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[[caption-width-right:300:[[{{Tagline}} You are what you worship]].]]
''American Gods'' is a TV series based on a [[Literature/AmericanGods novel]] by Creator/NeilGaiman. It's developed by Creator/BryanFuller and Michael Green for Creator/{{Starz}}, and premiered on April 30, 2017. The first season is stated to adapt the first third of the book, following Shadow Moon (portrayed by Ricky Whittle) and Mr. Wednesday (Creator/IanMcShane) on their journey across America. The show will expand on the book by giving more spotlight to some of the book's supporting characters, including Laura Moon (Creator/EmilyBrowning), Mad Sweeney (Creator/PabloSchreiber) and Bilquis (Yetide Badaki), as well as the antagonists like Technical Boy (Bruce Langley) and Media (Creator/GillianAnderson).
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!! This show provides examples of:
* ActionPrologue: The series starts with [[UsefulNotes/TheVikingAge the Vikings' first voyage to America]], ending with a massive battle to the death as a blood sacrifice to persuade Odin to bring wind to their sails.[[note]] The novel originally depicted them sacrificing one of the natives to Odin before retuning home. WordOfGod is the creators specifically changed it to give the audience a better sense of the show.[[/note]]
* AdaptationExpansion: The (admittedly big) novel will receive this, with a planned 3 or 4 seasons based on it, and maybe more if the sequel comes out.
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Shadow is quickly suspicious when Mr. Wednesday makes unusually dead-on observations, but he starts to chuckle at his antics when Wednesday deduces that Shadow had a hippie mom.
* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: In the book, Shadow is walking back to the hotel from Laura's burial by himself, because he was dropped off by Wednesday, then rode to the burial with Laura's mother in a limousine. In the show, however, he took Wednesday's Cadillac to the funeral, and there's no scene in the limo, so one assumes he took that car to the burial as well. The reason, however, that it's important that Shadow walks back to the hotel is that it's on the road that he has his first run-in with [[spoiler: The Technical Boy.]]
* AdaptationPersonalityChange:
** In the book, Shadow is noted to be an UnfazedEveryman which even Mr. Wednesday lampshaded who also spoke politely and never cursed. The series sees him more emotional and swearing frequently.
** Bookverse Mr. Nancy was fun-loving and laid back. Mr. Nancy's first scene in the series has him spitting a furious speech about what America has in store for its African-American population, inciting a 17th century ship full of slaves to break their chains, slit the throats of their enslavers, and burn the boat down.
* AscendedExtra: Some characters from the 'Somewhere in America' stories that are interspersed throughout the book will play a bigger part in the show.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Laura.]]
* BerserkButton:
** Shadow is understandably touchy about slights against his recently deceased wife. Mad Sweeney tries to goad Shadow into a fight but Shadow declines. Then Sweeney insults Laura and Shadow punches him in the face before Sweeney can even finish the sentence. After learning of [[spoiler:her infidelity]], he becomes more conflicted about her, as evidenced by his more sedate reaction during his first conversation with the Technical Boy.
** Lampshaded and discussed by "Low Key" Lyesmith and Shadow: Low Key tells Shadow the story of Johnny Larch, an inmate who tried to fly away after getting paroled, but since he refused to allow a airport worker to "disrespect" him by not taking his expired ID, he ended up thrown out of the airport, and soon back in prison. In prison, "not taking disrespect" is a survival mechanism, but it can get you into lots of trouble on the outside. [[HiddenDepths Shadow comments that perhaps the lesson is that behaviors that work in a specialized environment like prison can be detrimental when used outside said environment.]] Low Key responds that the moral of the story is, "don't fuck with those bitches at the airport." Remembering this story keeps Shadow from breaking his parole by blowing his top at the rude ticket lady at the airport.
* BloodKnight: Mad Sweeney likes to start fights for the sheer joy of violence and bloodshed.
* BloodyHilarious: The Coming to America sequence with the Vikings, especially the ending.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: A viking's arm gets chopped off and literally goes offscreen, appearing on the upper black border of the letterbox instead of disappearing behind it.
