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* JerkassGods: Hera, through and through.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Both Hera and Hades have a massive one when it comes to Zeus' actions.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Both Hera and Hades have a massive one when it comes to Zeus' actions.
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* JerkassGods: Hera, through and through.
through. The other gods aren't far behind, especially in season 2 when they all set to scheming for power.
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** Both Hera and Hades have a massive one when it comes to Zeus'actions.actions, both for his infidelity, breaking his own rules when it suits him, and standing by while [[spoiler:Hera rigged the draw to make him king of the heavens]].
** In season 2, Heron acknowledges that even though Seraphim was a monster, he was right about the Gods/Goddesses being more flawed than humans.
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** Both Hera and Hades have a massive one when it comes to Zeus'
** In season 2, Heron acknowledges that even though Seraphim was a monster, he was right about the Gods/Goddesses being more flawed than humans.
* MultipleChoiceChosen: The Fates say that the one to defeat [[spoiler:Typhon]] will be a child of Zeus. Naturally, [[ReallyGetsAround this leaves a lot of candidates]], although Heron inheriting his father's powers gives Athena cause to wonder if it's him.
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** Seraphim takes no accountability for [[spoiler: killing his mother]]. Granted he didn't know at the time it happened but he takes none even after he finds out, placing all the blame on the gods which also ignores the fact that only Hera tricked and abetted Seraphim in Electra's demise. In season 2 this troupe is subverted
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** Seraphim takes no accountability for [[spoiler: killing his mother]]. Granted he didn't know at the time it happened but he takes none even after he finds out, placing all the blame on the gods which also ignores the fact that only Hera tricked and abetted Seraphim in Electra's demise. In season 2 this troupe trope is subvertedsubverted.
* NoMacGuffinNoWinner: Throughout season 2, the gods scheme to see who will be the one to claim the Eleusinian Stone and thus the title of TopGod after [[spoiler:Zeus' passing]]. At the end, [[spoiler:Heron takes it, Hades kills him to seize it himself, and Gaia is so incensed at this betrayal that she destroys it, freeing Typhon to end the reign of Olympus.]]
* NoMacGuffinNoWinner: Throughout season 2, the gods scheme to see who will be the one to claim the Eleusinian Stone and thus the title of TopGod after [[spoiler:Zeus' passing]]. At the end, [[spoiler:Heron takes it, Hades kills him to seize it himself, and Gaia is so incensed at this betrayal that she destroys it, freeing Typhon to end the reign of Olympus.]]
* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: Heron manages a life saving one at the grave of his mother, apologizing that he wasn't able to stop Seraphim from killing her and asking her help in [[spoiler:forgiving him]] so that he can honor her wishes. [[spoiler:Seraphim is right behind him at the time, almost ready to kill him, but realizing that their mother really did love him causes him to be overwhelmed with guilt and spare Heron.]]
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* SealedEvilInACan: The souls of the Giants were taken and trapped within a cauldron. The corpses themselves were buried in the ocean.
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** The souls of the Giants were taken and trapped within a cauldron. The corpses themselves were buried in theocean.ocean.
** Typhon was sealed beneath the Earth.
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** Typhon was sealed beneath the Earth.
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** At one point, Seraphim tells Heron that his eyes are full of hate, and that's good because [[ThePowerOfHate hate gives a man strength.]] This is almost word for word what Quintus Arrius tells Judah Ben-Hur when they first meet in ''[[Film/BenHur1959 Ben-Hur]]''. Seraphim later claims that Heron is [[WithUsOrAgainstUs for him or against him]], to which Heron replies that if there must be a choice he's against him, reflecting a line of dialogue between Judah and Messala in the same film.
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** At one point, Seraphim tells Heron that his eyes are full of hate, and that's good because [[ThePowerOfHate hate gives a man strength.]] This is almost word for word what Quintus Arrius tells Judah Ben-Hur when they first meet in ''[[Film/BenHur1959 Ben-Hur]]''. Seraphim later claims that Heron is [[WithUsOrAgainstUs for him or against him]], to which Heron replies that if there must be a choice he's against him, reflecting a line of dialogue between Judah and Messala in the same film. In season 2, Alexia's aunt says that "In your eagerness to save him, you've saved the Amazonian fleet", another modified quote from Quintus Arrius.
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** Elias recounting the Giantomacy visually resembles the iconic ending of [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion End of Evangelion]] in it's color scheme and red oceans.
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* SiblingRivalry: There seems to be one between Apollo, Ares, and Hermes.
* SlidingScaleOfFreeWillVSFate: Both fate and free will actually co-exist. This is because while The Fates themselves can forsee the path of men, they still have control of their own actions. Their analogy is the one of an adult looking at a baby crawling on a table: the adult knows that if the child keeps crawling they'll fall, and this is the foresight of fate - but knowing this doesn't remove the baby's free will to crawl to the edge of the table.
* JerkassHasAPoint: In the teaser for Season 2, Heron acknowledges that even though Seraphim was a monster, he was right about the Gods/Godesses being more flawed than humans.
