Ares (Empath stories)

Ares is a character is who is part of the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series. He is the Olympian god of war who was bitterly jealous of the fact that his father Zeus spent more time with his half-mortal son Hercules than with him and spent most of his time becoming his half-brother's enemy, making his life miserable.

At the present time of the EMPATH story series, Ares sought out somebody who would be suitable to be his second-in-command in charge of his demonic hordes to wage war against his real enemy, the God of Israel. To that end, he somehow found Empath to be a suitable candidate and attempted a few times to persuade him to accept what he claimed to be the power of godhood. In one of Ares' attempts, he made Empath believe that he and all his fellow Smurfs that were time-traveling during the period of The Lost Year had died and were now in heaven, which Empath discovered was all a supernaturally-created illusion.