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1	Andrew Sarran, also known as ''The Mythology Guy'' is a content creator that creates sketch-based videos based on [[{{Mythology}} mythologies]] from various cultures, though the majority of his content is based on [[Myth/ClassicalMythology classical mythology]]. He also occasionally does reviews of media like video games and movies that include mythological elements and/or he has a personal interest in. His girlfriend, Wilda Atienza occasionally appears in some of his videos.
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3	He has been running a Kickstarter to fund the production of a [[https://tartarusgames.squarespace.com/ card game]] based on various mythology characters.
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5	He has a [[https://www.youtube.com/@TheMythologyGuy1/about YouTube]] channel, a [[https://www.patreon.com/user?u=62803325 Patreon]] profile, and an [[https://www.instagram.com/tartarusgames Instagram]] profile that he and Atienza share and use to post the card game's artwork.
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9	!!Tropes found in his sketch videos:
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11	* AfterlifeAngst: After being killed in battle, a Viking warrior laments that after a lifetime of fighting, he can finally find peaceful rest... only to realize he's arrived in [[WarriorHeaven Valhalla]] and now has to spend his afterlife fighting and dying cyclically until the coming of Ragnarök.[[labelnote:*]]The kind of afterlife he was hoping for is actually reminiscent of Folkvangr, one of four realms of the afterlife in Norse mythology alongside Valhalla, Hel, and the Coral Caves of Ran. A realm of peace and tranquility, Folkvangr is overseen by Freya, the Vanir goddess of war, and also accepts the souls of those who died in battle, however, unlike Valhalla, a soul can only enter Folkvangr if they die in a battle that was not their choice, i.e. fighting to protect their family from the enemy, forced to fight for external reasons, etc., rather than for honor and glory among their peers as most Vikings did.[[/labelnote]]
12	* 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.
13	* AllForNothing: As two Aztec priests are doing their daily ritual of making sacrificial offerings to the gods to keep the life-giving Sun from falling from the sky, one of them reveals that he forgot to make the sacrifice the day before. As the other priest starts to freak out, it's replaced with the realization that, despite there being no sacrifice, the Sun still stayed in the sky the day after. That quickly transitions to a horrifying realization that the hundreds and hundreds of years of sacrificing the hearts of their fellow men was completely pointless.
14	* 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]]
15	* 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.
16	* 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.
17	* 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]].
18	** 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]].
19	** 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]].
20	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Semele's relationship with Zeus takes a hard turn when she questions if he really is who he says he is. Zeus offers to accept any request of hers that helps prove it, only for her to ask to see his true godly form. The chief god tries to dissuade her since seeing a god's true form is instantly fatal for a mortal. Subverted as [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Semele wisely agrees with his honesty and Zeus acknowledges that not telling her would have been a really stupid idea.]] If only the mythical Semele had the same wisdom...
21	* BerserkButton:
22	** Calling characters by the wrong name, the most frequent example being the Greek hero Heracles[[labelnote:*]]This is the proper Greek name, meaning "Glory to Hera", but thanks to popular media like the [[WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}} Disney adaptation]], the character is both known and referred to far more often by the name Hercules, which is the '''Roman''' version.[[/labelnote]]
23	** Any mention at all of the [[Film/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians first two]] attempts at getting Literature/{{Percy Jackson\|AndTheOlympians}} into live-action media.
24	** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiresias Tiresias]] flipped his lid when he came upon that pair of snakes and furiously attacked them. The results, though weren't very pleasant...
25	* BigOMG: What results when Oedipus discovers his ancestry; when Hades learns that he's allowed a state of DeathIsNotPermanent in the Underworld; and when Jesus gets exasperated with the other gods (hilariously resulting in a Big Oh My ''Dad'')
26	* BoringButPractical: Alongside her friends who have abilities like controlling water, fire, summoning the dead, shapeshifting, and hypnotizing people, Annabeth is... smart. That said, she's a daughter of Athena, the goddess of war and strategy, making her equally essential since she can create efficient battle plans.
