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* EveryoneHasStandards: In "Ixion's Crime", Zeus (a serial rapist and adulterer), Poseidon (another serial rapist and adulterer) and Hades (who kidnapped his wife) are all equally horrified when Ixion rapes a cloud doll of Hera.

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* EveryoneHasStandards: In "Ixion's Crime", Zeus (a '''''notorious''''' serial rapist and adulterer), Poseidon (another serial rapist and adulterer) and Hades (who (allegedly) kidnapped his wife) are all equally horrified when Ixion rapes comes across a cloud doll of Hera.Hera ''and immediately proceeds to rape it, even managing to impregnate it''.
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** Hera also catches a similar accusation in regard to her feud with Heracles. Because she utterly loathed him and wanted him dead for being a bastard son of Zeus, she instigated numerous terrible events in his life, even sending a pair of snakes to attack him ''as a baby'' (which he throttled with his godly strength even then). Despite having more than one explicit moment where she inflicted Heracles with complete madness, and organizing his Ten, later Twelve Labors as the result of one, Hera never once did anything to directly harm or kill him, always creating indirect threats even though she herself would have been fully capable of eliminating him before he ascended to Olympus and became a god himself.

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** Hera also catches a similar accusation in regard to her feud with Heracles. Because she utterly loathed him and wanted him dead for being a bastard son of Zeus, she instigated numerous terrible events in his life, even sending a pair of snakes to attack him ''as a baby'' (which he throttled with his godly strength even then). Despite having more than one explicit moment where she explicitly inflicted Heracles with complete madness, and organizing his Ten, later Twelve Labors as the result of one, Hera never once did anything to directly harm or kill him, always creating indirect threats even though she herself would have been fully capable of eliminating him before he ascended to Olympus and became a god himself.

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* JustForPun: He has a whole series of videos about making hilarious and clever puns based on characters' names and/or attributes, e.g. how Thor's infiltration of the Giant Thrym's wedding to get his hammer Mjolnir back led to everyone getting "hammered".


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* {{Pun}}: He has a whole series of videos about making hilarious and clever puns based on characters' names and/or attributes, e.g. how Thor's infiltration of the Giant Thrym's wedding to get his hammer Mjolnir back led to everyone getting "hammered".
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* EveryoneHasStandards: In "Ixion's Crime", Zeus (a serial rapist and adulterer), Poseidon (another serial rapist and adulterer) and Hades (who kidnapped his wife) are all equally horrified when Ixion rapes a cloud doll of Hera.
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* WhoWillBellTheCat: "They're Fighting Again" revolves around the Gods of the various pantheons being fed up with mortals arguing about them and deciding that one of them should go to Earth and do something about it. However, none of them wants to do it because mortals have a history of killing Gods. Zeus volunteers, but the one thing all the others agree on is that he should absolutely not get involved.

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* WhoWillBellTheCat: "They're Fighting Again" revolves around When the Gods gods of the various pantheons being become fed up with mortals arguing about them and them, they start deciding that which one of them should go to Earth and do something about it. However, none of them wants actually want to do it because mortals have a history of mortals' past triumphs in killing Gods. Zeus volunteers, but the one thing gods. Then [[ReallyGetsAround Zeus]] volunteers and all the others immediately agree on is that he should absolutely should not get involved.
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* CripplingCastration: After discovering that Loki had fathered a wolf that's constantly growing in size and destined to devour him when Ragnarok comes, Odin is flabbergasted but resolves to deal with it. Then the Mischief God reveals that he also sired a daughter who's fated to fight Odin and rules over the land of the dead where she will deny returning the soul of Baldur, causing Odin to furiously demand Loki cease procreating. Only for Loki to reveal that he ''also'' had a child in the form of a massive serpent who is fated to kill Thor. At the last straw, Odin whips out a knife and grimly declares his intent to [[GroinAttack sever the problematic organ]].
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** Any mention at all of the [[Film/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians first two]] attempts at getting Franchise/PercyJackson into live-action media.

