Ares

Enyo (twin sister)

Eileithyia and Hebe (sisters), Athena, Artemis, Persephone, Thalia Grace, the Charites, the Muses, the Moirai, the Horae (paternal-half-sisters) Hephaestus (brother), Apollo, Hermes, Dionysus, Hercules, Jason Grace, Perseus (paternal-half brothers)

Eros, Phobos, Deimos, Kyknos, Diomedes of Thrace, Mark, and Sherman Yang (sons), Hippolyta, Antiope, Penthesilea, Harmonia, Clarisse La Rue (daughters) Ares' Cabin members (children)

 Diana of Themyscira & Jason of Themyscira (half-siblings/granddchildren]]

### Enemies

* Athena
* Wonder Woman (sometimes ally)

## Equipment

### Weapon(s)

Various Weapons

**Ares** is the Greek God of War. He's the son of Zeus and Hera, and the enemy/ally to his granddaughter/half-sister Wonder Woman.

## Personality

Ares is an impetuous, aloof, proud, and easily violent bully who cares only about fighting and killing. Because of this, he is disliked by many gods and mortals. However, Ares does have a loving relationship with Aphrodite, and is good friends with Thanatos, since the god of war does not enjoy bloodshed without Death, and personally freed him after Sisyphus chained Thanatos up. Also, despite their occasional quarrels, Ares was usually on good terms with Poseidon, who spoke up for Ares when the latter was imprisoned and humiliated by Hephaestus.

Ares was dominantly experienced and knowledgeable in all military tactics arts, making him a dangerous enemy to cross. However, because of his arrogant and brutal nature, Ares can be extremely reckless, overconfident, narcissistic and foolhardy, leading to him making crucial mistakes in a confrontation. He is supremely confident in his abilities, to the point of believing that he is invincible. This means that, despite being an excellent battle strategist and a fierce warrior, his reckless nature sets him apart from other Olympians like Athena, who is more calculative and precise in battle and does not make mistakes out of recklessness or overconfidence, her being the Goddess of Wisdom. Ares also appears to value physical strength in a fight, as opposed to astute strategy, and enjoys bloody wars - he saw that family feuds were the most vicious and therefore the most exciting.

Interestingly enough, Ares had a positive and even loving relationship with Perseus Lykaios despite their opposing domains. Perseus seems to be one of the few gods whom knows of Ares' chaotic nature and impulses were difficult to control, and didn't hold this against him.

Despite his personality, Ares does have a soft spot for his lovers and his children even though he can be a strict parent, as shown with Clarisse. However, Ares is very protective of his children when they are in danger, as shown when Ares violently kills Halirrhothius for trying to rape his daughter Alcippe. In addition, Ares was angered when Hephaestus imprisoned their mother Hera, and was the first to demand that the blacksmith god release her.

After greatly suffering in the Bronze Jar at the hands of Otis and Ephialtes, Ares gained a soft spot for prisoners of war, and would severely punish anyone who chose to treat them disrespectfully. Ares is also mentioned to have an extreme fear of jars, as a result of his ordeal.

## Appearance

Ares is described as a huge, muscular man with a belligerent attitude and a vicious sneer. He typically wears black jeans, combat boots, a black leather duster, and a red muscle shirt under a bulletproof vest (his shield in disguise). He also has a large hunting knife strapped to his thigh. In the official artwork, he wears a necklace made from a heavy padlock and thick chain. He wears red-tinted wraparound sunglasses to cover his flame-filled eye sockets. His features are handsome, but in a cruel and brutal way, with knife-scarred cheeks and an "oily" black crew cut.

He wears navy blue armor with a 4-horned helmet that is always worn in battle. When a bloodthirsty Ares rode into a battlefield wearing his war helmet, "he was too scary for most mortals to look at, much less fight." His golden shield is described as always smeared and dripping with blood and gore.

## Powers & Abilities

### Powers

As the son of Zeus and Hera, Ares is an extremely powerful deity whose powers exceed those of minor gods and demigods. He's vastly stronger than any member of the Justice League, including Wonder Woman and Superman whom had been defeated without any difficulties. Ares notably injured and overpowered Darkseid, drawing blood and nearly killed him, forcing him to retreat in the process.

