The Bronze Talos is an enemy in God of War III. It is similar to the Stone Talos, only larger and stronger.
They are made from the same metal as the Colossus of Rhodes and wield a massive club. In the game, Kratos must fight them head-on. If the Bronze Talos receives any damage, it begins to heat up. The more damage it receives, the more it heats up, changing its metallic body from yellow to orange, red, and white-hot; further damage causes parts of its body to explode, revealing blue energy coursing beneath its shell. When it loses six pieces of its body, a quick time event can be initiated; if successful, Kratos smashes the Bronze Talos to pieces with its own club.
Kratos encounters these statues twice in the game; during the Poseidon's chamber when escorting the Poseidon Princess to her death and during the first Trial of the Labyrinth, where Kratos could ride on the Cerberus Mongrel to help him defeat the Bronze Talos.
Greek Mythology[]
In Greek Mythology, Talos was a colossal bronze automaton of a man that serves as the guardian of the Island of Crete, though modern popular sources depicts him as a giant while coins from Phaistos during the Classical and early Hellenistic periods features him as a naked figure with wings. Talos is known to have only one flaw; his life force stems through Ichor, the divine fluid/blood of the Gods, which ran through a single vein within his body and was stoppered by a nail on his back, though author Apollodorus claimed that the Ichor ran through Talos' neck to one of his ankles instead of his back. While the origins, role, and genealogy of Talos differed in many literary sources, the most popular variant of the myth from the Argonautica depicts Talos as a descendant of the bronze race, who had sprung from ash-trees. Given by Zeus to Europa to protect Crete, Talos would guard the island by running around it three times daily. While on their voyage home after having successfully obtained the Golden Fleece, the Argonauts, the legendary crew of the Argo, encountered Talos, who threw boulders at their ship to keep them at bay, prompting the sorceress Medea, the daughter of King Aeëtes, to summon the Keres, the female goddesses of death, causing Talos to graze his ankle, causing the Ichor to drain from his body, which resulted in his death.
This account, however, was disputed by Apollodorus when he gave out different theories regarding Talos' origins, form, and death; One theory claimed that Talos was given to King Minos by the smith god Hephaestus while two other theories states that he is either a bull or a bronze man respectively. Apollodorus also gave out different variants of Talos' death, with one depicting Medea either driving him mad with drugs or tricking him with the promise of granting him immortality before eventually pulling the nail from his ankle, which killed Talos as the Ichor flowed out from his body.
Trivia[]
- In Greek mythology, Talos was a massive giant of bronze, whose only weakness was a pin in his ankle that held his veins shut. The sorceress Medea, with the aid of Jason, would eventually remove this pin, causing Talos to bleed to death.
- The working title of this enemy was the Brute and originally he wield a crystal pillar, possibly made of Onyx. This was mentioned in the early previews of game by GamePro and is also been seen in the concept art.
- According to the same early previews of God of War III, the Bronze Taloses are made of the same material as the Colossus of Rhodes.
- The blue energy beneath their bronze skin is similar to the godly energy powering the Colossus.
- The Bronze Talos is the only Talos in the series that wields no hammer; instead, it wields a club.
- When charging for an attack, Bronze Taloses can be heard yelling "Die!" The same thing can be heard from their stone counterparts.
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