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* TooDumbToLive: Even after Osiris states at length how his brother Set is the literal god of evil, when Set challenges him to try and fit into a box as part of a plan to kill him, Osiris willingly goes along with it just to show him up.

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* WorfHadTheFlu: When a producer working on ''VideoGame/GodOfWar2'' decides that they should kill Athena, the goddess of war and the greatest tactician in all of Greek mythology, his colleague is astounded at the possibility of what a boss battle with her might look like. Instead, however, the producer decides that her death is going to be a complete accident and take place entirely in a cutscene, prompting a look of utter amazement in response.

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* GoodThingYouCanHeal: When Odin goes to the wise sage Mimir in order to learn the power of the ancient Nordic runes, Mimir denies him on the grounds that only one who knows "true suffering" can possess that knowledge. Odin contemplates it for a while... then takes his own spear and stabs himself in the stomach. Mimir freaks out over what the god is doing, to which Odin believes he is teaching himself true suffering to gain the runes. Mimir does give up the runes and suggests that Odin get some medical help pronto as well.[[labelnote:*]]In myth, Odin grew jealous of the Norns' mastery over fate and destiny using the power of the runes, so he sought the knowledge himself. After removing one of his own eyes to offer to the sage Mimir, he walked out onto one of the branches of Yggdrasil, the World Tree that links to all the Nine Realms, and there he either remained for nine days and nine nights without water or food, or voluntarily hung himself with a noose while using his spear Gungnir to stab himself in the abdomen, as for as a god bound by fate could not learn the runes easily, a god who died and left fate had a chance. Odin gained as much knowledge as he could until Yggdrasil itself expunged him back into the living realm. He took what he learned to the Watcher God, Heimdall who spread the knowledge of runes among Asgard and Midgard.[[/labelnote]]


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* HungryMenace: Sekhmet, warrior goddess of medicine seeks to destroy everything in her path. But then the Sun God, Ra offers her a Snickers. When that confuses her, he says that she's only behaving like a raving beast because she's hungry. After begrudgingly taking the offered candy and eating it, Ra asks if she feels better, and Sekhmet, now having turned into the cow-headed goddess Hathor confirms.[[labelnote:*]]In the ''Book of the Heavenly Cow'' text, Ra originally sent down Hathor as the Eye of Ra to punish humans for planning a rebellion. She took the form of Sekhmet and planned to utterly destroy them. Still needing the humans' worship, Ra got her to calm down by having a red-dyed beer be poured out to mimic the spilled blood Sekhmet craved. Once she was properly inebriated, Ra was able to get Sekhmet to return to form as Hathor.[[/labelnote]]
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* AreWeThereYet: In a desperate bid to rescue her daughter Persephone from the Underworld, the goddess Demeter pleaded with the goddess Hecate to help her since she was the only one other than Hades that had a reliable way of navigating the realm of the dead. Hecate agrees on the condition that Demeter not be overbearing and annoy her. Demeter solemnly agrees... and spends pretty much the entire trip whittling away at Hecate's patience by the incessant repetition of the question, per this trope. Eventually, Hecate rips into Demeter, sarcastically stating that yes, the barren wasteland without a shred of life, including her daughter in sight was their destination. Demeter, oblivious to her vitriol, remarks that Hecate needs "better planning skills", prompting a wry remark from the goddess questioning if her daughter really and simply ran away, considering her mother.


