God of War (series)/WMG

All dead gods DO become ghost-like beings

 * Though none of them are shown, except for Athena (I believe Zeus's spirit form was just a trick), I have a feeling that all the gods really do becomes ghosts when they die. Think of it this way, what are the properties of those ghost-like forms? They have the ability to teleport (Or at least be invisible), they cannot fully interact with the physical world (In this case, Athena could've just teleported into the labyrinth and taken Pandora out herself), they're most likely invisible to humans (Judging from how they look. Only Pandora and Kratos interact with them and both aren't normal humans), and they have the ability to bestow small miracles upon people (Give Kratos his new weapons, stop him from touching the flames). To me, these properties seems like what later people view gods as, all-seeing since they can be anywhere, bestowing small miracles, and invisible to us. They're no longer physical beings on earth as the Greek Gods were. I'm guessing all the gods becames ghosts but none bothered following Kratos since they couldn't do anything to harm him. The only contradiction to this is
 * Since gods are supernatural representations of concepts both physical and abstract, it makes sense that they'd be ghost like at least at some point. Their current physical forms in the games are just flesh-suits.

Athena was behind everything

 * because Kratos dumped her. Him and Athena were pretty close, and were possibly lovers once, however when Kratos met his future wife he left Athena who got very mad at him and caused Kratos' army to lose the war against the barbarians (she is the goddess of war) and Kratos gave his soul to Ares, who tricked him into killing his wife and child which was an act of revenge by Athena. She also punished Kratos worse by stripping him of his humanity and making him lose everything he had, setting the events of the first game and the second. In the end she wanted the Blade of Olympus to take control of the world so she can truly punish him, but he adverted it by killing himself, which spoiled her plans of making him suffer for a thousand infinities of mind destroying torture in the worst ways inconcievable.

Kratos used to be God and Jesus killed him.
Kratos ends up killing all the Greek gods and becomes the Old Testament Jewish God. However, he makes the mistake of shacking up with a mortal woman and Jesus is born. After Jesus goes through his whole resurrection dealy, he goes into heaven and kills Kratos, taking over the kingdom as the Christian God of the New Testament. However, Kratos, having died and come back several times before, returns to life again and continues being the Jewish God without Jesus finding out.
 * So the next sequels will have Jesus as a playable character. Where does Mohammed PBUH come in?
 * He will appear as the star in the game that revealed him to be Jesus' half-brother.
 * If THAT doesn't start a war I don't know what will. And where does Scientology come in?
 * Kratos will fight Tom Cruise in a future game, also. Also, in the finale, Cthulhu eats everything.
 * Belive it or not, but its perfectly possible that after the war of the titans, this might happen. In God of War 2, we see three murals in the hall of time. The first one shows somethign reminescent of the first game or the first half of the second game, can't remember, while the middle mural shows the after math of the Titan War, Kratos standing alone. Last mural? Three men off in the desert, following a star.
 * The Flying Spaghetti Monster will be the final boss.
 * No, that would be the Invisible Pink Unicorn.
 * I am now imagining a sequence wherein Jesus goes back in time to fight Moses as he parts the Red Sea. Sea monsters like mini-krakens strike out at Jesus (who wields the cross as a weapon) and he makes a pile out of their corpses to get up to the beachhead where Moses is. After some thrashing, Moses is dazed and a quick time event is triggered where Jesus smashes Moses' head against the tablets that list the Ten Commandments, and Moses turns his staff into a snake. Jesus punches him some more, then grabs the snake, wrings its head off, and ties it into a noose, hanging Moses over a rocky precipice. This will be the most awesome game of all time
 * Actually, I think if Kratos does become Old Testament God and ends up having a mortal son, he'll manage to break the cycle of the son usurping the father (violently) because as we have seen, Kratos actually cares about his family. Considering that he has nightmares about murdering his family every time he sleeps, he had a Heroic BSOD when Ares murdered replicas of them while he was helpless to stop it, he gave up all his powers just to be with Calliope in Chains of Olympus, he was begging for forgiveness from Gaia when she appeared as his wife (before she revealed it was her)in GOW 2, and that the only times he ever actually acts heroic is when it concerns his family... I find it very hard to believe he'd mistreat Jesus. It would explain why God was ready to go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge when Jesus was crucified before Christ convinced him. In fact, I'm gonna make a big guess here and say Jesus actually manages to MAKE Kratos aDefector From Decadence and into the New Testament God we know and many love. Yeah, i know it damn well isn't likely but you have to admit it would make for one helluva Crowning Moment of Heartwarming.

