History NiceJobBreakingItHero / Mythology

* Myth/ClassicalMythology
** Nice Job Opening the Box, Pandora, and releasing pain and sickness into the world. Although she was rigged to this because the gods were cheesed off at Prometheus.
** Nice job, Prometheus, in stealing fire and teaching mankind how to cheat the gods. After receiving fire, the humans began to make sacrifices to the gods in thanks. They burned up lots of great-smelling food, which the gods found pleasing, and calmed Zeus' anger. Prometheus, upset at seeing his creations burning up the best parts of their hard-earned food, decided to change this. He ordered the humans to butcher a cow and split it into two piles: one was all the steaks, ribs, etc (the good eating parts) covered in bones and sinew. The other pile was all the organs and viscera covered in "snow-white fat". Prometheus then asked Zeus to come down and pick for himself which pile he wanted for his daily sacrifice. Zeus, being powerful but not terribly smart, picks the better-looking pile, and ends up the fool, which reignited his rage. Essentially, Prometheus wasn't punished for stealing fire, he was punished for teaching men how to cheat the gods!
* Adam and Eve, who ate the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge which resulted [[CrapsackWorld in sin entering]] [[HumansAreBastards the world]].
* The [[Myth/NorseMythology Norse gods]]' treatment of Fenrir, one of the monsters destined to end the world, may well have been a significant factor in his decision to do so. He was Loki's kid (don't ask). Fenris was originally beloved by all, since he was basically a cute puppy. Over time, however, he grew large and fierce, until only Tyr (not Thor, Tyr) dared to approach him. Eventually, they decided to chain him, and had the dwarves forge an unbreakable chain. Fenris gets suspicious, and tells Tyr that he'll only let him feed him if he puts his arm in the wolf's mouth first. This goes about as well as you'd expect (hence why Tyr only has one arm), but Fenris is bound, and has a sword stabbed through his jaw. I'd like to destroy the world too.

* [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Nice Job Opening the Box, Pandora...]]
* ...Leading up to that, thanks for stealing fire, Prometheus!
** Ummm... What exactly did that break? Besides Zeus' temper, I mean. Humanity owes its survival to Prometheus, and there don't seem to have been any problems that are substantially worse than the death of all humankind.
*** Zeus and the other gods created Pandora as revenge for Humanity accepting fire from Prometheus. According to the Gods, mankind was fine just as they were being completely dependent on the Gods, but having access and control of fire allowed them to develop autonomy and self-reliance. YMMV tho.
** I think there's some confusion because you're missing part of the story. Stopping after "Prometheus stole fire from the gods" is like walking out of Phantom of the Opera after Act 1. The full story is that after receiving fire, the humans began to make sacrifices to the gods in thanks. They burned up lots of great-smelling food, which the gods found pleasing, and calmed Zeus' anger. Prometheus, upset at seeing his creations burning up the best parts of their hard-earned food, decided to change this. He ordered the humans to butcher a cow and split it into two piles: one was all the steaks, ribs, etc (the good eating parts) covered in bones and sinew. The other pile was all the organs and viscera covered in "snow-white fat". Prometheus then asked Zeus to come down and pick for himself which pile he wanted for his daily sacrifice. Zeus, being powerful but not terribly smart, picks the better-looking pile, and ends up the fool, which reignited his rage. Essentially, Prometheus wasn't punished for stealing fire, he was punished for teaching men how to cheat the gods!
** TL:DR Zeus was being a lil bitch.

* The [[Myth/NorseMythology Norse gods]]' treatment of Fenrir, one of the monsters destined to end the world, may well have been a significant factor in his decision to do so.
** Both were Loki's kids (don't ask). Fenris was originally beloved by all, since he was basically a cute puppy. Over time, however, he grew, until only Tyr (not Thor, Tyr) dared to approach him. Eventually, they decided to chain him, and had the dwarves forge an unbreakable chain. Fenris gets suspicious, and tells Tyr that he'll only let him feed him if he puts his arm in the wolf's mouth first. This goes about as well as you'd expect (hence why Tyr only has one arm), but Fenris is bound, and has a sword stabbed through his jaw. I'd like to destroy the world too.

