Ares

* Human
* Battle Armor

*"You were right, Diana. They don't deserve our help. They only deserve destruction."*
―Ares to Diana[src]
**Ares**, also known as **Mars**, is an Old God who was commonly worshipped as the "God of War" and the most fearsome son of Zeus, who was worshiped by the Ancient Greeks and Roman civilizations. Millennia ago, Zeus created the Amazons as a fail-safe against Ares' power. Ares would eventually instigate the War of the Gods, successfully killing almost all other Old Gods and wounding Zeus, but was ultimately defeated and grievously wounded by the King of the Gods and was unable to stop his father from fathering Wonder Woman and creating Themyscira, leaving him temporarily incapacitated and permanently much weaker but still succeeding in becoming unopposed in his quest to destroy humanity as Zeus died from the severe wounds Ares inflicted on him after creating Themyscira.

Ares spent many years influencing humanity to create weapons, which he hoped they would use to destroy each other. Ares would then reappear during World War I, taking the disguise of Sir **Patrick Morgan** and inspiring Doctor Poison to develop a powerful and deadly gaseous weapon that he desired to use to destroy humanity, a race for which he had developed bitter jealousy. In the end, however, Ares' plans were thwarted, with Wonder Woman seemingly killing him and ending World War I and his violent influence on humanity for good.

## Biography

### Becoming Sir Patrick Morgan

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### World War I

#### Observing Diana

In 1918, Ares witnessed the arrival of Diana in London from Themyscira but maintained his disguise, initially pretending not to know her identity. When Steve Trevor reported his discovery of Doctor Poison's notebook and the location of Ludendorff's base to the war department, the rest of the committee denied him a mission to halt their plans, earning them the ire of Diana, which "Sir Patrick" silently observed. Ares had a word with Trevor and Diana afterward.

Against the wishes of the committee, Ares later on met with Steve and the rest of his compatriots at a local bar and showed his support for a raid by providing them enough funds for a halfway transport to Belgium, earning their gratitude.

Steve later decided to infiltrate a ball celebrating Ludendorff's first firing of Poison's new mustard gas formula. While relaying this information to Etta Candy, Etta relayed the information to "Sir Patrick," who vehemently denied him access but was savvy enough to know that Trevor would go regardless.

#### Confrontation

*"When you first arrived, I was going to crush you, but I knew that if only you could see what the other gods could not, then you would join me, and with our powers combined, we could finally end all the pain, all the suffering, and the destruction they bring, and we could return this world to the paradise it was before them."*
―Ares to Diana[src]
After Trevor, Diana, and the rest of their Wonder Men team discovered a large bombing facility manufacturing and loading mustard gas to be used against the Allies, Ares decided to take matters into his own hands. Transporting himself to the facility, "Sir Patrick" finally shed his disguise and revealed himself to Diana after she killed Ludendorff, whom she falsely believed to be the God of War. He went on to agree with his half-sister's recent sentiments that humanity didn't deserve the help of the Old Gods, but instead destruction. Ares then began stating his reasoning behind everything he had done up to that point. After retrieving the God Killer sword from Ludendorff's dead body, Diana attempted to strike at him, but Ares simply held his hand out and disintegrated the weapon, stating that the sword wasn't the god-killer; Diana herself was. Ares continued to try and tempt Diana into joining his side by telling her that he wanted humanity's eradication because he saw the inherent evil in Zeus' creations, whispering into the ears of mortals who craved destruction. From his point of view, humanity itself chose to start a war with the ideas he planted in their heads; he himself had nothing to do with it. Even the influence of the Lasso of Hestia didn't dissuade him; it only furthered his resolve, as he used Zeus' lightning to warp the Lasso and show Diana vivid illusions of a world at peace through the end of humanity. Despite his efforts, Diana ultimately decided that she couldn't be a part of Ares's plan.

#### Supposed Death

*"Let's see what kind of God you really are!"*
―Ares to Diana[src]
The God of War then regrettably engaged his half-sister in combat, beginning by destroying the tower they were in and sending Diana flying. Seeing that she survived, he began telekinetically trying to slam her with metal slabs on the ground, but she dissuaded these efforts. Ares noted the naïveté of his half-sister as she tried to whip him with the Lasso of Hestia, simply creating strong winds to blow it away and dodging a slab toss by hovering in the air. He then attempted to crush Diana with an uplifted chunk of concrete, but she easily dodged and hit him with her bracelets. Tossed away, Ares stopped a box filled with explosives from reaching him, but Diana caused an explosion by simply throwing another box, temporarily incapacitating the both of them.

After the both of them recovered, Ares began to take the fight more seriously, manipulating the metal around him into a makeshift suit of plate armor, complete with a Spartan-esque helmet, and nonchalantly walked out of the inferno he was in, having revealed his true self. Diana rushed at him, with Ares responding by tossing huge shards of metal and combating her with crude swords. Even as they fought, the God of War continued stating how humanity would die, with neither of them gaining an upper hand on the other until Ares choked Diana and threw her into a large tank, wrapping her with its treads.

