Kratos

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## Amazing Baddie

* Norse Era
* Greek Era

### Alias

God of War and Death
Ghost of Sparta
The Marked Warrior
God of War
The White Warrior
Champion of Ares
Fist of Ares
Champion of the Gods
The Champion of Ares
Lord Kratos
The Fallen God
Slave of the Gods
Servant of Ares
Broken Mortal
The New God of War
Servant of Zeus
Slave of Olympus
Oathbreaker
Destroyer of Atlantis
The Godslayer (by Erinys)
Slave of Olympus
Oathbreaker
Destroyer of Atlantis
Bastard Son of Zeus
Spartan
Destroyer of Worlds
Cursed Mortal
Champion of the Gods
Killer of Argos
Murderer of Gaia (by Cronos)
Murderer of Children
The God Slayer
Slayer of Gods
Fárbauti
Father (by Calliope and Atreus)
Sir (by Atreus)
Fárbauti (by Jötnar)
Einherjar (with Atreus in Jötnar's mural)
Tattooed Man (by Baldur)
Brother (by Mimir)
Big Grump (by Mimir)
Bearded Beefer (by Brok)
Big Sack of Meat (by Brok)
Old Man (by Magni)
Meat (by Baldur)
Brother (by Hercules and Deimos)
My Son (by Zeus and Callisto)
Mortal
My Lord (by the Last Spartan)
Petulant Child (by Zeus)
Bearded Beefer (by Brok)
Brother (by Mimir)
Big Grumps (by Mimir)
Lazy Mortal (by Hermes)
Bane of Olympus
Destroyer of Fate
Cruel Striker
Bringer of War
Grumbles
Destroyer (by Thor)

### Allies

**All currently:**
Atreus
Mimir
Faye
Brok and Sindri
Atlas
Aphrodite
Deimos
The Last Spartan
Pandora
Freya
Jörmungandr
Tyr
Norns
**All Formerly:**
Ares
Athena
Zeus
Poseidon
Hades
Persephone
Hephaestus
Gaia
Artemis

### Powers/Skills

Incredible strength
A vast amount of weaponry and magic
High endurance
Weapon proficiency
Extraordinarily high combat skills
Incredible mobility
Divine powers
Elemental abilities
Photokinesis
Ability to create and control black holes
Spirit control
Chronokinesis
Ability to create dark clones
Invulnerability
Ability to affect intangibles
Immortality
Immunity to viruses and disease
Ergokinesis
Absorbing abilities
Ability to dispel magic and illusion
Spam attack
Ability to deflect attacks
Summoning
Force-field
Zoopathy
Petrification
Ability to drain life-force
Immunity to causality and probability manipulation
Ability to survive without oxygen
AOE attack
Resurrection
Telekinesis
Telepathy
Mind control
Dimensiokinesis
Essokinesis
Materiokinesis
Teleportation
Flight (sky gliding)
Shapeshifting
Umbrakinesis
High Intelligence
Advanced healing factor
Mastery of intimidation
Wisdom

### Goals

Get rid of the memories of his family's slaughter (yet to be seen).
Cure Calliope from the Plague.
Kill the Furies to end his blood oath with Ares.
Regain his memories after reluctantly killing Orkos (*Ascension*).
Find and rescue Helios.
Kill Persephone and imprison Atlas (*Chains of Olympus*).
Retrieve and open Pandora's Box.
Kill Ares and achieve his retribution against him (*God of War*).
Find his mother and brother.
Kill Thanatos to avenge his brother's death (*Ghost of Sparta*).
Find and kill the Sisters of Fate (Lahkesis, Atropos and Clotho).
Turn back in time to the moment right before Zeus kills him to prevent him from destroying his homeland Sparta (*God of War III*).
Kill any Olympian and anyone who gets in his way.
Search for and open Pandora's box once again.
Kill Zeus.
Prevent Athena from taking the power of Hope (*God of War III*).
Control his rage at all costs.
Free Mimir from his torment.
Get rid of Magni and Modi for standing in his path.
Stop Baldur and prevent him from killing his own mother.
Scatter his wife's ashes on the highest peak in all the realms at her request (*God of War 2018*).
Train Atreus and teach him to become a powerful and noble warrior.
Prevent Atreus from becoming like him and making his same mistakes.
Make amends with Freya.
Stop Odin and the Æsir.
Prevent Heimdall from killing Atreus.
Convince Thor to do the right thing for Thrúd.
Atone for all of his sins.
Prevent Ragnarök.
Protect his son at all costs (*Ragnarök*; all succeeded).

### Worst Actions

Killing all the Gods of Olympus, ultimately leading to the destruction of the Greek World and resulting in a genocide that endangered all of humanity.

