrowing him; of course, he was overthrown anyway. Cronos is initially condemned to carrying the Temple of Pandora housing Pandora's Box, and is later sent to Tartarus to carry out the rest of his punishment after Kratos claims Pandora's Box for himself.

Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Only Asura's Wrath bosses surpass him in sheer size, which is really saying something. Word of God is that he's 1600 feet tall.
Archnemesis Dad: To all of the the first Olympians and Zeus in particular, he earned the undying hatred of his children by trying to devour them all in order to preserve his own power forever.
Body Horror: His body seems to have boils full of things like animated human skeletons and fleshless cyclopes all over. Also, as pictured to the right, his skin is also fused with the various chains and mechanisms that keep Pandora's Temple bound to his back! OUCH!
Carpet of Virility: Particularly in a flashback cutscene to Rhea switching an infant Zeus with a rock to protect him.
Chained by Fashion: The Temple of Pandora is chained to his back.
Colossus Climb: The biggest example in the series, as Kratos' entire battle with Cronos is one of these.
Eats Babies: He certainly ate his (save for Zeus, of course).
Eunuchs Are Evil: As seen in the third game at least, Cronos has no huevos. It's possible he was castrated by Zeus as part of his punishment.
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: One of the reasons for why he tries to kill Kratos, when they meet again in Tartarus. Kratos had just recently tried to kill Gaia.
Evil Old Folks: The once-proud King of the Titans, Cronos is at least a few millennia old by the time he and Kratos meet up.
Evil Sounds Deep: Appropriate for someone as purely massive as Cronos.
Fat Bastard: Not as much as Clotho, but Cronos has some noticeable fat.
Fate Worse than Death: Fell victim to this at the hands of his own son. Once Zeus usurped Cronos' position of power, Cronos was forced to uphold Pandora's Temple upon his back and wander the Desert of Lost Souls forever. This gets even worse by the time Kratos nabs Pandora's Box from the Temple, as Zeus later banishes Cronos after to the pits of Tartarus. By the time Kratos meets up with him in the Underworld, it's suffice to say Cronos isn't happy at all with the Ghost of Sparta.
Fingore: During his boss fight in III, Kratos has to tear off one of his fingernails in order to proceed.
Greater-Scope Villain: Of the Greek Mythology era as a whole; he's responsible for Zeus' enmity toward the Titans and therefore indirectly responsible for the first Titanomachy, which is in turn the reason why the gods of Olympus came to have such influence over Greece.
Gruesome Grandparent: Technically Kratos' grandfather, and becomes his enemy due to blaming him for his worsened Fate Worse than Death. Also for supposedly killing Gaia.
Gutted Like a Fish: His fate at the hands of Kratos, from the inside out.
History Repeats: He just doesn't learn. Swallowing his children was what got Zeus to overthrow his rule, and trying to kill Kratos by devouring him just gets him disemboweled from the inside-out.
Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: It's not exactly clear how Cronos and Rhea were able to procreate, considering he's roughly a thousand times larger than her. But this is consistent with Greek mythology, which did not overly concern itself with little details like whether sex between two beings was physically possible.
Hypocrite: Cronos calls Kratos a "coward who kills his own kin" even though Cronos himself ate his own children out of fear that they would overthrow him.
Offing the Offspring: Was paranoid that his children would rebel, so he ate all of them (barring Zeus).
Rasputinian Death: Kratos guts him from the inside-out, which does nothing beyond leaving him in horrible pain and preventing him from attacking further, before ramming the giant crystal in his belly button through Cronus' jaw. That doesn't kill him. Kratos stabs him in the forehead with the Blade of Olympus. That finally kills him, though he spends several seconds staggering around, screaming in agony and desperately trying to pull the stone spike from his chin before he finally topples over dead.
Shock and Awe: As seen in Cronus' Rage, instead of being associating with Agriculture or Time (By mistaking him with Chronos) in the myths, he seemed able to wield lighting like his sons here.
Spared by the Adaptation: Greek mythology tells that, when defeated, Cronos was cut in pieces with his own scythe, and thrown into Tartarus. In the God of War verse, he was condemned to carrying the Temple of Pandora housing Pandora's Box and later sent to Tartarus, where his body is still complete before his eventual fight with Kratos.
Tempting Fate: What he says right before swallowing Kratos reeks of this. Getting gutted from the inside-out is hardly a pleasant fate, after all.
Cronos: Trust me, eating you will be more unpleasant for me!
Too Dumb to Live: He actually thought swallowing Kratos whole without stripping him of his weapons was a sure way to defeat him. He couldn't have been more wrong.
Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: Cronos' initial attempt to maintain his rule involved devouring his own children from the moment of birth, and during his boss battle with Kratos attempts to eat him as well. In response, Kratos plunges the Blade of Olympus through his guts and out his stomach just to get out.
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Cronos is a bald, lumpy brute with bad skin and rather disgusting appetites. He's also married to Rhea, who looks like a rather attractive regular human woman.
Your Size May Vary: The narration of the First God Of War Game stated that Kratos climbed for three days and three nights just to reach the top of Cronos. By contrast, God Of War III has him swinging across the width of his torso in a matter of mere seconds, and God of War II also depicts Cronus as being the same height as the other Titans during the Titanomachy cutscene.