* CanonForeigner: Greco-Roman gods didn't appear in the novel (although Medusa showed up a few times) but Corbin Bernsen was cast as Vulcan.[[note]]WordOfGod is that Gaiman didn't use Greek mythology because there was no evidence at the time he wrote the book that the Ancient Greeks ever made it to America. (And also because he thought Greek mythology had been done to death.) However, with the discovery of some Ancient Roman coins in the Ohio River, there was more license to include the Greek/Roman pantheon.[[/note]]
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Early in the first episode, Shadow has a dream of a strange forest, where a noose is hanging from a massive tree. At the end of the episode, the Technical Boy's minions try to lynch Shadow.
* EarlyBirdCameo: The narrator of the "Coming to America" scene that starts the first episode is a spectacled black man, writing with a fountain pen in a book. If you've read the book, or even paid attention to the promotional material from Starz, you'll recognize the man as [[spoiler: Mr. Ibis, who Shadow will cross paths with during the series. Considering Ibis is an incarnation of Thoth, this makes the appearance a literal Early Bird Cameo.]]
* FanDisservice: Bilquis's sex scene in "The Bone Orchard" is very, very explicit, but it ends with her eating her date with her vagina.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: It took the Vikings to make war in order to summon Odin's favor. [[spoiler: It hints at Wednesday's ultimate scheme, inciting war in order to fuel his power.]]
* GroinAttack: [[spoiler: Laura was giving Robbie a blowjob seconds before the car accident. The resulting impact was enough to send them both flying through the windscreen, and whether from the force of the collision or brain damage, [[RealityEnsues Laura unintentionally bites off Robbie's penis.]] This in turn reveals to Audrey and Shadow that their spouses were having an affair.]]
* HowsYourBritishAccent: Wednesday is first seen performing a con as a senile old British man. He's played by the similarly British Creator/IanMcShane.
* IDieFree: In the "Coming to America" segment of "The Secret of Spoons", Anansi convinces slaves being shipped to America to burn down the slave ship and kill all the slavers, because it's better to die fighting for freedom than to live as a slave.
* LadyInRed: Bilquis, rather than in the trashy StreetWalker outfit the novel describes, appears in an elegant red dress.
* {{Leprechaun}}: Mad Sweeny claims to be one despite him and Shadow both being big guys and lacking an accent. He's got a lot of the traits in common including red hair and doing tricks with gold coins. He's also got the stereotypical Irish traits including drinking, loving to fight, and has a hell of a temper.
* ObfuscatingStupidity:
** Wednesday is introduced pretending to be a senile old man to guilt trip an airline into upgrading him to first class.
** Wednesday claims that Shadow does this: by not talking often, he tricks people into thinking that he's merely DumbMuscle.
* SignsOfDisrepair: A promotional image features the title as a hotel sign with some of the letters unlit; the illuminated letters form the phrase AM I A GOD.
* WhamLine: From "The Bone Orchard":
-->'''Audrey''': Holy shit, Shadow. Nobody told you? [[spoiler:[[YourCheatingHeart [Laura] died with my husband's cock in her mouth.]]]]
* WhamShot: Two in the first episode.
** [[spoiler: The coin Mad Sweeny gave Shadow and he in turn leaves on Laura's grave shines with an eerie light before being swallowed into the earth.]]
** [[spoiler: Shadow staring on in the aftermath of a bloody massacre of the men who beat and hung him.]]
* WholeCostumeReference: The outfits worn by the Technical Boy's goons are modeled after the outfits Alex [=DeLarge=] and his droogs wear in ''Film/AClockworkOrange''.
* YourCheatingHeart: Shadow finds out Laura, at her funeral no less, [[spoiler: was cheating on him with his best friend while he was in prison.]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:[[{{Tagline}} You are what you worship]].]]
''American Gods'' is a TV series based on a [[Literature/AmericanGods novel]] by Creator/NeilGaiman. It's developed by Creator/BryanFuller and Michael Green for Creator/{{Starz}}, and premiered on April 30, 2017. The first season is stated to adapt the first third of the book, following Shadow Moon (portrayed by Ricky Whittle) and Mr. Wednesday (Creator/IanMcShane) on their journey across America. The show will expand on the book by giving more spotlight to some of the book's supporting characters, including Laura Moon (Creator/EmilyBrowning), Mad Sweeney (Creator/PabloSchreiber) and Bilquis (Yetide Badaki), as well as the antagonists like Technical Boy (Bruce Langley) and Media (Creator/GillianAnderson).