Ares condescendingly threatened Diana and attempted to force her surrender, but Diana bore witness to Captain Trevor's selfless suicide by blowing up the plane of mustard gas, making her send out a shock wave that threw Ares back. The God of War then began seeing her combat the German soldiers with great anger, and he began his platitude once again in the belief that Diana finally saw from his point of view and continued to state humanity's weakness and rush to violence, even twisting Trevor's heroic sacrifice as he left Diana. She threw her fists into Ares's face, only for him to push her back and summon Doctor Poison's car, tossing the mad scientist out as a final counterargument to Diana. Fully angered, Diana nearly crushed Poison with a tank until she looked back at Steve's final words. Poison escaped as Diana approached her half-brother, saying that while humanity was indeed everything Ares said they were, they were also more than met the eye.

Angered, Ares summoned another cadre of mighty swords and thrust himself at Diana, but every sword that attempted to reach out to her disintegrated, showing that she had finally tapped into her Old Godly power through her emotions. Determined, she released another shockwave that grounded Ares and removed his helmet. Furious, the God of War summoned a thunderbolt as he stated that humanity deserved none of Diana's love, but Diana blocked and absorbed its energies, as she countered by saying it was not about deserving her love but about believing in a cause, with hers ultimately being love. Finally, at the brink of madness because of her rejection of his cause, Ares summoned an even more powerful bolt and sent all of its intensity at his sister, who absorbed more energy thanks to her bracelets. Now overcome with surprise, Ares could only watch as she redirected the lightning bolt back at him, seemingly destroying him once and for all and thereby ending the existence of the Old Gods.

## Personality

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Ares, as the God of War, is extremely violent, bloodthirsty, selfish, sinister, and egregiously malevolent, willing to wipe out anyone who stands in the way of his ambitions. Originally, Ares was noble and willing to defend humanity. However, as time passed, Ares would grow less and less noble and more resentful of the humans he helped save, and when none of the other Old Gods shared his views, he ruthlessly slayed them in the War of the Gods, even attempting to kill his own father Zeus with everything he had. Ares would eventually go on to instigate the devastating World War I by manipulating both sides, again showing his hatred of humans by planning to use Dr. Poison's deadly hydrogen-based mustard gas to wipe them out. Thus, Ares was purely evil and irredeemable, as he didn't hesitate to turn against his allies when they were no longer useful to him (such as Dr. Poison) and even against his own family, murdering his own half-sister Artemis and using everything in his disposal to try to kill his father Zeus when the latter stood in Ares's way. Indeed, Ares's loyalty was only to those that could be more useful to him than others, as he only aided the Central Powers of World War I and General Ludendorff primarily because Ludendorff shared Ares' own sadistically romantic view of war (the position that war serves a purpose of bettering individuals and demands human sacrifices) and due to Dr. Poison's inventions offering him an easier way of wiping out much of humanity. Overall, however, Ares genuinely viewed himself as an altruist, given his belief that without humanity existing on Earth, the planet would be a paradise. He also apparently did not want to kill the Old Gods, as rather than immediately rebelling, he tried everything to persuade his kin that humanity was evil and only rebelled after they made it perfectly clear that they would forever support mankind, and he even went as far as to say that he wanted the Old Gods to approve of his view of humanity when he spoke to Diana.

Ares is also extremely intelligent and divinely wise, given his tremendously long godly lifespan, allowing him unparalleled insight into humanity's darker traits, something no other Old God had, apart from Ares' father Zeus. Hence, even when not utilizing his divine powers, Ares was still extremely dangerous and absolutely lethal.

Despite his violent and bloodthirsty nature, Ares is a deceptive genius who could expertly hide it under a persuasive façade of calmness, kindness, and perceptiveness, as well as his persuasive rhetoric, with Ares also usually not desiring to fight individuals who could be useful to him otherwise, like Wonder Woman. Indeed, while posing as the human "Sir Patrick Morgan," Ares deceived not only Wonder Woman but even the highly experienced spies Steve Trevor and Sameer into believing that he was a staunch Allied Powers supporter, with him notably funding the Wonder Men for their military expedition to find and defeat General Ludendorff, with Wonder Woman never suspecting "Sir Patrick" until Ares willingly reveals himself to her.

Ares is also a phenomenal demagogue, with the use of divinely wise and seemingly rational arguments making Ares' method even more effective. Hence, even after revealing himself and his motives to Wonder Woman, Ares claimed to be "the God of Truth, not War" (notably saying this while restrained by the Lasso of Hestia) and was still quite persuasive in presenting his viewpoints (him not actually being her enemy and humanity being inherently malevolent and destructive even without his influence), to the point that it gave even the determined Wonder Woman some pause before she could even respond. As such, Ares succeeded in riling up Wonder Woman with a ferocious display of violence and, by insulting Steve Trevor's sacrifice, almost got her to murder Dr. Poison.

