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Zeus

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Also known as	leader of the Elder Gods, “old man Zeus”, aging, “Prime Zeus”, father of Akobel and Castiel
Type	Elder God; head of the Elder Gods
Status	Alive but pinned down in hell by two princes, with Ultra Vegito siding against him ; eliminated from the…
First appears	0159 (inferred); 0176 (named); 0185 (on screen, named)
Episodes cited	52 (latest: 0261)

Aliases & name spellings

• Zeus; “old man Zeus” (Akobel, ep 0176 00:33:08); “That old man” (Chronoa, ep 0159 00:23:28); “father” (Akobel and Castiel, ep 0187 00:30:12; ep 0188 00:01:58); “the strongest Elder God of all time” (narration, ep 0188 00:03:42); “the supreme leader of the Elder Gods” (Chronoa, ep 0192 00:35:54); “Zeus-sama” (Genesis, ep 0259 00:24:46).
• Prime Zeus: his young “battle form of legend” (Akobel, ep 0186 00:34:20–00:34:32). A form, not a separate person; see Abilities / traits.

Overview

The oldest and strongest of the Elder Gods, makers of whole multiverses, and their leader; the father of Akobel and Castiel (ep 0186 00:03:09–00:03:32; ep 0187 00:30:12–00:30:17; ep 0188 00:01:47–00:03:42). Furious that Akobel and Chronoa meddled in Hera’s multiverse, he comes for Akobel in his prime form, then approves the Elder Gods’ plan for a tournament of creations to choose his successor — entering his own fighters, and promising to destroy the rule-breakers if they lose (ep 0185 00:06:13–00:08:41; ep 0187 00:29:06–00:37:31). He presides over the Tournament of Elders from his balcony (ep 0206 00:24:08–00:30:20).

As of his last appearance (ep 0261): eliminated from the tournament (ep 0259 00:10:32–00:10:49), he has gone into hell with his fighter Genesis to destroy the devils “misbehaving” there (ep 0259 00:23:29–00:24:37). Two princes of hell pin him down, and Ultra Vegito, in his Devil Gene form, stands over him and declares for the princes (ep 0261 00:38:53–00:41:31).

Affiliations & relationships

• Elder Gods: their leader, whose successor the tournament is meant to pick (ep 0176 00:36:20; ep 0186 00:28:03–00:28:27; ep 0192 00:35:54).
• Akobel: his eldest son and once his star pupil, whom Zeus still thinks not mature enough (ep 0176 00:33:08–00:33:39; ep 0187 00:35:37–00:35:50); Akobel plots to overthrow him (ep 0184 00:20:35); Zeus slaps him for speaking to him powered up (ep 0187 00:30:52–00:31:46).
• Castiel: his younger son, who begs him to soften the terms for Akobel and Chronoa and collapses in fear when Zeus flares up (ep 0188 00:01:47–00:03:42).
• Chronoa: broke the Elder Gods’ rules with Akobel and keeps out of Zeus’s sight; he threatens her with destruction if she doesn’t win (ep 0187 00:36:58–00:37:21). She says she can hear “That old man” from anywhere (ep 0159 00:23:24–00:23:28).
• Hera: complains that Zeus never listened when she warned against raising beasts near superior beings (ep 0161 00:06:14–00:06:30). He blames her for making Ultra Vegito (ep 0221 00:04:10–00:04:30) and loses a round to her (ep 0259 00:09:26–00:09:45).
• Ares: goes to check on Zeus once he has calmed down (ep 0185 00:06:02–00:06:09).
• Poseidon: scoffs at Zeus’s call for the Elder Gods to train (ep 0165 00:29:44–00:30:10) and boasts that “Zeus’ throne is as good as mine!” (ep 0183 00:15:16).
• Lucif (main): Akobel’s son, whom Akobel made an Elder God “for Zeus’ sake” and offered as Zeus’s eventual successor (ep 0175 00:32:45–00:33:13; ep 0184 00:18:59).
• Ultra Vegito: “the famed God-killer Vegito Zeus had us all worried about” (Hera, ep 0180 00:13:01); at the last, sides with the princes of hell against him (ep 0261 00:40:44–00:41:31).
• His creations and fighters (see zeus-fighters): Genesis, “My most prized fighter”, who holds part of his power and whom he takes into hell as backup (ep 0208 00:03:30–00:03:50; ep 0215 00:25:20–00:25:36; ep 0246 00:03:22–00:03:52; ep 0259 00:23:29–00:24:48); King, his first creation, king of the volgar (ep 0219 00:29:36–00:30:10; ep 0221 00:04:10–00:04:30); Avalor, Saga, Baby, Sun Wukong and Talos (ep 0236 00:03:47; ep 0241 00:01:37–00:02:15; ep 0247 00:35:47–00:36:10; ep 0250 00:42:46–00:42:58; ep 0257 00:17:19–00:17:31).
• Ardos: his son by the Queen of hell, Akobel and Castiel’s forgotten brother, who fights for him (ep 0208 00:35:50–00:36:06; ep 0213 00:23:44; ep 0259 00:04:36–00:05:15; ep 0261 00:02:56) (the mother is inferred from Zeus calling the Queen his “old flame” while she possesses Ardos, ep 0259 00:05:11–00:05:14, and from the narration, ep 0259 00:01:18).
• The Queen of hell: his “old flame” (ep 0259 00:05:11–00:05:14); wanted him brought in alive (ep 0261 00:39:01).
• Ares: his rival for the leadership since their youth (ep 0227 00:18:20–00:18:58).
• Tyron and the blindfolded prince of hell: pin him down; the Queen of hell wanted him brought in alive (ep 0261 00:38:53–00:39:28). See zeus-in-hell.

