Something that really irritates me about “lore-man” Kratos.

(Just want to say this isn’t a Kratos Vs Asura post. I don’t know Asura’s scaling. This is more about the idea of Kratos specifically being a “lore-man.”)

He’s got a decent amount of feats and is comparable to people who have insane feats. For example WE LITERALLY SEE THOR HIT JORMUNGANDR THROUGH TIME AND INTO A DIFFERENT DIMENSION. Like it’s not only a lore statement, but A DEMONSTRATED FEAT.

Freyer also holds back Ragnarok for a minute. That same Ragnarok then proceeded to destroy the entire dimension of Asgard and we see its fragments crashed into other dimensions. So Ragnarok is capable of easily destroying dimensions, and affecting any dimension in the mythology. Freyer is capable of holding it back, and everyone inside of the verse are in agreement that Freyer is not comparable to Thor or Kratos. Like he’ll give them some difficulty, but nobody says Freyer could beat either of them.

He’s also shown Fate resistance because of the Power of Hope. Basically In Greece once he had 100% of that power he was unable to be manipulated by the Sisters of Fate and even them trying to kill him before he gained it was no simple task because of the Power of Hope. However, in GOW3 he removes most of it from himself. From there one the Norse Fates almost have complete control over him. Issue here is he can seemingly slightly change his fate. Basically the Giants and the Fates predicted his death against Thor, but Faye predicted his survival. The director of Ragnarok in an interview said it came down to if he decided to change. So his fate isn’t set in stone like everyone else’s, but instead more so one of many he can go down. This is almost entirely likely thanks to the embers of The Power of Hope, since in Greece he was completely unchained by it, and he just so happened to have the full force of The Power of Hope.

There’s a lot of these type of feats or showing. Don’t get me wrong there’s a lot of statements that can be used to wank Kratos far beyond his actual scaling. My problem is that KRATOS ISN’T THE ONLY CHARACTER LIKE THIS. There’s a ton of DB combatants that do this. Most authors or directors want an insanely strong character, but don’t understand the scale.

For example DBS Goku has like 3 feats that are Universal+, but 99% of his scaling comes through STATEMENTS.

Bill is shown capable of manipulating Time and Space in Weirdmagedon, but his best feats are STATEMENTS.

Gojo only gets to country level THROUGH A STATEMENT.

So on and so forth. There’s been a handful of “lore-men,” or “statement-men,” that have less feats or rarely even have a feat near their statements level. Once again going back to Goku, he’s got a lot of statements that gets him to Universal or even Multiversal. However up until the TOP, he’s had like 1 FEAT that would scale that high (BOG clash with Beerus), everything else was through STATEMENTS. He gets his 2nd feat in the TOP. He gets a statement at the beginning of the Moro arc scaling him to the DBS Broly. He doesn’t get a feat putting him comparable to Broly until the DBSSH epilogue where MUI Goku fights SSJ Broly.

Seriously if you scale Goku directly to his feats alone, God Ritual Goku is arguably comparable to TOP MUI Goku. Also this puts God Ritual Goku is also on a similar level as Blue Gogeta or CURRENT MUI GOKU. The actual scaling that proves BOG Goku gets one tapped by ROF Blue Goku is through statements.

This is why “lore-man,” or “statement-man,” Kratos annoys me so much is that he’s actually less of a “statement-man,” than a lot of fictional characters.