Ares' greatest weakness was his occasional overconfidence and arrogance (much like it is for Erich Ludendorff), with the God of War believing that his phenomenal divine power and ability to enhance himself from violence made him practically unbeatable. This ultimately became his downfall, as Diana was able to use her non-violent emotions of love and compassion to overpower and defeat Ares, fulfilling her role as the God Killer.

## Attributes

### Powers

* **Olympian Physiology** - As an Old God and a son of Zeus himself, Ares is a phenomenally powerful divine being, appearing to be more powerful than even most other Old Gods. Later, even while weakened, he was still able to surpass the already tremendous might of the demigoddess Wonder Woman, his younger half-sister.
	+ **Superhuman Strength** - Ares has a tremendous level of superhuman strength, even when in his much weaker and smaller form. He is notably stronger than Wonder Woman and was able to send her flying vast distances with his incredibly mighty blows. When in his natural and massive form, Ares' superhuman strength was far superior to the likes of the strongest New Gods. While empowered by the violence of the War of the Gods, Ares' strength was greatly enhanced, killing all other Old Gods and being able to go up against Zeus himself before being beaten.
	+ **Nigh-Invulnerability** - As an Old God, Ares cannot be killed by mundane means, given how Zeus was only slain by mortal wounds inflicted by another Old God, Ares himself. Ares' invulnerability seemingly exceeds that of Wonder Woman, with an additional immunity to most magical attacks, which allowed him to withstand conflagrations and the full force of massive explosions and numerous tremendously mighty blows from Wonder Woman (while in his weakened and smaller human form) without permanent damage. While at full power and greatly enhanced by the violence of the War of the Gods, Ares was even able to survive even a mighty divine lightning attack from Zeus. Although he was left severely injured and incapacitated, and while he healed from it, it was this attack that left Ares much weaker and smaller than before, which allowed Ares' own deflected divine lightning to seemingly kill him.
	+ **Superhuman Speed** - Ares can move at considerable superhuman speeds, going toe-to-toe with Wonder Woman's speed during their final fight and even outmaneuvering her on several occasions, despite his muscular physique and heavy armor. At full power, despite his massive form, Ares is even faster.
	+ **Superhuman Agility** - *To be added*
	+ **Superhuman Stamina** - *To be added*
	+ **Superhuman Reflexes** - Ares' speed extends to his reflexes as well, even if he is not moving at super speed, as when Wonder Woman first swung a massive piece of debris at him with her Lasso of Hestia, Ares swiftly flew out of the way and proceeded to dodge and counter many of her ensuing attacks.
	+ **Regenerative Healing Factor** - Ares, after being grievously wounded and forced into retreat by Zeus in the War of the Gods, using all of his focus, managed to heal from it eventually, although it cost him his full massive form and made him unable to reach full power again. However, if the injuries are serious enough to instantly kill Ares while he's not at full power, his healing factor would not be able to save him, which is what happened when Wonder Woman killed Ares—by deflecting the full force of the God of War's divine lighting torrents back at him.
	+ **Immortality** - As an Old God, Ares has been alive for millennia and did not age, predating the time when Zeus created the Amazons.
	+ **Flight** - Ares can fly at considerable speeds both on Olympus and Earth, capable of maneuvering with precision in any direction as well as hovering in one place.
	+ **Divine Magic** - As the son of Zeus and an Old God himself, Ares has unlimited control over the supernatural divine energy of the Old Gods. Due to this, he is capable of manipulating magic and can cast spells to manipulate many aspects of reality.
		- **War Manipulation** - As the God of War, Ares has the formidable power to manipulate war, strife, combat, bloodlust, rage, and other forms of conflict. This power also allows Ares to naturally be incredibly skilled in all forms of combat, fighting, and weaponry.
			* **War Inducement** - Ares can induce conflicts by influencing people or events—raising personal and fanatical armies, as shown when he corrupted humanity with warfare shortly after the race's creation, when he instigated the extremely devastating war of the Gods on Olympus, as well as later the equally devastating World War I (more horrific than any war before it in human history), which spanned much of Earth and led to the deaths of millions.
			* **Violence Empowerment** - Ares is empowered by violence, hatred, rage, bloodshed, and death, becoming more powerful. Hence, during the War of the Gods, Ares' power was enhanced enough to allow him to slay every other Old God and evenly fight against and severely wound even Zeus himself, although he was eventually defeated by Zeus. During World War I, every time Wonder Woman attempted to fight Ares with violence, the God of War maintained the upper hand (the violence, hatred, devastation, and rage of Wonder Woman only made Ares more powerful), only losing when Wonder Woman understood and utilized the power of love against him instead.
			* **Violence Telepathy** - Ares can subtly influence the thoughts of individuals that are predisposed to violence, hatred, rage, and bloodshed, with him covertly invading their minds. In this way, Ares taught both opposing sides of World War I how to create innovative, formidable weapons, notably giving Erich Ludendorff and Doctor Poison the idea of using lethal chemical warfare against the Allied Powers. He seemed to have also influenced Dr. Poison to create the metahuman gas that Ludendorff used to gain temporary physical enhancements as a ploy to fool Wonder Woman into thinking that Ludendorff was Ares and to break her faith in humanity further. Indeed, after Ares' supposed death at the hands of Wonder Woman, many Central and Allied Powers soldiers embraced and smiled, as if they had just woken up from an enthrallment, ending World War I for good.
		- **Electricity Generation** - Like his father Zeus, Ares can generate and control divine electricity to an extreme degree, generating everything from precise small tendrils to tremendous torrents (which incinerated almost anything in Ares' path) from his hands, with Ares also able to conduct extreme amounts of electricity through touch, with that allowing him to instantly break free from Wonder Woman's otherwise unbreakable Lasso of Hestia. He could also summon immense celestial bolts of lightning and redirect them towards the desired targets. The Bracelets of Submission are the only known weapon capable of withstanding and repelling Ares' divine lightning.
		- **Telekinesis** - Ares can move, hurl and manipulate objects' movements to an immense degree with mere hand gestures, thus keeping the Lasso of Hestia from entangling him while fighting Wonder Woman, as well as telekinetically projecting waves of debris and hurling entire tanks at her. Indeed, Ares' telekinesis exerts such tremendous force that he was able to immobilize Wonder Woman by having thick metal sheets pin her torso to the ground, forcing her to helplessly watch as Steve Trevor died as she struggled to break free from Ares' telekinetic clutches.
			* **Matter Transmutation** - Ares was able to use his telekinesis to summon battle debris towards himself and then transmute the debris into fearsome and powerful black battle armor and a diabolical 4-horned helmet, as well as many mighty swords he created during his battle with Wonder Woman. He can even transmute parts of his armor into weapons, given how he created a chain from the arm brace of his armor during his battle with Wonder Woman.
		- **Heat Generation** - Ares can manipulate and conduct an immense amount of heat, notably doing so when Wonder Woman tried stabbing him with her God Killer sword (with the blade melting and harmlessly breaking into pieces upon touching the God of War) and when Ares used his superheated fingers to melt open the eye and mouth openings of his reforged battle helmet.
		- **Air Manipulation** - Ares can control the direction and potency of winds, as notably demonstrated when he created powerful winds around himself while fighting Wonder Woman in order to prevent her from restraining him with the Lasso of Hestia.
		- **Teleportation** - Ares can instantly traverse immense distances at will, appearing before Wonder Woman moments after she slayed General Ludendorff, teleporting all the way from Great Britain to Belgium. He swiftly disappears again as soon as Wonder Woman slashes her sword at Ares, promptly reappearing some distance away.
		- **Illusion Manipulation** - Ares can conjure up extremely realistic and vibrant illusions, notably temporarily altering the environment around himself and making Wonder Woman look like a luscious forest ally (representing the "paradise" that Earth could be without humanity).
		- **Invisibility** - Ares can render himself imperceptible to humans as he covertly manipulates and corrupts them, notably doing so to General Ludendorff and Dr. Poison.

