YMMV / Class of the Titans

• Complete Monster: The Titan Cronus, the God of Time, once warred with his fellow gods for control of the world before being imprisoned in Tartarus. Escaping in the present, Cronus attempts to reassert dominance and reconquer both Mount Olympus and Earth. Over the series, Cronus has attempted various apocalyptic schemes, which include using the Antikythera Device to sink the continents beneath the waves; mutating a group of soldiers into ant monsters to conquer Olympus; plotting to use the Time Piece of Zeus to erase humanity from existence; and poisoning the Tree of Immortality to wipe out his fellow gods. With nothing but hatred for his children and the other gods, Cronus is utterly brutal and merciless in his tactics, which include torturing and trying to kill his own children while throwing the world into chaos and disarray. Cronus eventually gets tired of the human heroes resisting him and makes it a point to attempt to exterminate the entire human race in retribution. At other points, Cronus releases the savage werewolf Lycaon from imprisonment to eat "whomever he may please" and tries to get his mother Gaea to kill Zeus for him. Sophisticated, suave, seemingly polite, and never at loss for a vicious plan, Cronus repeatedly proves how nothing will stand in the way of his goals of domination and destruction.
• Evil Is Cool:
  • Cronus is a suave, controlled gentleman who defines Faux Affably Evil. He also has a Sinister Scythe with an amazing number of powers.
  • Out of all the minions Cronos recruits, Sybaris is among the most popular, primarily because she is given a sympathetic backstory (which is based on real myth, if considerably watered down to make it kid-friendly), has a terrifying voice, and comes incredibly close to actually successfully killing one of the heroes, along with getting a great fight scene with Hera.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: A team of seven young heroes, one of whom is named Jason, is chosen to fight against a villain of Greek myth? Sounds familiar... Didn't they already deal with Cronus/Kronos though?
• Magnificent Bastard:
  • Cronus, Lord of Time and King of the Titans, is the ruthless villain who plots his own escape from Tartarus and promptly asks the Oracle of Delphi for what can stop him. Upon learning of the young would-be heroes, Cronus repeatedly showcases new plans that put him close to completely dominating the world with the young heroes struggling to match him. Cronus takes hostages to lure others into traps, including gods and even fakes his own defeat to take over the underworld. Rarely at a loss, Cronus always rebounds from his defeats and even ends the series defeated but alive and powerful as ever, plotting to weaponize the now unknown future to complete all his plans and dominate the world.
  • "Bad Blood": Autolycus is the mortal son of Hermes, known by his moniker the "Prince of Thieves" due to his mastery of thievery. He is pulled out of time and recruited by Cronus to steal Hercules' "last surviving arrow", in exchange for an immorality granting Golden Apple. Autolycus pulls off two flawless thefts on possible arrows, completely alluding the heroes despite them being tipped off on the second location he would strike. It is only after the heroes are informed of his identity by Hermes himself and his possession of the Helmet of Invisibility are they able to level the playing field and finally capture him. Given a new offer by Jay, he agrees to help them trick Cronus in exchange for another opportunity to steal the Golden Apple, successfully fooling Cronus with a fake arrow and swiping the Golden Apple right from under Cronus' nose.
  • "Recipe for Disaster": Peirithous is the charming, cunning Evil Former Friend of Hercules planning to exact revenge on him for leaving Peirithous in the underworld's chair of forgetfulness, leading to the end of Peirithous' life. Over millennia, Peirithous gains the knowledge of various skilled sorcerers and botanists to create a plant whose nectar will induce dementia in the gods when they consume ambrosia created from said honey. Setting his plan in motion, he renders Cerebus unconscious with a sleeping drug to escape the underworld and later takes control of a now forgetful Hercules, planning to have him trapped like this forever as payback. Peirithous later tricks Hercules into taking on and nearly defeating the heroes in order to save himself. Ultimately, Hercules revealing his guilt over what occurred causes Peirithous to turn over a new leaf out of guilt and help aid the heroes.
• Spiritual Successor: The show is basically an animated version of The Camp Half-Blood Series, especially Percy Jackson and the Olympians, being about a group of modern teens battling ancient Greek monsters led by Cronus/Kronos. The show even aired around the time the Percy Jackson books were being published (2005-2009).

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