Ares (Ultimate Earth)

" *War is **many** things, Diana of Themyscira. It is a **crucible** by which **mortals** may discover--and abandon--their **humanity**. It is a **forge** by which they build and destroy their **civilizations**. But like the **fire** Prometheus gave to the mortals, war is **always hungry***"*.*
— '***Ares'***
**Ares** is the Olympian God of War. He represents the physical or violent aspect of war. He is the son of Zeus by Hera and a villainous cosmic entity who acts as antagonist to his half-sister/granddaughter **Wonder Woman**.

Ares' strength is bolstered by violence, anger, hate, death, and bloodshed and as such is frequently seeking ways to incite these acts on Earth so that he may overpower the other Olympian Gods and rule Olympus. He has offspring known as the Children of Ares, demi-gods who act as super-villains.

## History

He is the son of Zeus and his wife Hera. Despite being Zeus's son, Ares never fit in with the other gods of Olympus and created his own realm, the Areopagus. He had many siblings that made up the bulk of the Gods of Olympus. He fell in love with Aphrodite, the goddess of love, and the two had many children together. Among his children were the twin sons Phobos and Deimos, who were the gods of fear and terror respectively. He was also the father of the Amazons, although instead of fathering them with Aphrodite either Harmonia or Otrera was the mother.

Ares grew savage and was driven mad as time went on, due to his role as the God of War. Aphrodite, the patron of the Amazons, swore that her women would save the world with love from the hatred and warfare of Ares. In modern times Ares's plot at this time was to fire nuclear missiles between the United States and Russia, simultaneously, provoking World War III, but Diana managed to make him see, trapped in her Lasso of Truth, how this chaos would lead to his own disappearance, with Ares having no one to worship him.

### Cassandra Sandsmark

Ares had gifted Cassie with a powerful lasso, able to expel Zeus' lightning in times of anger, for her to use in her persona as Wonder Girl. Ares afterward appeared to Cassie repeatedly, in order to warn her about "the coming war." The Teen Titans were thrown ten years into the future, where Cassie had inherited the mantle of Wonder Woman after Diana's death. She was also referred to as "Ares' Champion."

Ares appeared to Cassie for apparently the final time, and he revealed that the gods were leaving this plane, and that Zeus was reclaiming the power he had granted Cassie as well. In exchange for acknowledging their relationship as family and becoming his champion, he offered her some of his power, saying only that she would be "more powerful than [she's] ever been." The full extent of Cassie's powers was not revealed at that time, and she retained all of her former powers.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powerse

