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* Shadow's prison cellmate is named Low Key Lyesmith. This would probably be a coincidence if not for the nature of the show, but the syllables of the name sound ''exactly'' like Loki, Lie Smith. Does he have an unconfirmed connection with a certain other Norse God present in the show? [[spoiler: Or is the character a relic of the book's plot that may have changed when Mr. World was expanded into the "god of globalism"?]]
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* Shadow's prison cellmate is named Low Key Lyesmith. This would probably be a coincidence if not for the nature of the show, but the syllables of the name sound ''exactly'' like Loki, Lie Smith. Does he have an unconfirmed connection with a certain other Norse God present in the show? [[spoiler: show? Or is the character a relic of the book's plot that may have changed when Mr. World was expanded into the "god of globalism"?]]globalism"?
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* Sweeney's [[CombatSadomasochist Combat Sadomasochism]] in his fight with Shadow takes on a new light with the reveal that [[spoiler: it was Sweeney that caused Laura's car accident in the first place.]]
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* Sweeney's [[CombatSadomasochist Combat Sadomasochism]] in his fight with Shadow takes on a new light with the reveal that [[spoiler: it was Sweeney that caused Laura's car accident in the first place.]]
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*** Confirmed in the series finale. [[spoiler:Tech Boy isn't just the New God of Technology; he's the God of Human Innovation. A flashback shows that he was "born" when humankind harnessed fire and is therefore at least as old as the Old Gods. Just as every new innovation by its very nature renders the previous incarnation obsolete, so Tech Boy constantly forgets who he was before. But since progress and innovation allows humans to become more and more self-reliant and secularized, the Old Gods have decided he must be stopped.]]
* Mr. World keeps sending Technical Boy out to stop Wednesday and Shadow, threatening him with horrific punishment should he fail. Yet Technical Boy keeps failing, and Mr. World keeps sending him on missions. Presumably Mr. World, as the New God of Globalization, has thousands of minions at his disposal, so why keep sending the one who keeps screwing the pooch? [[spoiler: Because Mr. World and Wednesday are running a two-man con, at least if that element of the book stays true here. Mr. World doesn't ''want'' Technical Boy to really succeed; he just wants to look as if he's ''trying'' to stop Wednesday but keeps getting foiled by incompetent help.]]
* Mr. World keeps sending Technical Boy out to stop Wednesday and Shadow, threatening him with horrific punishment should he fail. Yet Technical Boy keeps failing, and Mr. World keeps sending him on missions. Presumably Mr. World, as the New God of Globalization, has thousands of minions at his disposal, so why keep sending the one who keeps screwing the pooch? [[spoiler: Because Mr. World and Wednesday are running a two-man con, at least if that element of the book stays true here. Mr. World doesn't ''want'' Technical Boy to really succeed; he just wants to look as if he's ''trying'' to stop Wednesday but keeps getting foiled by incompetent help.]]
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*** Confirmed in the series finale. [[spoiler:Tech Tech Boy isn't just the New God of Technology; he's the God of Human Innovation. A flashback shows that he was "born" when humankind harnessed fire and is therefore at least as old as the Old Gods. Just as every new innovation by its very nature renders the previous incarnation obsolete, so Tech Boy constantly forgets who he was before. But since progress and innovation allows humans to become more and more self-reliant and secularized, the Old Gods have decided he must be stopped.]]
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* Mr. World keeps sending Technical Boy out to stop Wednesday and Shadow, threatening him with horrific punishment should he fail. Yet Technical Boy keeps failing, and Mr. World keeps sending him on missions. Presumably Mr. World, as the New God of Globalization, has thousands of minions at his disposal, so why keep sending the one who keeps screwing the pooch?[[spoiler: Because Mr. World and Wednesday are running a two-man con, at least if that element of the book stays true here. Mr. World doesn't ''want'' Technical Boy to really succeed; he just wants to look as if he's ''trying'' to stop Wednesday but keeps getting foiled by incompetent help.]]
* Mr. World keeps sending Technical Boy out to stop Wednesday and Shadow, threatening him with horrific punishment should he fail. Yet Technical Boy keeps failing, and Mr. World keeps sending him on missions. Presumably Mr. World, as the New God of Globalization, has thousands of minions at his disposal, so why keep sending the one who keeps screwing the pooch?
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* Wednesday's treatment of Jesus, in light of how [[spoiler: Odin]] was also one of the Old Gods whose source of worship was taken over by Christians.
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* Wednesday's treatment of Jesus, in light of how [[spoiler: Odin]] Odin was also one of the Old Gods whose source of worship was taken over by Christians.
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** In the original book, it's because [[spoiler: Mr. World is Loki, and working with Odin.]]
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** In the original book, it's because [[spoiler: Mr. World is Loki, and working with Odin.]]
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** Vulcan/Hephaestus was said to forge lightning bolts for Jove/Zeus. A slang term for guns is boomsticks and thundersticks. In both cases, we have a weapon that kills from afar with terrible noise.
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** Vulcan/Hephaestus was said to forge lightning bolts for Jove/Zeus. A slang term for guns is boomsticks and thundersticks. In both cases, we have a weapon that kills from afar with while making terrible noise.
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* Some of Odin's eighteen charms seem less useful than the others but are still terrifying with some foresight:
** "A seventh charm I know: I can quench a fire simply by looking at it." This charm alone makes him absolute nightmare to fight against by any god of fire and perfect counter to Vulcan. Also, before modern times and lighters and matches and oil and steel wool etc, starting a fire was hard work. How many armies froze to death in the middle of the blizzard or storm thanks to this charm? Also, this means he can probably stop any and all engines with internal combustion.
** Combo of "A sixth: spells sent to hurt me will hurt only the sender." and "For a tenth charm, I learned to dispel witches, to spin them around in the skies so that they will never find their way back to their own doors again." is terrifying depending on the definition. If we define a spell as "directed magic power" and a witch as "a female using magic" then every god using their powers and every goddess is in for a bad time.
** Third charm "I know a charm that will turn aside the weapons of an enemy" means that mundane weapons don't work on him (but he can presumably be killed by a weapon of a friend), so Vulcan was double screwed by facing him.
** "A seventh charm I know: I can quench a fire simply by looking at it." This charm alone makes him absolute nightmare to fight against by any god of fire and perfect counter to Vulcan. Also, before modern times and lighters and matches and oil and steel wool etc, starting a fire was hard work. How many armies froze to death in the middle of the blizzard or storm thanks to this charm? Also, this means he can probably stop any and all engines with internal combustion.
** Combo of "A sixth: spells sent to hurt me will hurt only the sender." and "For a tenth charm, I learned to dispel witches, to spin them around in the skies so that they will never find their way back to their own doors again." is terrifying depending on the definition. If we define a spell as "directed magic power" and a witch as "a female using magic" then every god using their powers and every goddess is in for a bad time.
** Third charm "I know a charm that will turn aside the weapons of an enemy" means that mundane weapons don't work on him (but he can presumably be killed by a weapon of a friend), so Vulcan was double screwed by facing him.
