Zeus

Hera (sister/wife), Metis & Themis (ex-wives)

Hestia & Demeter (sisters), Poseidon and Hades (brothers)

 Artemis, Athena, Hebe, Eileithyia, Enyo, Thalia Grace, Diana of Themyscira, the Moirai, the Charites, Persephone, the Muses, the Horae, Britomartis (daughters), Apollo, Ares, Hermes, Jason of Themyscira, Hephaestus, Dionysus, Perseus, Jason Grace, Hercules, Tantalus, Minos (sons)

 Arthur Curry, Orm Marius, and Nico di Angelo, Triton, and Zagreus (nephews), Bianca di Angelo, Melinoe, Hazel Levesque, and Makaria (nieces)

Perseus Lykaios (great-grandfather/uncle/reincarnated nephew)

 Gaea (grandmother) & Ouranos (grandfather)

### Affiliation

Gods of Olympus, Olympian Council, Council of Godheads

## Equipment

### Weapon(s)

Master Bolt

**Zeus Panhellenios** is the Greek God of the Sky, Thunder, Lightning, Kingship, Honor, and Justice. He's the King of Olympus, the youngest son of Kronos and Rhea, and the husband of the goddess Hera. His Roman counterpart is **Jupiter**.

## Personality

As King of the Gods, Zeus is known for being very proud and commanding, yet equally benevolent and just, as well as divinely wise. He's prone to having an extremely high amount of self-respect, almost to the point of sanctimoniousness, condescension and narcissism. Like many Old Gods, Zeus demands respect and precedence from mortals, demigods, and other gods.

Despite being the god of honor and justice, with demanding high standards from others, Zeus himself does not always provide the best moral example. In fact, at times, he could be extremely paranoid, selfish, and hypocritical. The most evident example of his hypocrisy could be demonstrated through the oath taken by the Big Three to have no more demigod children: despite the fact that Hades had not broken the oath (since Bianca and Nico were born before the oath was taken), Zeus still attempted to murder his brother's children. Later on, he himself broke the oath by fathering Thalia and Jason, which forced both of them to endure the consequences of his broken oath.

If Zeus imagines that he is being plotted against or insulted, he can be very unforgiving and often allows his negative traits to override his better judgment. His decisions were not always based on justice, but rather personal whims and what he sees as best for himself, rather than the greater good. In some ways Zeus is lustful for power; it's evident in his title as king of the gods and his fear of his own brothers betraying or dethroning him.

He's noted to often be quite unreasonable especially if he has been proven wrong or made a fool of. He gets angry, tries to assign blame elsewhere, and takes any attempts of reasoning with him as challenges to his authority (or more likely judgment). The only thing one can do is wait for him to calm down and try to reason with him later. Zeus also has a tendency to hold grudges, having a very strong and lasting distrust of Poseidon as he believes the latter had once attempted to overthrow the former from his throne. He blames Poseidon for anything that the latter could be guilty of in the barest despite having no evidence and all facts pointing to the contrary. He would continue to distrust Apollo after the latter participating in the attempted overthrow and for once killing several of the Elder Cyclopes to avenge the death of his son.

Zeus's several flaws often get in the way of him being a good king. His refusal to change his decision when he is wrong, tendency to put himself before the other gods, or even admit a problem actually exists has put both Olympus and the world in danger numerous times. Hence, it has been noted that it is actually Hera who holds Olympus together and without her the gods would quickly implode.

Despite his flaws, Zeus does have a respectable side and was even considered to possess extraordinary level of emotional intelligence and wisdom. He created humanity in the likeness of the Old Gods (imbuing them with many virtues), and when Ares sought to corrupt them, he created the Amazons to protect humanity (imbuing them with the ability to spread love, compassion, and a mutual understanding among all human nations).

Zeus was also an unfaithful husband, having several illicit affairs with mortal women and goddesses alike, that produced several illegitimate children. He did admit that despite his affairs he did love Hera uncondictionally, even nearly sacrificing his life to save hers from a giant.

