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1!! For the [[VideoGame/{{Myth}} game]]:
2* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
3** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCFtBlKDIaM The Siege of Madrigal]]. A LonelyPianoPiece that embodies the bloodsoaked tragedies of the story like nothing else. Not only is it good enough to get a reprise in ''II'' with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0Dc6Kzc4cg Gate of Storms]], but also appeared as an EasterEgg through Bungie's ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' games.
4* CultClassic: While never as popular as ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'' or ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'', the series has kept a small but fiercely dedicated fanbase that continues to make content through [[GameMod new maps and modifications]] decades later.
5* DemonicSpiders:
6** The Trow iron warriors in ''Myth III''. Remember how the Trow in the first two games were capable of killing several of your best units even when surrounded, were too fast to outrun, but only showed up in small numbers so it was a fair challenge? ''These'' guys are kind of like that, except armored like a tank and carrying a Big Freaking Hammer, which liquefies ''several'' units with each blow. They also have a ton of HP and don't turn to stone until it's fully depleted. You also have no special abilities or giant units of your own to counter them. They frequently come at you in pairs and there are levels with more than ten of them. Ironically, the only way to beat them is to exploit the equally broken AI, which doesn't realize that Trow now move, turn and attack too slow to ever catch or hit some units and will gladly run in circles after a lone Heron Guard while your archers and dwarfs pick 'em off ever so slowly. Worst of all this is how the developers ''intended'' you to beat them. Way to completely take the fun out of the game.
7* GameBreaker: In ''III'', The Tain makes fighting meaningless, though it only lasts for half a level. It is so overpowered that the rest of the campaign, after the only enemy that can counter it is dead, happens offscreen.
8* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: "New units received."
9* {{Narm}}: ''Myth III'' often lapses into this thanks to some hammy voice acting in contrast to an otherwise fairly dark and serious story and cutscenes that feature characters making silly gestures and not moving their mouths while speaking.
10* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The main complaint about ''Myth III'', aside from the horrendous number of bugs, was that it just doesn't feel like a ''Myth'' game with the perspective switch from the desperate average soldier to the fearless conquering hero. The goofy looking cutscenes and drawings, bland level design and addition of magic-users from races that weren't supposed to have the intelligence for it didn't help either. Turning the Trow from the iconic [[LightningBruiser fast and deadly juggernauts]] into completely broken sluggish [[ArtificialStupidity morons]] and then making them the main enemy for several levels in a row was the last straw for many people.
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13* CryForTheDevil: Plenty of it in ''A Promise''.
14** Cronus' death is painted as very tragic: a man who went paranoid about losing his throne to the point of neglecting his children and losing the love of his life, Rhea. His last moments are him musing how Gaia will not take him back and he won't be reunited with Rhea in death. Many readers can't help but pity the guy.
15** Cronus' brothers only remained by his side and helped him to control the world because they believed that, with time, the Cronus they used to know would return. After realizing that their little brother would never re-emerge from the crazy overlord he has become, all of them step out of Zeus' way.
16* FridgeBrilliance:
17** Prometheus being able to see the future would explain why he knew Athena needed to be born in "Distillation", and why he started to perform poorly in his job in order to accept Hephaestus as his assistant.
18** Hera is revealed in "Inflammation" to have taken care of both Thetis and Hebe. She's mostly seen arranging their hair in a nurturing matter. Her own mother, Rhea, liked to do the same with her children, so Hera must view it as a sign of affection.
19** Hestia having PsychicPowers explains how she was able to know her siblings' secrets in order to mess with their heads.
20** Hermes having a PrecociousCrush on Aphrodite could be a reference to their future one-night stand from which came Hermaphrodite.
21* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments:
22** ''My Seasons'': Persephone willingly eating the pomegranate seeds to be with her husband at least half the year.
23** ''Eternal Gift'': Amphitrite walking towards Poseidon to then reveal that she put on the Pearls of Eternia, accepting his marriage proposal.
24* MemeticMolester: Gaia, ''Gaia'', '''''GAIA'''''. The way she's getting all touchy feely with Zeus while [[spoiler:cursing his love life]] is downright disturbing, made much worse by the implication she's touching his, ehem, "private part". ''And'' even worse with her calling herself "the mother of all living things", which included Zeus himself. Many readers couldn't stop looking for the BrainBleach. Ironically enough, this is pretty accurate to the original mythology. Gaia did have sex with his own son Uranus to produce the Titans, and had a "one-night stand" with Poseidon (her grandson).
25* TheWoobie: Being Greek Mythology, many characters [[BreakTheCutie suffer]].
26** All of the Olympian siblings. Their dad went insane, Hades was forced to kill his mom, Zeus ''watched'' his mom being decapitated, the rest of the siblings were trapped by their father. After the war, Zeus lost his first love, declared he would hate Hades forever (and take note, Hades was his favorite brother) and now has a whole world on his young shoulders. Hades is hated by his little brother and exiled [[spoiler:and he's fine with it because he believes hate will make Zeus strong]]. Poseidon suffers when he sees his brothers suffering like they do, Demeter only gets to see Hades once in a while [[spoiler:and then dies]]. Hera is kind of a LoveMartyr underneath her {{Tsundere}} exterior and Hestia, despite of being the second oldest sibling, can't do much to help her younger siblings but provide them a place for solace.
27** Poseida. [[spoiler:She was made to believe that she was cursed and was the cause of her mother's illness for a fake priest that wanted to fool her into serving him. When she discovers that her mother died, she considered she had no other reason to live and killed herself. Luckily, [[EarnYourHappyEnding she was brought back from the dead as a Nereid, her horrible past was erased, and she got to marry the kindest Olympian brother, Poseidon]].]]

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