Cronus (Class of the Titans)

**Cronus** is the main antagonist of the animated mythology TV show *Class of the Titans*. He is a power-hungry god based off the mythological god of the same name who has been seeking to rule all of Earth as well as all of Olympus, actively fighting against Jay and his friends who are constantly trying to foil his plans and also desiring revenge against the gods for locking him up in Tartarus for 4,000 years while making alliances with those who either hate the gods or those that Jay and/or his friends or one of them are descendants of in order to use them to get them out of the way.

He was voiced by David Kaye, who also voiced Megatron in *Beast Wars*, and Jonathan Rook's alter-ego, Stretch Monster, in *Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters*.

## What Makes Him Magnificent?

* He consistently maintains a charming and suave persona throughout the show regardless of whether it's to an ally or foe, highlighting classy mannerisms performed brilliantly by David Kaye.
* He constantly manages to make an alliance with other mythological creatures or humans, successfully making deals with them in order to get them on his side, promising to get them what they want in return be it revenge on the gods for wronging them or other things like immortality, powers, etc. in order to get them to complete tasks for him be it to take out Jay and his friends or getting something for him.
* He has quite a bunch of evil is cool factors like his amazing design, a cool voice performance from David Kaye, great fighting skills, cool powers like the ability to summon his scythe to use to fight, his regenerating abilities, and his ability to make portals to go through, his scheming genius, etc.
* Sometimes when he's defeated, Cronus would make a swift escape from the scene through creating a portal that he would go through while taking advantage of whatever circumstance is in the situation, sometimes being one that's already existing, other times being ones that he creates like causing Herry to hang off a cliff to distract Campe.
* He sets up a brilliant plan to break out of Tartarus, waiting 4,000 years for the planets to align so that when the time comes, he can knock out the guard of his cell before using the cosmic energy to break the lock of his cell, which he pulls off successfully and escapes with ease.
* He manages to take over a power control plant containing the electricity of the city with the help of the fiery demonic beast he allied with who chases the elder employee working there out after deactivating its mechanics before building a ray to shoot a laser that would destroy a meteor in the sky and unleash its rings across Earth, which would have ended up causing multiple natural disasters onto Earth that would sheer everything from the surface of the planet.
* He uses charisma to manipulate Neil into thinking that he was an agent aka mover and shaker and to trick him into coming with him to his building under the guise of having more important things to do with him and then has him distracted by looking at his reflection in a pool that he would be positively mesmerized by in order to keep him busy for a while.
* He is shown to be a quick thinker as displayed by him quickly breaking himself free from the rope that Atlanta tied him up in using her powers which caused him to slip on water and fall off the building and then climbing back up the building with his scythes in a cool fashion.
* He sets up a plan to lure a few of the heroes into the Underworld by unleashing Cerberus to corrupt some dogs, ending up succeeding at luring Jay and Archie into it, whom he shuts in with the gate in order to force Theresa to bring him the lyre under threat of hurting them.
* He manages to put Pan under his mind control, resulting in him luring a bunch of people he met at a high school to a DJ party where after a while, he decides to drop the act and unleash his plant powers on them as revenge for what humanity has been doing to nature though he would be freed thanks to Atlanta breaking the disc controlling him. While we don’t see him directly doing it, there are onscreen effects that prove this like the disc with Cronus’ face on it and what Pan does.
* He makes copies of himself while going into a museum, knowing that Jay and his friends have set up a trap for him to prevent him from getting the Antikythera Device within it, and outmaneuvers their trap by throwing a painting at the Antikythera Device to activate the trap while knocking it out of it, managing to grab it to use it to activate the Astrolab before escaping through distracting the others with his copies.
* He manages to quickly get to the machine within the Astrolab likely through swimming fast as shown by how he arrived to the scene right when Jay and Theresa arrived to it through swimming before easily defeating Jay when he attacks him with his sword by grabbing his wrist and throwing him down the stairs before having a hologram approach the machine Theresa rigged with a bomb to explode to trick her and then throwing her to the side once he catches her off-guard so that he could get rid of the bomb and insert the Antikythera Device within the machine before escaping the place once it starts to collapse.