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** What does one typically do when they discover that their spouse is pregnant and there exists a fortune told/prophecy that their child will overthrow them? Well, if you're Ra and you hear that Nut is pregnant, you ''immediately forbid her to have children despite her already being pregnant, nor can she give birth on any day of the year.'' If she calls you out on how absurd that is and questions if you really intend for her to simply hold in her baby, then you respond '''''yes'''''.[[labelnote:*]]Ra (who in some interpretations is called Nut's '''''grandfather'''''... eww) did not want four new gods to be created that could compete for Nut's attention, so he made his proclamation. However, Nut cleverly got the Wise God, Thoth to challenge the Moon God, Khonsu to a gamble that resulted in him giving up enough of the moon's power that it was lessened compared to Ra's power of the Sun. This additional power was then used to add 4-5 more days to the year from the previous 360, a case of LoopholeAbuse that allowed Nut to finally give birth. Ra in his anger forced her to separate from her husband-lover Geb by having their father, the Air God Shu stand between them eternally.[[/labelnote]]


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* OtherMeAnnoysMe: When the mythological Thor meets the Marvel character Thor, specifically Thor from the [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse MCU]], he initially seems perplexed to see another version of himself, but that quickly goes south when he learns that Mjolnir's counterpart in the Marvel Universe has what he deems "complicated" characteristics where it bequeaths all the godly powers of the Thunder God but only to someone that is deemed "worthy". Conversely, his power is entirely his own and his hammer is just incredibly heavy.[[labelnote:*]]So heavy that Thor himself required the use of his iron gauntlers, Járngreipr, and his belt, Megingjörð, to increase his already-godly strength to be able to lift and handle the hammer[[/labelnote]] Marvel!Thor is amused at the idea that such a small object could be that heavy... until Myth!Thor flings it at him and he almost immediately crumples to the ground unable to get up, whereas his own hammer is easily picked up by Myth!Thor who is worthy after all.

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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: When Heracles delivers the hound of the Underworld, Cerberos to King Eurystheus as his twelfth and final labor, the King is bewildered at the hero actually pulling it off rather than dying horribly as he had hoped. Now they're both left there with a three-headed monster dog that neither has any use for.[[labelnote:*]]The mythical Heracles simply returned him to his master Hades after extracting a promise from the King that it was indeed his final labor[[/labelnote]]

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** After Psyche accidentally sees the face of Eros, the love god says that he cannot be with her because she broke the rule about seeing his face. Psyche promptly calls him out on how ridiculous that is, how were they supposed to have a romantic relationship without ever looking at each other? Eros admits that he hadn't really thought on it, but still tasks Psyche to go on a dangerous quest, which she again refuses and forces him to sit down and actually talk about the problems in their relationship. This utterly confuses Eros, questioning if this kind of problem-solving is "a mortal thing".


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* HasAType: Try as she might, Cleopatra simply cannot resist her amorous feelings for a man in a position of power who is already married (may or may not be twice her age too), as Julius Caesar and Mark Antony both discover.[[labelnote:*]]For Caesar, it was initially a political alliance to help Cleo regain her throne from her brother Ptolemy, which became a romantic and physical relationship later that resulted in the birth of a son, Ptolemy Caesar, and ended with Caesar's infamous murder. For Antony, it was again initially a political alliance so Cleo could expand her Egyptian kingdom and Antony could borrow its resources and money, and again later became a romantic and physical relationship that this time resulted in the birth of three children, and ended with both their suicides after the failure of Antony's rebellion in Rome[[/labelnote]]


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* {{Narcissist}}: The TropeNamer, Narcissus is completely infatuated with his own reflection[[labelnote:*]]Like a lot of love stories, Aphrodite is to blame for it. Narcissus spurned the affections of a woman named Echo, whose broken-heartedness caused her to become a literal echo who can only repeat the last words of someone else. Aphrodite then cursed Narcissus to fall madly in love with the first person he saw... which ended up being himself staring back from the surface of a nearby pond. He stayed there watching himself until he eventually tried to kiss his reflection and drowned in the pond, whereupon Aphrodite turned him into a flower[[/labelnote]], to the point that when he walks in front of a mirror, he can't turn away while listening to Foreigner's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3Pr1_v7hsw "I Wanna Know What Love Is"]]
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* IdenticallyNamedGroup: PlayedWith, as when Zeus asks Hermes to take a message to the god of wind, Hermes is forced to clarify ''which'' god of wind he's talking about. Zeus is befuddled to learn that there are multiple gods controlling the wind, based specifically on the geographical direction it travels from. Hermes names Astraeus[[labelnote:*]]Not actually a wind god but rather an astrological deity who fathered the wind gods[[/labelnote]] and Eos[[labelnote:*]]Also not actually a wind god but rather a goddess of the dawn who mothered the wind gods[[/labelnote]] before moving on to the Anemoi: Boreas (god of the north wind), Notus (god of the south wind), Zephyrus (god of the west wind), and Eurus (god of the ''southeast''/east wind) until he finally gets to Aeolus[[labelnote:*]]Not actually a wind god who directly commands the wind but rather the ruler of the winds who passes his commands onto the Anemoi[[/labelnote]], the one Zeus actually wanted. However, when Hermes asks what the message is, Zeus has completely forgotten.


