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** More dramatically, Prometheus's gift of fire to man was this, as well. Previously, man lived in an idyllic-but-primitive state, part of the gods' attempt to make sure that this time they wouldn't kill each other. While the fire from Olympus did inspire and elevate them, it also created violence and led all the social problems of the world.

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** More dramatically, Prometheus's Prometheus' gift of fire to man was this, as well. Previously, man lived in an idyllic-but-primitive state, part of the gods' attempt to make sure that this time they wouldn't kill each other. While the fire from Olympus did inspire and elevate them, it also created violence and led all the social problems of the world.
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* Servants in the Muslim paradise are said to be "boys blessed with eternal youth". Imagine being twelve or thirteen years old forever, eternally waiting on martyrs with dozens of virgins each, whom they are not expected to share with the help. Those boys' wanking arms are going to be really tired after a century or two!

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* Servants in the Muslim paradise are said to be "boys blessed with eternal youth". Imagine being twelve or thirteen years old forever, eternally waiting on martyrs with dozens of virgins each, whom they are not expected to share with the help. Those boys' wanking arms are going to be really tired after a century or two!
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* Eos, a Greek nymph, gifted her lover Tithonus with eternal life but [[AgeWithoutYouth not eternal youth]]. She ''meant'' for him to have youth, but somewhere in the fine print that got left out. He turned into a cicada in the end, slowly withering away.
** Selene, titaness of the moon, fell in love with Endymion, a prince. Learning from the aforementioned example of eternal life without eternal youth, she wished for her lover to remain forever in the state she first saw him, obviously meaning for him to stay a healthy and strapping young man. What she forgot, was that she first saw him while he slept...

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* Eos, a Greek nymph, goddess, gifted her lover Tithonus with eternal life but [[AgeWithoutYouth not eternal youth]]. She ''meant'' for him to have youth, but somewhere in the fine print that got left out. He turned into a cicada in the end, slowly withering away.
** Selene, titaness the goddess of the moon, fell in love with Endymion, a prince. Learning from the aforementioned example of eternal life without eternal youth, she wished for her lover to remain forever in the state she first saw him, obviously meaning for him to stay a healthy and strapping young man. What she forgot, was that she first saw him while he slept...
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* [[KingArthur Sir Gawain]]'s strength increases with the sun, making him nigh invincible about noon. Unfortunately, it also ''decreases'' with the sun, leaving him sapped of energy later in the afternoon and unable to work nights.

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* [[KingArthur [[Myth/ArthurianLegend Sir Gawain]]'s strength increases with the sun, making him nigh invincible about noon. Unfortunately, it also ''decreases'' with the sun, leaving him sapped of energy later in the afternoon and unable to work nights.



* From Irish mythology, [[http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/diarmuid.html Diarmuid O'Duibhne]] was blessed by an unknown [[TheFairFolk fae]] being with a spot on his face that would cause women to fall in love with him just by looking at him. Sounds great, until the woman who's supposed to be marrying his king falls for him instead and forces him to elope with her, causing said king to chase after him with all his army. Which was mostly made up of Diarmuid's old friends, who didn't much like the situation either. [[DownerEnding It didn't end well,]] but it did inspire the later legends of Tristan and Isolde, and [[Myth/KingArthur Lancelot and Guinevere]].

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* From Irish mythology, [[http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/diarmuid.html Diarmuid O'Duibhne]] was blessed by an unknown [[TheFairFolk fae]] being with a spot on his face that would cause women to fall in love with him just by looking at him. Sounds great, until the woman who's supposed to be marrying his king falls for him instead and forces him to elope with her, causing said king to chase after him with all his army. Which was mostly made up of Diarmuid's old friends, who didn't much like the situation either. [[DownerEnding It didn't end well,]] but it did inspire the later legends of Tristan and Isolde, and [[Myth/KingArthur [[Myth/ArthurianLegend Lancelot and Guinevere]].
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** Speaking of Islam: You may wonder, how can a men that enter paradise can satisfy all the virgins that he will get? Well:'It is quoted by Ibn Kathir, in his Qur'anic Commentary, the Tafsir ibn Kathir, and they are graphically described by Qur'anic commentator and polymath, al-Suyuti (died 1505), who, echoing a hasan hadith from Ibn Majah, wrote that the perpetual virgins will all "have appetizing vaginas", and that the "penis of the Elected never softens. The erection is eternal".' In case you missed some of that: Men in islamic paradise will have eternally erected penises.

