Ares (Deity)

**Ares**, also known as the "**Lord of Wars**", is both a fictional character and antagonist of the *Ultimate Ragnarök* series created by David Jaffe and Scott Phillips. He was the Olympian warrior god of war, and the son of Zeus and Hera.

"*I thought we were not to intervene...or does that not even apply to you, o king of kings?*"

—Ares, to his father.

## Appearance & Biography

*Voice Actor*: Travis Willingham (English), Hisashi Izumi (Japanese), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Basque), Not Known (Brazilian), Not Known (Cantonese), Not Known (Catalan), Not Known (Chinese), Not Known (Croatian), Not Known (Danish), Not Known (Dutch), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (Filipino), Not Known (French), Not Known (Galician), Not Known (German), Not Known (Greek), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hong Kong), Not Known (Hungarian), Not Known (Indonesian), Not Known (Italian), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (Mandarin), Not Known (Norwegian), Not Known (Polish), Not Known (Portuguese), Not Known (Romanian), Not Known (Russian), Not Known (Serbian), Roberto Encinas (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Tagalog), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Valencian), Not Known (Ukrainian), Not Known (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (Canadian French), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Not Known (Latin Spanish), Not Known (Spain-Spanish)

### Appearance

Ares appears as a tall and muscular warrior god. He has long hair and has a clean beard with a goatee, which the hair and goatee seem to be made of fire. He can grow bladed spider legs from his back.

For attire, he wears a brown sleeveless tunic with an all-black chest plate, shoulder pieces with Cerberus faces built into them, black pteruges (skirts worn by Greek/Roman soldiers) and has bracers and boots with chains on them. His boots go up to his knees. He is shown to be having spiked shoulder pads that hold his cape in place and forearm cuffs that have spikes. When in battle, he wears his war helmet that appears all-black like the rest of his outfit and has a protruding arch.

There are three spikes on his helmet, spaced from the top of the forehead to the bottom of the nose.

* Hair Color: Not Known
* Skin Color: Gray
* Eye Color: Red
* Age: Not Known
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: Not Known
* Weight: Not Known

## Personality

Ares appeared to be siding with Hera and was against his father, Zeus, showing his preference towards his mother and possible dislike of his father and his actions. But being the God of War, Violence and Bloodshed, Ares was also cruel, sadistic, and violent, as seen by him caring only about spreading chaos and conflict across the world. According to Zeus, Ares only feels joy when destroying cities and nations.

## Relationships

### Family

* Gaia (great-grandmother) †
* Uranus (great-grandfather) †
* Cronus (paternal grandfather) †
* Rhea (paternal grandmother)
* Oceanus (maternal grandfather) †
* Tethys (maternal grandmother)
* Gyges (great-uncle) †
* Aegaeon (great-uncle) †
* Cottus (great-uncle) †
* Hyperion (great-uncle) †
* Aphrodite (great-grandaunt/sister-in-law/lover)
* Hestia (aunt)
* Hades (uncle) †
* Demeter (aunt)
* Poseidon (uncle) †
* Dyntos (uncle)
* Hera (mother) †
* Zeus (father) †
* Alclides (half-brother) †
* Athena (half-sister) †
* Hermes (half-brother) †
* Artemis (half-sister)
* Apollo (half-brother)
* Peirithous (half-brother) †
* Pollux (half-brother) †
* Perseus (half-brother) †
* Minos (half-brother) †
* Dante (half-brother)
* Phobos (son)
* Kratos (son)
* Deimos (son) †
* Hephaestus (half-nephew) †
* Hercules (half-nephew) †
* Lysandra (daughter-in-law) †
* Calliope (granddaughter) †
* Faye (daughter in law) †
* Atreus (grandson)

## Abilities and Powers

As the God of War, Ares possessed a formidable arsenal of superhuman and magical abilities - all in correlation with combat and warfare, as these were his spheres of influence. As the second born son of Zeus, his powers were considerably stronger than lesser gods. Befitting his name, Ares was a mighty fighter and one of the most powerful Olympian Gods, possibly equal to or even exceeding his uncles in power who were second only to Zeus himself. Ares was powerful enough that he easily eclipsed Persephone and all of the Furies in might, as evidenced by Kratos being able to defeat them with powerful but relatively simple magic artifacts and weaponry, whereas Kratos needed Pandora's Box, a much stronger power in comparison, in order to at least face the God of War on equal footing.

