This is a list of deaths in the God of War series organised by game. Each death is listed under the game in which it is first mentioned.
Greek Era
Prior to God of War: Ascension
Character | Killed by | Cause of death | Notes |
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Archimedes | The Furies | Madness | Driven insane by the Furies for breaking his blood oath to Apollo. |
Architect's Sons | N/A | Unknown | Died during the construction of Pandora's Temple. |
Pathos Verdes III | Himself | Suicide | Crazed by the death of his family while constructing Pandora's Temple. |
Danaus | Alrik | Decapitation | Killed by Hades' champion in the Wager of the Gods. |
Danaus' Tribe | Barbarians | Various | |
Captain Nikos | Hades | ||
Ajax | |||
Alrik | Kratos | Decapitation | Rose from the Underworld to seek vengeance against his killer. |
Barbarians | Ares | Various | Killed by Ares' power due to Kratos' blood oath. |
Lysandra | Kratos | Brutally slaughtered | Went to Elysium Fields after death. |
Calliope |
God of War: Ascension
Character | Killed by | Cause of death | Notes |
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Aegaeon | |||
Castor and Pollux | Kratos | Kratos causes Castor to fall to his death.
Kratos crushes Pollux's skull underneath his boot after being severed from his older brother. |
They were gifted with shared immortality by Zeus after Pollux requested that the god save his brother Castor from dying. |
Aletheia | Kratos, Castor, and Pollux | Succumbed to injuries from the fight between Kratos and Castor and Pollux. | Previously the Oracle of Delphi; reunited with her lover Orkos in death. |
Megaera | Kratos | After a brief struggle, Kratos stabs Megaera in the chest and tosses her off the Hecatonchires. Kratos then dives down after Megaera and, just as the pair smash against a lower platform, he drives his blades into Megaera's chest, killing her instantly. | One of the three Furies. |
Tisiphone | Kratos | Kratos breaks her neck. | One of the three Furies. |
Alecto | Kratos | Kratos impales Alecto in the chest with his Blades of Chaos. He then bisects her and her remains quickly disintegrate. | One of the three Furies. |
Orkos | Kratos | Allowed Kratos to kill him by stabbing him in the stomach. | Son of Ares and Alecto; reunited with his lover Altheia in death. |
God of War: Chains of Olympus
Character | Killed by | Cause of death | Notes |
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Persian King | Kratos | ||
Charon | Kratos | Head smashed with the Gauntlet of Zeus | |
Persephone | Kratos | ||
God of War
Character | Killed by | Cause of death | Notes |
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Hydra King | Kratos | Kratos killed the beast by driving a ship's mast through it's main head. | Had been resurrected by Athena. |
Hydras | Kratos | Head exploded. | Cause by the King's death. |
Kratos | Ares | Impaled Kratos with a large broken pillar. | Fought his way out of the Underworld. |
Oracle of Athens | Ares' Army | Presumably succumbs to her injuries. | Unconfirmed. |
Ares | Kratos | Stabbed through the chest with the Blade of the Gods. | Kratos empowered by Pandora's Box. |
God of War: Ghost of Sparta
Character | Killed by | Cause of death | Notes |
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Callisto | Kratos | Stabbing | Transformed into a monster by Zeus. Put down by Kratos. |
Dissenter | Kratos | Impaled by the Blades of Athena | |
Deimos | Thanatos |
God of War II
Character | Killed by | Cause of death | Notes |
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Argonauts | Mole Cerberus | Mangling | |
Euryale | Kratos | Decapitation | |
Atropos | Kratos | Erased from existance | Trapped inside magic mirror, then destroyed. |
Clotho | Kratos | Head impaled by the Thread Cutter. | |
Athena | Kratos | Impaled with the Blade of Olympus | Accidentally killed by Kratos when trying to save Zeus. |
God of War III
Character | Killed by | Cause of death | Notes |
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Cronos | Kratos | Forehead stabbed with the Blade of Olympus | |
Daedalus | Kratos | Blood loss | Killed by the Labyrinth's activation. |
Norse Era
Prior to God of War (2018)
Character | Killed by | Cause of death | Notes |
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Bergelmir | N/A | Natural causes | Died peacefully sorrounded by his people. |
Aurvandil | Thor | Unknown | Tricked by Thor into going in a quest to Vanaheim. Death concealed by Odin. |
God of War (2018)
Character | Killed by | Cause of death | Notes |
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Baldur | Kratos | Neck snapped | Invulneravility curse removed by mistletoe wound. |