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** Speaking of Islam: You may wonder, how can a men that enter paradise can satisfy all the virgins that he will get? Well:'It is quoted by Ibn Kathir, in his Qur'anic Commentary, the Tafsir ibn Kathir, and they are graphically described by Qur'anic commentator and polymath, al-Suyuti (died 1505), who, echoing a hasan hadith from Ibn Majah, wrote that the perpetual virgins will all "have appetizing vaginas", and that the "penis of the Elected never softens. The erection is eternal".' In case you missed some of that: Men in islamic paradise will have [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priapism eternally erected penises.penises]].

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* One of the [[OlderThanFeudalism earliest]] examples is the Myth/{{Greek myth|ology}} of King Midas. Everything he touched turned to gold. When he tried eating and drinking, he discovered the downside. (This also qualifies as NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished and BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor, as his golden touch was a wish granted by the god Dionysus as a reward for the hospitality Midas had shown to his friend and tutor Silenus. In Dionysus' defense he did try to warn him what a stupid wish it was.)
** Nathaniel Hawthorne's version of the story in ''A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys'' (1852) has Midas embracing his daughter and [[TakenForGranite turning her into a gold statue]].
** The ''Webcomic/DinosaurComics'' version of Midas is [[http://qwantz.com/archive/001355.html even worse]].
** Shel Silverstein also sent up this trope in his poem ''Squishy Touch'':
--->''Everything King Midas touched''
--->''turned to gold, the lucky fellow.''
--->''Every single thing I touch''
--->''turns into raspberry Jell-O...''
** Retold as a tale about a medieval king in the Disney short ''WesternAnimation/TheGoldenTouch''.
** Parodied in a Skittles commercial, in which an old man called Tim has the power to turn everything he touches into Skittles. His coworker thinks this is awesome. He is harshly corrected.
--->'''Tim:''' Is it awesome... when you can't hold your newborn baby boy in your arms? Did you feed and dress yourself this morning? I didn't. I met a man on the bus today. I shook his hand. [[TouchOfDeath He'll never see his family again.]] [[SarcasmMode I guess it's pretty awesome.]]
** This line was considered so horrific in its implications that it was eventually cut out and replaced by a shorter version that skips straight to the phone gag below. You have to wonder exactly what the thinking was when they decided that portraying an innocent family man with a FateWorseThanDeath was a good way to sell rainbow-themed candy.
*** He then proceeds to answer his phone, turning it into Skittles, then hits the desk in frustration, with predictable results.
*** There was also a children's book that referenced this, ''Literature/TheChocolateTouch'', by Patrick Skene Catling (the main character's family name was Midas to complete the reference); the main character, a kid, got a coin from a mysterious shop that gave him the ability to turn everything that touched his lips to chocolate, and for some [[FridgeHorror Fridge Horror]], the cover of the book has the kid kissing his mother on the cheek, and you can see that she's turned into chocolate from the head down to around her shoulders.
** The song ''King Midas In Reverse'' was written by someone who didn't understand the Midas myth and all its implications; the song is about somebody whose touch turns things to dust. The writer failed to realise that turning things to gold at a touch is just as bad; how would such a person eat or drink?
** ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' book ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'' features a lake which has the Midas curse upon it.
** Varied by singer/songwriter Lloyd Cole in the lyrics of "Perfect Blue": "Whatever I touch turns blue..." [[note]]"blue" as in "depressive, melancholic..." [[/note]]

