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00:03before we go any further the truth welcome to mojo plays and i want to be better not sorry
00:10but i feel like i'm gonna make mistakes this is the god of war iceberg if you don't know the
00:15format we're gonna be running through some facts lore and interesting tidbits on the god of war
00:19series and as we make our way down to the depths of the iceberg the entries are gonna get more
00:23and
00:23more niche if i missed anything let me know in the comments below let's go before we continue
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00:34our latest videos boy boy boy this way boy this is basically the norse era series biggest meme
00:43kratos says boy to atreus so often that it becomes instant shorthand for his whole emotionally
00:49constipated dad tries parenting with the warmth of a stone wall with an ice pack phase canonically
00:54it comes from the father-son dynamic that sits at the center of the 2018 story where kratos
00:59slowly learns to talk to atreus like an actual human instead of a stern spartan voicemail
01:04but even people who've never played the game know the boy bit boy i mean more dead
01:12boy kratos arm scars
01:19those scars on kratos's forearms are one of the most iconic visual receipts in gaming
01:25they come from his bond to the blades of chaos the weapons aries gave him when kratos pledged his
01:30life in battle the blades are literally chained to him and the scars stick around long after the
01:34greek saga collapses into divine tax fraud and murder
01:43atreus is loki
01:50it's your axe
01:52it's smaller
01:55look this one is a straight up ending reveal from the 2018 game not some fan theory fever dream at
02:01the end
02:01of the journey kratos and atreus discover giant murals showing that fey wanted the boy to know
02:06his giant name was loki that twist ties atreus into norse myth in a huge way and basically turns the
02:13whole story into one giant set up for future chaos prophecy and emotional dad headaches it belongs in
02:18tier one because it's pretty well known even though it is the biggest most famous law bomb in the whole
02:23franchise and got even more unpacked in the ragnarok sequel
02:28the giants called me loki
02:32circle spamming
02:37this entry refers to how in the classic games the circle button was tied to grabs brutal finishes interactions and
02:43a bunch of
02:43quick time prompts so players ended up hammering it like they were trying to scare it into working harder
02:49this is how people actually remember playing old god of war
02:51not as elegant combo poetry but as panic shouting and one poor button getting absolutely no workers rights whatsoever
03:04square square triangle
03:11one of the most instantly recognizable old fan jokes is square square triangle it's another gameplay culture
03:17that's a major entry with fans using a simple button string as shorthand for old kratos combat
03:23in the greek era games a lot of players leaned hard on safe familiar blade strings instead of trying to
03:29look like a combo video wizard if it ain't broke spam it
03:39ghost of sparta nickname origins
03:48kratos is called the ghost of sparta because he is a spartan whose skin was permanently whitened by
03:53the ashes of his wife and daughter after the village oracle cursed him so the name is not about dying
03:58like
03:58a ghost it's about how he looks and what he carries the title sounds cool in a simple action game
04:03way but the
04:04actual meaning is so much sadder it's basically trauma but with branding the help of the gods
04:11the truth was revealed to him kratos is farboti kratos freya and memir's head
04:20enter the home of the norns tentatively this is the norse law payoff to atreus's loki in myth loki's father
04:29is farboti and in the god of war universe the giants use that role for kratos connecting him to
04:34fey and atreus in giant prophecy later law pages flat out identify kraus with the name and ragnarok
04:40even has dialogue and context that treats for body as kratos's norse title canonically this comes from
04:46giant law around fey atreus and jotnar it quietly turns grumpy ex-greek murder machine kratos into a
04:53norse myth figure the man who immigrated and accidentally got recast by another religion
04:58your prophecy said he would die a needless death and he did sex minigames
05:08yep the greek era games really did decide that between disemboweling monsters and toppling gods
05:13kratos should occasionally stop to do a quick time event for horny comedy these scenes became a defining
05:19bit of the oldest series reputation especially because they were so weirdly casual about it having
05:24joined the series myself in 2018 all i really knew about the original games was the nudity that's
05:30how infamous they were also it made my parents wonder who'd been watching god of war play through no
05:34commentary on the family youtube account
05:46this entry refers to the barbarian king often identified in lore as alric one of kratos's most
05:52personal enemies from the old greek saga and one of the most overlooked pieces of lore with many
05:57players skimming over the first game he was the rival warlord who nearly killed kratos before aries
06:02saved him which is a pretty important oops there goes my life forever moment later kratos kills him
06:07and takes the barbarian hammer so the guy gets folded into gameplay and story at the same time it's
