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* PunnyName: Vol Con is a two-fold pun. The fact that Hephaestus's convention takes place at a ''volcano'', and the fact that his name in Roman mythology is ''Vulcan''.
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* MagicAIsMagicA: Deliria learns after lots of effort that she can't create a monster that undoes Medusa's petrification. Seemingly only Athena can restore petrified victims.
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* ILetYouWin: Hephaestus claims that he intentionally made the lock on Prometheus' chains easy to pick, undermining Hippocampus' achievement.
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* ShoutOut: In Hephaestus's personal workshop, there's a mechanical owl that loos an awful lot like Bubo from ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans1981''.
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* ShoutOut: In Hephaestus's personal workshop, there's a mechanical owl that loos looks an awful lot like Bubo from ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans1981''.
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* ShoutOut: In Hephaestus's personal workshop, there's a mechanical owl that loos an awful lot like Bubo from ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans1981''.
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* ForcedTransformation: In her efforts to undo Medusa's petrification Deliria transforms '''a lot''' of poor humans into human-animal hybrids with animals sticking out of their heads. When Shlub tries to talk her into stopping she impulsively transforms him into a carrot.
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* JustTheIntroductionToTheOpposites: Deliria's first attempt to undo Medusa's petrification is to turn Medusa into a "Reversadusa", a snake head on two legs with people sticking out of its head. When she moves the person that was petrified to look at her all it does is petrify Reversadusa instead.
* AKindOfOne: Discussed; Shlub corrects Stupendous that Gorgons are a kind of monster of which Medusa is a specific individual, so it's either '''a''' gorgon or '''the''' Medusa but it's never ''a Medusa''. Deliria complies with him while Stupendous is annoyed by his insistence on the terminology.
* AKindOfOne: Discussed; Shlub corrects Stupendous that Gorgons are a kind of monster of which Medusa is a specific individual, so it's either '''a''' gorgon or '''the''' Medusa but it's never ''a Medusa''. Deliria complies with him while Stupendous is annoyed by his insistence on the terminology.
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* JustTheIntroductionToTheOpposites: Deliria's first attempt to undo Medusa's petrification is to turn Medusa into a "Reversadusa", a snake head on two legs with people sticking out of its head. When she moves the person that was petrified to look at her her, all it does is petrify Reversadusa instead.
* AKindOfOne: Discussed; Shlub corrects Stupendous that Gorgons are a kind of monster of which Medusa is a specific individual, so it's either '''a''' gorgon or '''the'''Medusa Medusa, but it's never ''a Medusa''. Deliria complies with him while Stupendous is annoyed by his insistence on the terminology.
* AKindOfOne: Discussed; Shlub corrects Stupendous that Gorgons are a kind of monster of which Medusa is a specific individual, so it's either '''a''' gorgon or '''the'''
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* AKindOfOne: Discussed; Shlub corrects Stupendous that Gorgons are a kind of monster of which Medusa is a specific individual, so it's either '''a''' gorgon or '''the''' Medusa but it's never ''a Medusa''. Deliria complies with him while Stupendous is annoyed by his insistence on the terminology.
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* AutoCannibalism: Deliria turns Shlub into a carrot and while he slowly transforms back to normal he has to be told not to eat himself.
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* BaitAndSwitch: A golden giant stands sentry outside [=VolCon=], an inventor's convention, promoting the event, which would lead one to think it's the mythical giant automaton Talos. It turns out to be a giant painted gold trapped within mechanisms that torture him into reciting scripted lines.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Deliria is horrified that she turned Shlub into a carrot.
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* AsamWesting: Chris Hardwick guest stars AsHimself in ancient Greece. This gets justified by him as being cursed to moderate all panels at conventions until the end of time.
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* AsamWesting: AdamWesting: Chris Hardwick guest stars AsHimself in ancient Greece. This gets justified by him as being cursed to moderate all panels at conventions until the end of time.
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* AsHimself: Chris Hardwick, justified due to him apparently being cursed to moderate all panels at conventions until the end of time.
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* CallBack: Hippocampus brings up how he freed Prometheus in his [[Recap/KrapopolisS01E04Prometheus eponymous episode]].
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** Deliria still disdains Athena's transformation curses as hacky.
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* MagicAIsMagicA: Deliria learns after lots of effort that she can't create a monster that undoes Medusa's petrification. Seemingly only Athena can restore petrified victims.
* MonsterProtectionRacket: Deliria scoffs that Athena created a monster that petrifies people and the only way to restore them is to bring them to her temple and pay her tribute.
* MagicAIsMagicA: Deliria learns after lots of effort that she can't create a monster that undoes Medusa's petrification. Seemingly only Athena can restore petrified victims.