He loves all his children equally, but cannot show favoritism like most other gods due to being a leader and must set an example. Rhea confirmed that Zeus (her youngest son) was a father who firmly believed in expressing paternal love or concern in a strict way to make his children behave responsibly. He also favors Artemis over Apollo, despite the fact that they both disobey him at times, and Artemis has confirmed that Zeus has never been able to stay angry at her for long, since she has the ability to charm him into forgiving her. His intense favor of Athena is evident as well, especially how she was not punished despite aiding in Hera's attempt to overthrow him and Zeus even trusted the Earth and protection of humanity to her above all other deities.

He also has been seen to be capable of being impressed and showing affection for his children, as when Thalia was on the brink of death due to Hades' monsters, which were sent to kill specifically her as Hades wanted revenge against Zeus for Maria's death, Zeus took pity on his daughter, likely since her situation was partially caused by Zeus, and rather than letting her die and go to the Underworld and face Hades' wrath, he turned her into a tree so she could live and later voted to spare Thalia.

Zeus was still quick to turn on his children if he feels they have somehow insulted him or challenged his authority. Apollo revealed that Zeus had a habit of threatening his children with his lightning bolts, and he also confirmed that his father was not the type of person who could overlook or dismiss what he deems to be great insults.

Although Zeus can be short-tempered and vengeful, he is also capable of sympathizing with those who had suffered the same injustices that he and the other gods suffered in their lives. While initially being angry at Poseidon for having two children, Zeus is sympathetic towards his brother when he learned of their fates and that of his deceased soulmate. It was because of this, Zeus didn't considered his nephew's birth a crime especially when Poseidon was ordered by the Creators to break the oath. He went so far as to declaring them his favorite nephews and claimed them as his pseudo-godchildren. He also was the most willing to kill the Ophiotaurus due to the risk that it posed to the gods, however it was pointed out that what the gods wished to do was the same thing that Kronos had tried to do with them in the past, Zeus was the first god to acknowledge the injustice and reconsider his decision.

It's also revealed that Zeus does have a witty and charming side to his usually strict, prim, and serious persona, but he very rarely demonstrated it. Thanks to his knowledge of many outrageously hilarious satyr jokes, he also had a sense of humor. Zeus acts like a showoff at his brunch with some of the other gods and Rhea, telling an overexaggerated version of his tricking Kronos into throwing up his siblings. Zeus' version of the story includes llamas in Crete which probably didn't even exist on Crete at the time as pointed out by Grover Underwood and he takes a long time to tell it. The other gods, and possibly even Rhea, appear to be annoyed by Zeus' antics and try to deter him. In addition, he is shown to still openly lust after Ganymede which earns him Hera's ire.

## Appearance

Like most Greek Gods, Zeus is very tall, imposing, and very muscular, with shoulder-length black hair and a gray-and-black neatly trimmed beard. He has brilliant electrically-blue eyes with a serious and proud, but very handsome face. However, when Zeus is infuriated, his face becomes "as dark as a thundercloud." He'll sometimes wear blue and white robes with threads of gold and golden accessories. In most cases however, Zeus is seen wearing a traditional Greek white chiton made of the most expensive fabrics with a long white beard resembling the clouds.

Zeus rides into battle on a huge golden chariot, with the four wind gods (in equine form) pulling it, and Nike as his charioteer. While not wielding the Master Bolt, Zeus has it clipped to his belt. He sometimes wields the Aegis, which appears as either a bronze shield, with the fearsome visage of Medusa upon it, or a glowing mantle, that glitters "as if woven through with filaments of Imperial Gold."