06:12notable because alric is basically one of the dominoes that leads to kratos becoming airy's servant
06:17in the first place
06:24boat captain
06:34the boat captain is one of the funniest running gags in the whole franchise kratos first screws him over
06:40during the hydra section and then the poor guy keeps popping up in later games and bonus material like the
06:45universe itself decided he'd not suffered enough yet his role is small but that's exactly why fans
06:50love him he is a random civilian-ish victim who somehow becomes recurring continuity
06:56thank you thank the gods you came back for me
07:01i didn't come back for you
07:07lissandra and calliope
07:12your thoughts are not your own but i can help you
07:19i believe these belong to you lissandra and calliope are kratos's wife and daughter and pretty
07:25much the emotional nuke at the center of the greek saga aries tricks kratos into killing them the village
07:30oracle curses him with their ashes and that one moment turns his whole life into a marathon of
07:35guilt rage and terrible coping skills they keep mattering long after death too especially in kratos's
07:40visions and his eventual self-forgiveness this is the franchise's original trauma factory setting
07:52no new game plus in god of war 3
07:58this one is more of a long-time fandom complaint than a law fact but it's real enough as a
08:03release
08:04era oddity players on launch era boards reportedly noted that god of war 3 did not have the kind of
08:10traditional new game plus carryover people expected from earlier entries even though it still had unlocks
08:15costumes and godly possessions official playstation blog descriptions of the remaster also don't
08:20advertise a proper new game plus feature so the iceberg angle is basically how did one of the
08:24biggest action games in the series launch without the replay toy box fans want a little niche a
08:30little salty very iceberg deimos
08:42a spartan warrior never lets his back hit the ground even in death a spartan stands tall for battle
08:49you are a spartan are you not yes kratos deimos is kratos's brother and his existence massively
08:58recontextualizes the greek saga the gods kidnapped him as a child because of a prophecy about a marked
09:04warrior destroying olympus and kratos spent years not knowing he even survived in ghost of sparta that
09:10whole thread finally explodes into one of the series most tragic family stories deimos turns kratos's
09:15anger at the gods from they ruined my life into wow they've been ruining my family for decades
09:28kalisto
09:35how i have missed you kratos speaking of messing with my fan kalisto is kratos's mother and her story is
09:43one of
09:43the series cruelest divine screw jobs in the bonus material of the first game and then more fully in
09:48ghost of sparta she is tied to the secret of kratos's father before she can comfortably explain things
09:53like a normal parent in a drama magic kicks in she transforms into a monster and kratos ends up
09:58killing her too because of course he does uncharted easter egg
10:09in god of war ascension the underplayed ps3 entry from 2013 if you manage to gather all of the
10:14artifacts you'll get a trophy that says no drake you can't have these this is obviously a reference
10:19to drake from the uncharted series another playstation exclusive and a character who if you didn't know
10:24makes a career out of collecting artifacts
10:28kratos's stomach scar do you see gods of olympus do you need more proof than this
10:37this refers to the huge abdominal wound kratos receives from the blade of olympus and the way
10:42it remains part of his designs later on between zeus stabbing him and kratos later impaling himself
10:46to release hope the man's torso has been through enough to file for divine compensation canonically
10:52the wound is tied to the blade of olympus scenes and the end of the greek saga and later material
10:56keeps reminding us that kratos physically carries his history fans love to trace kratos's design back
11:02to the og games and nothing says continuity like a scar so nasty it deserves its own doctor
11:09it did not have to be this way my son this path is of your choosing giant eagle in hellheim
11:22it's hressvelger should we talk to her this is hressvelger a massive eagle-like being perched over
11:31hellheim in the norse games the series treats her as a major figure tied to the realm's operation
11:36rather than just oversized spooky bird decor in ragnarok hellheim lore and dialogue make her
11:42importance even clearer it lands nicely in a middle tier because casual players remember big scary eagle
11:48in the background while deeper fans know the eagle is not just scenery it's lore
11:57who called the serpent
12:06there is a big horn mystery in 2018's game and thankfully that's the first time i've ever said
12:11the phrase horn mystery the world serpent's call is heard during the atreus sickness sequence but the
12:17story never clearly tells us who used it fans have been arguing about that for years usually with
12:23time travel and future atreus aka loki theories all over the walls it's an unresolved mystery dangling
12:29in plain sight like the game hit a snake-shaped question mark in the plot it's the world serpent
12:38the cycle ends here until we know for certain keep a distance the world serpent what's happened here
12:46we hoped you would know you are far from home this line is one of the big thematic bridges between
12:53greek