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* One of the [[OlderThanFeudalism earliest]] examples is the Myth/{{Greek myth|ology}} of King Midas. Everything Midas, where everything he touched turned touches turns to gold. When he tried eating and drinking, he discovered the downside. (This This also qualifies as NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished and BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor, as his golden touch was a wish granted by the god Dionysus as a reward for the hospitality Midas had shown to his friend and tutor Silenus. In (In Dionysus' defense he did try to warn him what a stupid wish it was.)
** Nathaniel Hawthorne's version of the story in ''A Wonder-Book
) See MidasTouch for Girls and Boys'' (1852) has Midas embracing his daughter and [[TakenForGranite turning her into a gold statue]].
** The ''Webcomic/DinosaurComics'' version of Midas is [[http://qwantz.com/archive/001355.html even worse]].
** Shel Silverstein also sent up this trope in his poem ''Squishy Touch'':
--->''Everything King Midas touched''
--->''turned to gold, the lucky fellow.''
--->''Every single thing I touch''
--->''turns into raspberry Jell-O...''
** Retold as a tale about a medieval king in the Disney short ''WesternAnimation/TheGoldenTouch''.
** Parodied in a Skittles commercial, in which an old man called Tim has the power to turn everything he touches into Skittles. His coworker thinks this is awesome. He is harshly corrected.
--->'''Tim:''' Is it awesome... when you can't hold your newborn baby boy in your arms? Did you feed and dress yourself this morning? I didn't. I met a man on the bus today. I shook his hand. [[TouchOfDeath He'll never see his family again.]] [[SarcasmMode I guess it's pretty awesome.]]
** This line was considered so horrific in its implications that it was eventually cut out and replaced by a shorter version that skips straight to the phone gag below. You have to wonder exactly what the thinking was when they decided that portraying an innocent family man with a FateWorseThanDeath was a good way to sell rainbow-themed candy.
*** He then proceeds to answer his phone, turning it into Skittles, then hits the desk in frustration, with predictable results.
*** There was also a children's book that referenced this, ''Literature/TheChocolateTouch'', by Patrick Skene Catling (the main character's family name was Midas to complete the reference); the main character, a kid, got a coin from a mysterious shop that gave him the ability to turn everything that touched his lips to chocolate, and for some [[FridgeHorror Fridge Horror]], the cover of the book has the kid kissing his mother on the cheek, and you can see that she's turned into chocolate from the head down to around her shoulders.
** The song ''King Midas In Reverse'' was written by someone who didn't understand the Midas myth and all its implications; the song is about somebody whose touch turns things to dust. The writer failed to realise that turning things to gold at a touch is just as bad; how would such a person eat or drink?
** ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' book ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'' features a lake which has the Midas curse upon it.
** Varied by singer/songwriter Lloyd Cole in the lyrics of "Perfect Blue": "Whatever I touch turns blue..." [[note]]"blue" as in "depressive, melancholic..." [[/note]]
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*** There was also a children's book that referenced this, ''The Chocolate Touch'', by Patrick Skene Catling (the main character's family name was Midas to complete the reference); the main character, a kid, got a coin from a mysterious shop that gave him the ability to turn everything that touched his lips to chocolate, and for some [[FridgeHorror Fridge Horror]], the cover of the book has the kid kissing his mother on the cheek, and you can see that she's turned into chocolate from the head down to around her shoulders.

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*** There was also a children's book that referenced this, ''The Chocolate Touch'', ''Literature/TheChocolateTouch'', by Patrick Skene Catling (the main character's family name was Midas to complete the reference); the main character, a kid, got a coin from a mysterious shop that gave him the ability to turn everything that touched his lips to chocolate, and for some [[FridgeHorror Fridge Horror]], the cover of the book has the kid kissing his mother on the cheek, and you can see that she's turned into chocolate from the head down to around her shoulders.
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* One of the [[OlderThanFeudalism earliest]] examples is the Myth/{{Greek myth|ology}} of King Midas. Everything he touched turned to gold. When he tried eating and drinking, he discovered the downside. (This also qualifies as NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished and BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor, as his golden touch was a wish granted by the god Dionysius as a reward for the hospitality Midas had shown to his friend and tutor Silenus. In Dionysius' defense he did try to warn him what a stupid wish it was.)