## Powers & Abilities

### Powers

As one of the Big Three, Zeus is an extremely powerful deity and the ultimate powers a god can possess with the most destructive capabilities. His power was described as celestial and omnipotent when compared to lesser beings, only being rivaled by Poseidon and Hades. Although having a large range of powers and abilities, Zeus acknowledged that he was not an all-powerful being. His actions, like many Old Gods, were confined by the will of the Fates despite them being his children, and even he did not dare face all the other gods on Olympus when they banded together.

* **Olympian Physiology**: Zeus belongs to a race of inconceivably powerful Old Gods known as the Gods of Earth, giving him almost unlimited power to call upon. As Skyfather of the Olympians, Zeus has the standard physical attributes and magical superiority inherent in all gods, though to a much greater degree as one of the oldest Olympians as well as one of the Big Three.
	+ **Allspeak**: Due to the Allspeak (also called *All-Tongue*), Zeus can communicate in all languages, Earth's dialects, and various alien languages.
	+ **Godly Strength**: Zeus has incredible physical prowess, even being mention to lift and hurl entire mountains at his enemies. He was able to crush and imprison Typhon (the only being with strength superior to his own) by hurling Mount Etna on top of him. When Hephaestus angered him, Zeus easily overpowered and flung his son all the way from Mount Olympus to Lemnos. This is especially impressive because Hephaestus is one of the physically strongest Olympians in creation, exponentially exceeding the likes of Ares.
	+ **Godly Stamina**: Zeus' highly advanced physiology generates almost no fatigue toxins during physical activity, enabling him to sustain his strength almost indefinitely, which grants him almost limitless stamina.
	+ **Height Manipulation**: Zeus can tremendously increase his height, shown when he grows even taller, until he is half as tall as the Storm Giant Typhon and grows 100 feet tall before hurling the *Argo II* all the way from Athens to Camp Half-Blood
	+ **Nigh-Invulnerability**: As the King of the Old Gods, Zeus possess the highest level of vast invulnerability an Old God can have, making him nearly indestructible both to physical and supernatural means. While he could still be harmed by other beings of extreme power and supernatural weapons, Zeus' durbaility is great enough that even emerged uninjured from his fight with Darkseid and the Hulk. He withstood a powered blast from Galactus, resulting in the latter to acknowledge that no mere Skyfather could easily shrug-off Galactus's cosmic powers.
	+ **Immortality**: After Ra and Odin, Zeus is the oldest known Old God and only his elder siblings were older than him. He's lived for millennia without aging, having not aged past his prime since reaching adulthood and cannot die through any conventional means. Zeus was stated to have predated the current irration of humanity, including their many sub-races such as the Atlanteans and Amazons. As an immortal, Zeus can fade from existence - either from a lack of worship or the diminishing of domains and if other sources of power are destroyed, becoming so weakened it'll take longer to manifest physical form.
	+ **Shapeshifting**: Zeus had always had a talent for shapeshifting, even transforming himself into a Titanic version to deceive his father and the other Titans. Later on, he frequently transformed himself into other shapes to seduce those whom he fell in love with. He's transformed himself several animals to woo different men and woman. Those include a bull (Europa), an eagle (Ganymede), a swan (Leda), a cuckoo (Hera), an ant (Eurymedousa), a serpent (Demeter), Artemis (Kallisto), Amphitryon (Alcmene) and even a dazzling shower of gold (Danaë). Zeus often takes the form of an eagle and disguised himself as King Periander. He even created and assumed the identity of an old man to keep watch over Heron and Electra in secret.
	+ **Superhuman Sight**: As the God of the Sky, Zeus has incredibly keen vision. He managed to see Danaë, who was trapped inside of an underground bronze cell and was later able to mentally zoom in and clearly perceive Phaethon driving Helios' Sun Chariot. Zeus was also capable of remotely viewing events happening miles away and sensing the prayers of the Greeks.
