Cronus is the main antagonist of the animated fantasy TV show Class of the Titans. He is a power-hungry god who seeks to seize power over all of Earth and eliminate those who stand in his way like the gods or Jay and his friends.
He was voiced by David Kaye, who also voiced Megatron in Beast Wars, Mysterio in Spider Man: Shattered Dimensions, and Klunk in Ratchet and Clank.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He commits assault and jailbreak in his first appearance by knocking out the guard of his cell and then breaking out.
- As described by the Oracle, he is a power-crazed megalomaniac bent on vengeance.
- When informed by the Oracle of the seven teenage heroes who are destined to stop him, he orders the titans he’s allied with to find them and destroy them.
- He sometimes summons, mutates, unleashes, or creates creatures to do his wicked bidding, either to cause chaos (which he blatantly loves) or to kill Jay and his friends.
- He constantly tries to kill Jay and his friends either directly himself or indirectly through having creatures he's either made alliances with through deals, summoned, or mutated target them. If the creatures he's allied with end up reforming, refuse to kill them, and turn on him, he would call off whatever deal he made and try to kill them too.
- He has successfully killed Jay and Odie on 2 separate occasions by summoning creatures that would poison them to death, though they would be undone eventually.
- He gets the mechanics within a power supply plant disabled before taking it over with the help of the fiery demon, who chases the elder worker out of there.
- He deactivates electricity all across the world before having one of his titans divert the power for his plan to “bring the dawn of a new era” while proclaiming to himself that those that live through it will serve him before then acknowledging to himself that no one will live through it before cackling maniacally.
- He has the fiery demon destroy a truck driving by to the plant with employees in it and could have gotten them killed with this had they not escaped while having the titans collect materials for his ray machine.
- He attempted genocide on humanity several times, once by trying to use rings he unleashed from destroying a meteor to cause an atmospheric disturbance that would in turn cause earthquakes, hurricanes, and global disasters and everything to sheer from the surface of the Earth due to the conservation momentum if its rotation suddenly stops, another by attempting to use the Antikythera Device in a machine in the Astrolab to sink the world, another by summoning Hecate using a satelite that he forced a scientist to give him access to so that she could unleash the undead onto humanity, planning on bringing the end of the world after killing Jay and his friends through dissolving acid, explaining to Zeus that he planned on eradicating all of humanity as revenge for painting him as the villain after he's done with him in the past, planning on reducing everything in the world to nothing to destroy mankind after dispatching of Hades, Persephone, and Archie, attempting to use the time piece of Zeus he took from Odie to undo the birth of all humanity before using the Tablet of Prometheus to create a new species that will only worship him, etc.
- Upon finding Neil, the last person that needed to join Jason’s team to stop him, he has his titans beat up and tie up two photographers who are taking pictures of him for their business before tricking him into coming with him into a building likely intending on disposing of him himself.
- Once Archie and Jay arrive to the gates into the Underworld where Cronus is, he shuts out Theresa and threatens to hurt Archie and Jay if she does not bring him the lyre. When she arrives and doesn’t wind up giving him the lyre and escapes instead, he tries to kill Jay and Archie with his scythe only for the undead to enter with the help of Orpheus and touch him on the skin, causing it to burn and allow them an opportunity to temporarily take him down though he quickly regenerates.
- He puts Pan under his mind control, leading to the latter tricking a bunch of high school students into coming to a DJ party in the woods where he would unleash his plant powers onto them as revenge for what humanity has been doing to nature whilst trying to fight off Jay and his friends as well.
- He has his titans try to capture a griffin while on Mount Olympus. When they fail, he has his titans get a staff from the heroes so that he could control it, though it returns partially broken missing one piece.
- He attempts to turn Odie evil by promising to give him massive strength should he give him the other piece of the staff. Once Odie does, he tries to have him destroy his friends using the staff to control the griffins which Odie pretends to prepare to do at first though he then has them attack Cronus instead and defeat him.
- He commits theft by stealing the Antikythera Device from a museum while evading the trap Jay and his friends set up for him there and then evading Jay and his friends themselves while escaping the museum so that he could use it to activate the Astrolab (which was established as cursed).
- He puts a necklace onto Odelia that corrupts her through allowing her ancestor, Medea, to possess her and has her split up Jay and his friends before teleporting them to an island where a dragon would try to kill them while in another area Medea would have her Amazon warriors try to kill Theresa and Atlanta before conquering the world.
- He kidnaps Herry’s grandmother with help from his titans in order to hold her hostage to lure Herry to him and ends up capturing him and Campe (whom Herry brought with him) by putting them in handcuffs once they fall right into his trap.
- He has his titans light up the signal fire in order to get an eagle to tear out Herry’s grandmother’s liver, though he acknowledges that her death should be swift and relatively painless before taking Herry and Campe with him, likely to dispose of them, though this would be foiled by Campe swinging the chain Cronus was holding on to at the titans once she notices that Herry’s friends have arrived in gliders after rescuing his grandmother.
- He can be somewhat of a bad boss towards his titans, insulting and berating them when they fail him, being essentially verbally abusive towards them from time to time. At one point, he even turns one of them to stone as punishment for failing.