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!! This show provides examples of:
* ActionPrologue: The series starts with [[UsefulNotes/TheVikingAge the Vikings' first voyage to America]], ending with a massive battle to the death as a blood sacrifice to persuade Odin to bring wind to their sails.[[note]] The novel originally depicted them sacrificing one of the natives to Odin before retuning home. WordOfGod is the creators specifically changed it to give the audience a better sense of the show.[[/note]]
* AdaptationExpansion: The (admittedly big) novel will receive this, with a planned 3 or 4 seasons based on it, and maybe more if the sequel comes out.
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Shadow is quickly suspicious when Mr. Wednesday makes unusually dead-on observations, but he starts to chuckle at his antics when Wednesday deduces that Shadow had a hippie mom.
* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: In the book, Shadow is walking back to the hotel from Laura's burial by himself, because he was dropped off by Wednesday, then rode to the burial with Laura's mother in a limousine. In the show, however, he took Wednesday's Cadillac to the funeral, and there's no scene in the limo, so one assumes he took that car to the burial as well. The reason, however, that it's important that Shadow walks back to the hotel is that it's on the road that he has his first run-in with [[spoiler: The Technical Boy.]]
* AdaptationPersonalityChange:
** In the book, Shadow is noted to be an UnfazedEveryman which even Mr. Wednesday lampshaded who also spoke politely and never cursed. The series sees him more emotional and swearing frequently.
** Bookverse Mr. Nancy was fun-loving and laid back. Mr. Nancy's first scene in the series has him spitting a furious speech about what America has in store for its African-American population, inciting a 17th century ship full of slaves to break their chains, slit the throats of their enslavers, and burn the boat down.
* AscendedExtra: Some characters from the 'Somewhere in America' stories that are interspersed throughout the book will play a bigger part in the show.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Laura.]]
* BerserkButton:
** Shadow is understandably touchy about slights against his recently deceased wife. Mad Sweeney tries to goad Shadow into a fight but Shadow declines. Then Sweeney insults Laura and Shadow punches him in the face before Sweeney can even finish the sentence. After learning of [[spoiler:her infidelity]], he becomes more conflicted about her, as evidenced by his more sedate reaction during his first conversation with the Technical Boy.
** Lampshaded and discussed by "Low Key" Lyesmith and Shadow: Low Key tells Shadow the story of Johnny Larch, an inmate who tried to fly away after getting paroled, but since he refused to allow a airport worker to "disrespect" him by not taking his expired ID, he ended up thrown out of the airport, and soon back in prison. In prison, "not taking disrespect" is a survival mechanism, but it can get you into lots of trouble on the outside. [[HiddenDepths Shadow comments that perhaps the lesson is that behaviors that work in a specialized environment like prison can be detrimental when used outside said environment.]] Low Key responds that the moral of the story is, "don't fuck with those bitches at the airport." Remembering this story keeps Shadow from breaking his parole by blowing his top at the rude ticket lady at the airport.
* BloodKnight: Mad Sweeney likes to start fights for the sheer joy of violence and bloodshed.
* BloodyHilarious: The Coming to America sequence with the Vikings, especially the ending.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: A viking's arm gets chopped off and literally goes offscreen, appearing on the upper black border of the letterbox instead of disappearing behind it.
* CanonForeigner: Greco-Roman gods didn't appear in the novel (although Medusa showed up a few times) but Corbin Bernsen was cast as Vulcan.[[note]]WordOfGod is that Gaiman didn't use Greek mythology because there was no evidence at the time he wrote the book that the Ancient Greeks ever made it to America. (And also because he thought Greek mythology had been done to death.) However, with the discovery of some Ancient Roman coins in the Ohio River, there was more license to include the Greek/Roman pantheon.[[/note]]
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Early in the first episode, Shadow has a dream of a strange forest, where a noose is hanging from a massive tree. At the end of the episode, the Technical Boy's minions try to lynch Shadow.
* EarlyBirdCameo: The narrator of the "Coming to America" scene that starts the first episode is a spectacled black man, writing with a fountain pen in a book. If you've read the book, or even paid attention to the promotional material from Starz, you'll recognize the man as [[spoiler: Mr. Ibis, who Shadow will cross paths with during the series. Considering Ibis is an incarnation of Thoth, this makes the appearance a literal Early Bird Cameo.]]