	+ **Superhuman Speed**: Zeus is capable of running and moving at speeds much greater than even the finest human athlete, enabling him to run 111-115 mph.
		- **Superhuman Agility**: Zeus' agility, balance, and bodily coordination, have been conditioned to levels that are far superior to the natural physical limits of even the finest human athlete.
		- **Superhuman Reflexes**: Zeus' reflexes have been greatly conditioned and are much more superior to the natural physical limits of even the finest human athlete.
* **Greco-Roman Magic**: As an Old God, Zeus is able to manipulate magic and various aspects of reality derived from the supernatural divine energies inherent within the Gods of Olympus. His magical abilities were greater than any other Olympian with the exception of Perseus and Hecate, easily overpowering Doctor Strange and Thor, and was only rivaled by his brothers.
	+ **Sky Manipulation**: As God of the Sky, Zeus has absolute control over the sky, including all the aspects of the weather and other phenomenon that's present within the heavenly cosmos. He's able to generate and rearrange stars into constellations, transform clouds into various shapes, command animals of the sky into obeying him and even access a repository of spells derived from the Sky Primal.
		- **Atmokinesis**: As the God of the Sky, Zeus has absolute control over the weather and can create any weather condition. When fighting Typhon, Zeus summoned a large hailstorm that began tearing apart the Storm Giant's body. Whenever he's displeased, Zeus unleashes a thunderstorm that appears instantly and shakes the very ground itself.
			* **Aerokinesis**: As the God of the Sky, Zeus has absolute control over air. He has the same aerokinetic powers as his both Jason's, only to an infinitely more advanced level.
				+ **Wind Generation**: Zeus can generate tremendously powerful hurricanes and tornadoes at will. He generated a large thunderstorm around Mount Olympus in hopes of winning Hera's favor. He has authority over all 4 Wind Gods, whom he bound and harnessed to his war chariot with tightly wound ropes of wind that were created.
			* **Hyetokinesis**: As God of the Sky, Zeus has absolute control over rain. He brought about a global flood by causing tremendous torrents of water to pour down from the heavens all over the world for nine days and nights. The entire world was flooded except for the highest mountains all the while humanity was destroyed by this massive calamity.
			* **Electrokinesis**: As the God of Thunder and Lightning, Zeus is famous for his ability to manipulate electricity, primarily doing so in the form of his Master Bolt, using it to obliterate his foes from a distance. He is also able to call down regular lightning at will, emit bursts of intense static electricity from his body, and is completely immune to electrical attacks of any kind. Zeus' electrokinetic powers were so potent and powerful, that with a single blast, he was capable of injuring and hurting Darkseid rendering him immobilized in the first Invasion of Earth
				+ **Lightning Generation**: Zeus can generate extremely powerful lightning bolts that can shatter huge mountains and even injure Titans. In moments of anger, his eyes iften glowed blue and shot tiny volts of electricity. He can combine clouds with his electricity to make his lightning much more powerful, to the point that a single spear of lightning was able to blast down Kronos and Atlas.
		- **Constellation Creation**: Zeus is able to create stars and then rearrange them into constellations. He placed the Scorpion that killed Orion into the heavens when punishing Artemis for the injustice and turned the Pleiades into star clusters. His faithful eagle became the constellation Aquilla while Laelaps and the Teumessian Fox were commemorated amongst the stars as the trailing constellations Canis Major and Minor. After their deaths, Zeus had turned Perseus and Andromeda into constellations to exemplify that heroes can receive happy endings.