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** When Utgard-Loki (unrelated to the godly Loki[[labelnote:*]]His name translates to "Loki of the Outlands" specifically to distinguish the two[[/labelnote]]) challenges the Thunder God, Thor to lift up a seemingly innocent cat and Thor discovers that it is [[{{Pun}} ungodly]] heavy, Utgard-Loki chuckles to himself that what Thor is actually struggling to lift is the World Serpent in disguise, a creature so massive it ''wraps around the earth and bites its own tail'' and which is destined to kill Thor at the time of Ragnarok. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when another Giant comes in and says he's got the ''actual'' kitten-seeming-Serpent, causing confusion as to how Thor can't pick up what seems to actually be an ordinary cat.[[labelnote:*]]In actual myth, Thor did manage to lift the cat's paw, which utterly terrified everyone there since he was still lifting up a part of Jormungandr itself![[/labelnote]]


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* NonAnswer: When Heracles takes his concerns over some of the glaring inaccuracies in Disney's adaptation of his story to a representative, his question about how they'll remedy the situation is met with one of these, constantly told that they "hear your concerns" without directly committing to a promise of change.


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* SadlyMythtaken: The focus of some of his most popular videos, the "Every Mythological Inaccuracy" series. He does however stress, to the point of including a disclaimer that simply because a piece of media is inaccurate to the source material does not mean that it's entirely bad and should be avoided. He proves this by declaring that, despite the ''many'' [[ArtisticLicenseReligion liberties]] that [[WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}} Disney's adaptation]] takes with the myth of Heracles, it's actually one of his favorite movies.
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* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Atalanta is all set and hard-focused on completing the race and winning her independence... and then she stumbles across those golden apples and has her focus completely go off its rails.


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** Hera also catches a similar accusation in regard to her feud with Heracles. Because she utterly loathed him and wanted him dead for being a bastard son of Zeus, she instigated numerous terrible events in his life, even sending a pair of snakes to attack him ''as a baby'' (which he throttled with his godly strength even then). Despite having more than one explicit moment where she inflicted Heracles with complete madness, and organizing his Ten, later Twelve Labors as the result of one, Hera never once did anything to directly harm or kill him, always creating indirect threats even though she herself would have been fully capable of eliminating him before he ascended to Olympus and became a god himself.
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* SelfDeprecation: He has confirmed that he is a Christian in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPV7cxRKXmM his video taking down]] Netflix's documentary on Cleopatra, and though he goes with the JesusWasWayCool approach in portraying him, does poke fun at some of the wackier things in the faith and how some Christians miss the "Love thy neighbor" part of it.

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* SelfDepreceation: He has confirmed that he is a Christian in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPV7cxRKXmM his video taking down]] Netflix's documentary on Cleopatra, and though he goes with the JesusWasWayCool approach in portraying him, does poke fun at some of the wackier things in the faith and how some Christians miss the "Love thy neighbor" part of it.

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* JesusWasWayCool: He tends to portray Jesus as an AllLovingHero and NiceGuy, who reacts with shock when witnessing the outrageous things some other Gods have one, ''and'' his own followers using his name to be spiteful.


