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5. Kratos' Suicidal Plan Wouldn't Work - God Of War

The Rule:

God of War's introductory sequence is one of the most iconic in action game history.

Kratos, the statuesque mound of muscle with a grudge we'd seen ripping things into tiny pieces across the game's advertising... was now about to commit suicide.

We gather this is clearly the end of his journey, and with one line - "The gods have abandoned me", he flings himself off the cliff and down onto the rocky shore below.

Wait A Minute...

Why does Kratos think that attempting to kill himself in this way would do anything?

We know from earlier in the game - and earlier in his life, before this suicide attempt - that "death" in God of War just results in a person physically falling into the Underworld, where they can attempt to claw their way back out again.

Kratos knows this, because it just happened to him. The only way it worked thematically, was because on the game's opening title screen, we didn't know the full context of how he ended up there.

In the game we get Athena/the Gods' intervention to pluck Kratos out the water and up onto Mt. Olympus, but even if he hadn't hit the water and Athena had left him on the rocks, Kratos would've ended up in the Underworld again anyway.