27	* BrainsVersusBrawn: When Zeus proudly declares Athena the 'new' god of war, Ares promptly objects. Rather than try and compromise in any way, Zeus opts to phrase it as Athena being the 'smart' god of war. This reflects actual myth since while both divines preside over war, Athena evokes the strategy and cunning of war while Ares evokes the bloodthirst and violence of war.
28	* BrokenAesop: Invoked during a sketch where Odysseus asks Hermes for help on dealing with the witch Circe who [[DoesNotLikeMen despises men]] and uses her magic to turn them into pigs on sight. Hermes' immediate reaction is to tell Odysseus to try and sleep with her, confident that once she experiences pleasure with a man, it will instantly evaporate all her prior prejudice about men being such disgusting pigs on the inside. The hero rightly calls out the flaw in that logic.
29	* ChocolateBaby: Played with when Osiris accuses Isis of cheating on him, and when she questions what proof he has, he points out that their son, Horus has the head of a falcon whereas Osiris is traditionally depicted as a green-skinned human.
30	* ComplexityAddiction: Zeus gets accused of this when it comes to the story of Pandora's Box, where instead of creating a box (or jar) to hold the world's evils and opening it himself, the chief god elected to create a box (or jar) to hold the world's evils and then have a woman created specifically with an insatiable curiosity that would inevitably result in her opening the box and releasing the world's evils unto humanity.
31	** 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.
32	** 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 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.
33	* 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]].
34	* DefiledForever: When Amba finally escaped her imprisonment and returned home, immediately Salva declared he had no intention of marrying her simply because ''she had been in another man's house''. Where she had been kidnapped (of which Salva witnessed firsthand), but she escaped before any actual defiling took place.
35	* DidntThinkThisThrough: 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]]
36	** 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".
37	* DisproportionateRetribution: Prevalent throughout many mythologies, particularly when it comes to JerkassGods and their legendary levels of pettiness. Some sketches continue this:
38	** When Thor shares a meal of meat from his magical goats with a peasant, the latter innocently breaks a bone to eat the marrow. This instantly causes Thor to become furious and demand that the peasant become his slave to make up for it despite being the one to offer the meal in the first place.
39	** After Hades informs Zeus about the antics of Asclepius in creating an elixir that can reverse death, he asks his brother to do something about it. Zeus' response is to go out and vaporize the man with a thunderbolt instead of commanding him to stop, to Hades' surprise.
40	*** This, in turn, leads to Apollo, the father of Asclepius deciding that since he can't get revenge on Zeus for his son's death, he will instead slaughter the Elder Cyclopses that create Zeus' thunderbolts, prompting more exasperation from Hades.
41	--->'''Hades:''' Why is it that when Zeus does something wrong, ''other people'' suffer because of it?
42	* DistaffCounterpart: Pokes fun at the fact that the only major difference between the god [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anubis Anubis]] and the goddess [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anput Anput]] is their gender, whereas they share most other traits including appearance (jackal iconography) and sphere of influence (embalming and guiding the dead).
43	* DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal: He frequently discusses how often this comes up, especially in Greek myths and most especially when Zeus is involved.
44	* EnfanteTerrible: Hermes fit this to a T when, as an infant, he managed to successfully pilfer the sacred cattle belonging to Apollo ''just because he could''.
45	* EveryoneHasStandards: 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 comes across a cloud doll of Hera ''and immediately proceeds to rape it, even managing to impregnate it''.
46	* FailedASpotCheck: Even as the Greeks were bearing down on their walls to make war, the King of Troy freely accepted a giant wooden horse as a gift and took ''no action'' at all to make sure that it was not secretly an invasion plot.
