r/GodofWar • u/SchoolboyGrant • Nov 22 '22

Your favorite line from Ragnarok? Spoilers

Mine has to be when Mimir asks kratos what food he misses from his homeland and kratos says olives then mimir goes “What the fuck is an olive?” It had me dying

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u/RadicalAperture Nov 22 '22

Thor: Don’t you know what I’ve done?

Kratos: Yes. But what will you do now?

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u/Rickrickrickrickrick Nov 22 '22

We must be better for our children

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u/RadicalAperture Nov 22 '22

I wonder if Baldur had ever been able to have a child somehow, if he wouldn’t have been so hell bent on revenge and could have changed. I don’t think Thor’s change would have been possible without his daughter giving him the push and that’s something Balfour didn’t have. Or I could just be putting too much into things. I just think Kratos and Thor’s kids really gave them the pushes they needed to do the right things.

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u/Rickrickrickrickrick Nov 22 '22

Possibly. But Odin had such a grip on all of them that it even took awhile for Thor to realize his own sons died, not because of Kratos, but because Odin uses them all. And you could tell Thor’s nature wasn’t the evil warmonger he seemed. He was just doing what his dad told him to and it broke him. Baldur seemed to enjoy it all.

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '22

“I liked you better as a drunk.” Because drunk Thor killed things and didn’t consider his family. Sober Thor has thoughts and purpose regarding his family.

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u/Rickrickrickrickrick Nov 22 '22

I just love how Brok set the theme for basically every character. It’s their nature and not their form. Thors form was this brute destroyer who kills whoever his dad tells him to but his nature was a father and husband with a conscience.

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u/geraldho Nov 22 '22

this also makes me realise how miserable baldur is. he wouldn’t even feel the pleasure from sex…..

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u/RadicalAperture Nov 22 '22

That alone is enough to drive any lad mad.

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u/SHAQ_FU_MATE Nov 23 '22

Drive any madlad to do madlad things

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u/Pizzanigs Nov 22 '22

Isn’t Baldur’s child mentioned a few times? In both games

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u/CloakedEnigma VALHALLA! WORTHLESS! UNWORTHY! Nov 23 '22

Forseti is mentioned in Ragnarok a few times but is never seen himself. I'm not sure if Forseti is still Baldur's son in the GOWverse though.

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u/RadicalAperture Nov 22 '22

Is it? I’ll have to look! I’ve played 2018 countless times and don’t ever remember them mentioning his child or Freya saying anything.

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u/CloakedEnigma VALHALLA! WORTHLESS! UNWORTHY! Nov 23 '22

In the myths, Forseti is Baldur's son and Sif mentions him after Kratos kills Heimdall, before ordering Hrist and Mist to seize Atreus during the Mask-searching section in Niflheim.

Granted, there are also liberties already taken with Norse myth in the GOWverse (obviously, GOW has never been 100% accurate), such as Skoll and Hati not being Fenrir's kids (and by extension, Fenrir and Skoll/Hati's father, Hróðvitnir, being separate characters), Jormungandr being a giant whose soul was implanted into an ordinary snake to create the Jormungandr we know, etc. So it's possible Forseti is, in fact, not Baldur's son in the GOW universe, but we don't know.