History ComicBook / TheMythologyClass

** BiggerBad: Sitan, the GodOfEvil he and other aswangs serve and intend to sacrifice the class to—but [[spoiler:he's not really all that powerful; he can be, and is eventually, killed by the class themselves, though of course with help from benevolent deities. That doesn't stop his spirit from merging with the Master Aswang's body and turning the latter into a snakelike final form too, however.]]

->''Never take things for granted.''\\

* AfroAsskicker: Lam-ang. He's not a black African/-American, but the closest Philippine equivalent—part of the Aeta ethnic group, who are darker than the average (brown, relatively unmixed) Filipino, and have curly hair. He valiantly slices through a bunch of ''aswangs'' when they're accidentally released, [[spoiler:before they overwhelm him through sheer numbers]].

** BiggerBad: Sitan, the GodOfEvil he and other aswangs serve and intend to sacrifice the class to—but [[spoiler:he's not really all that powerful; he can be, and is eventually, killed by the students themselves. That doesn't stop his spirit from merging with the Master Aswang's body and turning the latter into a snakelike final form too, however.]]

%% * ShipTease: Gio and Angie.

%% * SymbolSwearing

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Mall magnate Mr Quantos.
* TheDragon: Initially, the Master Aswang is this to Sitan.
* EastIndies: The ancient, precolonial and mythical lands from which the Mythology Class' mentors and guardians—Datimbang, Kubin, Tala, Aili, and Sulayman (and Nuno)—come from. The Philippines' ancestral cultures resemble much of their surviving counterparts in maritime South and Southeast Asia, and it's cultures like that which form the focus of Nicole's thesis (and of course, the Mythology Class' course content).

* FireForgedFriends: Mrs. Enkanta's students.

* GottaCatchEmAll: All the ''engkanto'', that is.

* TheHerald: Tala

* TheMentor: Mrs Enkanta, [[spoiler:alias Datimbang]]. Also, Sulayman.

* ShipTease: Gio and Angie.

* SymbolSwearing
* {{Tsundere}}: Misha.

* BikerBabe: Lisa. She sees a lot of action on her bike.

* {{Meganekko}}: Lisa.

* BiggerBad: [[GodOfEvil Sitan]]. [[spoiler:The Master Aswang levels-up to this when—even while ''trapped inside an'' engkanto ''jar''—he manages to assimilate the essence of the now-dead Sitan, remaking himself as a monstrous snake form in the process.]]

* EastIndies: The ancient, precolonial and mythical lands from which the Mythology Class' mentors and guardians—Datimbang, Kubin, Tala, Aili, and Sulayman (and Nuno)—come from.

In 2020, Arnold Arre finally followed it up with a sequel, ''The Children of Bathala''.

->''Never take things for granted.''
->''Never ignore what is obvious.''
->''For just when you least expect it … ''engkantos'' will always have a way of surprising you.''

!!This work provides examples of:

-->'''Gio''': I love you!
-->'''Angie''': I bite my toenails!

* GoneHorriblyRight: The music equipment that the A.U.C. team (Angie, Edward and Bob) devise to play back the "Dance of the Diwatas" song does its job so well of lulling one ''kapre'' to sleep, it ends up ''attracting the'' kapre's ''entire family'' … and the class thought they only had to deal with ''one''.
** More comically, the music—meant to "charm the savage beast", per the cliché—ends up lulling all the boys to sleep as well. Even Sulayman.

* SealedGoodInACan: Most of the ancient jars simply contain mythical creatures and spirits with no ill intentions, and the class' job is to hunt them all down and return them to their jars—- think ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'', in most cases. (Though a number of them can still be quite unpleasant—one scared the shit out of Misha and attempted to bite her until Sulayman returned it to a jar.)

* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: In this case, saving the world actually counts towards the students' class units, hence it being called a ''class''. (One wonders how Mrs Enkanta managed to get this approved with the university administration.)
** RealityEnsues: Nicole doesn't seem to balance her other classes that well though—in one scene she dozes off in one of her general-education subjects, with the rest of that class looking on disapprovingly.

-->''Never take things for granted.''
-->''Never ignore what is obvious.''
-->''For just when you least expect it … ''engkantos'' will always have a way of surprising you.''

** Nicole doesn't seem to balance her other classes that well though—in one scene she dozes off in one of her general-education subjects, with the rest of that class looking on disapprovingly.

* MsFanservice: Lane the telepath when she gets into her dance costume to appease the giant ''kapres''. Nicole also gets a ShowerScene complete with CensorSteam.