Abilities / traits

• Huge and muscular; old in his normal state (ep 0185 00:06:13–00:06:32). Probably the bearded, black-eyed god of ep 0159 (inferred: the next speaker answers that god as “Zeus”, ep 0159 00:13:06–00:13:45).
• His rage alone cracks his hall and erases his two butlers (ep 0185 00:06:51–00:08:41); Akobel senses it from another realm (ep 0185 00:08:56–00:09:05).
• Prime Zeus: a young “battle form of legend” in which he descends like a giant yellow star, wrapped in yellow lightning, twice Castiel’s height (ep 0186 00:31:49–00:34:32; ep 0188 00:02:30–00:03:15).
• Values his creations over raw power — “the mark of a good god is not in his power but the quality of his creations” (ep 0187 00:36:49).
• Has long waited for a successor (ep 0187 00:35:26–00:35:37).
• Yellow lightning is his signature; part of his prime power was stored in Genesis and taken from him by Ultra Vegito (ep 0218 00:04:30–00:04:56; ep 0244 00:11:12–00:11:58).
• Weaker than in his youth, says a prince of hell, and Zeus doesn’t deny it (ep 0260 00:32:15–00:32:45).
• Strict about his rules: no killing outside the arena, no interference by the gods, no underworld powers (ep 0235 00:04:28–00:04:52; ep 0246 00:19:50–00:20:36; ep 0259 00:09:26–00:09:45).

Variants

• No other version appears. Prime Zeus is a form of the same Zeus (see Abilities / traits).

Status

• Alive but pinned down in hell by two princes, with Ultra Vegito siding against him (ep 0261 00:38:53–00:41:31); eliminated from the tournament (ep 0259 00:10:41).