* The [[Myth/NorseMythology Norse gods]]' treatment of Fenrir and Jormungandr, two of the monsters destined to end the world, may well have been a significant factor in their decision to do so.

** And the Snake. All three are responsible. Satan for thinking of it and starting it, Eve for listening instead of asking Adam or Jehovah about what he said, and Adam for ''knowing'' better and ''still'' eating the [[{{Pun}} damn]] fruit.
*** And God. If he'd warned the gullible innocents with no experience of deceit about not trusting strange talking snakes (or, indeed, told Adam and Eve why eating the fruit was a bad idea beyond "because I said so", or better yet, put the fruit somewhere out of reach), there would have been no problem.

** And the Snake. All three are responsible. Satan for thinking of it and starting it, Eve for listening instead of asking Adam or Jehovah about what he said, and Adam for ''knowing'' better and ''still'' eating the darn fruit.

*** And God. If he'd warned the gullible innocents with no experience of deceit about not trusting strange talking snakes (or, indeed, told Adam and Eve why eating the fruit was a bad idea beyond "because I said so"), there would have been no problem.

** And Satan. All three are responsible. Satan for thinking of it and starting it, Eve for listening instead of asking Adam or Jehovah about what he said, and Adam for ''knowing'' better and ''still'' eating the darn fruit.

* [[ClassicalMythology Nice Job Opening the Box, Pandora...]]

* The [[NorseMythology Norse gods]]' treatment of Fenrir and Jormungandr, two of the monsters destined to end the world, may well have been a significant factor in their decision to do so.

* Adam and Eve, enough said.

** I think there's some confusion because you're missing part of the story. Stopping after "Prometheus stole fire from the gods" is like walking out of Phantom of the Opera after Act 1. The full story is that after recieving fire, the humans began to make sacrifices to the gods in thanks. They burned up lots of great-smelling food, which the gods found pleasing, and calmed Zeus' anger. Prometheus, upset at seeing his creations burning up the best parts of their hard-earned food, decided to change this. He ordered the humans to butcher a cow and split it into two piles: one was all the steaks, ribs, etc (the good eating parts) covered in bones and sinew. The other pile was all the organs and viscersa covered in "snow-white fat". Prometheus then asked Zeus to come down and pick for himself which pile he wanted for his daily sacrifice. Zeus, being powerful but not terribly smart, picks the better-looking pile, and ends up the fool, which reignited his rage. Essentially, Prometheus wasn't punished for stealing fire, he was punished for teaching men how to cheat the gods!

** I think there's some confusion because you're missing part of the story. Stopping after "Prometheus stole fire from the gods" is like walking out of Phantom of the Opera after Act 1. The full story is that after recieving fire, the humans began to make sacrifices to the gods in thanks. They burned up lots of great-smelling food, which the gods found pleasing, and calmed Zues' anger. Prometheus, upset at seeing his creations burning up the best parts of their hard-earned food, decided to change this. He ordered the humans to butcher a cow and split it into two piles: one was all the steaks, ribs, etc (the good eating parts) covered in bones and sinew. The other pile was all the organs and viscersa covered in "snow-white fat". Prometheus then asked Zues to come down and pick for himself which pile he wanted for his daily sacrifice. Zues, being powerful but not terribly smart, picks the better-looking pile, and ends up the fool, which re-ignited his rage. Essentially, Prometheus wasn't punished for stealing fire, he was punished for teaching men how to cheat the gods!

* The Norse gods' treatment of Fenrir and Jormungandr, two of the monsters destined to end the world, may well have been a significant factor in their decision to do so.

* In ''{{Lexx}}'', the destruction of Fire at the end of Season 3 leads directly to the destruction of Water, and then the subsequent flooding of Earth with the reincarnations of everyone who had been sent to Fire (Hell).
** Shouldn't this go in Live Action?