* **Olympian Physiology**: Ares possesses the standard powers of an Olympian god, including omnipresence, vast strength, and magic, and a son of Zeus himself, Ares is a phenomenally powerful divine being, appearing to be more powerful than even most other Old Gods, and as the god of war, he has authority over war itself.
	+ **Superhuman Strength**: Ares is a god with almost infinite strength. As do all the Olympian gods, Ares possesses tremendous strength, though he is now perhaps the physically strongest of them. As a God of War Ares has immense godly strength able to crush buildings effortlessly, make the ground shake by stomping and has manhandled incredibly powerful beings such as Wonder Woman.
	+ **Superhuman Stamina**: Olympians can operate for prolonged periods of time without tiring.
	+ **Superhuman Durability**: Due to being an Olympian God, Ares is immune to the effects of mortal weapons, however could be injured by weapons of divine nature, or by divine-like beings. Ares is incredibly resistant to all forms of damage. He has taken hits from the likes of Wonder Woman and Thor without suffering any injury at all.
		- **Accelerated healing factor**: Ares can regenerate himself by feeding on conflicts.
	+ **Superhuman Speed:** Olympians are capable of moving faster the the finest human athlete.
	+ **Immortality:** Olympians are immortal and will never truly die. As an Old God worshipped by the ancient Greeks and Romans, Ares has lived for at least millennia.
		- **Decelerated Aging**: Olympians do not age the way a normal human does.
	+ **War Embodiment**: As a God of War, Ares was the embodiment of War itself and was able to draw power from them. In combination with his other abilities, Ares was able to lay waste to huge armies, with little to no effort.
	+ **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.
	+ **Violence empowerment**: Ares as the God of War derives power from all forms of conflict. Ares is empowered by violence, hatred, rage, bloodshed and death, becoming more powerful.
		- **Necrotic Empowerment**: As long as people die via wars and violence, he can gain more power and increase his superhuman physical attributes.
	+ **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.
	+ **Teleportation**: Ares has the ability to teleport himself and others at will.
	+ **Dimensional Travel**: Ares can travel between Olympus and Earth and he can summon enchanted weapons from the Areopagus.
	+ **Flight**: Ares can wrap himself in dark energy to fly.
	+ **Electrokinesis**: Ares can summon lightning from the skies to strike at a specific opponent. This lightning is strong enough to damage himself, as he was harmed when it was redirected back at him.
	+ **Telepathy** **and** **Illusion Casting**: Ares can mentally communicate with his worshippers, transmitting his image at interdimensional range, and possibly can do the same to any other intelligent being. Alternately Ares is capable of using his power to absorb the memories of others. This process is extremely harmful to his victims, as even someone as powerful as Wonder Woman became weak and began bleeding from her eyes as a result of Ares doing this. He can also show what happen in other places by creating a illusion inside his cape.
		- **Mind Control**: Ares can directly control the minds of his living followers; they will degenerate and show cadaverous features, then die when the effects pass away.
* **Telekinesis**: Ares can telekinetically manipulate his weapons.
* **Electrokinesis**: Ares can summon lightning from the skies to strike at a specific opponent. This lightning is strong enough to damage himself, as he was harmed when it was redirected back at him
* **Cosmic Awareness**: Ares, like all Gods, is aware of the multiverse and the realms that lie beyond. This knowledge gives him an understanding of the universe and all life that transcends the capabilities of normal mortals.
* **Clairvoyance**: Ares is capable of witnessing and understanding events that he wasn't present for, as if he was there.
* **Precognition**: Ares claims to have the ability to see into the future.
* **Chronokinesis**: Ares has the ability to slow time.
* **Magic**: Olympians have the power to manipulate vast amounts of magic energy to nearly any effect they desires.
	+ **Energy Projection**: Ares can control and project dark energy
		- **Energy Construct Creation**: Ares is capable of constructing weapons out of pure energy.
* **Darkness Manipulation**: Ares can summon darkness and can choose targets to become visibles into this condition.
* **Invisibility**: Ares is able to turn himself invisible for a period of time.
* **Molecular Reconstruction**: He can turn any hard material into a weapon or armor. Ares can control and bend solid objects and substances to his will.
* **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 can also summon a flame which burn souls.
* **Geokinesis**: Ares can occasionally summon enormous volcanic rock structures around his opponents.
* **Reality Alteration**
* **Necromancy (limited):** the spirits on the losing side of every war owe a tribute to Ares, and Ares had control over necromancy and energies related to the dead.
	+ **Reanimation:** Ares was able to reanimate deceased Amazonian into his solders.
	+ **Necrotic Empowerment:** Ares absorbs necrotic energies which increase his power and size.
* **Metamorphosis**: Olympians can alter their physical form into any shape that they can choose.
	+ **Size Alteration**: When the war is abundant, Ares can grow to giant size.

### Abilities

* **Weaponry:** Ares knows and can control the most varied types of weapons.
* **Occultism**
* **Martial Arts**
* **Warfare Expertise:** Ares is an expert in all areas of warfare.
* **Master Marksman:** He is extremely accurate in throwing projectiles and sharpshooting.
* **Master Tactician:** He has a vast amount of military history particularly focusing on battles and wars that involved Greek and Roman (or Italian) soldiers and armies.
* **Battle Precognition:** Ares seems to have a sixth sense regarding the trajectory of assaults in the heat of combat.

### Strength Level

* **Attack Potency:** **Multi-Solar System level** (Mars became as large as a Promethan Giant) | **High Multiverse level+** (Comparable to other Greek and New Gods of the 4th World. Stabbed through Highfather)
* **Speed:** **Massively FTL+** | **Immeasurable** (Much like other deities, he exists beyond time and space)
* **Lifting Strength: Stellar+** (Should be equal to Wonder Woman) | **Unknown**
* **Striking Strength:** **Multi-Solar System Class** | **High Multiverse level+**
* **Durability:** **Multi-Solar System level** | **High Multiverse level+**
* **Stamina:** Unlimited
* **Range:** Standard melee range. Hundreds of meters with Energy Attacks, up to Interstellar with various abilities. | Multiversal+
* **Intelligence:** Incredibly intelligent. A master manipulator and strategist. Master of virtually all forms of combat and weapons. Master of various forms of magic.

### Weaknesses

* **Power Loss**: Ares feeds and relies on large scale human conflict, he feeds on all conflict on the earthly plane, which to grow and maintain his power. When there is no conflict, he is starved and greatly weakened to the point where beings far below him can defeat him in single battle. During periods without war and violence, he becomes significantly weaker to the point where beings far below him can defeat him in single battle.
* **Amulet of Harmonia**: Ares is vulnerable to any attack from a person who uses the Amulet of Harmonia.
* **Vulnerability to Aphrodite's love and power**: His love for Aphrodite and her knowledge of certain words can bend the will of the god of war.
* **Other Gods:** Other gods and divine-like beings or artifacts can harm him.

## Paraphernalia

### Weapons

* **Double-axe**
* **Crystal Orb:** Ares can watch other places with this artifact.