| “ | Such a valuable pawn. Do not fear, Percy Jackson. Come north! Your friends will die, yes. But I will preserve you for now. I have great plans for you. | „ |
| ~ Gaea expresses her plans to Percy Jackson. |
Gaea is the main antagonist of Rick Riordan's novel series The Heroes of Olympus. She is the mother of the Titans and Giants and is one of the first beings to ever exist. She attempts to destroy all of humanity to have her children, the Giants, rule over the world.
Her Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Her Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- Convincing her children, the Titans, to murder her husband, Ouranos. While is justified since Ouranos banished some of her children to Tartarus, she still assisted in murdering him.
- Giving birth to the Giants along with Tartarus for the sole purpose of destroying the gods, and she immediately sent them to destroy the gods.
- Creating Typhon to try to destroy the gods once again.
- During World War II, she manipulates Marie Levesque into bringing the giant Alcyoneus back to life. This ends up forcing Hazel and Marie to sacrifice themselves in order to stop Gaea from coming back and taking over the world.
- Trapping Leo's mother inside of a factory and tricked Leo into using his fire powers to try to save her, killing his mother.
- Convincing Cacus to try and cause trouble against the Olympians by stealing Hermes' staff.
- Ordering Lamia to hunt down and kill her half-brother Alabaster.
- Opening the Doors of Death, allowing many monsters and evil mortals to come back into the world.
- Ordering her son to capture Thanatos, which prevented anyone from dying and allowed monsters to be revived immediately.
- Psychologically abusing the 7, trying to break their spirits. This included...
- Mocking Leo over accidentally killing his mother.
- Trying to manipulate Percy into giving up by claiming that he is always playing into her hands.
- Mocking Hazel over her death by her own hands.
- Murdered her own minion, Phineas, just so she could keep Percy alive to torment.
- During Percy's fight with Phineas, Gaea assists Percy in defeating him, making it seem like she has some respect for him. However, shortly after saving him, she reveals that she only saved him since she had larger plans for him, not due to a sense of honour or respect for Percy.
- Sent her son Polybotes to destroy Camp Jupiter.
- Started a war between the Greek and Roman demigods by sending demons to possess Leo and have him attack the Romans.
- Causing the Greek and Roman sides of the Gods to fight each other to keep them from defeating her.
- Tried to force Annabeth to choose between saving Percy or Jason by having demons possess them to force the two to fight each other.
- Driving Nike, the goddess of Victory, insane to cause more chaos.
- Attempts to have Otis and Ephialtes destroy Rome.
- Whispering into the ears of Naiads, trying to convince them to cause mass destruction.
- Tries to get Calypso to kill Leo Valdez in exchange for her freedom for Ogygia.
- When revived, she threatens to destroy all of humanity after she defeats the Gods and Demigods.
- Tries to destroy the Greek and Roman camps.
- While in the original Mythology she does some genuinely good stuff, such as helping the Gods and mortals on occasion, and is genuinely a decent being, this version discards most of her redeeming qualities and is noticeably much more cruel to those she doesn't care for and doesn't have her previously more heroic actions.
- While she initially cared for the Titans, the Hundred Handed Ones, the Elder Cyclopses and even the Gods to an extent, she abandons any care for all of them by the time of the books.
- Despite the high heinousness standards of the Riordanverse, in which attempted world destruction on its own doesn't stand out, Gaea stands out for also being far more personal in her cruelty than most other antagonists save for Nero, and even then, she acts on a larger scale than him.
What Prevents Her from Being Pure Evil?[]
- While she loses her care for the Titans, calling them useless, she does genuinely care about the Giants. She gets mad when one of them is killed and praised them by referring to them as the Greater creation.
- While she subverts most of her redeeming qualities, before she's a proper antagonist in the books, she does save Daphne from a lustful Apollo despite this giving her no benefits of her own. This moment is never subverted throughout the series.
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