Kratos is going to become Khorne
It's easy to notice the similarities. Originally, Khorne forbade his followers to kill non-combatants, while in the first game, Kratos had some semblance of heroism. Later on, Khorne allowed his followers to kill everything that moves; similarly, some fans simply cross the "hero" part off of Kratos's AntiHeroism during the second game. Additionally, according to this here website, three of the four gods of Chaos awoke by the end of the Middle Ages. It would seem like Kratos is getting a head start. In addition, come on, it's Kratos. Don't you think he'd like to have legions of like-minded blade-wielding zealots at his command, ready to kill and spill blood in his name? (Which would include all of the World Eaters, a good portion of the Word Bearers, and some of the Black Legion)
 * And his signature weapon is a chain-axe. BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!
 * Nah, you got it all wrong. Kratos is Immortal God Emperor of Mankind.
 * Hmm, that explains why the emperor is an atheist. I'd be an atheist too if I slaughtered the gods.
 * But how would you not believe in something you killed by your own hands?
 * Because he killed them?
 * Athiest in the sense that he is damn sure that God is Dead.
 * Honestly, I think that Khorne is the one who revives Kratos at the end of 'III. Maybe he becomes Doombreed? After all, if there's a God who can tame Kratos, it would be Khorne.

Kratos is an alternate universe Achilles
Achilles' mother, Thetis, was prophecized that any son born to her would be far greater than his father. And so, he pawned her off on Pelus, Achilles' father, and she became the only woman even remotely associated with Zeus that he didn't sleep with. That was the only person to even make Zeus worry about his power getting eclipsed, so perhaps in God of War's world, he just couldn't keep his thunderbolt from striking.

Gaia is an evil bitch

 * Everybody ELSE tends to be ridiculously evil. Plus, she is constantly directing Kratos to kill Zeus, and something about her motives just doesn't read true. AND the Titans are not exactly the nicest in the world...
 * Actually, compared to The Olympians, espescially Zeus (which any student of Classic Mythology will tell you isn't far off) and Kratos himself, they kind of are.
 * I've always suspected Gaia was manipulating Kratos. Particuarly when he loses the will to fight after fatally wounded the last Spartan (during the Kraken fight). Check it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFkpdpIHhtU&feature=related, the scene in question starts at 6:28, at 8:02 she sounds very sinister, not to mention she takes the form of his wife. Now that I think about it, if true there would be a very powerful parallel/foreshawdowing. When Zeus gives the Blade of Olympus, Kratos asks why Zeus aids him now. Zeus says "it" is for the good of Olympus. Later in the game (and not much later) as Gaia is giving exposition, Kratos again queries why he is being helped.
 * Think about it for a moment. Kratos could have used the Loom Of The Fates to go further back in time and save his wife and daughter. But, as established at the beginning of the game, he's a schmuck and Gaia conveniently neglects to mention any uses of The Loom that don't involve Zeus' death.
 * Rookie time travel mistake. Saving his family in the past would deter him from seeking the sisters of faith in the first place ergo he would not be able to go back in time to save them. The game makers seem to adhere to this rule of time travel. Altering the past will retroactively effect the future (think of the sisters of fate trying to destroy the blade of the gods before Kratos can use it on Aries. So Kratos must use time travel wisely. See the next WMG
 * Alright...then in the same vein of rescuing his wife and daughter, why didn't he just ask for that as his boon for helping the gods? It's a common enough plot in Greek mythology. Instead, he demands that the gods make him stop feeling guilty. And during all those trips to Hades, did he not once think to try and save them himself, with or without the will of the gods?



Time Travel
Not so wild. But appearantly when we see Atlas recount the Great War and Zeus is using the Blade of Olympus the Titans are surrounded by a green glow. Later when Kratos goes to that time we see he is causing that green glow by moving all the titans forward in time. So the Blade of Olympus doesn't destroy the Titans they disappear into the future. Leaving the Olympians thinking the Titans have been obliterated. (I guess the blade of olympus isn't as powerful as everyone thinks) So in the final game, for any of this to make sense, Kratos will have to A) still have his time traveling power, and B) Take Gaia back in time so she can help Kratos as he searches for the sisters of faith.
 * So what we have here is a Stable Time Loop. I'd like to add that, additionally, even the Sisters of Fate themselves don't have the power to change it. They believe they do, as evidenced by Atropos attempting to destroy the sword that killed Ares in the past, but it's probably never had to be tested before. The fact that she failed to do so suggests that she was wrong about having that ability. It's also the only way Kratos killing the Sisters of Fate makes any sense at all; the Sisters themselves are unable to defy their own destinies, and destiny commands they die there.

