...I mean, in the first two games he isn't supposed to be a hero. In fact, I would argue in the second game he is very explicitly a villian. Kratos doesn't HEROICALLY annihilate all of humanity in his blind rage against the gods. It's portrayed villainous.
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In fact, EVERYONE in the second game, except two of the fates (who he kills), consider Kratos to be the greater of two evils, between him and Zeus. Kratos' ally, Athena, throws herself in front of his sword to stop him from killing Zeus, and dies saying his rage is pointless.
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Replying to @RonRugged @jamari_oneal
Wow, that kind of behavior sounds at least as bad as if a lesbian wanted to kill 8 people because they killed her dad and she went about it with very poor planning. Hm. Wonder which one upset more people. Wonder why. Hmmpic.twitter.com/WE2Qm2rKNs
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @RonRugged
Don't they basically have the same justification too? Doesn't Kratos start his murder spree because Zeus killed his family or brother or something similar?
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Replying to @jamari_oneal @BootlegGirl
No. NO. Kratos starts his killing spree against the gods because --I FUCKING KID YOU NOT-- He accidentally killed his wife and daughter in a raid against a neighboring country, and blamed it on Ares. The reason he has white skin is because it's the ashes of his wife and daughter.
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Replying to @RonRugged @BootlegGirl
-.- I mean, that is very classical tragic hero. Of course, the Greeks were absurdly misogynistic so which is why their stories asked us to sympathize with a murderer's man pain over the woman and child(ren?) he victimized. What's a 21st writer's excuse?
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Replying to @jamari_oneal @BootlegGirl
Two things -- 1) They didn't. Kratos is explicitly a villian. You aren't supposed to sympathize with him. 2) I don't like playing villians. That is explicitly why I did not like the God of War series.
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Replying to @RonRugged @BootlegGirl
Ok, I see what you're saying. Yea...I guess some folks enjoying playing cartoon villians. Not my thing, but I don't project that onto the player's psychology. YMMV, but I do feel that at a certain point storytellers cross a line where depicting certain things is irresponsible.
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Replying to @jamari_oneal @BootlegGirl
One of the more interesting things about the new God of War game I think (from what I've seen) is the portrayal of Kratos as a man filled with remorse and greif for what he did. From what I understand, it is explicitly a condemnation for that older character.
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And that's interesting to me specifically because so many people at the time saw Kratos as aspirational. They wanted to wreak vengence upon people who wronged them. Like the video game version of people who unironically believed Kira is Justice.
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Well the first game was a self contained story and then they felt the need to turn it into a franchise The correct ending for the story from a Greek tragedy perspective is the one where at the end of GoW 1 he steps off a cliff and kills himself
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I feel like some Greek tragedies did also succumb to Sherlock Holmes syndrome where they eventually just brought the hero back to keep being awesome. Didn't Odysseus and Hercules both get rewarded in the end?
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Hercules is rewarded by going to Olympus and becoming the god of heroes, married to Hebe, the goddess of youth (Her name is the source for the word "hebephilia", which is a synonym for "ephebephilia" So yeah)
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