* SlidingScaleOfFreeWillVSFate: Both fate and free will actually co-exist. This is because while The Fates themselves can forsee the path of men, they still have control of their own actions. Their analogy is the one of an adult looking at a baby crawling on a table: the adult knows that if the child keeps crawling they'll fall, and this is the foresight of fate - but knowing this doesn't remove the baby's free will to crawl to the edge of the table.
* JerkassHasAPoint: In the teaser for Season 2, Heron acknowledges that even though Seraphim was a monster, he was right about the Gods/Godesses being more flawed than humans.
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* SiblingRivalry: There seems Ares looks down on his illegitimate half-siblings, with Apollo being the most eager to be one between Apollo, Ares, confront him about it but Athena, Hermes, and Hermes.
Artemis all getting turns fighting him about it. Heron joins in once he arrives to Olympus. On the other hand, most of the gods get along fine because [[ASharedSuffering they're all Zeus' bastards]].
* SlidingScaleOfFreeWillVSFate: Both fate and free will actually co-exist. This is because while The Fates themselves canforsee foresee the path of men, they still have control of their own actions. Their analogy is the one of an adult looking at a baby crawling on a table: the adult knows that if the child keeps crawling they'll fall, and this is the foresight of fate - but knowing this doesn't remove the baby's free will to crawl to the edge of the table. \n* JerkassHasAPoint: In the teaser for Season 2, Heron acknowledges that even though Seraphim was a monster, he was right about the Gods/Godesses being more flawed than humans.
* SlidingScaleOfFreeWillVSFate: Both fate and free will actually co-exist. This is because while The Fates themselves can
* SpeakOfTheDevil: The monster who nearly destroyed Olympus was sealed with a spell contingent on no one ever speaking its name, so it's only referred as "the beast whose name we do not speak".
* TheUnreveal: By the end of season 2, it's still not clear [[spoiler:who cut Heron's life thread.]]
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* YourDaysAreNumbered: Early in season 2, someone sneaks into the Fates' temple and cuts [[spoiler:Heron's]] life thread. Because it wasn't one of the Fates that did it, they can't be certain when he'll die, just that he will.
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* YourDaysAreNumbered: Early in season 2, someone sneaks into the Fates' temple and cuts [[spoiler:Heron's]] life thread. Because it wasn't one of the Fates that did it, they can't be certain when he'll die, just that he will. Heron starts out nihilistic about this, showing disregard for his life and the lives of those around him, but eventually decides that he wants to die well.
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* AdaptationalConsent: Season 2 portrays Hades and Persephone having a consensual affair. Persephone even willing eats the pomegranate seeds to stay with Hades instead of being tricked by him.
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* BarredFromTheAfterlife: Those who die without a toll for the Ferryman are perpetually imprisoned on the banks of the River Styx, slamming against the barrier and begging to be let in. [[spoiler:Hades secures Seraphim's help by offer to let his dead lover cross, as she died without her payment.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Olympus and the world are saved, with Heron welcomed into Olympus by his half-siblings, but Zeus is dead, Hera has fled to Gods know where, while Seraphim will either suffer for his crimes in Tartaros for all eternity or again be the slave of a god.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: For season [[spoiler:Olympus and the world are saved, with Heron welcomed into Olympus by his half-siblings, but Zeus is dead, Hera has fled to Gods know where, while Seraphim will either suffer for his crimes in Tartaros for all eternity or again be the slave of a god.]]
** Charon, the ferryman for the River Styx, is merged with his boat. His bones have grown into the shape of a boat and he paddles with his hands which are long and oar-like.
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* {{Foil}}: Naturally, as half-brothers, [[spoiler:Heron and Seraphim]].
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* {{Foil}}: Naturally, as half-brothers, [[spoiler:Heron [[spoiler:as half-brothers]], Heron and Seraphim]].Seraphim. Both are yanked around at the will of the gods and suffer terrible misfortune, but Heron manages to forgive his father while Seraphim drowns in hate which costs him everything.
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* PsychologicalTormentZone: The field of the dead act as such, and makes their victim want to look back so it can turn its victims into a mass of jagged rock.
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* {{Pride}}: As is typical for a work based on Greek myth. The three kings who judge the dead say that the only true sin is pride, as a man might [[TheAtoner change his ways]] no matter what he's done, but pride will keep him on the path to destruction. [[spoiler:Seraphim]] demonstrates his when he decides he'd rather suffer for all eternity than admit his own culpability in his actions.
* PsychologicalTormentZone: The field of the deadact acts as such, and makes their its victim want to look back so it can turn its victims them into a mass of jagged rock.
* PsychologicalTormentZone: The field of the dead
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The fates of the two giants who sided with the gods against their own kind. It is unknown if they are alive or dead. [[spoiler: season 2 reveals that both are still alive as they pay tribute to the fallen Zeus]]
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* YourDaysAreNumbered: Early in season 2, someone sneaks into the Fates' temple and cuts [[spoiler:Heron's]] life thread. Because it wasn't one of the Fates that did it, they can't be certain when he'll die, just that he will.
