History Characters / VietnameseMythology

* DropTheHammer: Wields a stone hammer as his weapon.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Her reputation with the people under her charge in both of her incarnations.

* MeddlingParents: Inverted. He's surprisingly lax when it comes to his children, frequently allowing them to go adventuring on land without supervision and even marrying mortal humans.

* DropTheHammer: Wields a stone hammer as his WeaponOfChoice.

* TurtlePower: He's a turtle god.

A thousand-year old nine tails fox who resided in Long Biên, present-day Hanoi; was the second monster slayed by Lạc Long Quân after Ngư Tinh.

* FantasticFoxes: A Nine-tailed fox spirit similar to the Chinese huli jing or the Japanese kitsune.

* PhysicalGod
* ProngsOfPoseidon: Commonly depicted wielding one.

* IncestIsRelative: If you follow the versions stating that Sơn Tinh is one of the hundred children of Lạc Long Quân and Âu Cơ then Mỵ Nương is technically his great, great, great, etc. niece.

* TheTrickster: Like to play pranks on human with varied intensity and results.

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* YourCheatingHeart: Despite being Long Vương's wife, she inadvertently laid with a fire dragon and bore a child who would later be revered as a water god associated with pearls named Thần Châu Long Vương.

* TheAce: Smart enough to teach ancient Vietnamese new farming, hunting, building techniques and strong enough to slay monsters on a regular basis.
* AbductionIsLove: Some version of the myth stated that Long Quân woo Âu Cơ back to his palace when the latter was visiting his territory with her husband/father who later return with an army to get Âu Cơ back only to get killed by Lạc Long Quân.

* BerserkButton: Hurt his wife, children and people and you're in for a bad time.

* CallOnMe: Promise Âu Cơ after the divorce that he would come to her aid whenever she required him and vice versa.
* CombatPragmatist: His fight with Ngư Tinh involves him luring the monster towards his boat by disguising as a regular human and then dump piles of molten rocks down it's throat before getting into the real fight.
* DisappearedDad: Spend more time in the underwater palace Thủy Cung than with his wife and kids leaving Âu Cơ to raise their children by herself most of the time.

* HappilyMarried: By all account, his marriage with Âu C&#417 was this and the only reason the divorce happened was because both of them got homesick as well as other racial differences.

* ThePatriarch: Considered to be the progenitor of the entire Vietnamese civillization.

* {{Weredragon}}: Has a dragon form but prefer to spend his time as a human.

* DamselInDistress: Her first meeting with Lạc Long Quân saving her from a flying monster, commonly depicted as a giant eagle.

* MotherGoddess: She is revered as the mother goddess of all Vietnamese civillization.

** Other versions depicted her as a celestial goddess who was related to the Jade Emperor, during a trip to the surface she ate some dirt from the surface out of curiosity and was promptly banished from Heaven. Her leading her fifty childrens to the mountains was because she want to be as close to her former home as possible.

* OurFairiesAreDifferent: She is not a fairy in the western-sense as "tiên" can be use to refer to sages, mountain hermits and gods. In her case, it indicate her status as a divine goddess.
* VoluntaryShapeshifter: Transform into a swan when she was attacked by a giant, flying monster.

A golden turtle god who serve as messenger and emissary of the gods.

* TheBusCameBack: After a milennia, he return to Vietnam during the Lam Sơn uprising to lent Lê Lợi the legendary sword, Heaven's Will, which allow him to free Vietnam from the Ming once and for all. He later ask the now-Emperor to return the sword back to his master(s) at what is now Hoàn Kiếm Lake and never appear again.

* GoodIsNotNice: Indirectly cause An Dương Vương to kill his daughter, Mỵ Châu, by revealing that the latter had unknowingly aid Zhao Tuo in conquering Âu Lạc and accidentally leading the enemy to their location right this moment. Granted, the girl did just destroy everything Kim Quy did for Âu Lạc in a matter of months so he's understandably angry.