* **Olympian Physiology**: Ares belongs to a race of inconceivably powerful Old Gods known as the Gods of Olympus, giving him almost unlimited. He possesses the conventional superhuman attributes of an Olympian, however some of these abilities were greater than most Olympians. His physical abilities were comparable to Thor and can even match Darkseid in combat.
	+ **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.
	+ **Godly Strength**: As the God of War, Ares has tremendous physical strength greater than most Olympians. He managed to remain alongside his fellow Olympians in their battle against Typhon, which lasted several day. Ares was strong enough to shake an entire island when fighting with Apollo and critically wound Darkseid, forcing him to flee for his life for the first time in his existence. He's notably stronger than any member of the Justice League, knocking Wonder Woman into a stone wall with a tug on her lasso and easily damaged Superman with a flick of his wrist that forced him into unsconciousness.
	+ **Nigh-Invulnerability**: As an Old God, Ares has a level of invulnerability that grants immunity towards mundane attacks and suffers injury from metals that were imbued with magical properties. His invulnerability ecceds those of Superman, with an additional protection against most magical attacks that enabled him to withstand the full force of a massive explosion, confligerations, and mighty blows from Wonder Woman without suffering any permanent damage
	+ **Immortality**: Like all Olympians, Ares is functionally immortal and cannot die through any conventional means. He's unaffected by the passage of time, having not aged past his prime since reaching adulthood, and is immune to any known diseases or infections. Ares himself was stated to have been alive for millennia, preadting the time when humanity was created. As an immortal, Ares can fade from existence - either from a lack of worship or the diminishing of his domains and other sources of power are destroyed, becoming so weakened that it takes an immensely long period of time to take physical form.
	+ **Regenerative Healing Factor:** Despite his resistance, Ares can sustain injuries from magical attacks should he decide to fight physically. His divine life-force allows him to repair damaged or destroyed tissue with superhuman speed and efficiency. Depending on the wound's severity, Ares is able to fully recover from wounds ranging from minutes to hours. Despite of his ability to superhumanly heal, he's not capable of regenerating missing limbs or organs without the aid of outside magical forces.
	+ **Superhuman Stamina:** Ares musculature produces almost no fatigue toxins during physical activity. As a result, his body possesses almost limitless physical stamina in all activities.
	+ **Superhuman Speed**: Ares can move at considerable superhuman speeds, going toe-to-toe with Wonder Woman's speed during their final fight, even outmaneuvering her on several occasions, despite his muscular physique and heavy armor. At full power, despite his massive form, Ares is even faster, as he was able to catch Steppenwolf off-guard and wound the latter's shoulder with a massive axe blow.
		- **Superhuman Agility**: Ares' agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels that are beyond the natural physical limits of even the finest human athlete
		- **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 Truth, Ares swiftly flew out of the way, and proceeded to dodge and counter many of her ensuing attacks.
* **Greco-Roman Magic**: As an Old God, Ares has unlimited control over the supernatural divine energy of the Old Gods imbued within the inherent Greco-Roman Magic. He can naturally manipulate magic and various aspects of reality because of this. Being a son of Zeus, Ares wields magical abilities greater than most Olympians but wasn't the most accomplished compared to his siblings. Ares was stated to possess unrivaled mastery within the field of combative magic and can use various abilities for numerous purposes in battle.
	+ **War Manipulation**: As the God of War, Ares has the formidable power to manipulate war and its various aspects such as combat, strife, battlelust, rage, and other forms of conflict. He can affect the area a conflict covers and the number of people caught up in it, as well as start conflicts by raising armies by influencing people and events, raising personal or fanatical armies, and controlling weapons of all kinds.
		- **Ares' Blessing**: Ares' blessing, which is only bestowed upon people who show unflinching courage (or blood-lust) on the battlefield, grants enhanced strength and near-invulnerability. When Ares blessed his daughter, Clarisse, she appeared to be unstoppable - destroying a drakon and anything else in her path as she charged through the battlefield.
