Discussion Literature / PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians

Everybody Loves Zeus: Averted. Most characters actually hate his guts.

This is true, but I feel like this trope is not entirely averted. Most notably, see the WW2 backstory plot-hole. The books state that Poseidon and Zeus helped the Allies and China, while Hades helped the Axis. But looking at history it makes more sense if Poseidon supported the Western Allies (in particular, Poseidon must have loved The British Empire who ruled the waves), if Zeus supported the Axis (tyrant; eagles, SS=lightning bolts) and if Hades had a historical relation with Russia (as the god of death hence human wave tactics, god of wealth hence ironically communism, and Hades is involved in the creation of winter; arguably Hades was the first oil oligarch). It is also clear that the Forbidden Children rule hurts Zeus more than the other two, which supports the idea that he lost - though the later books imply this rule was instead imposed due to the Great Prophecy.

Nevertheless, the author chose to put Zeus on the Allied side and Hades on the Axis side. I think this counts as a meta Everybody Loves Zeus and Everybody Hates Hades, though it might instead be more influenced by America Won World War II considering how the author puts the modern mythologies almost Only in America (typical Creator Provincialism). (Indeed, the dwarven god Bes from The Kane Chronicles by the same author also canonically fought on the Allied side.)

Black Vikings: Grover could pass. After all, he isn't ancient. Persephone on the other hand is pushing the political correctness scale a bit.

Wait, what? I watched this recently and would never have considered her to be black. Ambiguously Brown more like, and not inplausibly so for a Mediterranian goddess. Certainly no more so than the very Anglo-Saxon Zeus and Poseidon.