* PalsWithJesus: Became good friend with An Dương Vương, helping the latter build Cổ Loa Citadel and after living there for three years even gifted An Dương Vương one of his claw to create the Divine Crossbow that fired a hundred arrows. After An Dương Vương was defeated and killed Mỵ Châu, Kim Quy help him escape to the Underwater Palace before Zhao Tuo could catch up to him.

* StockGods: Of the Messenger God variety. Some versions mentioned Long Vương or Thủy Tề as his masters while others leave them anonymous.

The Mountain God of Tản Viên Mountain as well as the entire Ba Vì mountain range. Is considered to be the first amongst the Four Immortals.

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Sometime after his war with Thủy Tinh and the birth of his daughters, he and Mỵ Nương was summoned by the Jade Emperor to Heaven to become official heavenly god.

* TheHero: Protect the people of Văn Lang who got caught in the crossfire in his feud with Thủy Tinh.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Despite Hùng Vương XVIII's main goal in marrying his daughter to Sơn Tinh was to secure the latter's aid against the neighbouring Âu Việt tribe, the mountain god was nowhere to be found when An Dương Vương invade Văn Lăng.
** Explained in Mẫu Thượng Ngàn's story where he and Mỵ Nương was summoned by the Jade Emperor to Heaven to become official heavenly god and was unable to come to the aid of his father-in-law.

* BigEater: Need to eat an entire village's worth of food to be full.
* DoYouTrustMe: Normally a three years-old kid asking for a sword and armor to fight invaders would be laugh off, thankfully Lạc Long Quân appeared before the at-the-time Hùng Vương VI and give a heads up.
* MechanicalHorse: Rode a giant iron horse that breathe fire.

* OccupiersOutOfOurCountry: He represent this in his capacity as one of the Four Immortals as well as the power of youth.

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Float up to Heaven along with his wife, followers and castle. Would also later be deified into a god.

* TheBusCameBack: Briefly return during the reign of the Early Lý dynasty to assist Triệu Quang Phục in fighting off a Chinese invasion led by Chen Baxian (who would later become Emperor Wu of Chen)

* OurMagesAreDifferent: He either gained Buddist magic or Taoist magic depending on who you ask. The common version just stated that he met the sage Phật Quang on a mountain and, after a period of training, gained some form of EnlightenmentSuperpowers.

* NakedPeopleTrappedOutside: ...Because his entire house burn down with only a loincloth that he buried with his father when the latter died.
* PerpetualPoverty: Before meeting Tiên Dung, he survive day-to-day by selling fish to nearby boats.
* RagsToRiches: From a regular guy with not a single piece of clothing to an immortal god with a wife, palace and legions of follower.
* WalkingTheEarth: After he was taught magic, the couple close their trading business and wander the lands to find people to teach them further.

* TheAce: As one of the Four Immortals, she represent the spiritual life, virtue, intelligence, prosperity and poetry.
* ActionGirl: Punish evildoers, fight monsters, accompany armies into battle, etc.

* DrivenToMadness: Any would-be casanova who tried to flirt with her will suffer this fate. Later toned down after a NoodleIncident involving a prince.
* TheExile: Was banished from Heaven after breaking one of the Jade Emperor's plate. She was later allowed to return but...
* TheHero: Throughout her travels she help the poor, heal the sick and punish the wicked like any standard fantasy heroes.
* IChooseToStay: She returned back to Earth since she miss her husband and son.

* {{Plaguemaster}}: Often punish evildoers with this during her travels.
* PrettyPrincessPowerhouse: Can definitely kick someone's ass when needed to. Her full title is Princess Liễu Hạnh due to being the daughter of the Jade Emperor thus fulfill the second part of this trope.

* RememberTheNewGuy: She's only recently been introduce to the Vietnamese pantheon during the Later Le dynasty via Taoism, long after the other three. Ironically, she's the only one out of the four to still be actively worshipped today.
* SecondLove: She is noted to have fallen in love with many other man after her first husband died.
* TalentedPrincessRegularGuy: Her first husband is just a regular mortal man while she is a heavenly goddess.
* VoluntaryShapeshifter: Can transfrom into a lot of things but prefer her human form. Her transformations are noted to always be female.