* MonsterProtectionRacket: Deliria scoffs that Athena created a monster that petrifies people and the only way to restore them is to bring them to her temple and pay her tribute.
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* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: According to Hephaestus he managed to wed Aphrodite because even she couldn't find his heart.
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* BrickJoke: Two-fold; Chris Hardwick says that due to a curse he's moderating VolCon and every panel until the end of time. The last scene of the episode over the credits is him closing his eyes at the end of the day to open them to a crowd in medieval times. He's moderating a panel on the printing press, when writing as a concept was dismissed as ridiculous in Tyrannis' time.
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* BrickJoke: Two-fold; Chris Hardwick says that due to a curse he's moderating VolCon [=VolCon=] and every panel until the end of time. The last scene of the episode over the credits is him closing his eyes at the end of the day to open them to a crowd in medieval times. He's moderating a panel on the printing press, when writing as a concept was dismissed as ridiculous in Tyrannis' time.
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* AsHimself: Chris Hardwick, justified due to him apparently being cursed to moderate all panels at convention until the end of time.
* BadBoss: Hephaestus exploits eager inventors that look up to him to invent things that he modifies and take as his own, even if he claims otherwise. He is verbally and emotionally abusive under the belief that everyone around him is treacherous, openly admitting that he doesn't have a heart.
* BrickJoke: Two-fold; Chris Hardwick says that due to a curse he's moderating VolCon and every panel until the end of time. The last scene of the episode over the credits is him closing his eyes at the end of the day to open them to a crowd in medieval times. He's moderating a panel on the printing press, when writing as a concept was dismissed as ridiculous in Tyrannis' time.
* BadBoss: Hephaestus exploits eager inventors that look up to him to invent things that he modifies and take as his own, even if he claims otherwise. He is verbally and emotionally abusive under the belief that everyone around him is treacherous, openly admitting that he doesn't have a heart.
* BrickJoke: Two-fold; Chris Hardwick says that due to a curse he's moderating VolCon and every panel until the end of time. The last scene of the episode over the credits is him closing his eyes at the end of the day to open them to a crowd in medieval times. He's moderating a panel on the printing press, when writing as a concept was dismissed as ridiculous in Tyrannis' time.
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* IJustWantToBeLoved: Hephaestus couldn't care less about inventing, considering himself having already proven his genius. Now he's focusing all his efforts on fulfilling the requests of his godly family in hopes they'll come to love him, no matter how impossible that may be given he's well aware that they're all insane bullies.
* ItWillNeverCatchOn: Hippocampus is dismissive of Tyrannis' idea of inventing writing. Another inventor Tyrannis interviews is dismissive of this and his idea of indoor plumbing. Of course, the episode ends on a convention for the printing press.
* ShadowArchetype: Hippocampus and Hephaestus are both [[GeniusCripple handicapped geniuses]] with a dysfunctional family. While Hippo is dismissive of his family's approval, Hephaestus is consumed with earning it, both because they're assured in their genius. Hippocampus turns around on being with his family when Hephaestus reveals to him that, unlike Tyrannis with him, ''no one'' in his family ever stood up to defend him.
* ItWillNeverCatchOn: Hippocampus is dismissive of Tyrannis' idea of inventing writing. Another inventor Tyrannis interviews is dismissive of this and his idea of indoor plumbing. Of course, the episode ends on a convention for the printing press.
* ShadowArchetype: Hippocampus and Hephaestus are both [[GeniusCripple handicapped geniuses]] with a dysfunctional family. While Hippo is dismissive of his family's approval, Hephaestus is consumed with earning it, both because they're assured in their genius. Hippocampus turns around on being with his family when Hephaestus reveals to him that, unlike Tyrannis with him, ''no one'' in his family ever stood up to defend him.
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'''Season 1, Episode 8: Big Man On Hippocampus'''
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!!Tropes That Appear In This Episode:
* SpecialGuest: Creator/ChrisHardwick guest stars AsHimself, and Creator/SteveBuscemi guest stars as Hephaestus.
* TakenForGranite: Stupendous' friend is turned to stone by Medusa. Deliria turns Medusa into "Reversadusa" so she can reverse the petrification, but this only ends up getting herself turned to stone.
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!!Tropes That Appear In This Episode:
* SpecialGuest: Creator/ChrisHardwick guest stars AsHimself, and Creator/SteveBuscemi guest stars as Hephaestus.
* TakenForGranite: Stupendous' friend is turned to stone by Medusa. Deliria turns Medusa into "Reversadusa" so she can reverse the petrification, but this only ends up getting herself turned to stone.
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