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* One of the [[OlderThanFeudalism earliest]] examples is the Myth/{{Greek myth|ology}} of King Midas. Everything he touched turned to gold. When he tried eating and drinking, he discovered the downside. (This also qualifies as NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished and BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor, as his golden touch was a wish granted by the god Dionysius Dionysus as a reward for the hospitality Midas had shown to his friend and tutor Silenus. In Dionysius' Dionysus' defense he did try to warn him what a stupid wish it was.)
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**Speaking of Islam: You may wonder, how can a men that enter paradise can satisfy all the virgins that he will get? Well:'It is quoted by Ibn Kathir, in his Qur'anic Commentary, the Tafsir ibn Kathir, and they are graphically described by Qur'anic commentator and polymath, al-Suyuti (died 1505), who, echoing a hasan hadith from Ibn Majah, wrote that the perpetual virgins will all "have appetizing vaginas", and that the "penis of the Elected never softens. The erection is eternal".' In case you missed some of that: Men in islamic paradise will have eternally erected penises.
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Cassandra isn't an example. She was given the gift of prophecy THEN later given an outright curse, the gift of prophecy itself was a boon until she was cursed so that it wasn't.


* Cassandra got the power of prophecy as a gift from Apollo... but when she spurned him, he declared that -- though she was always right -- [[CassandraTruth no one would ever believe her]].
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* Eos, a Greek nymph, gifted her lover Tithonus with eternal life but not eternal youth. She ''meant'' for him to have youth, but somewhere in the fine print that got left out. He turned into a cicada in the end, slowly withering away.

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* Eos, a Greek nymph, gifted her lover Tithonus with eternal life but [[AgeWithoutYouth not eternal youth.youth]]. She ''meant'' for him to have youth, but somewhere in the fine print that got left out. He turned into a cicada in the end, slowly withering away.

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* Eos, a Greek nymph, gifted her lover Tithonus with eternal life but not eternal youth. She ''meant'' for him to have youth, but somewhere in the fine print that got left out.

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* Eos, a Greek nymph, gifted her lover Tithonus with eternal life but not eternal youth. She ''meant'' for him to have youth, but somewhere in the fine print that got left out. He turned into a cicada in the end, slowly withering away.
** Selene, titaness of the moon, fell in love with Endymion, a prince. Learning from the aforementioned example of eternal life without eternal youth, she wished for her lover to remain forever in the state she first saw him, obviously meaning for him to stay a healthy and strapping young man. What she forgot, was that she first saw him while he slept...
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* One [[ValuesDissonance classical interpretation]] of the {{Medusa}} myth was that rather than punishing her for sleeping with Poseidon, Athena was "protecting" her after he [[DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal raped her]]; by making her hideous and giving her the power to turn ogling men to stone, nobody would ever take advantage of her again (with obvious shades of DefiledForever). Or maybe Athena just took [[JackassGenie a sick pleasure in doling out a really twisted kind of protection.]]

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* One [[ValuesDissonance classical interpretation]] of the {{Medusa}} myth was that rather than punishing her for sleeping with Poseidon, Athena was "protecting" her after he [[DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal raped her]]; by making her hideous and giving her the power to turn ogling men to stone, nobody would ever take advantage of her again (with obvious shades of DefiledForever). Or maybe Athena just took [[JackassGenie a sick pleasure in doling out a really twisted kind of protection.]]]]
* From Irish mythology, [[http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/diarmuid.html Diarmuid O'Duibhne]] was blessed by an unknown [[TheFairFolk fae]] being with a spot on his face that would cause women to fall in love with him just by looking at him. Sounds great, until the woman who's supposed to be marrying his king falls for him instead and forces him to elope with her, causing said king to chase after him with all his army. Which was mostly made up of Diarmuid's old friends, who didn't much like the situation either. [[DownerEnding It didn't end well,]] but it did inspire the later legends of Tristan and Isolde, and [[Myth/KingArthur Lancelot and Guinevere]].
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"likely"? why are you saying these things if you didn't even fact check?