* AdaptationalWimp: He's depicted as a lot more incompetent than in China. Possibly due to enmity between either Vietnam-China or Buddism-Taoism, perhaps even both.
* ButtMonkey: Was on the receiving end of many humiliations in many difference stories.
* CanonForeigner: Doesn't retain anything from his skyfather day so nowadays people thought of him as the same Jade Emperor in Chinese mythology.

* CreatorGod: Finish Khổng Lồ's work by creating the Sun, Moon, stars and many other things.
* DotingParent: Really love his daughters.

* JerkassGods: Hot-tempered and often punish both mortals and other deities for failures and perceived slights.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He prove to be a competent and benevolent ruler who have his heart in the right place when he do his job.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Broke the pillars connecting Heaven to Earth. Probably got sick of people on Earth keep coming up to Heaven to demand things and/or causing troubles.

The Vietnamese god of thunder and who the Jade Emperor called when he want something be solved with violence. There's actually multiple Thiên Lôi but people usually use the term to refer to the chief thunder god who command them all.

* DropTheHammer: Wield a stone hammer as his WeaponOfChoice.

* {{Protectorate}}: Take up Lạc Long Quân's old job of monster slaying and protecting humanity.

* CompositeCharacter: His power and position overlapped with Ao Qin, the Chinese Dragon King of the South China Sea with some even consider that they are the same person as almost nobody outside China know anything about Ao Qin.
* LordOfTheOcean: Rules the water of the South China Sea and is also responsible for managing the weathers and storms in the region.

* RememberTheNewGuy: He's actually one fo the newer God of the Sea of the Vietnamese pantheon with the many preceding him.
* SupernaturalAid: His father, Lạc Long Quân, gave him command of the four goddesses Tứ Pháp (each having control over the cloud, rain, thunder and lightning respectively) in order to better control his domains. He also provide aids to many mortals such as Thạch Sanh and Lê Lợi.

* VastBureaucracy: Command over 3,600 aquatic creatures and has his own bureaucracy in his palace.
* VoluntaryShapeshifter: Frequently transform into a human to go and observe the surface.
* WealthyPhilanthropist: Many stories have him gifted absurbly powerful magical treasures to humans who directly or indirectly did him a favour. Some versions even stated that he was the one who task Kim Quy with gifting the divine sword, Heaven's Will, to Lê Lợi during the Lam Sơn uprising.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: With Sơn Tinh. Whenever Thủy Tinh raise the sea water high, Sơn Tinh would always raise his mountains a bit higher to block the tide.
* TheBeastmaster: Command legions of aquatic creatures in his war with Sơn Tinh.

* DidNotGetTheGirl: What started the wholemess.

A whale god who help manage the South China Sea under Long Vương.

* AnimalMotifs: Whale.
* BodyguardBetrayal: He will immediately be executed by his attendants if he failed to do his job.

* VoluntaryShapeshifter: He was forced into the form of a whale by the Jade Emperor since birth but prefer the form of a human.

The mother goddess deity who governs the celestial realm according to the Đạo Mẫu worship.

* AllPowerfulBystander: One of the most powerful being in the Vietnamese pantheon but she doesn't do much of anything and prefer to observe and watch over the world from above.
* CompositeCharacter: Her name is often used interchangably with other goddesses such as Liễu Hạnh, Thiên Y a Na and Tây Thiên Quốc Mẫu (Wife of the Jade Emperor)
* HeavenAbove: Her domain. As the Mother Goddess of Heaven in Đạo Mẫu she has control over everything in the sky from normal things like cloud, lightnings to rainbow and even comets.

* ShroudedInMyth: Not even her own followers can agreed on her background and characterization.