47	* 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]]
48	* GoSeduceMyArchnemesis: A rare male example, and who should attempt it but the literal god of evil, Set when he tried to seduce the god Horus. But Horus was wise to Set's tricks and rejected the attempt. Set tried to force the matter and so he... [[SexualEuphemism fired a blank shot]] at Horus. The falcon god was quicker though, catching the... shot in his hand and throwing it into the river. And then, just to establish his victory and dominance, Horus... fired a blank shot of his own right [[ExcrementStatement onto a head of lettuce just before Set ate it]].[[labelnote:*]]Basically, in Egyptian culture, virility was a hallmarker of dominance and so in order for Set to claim dominance over the superior god Horus, he had to prove his virility by doing Horus as a man does a woman. But Horus caught the "shot" before that could happen, and when he took it to his mother Isis, she promptly ''cut off his hands'' to hide the evidence that another man had defiled him. To make things right, Horus had to make a "shot" of his own at Set, which Isis accomplished by taking a collected sample of her son's "shot", learning that Set liked to eat lettuce, and spiked his meal with the "shot". When both gods went before Thoth to decide who should rule, Horus was initially disqualified due to having "the labor of a male" performed on him, and thus he was already ruled. But when Thoth was told that Set had gotten the same, he extracted the "shot" of Horus as a golden disk from Set's ear to confirm. Both gods were denied the rulership for the time being.[[/labelnote]]
49	* 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]]
50	* HeadsOrTails: Nico di Angelo asks his father Hades about the three Judges of the Dead that he employs to determine where newly-arrived souls go. Since the three of them were all famous Greek kings in life, and thus couldn't have possibly been Judges when Hades first took over the Underworld, he questions how the job was done before. Hades' response is to flip a coin.[[labelnote:*]]Likely meant to be a Grecian ''drachma'' as in canon[[/labelnote]] When Nico expresses his incredulity over this, Hades not-so-subtly offers to show him how he can also choose to send a soul straight to the Fields of Punishment for disrespecting him and questioning his actions.
51	* 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]]
52	* 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.
53	* IHaveManyNames: Inverted as rather than there being one entity under different names, the various deities serving as their pantheon's GodOfLight, particularly the "Bringer of the Dawn" sub-variety, debate on who is the one true Sun God: the Greek god, Apollo; the Greek Titan, Helios; the Norse god, Sol; the Hindu god, Surya; the Egyptian god, Ra; the Japanese goddess, Amaterasu; the Aztec god, Tonatiuh; or the ''other'' Aztec god, Huitzilpochtli. A scientist tries to put the debate to rest by stating the logical fact that the Sun doesn't cross the Earth, the Earth crosses the Sun. Apollo promptly dismisses him as being one of those "round-earthers".
54	* InsaneTrollLogic: Sure, Kronos, rather than stop having children with Rhea, thus preventing the prophecy of a child overthrowing you from coming true, instead, just ''keep having children and eating them one by one''. Surely that won't ''at all'' lead to a SelfFulfillingProphecy?
55	** 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]]
56	** 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]]
57	* ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure: After Odysseus slaughtered the many suitors that had spent the duration of his twenty-year absence trying to take his domain and his wife Penelope, his son Telemachus expresses his relief that the trouble's finally over. However, Odysseus immediately declares his intent to find and murder those among his own servants that aided in the suitors' ransacking of his estate, frightening his son. Then he plans to go after the suitors' parents for their inability to raise their sons properly. He finally invokes this trope when he says he even intends to kill any person that ''shares the same name as the suitors'' "just to be sure".
58	* 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.
59	* KillerRabbit: When an unfortunate wanderer crosses paths with the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Yaga Baba Yaga]], their reaction evokes this trope since all they see is a scary-looking, yet harmless-seeming old woman threatening to send her giant chicken house after them. The unfortunate part is that despite her appearance, the Baba Yaga is still feared in Slavic mythology for being a ravenous cannibal and for her fickle nature, sometimes hindering (and killing) and sometimes helping those who travel along the mountain paths she festers near.
