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Originally posted by wakkawakkawakka
How does the power of Hope help? Sure it let Kratos beat down Zeus' incarnation of Fear, but beating a god to death with his bare hands is something that he had already done without hope.Not sure how Dante would fare off against a guy that matched Hercules and Zeus in brute force as well as resisted being crushed by Atlas.
Technically no. In the case with Poseidon, he was already on the verge of death by the time Kratos finished him off, Hades had his soul ripped out by his own weapons (that, and he continued to fight without much trouble even after Kratos tore off two giant chunks of his flesh). Helios, like Poseidon, was already weakened enough prior, and Hermes was kind of a pushover in the first place. With Hera, yes, Kratos snapped her neck like a twig just by squeezing it, but I think it was implied that the deteriorating earth kinda played into her struggle to keep her garden and what not alive, thus when she died, so did all plant life. And Hephaestus had already long since fallen from grace so he was little more than what you saw.
As previously said, Zeus is of course far above all the other Gods and Titans, thus the fact that Kratos amped by Hope's power was able to kill him bare-handed speaks more for what it'd be capable of against anyone below Zeus, which is the vast majority of the series characters if not the entirety. It was even stated that Hope was the most powerful force in the world within the series, beyond even the Flame of Olympus, which was stated to kill anyone who touches it, man or God. By powerscaling, the most powerful forces in the series are Hope, the Flame of Olympus, and the Blade of Olympus, more than likely in that order. A primed Kratos has two of these three things, and in this thread, is possibly allowed one (which happens to be the most powerful).