- Upon getting control over the wind, he sends a fake distress signal to Atlanta, Herry, Theresa, and Archie in order to trick them into coming to the palace he was in on an island amongst the seas so that he could summon a hurricane to get them killed and then a multiple-headed sea serpent though this would be foiled by Archie using a windbag to blow wind at Cronus to save them.
- He summons the Kraken to lure in Poseidon and steals his trident while the Kraken fights him and then has the Kraken try to kill the heroes while he takes Poseidon, his own son, to a desert where he has him tied to the ground in chains to cause him to die of thirst as revenge for assisting in keeping him jailed in Tartarus for thousands of years before going off to help the Kraken kill Jay and his friends by summoning waves at them.
- He has his titans tie up Eros and Psyche and bring them to him, forcing Eros to follow his commands by holding Psyche hostage and threatening to kill her if he doesn’t. He then proceeds to shoot an arrow at him using his powers that ends up corrupting him and turning him hateful before having him go around spreading hatred in the city using his magical bow and arrows.
- Upon rebuilding Talos, he has it cause chaos on an island so that once Jay and his friends arrive to stop it, it will kill them.
- He kidnaps and mutates many soldiers into ants with the intent of using them to lead another great titan war onto Mount Olympus, but not before attempting to use the ants to try to kill Jay and his friends once they enter the cave.
- It is revealed that he started a war with the gods back then for 10 years and that he would have plunged the world into chaos if he won.
- When he gets Zeus in chains from a trap Cronus set up, Cronus attempts to kill him, despite him being his own son.
- After faking his defeat at the hands of Jay and his friends, during the part where he is about to be sentenced back to Tartarus, he gets the chain holding his handcuffs broken and frees himself, proceeding to overthrow Hades and take over the underworld with the Helmet of Darkness being worn, trapping Hades, his lover, Persephone, and Archie after Thanatos captured him in giant sandclocks.
- Upon regaining his memory after losing it due to falling into River Lethe, he attempts to get Jay and his friends’ memories lost forever by trying to trick them into crossing into the Elysian Fields, though this would be foiled by Neil.
- He causes the Tree of Immortality to start dying so that the gods would start fading, taking noticeable pleasure in its results like a fairy having grown ill, while eating a golden apple to keep himself alive and soon directly cuts it down himself though another Tree of Immortality would be grown from the core of one of its golden apples that the heroes would plant in the ground..
- He causes a car crash for two archaeologists, endangering their lives in the process in order to get the chest of the son of Prometheus from them before eventually finding the key as well.
- After a while, he traps Atlanta in fire as he opens up the chest with the key to start a flood before trapping Theresa in fire as well albeit temporarily as he would wind up unintentionally releasing them due to a bit of light from one of the heroes being reflected into his eyes blinding him.
- He has the ghosts of three cyclopses, Brontes, Steropes, and Arges, build a scepter for him with him specifically mentioning that he wanted the scepter to be so powerful its legend will rival Zeus’ lightning bolts and he will be able to vanquish his foes with it.
- Upon capturing Polythemus, when the 3 cyclopses reveal that he needs the eye of the storm for the scepter to work, he proceeds to torture Polythemus by burning his stomach when he refuses to reveal where it is, lying that it was destroyed, causing the eye of the storm to pop in his eye which Cronus would take out of his eye socket using his powers and place on his scepter.
- In order to set an example, he places Arges in the sands of time until he decides what he wants to do with him.
- He reveals his plot to rewrite history, starting with the prophecy of the heroes.
- After Polythemus attempted to attack him by throwing a hammer on him which would be countered by Cronus sending it flying back at him, deciding he has no need for Polythemus anymore, Cronus places him in the sands of time before preparing to continue his battle with the heroes.
- Upon tricking Neil into bringing Zeus to him by shapeshifting into his former caretaker, he forces him into a game of chess that involves chess pieces representing the heroes and his goons. If Cronus’ goons won in the game, they also would have won in real life, meaning the potential end for the heroes.
- Upon allying with the Telkihnes, he has them bring Theresa to him so that they can get her blood to activate the pendant to create a portal for Cronus to walk through to the location of their hideout so that he could finally kill the gods and the heroes in exchange for Cronus helping them get Poseidon’s trident for them to exact their revenge on him.
- When he suspects that Arceus was working for Jay, he threatens to kill him should his suspicions be proven accurate.
- He mocks Neil for unintentionally turning his friends into gold thanks to the Midas Touch punishment being inflicted on him by the goddess Nemesis for his vanity and then proceeds to take the ones he turned into golden statues with him to his base through a portal.
- When realizing that the truth of the prophecy as passed with him having technically been defeated by Theresa and her friends, he uses this to his advantage to make more plans to take out the heroes in the future eventually.
- While he has laughable moments, none of them detract from his villainy and he is still taken seriously in-universe in spite of them.
Trivia[]
- He is the only character from Class of the Titans to qualify as Pure Evil.
- He is the only known depiction of Kronos to qualify as Pure Evil. Ironically, the show doesn't describe him eating his children, which is his original mythology counterpart's most heinous act.
External Links[]
- Cronus on the Villains Wiki
- Cronus on the Magnificent Baddie Wiki
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