12:53kratos and norse kratos in the norse era kratos says the cycle ends here we must be better than this
12:58and the whole point is that he's trying to end the endless father-son revenge loop that ruined his own
13:03family line it connects to the series patricide themes and obviously zeus chronos and earlier
13:07games it sounds like a cool trailer quote but it's actually kratos's entire character thesis growth
13:29a man battling zeus himself an image of the future
13:34now i will show you the true power of us god
13:39this entry refers to the famous mural painting in god of war 2005 that seems to foreshadow kratos
13:45fighting zeus in later games fans noticed it long before the greek trilogy was finished
13:49and later lore pages treated it as one of the series early bits of prophecy flavor
13:53this painting would later be paid off in god of war 2. it's notable because it makes the first game
13:58looked weirdly clairvoyant in hindsight the devs basically left a little don't worry family trauma
14:04gets even better later postcard on the floor very thoughtful
14:12aphrodite attacks kratos
14:18this is cut god of war 3 content not something that happens in the ship story according to cut content
14:25summaries and aphrodite page trivia the original joke was supposed to twist if the player engaged with
14:30aphrodite again she would pull a weapon and try to kill kratos triggering a quick time sequence
14:35that idea was scrapped so in the final game she stays more awkward cutscene than surprise combat
14:40encounter it shows how close the series came to making one of the strangest scenes even stranger
14:46egyptian gods
14:51tear
14:56what trickery is this odin this is not just random fan casting egypt really was on the table during
15:04development discussions around the norse reboot era reporting on interviews with cory barlog and later
15:09comments from former developers say the team looked at egyptian and norse mythology before settling on
15:15norse because it felt familiar but not familiar tears secret room full of cross-cultural treasures
15:21also kept that speculation alive in game god of war fans have spent years staring at pyramids on the
15:26horizon and whispering please let kratos ruin another pantheon can you feel that a wind shovel knight
15:39this is the official crossover where kratos shows up in shovel knight as a playstation exclusive boss
15:44encounter this was not fan art not a mod not someone photoshopping anger into a pixel game
15:49after too much caffeine this is real and even canonical it mostly functions the fun guest appearance
15:55rather than deep mainline lore it's notable because the image of kratos showing up in a cheerful
16:00retro indie game is so absurd that it loops back around to being beautiful
16:14atreus's scar is kratos's tattoo
16:27this is a fan theory built on visual similarity atreus has facial markings or scars kratos has a
16:34famous red tattoo and people like connecting fathers and sons in ways that make lore charts more dramatic
16:40i get the appeal because it sounds cool and symbolic but i didn't find any reliable primary source
16:45saying atreus's scar was intentionally designed as a literal echo of kratos's tattoo
16:49so let's put it as a fun fan theory that has become really popular
16:59notes in hades
17:07this refers to the collectible written notes in the hades section of god of war 3
17:11they are easy to miss but they quietly add backstory and misery to the underworld including
17:16material tied to characters like peritheus there is even a whole game fax note guide tracking them
17:23which tells you right away how deep the rabbit hole goes it's classic if you stop screaming during the
17:27boss gauntlet and actually read stuff the world gets sadder material very efficient environmental
17:32storytelling but also really really rude
17:40atreus wears kratos's old clothes
17:49this is a fun piece of fan theory that most players wouldn't notice the idea is easy to see
17:54atreus has outfits in the norse games that echo spartan colors and old family aesthetics so fans read it
18:00as him literally wearing some of kratos's old clothes the strongest example is atreus's skirt wrap
18:06looking like kratos's old loincloth slash toga thing but just repurposed
18:11i went hunting with mother a bunch of times
18:13he never wanted to take me
18:15mamiya will betray kratos
18:17boy check that path make sure we're alone
18:19but we just saw them leave
18:20do as i say
18:24he doesn't know what you are
18:26and i would keep it that way
18:28this one floats around a lot in theory circles but as of god of war 2018 and god of war
18:33ragnarok
18:33there's no solid evidence that mamiya is secretly planning to stab kratos in the back
18:38the idea mostly comes from the fact that literally everyone betrays kratos at some point
18:43so fans are like all right talking head your turn
18:46mamiya was odin's advisor so yeah not the cleanest resume but the guy actively hates odin and helps kratos
18:53constantly the theory seems to be rooted solely from the writings on the dead kratos painting
18:57that's a death father mourned and the big one betrayal i'm going to cut off your head now
19:05good enough blue kratos
19:10this entry comes from old design and bonus material history during development kratos apparently had blue
19:16tattoos for a time before the team settled on red and later bonus slash costume material kept traces of