* He manages to use the technology controlling a satellite to summon Hecate so that she would unleash the undead onto the planet after tying up the hands of a couple of scientists with the help of his titans while forcing another to help him.
* He manages to sneak underneath a stadium while dressed in a cool suit and hat in order to be able to seize mind control of Medelia, one of the girls of a sports team he was watching due to knowing how powerful she is by tricking her into allowing him to put a necklace onto her that allows Medea, her ancestor, to possess her.
* He has her successfully split Jay and his friends up through seducing them and having them fight over her before having her and her other allies capture Jay and his friends and take some of them to an island where they would be encountered by a dragon that would try to kill them while the others would be teleported to another area where Medea has her Amazon warriors try to destroy them and conquer the world.
* He sets up a trap for Herry by kidnapping his grandmother as a hostage in order to lure him and once he discovers him with Campe, he captures them both by handcuffing them before taking them away with the intent to dispose of them.
* He manages to swiftly escape the heroes again by breaking the two wooden poles holding up the entrance of the cave they were in after exiting it and then evading the scene offscreen after turning Arachne back into a spider as punishment for failing him.
* He manages to seize control of the wind in a palace on an island amongst the seas, using these abilities to summon a hurricane to try to dispose of Herry, Atlanta, Theresa, and Archie, who were sailing across the seas to try to rescue Odie, Jay, and Neil, who had been stranded on an island with Calypso thanks to their boat being shipwrecked, after being lured to the place with a fake distress signal sent by Cronus as a trap.
* He drops a ring into the ocean in order to successfully summon the Kraken, which he uses to try to lure Jay and his friends to him so that it could kill them and as bait to lure Poseidon to him, ending up stealing his trident while the Kraken attacks him with his tentacles with Cronus being on one of them and successfully gaining the upper hand and defeating him this way.
* He manages to knock at least Atlanta and Herry off a boat using waves that he summoned in order to allow the Kraken an easier advantage to eat and kill them though they would be saved by Jay as Theresa rescues Poseidon, who gets his trident back from Cronus after a brief tug-of-war battle and defeats him.
* He manages to succeed at killing Jay and Odie on 2 separate occasions by summoning creatures that poison them to death, though they would be undone eventually.
* While he does have a few traits of a bad boss, insulting and occasionally verbally abusing his titans for their failures, he does have moments where he can show some traits of that of a benevolent boss like when he commends Agnon, telling him that he’s always been his favorite before offering him the ability to rule over Australia and then telling the other titans that they will get to rule countries too.
* He manages to rebuild one of Hephaestus’ robots, Talos, using his magic powers and programs it to follow his command and even manages to fix its ankle to ensure its weakness ceases in order for the robot to start causing chaos on an island to lure in Jay and his friends for it to kill them.
* He sets up a smart trap for Herry by having a trio of sirens seduce him into coming into a building where he then sends him back in time to the places where Hercules completed his tasks in attempts to try to get him killed though Herry would manage to complete them all himself.
* He manages to capture many soldiers within a cave with the help of his titans before mutating them into giant ants for an army that he intends to use to start the second titan war once they get to Mount Olympia.
* He manages to get Jay and his friends surrounded by the ant army before revealing his plans and then having his ant army attack them.
* He manages to get one of the seven heroes captured and nearly killed by the Stymphalian Birds through trying to feed them to their offspring whom he had attack them.
* He tricks Melampus into shaking his hand, allowing him to corrupt him and turn him hot-tempered and somewhat hostile.
* Upon realizing that Neil has been kidnapped by Echo, he takes the opportunity to strike with his titans knowing that he has an advantage with only 6 of the heroes fighting in contrast to 7 like the prophecy foreshadowed in terms of the amount that would defeat him, having the titans capture Archie, Atlanta, Theresa, and Jay before shapeshifting into Neil to trick Odie and Herry into driving into an alley where he would have his titans capture them and then shapeshift into his normal form to reveal himself, followed up by putting them to sleep to prevent them from escaping so that he could place them all in a cage above dissolving acid with the intent of dipping them in it to kill them, also taking away their weapons to ensure they don’t escape.
