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* {{Hypocrite}}: Pentheus spends a lot of the first act ranting about how Dionysus' cult is corrupting women sexually... but he jumps at the opportunity to spy on them naked himself.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: As translator Anne Carson notes, Pentheus spends rather a lot of time describing Dionysus' androgynous beauty.
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* BoomerangBigot: Pentheus is openly scathing about [[LongHairedPrettyBoy Dionysus's]] OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous appearance, but as soon as he succumbs to Bacchic frenzy, he is only too keen to dress as a woman.
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* NotEnoughToBury: [[spoiler: Pentheus’ body parts are scattered all over Mt. Cithaeron. Only his head makes it back to Thebes.]]
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* WeaponOfChoice: The maenads fight with their thyrsoi.
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* BalefulPolymorph: At the end, Cadmus and his wife Harmonia are turned into serpents by Dionysus.
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* ForcedTransformation: At the end, Cadmus and his wife Harmonia are turned into serpents by Dionysus.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Pentheus decides to deny the existence of a god, then accompany a suspicious man into the mountains to watch a group of AxCrazy women perform secret rites because the suspicious man cleverly appeals to Pentheus’s [[SexIsEvilAndIAmHormy sexual curiosity about the Maenads]].
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Pentheus decides to deny the existence of a god, then accompany a suspicious man into the mountains to watch a group of AxCrazy women perform secret rites because the suspicious man cleverly appeals to Pentheus’s [[SexIsEvilAndIAmHormy [[SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny sexual curiosity about the Maenads]].
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Pentheus decides to deny the existence of a god, then accompany a suspicious man into the mountains to watch a group of AxCrazy women perform secret rites.rites because the suspicious man cleverly appeals to Pentheus’s [[SexIsEvilAndIAmHormy sexual curiosity about the Maenads]].
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* DecapitationPresentation: All that's left on Pentheus is his head, which Agave presents to Cadmus.
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* DecapitationPresentation: [[spoiler: All that's left on Pentheus is his head, which Agave presents to Cadmus.Cadmus, thinking it's the head of a mountain lion.]]
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The Bacchae tend to fill this role, mostly because of their Dionysus inspired ecstasy.
* BullyingADragon: Pentheus persecutes the Bacchae because their wild and subversive behavior undermines his power as king, but he ultimately can't do anything to them. However weird and [[DudeLooksLikeALady girly]], Dionysus is a ''god.''
* BullyingADragon: Pentheus persecutes the Bacchae because their wild and subversive behavior undermines his power as king, but he ultimately can't do anything to them. However weird and [[DudeLooksLikeALady girly]], Dionysus is a ''god.''
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The Bacchae tend to fill this role, mostly because of their Dionysus inspired Dionysus-inspired ecstasy.
* BullyingADragon: Pentheus persecutes the Bacchae because their wild and subversive behavior undermines his power as king, but he ultimately can't do anything to them. Howeverweird [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} weird]] and [[DudeLooksLikeALady girly]], Dionysus is a ''god.''
* BullyingADragon: Pentheus persecutes the Bacchae because their wild and subversive behavior undermines his power as king, but he ultimately can't do anything to them. However
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* {{Homage}}: Orpheus being torn apart by women to death is a CallBack to the Dionysian myth.
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* {{Homage}}: Orpheus being torn apart by women to Pentheus' death is a CallBack to both Orpheus' dismemberment at the Dionysian myth.hands of maenads, and Dionysus (as Zagreus) being similarly dismembered by Titans.
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* TornApartByTheMob: [[spoiler: This is how Pentheus dies. He's torn to pieces by the Bacchantes, including his own mother. This is actually a reference to Dionysus' (Zagreus) own death at the hands of the Titans.]]
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* BullyingADragon: Pentheus persecutes the Bacchae because their wild and subversive behavior undermines his power as king, but he ultimately can't do anything to them. However weird and [[DudeLooksLikeALady girly]], Dionysus is a ''god.''
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Dionysus enters Thebes disguised as a human priest of himself. Pentheus doesn't recognize him as a god because, in Dionysus' words, he's too impious. He appears in a more obviously divine form at the end of the play, which could be interpreted as more eldritch.
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* HornedHumanoid: When Pentheus starts to hallucinate after being dressed up like a bacchante, he perceives Dionysus as having bull's horns. (Older myths, especially those connected to the Orphic Mysteries, described Dionysus/Zagreus as having horns.)
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* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: Semele died from asking to see Zeus in his true form, and was burned to cinders as a result.
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* HalfHumanHybrid: Dionysus.
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* KilledOffscreen: As per usual in Greek theater, [[spoiler:the gruesome death of Pentheus]] is exposited by a witness after the fact.
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* {{Homage}}: Orpheus being torn apart by women to death is a CallBack to the Dionysian myth.
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* DecapitationPresentation: All that's left on Pentheus is his head, which Agave presents to Cadmus.
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* OffWithHisHead: All that's left on Pentheus, which Agave presents to Cadmus.
