7 Huge Video Game Story Details Revealed In Spin-Offs

1. Kratos Has A Brother (And It Changes Everything) - God Of War: Ghost Of Sparta

For the vast majority of his character writing, Kratos is a lone wolf. A violent, out-for-himself tornado of decapitations, fuelled by the death of his family by his own tricked hand, and on a mission to rid the world of all Gods because of it.

In one of the two PSP God of War games though, Ghost of Sparta, developers Ready at Dawn were allowed to expand pretty meaningfully on Kratos, by introducing his brother, Deimos.

Existing as the reason behind Kratos' iconic red marking - a tattoo self-inflicted as a reminder that his brother was taken when the pair were children - Deimos rounds out Kratos' motivations other than sheer rage.

We find out that Deimos was the "other one" Zeus and Gaia later refer to as who the entire franchise could've been about in God of War 3, and after Deimos is killed in Ghost of Sparta's final duel, a very sombre, touching moment shows Kratos once again contemplating suicide, and questioning "what he's become".

Lastly, it's because Deimos was Kratos' last tie to the mortal world that Athena could finally make him a God, as he appears in God of War 2. All of this expands and refines Kratos' motivations in ways the core trilogy don't go anywhere near, and I'd argue it's essential to the God of War canon.