* In the past, taking place during the war he started against the gods, when Zeus enters his castle with weapons forged by the cyclops with help from Jay and his friends who time traveled into the past, it is revealed that Cronus had set up a trap for him that he ended up falling for as when he walked into the right spot, chains cuffed his hands and pulled him against the wall, leaving him at Cronus’ mercy as the latter prepares to kill him with his own weapons.
* He pulls off a masterful strategy where he tricks the heroes into thinking they have defeated him during one of their battles and once he’s chained up and taken by Hades to the judge to be sentenced to prison in Tartarus, right when the judge was about to hammer the pavel, Cronus puts his handcuff chain beneath it, causing it to be broken, allowing Cronus to trap both Hades and Persephone in giant sand clocks of time and take his helmet before proceeding to take over the underworld with them as his prisoners before having Thanatos trick and capture Archie for him to be put in a giant sand clock too.
* Upon regaining his memories after having lost them due to falling in the River Lethe and making an alliance with Jay and his friends who have also lost their memories from falling into it, he begins to manipulate Jay and his friends into trusting him, taking advantage of their memory losses so that he could take them to the Elysian Fields where their memories would be lost forever once they go in and nearly succeeds if not for Neil, the only one who hasn’t fell in River Lethe, interfering.
* Upon realizing that Odie is using the time piece of Zeus to time travel, he sets up a fake Tablet of Prometheus with one of his titans holding it and tricks them with it while finding the real Tablet of Prometheus himself.
* He has an army that he built from rocks with his powers capture and detain Odie and his friends while getting the time piece himself before using it to erase Jay from existence by undoing his birth with it.
* He causes the Tree of Immortality to start dying in order to cause the gods to fade while eating the golden apple from it to avoid dying.
* When Jay and his friends arrive to the garden after getting a distress signal from Odie there, Cronus has a dragon whom he would give multiple heads to attack and try to kill them before trying to directly destroy the tree himself and succeeding at it by chopping it with his scythe, though another Tree of Immortality would grow from its core of the golden apple being planted in the ground.
* He successfully gets the chest of the son of Prometheus from a couple of archaeologists, whose car he crashed to get it before finding the key to it as well.
* During his battle with Atlanta, who was under Tantalus’ curse, he gains the upper hand by having her be frozen in fire while using the key to open the chest, unleashing a flood of despair before successfully trapping Theresa in the fire as well albeit temporarily as one of the heroes would blind his eyes by shining light in them.
* He manages to at least get close to getting the key back, only failing due to Archie electrocuting the water he was standing in, causing Cronus to fall and be carried by the current of the water over a waterfall as Atlanta manages to get the key back right before he does.
* He manages to strike fear into Theresa by showing her a nightmare of him defeating Jay and her plan to take him down there failing while sarcastically wishing her to sleep tight, managing to keep her sleeping for a while, managing to keep Jay distracted in the long run as well by her.
* He manages to get past the traps set up for him within the temple by the heroes by erasing all the lasers with his powers before cutting out the feed on the security camera and even gets the portal they set up erased as well before reveals to them that he was aware of the trap the whole time and only came there for them instead of the talisman before proceeding to mop the floor with them by tying them up against poles with fire chains and then using the sleeping gas they unleashed to put them to sleep.
* He manages to spot Polythemus alive and reliant on the eye of the storm as his eye snooping about outside his castle having informed Jay and his friends of Cronus’ plan and effortlessly defeats and capture him in chains in his lair before getting the eye of the storm out of Polythemus after a brief moment of interrogating him about it when he refused by burning his stomach with his powers, causing it to show up inside Polythemus’ eye, allowing Cronus to extract it using his powers and get it placed onto his scepter.
* He instantly locates Jay and his friends using his scepter before attempting to kill them with his scepter and sics Seropes and Brontes on them under the threat of erasing Arges forever if they don’t destroy them.
* He manages to evade the lava that Odie exposed beneath Cronus by opening up the ground with a weapon of his by using the scepter to levitate himself in the air.
* He tricks Neil into bringing Zeus to him by shapeshifting into a talking goat that is the former caretaker of Zeus and proceeds to take Zeus to the place where he was raised so that they could play a game of his own version of chess involving the heroes’ lives while having his own minions put up some fights against the heroes keeping them on their toes, though they would reign victorious in the end.