60	** 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]]
61	* LastWords: He commits several videos to humorously playing these out for mythological characters, such as the Nemean Lion complaining about being hugged too tightly, Icarus looking forward to getting a suntan, etc., etc.
62	* LawfulStupidStupidNeutralChaoticStupid: One or more of the three tend to be represented whenever a video involves [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koalemos Koalemos]], the Greek god of stupidity.
63	* LesserOfTwoEvils: Or, in a Japanese guy's friend's case, Lesser of ''Several'' Evils as he recently discovered that his wife was actually a ''Futakuchi-onna'' (a woman who has grown a second, vulgarity-spewing mouth on the back of the head). The men lament that at least his wife didn't turn out to be one of many other kinds of monster that take the form of women like the ''Kistune'' (nine-tailed fox women who drain men's life force), the ''Jorou-gumo'' (spider-women who prey on unsuspecting men), the ''Yuki-onna'' (ghostly spirit woman with deadly ice powers), the ''Nure-onna'' (snake women who lure in and strangle men), the ''Ikiryo'' (spirits of the deceased that leave their physical body to haunt others), or the ''Sazae-oni'' (marine snail-women that trick men into sex and then [[GroinAttack castrate]] them afterward). Unfortunately, their wariness over so many woman-seeming monsters results in them giving any Japanese woman a wide berth.
64	* LikeFatherLikeSon: After a teacher finished explaining how the Greek god Zeus was able to defeat his evil father, the Titan Kronos, and usher in the age of the Olympian gods as their king, a student questions if Kronos was really as villainous as he says. When the teacher tries to argue that Kronos was guilty of leaving the other Titans trapped in Tartarus against his mother Gaia's wishes and deliberately eating his own children to prevent them from overthrowing him, the student correctly points out that as the chief god, Zeus also trapped the Titans in Tartarus against his grand-mother Gaia's wishes and deliberately ate his lover, the Titaness Metis to prevent their child from overthrowing him (resulting in the birth of his daughter Athena via bursting from his head). The student even goes further with Zeus being responsible for Pandora and her Box releasing the world's evils as well as punishing the Titan Prometheus for giving fire to humanity, along with his numerous affairs with mortal women despite being married to his sister-wife Hera. The teacher quickly tries to shut him up, fearfully wondering if the chief god himself might be listening in and won't stand for any disrespect.
65	* LyingToProtectYourFeelings: Zeus enters the Underworld to get Persephone back for Demeter, however, upon finding the goddess, she reveals that she actually likes being there and enjoys Hades' company, whereas Demeter is "really crazy". Since Zeus doesn't want to risk angering his sister by doing anything to harm her daughter, when he returns empty-handed and she questions where Persephone is, he points to a nearby pomegranate and lies that because Persephone ate food from the Underworld, she has to remain there forever. Though despondent, Demeter notices and argues that because only one-half of the fruit was eaten, then she should be allowed to leave for half of the year and be with her mother. Still a coward, Zeus immediately agrees with that.
66	* MuggingTheMonster: When a new arrival to Camp Half-Blood is taunted by a son of Ares, the question is asked about who his godly parent is. When it's revealed that he's a son of Hypnos, the god of sleep, the son of Ares chuckles at the sort of useless power that being able to go to sleep is... until the son of Hypnos demonstrates that he can also ''put other people to sleep instantly'', and upon doing so to his taunter, breaks out a marker to cement his humiliation.
67	* MundaneSolution: When Zeus asks Poesidon how he managed to raise his son Percy Jackson into such an accomplished hero, the chief god is taken completely by surprise when Poseidon says he just regularly talked to his son, expressed his love, and supported him in his adventures.
68	* {{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"]]
69	* NightmareFetishist: When a Japanese boy asks his mother about the presence of several ''Tsukumogami'', she explains to him about their creation from objects that are neglected in their use by the owner. He thinks it over and comes to the decision to have a friend bring him a sex blow-up doll and a body pillow of an anime girl, then locks them in a closet with the clear intent to have them become sentient creatures that he can, er... play with.