* EatingTheEnemy: When she first met Xương Cuồng back when he was still the tree monster Mộc Tinh, she tried to chop him down but was unable to due to the tree bark being too hard. As such, she transformed into a worm and eat him from inside out until he beg for mercy and give her a magical seed before fleeing. The seed in question would turn into...
* FantasticFlora: ...A magical tree that grow hundreds of different fruits. When she shared the fruits with the other gods, one of them complained about the taste of a fruit and she make it so that nobody would be able to see or touch the fruit in question ever again, thus creating the legend of forbidden fruit.

* IChooseToStay: After her "death" in the Sơn Tinh-Thủy Tinh war, she return to Heaven and beg her father to return her back as she couldn't bear to leave her son leading to her Reincarnation.

* MamaBear: Enough to jump right into the Sơn Tinh-Thủy Tinh war to aid her foster son and died in the process.

* NumberTwo: As La Bình, she is the de-facto leader of Tản Viên mountain whenever Sơn Tinh is busy until she officially TakingUpTheMantle after her parents join the CelestialBureaucracy in Heaven.
* PetMonstrosity: Turn the Demon God Xương Cuồng into her pet tiger.

* ReassignedToAntarctica: Was assigned by the Jade Emperor to become the nature god of a remote, desolate, sparsly populated area as punishment because...

* {{Reincarnation}}: The Jade Emperor sent her back as the daughter of her adopted son. Unfortunately doesn't she didn't retain any PastLifeMemories.
* ReincarnationFriendship: with Sơn Tinh.
* SupremeChef: As Mẫu Thượng Ngàn, she taught the humans under her charges how to make fire and make delicious meals.

* TheDutifulSon: Obey her father's command without hesitation, unlike Liễu Hạnh and Mẫu Thượng Ngàn.

* LordOfTheOcean: Specifically, she governs all in-land body of waters such as lakes, rivers and waterfalls while her husband's in charge of the seas.
* YourCheatingHeart: Despite being Long Vương's wife, she inadvertently lay with a fire dragon and bore a child who would later be revered as a water god associated with pearls named Thần Châu Long Vương.

* CreatorGod: Create the world by literally lifting the sky away from the earth and then made a pillar to separate the two in a manner not too different from modern cartoon physics.

* AllPowerfulBystander: Has many demons and hell deities who work under him but never intefere much with the human world.
* CanonImmigrant: Originated in India and enter Vietnam via Buddhism like in China and Japan; gradually intergrate himself into the pantheon with not a lot of people knowing his Buddhist origins.
* HiddenDepths: Despite his imposing exterior, he's one of the nicer underworld gods. He notably doesn't have an issue with living humans interacting with the dead as he's responisble for setting up a market in Quảng Yên province for the living and the dead to trade goods once a year and even allow the living to visit the Underworld provided they have dead relatives there to guide them.

A giant fish monster who live somewhere in the coast of northern Vietnam and Guangxi. Was slain by Lạc Long Quân after 3 days of battle with assistance from the local sea gods.

* AnimalisticAbomination: A giant man-eating fish that have centipede-like legs on it’s sides who can eat 53 humans in one bite.
* AStormIsComing: It's arrival is always heralded by a storm.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: It is 166.65 meters long with it's tail as large as a ship’s sail.

* ManipulativeBastard: Once prevent a heavenly god from destroying it's lair by transforming into a rooster and trick the god into believing that he was summoned back to Heaven.
* SeaMonster: It's hunting ground is the entire Gulf of Tonkin.
* ToServeMan: Eat a lot of things but like to eat wandering fishermen the most.

A thousand-year old nine tails fox who reside in Long Biên, present-day Hanoi; was the second monster slayed by Lạc Long Quân after Ngư Tinh.

* ColdBloodedTorture: Like to toy with the humans it kidnapped like how a cat would torture it's prey. The female ones suffer a worse fate.

* GenderBender: Willing to transform into both man and woman to get what it want.

* KilledOffForReal: Was killed after a 3-day long battle and another long chase by Lạc Long Quân who promptly drag it's corpse back to it's lair and submerge the entire cave underwater.