* He gets Theresa to fall off the building by shaking the building with his powers, causing her to let go and would have died had it not been for the immortality she was able to get from Death allowing her and her friends some.
* He accurately times Poseidon’s arrival when they start the ritual by 5 seconds and manages to help the Telkihnes get his trident with his arrival.
* He suspects that Arceus was working for Jay and his friends and tricking him and when this is proven accurate, with Cronus uses Arceus as a hostage before then brainwashing him and mutating him, having him fight off and try to kill the heroes to outwit their trap and then destroying the machine they had that was preventing him from being able to use his powers.
* He takes advantage of Neil’s unfortunate ability to turn people into gold by touching them by teleporting the ones that he had unintentionally turned into statues with him to his hideout through a portal.
* He takes advantage of the technicality of the heroes defeating him as the prophecy having come true with him having survived, hinting that there is still the possibility of him defeating them now that the truth of the prophecy has passed before preparing to continue his battles against them in the future, winding up becoming a Karma Houdini in the aftermath.
* He has a fair share of laughable moments (while not detracting from his PE status) to boost like saying “Poor fellow. Oh well” when one of his titans died due to being tossed into the fiery demon’s cell by one of the heroes, saying “If he keeps that up, he’s going to wake the neighbors” while watching the fiery demonic beast he allied with burn the forest, saying “Yeah, just a second, Jay, I’ll be right with you” to Jason when he confronts him as he’s preparing to use the laser after defeating his titans, saying “How so? He attracted all of you, didn’t he?” after Theresa says that she feels the city attraction, Archie taking away his scythe and suggesting to see what he can do without it with Cronus using his powers to get it back and saying, “Let’s not”, him playing with 2 griffin models while pretending to successfully conquering others, him asking a guy whose mouth he taped as to why he didn’t tell him his guests have arrived with said guy telling him that because he taped his mouth shut to which Cronus responds, “Yes, right”, taking the time to decide which outfit would be proper for him to wear to rule the world while making laughable comments on some like “I’m not going to a senior prom, I’m going to rule the world” and then thinking about what he should do for his introduction, setting up a lifeguard chair that he sits on while watching Theresa, Atlanta, and Herry drown in quicksand while questioning them on how they found his hideout, him drinking out of a coconut cup with an umbrella, flower, and straw in it as a toast to vanquishing Theresa, Atlanta, and Herry as he watches them drown, saying “Ah-ah, you’re not threatening your dear old granny, are you?” to Zeus when he calls out his grandmother goddess for potentially being in cahoots with Cronus, etc.
* While he does have several moments where he loses his cool, they are all fairly brief and he manages to recover from them all by managing to keep a consistently calm composure throughout at least the last 10 episodes of the show.
* Despite being Pure Evil, he isn't too vile due to his actions being performed out of pragmatic motives be they a lust for power or revenge against the gods for locking him up in Tartarus for 4,000 years, his actions of torturing and/or trying to kill his own sons being standard for gods, and overriding his vileness with his classy persona.

## What Makes Him A Baddie?

* He commits assault and jailbreak in his first appearance by knocking out the guard of his cell and then breaking out.
* As described by the Oracle, he is a power-crazed megalomaniac bent on vengeance.
* When informed by the Oracle of the seven teenage heroes who are destined to stop him, he orders the titans he’s allied with to find them and destroy them.
* He sometimes unleashes, creates, and/or summons destructive creatures to do his wicked bidding, either to cause chaos (which he blatantly loves) onto the world or to kill Jay and his friends.
* He constantly tries to kill Jay and his friends in order to keep them out of the way of his plans usually either directly with his death scythes or indirectly by either having his titans do it, summoning homicidal creatures, or those whom he has made alliances with try to do it themselves through either manipulation or mere deal making. Should they fail or turn on him, he will either call off whatever deal he made or try to kill them himself.
* He gets the mechanics within a power supply plant disabled before taking it over with the help of the fiery demon, who chases the elder worker out of there.