70	* 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.
71	* OppositeDay: Icarus conspicuously decides to interpret Daedalus's warnings about flying too close to the Sun with their wings held together by wax in this manner. Even after Daedalus makes it explicitly clear to avoid the Sun, Icarus logics his way back into his original choice in a way that really makes him seem TooDumbToLive.
72	* 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.
73	* OurMonstersAreDifferent: When discussing how dangerous his country is, a Greek warrior states that he can't walk down the street without encountering a monster like fire-breathing lions, multi-headed serpents, or sentient statues. Then a Japanese housewife comes along and trumps his assertion by revealing she doesn't even have to leave her house to encounter a monster, such as a sentient mattress that smothers its owner (''Boroboroton''), dishrags that transform into dragons (''Shiro uneri''), sentient cloth that strangles its owner (''Ittan-momen''), giant disgusting feet that burst through the roof and demand to be cleaned (''Ashiarai Yashiki''), and pale men who bend over and expose the eye in between their buttcheeks (''Shirime''). The Greek soldier soundly admits to the utter insanity of that and concedes.
74	* PaperThinDisguise:
75	** When Loki and Thor plan to retrieve his hammer Mjolnir from the Giant Thrym without having to give him the goddess Freya as demanded, Thor immediately suggest disguising himself as Freya to fool the Giant. His disguise consists entirely of throwing on a wedding dress, despite the fact that Thor is described as built like a mountain with great red hair. And somehow, Thrym is fooled as he accepts the disguised Thunder God upon seeing him.
76	** During Athena's weaving duel with Arachne, her "disguise" as a mortal is only and literally a piece of paper on her chest saying "Not Athena". When Arachne insults the goddess, she takes the paper off and Arachne's OhCrap expression follows swiftly.
77	* {{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".
78	* ReallyGetsAround: Unsurprisingly, Zeus, king of the Greek gods lives and breathes this trope.
79	* ReasonableRequestRejected: When a guy goes to visit the Oracle to hear his future, he's immediately told "no". When questioned, the Oracle goes on a rant about exactly why hearing about your future is a very bad thing, since attempts to avoid a bad fortune have involved things like eating your children, killing your own father, leaving your baby to die in the forest, once even marrying your mother unknowingly. The guy wises up quickly and goes home.
80	* 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.
81	* 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 elements of the faith as well as how a lot of Christians on social media seem to miss the "Love thy neighbor" part.
82	* ShellShockedVeteran: PlayedForLaughs several times:
83	** When Thor plans to kill his magic goats for a meal, Loki questions why he would do that to the animals that help transport him, to which Thor reveals that he simply resurrects them whenever he needs them for a ride but claims they're totally fine with it. Cut to the goats nearby weeping terribly as by now, they've been killed, cooked and eaten, and then resurrected so many times it's hard not to completely break down.
84	* SiblingRivalry: Apparently, despite going through so much hardship together, Romulus and Remus are still willing to violently murder the other if it means getting a city named after themselves.
85	* SomeoneHasToDoIt: Invoked by Zeus when deciding what godly duties to bestow upon his children. After charging Apollo with guiding the Sun across the sky and creating beautiful music, he then turns to Dionysus and assigns the role of being Olympus' [[TheAlcoholic town drunk]] along with overseeing times when mortals are DrivenToMadness. Dionysus is not very enthused to hear it.