* FanDisservice: Bilquis's sex scene in "The Bone Orchard" is very, very explicit, but it ends with her eating her date with her vagina.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: It took the Vikings to make war in order to summon Odin's favor. [[spoiler: It hints at Wednesday's ultimate scheme, inciting war in order to fuel his power.]]
* GroinAttack: [[spoiler: Laura was giving Robbie a blowjob seconds before the car accident. The resulting impact was enough to send them both flying through the windscreen, and whether from the force of the collision or brain damage, [[RealityEnsues Laura unintentionally bites off Robbie's penis.]] This in turn reveals to Audrey and Shadow that their spouses were having an affair.]]
* HowsYourBritishAccent: Wednesday is first seen performing a con as a senile old British man. He's played by the similarly British Creator/IanMcShane.
* IDieFree: In the "Coming to America" segment of "The Secret of Spoons", Anansi convinces slaves being shipped to America to burn down the slave ship and kill all the slavers, because it's better to die fighting for freedom than to live as a slave.
* LadyInRed: Bilquis, rather than in the trashy StreetWalker outfit the novel describes, appears in an elegant red dress.
* {{Leprechaun}}: Mad Sweeny claims to be one despite him and Shadow both being big guys and lacking an accent. He's got a lot of the traits in common including red hair and doing tricks with gold coins. He's also got the stereotypical Irish traits including drinking, loving to fight, and has a hell of a temper.
* ObfuscatingStupidity:
** Wednesday is introduced pretending to be a senile old man to guilt trip an airline into upgrading him to first class.
** Wednesday claims that Shadow does this: by not talking often, he tricks people into thinking that he's merely DumbMuscle.
* SignsOfDisrepair: A promotional image features the title as a hotel sign with some of the letters unlit; the illuminated letters form the phrase AM I A GOD.
* WhamLine: From "The Bone Orchard":
-->'''Audrey''': Holy shit, Shadow. Nobody told you? [[spoiler:[[YourCheatingHeart [Laura] died with my husband's cock in her mouth.]]]]
* WhamShot: Two in the first episode.
** [[spoiler: The coin Mad Sweeny gave Shadow and he in turn leaves on Laura's grave shines with an eerie light before being swallowed into the earth.]]
** [[spoiler: Shadow staring on in the aftermath of a bloody massacre of the men who beat and hung him.]]
* WholeCostumeReference: The outfits worn by the Technical Boy's goons are modeled after the outfits Alex [=DeLarge=] and his droogs wear in ''Film/AClockworkOrange''.
* YourCheatingHeart: Shadow finds out Laura, at her funeral no less, [[spoiler: was cheating on him with his best friend while he was in prison.]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:[[{{Tagline}} You are what you worship]].]]
''American Gods'' is a TV series based on a [[Literature/AmericanGods novel]] by Creator/NeilGaiman. It's developed by Creator/BryanFuller and Michael Green for Creator/{{Starz}}, and premiered on April 30, 2017. The first season is stated to adapt the first third of the book, following Shadow Moon (portrayed by Ricky Whittle) and Mr. Wednesday (Creator/IanMcShane) on their journey across America. The show will expand on the book by giving more spotlight to some of the book's supporting characters, including Laura Moon (Creator/EmilyBrowning), Mad Sweeney (Creator/PabloSchreiber) and Bilquis (Yetide Badaki), as well as the antagonists like Technical Boy (Bruce Langley) and Media (Creator/GillianAnderson).
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!! This show provides examples of:
* ActionPrologue: The series starts with [[UsefulNotes/TheVikingAge the Vikings' first voyage to America]], ending with a massive battle to the death as a blood sacrifice to persuade Odin to bring wind to their sails.[[note]] The novel originally depicted them sacrificing one of the natives to Odin before retuning home. WordOfGod is the creators specifically changed it to give the audience a better sense of the show.[[/note]]
* AdaptationExpansion: The (admittedly big) novel will receive this, with a planned 3 or 4 seasons based on it, and maybe more if the sequel comes out.