		- **Battle Precognition**: Ares seems to have a sixth sense regarding the trajectory of assaults in the heat of combat and could perfectly position his defenses before an opponent could strike him.
		- **Necromancy** (limited): As revealed by Clarisse and subsequently proven, the spirits on t. He's able to perfectly he losing side of every war owe a tribute to Ares - he presented her with a ship full of perfectly obedient Confederate skeleton warriors. He once reanimated the corpes of fallen Amazons into soldiers loyal to him during a bttle with Wonder Woman and draw upon necrotic energy to increase his power.
		- **Telepathy**: Ares has extremely powerful telepathic abilities, notably influencing thoughts of individuals predisposed to violence, hatred, rage, and bloodshed, with him covertly invading their minds. This method enabled Ares to teach 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.
			* **Odikinesis**: Ares presided over the emotions of war, especially those leading to violence - hatred and rage - and freuqently induces them to instigate fights. Many often feel angry within Ares' presence and even looking at the god's temple could invoke negative feelings. Ares was also prayed upon by those wishing to reign in their violent impulses and instantly cure "battle jitters", or nervousness before conflict.
		- **Telumkinesis**: As the God of War, Ares is able to manipulate anything that's remotely considered a weapon. He commonly utilizes this power alonsgide telekinesis like most war deities, remotely controlling weapons by levitating and hurling them at opponents. This ability even allows him to instantly know a weapon's function, purpose, and history with a glance, subsequently mastering its usage in the process.
		- **Violence Empowerment**: Ares is empowered by conflict and becomes more powerful from the violence, hatred, rage, bloodshed, and death caused by war. During the War of the Gods, Ares' powers were strengthened enough to fight against many Old Gods and severely injure Perseus Lykaios. Every time Wonder Woman fights Ares with violence, the God of War maintains the upper hand, only losing when Wonder Woman and others utilized the power of love against him.
		- **War Inducement**: Ares can induce conflicts by influencing people and events - raising personal and fanatical armies, such as instigating the war of the Gods and corrupted humanity with warfare shortly after the race's creation. He's stated to have caused the devestating World War I, which spanned much of Earth and led to the deaths of millions. Ares was also the God of Civil Disturbances, Riots, Rebellions, and Uprisings, thus being capable of induding disagreements and conflicts in groups or individuals that can range from minor disagreements to violence that could instigate global altercations.
	+ **Electrokinesis**: Like his father Zeus, Ares can generate and control div.e electricity to an extreme degree channeled from his hands. He can incinerate nearly anything in his path and conduct extreme amounts of electricity through touch, allowing him to instantly break free from the Lasso of Hestia. Ares could even summon immense celestial bolts of lightning, and redirect them towards desired targets.
	+ **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, much like Superman.
	+ **Thermokinesis**: 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. Ares has some degree of control over fire especially when making appearances. He summoned a wall of fire that incinerated five police cars with a mere gesture. He doesn't possess the same level of command over fire like Hephaestus, nor was he immune to its power as Ares returned to Olympus burned after trying to convince Hephaestus to free their mother.
	+ **Transfiguration**: Ares had an infamous reputation of transforming his enemies or those who had offended him. He transformed Alectryon into a rooster when the god's affair with Aphrodite had been discovered by Helios. When the Illyrians angered the gods, Ares turned Cadmus and Harmonia into serpents, which had saved them from being executed. Ares has also utilized this ability when rewarding others - After Frank had proved his worth, the God of War transformed a Katobleps into a python to use when helping Triptolemus. Notably, Ares can summon battle debris towards himself and transmute the materials into his fearsome battle armor including a diabolical 4-horned helmet; He transformed the same debris into many swords when battling Wonder Woman and transmuted parts of his armor into weapons, given as he created a chain from the arm brace of his armor during his battle with Wonder Woman.