### Kill Count

Millions (at least; possibly even more)
Incalculable (indirectly attempted)

### Crimes

Mass deicide
High treason
Torture
Child abuse
Genocide
Mass corruption
Abuse of power
Theft
Regicide
Terrorism
Mutilation
Defilement
Attempted omnicide (indirectly)
Assault and battery
Mass murder
Animal cruelty
Necromancy
Manslaughter
Mass destruction
Vigilantism
Endangerment
Vandalism
Assault and battery
Kidnapping
Stalking
Usurpation
Unlawful imprisonment
Crimes against humanity
Oppression
Rape (player-determined)
Death threats
Incest (player-determined)
Serial familicide

### Type of AB

Vengeful Warlord

**Kratos** is the main protagonist of the *God of War* series. As some people may know, Kratos is the protagonist of the series, but he is actually regarded as an anti-hero and villain due to his violent, menacing, blood-thirsty, and ruthless behaviour. He becomes a villainous character who has a desire to destroy the world and kill all the Gods. However, when he raises a son named Atreus, he becomes a better person and learns to live with his mistakes.

He was voiced by Terrence C. Carson in the Greek Saga and and he is voiced by Christopher Judge in the Norse Saga.

## His Brilliance and Evil Rankings

### What Makes Him Amazing?

* Overall, he is an anti-villain and a scapegoat due to his many noble and sympathetic qualities and by no means deserving the misfortunes he suffered throughout the series.
* He is extremely tragic, with his backstory and suffering being played super sympathetically.
	+ He lost his brother Deimos when the gods mistake him for being "The Masked Warrior" who will one day destroy them (which in reality was Kratos himself).
	+ He was tricked by Ares into killing his wife and child, and is cursed to have their ashes on his skin as a reminder of the deed.
	+ He is constantly haunted by nightmares and visions over killing his family as well as his terrible deeds in the past, and spent ten years in the gods' service in hopes they would rid him of his nightmares.
	+ He got relentlessly tortured by the Furies for breaking his blood oath with Ares, and is forced to kill Orkos, one of the few people Kratos viewed as a friend.
	+ He briefly reunites with his daughter but is forced to lose her once again when he is tricked by Persephone and has to regain his powers (which he previously gave up in order to be with her daughter) to stop her.
	+ Even after getting his revenge on Ares at the end of the first game, the gods couldn't (or possibly even *refused* to) get him rid of his nightmares and is driven to suicide as a result, but is unable to die and then he is forced to kill his own mother and loses his brother for good at the hands of Thanatos.
	+ While this doesn’t fully excuse everything he does, it makes him a sympathetic character and a lot of his actions understandable.
* He also cares for a lot of people.
	+ For his family, he was devastated when he accidentally killed his wife and child, he was distraught over being forced to kill his mother in what amounts to a mercy kill and the death of his brother after discovering him is what motivates his war against the gods.
	+ Orkos, as he initially refused to kill him and genuinely mourns his death after he does so.
	+ His hometown Sparta and his fellow Spartans, as he was devastated when he learns that Zeus destroyed his homeland, causing him to openly defy the gods and even when back in time throughout the second game to save Sparta.
	+ Athena, while their relationship mostly sours throughout the series, his care for her is shown when he shows immensely remorse after Athena took the mortal blow for Zeus when he was about to kill him, claiming he never intended to harm her. He also had a sad look on his face when he asks why she would sacrifice herself to protect someone as vile as Zeus.
	+ Hephaestus, despite killing him for his betrayal, Kratos forgives him after noting he would have done the same for his own family. He even said Hephaestus was a better parent than he was.
	+ For some of the Olympians, despite waging war on the gods, he tried to spare several of them in his quest for revenge, only fighting them because they either would not let him go to Zeus, attacked him first out of arrogance and/or their own vengeance, or they provoked him too much. He also tries to reason with his brother Hercules, knowing he's just trying to earn his father's favor. He even tells Athena after stabbing her that he only seeks to destroy Zeus, not Olympus.
		- Although, in their case, they only opposed him because killing Zeus meant the destruction of the natural order, and the entire world itself.
	+ Pandora, he develops a deep bond with her, kills Hera for insulting her, and even sees her as a daughter-figure since she reminds her of her late daughter. This is especially shown when he tried his best not to sacrifice Pandora, and after he accidentally does so, Kratos showed immense regret of the deed.
* While Kratos has many Kick the Dog moments, he also does have his Pet The Dog moments, like the already mentioned moment where he put his mother out of her misery. He also saved an innocent man for an incoming attack that would have killed him.
* He has a sense of honor as he heavily despises cowardice, as shown when he brutally kills some scholars, the Persian King, the Boat Captain and Castor out of disgust for trying to sell out their own people to save themselves.
* He is also in the grey zone and a villain by proxy, being a tragic character with many traits who was only pushed to villainy due to how much he suffered.
* In the end, Kratos realizes how low he has stooped in his desire for revenge at the end of the third game and kills himself to release the power of Hope into the world to give humanity hope to survive without the need of gods. It doesn’t kill him but it does work and Kratos redeems himself as a result.
* While still violent on occasions, by the time of the 2018 game, Kratos is a much more caring and forgiving person and tries to not use violence unless he has to.
* He tries to be a good father towards Atreus, doing his best to try and educate his son and help him survive.
* He becomes much more heroic during the Norse Era, committing many admirable deeds and trying to keep his son on the right path while slowly losing his corrupting qualities:
	+ When Atreus insults Sindri and Brok for always complaining about each other, Kratos scolds him for this, telling him it was needlessly unkind. While he admits that he is also sick of hearing about Sindri's complaints, he never voices them, demonstrating he's becoming more considerate towards the feelings of others.
	+ Upon seeing Modi injured, he tells Atreus not to kill him since he was already beaten, showing he'd lost his previous blood-thirsty tendencies. Then, after Atreus stabs Modi in the neck and pushes his body down a ravine, Kratos reprimands him for this, telling him that they only killed to defend themselves but never as an indulgence. On the other hand, it was technically Kratos’ fault for not fully explaining himself when he told his son he was a god, as Atreus was ultimately justified in getting on his father’s case about how many gods he killed despite Kratos’ assertion about consequences to killing a god.
	+ After Atreus recklessly attacks Baldur and gets then thrown into Hel, Kratos fiercely reprimands Atreus for his recklessness, arrogance and temper, demanding that Atreus abandon this path and honor Faye's memory. This scolding arguably only worked because Kratos used Faye to steer Atreus back on the right path and prevent him from going down the wrong path Kratos once did, and if Kratos did not admit to doing far worse than his own son after killing Baldur, Atreus might inevitably lose control again.
	+ He spares Baldur's life and demands that he not hurt Freya, only killing him after Baldur ignored his demand and attempted to strangle Freya to death.
	+ Tried to reason with Freya after having to kill Baldur, in order to resolve things peacefully.
	+ Spares Freya and doesn't try to kill her even when Freya tried to kill him numerous times.
	+ Fought Thor to save Atreus from getting killed by him due to Atreus's real identity as Loki.
	+ He consistently tried to find alternative ways to deal with Odin, the Aesir and Asgard, not wanting to enter another war with gods and not wanting his son to experience the horrors of war.
	+ He helps Freya free herself from Odin's curse which prevented her from traveling to the other realms, and his words of support and empathy eventually convince Freya to abandon her quest for vengeance and forgive Kratos.
	+ Fought against the Raven Keeper who enslaved children's souls to create ravens for Odin, freeing them from their horrifying existence.
	+ When they attack Asgard, Kratos finally realizes the error of his previous teachings to Atreus, telling his son to open his heart to the suffering of the innocent Midgardians who were in the crossfires of the war and telling his forces to help evacuate all the innocents from the battlefield.
	+ He spares Thor, convincing him to be better and finally allowing Thor to go against Odin, and was horrified when Odin killed Thor for his betrayal.
	+ He defeated Odin with the help of Atreus and Freya.
	+ After Ragnarok, he sees the mural depicting his future as a revered god and decides to live up to that title by going throughout the nine realms and rebuilding in the wake of the destruction of Ragnarok.
	+ Puts King Hrólf Kraki and his 12 Berserkers' restless spirits back to rest upon recognizing the threat they pose and subsequently claimed the fallen king's enchanted sword Skofnung with the intention of using it for good thus hopefully redeeming its infamy as the symbol of betrayal, a decision which impressed Mimir since he initially sought revenge against King Aldis' usurper for killing his predecessor and bringing their kingdom Lejre into ruins with Kratos' aid.