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* {{Tragedy}}: Of the Greek variety.
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* {{Tragedy}}: Of the Greek variety. A man unwittingly kills his own mother, the gods ruin their own lives and the lives of any mortal unfortunate enough to be caught in the crossfire, prophecies are fulfilled by trying to avoid them, and minor mistakes snowball into enormous consequences.
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* DivineConflict: The clash between Zeus and Hera during season 1 is the main cause of conflict, dividing Olympus in two camps. [[spoiler:The climax of season 2 sees a new conflict between Zeus' children who want to uphold his will, and Hades' and Ares' factions.]]
* HumongousMecha: Talos the Bronze Giant, which guards the Vase with the souls of giants.
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* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: [[spoiler: Hades appears to recover his bident from Seraphim, all while he's being ferried to Tartaros by Charon.]]
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Produced by Powerhouse Animation Studios, the series was released on October 27, 2020 on Creator/{{Netflix}}. [[https://twitter.com/NXOnNetflix/status/1334543850929414144 In early December 2020, a second season was greenlit by Netflix.]] It's set to premiere on May 15, 2024. [[https://observer.com/2020/11/netflix-blood-of-zeus-renew-cancel-ratings-viewership-cost/ According to the creators, they have five seasons outlined.]]
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Produced by Powerhouse Animation Studios, the series was released on October 27, 2020 on Creator/{{Netflix}}. [[https://twitter.com/NXOnNetflix/status/1334543850929414144 In early December 2020, a second season was greenlit by Netflix.]] It's set to premiere It premiered on May 15, 2024. [[https://observer.com/2020/11/netflix-blood-of-zeus-renew-cancel-ratings-viewership-cost/ According to the creators, they have five seasons outlined.]]
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**The effects of [[spoiler:Demeter's spores]] in Season 2.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The fates of the two giants who sided with the gods against their own kind. It is unknown if they are alive or dead. [[spoiler: season 2 reveals that both are still alive as they pay tribute to the fallen Zeus]]
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* {{Cliffhanger}}: Season 2 ends in one. [[spoiler:Heron is killed by Hades for the Eulusis stone and Gaia, furious at the olympians' pettiness and power struggles, destroys the stone to release Olympus' greatest threat, Typhon, declaring a new age of Titans.]]
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* {{Cliffhanger}}: Season 2 ends in one. [[spoiler:Heron is killed by Hades for the Eulusis Eleusinian stone and Gaia, furious at the olympians' Olympians' pettiness and power struggles, destroys the stone to release Olympus' greatest threat, Typhon, declaring a new age of Titans.]]
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* MyBelovedSmother: Demeter shows she's just as overbearing and controlling of her daughter Persephone as in the myths, never really accepting her marriage to Hades. [[spoiler:She even goes as far as to cripple the other gods so she and Hades become the rulers of Olympus with the Eulusis stone.]]
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* MyBelovedSmother: Demeter shows she's just as overbearing and controlling of her daughter Persephone as in the myths, never really accepting her marriage to Hades. [[spoiler:She even goes as far as to cripple the other gods so she and Hades become the rulers of Olympus with the Eulusis Eleusinian stone.]]
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** None of the Giants are named, but some are clearly designed on various monsters in Greek Mythology. In particular, the two Giants that defected resemble the Cyclops and the Hekatonkheires, allies of the Gods during the Titanomachy, and the lead Giant with snakes coming out of their shoulders evokes Typhon, Zeus's archenemy, concept art even shows the snakes were supposed to replace their legs instead.
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** None of the Giants are named, but some are clearly designed on various monsters in Greek Mythology. In particular, the two Giants that defected resemble the Cyclops and the Hekatonkheires, allies of the Gods during the Titanomachy, and the lead Giant with snakes coming out of their shoulders evokes Typhon, Zeus's archenemy, concept art even shows the snakes were supposed to replace their legs instead. [[spoiler: Though Typhon is revealed to be a separate being.]]
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** Seraphim takes no accountability for [[spoiler: killing his mother]]. Granted he didn't know at the time it happened but he takes none even after he finds out, placing all the blame on the gods which also ignores the fact that only Hera tricked and abetted Seraphim in Electra's demise.
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** Seraphim takes no accountability for [[spoiler: killing his mother]]. Granted he didn't know at the time it happened but he takes none even after he finds out, placing all the blame on the gods which also ignores the fact that only Hera tricked and abetted Seraphim in Electra's demise. In season 2 this troupe is subverted
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* TokenBlackFriend: Kofi. He never mentions exactly where he's from (likely because most countries the way we know them nowadays did not exist at the time of the show). However, both his name and some of the divinities he mentions (such as Zat Badar) suggest modern-day Ethiopia.
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* BrotherSisterIncest: As a more adult-oriented series, the show doesn't shy away from their being the true nature of Zeus and Hera's marriage.
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*HeterosexualLifePartners: Kofi and Evios.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Both Hera and Hades have a massive one when it comes to Zeus' actions.
