Zeus

**Zeus** (ゼウス, *Zeusu*), is both a fictional character and antagonist of the *Godfall of War* series created by Keith Lee and David Jaffe. He is one of the first generation children of the All-Father, who became the King of Mount Olympus and God of Thunder, and Lightning.

Zeus and Ares believed the destruction of the world would come at the hands of Kratos' brother, so they had him imprisoned and tortured by Thanatos. Due to the machinations caused by Macros, Zeus was infected with the evil of fear from Pandora's Box.

The infection driven him insane enough to kill both mortal and immortal alike, before even a single one of them could kill him. After a lengthy battle, Kratos killed Zeus to protect his comrade's son. An event, which drives Thor to the point of avenging the death of his father.

"*We have faced far worse than fallen mortals. But we are the gods! We who the mortals worship. We who rule over this land. We who will not be swept aside by this petulant fool! Brothers, put aside the petty grievances that have splintered us for so long. We will unite. We will stand together. And I will wipe out this plague! Olympus...will prevail!*"

—Zeus to his fellow gods, Poseidon, Hades, Helios and Hermes.

## Appearance & Biography

*Voice actor:* Corey Burton (English), Haruhiko Jō (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), Natale Ciravolo (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), Not Known (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

Zeus appears as an old muscular white-haired man with pure white eyes. In his neutral, unaltered form he appears to stand well over 7 feet when compared to the already especially tall Kratos. He wears two golden arm guards and a golden side guard, possibly the Aegis of Zeus, that had similar powers to the Golden Fleece.

* Hair Color: White
* Skin Color: Not Known
* Eye Color: White
* Age: Not Known
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: 7 ft.
* Weight: Not Known

## Relationships

### Family

* Cronos (Grandfather, Deceased)
* Rhea (Grandmother)
* Odin (Father)
* Hera (Sister/Aunt-in-Law, Deceased)
* Poseidon (Brother, Deceased)
* Hades (Brother/Son-in-Law, Deceased)
* Hephaestus (Half-Brother, Deceased)
* Athena (Half-Sister, Deceased)
* Ares (Half-Brother, Deceased)
* Metis (Wife)
* Thor (Son)

## Powers and Abilities

As the King of Olympus, Zeus is the most powerful of all the Olympians, more so than even his brothers Poseidon and Hades.

