Say what you will but you cannot deny Beowulf had an overflated ego around the time of the match.
Actually I can deny that, there's nothing in the story mode to suggest that Beowulf was any different now than he was during his match against Grendel, there was no dialogue that painted him as someone who undeservedly thought highly of himself. You can argue that "well then I guess he's always egotistical", but that only makes sense if you're looking at him with a pessimistic predisposition. You know who really has an over-inflated ego?
Eliza.
like Zen said he had to find the true power in himself he came back stronger after being defeated internally he owed it to his partner
I
never said this. At no point did I say that "Beowulf had to find true power inside himself and he became stronger after being defeated internally." You're misunderstanding what I'm saying. The point I'm trying to make is that Beowulf was
always strong enough to defeat Grendel. He owes that strength to his own training and determination, and by the end I believe he's even stronger, at least in character.
Beowulf didn't always have the power inside him so his orginal fight he would've lost BUT since he fought a possibly stronger Ghost Gigian he found the power within himself.
The theme of his story mode isn't that "Defeat can make you stronger by helping you realize your own weakness, and that only after that can you push through overwhelming odds." That's a cliché reserved for underdog stories. As
@Kai said a while ago, the real theme of the story is, "A true hero is
always a hero, no matter what" and that "Nothing can extinguish the flame of a fighter who refuses to give up." Of course, this truth runs parallel once again with a story about fighters. When it was revealed to the public years later that Grendel was drugged, Beowulf decided to defeat the Skullgirl and prove that he always had the stuff, that he was always a hero. Beowulf may have been cheated, the fight may have been rigged, but Beowulf was never defeated, nether in the ring or in himself. That's the thing, Heroes never really lose. The idea that Beowulf would have lost against Grendel at his peak erases this lesson.