### Abilities

* **Battle Prowess**: As the God of War, Ares is an exceptionally skilled warior with nearly unrivaled mastery in armed and unarmed combat with millennia of combat experience. His tremendous combat skills allowed him to stalemate and wound Darkseid himself in combat during the invasion of Earth, fought and successfully bested both Hermes and Apollo in armed combat, and helped Hephaestus and Hercules defeat the giant Mimas in the First Gigantomachy. Ares participated in the fight between Typhon and Olympus, and managed to wound the colossal Storm Giant in the nose with his sword. He and Frank fought side by side, and had smashed through an entire phalanx of Giants, with the god of war disemboweling his opponents with his sword *"as easily as a child destroying piñatas."*
* **Genius-Level Intellect**: While not a deity of wisdom or knowledge, Ares is extremely intelligent and wise, allowing him unparalleled insight into humanity's darker traits, which most Old Gods didn't possess. Ares's eclectic genius extends itself to his superb leadership, tactical, strategic, demagogic, deceptive, combat, and intuition skills. Hence, even when not utilizing his divine powers, Ares is still extremely dangerous and absolutely lethal.
	+ **Tactical Genius**: Ares is an immensely formidable tactical and strategic genius, especially in regards to military tactics and strategies of war. As a result, Ares had been the one to discreetly start World War I, had manipulated the outcome of defining battles in both sides in the war, and, despite the German Kaiser being close to surrendering to the Allies and ending the war, had Ares' strategy of utilizing Dr. Poison's gas succeeded, the Central Powers would have emerged victorious, leaving much of humanity wiped out. As it was, Ares' strategy almost succeeded, and was only thwarted by the Wonder Men successfully intervening, and Steve Trevor himself selflessly sacrificing his life.
	+ **Expert Social Intuit**: In his "Sir Patrick Morgan" disguise, Ares has a high degree of social confidence, allowing him to intuitively determine how to interact with others, gain their respect and get his point across with a calmness, eloquence, and charisma that belied his sadistic malevolence, megalomania, bloodthirst, and actual emotional state.
	+ **Master Deceiver**: Ares is an extremely experienced deceptive genius, as he very convincingly posed as the human "Sir Patrick Morgan", and 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. Fellow Old Gods are the only ones to resist Ares' deceptions, since he failed to convert them to his mindset about humanity, and was forced to instigate the War of the Gods instead.
	+ **Warfare Expertise**: As the God of War, Ares is an expert in all areas of warfare and military science, with him effectively using this knowledge while posing as "Sir Patrick Morgan".
	+ **Weapons Intuition**: Ares also revealed to Wonder Woman that he had not been the one to start World War I, but merely taught both opposing sides of the global war how to create innovative formidable weapons (barbed wire, flamethrowers, flare pistols, machine guns, tanks, airplanes, anti-aircraft guns, submarines, depth charges, and chemical weapons), which induced humans themselves to choose war with one another.
* **Tracking Skills**: Ares was one of the four gods Zeus sent to hunt down his Master Bolt when it was initially stolen, demonstrating Zeus' faith in his abilities. Indeed, Ares was the only one of the four that actually caught the thief, Luke Castellan.
* **Omnilingualism**: Without using the power of Allspeak, being a God of Earth allows Ares to naturally and fluently speak, read, and understand all human languages, even dead ones. Hence, apart from his native Ancient Greek, Ares is known to speak Latin and English

## Attributes

Ares' symbols were his bloodstained shield and spear, while his sacred animals were the wild boar (due to its penchant for viciously charging at anything and it being extremely hard to kill), the vulture (due to its penchant to feast on corpses after a battle), the Stymphalian Birds, and the venomous snake. He also has his own gloomy iron fortress in the mountains of Thrace, where he kept his numerous spoils of war.

## Attendants

* Phobos and Deimos: The twin gods of terror and fear were close companions of Ares. They drove the god's chariot and assisted him on the battlefield.
* Eris: The Goddess of Strife and Discord was always described as his close companion. She drove his chariot, riding beside him into battle and raging amongst the hosts of the battlefield.

## Equipment

### Weapons

As the God of War, Ares has access to numerous divinely powerful weapons at his disposal, which he can summon at will.

### Other Equipment

* **Battle Armor**: Ares' fiercely intimidating blue armor with a 4-horned helmet that is always worn by the war god in battles.

## Trivia

* Ares was the first Olympian ever put on trial by his fellow Olympians gods for murder (of Poseidon's son Halirrhothius). However, since Ares was defending his daughter's honor, he was ultimately acquitted. The trial is said to have taken place on the Areopagus Hill in Athens.
* Ares has an intense fear of jars, as a result of his ordeals at the hands of the Aloadae Giants.
* Ares uses sunglasses to cover his eyes, which are actually hollow sockets filled with flames.
* Ares' aluminum baseball bat is actually his sword/spear in disguise.
* Ares' preferred form for his chariot is a motorcycle.
* Ares was often associated with the northern region of Thrace, whose native peoples were viewed by the Greeks as barbaric and war-like. Thrace was believed to be the god’s birthplace, and many of the native tribes claimed to be descended from him.
* Ares was very venerated by the Spartans, who would worship him through human sacrifices. The Spartans also had a massive and chained up statue of Ares in the city's center. According to legend, as long as the statue remains chained, Ares will remain the patron god of Sparta, granting its citizens victories
* His Latin name Mars gave us the word *"martial"*.