* ToServeMan: Like to kidnap people back to it's lair and eat them.

Originally a haunted tree monster named Mộc Tinh from Phong Châu, present day Sơn Tây. He would eventually become the Vietnamese God of Tiger, the Demon God and a recurring character throughout the mythology.

* BasedOnATrueStory: Him turning from a tree monster to a tiger god is based on traditional beliefs that tigers merge their spirit into trees where they stalk their preys.
* BigBad: Closest thing Vietnamese mythology have to one.

* DeadPersonImpersonation: Sometime after he became Xương Cuồng, he ate Hùng Vương IX and assume his identity to drink tons of wine and make love with beautiful girls until he got exposed by Mẫu Thượng Ngàn.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: For some reason, he was the only one of the original three monsters who fought Lạc Long Quân to survive and be expanded upon, even ending up with a promotion to become the Vietnamese God of Tiger.
* HeelFaceTurn: Technically join the "good" side after Mẫu Thượng Ngàn turn him into her pet tiger and even stick around as part of Sơn Tinh's retinue after the war with Thủy Tinh, it didn't last though.

* LongLived: He was at least 1,000 years old when he first fought Lạc Long Quân and live to see the divorce of Lạc Long Quân and Âu Cơ, the creation of Văn Lang, the war between Sơn Tinh and Thủy Tinh, An Dương Vương's invasion and subsequent fall to Zhao Tuo, the thousand-years Chinese Domination of Vietnam, the first Battle of Bạch Đằng and the rise of Đinh Bộ Lĩnh. That means he's at least 4,847 years old at the time of his death.
* MagicMusic: During his fight as Mộc Tinh with Lạc Long Quân and Kinh Dương Vương, the latter defeat him with this forcing him to retreat.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Fled from Lạc Long Quân and Kinh Dương Vương after it's clear that he's losing thus avoiding the fate of Ngư Tinh and Hồ Tinh.
* StartingANewLife: After his first defeat, he waited an unknown period of time for the heat to died down before heading out to terrorize humans again. This lasted until he ate Hùng Vương IX and was defeated by Mẫu Thượng Ngàn and became her pet until she died during the Sơn Tinh-Thủy Tinh war. After which, he serve as Sơn Tinh's companion until his final death.
* ToServeMan: Like to eat humans both when he was a tree and when he is a tiger.

* InterspeciesRomance: Is attracted to the human daughter of an innkeeper whose's inn is where Bạch Kê Tinh made his home.
* {{Necromancer}}: Played With. While he did raise them, he couldn't command the deads of Văn Lang but instead lead them to An Dương Vương's citadel wall where the spirits promptly smash down the entire thing by their own volition to pay back for An Dương Vương killing them.
* SerialKiller: Killed the guests who stay in the inn that he made his home for years.

* WeakenedByTheLight: Implied as he is force to retreat before sunrise after failing to break Kim Quy's barrier around An Dương Vương the entire night.

An ogress who live in the mountain and hunt humans. Her name would eventually be use to refer to angry, short-tempered woman in general.

* ArtifactOfPower: Possess three of these.
** A staff that kill people on one end and revive people with another
** An item that transform river/sea into a forest
** An item that turn a patch of land into a sea
* MamaBear: Once she finds out that her daughter has been killed, she went utterly berserk and chase down her former son-in-law.
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Not everyday your new son-in-law murder his wife/your daughter with your own stuff.
* TheOgre: Chằn is the Vietnamese version of ogre/oni.
* ToServeMan: Frequently hunt and eat humans but will spare them if her daughter's in love with them.

The water god who was directly responsible for the largest divine conflict in Vietnamese mythology and partially responsible for the collapse of the Hồng Bàng dynasty.

* LordOfTheOcean: His title is literally the Lord of Waters. He's also responsible for managing the waters and weather of Việt Nam during the monsoon season under Long Vương's order.

* YourCheatingHeart: Despite being Long Vương's wife, she inadvertently lay with a fire dragon and bore a child who would later be revered as a water god named Thần Châu Long Vương.

