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I'll cut straight to the chase because I'm lazy today.
In the beginning of God of War 3, Kratos falls in the Styx, which, as stated in the profile, has the magic property of instantly killing all who fall on it. He resists that. What he doesn't resist, however, is having all of his magic powers nullified (said power null was also strong enough to douse the magic, life absorbing fire of his blades, which not even Ares could do to the Blades of Chaos with his own Power Null).
A little while after that, Kratos faces Hades inside his castle. Hades rips a large hole into the groung leading directly to Styx, and tries to overpower Kratos through a tug of war and toss him inside the river. Well, Kratos overpowers him, smashes his face into the roof, and eventually drops him inside Styx instead.
The problem is, Hades is completely unaffected by the river's magic and emerges from the river in his giant form. The same souls who took away Kratos's powers are seen jumping towards Hades and trying to attack him, for no effect; they just bounce off and try endlessly to no avail. Eventually, Kratos rips Hades's soul off and gains its powers for himself.
If, for any reason, there was any doubt that Hades can resist the powers of Styx, and the powers of the souls that swim in it, here it is spelled out in plain English that he can do so.
This also scales to Kratos since he got Hades's soul. So Kratos can resist Power Null. Old news, but it's yet another of the handful of resistance feats he has. And one that arguably amps several characters besides just him and Hades:
In the beginning of God of War 3, Kratos falls in the Styx, which, as stated in the profile, has the magic property of instantly killing all who fall on it. He resists that. What he doesn't resist, however, is having all of his magic powers nullified (said power null was also strong enough to douse the magic, life absorbing fire of his blades, which not even Ares could do to the Blades of Chaos with his own Power Null).
A little while after that, Kratos faces Hades inside his castle. Hades rips a large hole into the groung leading directly to Styx, and tries to overpower Kratos through a tug of war and toss him inside the river. Well, Kratos overpowers him, smashes his face into the roof, and eventually drops him inside Styx instead.
The problem is, Hades is completely unaffected by the river's magic and emerges from the river in his giant form. The same souls who took away Kratos's powers are seen jumping towards Hades and trying to attack him, for no effect; they just bounce off and try endlessly to no avail. Eventually, Kratos rips Hades's soul off and gains its powers for himself.
If, for any reason, there was any doubt that Hades can resist the powers of Styx, and the powers of the souls that swim in it, here it is spelled out in plain English that he can do so.
This also scales to Kratos since he got Hades's soul. So Kratos can resist Power Null. Old news, but it's yet another of the handful of resistance feats he has. And one that arguably amps several characters besides just him and Hades:
- Fear Zeus's Power Null easily overrode Kratos's resistance near the end of the game. Kratos with Hades's Soul can resist Power Null that is superior to another Power Null (Ares's), which was already pretty good comparatively.
- Kratos with the Power of Hope resists Zeus's Power Null. So he resists a null that has layers of resistance bypassing.
- Of course, this also applies to his Death Manipulation resistance. Kratos resists the River Styx's death hax, then gains Hades's resistance to it ontop of his own to boost it. It's stated later in the game that, despite this ability, Kratos would still get killed by the Flame of Olympus's own deathhax. So the Flame can bypass layers of resistance. Then it's stated that the Power of Hope that Kratos obtains is far more powerful than the Flame of Olympus is. So, to summarize, Power of Hope Kratos can resist deathhax that overrides layers of resistance to deathhax.
