History Fanfic / AnImpracticalGuideToGodhood

** Calling the Hunters of Artemis an "evil lesbian cult" makes their patron goddess and her lieutenant erupt into fury.

* RedShirtArmy: The legionnaires sent after the Golden Fleece suffer rapid attrition against the various threats in the Sea of Monsters, and few of them survive direct combat with a serious enemy unless that enemy wants prisoners or defectors. Only five ships out of thirteen survive long enough for Athena to recommend withdrawing their forces from the region, and one of those ships is too damaged to leave the island it settled on.

* TooDumbToLive: The Huntresses of Artemis spend so much effort on hating Percy for being male and disliked by Zeus and Artemis that they never pay attention to the fact that he is very competent (if insane), and if he says something is dangerous, he '''means''' it.

* GoldDigger: Zeus' divorce causes a lot of single goddesses ( possibly prompted by a mischievous Percy) to realize that there's a new opening for Queen of Olympus, which they all try for simultaneously.

* IncurableCoughOfDeath: A Roman who volunteers for the Suicide Squad in year two has a bad cough and says that a magical curse is slowly killing him and he needs the money the quest offers to afford decent healers.

** X-Suits may provide magical protection against sub-arctic temperatures, but they also look and wear like thin, skintight, white latex bodysuits. At least two hookups happen in the Suicide Squad as a result of members seeing other members wearing one.

* ShipTease: Kairos!Percy has this sort of interaction with a few other members of the Suicide Squad. The first and most prominent is Lou Ellen, to the point that the two of them have outright kissed on at least one occasion. There is some element of this between Percy and Bianca di Angelo/Dread Empress Triumphant, although in that case whatever tease there is very much falls under the category of BelligerentSexualTension. The trope is also lampshaded repeatedly between Percy and Annabeth, although in practice there is actually fairly little in terms of romantic overtones between the two and the ship tease seems to be between Annabeth and Luke instead (which Percy actually encourages).

** Annabeth Chase is also a notable example. During the first Great Quest in the Underworld, she is arguably the most loyal member of the Suicide Squad to Olympus and is willing to conspire with Zoe Nightshade against Percy. In the leadup to and within the second Great Quest, however, while she isn't hesitant to criticize and challenge Percy's ideas, she also comes to recognize and acknowledge Percy's intelligence and authority underneath his frivolous nature and seeming insanity. The best example of this is [[spoiler:when she sees the Dark Parthenon that houses Alcyeonus]], as despite being bitter and furious at the insult to her mother Athena and desiring to destroy it herself, she accepts and heeds Percy's warning about the Guardian within the Dark Parthenon being far too powerful for her to face (unlike some mutinous Legionnaires who disregard Percy's order and suffer horribly for it). She also goes from being tempted to join Artemis' Hunt to being completely disgusted by the Huntresses of Artemis during the Second Great Quest, openly (and rightfully) showing her contempt for how useless they are and their rabid, irrational, and unjustified hatred for men.

** In practice, how "Jerkass" the gods of the Olympian Pantheon are varies from god to god, and this usually correlates to how friendly or hostile their relationship is to Percy. Zeus and Artemis are easily at the top of the list and unsurprisingly are the most antagonistic to Percy. On the other hand, Apollo's many flaws are lampshaded and addressed by multiple characters, but his PoV is relatively tame and reasonable. Hades, Amphitrite, and Poseidon fully avert this trope and have positive relationships with Percy.

* ObfuscatingInsanity: Percy Jackson's entire character in a nutshell. Even though he acts in ways that seem completely insane, foolish, or suicidal to most outsiders, he is actually an incredibly methodical and careful planner who hides his incredibly cunning mind underneath a veneer of madness. More than one enemy theoretically more powerful than him has underestimated him and paid a heavy price for it.

* ObfuscatingInsanity/ObfuscatingStupidity: Percy Jackson's entire character in a nutshell. Even though he acts in ways that seem completely insane, foolish, or suicidal to most outsiders, he is actually an incredibly methodical and careful planner who hides his incredibly cunning mind underneath a veneer of madness. More than one enemy theoretically more powerful than him has underestimated him and paid a heavy price for it.

Creator/{{Antony444}} takes a stab at a crossover between the ''Literature/CampHalfBlood'' franchise and ''Literature/APracticalGuideToEvil''. A change of fate sees Zeus kill Percy's mother when the boy is seven, and Percy ends up being replaced with a conniving Tyrant of Helike who plots to undermine Zeus.

* WorthyOpponent: Blackbeard shows open respect and amusement after Perseus uses unorthodox tactics to draw first blood against him when his armada has its first clash with the Suicide Squad and their allies.

* NotMeThisTime: Apollo blames Eris for a massive catfight among the single goddesses and nature spirits over who will seduce and marry the newly divorced Zeus. Eris states that they were already squabbling before she arrived.

* UriahGambit: The Grand Quest to retrieve the Master Bolt is woefully underprepared because Zeus wants the war that will happen if it fails and is hoping that Perseus will die in the attempt. Perseus is fully aware of this, which is why he lampshades it by calling his team the Suicide Squad.

* WithThisHerring: One of the major signs of the fact that Zeus wants Percy's Grand Quests to fail is that the Questers receive virtually no support. On the first Quest, he has to go out of his way just to make sure that they'll be ''paid'' if they succeed.

* ForcedTransformation: Two of Jackson's companions in his first quest are turned into a crocodile and a donkey. Neither is happy about it, especially because one of the transformations is permanent.

* GoldDigger: Zeus' divorce causes a lot of single goddesses to realize that there's a new opening for Queen of Olympus, which they all try for simultaneously.

* MouthOfSauron: Prince Triton speaks for his father Poseidon while the god of the oceans is in exile as penance for impregnating Sally Jackson. He also makes sure to get in some barbs about how Zeus has erred far more grievously than Poseidon, [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem but has refused to undertake a similar penance.]]

* WithThisHerring: One of the major signs of the fact that Zeus wants Percy's Grand Quests to fail is that the Questers receive virtually no support. On the first Quest, he has to go out of his way just to make sure that they'll be ''paid'' if they succeed.

* WeNamedTheMonkeyJack: Perseus names his new hellhound Zoe just to annoy Zoe Nightshade.

** Two First Cohort officers [[WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}} named Rico Kowalski and Skipper are turned into penguins by goddesses they offend.]]