* He deactivates electricity all across the world before having one of his titans divert the power for his plan to “bring the dawn of a new era” while proclaiming to himself that those that live through it will serve him before then acknowledging to himself that no one will live through it before cackling maniacally.
* He has the fiery demon destroy a truck driving by to the plant with employees in it and could have gotten them killed with this had they not escaped while having the titans collect materials for his ray machine.
* He has attempted genocide on humanity several times, once by attempting to use rings he unleashed by destroying a meteor to cause an atmospheric disturbance involving earthquakes, hurricanes, and global disasters which would cause everything to sheer from the surface of the Earth due to the conservation momentum if the Earth's rotation suddenly stops, another by trying to sink the world using the Antikythera Device he stole from a museum on the machine in the Astrolab, summoning Hecate with a satelite so that she would unleash the undead onto the world after forcing a scientist to give him access to it, intending on bringing the end of the world after killing Jay and his friends through dissolving acid, explaining that he intends on eradicating humanity as revenge for painting him as the villain to Zeus after he is done with him in the past, planning on returning to the world and reducing everything to nothing to destroy mankind after he dispatches of Hades, Persephone, and Archie, attempting to undo the birth of all humanity using the time piece of Zeus he took from Odie before using the Tablet of Prometheus to create a new species that will only worship him, etc.
* Upon finding Neil, the last person that needed to join Jason’s team to stop him, he has his titans beat up and tie up two photographers who are taking pictures of him for their business before tricking him into coming with him into a building likely intending on disposing of him himself.
* Once Archie and Jay arrive to the gates into the Underworld where Cronus is, he shuts out Theresa and threatens to hurt Archie and Jay if she does not bring him the lyre. When she arrives and doesn’t wind up giving him the lyre and escapes instead, he tries to kill Jay and Archie with his scythe only for the undead to enter with the help of Orpheus and touch him on the skin, causing it to burn and allow them an opportunity to temporarily take him down though he quickly regenerates.
* He puts Pan under his mind control, leading to the latter tricking a bunch of high school students into coming to a DJ party in the woods where he would unleash his plant powers onto them as revenge for what humanity has been doing to nature whilst trying to fight off Jay and his friends as well.
* He has his titans try to capture a griffin while on Mount Olympus. When they fail, he has his titans get a staff from the heroes so that he could control it, though it returns partially broken missing one piece.
* He attempts to turn Odie evil by promising to give him massive strength should he give him the other piece of the staff. Once Odie does, he tries to have him destroy his friends using the staff to control the griffins which Odie pretends to prepare to do at first though he then has them attack Cronus instead and defeat him.
* He puts a necklace onto Odelia that corrupts her through allowing her ancestor, Medea, to possess her and has her split up Jay and his friends before teleporting them to an island where a dragon would try to kill them while in another area Medea would have her Amazon warriors try to kill Theresa and Atlanta before conquering the world.
* He kidnaps Herry’s grandmother with help from his titans in order to hold her hostage to lure Herry to him and ends up capturing him and Campe (whom Herry brought with him) by putting them in handcuffs once they fall right into his trap.
* He has his titans light up the signal fire in order to get an eagle to tear out Herry’s grandmother’s liver, though he acknowledges that her death should be swift and relatively painless before taking Herry and Campe with him, likely to dispose of them, though this would be foiled by Campe swinging the chain Cronus was holding on to at the titans once she notices that Herry’s friends have arrived in gliders after rescuing his grandmother.
* He can be somewhat of a bad boss towards his titans, insulting and berating them when they fail him, being essentially verbally abusive towards them from time to time. At one point, he even turns one of them to stone as punishment for failing.
* He summons the Kraken to lure in Poseidon and steals his trident while the Kraken fights him and then has the Kraken try to kill the heroes while he takes Poseidon, his own son, to a desert where he has him tied to the ground in chains to cause him to die of thirst as revenge for assisting in keeping him jailed in Tartarus for thousands of years before going off to help the Kraken kill Jay and his friends by summoning waves at them.
* He has his titans tie up Eros and Psyche and bring them to him, forcing Eros to follow his commands by holding Psyche hostage and threatening to kill her if he doesn’t. He then proceeds to shoot an arrow at him using his powers that ends up corrupting him and turning him hateful before having him go around spreading hatred in the city using his magical bow and arrows.