After killing the gods in the next game, Kratos will be betrayed by the Titans

 * Tying into the above WMG, it follows the pattern of Kratos' life. Betrayed by boss -> someone else helps him kill said boss -> new boss betrays him -> and so on. And it would be Badass. Every Titan fight would be like the last Colossus from Shadow of the Colossus.
 * God of War IV, V and VI confirmed?
 * Sadly, we can't WMG about that, as multiple people have confirmed that this will be the end. You can say that no company has ever stopped a wildly successful and beloved series at its peak before, but when was the last time we saw Legend of Dragoon, Medievil and Pa Rappa the Rapper?
 * None of those were a "wildly successful and beloved series at its peak". Legend Of Dragoon was one game. Medievil and Pa Rappa each had two games, unless I'm mistaken, and while they were good, they weren't quite as lofty as you described them (if they were, they'd have made more games).



Kratos killing Helios will end up being a Nice Job Breaking It, Hero
Anyone else remember the beginning of the plot of Chains Of Olympus? Helios is incapacitated, letting Morpheus begin trying to take over the world. He might give it another shot after Kratos kills the sun god in the third game...then again, maybe he'll notice Kratos's rising body count, and keep quiet.
 * Maybe Kratos kills Morpheus after chains of olympus but before the main trilogy
 * Or we finally fight him in God of War III.
 * Not in God of War III, but still a chance to fight him in Ghost of Sparta.
 * Confirmed, but in a different way.
 * Killing Morpheus, the shaper of dreams, should free Kratos from the nightmares of his past.

God of War III will feature a boss battle against Stheno, the third Gorgon
We fought Medusa in the first game and Euryale in the second, so why not let Kratos get the complete set?
 * Jossed.

You really can't fight Fate
One of the murals in the Temple of Fates shows a lone warrior, presumably Kratos himself surveying the destruction he has caused. This mural is between one depicting the war of Gods vs. Titans (past) and one depicting the birth of Christ (future). The fates knew all along that Kratos was going to kill them and make war on the gods. But they're not going to go down without a fight.

Zeus will give Kratos' brother his chance at revenge
Maybe Kratos has to go to hell one more time to kill Hades because the Titans are being swarmed by an army of the undead that keeps respawning. At some point he reunites with his brother. And in a style befitting his entire life Kratos will have to kill his brother because he is left with no choice. Naturally Zeus (or possibly Hades) knows the brother will not have a real chance (after all he was cast out of Sparta for being to weak) but is simply another play thing of the gods like Kratos was.
 * I'm gonna expand on this and connect it with the top theory that Kratos becomes God. Indeed, Zeus (or Hades, he does rule the Underworld after all) gives Kratos' brother the chance for revenge. Since the guy looks like a badass demon in the secret ending, we'll presume he can actually give his big bro a fight. Naturally Kratos doesn't want to fight him but he doesn't have much of choice. After an emotional and memorable boss battle, Kratos bests his brother but spares him before continuing to ransack Olympus. Naturally this only makes his brother hate him more, and when the war leaves the Olympians and (likely) Titans dead, Kratos the only deity left, his brother will rise up as The Rival and continue to battle him. So if Kratos becomes God, that means his brother becomes... Satan! (Again, just watch the secret ending and notice how much his brother looks like a devil.)
 * Jossed.

Kratos stayed awake in Chains of Olympus because he is a chronic insomniac
Kratos being a chronic insomniac would hardly be a surprise, given that he has nightmares whenever he does sleep, and would explain his less than rational thought processes. More importantly, this would explain why he retained consciousness when even the gods were passing out.

Kratos reincarnates into Lelouch.

 * Except that Kratos can shake buildings down, lift innumerable times his own body weight, break necks with a flick of his wrists, and combat roll indefinitely. Lelouch can barely climb stairs without getting winded.
 * One part got all the 'brains', the other got all the 'muscle'?

