History Fridge / MagnusChaseAndTheGodsOfAsgard

** However, the vital difference is that Hades murdering Maria and cursing the Oracle is one of the very few negative things he's ever done (that we know of). In the original myths, he's usually presented as being '''more''' responsible and bound by duty than most of the other gods. Notice, for example, how few demigod children he's ever had; he's not the kind to stray from Persephone (most of the time), nor does he ever shirk his duty as judge of the Underworld. Loki, however, had a compulsive need to show off, trick, and annoy the other gods, which he would ameliorate by helping them out and making things better (usually after one of his clever plans went south). The Greek gods are much more willing to forgive Hades' one-time act of cruelty; with Loki, sooner or later he inevitably would've done something too bad to forgive.

* The sword calls itself Jack. It may sound ridiculous until you consider ''jack''knife. Not that bad now is it?
** It's also a shout out to Jack the Giant Killer.

* The gods of Asgard are ''much'' nicer and less jerkass than the Egyptian or Greek Pantheon. But if you look closely it make sense. The gods of Norse mythology are not the center of the universe nor are as important as gods are in Egyptian or Greek where the end of the gods means the end of the universe. Plus, they can't die. In Norse mythology it is explicitly said that the gods not only will die, but the world will survive Ragnorak and continue without (most of) the gods. Plus, the Norse didn't build any statues or temples to boost their egos.

* Of course Riptide is [[spoiler: female]], what did the two original owners of Riptide have in common after all?

** To expand the comparison the Oracle that Hades cursed could easily have become ''his'' Baldur moment if it had truly gotten out of hand. The moment he as a god caused such legitimate and near-permanent damage that the other gods never forgive him.

* It's implied that at least part of Heimdall's PhoneaholicTeenager act is a response to [[GoMadFromTheRevelation being able to see and hear ''everything'' in the Nine Worlds.]] Note that in chapter 32, after he puts down the phone, he gets more serious. If you had senses that acute, and had constantly been standing sentinel for centuries, you'd probably a) go a bit bonkers and b) want to experience everything through a phone screen rather than your own senses.

* At one point, Magnus compares Andvari's ring to [[Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium the more famous One]]. While this may seem like nothing more than Magnus being his usual PopCulturedBadass self, the fact is that J.R.R. Tolkien had a great love of the Norse myths. It's entirely possible that the One Ring ''is'' based off of Andvari's ring.

* Loki and Hades make an actually interesting compare and contrast. Both are gods who are commonly treated like Satan in other media and have bad reputations. Both are tied to the realms of the dead and both are distant but crucial to their mythos. Gods like Thor and Apollo mention them in happier times wistfully, when they weren't as antagonistic. But Hades seems to have become as distant as we see him since the 1940's when Maria was killed. He became more distant and bitter after that time, and after the wound was shown to heal in the aftermath of Last Olympian he becomes more open and positive to Nico and the other gods. Loki however had his 'Maria' moment centuries ago with the sons whose guts were used to bind him. He had centuries to wallow in his bitterness with the positive traits Thor misses and Sam and Alex mention becoming drowned in his negative qualities. Loki is what Hades would have become if the wound of Maria's murder by Zeus had centuries to fester.

* Not sure if it counts, but the author's decision to make Samirah of middle eastern origins may add another potential dimension of why people irrationally mistrust her (along with her parentage) as expanded from the [[spoiler:memory scene with the bullies in grade school]]