### What Makes Him Heinous?

* Even before any of the games started Kratos was a ferocious spartan general who led his army into many bloody battles with hundreds killed on both sides. All of this is to satiate Kratos’ insatiable desire for war and bloodshed.
* Kratos’ army is so vicious that apparently raiding entire villages and killing all of its inhabitants is the routine.
* When Kratos fought against the barbarian king, he made a blood oath with Ares to wipe out his entire army.
* During another of his routine village raids, he ends up killing his wife and child although it was not his intention to do this and deeply regrets it afterwards it is still his fault it happened at least partially.
* When he breaks his blood oath with Ares he murders all the furries who are sent to stop him.
* Throughout the first game Kratos murders a lot of people. This also applies for the second and third game.
* He murders Ares out of revenge for the death of his family. While justified, it is still vengeful.
* In the second game, he wages a war against the gods leading his army to battle on major cities with many dying as a result of this.
* He murders Zeus also out of vengeance for all he has done to him.
* He recruits the titans and leads them in a massive war against the gods. During this moment, Kratos murders all the gods one by one which each death causing a major apocalypse that by the end wipes out nearly all of humanity. Kratos knows about this but keeps going anyway motivated solely by his own selfish desire for revenge.

## Trivia

* Kratos is the only *God of War* character to be an Amazing Baddie.

## External Links

* Kratos on the Villains Wiki.
* Kratos on the Heroes Wiki.
* Kratos on the *God of War* Wiki.
* Kratos on the VS Battles Wiki.
* Kratos on the Inconsistently Heinous Wiki.
* Kratos on the Inconsistently Admirable Wiki.