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Shadow is quickly suspicious when Mr. Wednesday makes unusually dead-on observations, but he starts to chuckle at his antics when Wednesday deduces that Shadow had a hippie mom.
* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: In the book, Shadow is walking back to the hotel from Laura's burial by himself, because he was dropped off by Wednesday, then rode to the burial with Laura's mother in a limousine. In the show, however, he took Wednesday's Cadillac to the funeral, and there's no scene in the limo, so one assumes he took that car to the burial as well. The reason, however, that it's important that Shadow walks back to the hotel is that it's on the road that he has his first run-in with [[spoiler: The Technical Boy.]]
* AdaptationPersonalityChange:
** In the book, Shadow is noted to be an UnfazedEveryman which even Mr. Wednesday lampshaded who also spoke politely and never cursed. The series sees him more emotional and swearing frequently.
** Bookverse Mr. Nancy was fun-loving and laid back. Mr. Nancy's first scene in the series has him spitting a furious speech about what America has in store for its African-American population, inciting a 17th century ship full of slaves to break their chains, slit the throats of their enslavers, and burn the boat down.
* AscendedExtra: Some characters from the 'Somewhere in America' stories that are interspersed throughout the book will play a bigger part in the show.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Laura.]]
* BerserkButton:
** Shadow is understandably touchy about slights against his recently deceased wife. Mad Sweeney tries to goad Shadow into a fight but Shadow declines. Then Sweeney insults Laura and Shadow punches him in the face before Sweeney can even finish the sentence. After learning of [[spoiler:her infidelity]], he becomes more conflicted about her, as evidenced by his more sedate reaction during his first conversation with the Technical Boy.
** Lampshaded and discussed by "Low Key" Lyesmith and Shadow: Low Key tells Shadow the story of Johnny Larch, an inmate who tried to fly away after getting paroled, but since he refused to allow a airport worker to "disrespect" him by not taking his expired ID, he ended up thrown out of the airport, and soon back in prison. In prison, "not taking disrespect" is a survival mechanism, but it can get you into lots of trouble on the outside. [[HiddenDepths Shadow comments that perhaps the lesson is that behaviors that work in a specialized environment like prison can be detrimental when used outside said environment.]] Low Key responds that the moral of the story is, "don't fuck with those bitches at the airport." Remembering this story keeps Shadow from breaking his parole by blowing his top at the rude ticket lady at the airport.
* BloodKnight: Mad Sweeney likes to start fights for the sheer joy of violence and bloodshed.
* BloodyHilarious: The Coming to America sequence with the Vikings, especially the ending.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: A viking's arm gets chopped off and literally goes offscreen, appearing on the upper black border of the letterbox instead of disappearing behind it.
* CanonForeigner: Greco-Roman gods didn't appear in the novel (although Medusa showed up a few times) but Corbin Bernsen was cast as Vulcan.[[note]]WordOfGod is that Gaiman didn't use Greek mythology because there was no evidence at the time he wrote the book that the Ancient Greeks ever made it to America. (And also because he thought Greek mythology had been done to death.) However, with the discovery of some Ancient Roman coins in the Ohio River, there was more license to include the Greek/Roman pantheon.[[/note]]
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Early in the first episode, Shadow has a dream of a strange forest, where a noose is hanging from a massive tree. At the end of the episode, the Technical Boy's minions try to lynch Shadow.
* EarlyBirdCameo: The narrator of the "Coming to America" scene that starts the first episode is a spectacled black man, writing with a fountain pen in a book. If you've read the book, or even paid attention to the promotional material from Starz, you'll recognize the man as [[spoiler: Mr. Ibis, who Shadow will cross paths with during the series. Considering Ibis is an incarnation of Thoth, this makes the appearance a literal Early Bird Cameo.]]
* FanDisservice: Bilquis's sex scene in "The Bone Orchard" is very, very explicit, but it ends with her eating her date with her vagina.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: It took the Vikings to make war in order to summon Odin's favor. [[spoiler: It hints at Wednesday's ultimate scheme, inciting war in order to fuel his power.]]
* GroinAttack: [[spoiler: Laura was giving Robbie a blowjob seconds before the car accident. The resulting impact was enough to send them both flying through the windscreen, and whether from the force of the collision or brain damage, [[RealityEnsues Laura unintentionally bites off Robbie's penis.]] This in turn reveals to Audrey and Shadow that their spouses were having an affair.]]