History

• ep 0159 00:13:06–00:13:45: At the Elder Gods’ table, the bearded god (inferred: Zeus) tells Akobel his “reckless spawn” has returned; another answers, “You compliment him too much, Zeus!” 00:19:29: an Elder God jokes about the hairs on Zeus’s beard. 00:23:24–00:23:28: Chronoa senses Zeus calling.
• ep 0161 00:06:14–00:06:30 (mentioned): Hera says Zeus never listened to her warnings.
• ep 0165 00:29:44–00:30:10 (mentioned): Poseidon scoffs at Zeus’s call to train.
• ep 0173 00:35:18–00:35:43 (mentioned): Castiel fears what Zeus will do when he hears a mortal merged the realms.
• ep 0175 00:32:45–00:33:13 (mentioned): Akobel offers Lucif the chance to become Zeus’s successor.
• ep 0176 00:33:08–00:36:32 (mentioned): Akobel wants change, which will only come when “old man Zeus” is gone; Zeus “isn’t in his prime anymore”; the winner of Castiel’s tournament will succeed him.
• ep 0180 00:13:01 (mentioned): Hera calls Vegito the god-killer “Zeus had us all worried about”.
• ep 0183 00:15:16 (mentioned): Poseidon claims Zeus’s throne.
• ep 0184 00:18:59–00:20:35 (mentioned): Akobel made Lucif an Elder God “for Zeus’ sake” and plans to overthrow him.
• ep 0185 00:06:13–00:09:05: Watching Multiverse 20, he loses his temper; his aura erases his two butlers, and Akobel feels it from afar.
• ep 0186 00:26:57–00:28:27 (mentioned): Akobel says Zeus is coming to kill his own son; the Elder Gods’ plan: the tournament’s winner replaces Zeus, and Zeus enters too. 00:31:30–00:34:59: Prime Zeus arrives like a falling star and calls Akobel to him.
• ep 0187 00:29:06–00:31:46: Slaps Akobel for speaking while powered up. 00:31:54–00:37:31: hears the Elder Gods out, approves the tournament, will enter his own creations, and says Akobel and Chronoa will be destroyed if they don’t win.
• ep 0188 00:01:47–00:04:53: Flares into Prime Zeus when Castiel protests; Castiel collapses and apologises. Zeus says he will announce the tournament “in my own time” and disappears.
• ep 0189 00:06:14 (mentioned): his slap on Akobel is remembered as a “seismic smack”.
• ep 0192 00:34:53–00:35:54 (mentioned): announces that the tournament starts in two hours.
• ep 0206 00:30:40–00:30:54: Opens the Tournament of Elders, for those who think they would make a better leader than he.
• ep 0207 00:02:30–00:03:29: Announces that there are no rules: all powers are allowed, killing is allowed, and anyone may even attack the Elder Gods, at the cost of their life.
• ep 0208 00:03:30–00:05:00: Names his first fighter, Genesis, and scolds him like a child for turning up first. 00:33:25–00:33:37: Round 2 is Zeus against Poseidon; his second fighter, Ardos, enters alone.
• ep 0209 00:07:45–00:08:00: Wins Round 2; Poseidon is eliminated. 00:10:20–00:10:38: orders Akobel off the stage or face “Instant Erasure”.
• ep 0213 00:03:50–00:04:22: Notices that Son Gohan is a demon by birth, one even he failed to detect. 00:23:44–00:26:20: visits his fighters in the break; Ardos calls him “the Supreme Elder God”; orders them to deal with Gohan.
• ep 0214 00:04:10–00:04:35: Says Vegito’s sins are unforgivable: he is as guilty as Akobel and Chronoa and will die with them when they lose.
• ep 0215 00:25:20–00:25:36: Calls Genesis “My most prized fighter”, once chained underground for millennia for breaking rules. 00:27:10–00:27:38: spares the two Vegitos so the tournament won’t be “too easy”.
• ep 0216 00:24:58–00:25:52: Lucif calls him “grandfather”; Zeus tells him there is no ring-out: a match ends only in death.
• ep 0218 00:04:30–00:04:56: Ends Round 5 with a thunder-wrapped slam of his hand. 00:21:14–00:21:40: picks himself against Chronoa for Round 6, a battle to the death. 00:25:38–00:25:45: summons King.
• ep 0219 00:29:36–00:30:10 (mentioned): King says Zeus was the first Elder God and King’s volgar his very first creation, of which the Saiyans are copies.
• ep 0220 00:36:56–00:37:27: Shocked when Ultra Vegito kills King.
• ep 0221 00:04:10–00:04:30: Mourns his first creation and blames Hera, who made this Vegito. 00:13:55–00:14:10: calls a 48-hour break.
• ep 0222 00:33:00–00:33:46 (mentioned): Ardos waits until Zeus has gone to confront Vegito.
