Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Legends

Antaeus is a large, red-skinned, tatooed giant with extremely big muscles and a huge belly, almost looking like the Red Hulk. His black hair is extremely wavy.

Antaeus lives for entertainment in his arena. He loves the roar of the crowd and becomes angry with anyone that disappoints his audience (either by ending a fight to quickly or not fighting at all). As a result, he is very arrogant and can be manipulated into a fight. However, because he cannot be killed when touching the ground, he is very confident in his abilities and attacks without mercy while still putting on a show. He is also very blood thirsty, as his arena is decorated with the skulls of those that have been killed.

Antaeus in Greek and Berber mythology was a half-giant, the son of Poseidon and Gaea, whose wife was Tinjis. He is the older brother of Charybdis, his once beautiful sister. He would challenge all passers-by to wrestling matches, kill them, and collect their skulls, so that he might one day build out of them a temple to his father Poseidon. He was indefatigably strong as long as he remained in contact with the ground (his mother earth), but once lifted into the air he became as weak as other men. Hercules, figuring that he could not beat Antaeus by throwing him to the ground as he would regain his strength and be fortified, discovered the secret of his power and, holding Antaeus aloft, crushed him in a bear-hug. The story of Antaeus has been used as a symbol of the spiritual strength which accrues when one rests one's faith on the immediate fact of things. The struggle between Antaeus and Hercules is a favorite subject in ancient and Renaissance sculpture.