* HowsYourBritishAccent: Wednesday is first seen performing a con as a senile old British man. He's played by the similarly British Creator/IanMcShane.
* IDieFree: In the "Coming to America" segment of "The Secret of Spoons", Anansi convinces slaves being shipped to America to burn down the slave ship and kill all the slavers, because it's better to die fighting for freedom than to live as a slave.
* LadyInRed: Bilquis, rather than in the trashy StreetWalker outfit the novel describes, appears in an elegant red dress.
* {{Leprechaun}}: Mad Sweeny claims to be one despite him and Shadow both being big guys and lacking an accent. He's got a lot of the traits in common including red hair and doing tricks with gold coins. He's also got the stereotypical Irish traits including drinking, loving to fight, and has a hell of a temper.
* ObfuscatingStupidity:
** Wednesday is introduced pretending to be a senile old man to guilt trip an airline into upgrading him to first class.
** Wednesday claims that Shadow does this: by not talking often, he tricks people into thinking that he's merely DumbMuscle.
* SignsOfDisrepair: A promotional image features the title as a hotel sign with some of the letters unlit; the illuminated letters form the phrase AM I A GOD.
* WhamLine: From "The Bone Orchard":
-->'''Audrey''': Holy shit, Shadow. Nobody told you? [[spoiler:[[YourCheatingHeart [Laura] died with my husband's cock in her mouth.]]]]
* WhamShot: Two in the first episode.
** [[spoiler: The coin Mad Sweeny gave Shadow and he in turn leaves on Laura's grave shines with an eerie light before being swallowed into the earth.]]
** [[spoiler: Shadow staring on in the aftermath of a bloody massacre of the men who beat and hung him.]]
* WholeCostumeReference: The outfits worn by the Technical Boy's goons are modeled after the outfits Alex [=DeLarge=] and his droogs wear in ''Film/AClockworkOrange''.
* YourCheatingHeart: Shadow finds out Laura, at her funeral no less, [[spoiler: was cheating on him with his best friend while he was in prison.]]
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*** A more understated example is in his encounter with Technical Boy: Shadow starts off just trying make sense of the situation and give answers as quick as possible. After Technical Boy gives an insincere condolence about Laura's death, Shadow immediately clams up and gets ''much'' more hostile.
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** Shadow is understandably touchy about slights against his recently deceased wife. Mad Sweeney tries to goad Shadow into a fight but Shadow declines. Then Sweeney insults Laura and Shadow punches him in the face before Sweeney can even finish the sentence.
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** In the book, Shadow is noted to be an UnfazedEveryman which even Mr. Wednesday lampshaded who also spoke politely and never cursed. The series sees him more emotional and [[spoiler:tells Wednesday to "fuck off" at the Crocodile Bar when the old man nudges him about the job offer.]]swearing frequently.
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** Bookverse Mr. Nancy was fun-loving and laid back. [[spoiler: Mr. Nancy's first scene in the series has him spitting a furious speech about what America has in store for its African-American population, inciting a 17th century ship full of slaves to break their chains, slit the throats of their enslavers, and burn the boat down.]]
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** Bookverse Mr. Nancy was fun-loving and laid back. [[spoiler: Mr. Nancy's first scene in the series has him spitting a furious speech about what America has in store for its African-American population, inciting a 17th century ship full of slaves to break their chains, slit the throats of their enslavers, and burn the boat down.]]
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** In the book, Shadow is noted to be an UnfazedEveryman which even Mr. Wednesday lampshaded who also spoke politely and never cursed. The series sees him more emotional and [[spoiler:tells Wednesday to "fuck off" at the Crocodile Bar when the old man nudges him about the job offer.]]
* Bookverse Mr. Nancy was fun-loving and laid back. [[spoiler: Mr. Nancy's first scene in the series has him spitting a furious speech about what America has in store for its African-American population, inciting a 17th century ship full of slaves to break their chains, slit the throats of their enslavers, and burn the boat down.]]