• ep 0226 00:09:05–00:10:46: Absent; Genesis stands in for him in a poor disguise.
• ep 0227 00:18:20–00:20:22: Flashback: billions of years ago, young Zeus and young Ares fight as rivals for the leadership until two giant metallic hands stop them and Zeus cries “Titan Summer!” (as heard). 00:21:32–00:21:54: makes the rest of the tournament a round robin.
• ep 0230 00:04:28–00:04:33: Starts Round 9.
• ep 0233 00:14:10–00:15:16: Calls Round 9 for Castiel with a sadistic grin, glad Akobel is a step closer to erasure.
• ep 0234 00:27:05–00:27:55: As Prime Zeus, slaps aside both Genesis’s lightning and Omni Vegito and Piccolo’s attack — “Foolish children!” 00:32:25–00:32:55: sends Genesis back to his cage. 00:38:15–00:39:06: appears beside Omni Vegito and Piccolo, palm full of lightning.
• ep 0235 00:04:28–00:04:52: Says they meant to kill outside the tournament, which is forbidden; then spares them (see zeus-vs-omni). 00:33:14–00:36:58: calls Round 10, himself against Hades, and finds Vegeta’s energy strangely familiar.
• ep 0236 00:03:47–00:03:51: Starts Round 10 with Saga and Ardos.
• ep 0238 00:23:45–00:24:04: Tells Ardos, in his new form, that he takes after “her”.
• ep 0239 00:12:43–00:13:10: In his multiverse no fighter may die outside the arena; a killer dies with the victim. 00:22:38–00:23:00: draws himself against Akobel for Round 11.
• ep 0241 00:01:37–00:02:15: Says all Saiyans were based on the volgar he designed millennia ago.
• ep 0242 00:25:15–00:26:18: After Avalor’s death Akobel calls the match himself, and Zeus grudgingly accepts.
• ep 0243 00:33:10–00:33:20: Promises his next fighter will never lose.
• ep 0244 00:11:12–00:11:58: Learning that Vegito took his power from Genesis, orders Genesis to make sure Vegito dies, and curses the Elder Gods who would usurp him. See zeus-kill-order.
• ep 0245 00:28:22–00:28:38: Tells Akobel every creation of his was made able to outgrow his sons one day.
• ep 0246 00:03:22–00:03:52: Scolds Genesis for risking the power locked inside him. 00:19:50–00:20:36: rules match 2 a draw, since both gods interfered. 00:21:17–00:22:09: proposes that a tie be settled by a fight to the death between himself and Akobel.
• ep 0247 00:35:47–00:36:10: His Baby wins match 3; “now you and I can settle this”.
• ep 0248 00:21:28–00:22:00: Loses Round 11 to Akobel and drops to the bottom of the rankings with Castiel.
• ep 0250 00:16:46–00:17:28: Calls the next round: Hera against himself. 00:42:46–00:42:58: summons Sun Wukong.
• ep 0252 00:30:34–00:30:48: Boasts that Wukong defies reality and could not die even by Zeus’s hand.
• ep 0255 00:01:11–00:01:50: Suspects Hera of “black magic” and calls a break.
• ep 0257 00:17:19–00:17:31: Calls Ardos (and Talos) for the next match.
• ep 0259 00:04:36–00:05:15: As Prime Zeus, stops the Queen of hell — his “old flame” — from erasing through his possessed son Ardos. 00:09:26–00:10:49: forfeits the match for Ardos’s use of underworld powers, giving the round to Hera; he is eliminated, and the finals will be held elsewhere. 00:23:25–00:24:48: takes Genesis to hell to destroy the devils misbehaving there. 00:33:15–00:33:33: a prince of hell blocks his strike with ease.
• ep 0260 00:22:35–00:23:14: Accuses the devils of interfering with his tournament. 00:32:15–00:32:45: the prince says he is weaker than he was; Zeus remembers only one Devil Gene existing in his day. 00:34:18–00:34:26: vows to correct “Titan’s mistake”.
• ep 0261 00:02:20–00:02:56: Says Vegito is not his fighter and devils aren’t allowed in his multiverse; the prince throws Ardos, “that bastard son of yours”, back at him. 00:30:32–00:30:40: thinks Vegito, with three Elder Gods’ powers, may need handling. 00:38:53–00:41:31: pinned by two princes, he defies them, until Devil Gene Vegito stands over him and sides with them.

Open questions

• Is the bearded, black-sclera god of ep 0159 Zeus? Very likely (he is answered as “Zeus”, ep 0159 00:13:45), but the scene never labels him.
• What will the princes of hell do with him? Not shown yet (ep 0261 00:39:01–00:39:28).

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