Eris engineered the whole thing.
It's fair to say that the Goddess of Strife and Discord is the only entity who might actually want Kratos to cut a bloody swathe through Gods, Titans, and mythical beasts alike. Tricking other people into causing the chaos she desires is pretty well established as her MO - see the Trojan War, for example - and as sister (or possibly daughter, the mythology isn't consistent) of Ares, she'd be well positioned to persuade him into setting the whole tragic affair on its course. As for why she doesn't make an on-screen appearence in any of the games? She's so genre-savvy she knows not to appear on screen at any point, because that would mean Kratos would end up killing her.

The destruction of the Pantheon started Christianity.
Poseidon's death caused a great flood and Hermes' death unleashed a plague. Yeah.
 * And Kratos, being the only deity left, has become the jewish/christian god.
 * Its also fitting to think of him as God of the old testament.

Kratos is the father of Yahweh.
Kratos had a son with Aphrodite, the only surviving Olympian. This son grew up and restored the world. Yahweh's son Jesus is Kratos' grandson
 * Linguistics fail. Yahweh is Hebrew for "I am", basically claiming that he has no beginning or end, but is simply one unabated, eternal existence. So, by definition, neither Kratos, nor his son, nor his grandson, nor anyone who was ever born, can ever "become" the "I am".
 * Yea, because NO ONE'S ever lied about their name or status of grandeur before. There's nothing really proving Yahweh's status aside from him insisting we take his word on it.

The destruction of the Pantheon is what destroyed the Mycenaeans.
The cause of the destruction of Mycenaean civilisation which would've occupied Greece at the time of the games is somewhat unknown. The chaos that occurs every time Kratos kills each of the Pantheon is likely how the Mycenaeans were wiped out. The survivors, in the aftermath, ended up forgetting how to record what went down, and their descendants went on to become the Greek city-states. The Dark Ages after the end of the Mycenaeans and the end of the Age of Heroes was started by Kratos' slaughter. Makes sense, whether the devs intended so or not, if they did, kudos to them.

The next God of War game will be based on a throwaway line from Poseidon.
Poseidon mentions that Kratos was responsible for the destruction of Atlantis. The Making of video of Go W 2 shows Atlantis as one of the levels cut from the final game. The developers are clearly interested in Atlantis, and the potential environments Kratos could explore there are as great as they were in God of War 3.
 * Or in a DLC.
 * Or it gets destroyed in Ghost of Sparta for PSP, which is a midquel.
 * Confirmed. Atlantis is destroyed in Ghost of Sparta

Athena planed everything from the beginning
It seems to me that the events of the 3 games were one big Xanatos Gambit by so she could be the last remaining god.
 * Its a far fetched possibility, but it sounds plausible. Athena was the goddess of tactical warfare,

Saint Seiya takes place in the same continuity as God of War

 * In Saint Seiya, only a handful of gods are shown, and of them only one, Hades, still has a body that is naturally his, and being the god of the dead and remover of souls his hulking form we see in the games is one he acquired some other way. Athena and Poseidon must resort to reincarnation instead, seeing as how Kratos killed their physical bodies. The Saints of Athena, and in fact all mortals in question, are forbidden to wield weaponry with only a few exceptions, possibly due to the last time someone without much self-control was given weapons by the gods.
 * ...Which makes no sense, seeing as Hades got whacked, his body dumped into the River Styx and his soul was, you know, ABSORBED.

Kratos murdered Arkantos
And the story takes place in the same continuity as Age of Mythology, with Age of Mythology coming first. Its main character, Arkantos, is elevated to a minor god of titan-slaying for his actions in the story, so it's likely Kratos killed him off screen at some point in God Of War III.

Kratos is an agent for a rival pantheon
Some other gods want to wipe out the Olympians and take their place. The Norse gods sound like likely candidates - Kratos would be right at home in Norse mythology. God of War IV will feature Kratos going after the Titans. At the end, Mount Olympus itself will be destroyed, and Kratos will be congratulated by his real master, Odin. The God of War franchise will then continue with Norse mythology replacing Greek.
 * Alternatively, he is an agent of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. His chains are a representation of His Noodly Appendage.

The Final Game will feature Romans
That is how the Greeks went under, after all.

Hades isn't that dead
Hades' soul is presumably still intact inside the Claws of Hades; after all, Kratos used it to pass through the Hyperion Gate. And while the catastrophes caused by the deaths of the other gods could pass with time (floodwaters recede, storms end, plagues burn out, plants grow back), having a total lack of anyone ruling the underworld could lead to dead souls just wandering in and out at all times. Thus, this troper believes that when Kratos kills himself, Hades emerges from the Claws and possesses his body, then starts putting his kingdom back together. Then again, this may just be because she likes Hades.