** In the book, Shadow is noted to be an UnfazedEveryman which even Mr. Wednesday lampshaded who also spoke politely and never cursed. The series sees him more emotional and [[spoiler:tells Wednesday to "fuck off" at the Crocodile Bar when the old man nudges him about the job offer.]]
* Bookverse Mr. Nancy was fun-loving and laid back. [[spoiler: Mr. Nancy's first scene in the series has him spitting a furious speech about what America has in store for its African-American population, inciting a 17th century ship full of slaves to break their chains, slit the throats of their enslavers, and burn the boat down.]]
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''American Gods'' is a TV series based on a [[Literature/AmericanGods novel]] by Creator/NeilGaiman. It's developed by Creator/BryanFuller and Michael Green for Creator/{{Starz}}, and premiered on April 30, 2017. The first season is stated to adapt the first third of the book, following Shadow (portrayed by Ricky Whittle) and Mr. Wednesday (Creator/IanMcShane) on their journey across America. The show will expand on the book by giving more spotlight to some of the book's supporting characters, including Laura (Creator/EmilyBrowning), Mad Sweeney (Creator/PabloSchreiber) and Bilquis (Yetide Badaki), as well as the antagonists like Technical Boy (Bruce Langley) and Media (Creator/GillianAnderson).
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''American Gods'' is a TV series based on a [[Literature/AmericanGods novel]] by Creator/NeilGaiman. It's developed by Creator/BryanFuller and Michael Green for Creator/{{Starz}}, and premiered on April 30, 2017. The first season is stated to adapt the first third of the book, following Shadow Moon (portrayed by Ricky Whittle) and Mr. Wednesday (Creator/IanMcShane) on their journey across America. The show will expand on the book by giving more spotlight to some of the book's supporting characters, including Laura Moon (Creator/EmilyBrowning), Mad Sweeney (Creator/PabloSchreiber) and Bilquis (Yetide Badaki), as well as the antagonists like Technical Boy (Bruce Langley) and Media (Creator/GillianAnderson).
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* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: In the book, Shadow is walking back to the hotel from Laura's burial by himself, because he was dropped off by Wednesday, then rode to the burial with Laura's mother in a limousine. In the show, however, he took Wednesday's Cadillac to the funeral, and there's no scene in the limo, so one assumes he took that car to the burial as well. The reason, however, that it's important that Shadow walks back to the hotel is that it's on the road that he has his first run-in with [[spoiler: The Technical Boy.]]
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** Mad Sweeny tries to goad Shadow into a fight but Shadow declines. Then Sweeney insults Laura and Shadow punches him in the face before Sweeney can finish the sentence.
** Lampshaded by "Low Key" Lyesmith who warns Shadow that prison conditions people to have instant (and often violent) reactions to others disrespecting them. In prison it is a survival mechanism but can get you into lots of trouble on the outside. Shadow take this advice to heart and avoids breaking his parole by blowing his top at the ticket lady at the airport.
* BloodKnight: Mad Sweeny likes to start fights for the sheer joy of violence and bloodshed.
** Lampshaded by "Low Key" Lyesmith who warns Shadow that prison conditions people to have instant (and often violent) reactions to others disrespecting them. In prison it is a survival mechanism but can get you into lots of trouble on the outside. Shadow take this advice to heart and avoids breaking his parole by blowing his top at the ticket lady at the airport.
* BloodKnight: Mad Sweeny likes to start fights for the sheer joy of violence and bloodshed.
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** Mad Sweeny Sweeney tries to goad Shadow into a fight but Shadow declines. Then Sweeney insults Laura and Shadow punches him in the face before Sweeney can even finish the sentence.
** Lampshaded and discussed by "Low Key" Lyesmithwho warns and Shadow: Low Key tells Shadow that prison conditions people the story of Johnny Larch, an inmate who tried to have instant (and often violent) reactions fly away after getting paroled, but since he refused to others disrespecting them. allow a airport worker to "disrespect" him by not taking his expired ID, he ended up thrown out of the airport, and soon back in prison. In prison it prison, "not taking disrespect" is a survival mechanism mechanism, but it can get you into lots of trouble on the outside. [[HiddenDepths Shadow take comments that perhaps the lesson is that behaviors that work in a specialized environment like prison can be detrimental when used outside said environment.]] Low Key responds that the moral of the story is, "don't fuck with those bitches at the airport." Remembering this advice to heart and avoids story keeps Shadow from breaking his parole by blowing his top at the rude ticket lady at the airport.
