It's not really a tale, but I have always loved Ares because he was a coward. When I read the Iliad I couldn't help but feel for him when Athena would always better him, despite him being the God of War. I don't think Zeus liked his son very much because he would always lose to Athena.
Yeah, he's a bit of an underdog that way. It doesn't help that he was caught with Aphrodite even though she was married to Hephaestos. Hephaestos certainly made a fool of Ares.