10 Video Game Heroes Who Made Everything Worse

5. Kratos - God Of War 3

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Other games on this list END with the hero making everything worse, but then you got Kratos screwing things up for everybody from minute one of his third installment.

Kratos, on his way to finally bringing about the end of Olympus itself, with an army of titans right behind him, gets one of the coolest boss fights/tutorials in gaming history to start us off with Poseidon. The fight is a massive one, teasing at the epic scale of the game to come. And at the end of the fight, Kratos subjects Poseidon to one of the most brutal QTEs in the history of the mechanic by having the player gouge out his eyes by pressing down on the analog sticks.

And then all of Greece floods. Because that's what happens when you murder the god of the ocean. Whoops.

Yeah Kratos casually and nonchalantly ends all of Greek civilization in the first 20 minutes of God Of War 3. Nice going buddy.

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