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* AudienceColoringAdaptation: Invoked when a teacher opts to teach his class, who have all seen Disney's ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}} Hercules]]'' about the real stories of Greek mythology. He quickly realizes what a bad idea that is when he has to cut himself off partway through the stories of Kronos[[labelnote:*]]Killed his own father and cut off his testicles[[/labelnote]], Zeus[[labelnote:*]]Married his own sister Hera by turning himself into a swan to trick her before raping her[[/labelnote]], and Odysseus[[labelnote:*]]Spent twenty years trying to get home, and when he did, he slaughtered many male suitors trying to take his wife and land[[/labelnote]].
** Happens again when the teacher tries to teach his class, who have all seen the ''Thor'' movies of the [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse MCU]] about the real stories of Norse mythology. He discovers that is also a bad idea when he has to quickly skip over the stories of the mythical Thor[[labelnote:*]]Rode on a chariot pulled by two goats which he would regularly slaughter for their meat, then resurrect them the next day to continue pulling his chariot[[/labelnote]], Odin[[labelnote:*]]Mastered the art of ancient Nordic runes by hanging himself with a noose and then stabbing himself to gain knowledge possessed by the dead[[/labelnote]], and Loki[[labelnote:*]]Once distracted a Giant's horse by turning himself into a female horse and having sex with it, resulting in getting pregnant with the calf[[/labelnote]].
** Happens yet again when the teacher tries to teach his class, who are all fans of the ''Series/MoonKnight2022'' series about the real stories of Egyptian mythology. He yet again learns that this is not a good idea when he rapidly leafs through the stories of Atum[[labelnote:*]]Creator deity that spawned the first gods via masturbation[[/labelnote]], Set and Horus[[labelnote:*]]The former tried to disqualify the latter in becoming the new chief god by masturbating and ejaculating onto him as proof that he was not manly enough[[/labelnote]], and Isis[[labelnote:*]]Helped her son Horus after Set shot his semen onto him by masturbating him and then putting his semen on Set's favorite food of lettuce to show that he too was not manly enough[[/labelnote]].
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** Why course Psyche's father should follow the wisdom of the Oracle and take his daughter to a tall cliff by the sea while she is in a heavy depression and never once consider that it might be a ''terrible idea''.[[labelnote:*]]Less so in the actual myth because her father was explicitly heartbroken to have to do it, but he felt he couldn't defy the words of Apollo through the Oracle[[/labelnote]]


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** In the midst of the weaving competition between Arachne and the goddess Athena, when she sees that Athena's weave is actually more impressive, Arachne questions how she should respond. Rather than sensible actions like apologizing for her earlier boast or making a weave that compliments her opponent, she makes the "brilliant" decision to do the reverse and make a weave that is astoundingly offensive and insulting toward the gods.
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* AlbinosAreFreaks: When the great Persian hero-king Zal was born with white hair, his father Sam was disgusted, convinced that it was a result of the demon Ahriman's machinations. Zal was abandoned on the highest peak in Persia to die, though thankfully a ''simurgh'', a mythical bird akin to a phoenix, found and saved him.


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* AncestralName: Discussed when talking about how the Egyptian god Horus has been described as the son of Osiris and Isis in some interpretations and as the son of Geb and Nut, a brother to Osiris and Isis, in other interpretations.[[labelnote:*]]Typically regarded as the same god through the common theme of birth, death, and rebirth in Egyptian mythology, though differentiated as Horus the Elder and Horus the Younger to make it clear.[[/labelnote]]


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** Comes up again when the Magician asks Aladdin to go and get the lamp containing a genie inside and hands him a ring containing a different genie to help him. Aladdin questions why he simply couldn't use the power of the ring-genie, which the Magician hand-waves as the lamp-genie is simply more powerful. He also requires that he receive the lamp from another to bypass a protective spell, and again Aladdin wonders why he couldn't just have the ring-genie do it. The Magician advises him to lose the attitude or else.

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