** That's not the worst of it. Muslim tradition is somewhat sexist, so the standards are likely substantially higher for women to get into paradise than men. These Muslim martyrs promised virgin women? ''[[FridgeHorror What if]] [[WholesomeCrossdresser they aren't]]''?
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** Actually even more horrific than one might think at first, since the British Islands are notoriously cloudy. If the ability means "amount of sun = strength), then only very rarely would he have full strength.
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** Varied by singer/songwriter Lloyd Cole in the lyrics of "Perfect Blue": "Whatever I touch turns blue..." [[note]] "blue" as in "depressive, melancholic..." [[/note]]

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** Varied by singer/songwriter Lloyd Cole in the lyrics of "Perfect Blue": "Whatever I touch turns blue..." [[note]] "blue" [[note]]"blue" as in "depressive, melancholic..." [[/note]]

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--->'''Tim:''' Is it awesome... when you can't hold your newborn baby boy in your arms? Did you feed and dress yourself this morning? I didn't. I met a man on the bus today. I shook his hand. [[TouchOfDeath He'll never see his family again.]] [[SarcasmMode I guess it's pretty awesome.]] This line was considered so horrific in its implications that it was eventually cut out and replaced by a shorter version that skips straight to the phone gag below. You have to wonder exactly what the thinking was when they decided that portraying an innocent family man with a FateWorseThanDeath was a good way to sell rainbow-themed candy.

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--->'''Tim:''' Is it awesome... when you can't hold your newborn baby boy in your arms? Did you feed and dress yourself this morning? I didn't. I met a man on the bus today. I shook his hand. [[TouchOfDeath He'll never see his family again.]] [[SarcasmMode I guess it's pretty awesome.]] ]]
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This line was considered so horrific in its implications that it was eventually cut out and replaced by a shorter version that skips straight to the phone gag below. You have to wonder exactly what the thinking was when they decided that portraying an innocent family man with a FateWorseThanDeath was a good way to sell rainbow-themed candy.
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--->'''Tim:''' Is it awesome... when you can't hold your newborn baby boy in your arms? Did you feed and dress yourself this morning? I didn't. I met a man on the bus today. I shook his hand. [[TouchOfDeath He'll never see his family again.]] [[SarcasmMode I guess it's pretty awesome.]]

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--->'''Tim:''' Is it awesome... when you can't hold your newborn baby boy in your arms? Did you feed and dress yourself this morning? I didn't. I met a man on the bus today. I shook his hand. [[TouchOfDeath He'll never see his family again.]] [[SarcasmMode I guess it's pretty awesome.]]]] This line was considered so horrific in its implications that it was eventually cut out and replaced by a shorter version that skips straight to the phone gag below. You have to wonder exactly what the thinking was when they decided that portraying an innocent family man with a FateWorseThanDeath was a good way to sell rainbow-themed candy.
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* One [[ValuesDissonance classical interpretation]] of the Medusa myth was that rather than being punishing her for sleeping with Poseidon, Athena was "protecting" her after he [[DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal raped]] the gorgeous Medusa; by making her hideous and giving her the power to turn ogling men to stone, nobody would ever take advantage of her again (shades of DefiledForever). Or maybe Athena just took [[JackassGenie a sick pleasure in doling out a really twisted kind of protection.]]

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* One [[ValuesDissonance classical interpretation]] of the Medusa {{Medusa}} myth was that rather than being punishing her for sleeping with Poseidon, Athena was "protecting" her after he [[DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal raped]] the gorgeous Medusa; raped her]]; by making her hideous and giving her the power to turn ogling men to stone, nobody would ever take advantage of her again (shades (with obvious shades of DefiledForever). Or maybe Athena just took [[JackassGenie a sick pleasure in doling out a really twisted kind of protection.]]
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** That's not the worst of it. Muslim tradition is somewhat sexist, so the standards are likely substantially higher for women to get into paradise than men. These Muslim martyrs promised virgin women? ''[[FridgeHorror What if]] [[WholesomeCrossdresser they aren't]]''?

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** That's not the worst of it. Muslim tradition is somewhat sexist, so the standards are likely substantially higher for women to get into paradise than men. These Muslim martyrs promised virgin women? ''[[FridgeHorror What if]] [[WholesomeCrossdresser they aren't]]''?aren't]]''?
* One [[ValuesDissonance classical interpretation]] of the Medusa myth was that rather than being punishing her for sleeping with Poseidon, Athena was "protecting" her after he [[DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal raped]] the gorgeous Medusa; by making her hideous and giving her the power to turn ogling men to stone, nobody would ever take advantage of her again (shades of DefiledForever). Or maybe Athena just took [[JackassGenie a sick pleasure in doling out a really twisted kind of protection.]]

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