### Abilities

* **Genius-Level Intellect** - *To be added*
	+ **Master Tactician** - *To be added*
	+ **Master Deceiver** - *To be added*
	+ **Expert Demagogue** - *To be added*
	+ **Expert Social Intuit** - *To be added*
	+ **Warfare Expertise** - *To be added*
	+ **Weapon Intuition** - *To be added*
* **Master Combatant** - *To be added*
	+ **Sword Mastery** - *To be added*
	+ **Axe Mastery** - *To be added*
* **Omnilingualism** - *To be added*

## Equipment

### Weapons

* **Battle Axe** - *To be added*
* **Swords** - *To be added*
* **Chains** - *To be added*

### Other Equipment

* **Battle Armor** - *To be added*
* **Two-Horned Helmet** - *To be added*
* **Cane** - *To be added*

## Relationships

	+ Zeus † - Father and Indirect Victim
	+ Poseidon † - Uncle and Victim
	+ Hades † - Uncle and Victim
	+ Hestia † - Aunt and Victim
* Diana - Half-Sister, Attempted Victim and Attempted Killer

Allies* Central Powers - Situational Allies
	+ Erich Ludendorff † - Worshipper
	+ Wonder Men
		- Steve Trevor † - Former Ally
		- Etta Candy † - Former Ally