* He has killed 2 of the heroes on separate occasions like getting Jay and Odie poisoned to death by creatures he summoned, though both of these would be undone.
* Upon rebuilding Talos, he has it cause chaos on an island so that once Jay and his friends arrive to stop it, it will kill them.
* He kidnaps and mutates many soldiers into ants with the intent of using them to lead another great titan war onto Mount Olympus, but not before attempting to use the ants to try to kill Jay and his friends once they enter the cave.
* It is revealed that he started a war with the gods back then for 10 years and that he would have plunged the world into chaos if he won.
* When he gets Zeus in chains from a trap Cronus set up, Cronus attempts to kill him, despite him being his own son.
* After faking his defeat at the hands of Jay and his friends, during the part where he is about to be sentenced back to Tartarus, he gets the chain holding his handcuffs broken and frees himself, proceeding to overthrow Hades and take over the underworld with the Helmet of Darkness being worn, trapping Hades, his lover, Persephone, and eventually Archie with the help of Thanatos in sand clocks as his prisoners.
* Upon regaining his memory after losing it due to falling into River Lethe, he attempts to get Jay and his friends’ memories lost forever by trying to trick them into crossing into the Elysian Fields, though this would be foiled by Neil.
* He causes the Tree of Immortality to start dying so that the gods would start fading, taking noticeable pleasure in its results like a fairy having grown ill, while eating a golden apple to keep himself alive.
* He causes a car crash for two archaeologists, endangering their lives in the process in order to get the chest of the son of Prometheus from them before eventually finding the key as well.
* After a while, he traps Atlanta in fire as he opens up the chest with the key to start a flood before trapping Theresa in fire as well albeit temporarily as he would wind up unintentionally releasing them due to a bit of light from one of the heroes being reflected into his eyes blinding him.
* He has the ghosts of three cyclopses, Brontes, Steropes, and Arges, build a scepter for him with him specifically mentioning that he wanted the scepter to be so powerful its legend will rival Zeus’ lightning bolts and he will be able to vanquish his foes with it.
* Upon capturing Polythemus, when the 3 cyclopses reveal that he needs the eye of the storm for the scepter to work, he proceeds to torture Polythemus by burning his stomach when he refuses to reveal where it is, lying that it was destroyed, causing the eye of the storm to pop in his eye which Cronus would take out of his eye socket using his powers and place on his scepter.
* In order to set an example, he places Arges in the sands of time until he decides what he wants to do with him.
* He reveals his plot to rewrite history, starting with the prophecy of the heroes.
* After Polythemus attempted to attack him by throwing a hammer on him which would be countered by Cronus sending it flying back at him, deciding he has no need for Polythemus anymore, Cronus places him in the sands of time before preparing to continue his battle with the heroes.
* Upon tricking Neil into bringing Zeus to him by shapeshifting into his former caretaker, he forces him into a game of chess that involves chess pieces representing the heroes and his goons. If Cronus’ goons won in the game, they also would have won in real life, meaning the potential end for the heroes.
* Upon allying with the Telkihnes, he has them bring Theresa to him so that they can get her blood to activate the pendant to create a portal for Cronus to walk through to the location of their hideout so that he could finally kill the gods and the heroes in exchange for Cronus helping them get Poseidon’s trident for them to exact their revenge on him.
* When he suspects that Arceus was working for Jay, he threatens to kill him should his suspicions be proven accurate.
* He mocks Neil for unintentionally turning his friends into gold thanks to the Midas Touch punishment being inflicted on him by the goddess Nemesis for his vanity and then proceeds to take the ones he turned into golden statues with him to his base through a portal.
* When realizing that the truth of the prophecy as passed with him having technically been defeated by Theresa and her friends, he uses this to his advantage to make more plans to take out the heroes in the future eventually.

## Trivia

* He, Peirithous, and Autolycus are the only characters from *Class of the Titans* to qualify as Magnificent Baddies.

## External Links

* Cronus at the Villains wiki
* Cronus at the Pure Evil wiki