86	* StopCopyingMe: As exemplified by a ''Drake and Josh'' clip where Drake is brazenly copying Josh's homework answers, the Romans, rather than make meaningful attempts to form their own mythology, just borrowed heavily from the Greeks and put new names on the old gods.[[labelnote:*]]In truth, Roman mythology is more like a soft ContinuityReboot of Greek mythology, sprinkled with some elements of Etruscan mythology, in that it focuses on humans representing the far-off gods instead of directly presenting the divines themselves[[/labelnote]]
87	* TakeAThirdOption: When faced with the LesserOfTwoEvils situation that is steering the ''Argo'' either near the destructive whirlpool Charybdis or the man-eating monster Scylla, or going in between and getting "a little bit of both", Jason opts to take a Fourth Option... and go back the way they came, deciding that getting the Golden Fleece is not worth almost-certain death.
88	* TarnishingTheirOwnBeauty: After her death and being sent to Yomi, the Japanese underworld, Izanami was found there by her brother-husbnad Izanagi. However, upon seeing her, his first words are to [[{{Jerkass}} comment on how extremely ugly she's become]][[labelnote:*]]In the myths, when Izanagi found his wife in Yomi, she was covered in shadow and said that because she ate the fruit of the land, she was unable to return to the living world. When he lit his hair comb on fire to see better, he discovered that Izanami's stay in Yomi rendered her a living corpse of rotted flesh and covered in festering maggots[[/labelnote]] and completely unattractive she was to him now. Amidst her confusion, he then leaves.
89	* TheScapegoat: When a minor god arrives on Olympus and somehow can't locate Dionysus, he asks Zeus, only to be told that Dionysus never existed and is completely made up just to have someone to point the finger at for why both mortal and god are keen on getting completely wasted on wine most of the time.
90	* TooDumbToLive:
91	** 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.
92	** Upon completing the Labyrinth for King Minos and informing his patron about it, Daedulus, still standing inside of his creation, expresses confusion over the King's actions of walking out the door, closing it behind him, and calling out "Goodbye forever!" all without doing anything to prevent being sealed inside of the nigh-inescapable maze.
93	** 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.
94	* {{Troll}}: Loki has a hard time getting to the toilet because Thor left Mjolnir on the lid and he can't get it off.[[labelnote:*]]Unlike the popular [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicuniverse MCU]] characterization where Mjolnir can only be lifted by the worthy, the mythical Mjolnir is just immensely heavy, to the point that even Thor requires enchanted gear that enhances his physical strength to wield it.[[/labelnote]] When Loki assumes that it was an accident, Thor quickly proves that it wasn't, to Loki's hissing rage.
95	* UglyGuyHotWife: The pairing of Hephaestus and Aphrodite is usually considered the UrExample, seeing as the former was born so hideously deformed that his own mother ''threw him off a mountain''. Which led to him resenting her and getting his revenge. Which led to Zeus promising him the hand of the Goddess of Love and Beauty in exchange. Here, even when warned about Aphrodite's promiscuity and severe likelihood to cheat on him, Hephaestus is still perfectly willing to go ahead just because of her looks.
96	* VomitIndiscretionShot: Once used a clip of the infamous ''Family Guy'' scene where [[https://youtu.be/uEndHlkHHZ8?t=69 Brian Griffin vomits]] for almost a minute straight to simulate how Oedipus could have reacted when learning just who his Queen and wife really was.
97	* WeNeedADistraction: When Odin enlists Loki's help to distract Svaðilfari, a horse belonging to a Giant so they can sneak by and kill the Giant, Loki agrees. It's only after, and with Odin's SpitTake accompanying, that Loki reveals his plan involved the horse being DistractedByTheSexy via ''transforming into a mare and having sex with it, resulting in Loki getting pregnant with the calf''. Said union resulted in the birth of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir Sleipnir]], an eight-legged horse that Odin would make his personal mount.
98	* WhoWillBellTheCat: When the gods of the various pantheons become fed up with mortals arguing about them, they start deciding which one of them should go to Earth and do something about it. However, none actually want to do it because of mortals' past triumphs in killing gods. Then [[ReallyGetsAround Zeus]] volunteers and all the others immediately agree that he absolutely should not get involved.
99	* 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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