Arawn: The Celtic war goddess Morrigan plays a part in the story.Her worshipers may have dwindled but the bloodthirsty Bana-Mighdall do her proud, even Artemis their White Sheep. Wonder Woman (1987): Neith may focus more on the hunting aspects of her portfolio but she hasn't forgotten her role as a goddess of war and loves a good fight.She will also fight herself, but usually that ends things too quickly for her liking and is not really her style. Athena likes to keep her own hands clean and manipulate others to do the fighting for her these days, and seems to enjoy the chessmaster adaptations her little brother Ares has developed over the years to combat her.In the New 52, Wonder Woman herself was temporarily tricked into believing she was the newest Olympian God of War. He was her original Arch-Enemy in the Golden Age, acting as the driving force behind the horrors of World War II. Whether or not the two are one and the same, and the details of his history with Wonder Woman, depend on the continuity. Wonder Woman has a recurring foe in Ares who often combines the Blood Knight aspects of Ares with the tactics of Mars.Which seriously screws over the DCU as a whole when Darkseid has him assassinated to kick off Final Crisis, making all the heroes unable to stop it. His portfolio also includes being the god of the fight.
However, he is an interesting play on the trope, as he has to constantly battle his own bloodlust, representing the psychological scar of war that never goes away. Orion of the New Gods is a comics original.The Eastern God of War is Alexander, son of Ares, who now seems to be jiving on the god of fear thing.
Tyr often serves as a secondary general who serves as a military adviser whenever Odin is not around. Odin often plays up the wisdom angle by having arranged the battle beforehand or planned for it and leads his troops.
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If you were looking for the book series or the videogame series, see The War Gods and God of War series respectively. If he encompasses ALL forms of violence (as Ares did in Greek mythology) he may be seen as a God of Evil. If you're as violent as them, they may fall In Love with Your Carnage.Ī War God is frequently involved in some form of Divine Conflict. Also, some of these figures (usually goddesses) were gods of both fertility/love and war. Considering Ares and Aphrodite were lovers, this makes this idea Older Than Feudalism it may be a sort of cosmic version of All Girls Want Bad Boys. There's also a tendency in various works of fiction to pair one with a Love Goddess in something of an Opposites Attract manner, either as unlikely friends or romantic partners. They tend to be Blood Knights by nature and are often the only god that the Proud Warrior Race would bother to worship, if they don't want to fight them themselves.
War Gods are of course nearly all very badass, possibly also a Four-Star Badass among the pantheon. The War God in question often exemplifies either the physical or strategic aspects of war, although they can embody both. They're most likely a member of the setting's ruling pantheon when they are the real deal, but could be any character (including a mortal) who is falsely regarded by other characters as a god(dess) of war. Sir Thomas Macaulay, Lays of Ancient RomeĪ character regarded as a deity or manifestation of war (or battle, murder, conflict, etc.).
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