### Powers

* **Godly Physiology**:
	+ **Superhuman Strength**: Zeus possessed incredible levels of superhuman strength. He could easily overpower almost anything in Creation and was strong enough to challenge Kratos for an extended period of time.
	+ **Superhuman Speed**: Zeus could run at extremely fast speeds. He could move as fast the lightning he commands. As demonstrated in the battles with Kratos, Zeus was able to evade attacks with the speed of lightning, appearing behind his opponent to strike.
	+ **Superhuman Durability**: Zeus was tremendously durable. He was able to withstand extreme punishment from Kratos in all their fights and could still stand up and flee in their first fight and survive long enough to access his Astral Form after a much more harsh beating from Orin in their final fight. It should be noted that during his battle with Kratos at the Summit of Sacrifice, Zeus was stabbed repeatedly by the Blade of Olympus by Kratos, yet Zeus was able to survive, unlike other deities who fell to the Blade's power in a single strike, such Athena and Cronos.
	+ **Superhuman Stamina**: Zeus had tremendous amounts of superhuman stamina, able to fight Kratos for an extended period of time without ever slowing down.
	+ **Flight**: Zeus can hover and fly at amazing speeds.
	+ **Weather Control**: As God of the Sky, Zeus had control over parts of the weather that involved storms, allowing him to generate thunderclouds or create a tornado. He can combine clouds with his electricity to make his lightings much more powerful, to the point that a single spear of lightning was able to blast down Kratos and Gaia and destroy the latter's arm.
		- **Electrokinesis**: As the God of Thunder, Zeus could control lighting to an unrivaled degree. He is able to generate extremely powerful and fast Thunderbolts that can shatter huge mountains and kill Titans. His Thunderbolts were strong enough to nearly kill Kratos, forcing him to trick Zeus to stop him. In his Astral Form, his Thunderbolts were strong enough to destroy almost all of Kratos's equipment. In addition, Zeus can manipulate lightning to empower his attacks, move faster, generate a lightning shield and cause an explosion of electrical energy.
	+ **Immortality**: As a god, he is immortal and can live forever. Like his brothers and other Olympian deities, Zeus does not age and is unaffected by time or succumbing to mortal frailty as sickness or impotence of any kind, he could not be killed by earthly weapons; only divine forces and weapons like the power of Hope, the Blade of Olympus or other gods and Titans can kill him.
	+ **Teleportation**: Zeus has shown the ability to disappear in thin air, leaving a rain of electric charges behind, only to appear seconds later somewhere else.
	+ **Portal Creation**: Zeus while under his Grave Digger guise, created a portal for Kratos to travel out of the Underworld.
	+ **Regeneration**: Zeus could regenerate from almost any wound. He can heal even from wounds done by other godly power and Kratos’s blades back with relative ease. Ironically the Blade of Olympus, a weapon of his own creation can kill him but he can heal from non fatal wounds inflicted by it.
	+ **Shapeshifting**: Like all Olympians, Zeus was able to shapeshift. He made himself look as the oldest of the Olympians, despite actually being the youngest of his siblings. He could also transform himself into a giant eagle as well take the form of a human, or grow hundreds of feet tall, in *God of War* and *Godfall of War: Ghost of Sparta*, he appeared to Kratos as the Grave Digger.
	+ **Summoning**: Zeus was able to summon a legion of creatures to fight at his side, examples are the Siren Widows he used to fight Kratos at the end of *Godfall of War II*.
	+ **Mind Imprisonment**: In his astral form, Zeus was able to imprison Kratos in his own mind.
	+ **Sealing**: Zeus was able to collect all the evils of the world and seal them inside of Pandora's Box.
	+ **Animation**: Zeus was able to harness Kratos' godly powers, and use them to bring the Colossus of Rhodes to life.
	+ **Power Bestowal**: Zeus is capable of granting powers to others, as shown when he bestowed the Redeemed Warrior should he chose to follow him with immense magical attack power and mana reserves and regeneration, supernatural enhancements to their equipment, and great electrical powers that allow them to control space as they drape the playing field with electricity, forcing their opponents to scatter in all directions as well as disable their abilities for a time. He also gave Kratos the power to shoot powerful thunderbolts.
	+ **Astral Projection**: Zeus was able to project an image of himself to communicate to Kratos, and grant him the power to use his thunderbolts.
	+ **Power Absorption**: Zeus was able to drain power from other beings in order to strengthen himself, shown when he drained Gaia's heart of her power.
		- **Duplicate Creation**: After absorbing Gaia's heart, Zeus was able to create duplicates of himself that are much weaker but could use many of his attacks.
	+ **Astral Form**: After he was almost killed by Kratos, Zeus displayed the power to manage his soul "to a higher existence" in means of overpowering his son and channeling the evils fueling his body, although Athena reached that potential before the evils managed to consume her. In this form, Zeus was able to easily overpower Kratos and even destroy almost all of Kratos's equipment and was only defeated by Kratos tapping into the Power of Hope.
		- **Mind Imprisonment**: In his astral form, Zeus was able to fill Kratos with so much fear that he imprisoned himself in his own mind.
	+ **Power Removal**: Zeus was able to strip Prometheus of his Immortality. Also, as the King of the Gods, Zeus can remove the powers of other gods at will, as shown when he stripped Kratos of his godly powers.
	+ **Weapons Forgery**: Zeus had the ability to create powerful divine weapons. The most powerful weapon he has ever created was the Blade of Olympus, which is what he used in during the first Titanomachy.
	+ **Master Combatant**: Zeus, having centuries of fighting experience, was a highly capable fighter, extremely skilled in using his weapons but he is also an exceptional hand-to-hand combatant. His skill allowed him to challenge Kratos on almost equal footing for an extended period of time before losing.

## Etymology

### Greek Mythology

In Greek Mythology, Zeus was the King of the Gods, ruler of Olympus, and God of the Sky, Heavens, and Lightning. Zeus was youngest of his six siblings. His symbols were the Lightning bolt, the Eagle, the Oak Tree and the Bull. Zeus was the youngest son of Cronos and Rhea. He was very well known for his erotic escapades with beautiful mortal women, resulting in many godly and heroic offspring, including Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Hermes, Persephone, Dionysus, Perseus, Hercules, Helen and Minos.

When the loss of his older siblings by their father Cronos became too great for Rhea to bare any longer, she hid him from Cronos far away, giving him a stone to swallow instead. Once grown, the young God sought to free his siblings and overthrow his father. Disguised as a cup-bearer, Zeus mixed a brew into Cronos' wine, causing him to vomit up the stone that had taken his place, and then his siblings. Overthrowing the Titans, Zeus castrated Cronos and banished him to Tartarus.

Later drawing lots with his brothers Poseidon and Hades to determine who would rule the skies, oceans, and the Underworld, Zeus won the sky, and became the King of Olympus. Some sources claim that Zeus is technically the eldest, due to being the only child to not be kept from the world and trapped in their father's stomach, though this is disputable, and some claim fabricated by Zeus himself to lend validity to his claim to the sky before he and his brothers decided to draw lots.

His counterpart in Roman Mythology is Jupiter and was known as Ba'al Hadad to the Canaanites/Israelites, in Norse Mythology, his counterpart is Thor.

## External links

* Zeus *Wikipedia*
* Zeus *God of War Wiki*
* Zeus *Heroes Wiki*
* Zeus *PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale Wiki*
* Zeus *Supreme Being Wiki*
* Zeus *Villains Wiki*