Ares (Prime Earth)

"*War is the deadliest plague of humanity. And he's patient zero.*"
―Wonder Woman (Prime Earth)
**Ares** is an enemy of Wonder Woman one of the two main antagonists of *Justice League I* alongside Ocean Master.

He was an Old God who was commonly worshiped as the "God of War", and the most fearsome son of Zeus, who was worshiped by the Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations.

He was banished from the Realm of the Old Gods and lived the rest of his life on Earth, taking various names until, his absolute goal of reviving the war between the Amazons and the Atlanteans comes into effect, he began to enslave the Amazons by mind control, all while influencing the prince of Atlantis, Orm, to attack. His plan was intercepted by the newly formed Justice League and was ultimately defeated.

## Powers and abilities

### Powers

**Old God 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. Indeed, at full power, Ares was able to seriously injure the New God Darkseid, and later, even while weakened, was still able to surpass the already tremendous might of the demigoddess Wonder Woman.

* **Superhuman strength**: Ares has a tremendous level of superhuman strength, even when in his much weaker and smaller form.
* **Superhuman speed**: Ares can move at considerable superhuman speeds, despite his muscular physique and heavy armor.
	+ **Superhuman reflexes**: Ares' speed extends to his reflexes as well, even if he is not moving at super speed.
* **Nigh-invulnerability**: As an Old God, Ares cannot be killed by mundane means, Ares's invulnerability is seemingly exceed that of Superman, with an additional immunity to most magical attacks, which allowed him to withstand conflagrations, and the full force of massive explosions.
* **Regenerative healing factor**:
* **War manipulation**: Ares has the supernatural power to control an outcome of war.
	+ **Violence empowerment**: Ares is empowered by violence, hatred, rage, bloodshed and death, becoming more powerful.
* **Mind Control**: Ares uses mind control on two occasions: To simply enslave the Amazons into doing whatever he wants, and to manipulate Ocean Master to strike.
* **Electrokinesis**: 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.
* **Telekinesis**: Ares can move, hurl and manipulate objects' movements to an immense degree with mere hand gestures, thus keeping the Lasso of Truth from entangling him while fighting Wonder Woman, as well as telekinetically projecting waves of debris and hurling entire Atlantean military tanks.
* **Thermokinesis**: Ares can manipulate and conduct an immense amount of heat.
* **Aerokinesis**: Ares can control the direction and potency of winds, notably demonstrated when he created powerful winds around himself.
* **Flight**: Ares can fly at considerable speeds both in the Realm of the Old Gods and Earth, capable of maneuvering with precision in any direction, as well as hovering in one place, much like Superman and Martian Manhunter.
* **Invisibility**: Ares can render himself imperceptible to humans as he covertly manipulates and corrupts them, notably doing so to Orm.
* **Immortality**: As an Old God, Ares has been alive for millennia, predating the time when Zeus created humanity and the Amazons.

### Abilities

* **Genius-level intellect**: Ares is extremely intelligent and divinely wise, given his godly lifespan, allowing him unparalleled insight into humanity's darker traits, something no other Old God had, apart from Ares' father Zeus, who is Ares' only superior in intellect among the Old Gods. Ares's eclectic genius extends itself to his superb leadership, tactical, strategic, demagogic, deceptive, combat, and weapons intuition skills.
	+ **Master tactician**: Ares is an immensely formidable tactical and strategic genius, especially in regards to military tactics and strategies of war.
	+ **Master deceiver**: Ares is an extremely experienced deceptive genius, being able to fool everyone he meets as an ordinary businessman.
	+ **Expert social intuit**: In his "Ares Buchanan" disguise, Ares has a high degree of social confidence, allowing him to intuitively determine how to interact with others,
	+ **Warfare expertise**: Ares, as the God of War, is an unparalleled genius in all areas of warfare and military science.
	+ **Omnilingualism**: Ares has the ability to fluently speak, read, and understand all human languages, even currently dead ones. Hence, apart from his native Ancient Greek, Ares is known to speak Latin and English (in an Scottish accent).
* **Master combatant**: As the God of War, Ares is a phenomenally skilled, fierce, and formidable armed and unarmed combatant, a master of numerous martial arts, as well as an expert in wielding weapons (be they swords, shields, chains, telekinetically hurled objects, etc.), with centuries of combat experience.

## Equipment

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

* **Battle armor**: Ares' fiercely intimidating black armor with a 4-horned helmet that is always worn by the war god in battles.
* **Battle axe**: Ares wielded a mighty supernatural axe during the Darkseid's First Invasion of Earth, with him critically wounding Darkseid with it. He uses the axe again during the Second Amazon-Atlantean War, the axe would eventually fall into the hands of Wonder Woman, who used it to fight Darkseid.
* **Swords**:
* **Chains**: Ares was also able to materialize a steel chain, capable of break a truck in half with a single swing.

## Relationships

	+ Zeus - father and enemy
	+ Poseidon - uncle and enemy
	+ Hades - uncle and enemy
	+ Hestia - aunt and enemy
	+ Athena - paternal half-sister and enemy
	+ Apollo - paternal half-brother and enemy
	+ Artemis - paternal half-sister and enemy
* Diana - paternal half-sister and killer
* Lennox Sandsmark - paternal half-brother
* Cassie Sandsmark/Wonder Girl - niece and manipulatee

Allies* Unity of Earth - temporary allies
	+ Orin I
	+ Vandal Savage
	+ Green Lantern Corps
		- Jong Li
		- Yalan Gur
* Darkseid's Elite
	+ Darkseid
	+ Parademons
* Amazons - manipulatees
	+ Hippolyta
	+ Donna Troy
	+ Artemis of Bana-Mighdall
* Atlantis - manipulatees
	+ Ocean Master
* Justice League
	+ Batman
	+ Superman
	+ Flash
	+ Aquaman
	+ Green Lantern
	+ Martian Manhunter

## External links

* Ares (Prime Earth) on DC Database
* Ares on DC Extended Universe Wiki
* Ares (DC Comics) on Wikipedia