Prometheus

Voiced by: Alan Oppenheimer (English)^{additional VAs}

The Titan who introduced mankind to fire, originally used only by the Gods, and is punished for it.

Death by Adaptation: Prometheus in the myths was freed from his torment by Hercules, but in the game, he is killed by Kratos with the Fire of Olympus while still imprisoned.
Fate Worse than Death: As punishment for giving mortals fire, he's chained to Typhon's hand, exposed to the blizzards and there's a giant buzzard of Zeus' which keeps eating his liver every single day since it grows back every single night.
Kill It with Fire: Only the Fire of Olympus can destroy his immortality.
Mercy Kill: Begs Kratos to stop his torture, even if that means killing him.
Non-Standard Character Design: Despite being a Titan, Zeus trapped him in human form.
Sadly Mythtaken: The buzzard that eats his liver every day is actually killed by Hercules during his trials. By the time Kratos comes around, the eagle would have been long dead. Averted with the fact that Hercules mentions that he was on his trials when Kratos killed Ares.
Playing with Fire: Hinted to have this element.
Who Wants to Live Forever?: Well, he surely doesn't thanks to the Fate Worse than Death Zeus subjected him to.

Typhon

Voiced by: Fred Tatasciore

The Titan of Wind who was sealed in the frozen depths of a mountain following his defeat at the hands of the Olympians.

Adaptational Wimp: In the Greek myths, he was a giant monster that sent most of the Olympians running in fear at the mere sight of him, with only Zeus staying to fight him and nearly losing, and the battle describing as ripping mountains out of the ground and throwing them. But when he appears in God of War II, he's demoted to being just another titan, with little power besides his size and nothing implied to special about compared to the others. Even the way he attacked, blowing air, giving hints of him having wind powers, falls flat when Cronos in God Of War III is seen doing the same thing, hinting that again only came from his size.
Adaptation Species Change: Typhon wasn't a Titan in the myths, instead being an Eldritch Abomination spawned from the union of Tartarus and Gaia. Here he's a Titan with an unclear relation to the rest of his kind.
An Ice Person: His wind is freezing cold.
Blow You Away: A very cold wind, since it's an ice mountain he's in. It's also what he uses to try and take down Kratos, aiming to blow him off the path and onto the rocks below.
Eye Scream: Kratos rips out his left eye to gain Typhon's Bane, then shoots out the other when Typhon continues trying to kill him.
Sadly Mythtaken: Typhon wasn't a Titan nor was he associated with wind.
Sealed Evil in a Can: More like Sealed Typhon in an Ice Mountain, as he's found partly fused to one in the deeps of his cavern-prison.

Rhea

The Queen of the Titans and mother of Zeus and the Olympian Gods.

Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: With Cronos. She's literally smaller than one of his fingers. This brings up the question of how exactly the two of them were able to breed, considering that he's 1600 feet tall to to her roughly-human size.
Mama Bear: She sent Zeus away rather than allow Cronos to eat him.
Non-Standard Character Design: She's the only Titan to look like a human instead of a colossal embodiment of the elements (Helios and Eos also look like that, but they could be now full Gods).
Small Role, Big Impact: She appears in a small flashback in God of War II, but her act of Mama Bear is the reason why Zeus grew strong enough to overthrow his father and establish the Olympian Pantheon, leading to the trilogy and beyond.
Strong Family Resemblance: The upper half of her face closely resembles that of her son Zeus.
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Far more attractive than Kronos, even taking the size difference into account.
Vapor Wear: Rhea wears a toga outfit that is almost transparent, leaving her breasts and nipples clearly visible beneath it.
What Happened to the Mouse?: Her fate is never covered in any detail, or even mentioned outside the flashbacks detailing Zeus' origin story.

