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Ulysses
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Respect Ares, God of (DC) War

Credits to a poster by the name of Dark Gog.

Disclaimer: He asked me to post it here, so I have his permission.

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Ulysses
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This thread is for Ares, an old god who's learned new tricks. As you will see, his is a complicated psyche. He makes bad jokes:
http://img140.imageshack.us/my.php?...oman8209vg7.jpg

But he loves his family:
http://img519.imageshack.us/my.php?...gods0334xw3.jpg
http://img101.imageshack.us/my.php?...gods0417xb0.jpg

And every so often, he comes-up with a genuinely good line:
http://img172.imageshack.us/my.php?...gods0223ig5.jpg

Mostly though, we'll come to know him as perhaps the one character in fiction to take a vow of non-interference and still stay interesting. That, at-least, should deserve your respect.

Aside from a few minor cosmetic changes, this thread is an exact copy of my SHC one. As always, thanks go to ImageShack for free image hosting. References should be found in the URL addresses. Let me know if anything's missing, or if there's anything else wrong with the coding.

For a fuller look at DC divinities, consult Theoden's Capability Thread on SHC.

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Ulysses
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Mar 14th, 2008 01:32 PM

Ulysses
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William Messner-Loebs

This is how you make a human avatar:
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And this is what it means to be one:
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"Every move, every martial art form was his to command.

He knew all the military wisdom of the ages... The strategy and tactics of each battle since the beginning of time."

Ares Buchanan quickly took control of all arms-trade in Boston, putting policemen, DAs, and even one of the city's two super-heroes on his pay-role, and making full use of STAR Labs contacts to flood the city with weapons, and equip himself with everything from mind-grapplers to portable contained singularity devices.

He also had the perceptions of a demigod: "He could see through any disguise. Unless she magically transformed herself... Hid the truth so deeply that even she forgot it."
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Wonder Woman possesses the little-used power to astrally appeal to her patrons:
http://img340.imageshack.us/my.php?...man97p10jq7.jpg

"Not the great gods, of-course. Even standing in their shadow would blast her to powder. But the lesser gods [in this case, Pan] can be talked to... Bargained with..."

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Ulysses
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Byrne

Alright, so no-one's ever going to be able to say Genesis was a good crossover. Or that they're sure they got the ending.. But Ares' plot actually made a lot more sense than similar "take over the universe" schemes. He'd been preparing over ages to exploit a natural phenomena all gods could have potentially been aware of, but none had properly observed, then wormed his way into a union to protect the universe, again relying on greater understanding of events than even Metron's or Highfather's, knowing Zeus and Jove will be merged once inside The Source, and finally killing Highfather and very nearly fully carrying-out his plans:
http://img172.imageshack.us/my.php?...jkfw0808bn8.jpg
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Ares rages in Areopagus, and the Earth pays a price:
http://img264.imageshack.us/my.php?...man12201ym8.jpg
http://img518.imageshack.us/my.php?...man12202es7.jpg

"The gods can take whatever form they desire". Perhaps something of an overstatement, and they were on Olympus at the time:
http://img267.imageshack.us/my.php?...man12217bl6.jpg

Not a feat of Ares specifically:
http://img207.imageshack.us/my.php?...man12215ac4.jpg

Taking-down Herakles with one shot:
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"-Ares! Are you certain it was he?

Forgive what may seem boasting, Hera, but who else among the gods has the power to fell Herakles with a single blow?"

I feel dirty mentioning it, since Ares caught him by surprise, but Herakles did fight the Doomsday clone alongside Wonder Woman.

The Greek gods can create avatars:
http://img172.imageshack.us/my.php?...man13204gg8.jpg

Mars uses Metron and Desaad as dupes to re-merge with Ares, freeing him from the Source Wall. To do so, he takes the form and metabolism of a Promethean Giant, a being "whose outstretched hands could span a solar system". Meeting on a planet four-million times the mass of the Earth, each minute that passes for them means a hundred-million years to us.

Now, I know what you're thinking; "do they really make planets that big?", and as far as I know, there's currently no basis to believe that they do. Nevertheless, here we are:

http://img406.imageshack.us/my.php?...jkfw1308qs7.jpg
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Notice Metron can't properly analyse or identify Mars until he is ready to make his move.

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Gods of Gotham was something of a throwback in terms of Ares' portrayal, and as you may by now be noticing, family has always been a bit of a weak-spot for him. The plot revolved around Phobos bringing his siblings Eris and Deimos back from the dead, and possessing mortal criminals in an attempt to turn Gotham into Areopagus and regain their father's favour.

While perhaps not his finest moment, do note that Eris had been fortifying Ivy's poisons with her own power. Deimos'd done similar to the Joker's earlier in the story, in order to effect Wonder Woman with it:
http://img139.imageshack.us/my.php?...n167pg06th1.jpg
http://img205.imageshack.us/my.php?...n167pg07lm0.jpg

Forcibly removing his children's souls (other than Phobos') from their mortal hosts, and sentencing them all to the afterlife, seemingly with little effort. Afterwhich he offers his power to the small congregation of parishioners, and finally destroys the makeshift Areopagus:
http://img406.imageshack.us/my.php?...n167pg12zh8.jpg
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Ulysses
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The latest issue of Wonder Woman featured godly (or "God Made", as the text referred to them) weapons extensively. Not, in the strictest sense, having anything at all to do with Ares in particular, this type of subject matter would probably fit more closely under a more generic topic. Then again, I don't have one of those, and these scans are certainly relevant to Ares.

The weapons were gifted to Hippolyta's personal bodyguard upon taking their oaths, so assuming such distinctions apply at all here, they're unlikely to represent the very best arms at the Gods' disposal.

http://img184.imageshack.us/my.php?...nv317p03qi9.jpg
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To recap: Wonder Woman is surprised to find herself targeted with arrows that can pierce her skin and catch her unawares. She describes the pain as blinding or "Otherwordly", and at one point is knocked unconscious by a club strike after taking several stab wounds (see also the way Charis(?) frees herself from WW's lasso). Finally, she notes that breaking such arms is beyond her power, and resorts to using one to break another.

In the interest of full disclosure, Philipus (seen in the first page scanned) was well enough to confront the same group again that very night.

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One of my favorite villains.

I was thinking of making a respect thread for him but didn't have time.

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Thanks again for posting this for me.

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Sweet feats! Ares has always been one of my favs and his relationship with sister Cassie has vast potential!

Keep up the good work guys!

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Kool respect thread Ulyssues and Stonecutter thumb up

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Hmm, I don't think I like this modern Ares. He looks pretty gay with that stupid haircut and no shirt. I think DC should bring back that Ares who was 500' tall, wearing that armor and you couldn't see his face except two red eyes. Much more godlike.

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