19:22that idea alive the character graveyard page also notes that the blue tattoo concept eventually
19:27resurfaced in modified form canonically it's not mainline story lore it's design history trivia and
19:33now it's common knowledge for all you folks
19:41cyclops
19:45in the og god of war there's a hidden developer room of sorts where you can interact with a bunch
19:50of unused assets and leftover models including early versions of enemies when you examine them
19:55kratos will actually comment on what you're looking at almost like a behind the scenes museum except
20:00almost too in depth one of these unused models is medusa and the text says end of the day we
20:05got to keep
20:06the nipples but we lost the penis on the cyclops poor cyclops more than likely referring to the
20:11development process when nipples on female characters were approved but dong was not
20:18kratos evil smile
20:22this is a real regional version oddity in the european version of the chamber of sacrifice seen
20:28in the first game kratos gives a sadistic little smile before sacrificing the caged figure which is why
20:35fans sometimes single out evil smile kratos as its own cursed trivia item that detail is even called
20:41out on relevant lore pages it's notable because kratos almost never smiles in the greek era unless the
20:47universe is trying to make you uncomfortable and here the game absolutely understood that assignment tiny
20:52smile ew
21:01secret message number one by the gods you've done it somehow you found your way here to this is one
21:08of
21:08the hidden secret messages from the first game beat god mode and you unlock a gag slash bonus phone
21:14message where kratos congratulates the player and reveals the ultimate fate of ari's soul it's non-canon
21:19bonus content but it is official bonus content which is exactly the kind of thing i love on my iceberg
21:24lists straight out of the freezer back then finishing a hard mode did not just earn bragging rights
21:29sometimes it earned a phone call from a very angry demigod go away or dude dude don't you get it
21:34these guys they spent all that time breaking those statues i mean they must have taken like forever
21:39and then they figured out the whole secret code thing i do not know what you are talking about
21:44we need this secret pretty damn deep huh kratos boulder exposing kratos more importantly i know
21:50what you are boy beneath the floor now this entry refers to a common misconception in the narrative
21:57which doesn't make much sense unless you've beaten the game but also isn't obvious enough that on a
22:02second playthrough you'll notice either at the beginning of god of war 2018 boulder finds kratos and says
22:07i thought you'd be bigger long way from home aren't you and i thought your kind was supposed to be
22:12so enlightened seeming as if he's referring to greece and kratos's original home but he is in fact
22:19mistaking kratos as a giant and referring to the people of jotunheim and here i thought your kind
22:28was supposed to be so enlightened surrender kratos
22:34in god of war one if you press the interact button next to a specific chest then on a particular
22:38pile
22:39of dirt then return to another specific location and press interact you'll see a message written
22:43in the sky and can you guess what that message says that's right surrender kratos it's one of those
22:48very overlooked easter eggs because it requires previous knowledge to discover not knowledge that
22:53comes about naturally mamir is odin i can piece it together promise given time nobody there just like
23:06i said this is an old fan theory from before ragnarok fully laid out its cards on the table
23:11the pitch was basically mamir knows too much has one eye steers the plot and maybe he is odin in
23:18disguise
23:18it was juicy speculation at the time but later canon contradicts it pretty hard because odin does his
23:24own separate disguise thing and the real mamir's history is laid out more clearly so this isn't
23:30really canon it's just a snapshot of pre-release theory culture but that doesn't make it any less
23:34interesting to lay out that mountain looks like a giant's finger scraping the sky that's the highest
23:39peak in all that elms elijah wood
23:44yep actual elijah wood he is tied to demos voice trivia in god of war 3. the relevant character pages
23:52note that his voice was used for demos even though credits and costume release complications make it a
23:57little messy canonically this is cast trivia rather than lore but it's real franchise history
24:03also now i can't stop imagining kratos yelling at middle earth
24:12atlas still holds the world
24:22this is real series cosmology in god of war lore atlas ends up condemned to uphold the pillar
24:28greek world structure and later pages explicitly keep that status in place a lot of people assume the
24:34titan's role ends once kratos moves on but the series own world pages still treat atlas as carrying the
24:41burden of the greek world canonical basis comes from atlas pillar of the world and greek world
24:46descriptions it's notable because it makes the wider universe feel bigger and weirder while kratos is
24:52busy doing dad stuff in the norse realm somewhere out there atlas is still having probably the worst
24:56upper body day in mythology
24:59the face have deemed it death destroyer of worlds
25:11this is very similar to our surrender kratos entry but this time with a more unexpected collection of