That wasn't Athena
Something that This Troper picked up on immediately was that nothing about Athena seemed quite right when she appeared to Kratos after her death. And she's the only god, out of all the ones that died over the course of the series, to get to show up in ghost form (aside from Zeus's final stand, but as he returned to his body, he was clearly still alive and that was just a neat trick). Why would Athena suddenly come back, having done a complete 180 on her decision to protect Zeus, and urge Kratos to kill him? And then try and take all the power of Hope for herself in order to become the one god of the world?

Because that was never actually Athena. This Troper spent the entire game waiting for that twist, and was disappointed when it never came. Nothing about her, from her actions to her motivations, to just the way she talked to Kratos, was anything like Athena. She was just an entity using Athena's form in an effort to manipulate Kratos (which, to be fair, isn't really too hard; he's kind of gullible that way). What entity? Who knows? Maybe that's a question for God of War IV....

The Hercules from real world mythology is a Composite Character of Herc and Kratos
Hercules complains that despite both of them being sons of Zeus, Kratos is the one getting all the recognition that Hercules should. so why are there legends of Herc and no legends about Kratos? Because people telling the stories wound up conflating the two. Kratos brings certain elements such as mistakenly killing his wife and children, defeating the hydra, ascending to godhood, etc. Hercules brings the actual 12 Labors to the table, the reputation as a defender of Olympus and the gods, etc. It might also explain why so many of the lesser known stories about Hercules have Herc killing people for little to no reason.

Eris is responsible for everything.
Most of the Olympians dead and the whole world plunged into Chaos? This reeks of Eris' handiwork. No doubt she orchestrated all of this because she lost a game of Yahtzhee or something. She's probably watching the whole thing at a safe distance while joyously partaking of a hotdog.

Gods aren't particularly difficult to kill.
Kratos says it himself: "Olympians overestimate themselves." You've got a bunch of supposed "gods" getting ganked by being impaled, getting their eyes gouged out, having their heads ripped off, and generally getting the ever-loving crap beat out of them. It's almost like they're not even gods, but just really big people with magical powers. Maybe the helped, but he killed his way up to  just fine. If a baseline human had a Giant Mecha, a Fantastic Nuke, the Colt, or even just sufficient dakka, they could kill a god too.

When Pandora's Box was opened, it affected all the gods and all the titans for all time. Even Kratos himself.
It doesn't seem that Zeus was particularly more of an asshole after Pandora's Box was opened. He betrays Gaia after she hid him from Chronus. He chained up Prometheus for giving fire to mortals. He stole Pandora from Hephaestus. And he gets a Spartan woman knocked up behind Hera's back. In fact, many of the gods seem to have been affected by the opening of Pandora's Box, even before it was officially opened! Ares was jealous of Athena's followers (or something like that). Athena Chronus ate his own children. Rhea betrayed Chronus in his aforementioned efforts. The Fates denied the largely innocent titans victory in the Great War. And Kratos isn't exactly without asshole-ish tendencies himself. So why does it seem that Kratos is perpetually surrounded by assholes? Well...

Kratos absorbed powers from the other gods and become God of War again.
It would line up with the first game. It said he watched over wars and such and showed modern pictures. If he gets the power from these gods like in the first, then he could be a god again.

A New Sequel with Artemis as Main Character.
The gods who didn't apperes in III will appear in a sequel with Artemis as main playable character looking for Kratos in order to fight back the last otherwordly threat (Eris, Tartaros, the Giants). This could be really interesting (Ok, honestly just because I'd love to see Aphrodite and Artemis in the recurring Hot Coffee Minigame

Dante's Kratos descendant
When he was, still, a god, he pregnant a mortal(one of the two at the beginning of GOW II, maybe?) that woman survived the disasters from the war between Kratos and the olympeans, and, with the baby, started a new life. That child, and his descendents, are the only thing from the god's era that remains. thousands years later, Dante, Kratos last descendent, follows his ancestor's path and started to kill everyone in hell.
 * Another proof? welll...what about the fact that both are enough Badass to by killed, but still being able to comeback 10 minutes later?
 * Then there is the fact of the above when people said that Kratos would start Christianity and all that, maybe Dante and Jesus are related?

