Ares (God of War)

“	I have taught you many ways to kill a mortal, Kratos. Flesh that burns, bones that break. But to break a man's spirit is to truly destroy him.	„
	~ Ares to Kratos

Summary

Ares (Greek: Ἄρης) was the original Olympian God of War, and the son of Zeus and Hera. He was the main antagonist of the first God of War game, and the perpetrator of the events of the God of War comics and subsequently, God of War: Ascension. He set the events of the series into motion by bestowing the Blades of Chaos onto Kratos and then tricking him into killing his family and turning him into the Ghost of Sparta, which eventually fulfilled the prophecy of the Marked Warrior who would destroy Olympus and end the reign of the Gods (A prophecy he also directly contributed to by abducting Kratos' brother Deimos). Ares was the oldest child of Zeus and was commonly referred to as the most hated god on Mount Olympus by every god, even before being killed by Kratos.

Powers and Stats

Tier: Low 1-C

Name: Ares (Greek: Ἄρης)

Origin: God of War

Gender: Male

Age: At least thousands of years old

Classification: Olympian God of War

Powers and Abilities:

• Powers and abilities
• Resistances

• Superhuman Physical Characteristics
  • Immortality (Types 1, 2 & 3)
  • Greek Godhood (Is the embodiment of War itself, all Gods of War have complete control and awareness over all forms of war, battle and conflict across all of time)
  • Regeneration (Low-Mid; Easily healed from being stabbed through the abdomen with his own Spider arms)
• Divine Magic (Including the Fires of Ares)
• Martial Arts & Weapon Mastery (As the God of War, Ares also possesses knowledge of all forms of conflict and combat across all of time)
• Resurrection (He can respawn his army at any place in an instant)
• Accelerated Development (Scales from Kratos, who can become stronger and faster overtime as the God of War)
• Aura (With the Lance of Ares)
• Flight
• Teleportation
• Pocket Reality Manipulation, Reality Warping, BFR, Duplication,, Power Mimicry, Power Nullification, Hadean Energy, The Lightning of Zeus, Absorption, and Soul Magic (Sent Kratos into a pocket dimension where he fights a bunch of clones of himself that can replicate his powers, like Zeus' Fury, as confirmed in God of War II and its novel. He can nullify and strip others off of their own powers inside his own pocket dimension. He also warped the reality of said dimension, stealing all of Kratos's powers and magic as well as his weapons from him, and completely nullified them, even going so far as to use the Army of Hades Soul Summon ability against him)
• Weapon Creation (Can materialize various weapons out of thin air)
• Animal Control (Commanded several mythical beasts such as harpies)
• Dimensional Travel (Travelled with Kratos to a galaxy-sized dimension after sending him there)
• Necromancy (Controlled hordes of Undead Legionnaires)
• Fire Manipulation, Explosion Manipulation & Rage Power (His hair is literally composed of fire. Set many Barbarian Soldiers on fire. His War Hammer of Olympus, Maul, Blade, Spear and Lance can also manipulate fire in many intricate ways, even using his War Hammer of Olympus against Kratos. Can create a massive wall of flames with a power of the same name, as well as unleash explosions on enemies with Incineration. The Rage of Ares also gives Kratos the power to wield his fire and with it, controlled explosions, as well as further amplifying Kratos's rage, and his Blades of Chaos have these abilities by default. His fires are even stronger than those of the Blades of Chaos)
• Regeneration Negation (His fires prevented Kratos from being able to heal his back injury, forcing the latter to use his Blades of Chaos to heal himself and douse the fires out which still left his back sore)
• Additional Limbs, Bodily Weaponry, Body Control & Limited Elasticity (Grew six Spider arms out of his back, and he can control and extend them to any length he wants)
• Earth Manipulation & Magma Manipulation (Summoned volcanic rock structures in his battle with Kratos, also threw enflamed chunks of rock out of nowhere)
• Healing & Damage Boost (via Battle Horn of Restoration, restores health and increase the weapon's power)
• Space-Time Manipulation (Closing Realm Tears is an act that can be accomplished by sheer strength from the wielder, meaning that this can be accomplished by anyone equal to or stronger than Norse Era Kratos, Sigrun and those comparable to them)
• Probability Manipulation, Empathic Manipulation, Fire Manipulation & Ice Manipulation (Mighty enough battle can generate impossible materials such as the Chaos Flame and the Frozen Flame, the former being made up of the hottest fires of Muspelheim, which is that of Surtr's Primordial fire, which had birthed all the stars and suns, giving heat to the young cosmos. The latter is made up of the chilling Mists of Niflheim, and houses the rage of fire and the temper of ice)

• Blades of Chaos (Able to resist the powers of the Blades of Chaos being used against him by Kratos)
• Petrification and Deconstruction (Resists all of Kratos' abilities, including Poseidon's Rage, which itself consists of Poseidon's Power, which destroys both the soul and the body of whoever stands in the path of its electric beam, with Poseidon's Rage being able to even completely destroy incorporeal Wraiths, as well as being able to resist the Souls of Hades, eventually stealing Kratos's powers and using the Army of Hades Soul Summon ability against him. Should scale to his successor Kratos, who has also survived Poseidon's powers and was able to easily withstand a long period inside the Light of Alfheim without being driven insane or being completely incinerated and being made one with the Light, with the Light of Alfheim being also a Primordial Force that has existed before Odin and the Realms, keeping the Realms separate with its light and also transcending them altogether)
• Death Manipulation (As per Hephaestus, Ares also had sex with Aphrodite, who shares the same powers as her twin daughters Zora and Lora, who can kill people at the mere act of having sex with them)

Attack Potency: Low Complex Multiverse level (Is the fourth mightiest Olympian after Zeus, Poseidon and Hades, and should thus be stronger than the likes of Helios)

Speed: Infinite (Superior to Helios and the Primordials in speed. Likely not too far off from Kratos, who could easily keep up with the Sisters of Fate and Zeus)

Lifting Strength: Immeasurable (Superior to Titans like Atlas, his BFR overpowered Kratos)

Striking Strength: Low Complex Multiverse level (Could physically contend with Kratos)

Durability: Low Complex Multiverse level (Easily withstood being pierced by one of his own spider arms, fought Kratos with the power of Pandora's Box, who could trade blows with him. Is superior to Helios)

Stamina: Superhuman (Fought in the Great War against the Titans for hundreds of years)

Range: Universal+ (Gods are present across their domains, which at the minimum span all of space and time. His roar was powerful enough to shake the heavens and the Earth, with "heavens" referring to the infinite-sized Mortal World. Sent Kratos into a galaxy-sized pocket dimension in order to torture him with his past, as confirmed in God of War II and its novel), Low Multiversal with Army of Hades (Can summon an army of souls from the depths of the Underworld to the Mortal World, both of which are separate space-time continuums)

Standard Equipment: A sword and five spider-like legs sprouting from his back

Intelligence: Gifted (Incredibly skilled warrior due to having knowledge, control and foresight over human conflicts across all of time)

Weaknesses: Pandora's Box, the Blade of the Gods, his own Spider Limbs, and the Blade of Olympus

Gallery

Official render of Ares by Louis Lu

Ares in-game by Louis Lu

Artwork of Ares

Ares' mural in God of War III

Ares as he appears in the 2010 comics

Ares as he appears in God of War: Ascension

Ares as he appears in God of War: Ascension (Undistorted)

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