		- **Flight**: Zeus could levitate himself off the ground and fly at extraordinary speeds, as both he and Ares remained in the air through their battle on Olympus He's even able to manipulate the air currents around him to hover and fly at great speeds.
	+ **Animal Control** (limited): Zeus can summon and control animals that are sacred to him, shown when he sends a huge golden eagle to punish Prometheus and had sent another one to assist Psyche. He's able to influence the behavior of animals, allowing him to calm wild animals, having induced a bear to nurse Seraphim.
	+ **Chlorokinesis** (limited): Despite having power over the sky, Zeus has a level of control over the earth and its natural elements that's mostly linked to plants. He was able to conceal Alexia in a bush of blue roses to hide her from Seraphim. When helping Hades kidnap Persephone, Zeus caused the earth to grow several magnificent fields of flowers, each one more colorful and fragrant than the one before it; The roses didn't even have thorns, and their beauty and fragrance made Persephone giddy and lured her further away from her chaperones.
	+ **Immortality Manipulation**: As King of the Gods, Zeus has power over immortality, notably granting others eternal life and calls it "the greatest gift of the gods". He gave Hercules immortality by taking away the divine part within his mortal shade only due to Hercules already being dead. Zeus had gifted Dionysus with immortality after the first Giant War, and made Ganymede immortal due to lasting after the youth. Unlike the other gods, Zeus can strip another god of their immortality and powers, including powerful gods such as Poseidon and Apollo, reducing them to practically mortals.
	+ **Justice Control**: As the God of Justice and Honor, Zeus maintains control over other deities by preventing their feuds from escalating to epic proportions, and ensuring the overall order of the world by handing down and enforcing justice. A good example is when Zeus assembles the first ever Olympian trial for the murder of Poseidon's son Halirrhothius by Ares, with Zeus himself as the Chief Justice. As a result, Ares was justly acquitted.
	+ **Life Creation**: Zeus was known for creating humanity and the Amazons, imbuing both with their mindsets and abilities. He notably fathered Wonder Woman and Jason without having sexual intercourse with Hippolyta by placing his divine essence within the her womb. Zeus breathed sentience into the statues around Olympus's throne room and control them, and once brought the Colossus of Rhodes to life.
	+ **Prophecy**: Zeus also has limited precognitive abilities, and in ancient times was the patron of an oracle at Dodona, through which he delivered prophecies. He had seen the Demiurge's past and foresaw him becoming Perseus Lykaios, leading to the realization the former and latter were one and the same. This ability also enabled Zeus to view the events leading to the Trojan War and detect the coming Asgard-Olympus War that occurred centuries afterwards.
	+ **Telekinesis**: Zeus can manipulate objects through telekinesis, generating a telekinetic aura colored light blue and glowed around the objects that were manipulated. It's unknown the extent which Zeus could exert his telekinetic power, but he's shown mentally influencing the trajectory of his shield and Master Bolt when thrown.
	+ **Transfiguration**: Zeus is able to transmute and transfigure virtually anything into something else, havinh transformed his daughter Thalia into a tree when she was on death's door, turning thousands of ants into deadly warriors, his paramour Io into a cow, and Lycaon into the first werewolf. He turned Charybdis into the monster she's currently known as and could even turn others into constellations.
* **Cosmic Awareness**: Zeus is aware of the multiverse and the realms that lying beyond. This knowledge gives him an understanding of the universe and all life that transcends the capabilities of normal mortals.
* **Divine Form**: Like the rest of the Greek Gods, Zeus possesses a "True Form" that manifests when he gathers all of his essence in one place. During this time, he emits blinding, searing light that is able to kill any mortal foolish enough to challenge him virtually instantly and vaporizing the physical forms of those who survive an initial glance.