Kratos lives, and traveled to the Mortal Kombat universe to slay the Elder Gods.
With Hades dead the underworld is no longer suitable to send the souls of the dead. But they have to go somewhere, and the next best place to send them is the Neatherrealm. Kratos went there after killing himself, but since the guy doesn't stay dead he fought his way out of the Neatherrealm and into Earthrealm. Mortal Kombat 9 begins and Kratos gets involved and brutally slays everyone that dares fight him, up to and including the Elder Gods.

At the end of God of War III, Kratos is a God once more.

 * fighting the persian gods?
 * I always thought that

Next game with have Kratos kill the Norse Gods.
Just so Kratos can fight Thor. That would be awesome.
 * Bullshit. The Greek Gods were pushovers, sure, but the Norse Gods are badass and somewhat less dickish. And if such a thing ever happens, the soundtrack better be Viking Metal.
 * The greek gods were push overs? People who starts wars for shits and giggles, make hurricanes by being in a pissy mood, curse their own children and worshipers to terrible fates for minor disrespect, and incinerate mortals by EXISTING near them were PUSHOVERS to you?
 * Actually, the Aesir relied on magic apples to keep their youth. They CAN be killed relatively easily, see Ragnarok (and Baldur earlier on). Barring de-powering, Kratos would be able to take them on easily after the Greek gods.

There was a reason for Kratos suicide at the end of GOW 3 other than finishing his vengence.

 * Kratos killed himself at the end of GOW 3 so he can be reunited with his family in the Asyilum Fields (If it still exists, that is.)
 * I'm pretty sure you mean "Elysium Fields", because Asylums still did not exist.

If there is a fourth game staring Kratos, it will still involve Olympians
Just because there were a lot of gods and goddesses unaccounted for throughout the franchise. Nemesis and Eris spring strongest to mind as others have pointed out, Artemis, Dinonysis, and Demeter as well. But given everything Kratos has been through near the very end of the third game, he might have to suffer Aesop Amnesia for it to NOT feel like Character Derailment.

Athena becomes the Christian God

 * Although she seems like a evil manipulative bitch, I still get the impression that she wants to do good things and help mankind to come back after Kratos literally ended the world. So what does she do after Kratos releases hope to the world? Well as God like entity that can't physically interact with us, more than doing small miracles and giving advises, she is doing the best she can to recreate the world, and to help and guide mankind with their new power of hope. Since as she stated herself, that they don't know what to do with it.

The entire series is a story within a story.

 * All of the games take place in the head of a death metal singer (You gotta admit, he has the right rage, screaming power, and appearance for one) writing a concept album about Greek mythology (vikings became passe, or something) with a character loosely based on himself as the protagonist. As he starts feeling more and more insecure about his real life (perhaps real events mimicking the events of the games), Kratos becomes more and more powerful to compensate.

Captain Titus is a distant descendant of Kratos

 * Similar to the Dante connection mentioned above, it could be possible that one of the two girls he had a threesome with gave birth to a child who was part man, part god, and over the thirty-eight thousand or so years they managed to keep the lineage together until finally the infant Titus was born in the 41st Millennium. Though his base abilities are nowhere near as great as his forefather (which can be explained that the higher up the tree you go, the less and less godliness you get) with the help of the Emperor's Space Marine program he gets back some of the God of War that he has had in his blood. This could also explain  because of his divine lineage.

Kratos was always meant to be the villain till God of War 3
In God of War I, Kratos only sided with the gods against Ares out of revenge. He didn't care for anyone's well being, especially the humans he was supposed to be protecting. In the end, he doesn't ask for redemption. He wants his memory erased so he can forget he ever got married. When he doesn't get what he wants, Kratos essentially throws a tantrum and begins consuming the world in war. Zeus stole his powers and tried to kill him out of necessity. By that point in God of War II, besides Ares, the gods have not done anything bad other than destroy Sparta and that was only because they were ravaging the land under Kratos's orders. Only in God of War III did the writers realize that they made Kratos a villain and needed to redo the story to make him more like an anti-hero.

A future God of War game will have Kratos save humanity from the forces described in the Cthulhu Mythos
Kratos' preferred line of work seems to be brutally murdering gods, and the Great Old Ones have always been described as "Gods". I can't imagine Kratos would be phased much by seeing an Eldritch Abomination, seeing as he greets most everything with violence. And come on, you know it would be awesome to see Kratos go right past flipping off Cthulhu and go straight to ripping his tentacled-face off. As an added Bonus, we'll have him actually murder HP Lovecraft, and call it a day.
 * Oh my Great Old Ones, MAKE THIS HAPPEN SONY!