10 Gaming Characters Who Never Deserved To Die

4. God of War - ... umm, you know what, it isn't just ONE person...

For those of you who are Sony gamers, I highly doubt that your collection lacks a God of War title. For the rest of you, God of War is a saga that follows the trials and tribulations of Kratos, the Spartan warrior who sold his soul to Ares in return for military dominance. Ares assisted him by turning Kratos from an gifted Spartan captain into the Ghost of Sparta, a walking weapon of mass, gory destruction who has yet to meet anything that kill him - including virtually all hostile Olympians. Including Helios, the Sun God, in the photo above. And uh... Helios doesn't meet a pleasant end.

Now, for the first two games, and the PSP titles, this was all fun and good. The story so far in the games was that Olympus = Bad. Kratos = good. Furthermore, Kratos + Enraged wrath + occasional sexy times + vulnerable Olympian flesh = a damn good time. At least, until the end of the third game, where it is revealed that the questionable actions of Zeus (who was the mastermind behind all of the villainy from the beginning of the second game onward... minus the PSP titles), weren't entirely Zeus' fault.

Zeus and Kratos: a small father-son chat

Athena reveals at the end of the third game (shortly after the violent death of Zeus), that in the first game, Kratos opened Pandora's box to gain the strength necessary to defeat Ares. Unknowingly, this also released the elements of Fear, Strife, Suspicion, Doubt, and other malevolent spirits that had a drastic effect on Zeus' mental health. Suddenly becoming obsessively paranoid due to the spirits that Kratos inadvertently released, Zeus began responding to Kratos' actions (which were admittedly one-sided in favor of Sparta) in escalating force, prompting Kratos to seek vengeance, and the rest of Olympus finest to blacklist the Ghost of Sparta, nearly all of them turning hostile toward Kratos, seeking to kill him before he ends the reign of Olympus.

Tragically, Kratos does just that: he puts Poseidon's eyes out and throws him into the sea, rips Hades' soul from his disfigured body, beheads Helios with his bare hands, slices off Hermes' legs and leaves him to rot, breaks Hera's neck, and impales Hephaestus on his own machinery. All of which occurred because the undetected elements of negative human nature escaped Pandora's box and had a very detrimental effect on Zeus' psyche.

Too bad Kratos can't travel back in time....