### Abilities

* **Battle Prowess**: Zeus is an extremely formidable and experienced warrior. He easily overpowered his son, Hephaestus, defeated the infamously terrifying Kampê, battled his father Kronos, and even held his own against the powerful Typhon several times. One particular battle was incredibly difficult and long, and both Dionysus and Hephaestus - enormously powerful Olympians - were forcibly and violently removed from the fight with critically brutal injuries, which contributes to Zeus's mastery of combat techniques and strategy. Despite this, he recognized that there were those more strategically skilled and knowledgeable than him, as he considered Athena and Perseus to be his finest strategist in the battle against Typhon.
* **Entertainment Skills**: Zeus was revealed to be an excellent entertainer, being able to sing, dance, and joke, skills that were acquired from the Kouretes that helped raise him. Zeus's singing was said to be "as clear as the streams on Mount Ida", and his satyr jokes were outrageously hilarious. His entertainer skills enabled him to win favor with all of the Titans at Mount Othrys, even Kronos himself, such that they grew to harbor no suspicions of his true intentions at all. Zeus also later applied these skills again to woo his beautiful sister, Hera. He hosted a brunch for several of the other gods and Rhea, but his overexaggerated storytelling annoyed several of them. Poseidon confided to Perseus that he wouldn't be caught at his brother's brunches which Perseus honestly can't blame him for at all after witnessing just a little bit of one.
* **Omnilingualism**: Being an Old God of Earth, Zeus naturally and fluently speaks, read, and understand human languages, even currently dead ones without using the power of Allspeak, which acts as a universal translator.
* **Leadership Skills**: As King of the Gods and Olympus, Zeus was therefore an extraordinarily experienced, charismatic and accomplished leader, with his leadership inspiring complete loyalty in all the other Olympians, and had led his siblings in battle against the Titans in the first Titan War. His charismatic competence made all the Old Gods from various patheons acknowledge him as the leader of the Council of Godheads and follow his orders in battle without question. He led such a large alliance effectively without fail that he was successful in repelling Darkseid's invasion despite Darkseid's vast army and having conquered many other planets without defeat. However, Zeus stated that his leadership skills was something learned by Perseus, and even admitted the latter was a more experienced and better leader than himself.

## Attributes

* Master Bolt (symbol)
* Aegis robe-shield (symbol, which he and Athena use interchangeably)
* Eagle (animal)
* Scepter

## Paraphernalia

### Weapons

* **Master Bolt**: Zeus's most powerful weapon, the Master Bolt, is stupendously powerful, easily making a hydrogen bomb look like a firecracker in comparison. It's even stated Zeus's Master Bolt is the most powerful weapon in the world and when Zeus hurls it towards Typhon, the blast "lights up the world", nearly knocking the colossal monster off-balance, and many can feel the shock-wave many miles away. Zeus used his Master Bolt to swiftly raze the entire city of Salmonia to oblivion after Salmoneus pretended to be Zeus.

### Other Equipment

* **Scales**: As the God of Justice and Honor, Zeus owns a set of scales utilized for judging certain situations. He's capable of using his scales when dealing in matters concerning Fate itself, allowing him to judge others to either assign or re-assign people's destiny. These outcomes can only happen whenthe circumstances were deemed justifiable and honorable, and self-fullfilling and vengeful.

## Etymology

The name **Zenus** comes from the proto - Indo - European root / word *Deus*, meaning god. D evolved into Z in Greek, but was specifically used for Zeus's name. Both gods and mortals referred to Zeus as Pater Zeus (Father Zeus) or Zeus Pater (Zeus Father).

## Trivia

* Zeus can mean "day" in Ancient Greek. However, it could also mean "shining" or "life".
* Zeus is the only Elder Olympian who was not born on Mount Othrys, since he was born in a cave at the base of Mount Ida on Crete.
* Zeus is the only Olympian who has ever turned into a "Titanic" version of himself for disguise.
* Zeus is an excellent singer and dancer. He also knows many outrageously hilarious "Satyr jokes".
* Clovis states that Zeus likes tailored suits, reality television, and a 'Chinese food place on East Twenty-eighth Street'.
* The Olympic Games, originally founded in 776 BC, were a set of religious festivals in Ancient Greece held ever four years in honor of Zeus.
* Jupiter, the largest planet of the Solar system, is named after Zeus' Roman counterpart.
* It seems likely that Zeus/Jupiter is the one that limits a God's time with their mortal lovers, with Jupiter showing a particular distaste for Roman Gods associating with mortals for more than an extended period of time.
* The 'Z' from 'SHAZAM' is used to signify Zeus.