* YourCheatingHeart: Despite being Long Vương's wife, she inadvertently lay with a fire dragon and bore a child who would later be revered as a water god named Nam Hải Long Vương Quân.

* SupernaturalAid: His father, Lạc Long Quân, gave him the Four Dharma (the specific of which is not explained) in order to better control the wind and rains. He also provide aids to many mortals such as Thạch Sanh and Lê Lợi.

* WeakenedByTheLight: Implied as tt is force to retreat before sunrise after failing to break Kim Quy's barrier around An Dương Vương the entire night.

* AnimalMotifs: Dragon. His mother is a literal dragon; he has dragon powers and his name is literally "Dragon Lord".

* BigGood: Protector of the ancient Vietnamese from everything from giant monsters to malicious spirits.

* DisappearedDad: Spend more time in the Underwater Palace than with his wife and kids leaving Âu Cơ to raise their children by herself most of the time.

* HappilyMarried: By all account, his marriage with Âu Cơ and the only reason the divorce happened was because both of them got homesick as well as other racial differences.
* MeaningfulName: His name literally means "Dragon Lord of Lạc".

* Weredragon: Has a dragon form but prefer to spend his time as a human.

* Familiar: Again, the mythical Lạc birds.

* Reincarnation: While not explicitly stated, Gióng is considered to be a celestial god from Heaven who reincarnated into a mortal to help Văn Lang fight the northern invaders of the Shang dynasty.

* Plaguemaster: Often punish evildoers with this during her travels.

* Reincarnation: Goes through this three times, each time ended with her mortal "death" and subsequent return to Heaven. After the third time she stayed for good as a goddess.

* Composite Character: Originally he was a skyfather deity like Tengri named Ông Trời but when the Chinese came Ông Trời was absorbed into the Jade Emperor.

* Flanderization: Vietnamese stories about the Jade Emperor really like to highlight his failures and personal flaws, maybe even more than their Chinese counterparts.

* Composite Character: Averted. Aside from a new name, he doesn't have anything similar with his Chinese counterpart, Leigong.

* Protectorate: Take up Lạc Long Quân's old job of monster slaying and protecting humanity.

* Composite Character: His power and position overlapped with Ao Qin, the Chinese Dragon King of the South China Sea with some even consider that they are the same person as almost nobody outside China know anything about Ao Qin.

* Determinator: Never forgave Sơn Tinh nor let go of his desire for revenge to get Mỵ Nương back with their war still continuing to this day.

* Reincarnation: The Jade Emperor sent her back as the daughter of her adopted son. Unfortunately doesn't she didn't retain any PastLifeMemories.

* Determinator: Didn't give up on pursuing his wife no matter what. Not even his wife kicking down a mountain with him on top is enough to deter him.

* Flight: His battle with Lạc Long Quân end with a chase in the sky that lasted for a long time.

* Plaguemaster: He is said to have killed entire villages through sickness.

* EnsemblemDarkHorse: For some reason, he was the only one of the original three monsters who fought Lạc Long Quân to survive and be expanded upon, even ending up with a promotion to become the Vietnamese God of Tiger.

* Necromancer: Played With. While he did raise them, he couldn't command the deads of Văn Lang but instead lead them to An Dương Vương's citadel wall where the spirits promptly smash down the entire thing by their own volition to pay back for An Dương Vương killing them.

* AdaptionalWimp: He's depicted as a lot more incompetent than in China. Possibly due to enmity between either Vietnam-China or Buddism-Taoism, perhaps even both.

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* Action Girl: Punish evildoers, fight monsters, accompany armies into battle, etc.

* VictoryByEndurace: While he and Thủy Tinh are evenly match in terms of raw power, he won on account of his superior stamina when Thủy Tinh exhaust himself and had to retreat.

* KilledOfForReal: Was killed after a 3-day long battle and another long chase by Lạc Long Quân who promptly drag it's corpse back to it's lair and submerge the entire cave underwater.