Epimetheus

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The Titan of Nature and a brother of Prometheus and Atlas, who participated in the Second Titanomachy.

All There in the Manual: His name is never mentioned outside of supplementary material.
Curb-Stomp Battle: His entire role in III is to get one-shot five minutes in by Poseidon after hurling a boulder at (and missing) Zeus.
Dishing Out Dirt: Possibly, since he's made of rock.
Red Shirt: Poseidon one-shots him by dive-bombing into his chest, sending Epimetheus plummeting down Mount Olympus to his doom in the sea below.
Sadly Mythtaken: Epimetheus was the Titan of Afterthought/Hindsight, not nature. It's also unclear whether or not he fought in the Titanomachy, as opposed to his decision to fight alongside the Titans in-game.

Hyperion

The Titan of Light, and one of the original Titans. Brother of Cronos and Oceanus and father of Helios, he was unleashed once again during the Second Titanomachy.

All There in the Manual: He's seen in Chains of Olympus first, then a cameo in III, both times unnamed.
Colossus Climb: Sort of. You walk on one of his chains in Chains of Olympus.
Light 'em Up: Presumably, since he's the Titan of Light.
Red Shirt: Poseidon takes him down pretty quickly.

Perses

The Titan of Destruction, son of Krius, one of the original Titans, and a participant of the Second Titanomachy.

All There in the Manual: Like Epimetheus, his name.
Enemy Mine: He and Kratos (very briefly, and somewhat accidentally) resurrect their previous alliance when Kratos interrupts the battle between him and Helios; Kratos catapults Helios' chariot into Perses' hand, and Perses crushes Helios in his fist before tossing him aside, which leaves Helios a bleeding wreck who's easily finished off by Kratos later. Once the moment passes, they go right back to trying to kill each other, and Kratos dispatches Perses in short order using the Blade of Olympus.
Eye Scream: Kratos jams the Sword of Olympus into his eye, killing him.
Magma Man: He's visibly made of red hot magma.
Red Shirt: Not as bad as Epimetheus, but he has problems with Helios, and was quickly killed by Kratos.
Sole Survivor: Seems to be the only Titan barring Gaia, who reached the summit later on that made it to Olympus proper, for all of about five minutes before Kratos one-shots him with the Blade of Olympus.

Oceanus

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The Titan of Water and one of the original Titans. Brother of Cronos and Hyperion, and a particicpant in the Second Titanomachy.

All There in the Manual: Like Epimetheus and Perses, his name.
Evil Counterpart: In a sense, to Poseidon. Both have water & lightning powers, both are associated with the sea (Poseidon rules it, Oceanus is/was it) and have quite a few kids among them.
Kung-Shui: A, "battle NOT against the protagonist," variation, as he isn't fought by Kratos, but as shown during the beginning of III, his body emanates electricity that damages the sides of Mount Olympus as he climbs to do battle with the Olympians.
Making a Splash: His body is a combination of water and electricity.
Red Shirt: (Presumably) taken out by Hades, when he was dislodged from Mount Olympia, in his third appearance, no less.
Sadly Mythtaken: Not as bad as Typhon, but Oceanus was a very neutral God who didn't take part in Cronus and his other brothers' rebellion against Uranus or in the Titanomachy.
Shock and Awe: Merged with water, no less.

Thera

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Voiced by: Dee Dee Rescher (English)^{additional VAs}

The Titan of Lava, and of the original Titans. Wife of Hyperion and mother of Helios. Sealed within a volcano in Atlantis.

Canon Foreigner: Thera is an entirely original character made up for the God of War series who doesn't have a direct mythological counterpart. Hyperion's canonical wife Theia was Titaness of Sight, not Lava, so it's possible that Thera is meant to be Theia subject to Adaptation Name Change and Adaptational Superpower Change.
Deal with the Devil: She offered Kratos a portion of her power if he would free her from her imprisonment. She kept her end of the bargain, but proceeded to sink Atlantis.
Hoist by His Own Petard: By sinking Atlantis, she was overwhelmed by the floodwaters.
Magma Man: Has this physical appearance.
Playing with Fire: As seen with Thera's Bane.
Sealed Evil in a Can: Until Kratos free her.

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