### Powers

* Olympian Physiology: As the son of Zeus, he has immense power.
	+ **Illusion Creation/Manipulation**: Ares was seemingly able to create what appears to be a physical pocket dimension that he could control completely. Ares demonstrated that during his battle with Kratos, where he trapped him in inside his own dimension, where he was forced to protect his family, for Ares to kill after all, and almost broke his spirit. it should also be noted that it's never directly stated anywhere that Ares created it or that it was a real dimension at all. In addition, it was also directly stated in the GoW 1 novel and by the current Animation Director in 2020 to be a powerful illusion with some physical elements to it and the visuals of GOW 2 were likely added to draw the audience in.
	+ **Enhanced Senses**: Ares was able to sense how Kratos retrieved Pandora's Box while being dozens of miles away from the Desert of Lost Souls.
	+ **Immortality**: As a God, Ares was innately immortal and seemingly ageless beyond his prime; neither be killed by conventional means nor succumbing to mortal frailty such as disease or impotence of any sort. He could not be slain by earthly weapons; only divine forces and weapons such as the power of Hope, Blade of the Gods or other immortals such as Titans could slay him.
	+ **Accelerated Healing**: As a god, he was capable of regenerating fatal wounds.
	+ **Flight**: Ares was seen flying down from Olympus when Kratos called for his aid.
	+ **Superhuman Durability**: Like all gods, Ares possessed immense levels of superhuman durability as the God of War. During his battle with Kratos, he withstands an immense amount of punishment from him including being impaled his own back protrusions which only infuriated him more. Ares also shows to be very resistant even against divine weapons like Blade of the Gods although he was ultimately killed with said weapon.
	+ **Superhuman Strength**: As the God of War, Ares possessed immense levels of superhuman strength. While his level of strength is undisclosed, he was strong enough to shake an entire island during his battle with Apollo, make the ground shake by stomping and fight with Kratos after he was strengthened by Pandora’s Box on equal terms.
	+ **Superhuman Reflexes**: Ares possessed heightened reflexes, enough so to react in response to Hermes, the swiftest of the Greek gods.
	+ **Power Bestowal**: Ares was able to grant the chosen warrior with a large variety of abilities and weapons, a power common among the Gods. It was he who gave Kratos his original blades, the Blades of Chaos.
	+ **Pyrokinesis**: Ares possessed the ability to manipulate fire, in every way possible. Ares was able to infuse it in his weapons, throw fireballs from his hands, and ignited people at will. Ares often used that ability to kill those who opposed him. Ares also used it in an aesthetic way, as his hair and facial hair were made of fire. Ares could also create homing fire projectiles in the shape of hounds.
	+ **Electrokinesis**: As a son of Zeus, Ares
	+ **Weather Manipulation:** When Ares descended from Olympus to help Kratos, the clouds split apart, and began to swirl around him, showing that he has some degree of weather control.
	+ **Astral Projection**: Ares was able to project an image of himself out of the fire to communicate to Kratos after the Spartan killed his family.
	+ **Shapeshifting**: As an Olympian, Ares was able to alter his appearance at will. He did that however to a small extent as the change of his hair was altered.
		- **Size Alteration**: Ares was able to alter his size, and often increased it to titanic proportions, as he did during the Battle of Athens.
		- **Transformation**: Ares was able to sprout large, spider-like protrusions from his back that could be used in combat to hit and impale his enemies. Based on the fact that his statue in *God of War: Ascension* bore those "claws", it is implied that this was a trademark feature of the War God.
	+ **Telepathy**: Ares was able to talk to people through their minds, without physically getting involved with his target.
	+ **Telekinesis**: Ares was able to move objects and people with his mind and did that on a massive scale. Ares used the ability to rip the Blades of Chaos from Kratos' arms, and, during the Battle with the Barbarians, lifted people in the air and broke them in half.
	+ **Teleportation**: Throughout his battle with Kratos, Ares was able to teleport all around the area very quickly.
	+ **Geokinesis**: Ares would occasionally summon enormous volcanic rock structures to try to harm Kratos.
	+ **War Embodiment**: As the original God of War, Ares was the embodiment of War itself and was able to draw power from it. In combination with his other abilities, Ares was able to lay waste to huge armies with little-to-no effort. When he died, Ares' body exploded like a nuclear bomb.
	+ **Weapon Creation**: During his final fight with Kratos, Ares has shown the ability to materialize various weapons such as a gigantic war hammer, an axe, and a sword, all of which were enveloped in flames.
	+ **Underworld Control**: Ares seems to have limited power over the forces of the Underworld. He crafted the Blades of Chaos from the deepest layers of Hades. Furthermore, the vast majority of Ares' army was made of undead monstrocities, hinting that he has limited necromancy.
	+ **Monster Control**: Ares could control over a vast legion of monsters which served as the backbone of his army. In conjunction with his undead troopers, he was able to command Harpies, Minotaurs, Gorgons, and Cyclops.
	+ **Supernatural Marksmanship**: As a God of War, he possessed a greater level of marksmanship as he was able to perfectly hurl a large pillar from Athens to the far-off Pandora's Temple in the Desert of Lost Souls to fatally impale Kratos.

### Abilities

* **Charisma**:
* **Battle Prowess**: As the God of War, Ares was an exceptionally skilled warrior. He fought and successfully bested both Hermes and Apollo in armed combat, on two separate occasions. He had mastered all weapons used in the war including swords, axes, war hammers and his back spider-like blades which coupled with his godly powers and physical prowess made him even more formidable. Even after Kratos gains power from Pandora’s Box, Ares proved himself to be an extremely hard adversary, fighting with the Ghost of Sparta on equal terms most of their battle and at one point nearly killed him despite ultimately losing to him.
* **Leadership**:
* **Swordsmanship**:
* **Tactical Analysis**:

### Weapons

* **War Hammer**: Ares wields a black spiked war hammer.

## External links

* Ares *Wikipedia*
* Ares *Assassin's Creed Wiki*
* Ares *Blood of Zeus Wiki*
* Ares *God of War Wiki*
* Ares *Heroes Wiki*
* Ares *Myths and Folklore Wiki*
* Ares *Villains Wiki*