* BloodKnight: MadSweeny Sweeney likes to start fights for the sheer joy of violence and bloodshed.bloodshed.
* BloodyHilarious: The Coming to America sequence with the Vikings, especially the ending.
** Lampshaded and discussed by "Low Key" Lyesmith
* BloodKnight: Mad
* BloodyHilarious: The Coming to America sequence with the Vikings, especially the ending.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: The narrator of the "Coming to America" scene that starts the first episode is a spectacled black man, writing with a fountain pen in a book. If you've read the book, or even paid attention to the promotional material from Starz, you'll recognize the man as [[spoiler: Mr. Ibis, who Shadow will cross paths with during the series. Considering Ibis is an incarnation of Thoth, this makes the appearance a literal Early Bird Cameo.]]
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* BerserkButton: Mad Sweeny tries to goad Shadow into a fight but Shadow declines. Then Sweeney insults Laura and Shadow punches him in the face before Sweeney can finish the sentence.
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** Mad Sweeny tries to goad Shadow into a fight but Shadow declines. Then Sweeney insults Laura and Shadow punches him in the face before Sweeney can finish thesentence.sentence.
** Lampshaded by "Low Key" Lyesmith who warns Shadow that prison conditions people to have instant (and often violent) reactions to others disrespecting them. In prison it is a survival mechanism but can get you into lots of trouble on the outside. Shadow take this advice to heart and avoids breaking his parole by blowing his top at the ticket lady at the airport.
** Mad Sweeny tries to goad Shadow into a fight but Shadow declines. Then Sweeney insults Laura and Shadow punches him in the face before Sweeney can finish the
** Lampshaded by "Low Key" Lyesmith who warns Shadow that prison conditions people to have instant (and often violent) reactions to others disrespecting them. In prison it is a survival mechanism but can get you into lots of trouble on the outside. Shadow take this advice to heart and avoids breaking his parole by blowing his top at the ticket lady at the airport.
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* LadyInRed: Bilquis, rather than in the trashy StreetWalker outfit the novel describes, appears in an elegant red dress.
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* GroinAttack: [[spoiler: Laura was giving Robbie a blowjob seconds before the car accident. The resulting impact was enough to send them both flying through the windshield, and whether from the force of the collision or brain damage, [[RealityEnsues Laura unintentionally bites off Robbie's penis.]] This in turn reveals to Audrey and Shadow that their spouses were having an affair.]]
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* GroinAttack: [[spoiler: Laura was giving Robbie a blowjob seconds before the car accident. The resulting impact was enough to send them both flying through the windshield, windscreen, and whether from the force of the collision or brain damage, [[RealityEnsues Laura unintentionally bites off Robbie's penis.]] This in turn reveals to Audrey and Shadow that their spouses were having an affair.]]
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* ActionPrologue: The series starts with [[UsefulNotes/TheVikingAge the Vikings' first voyage to America]], ending with a massive battle to the death as a blood sacrifice to persuade Odin to bring wind to their sails.[[note]] The novel originally depicted them sacrificing one of the natives to Odin before retuning home. WordofGod is the creators specifically to give the audience a better sense of the show.[[/note]]
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* ActionPrologue: The series starts with [[UsefulNotes/TheVikingAge the Vikings' first voyage to America]], ending with a massive battle to the death as a blood sacrifice to persuade Odin to bring wind to their sails.[[note]] The novel originally depicted them sacrificing one of the natives to Odin before retuning home. WordofGod WordOfGod is the creators specifically changed it to give the audience a better sense of the show.[[/note]]
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* {{Leprechaun}}: Mad Sweeny claims to be one despite him and Shadow both being big guys and lacking an accent. He's got a lot of the traits in common including red hair and doing tricks with gold coins. He also got the stereotypical Irish traits including drinking, loving to fight, and has a hell of a temper.
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* {{Leprechaun}}: Mad Sweeny claims to be one despite him and Shadow both being big guys and lacking an accent. He's got a lot of the traits in common including red hair and doing tricks with gold coins. He He's also got the stereotypical Irish traits including drinking, loving to fight, and has a hell of a temper.