25:16steps in order for essentially the same outcome written in the sky is the line i have become death
25:22destroyer of worlds why i don't know that's why it's tier 5
25:30deimos at the end of god of war 3
25:35at the end of god of war 3 if you stay in the lake long enough you can hear the
25:39voice of
25:40deimos kratos's brother where he says a spartan never lets his back hit the ground right brother
25:46it's bone chilling but also pretty much identical to where elijah would entry so moving on
25:54come i can show you the way balder flips you off
26:01off-camera secrets have become a mine of interesting tidbits and lore with modders breaking games to see
26:07stuff you're never meant to see the biggest example of this for god of war is in 2018's god of
26:11war
26:11and after you first fight balder after breaking his neck you toss him off a cliff to fall to his
26:16assumed death the player not realizing balder can't die with the help of a movable camera you can see
26:21that balder actually flips kratos off as he falls to the depths of the valley
26:34dead kratos
26:42at the end of 2018's god of war kratos stumbles upon a painting that depicts his own death ragnarok's
26:48entry shows kratos avoiding this fate by making a drastic change in his mentality during the asgard
26:53battle something which neither the giants nor the norns predicted but some fans predict this isn't kratos
27:00at all but instead mimiya or tear or even future loki who knows i do it's the first option great
27:08i'll see
27:08avoided it are you ready to go find the rest of your people yeah i love you mom i love
27:23you too giant in a diaper
27:30the previously mentioned developer room at the end of god of war 2005 has a bunch of unused kratos designs
27:36all cool except one the original the first kratos design the giant in a diaper it's shocking they
27:43didn't go with this design nothing screams powerful demigod like giant in a diaper
27:53the sisters of fate are alive
28:00this is a fan theory and not settled canon the basic idea is that because the sisters of fate are
28:06weird temporal beings maybe killing them did not permanently erase them in the normal sense
28:11or maybe time shenanigans leave room for survival the problem is that the games never really come back
28:16and say surprise they clocked in again so the source basis here is interpretive theory built on the
28:21nature of the sisters and the franchise's flexible relationship with time i'd like to think it's true
28:26at least semi-fanfiction makes sense
28:44this was a real fan theory before later canon made it much harder to defend the argument was thematic
28:50more than literal tier is a god of war train to end war kratos is becoming a god of war
28:55trying to break
28:56violence maybe they're the same man across time or prophecy it was a cute theory and then the games
29:02went and gave us a much firmer tier canon including odin's fake tier and the real imprisoned tier so
29:08no it's probably not true that is unless time travel i'll stop
29:20kratos immortality curse in the end knowing the visions of his past would never leave him kratos made
29:29his way to the bluffs overlooking the aegean sea this one has real support fallen god material explicitly
29:36states that after killing zeus and surviving his own suicide kratos realize he's cursed with immortality
29:42meaning his story is not just wow he survives a lot meme logic the franchise treats his continued
29:48existence as a curse it's notable because it changes the ending of god of war 3 from tragic
29:53self-sacrifice into you do not even get that escape buddy after 10 years of suffering 10 years of
30:00endless nightmares it would finally come to an end death would be his escape from madness
30:08zeus trapped in hell
30:15i cannot confidently support this as canon as it was one of the hardest to research
30:20zeus continues haunting kratos psychologically in the norse era god of war games especially when hell
30:26manifests personal torment symbolic silent hillish maybe but a fan theory suggests that this isn't
30:33a manifestation but that zeus is actually trapped in hell as it were it's a strong symbolic rating
30:39but i didn't find a source strong enough to say zeus is literally hanging at hellheim like some ghostly
30:44landlord so let's leave it as fan theory my father your father was zeus that explains a lot
30:51q-u-j-i-k-p-h-i-u-triple-e-k-m-j-q-u-j
30:59this ridiculous keyboard sneeze is the hidden code from god of war ascension
31:02it appears with aletheus prophecy text gets decoded into sun bird bull lion sun and when players activate
31:08the symbol in order the image changes and the message becomes when the earth stops the journey begins
31:13people tied it to future mythology plans especially egypt and it's exactly the kind of hidden message
31:18that makes law fans stand up pace and become detectives
31:25zeus says i'm sorry
31:33this comes from cut god of war 3 dialogue not the final ship script zeus's lore page note that unused
31:40lines had him bargaining for his life and in another version apologizing to kratos for what
31:45he'd done that never made it into the finished game instead zeus gets a much less verbal a much
31:49more face based ending it's notable because it shows an alternate emotional texture for the climax
31:55imagine the entire greek saga ending with zeus trying therapy three seconds before getting punched
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