History Headscratchers / AmericanGods2017

** Everything about Odin is rigged games and long cons. It's entirely likely that Odin always planned on killing Vulcan because he took the New God Deal, and let Vulcan believe he was the one who had the upper hand, conning some use out of him before killing him. It's also entirely likely that Vulcan "selling them out," Odin killing him, and him falling into the forge was part of Odin's overall long con and part of Vulcan's place in said plan. Vulcan died in his own factory, and will be, for lack of a better term, canonized by his modern followers--remember that he receives regular human sacrifice in his temple through a worker falling into the vault. He may come out on top, or coming out on top through sacrifice of the self, may have been part of ''his'' plan. As for Wednesday cursing the ammunition, well... part of him restoring Gungnir in season 2 involves pissing on a piece of Yggdrasil, so... we know the act of Odin urinating on something is not necessarily an act of desecration. Apparently, it ''can'' empower weapons in some way. As for the spoken curse, well, Wednesday's just a [[MagnificentBastard bastard]].

* How did Wednesday summon a bolt of lightening at Ostara's party to kill Mechanical Boy's goons? He isn't a thunder god, after all?

* How did Wednesday summon a bolt of lightening at Ostara's party to kill Mechanical Boy's goons? He isn't a thunder god, after all?

* If Ostara was rebranded as the American Goddess of Easter sunday, then what does that make the Easter Bunny? The concept of the show is that with enough belief in the existence there-of from enough people will allow any mythical being to exist, with different incarnations appearing depending where the worship is happening and by the ideology people associate with them. Media casually mentions that St. Nicholas took the "same deal" that Ostara did and became SantaClaus. While the belief is exclusively from children, enough people would believe in the Easter Bunny for it to exist, and with Ostara and the various incarnations of Jesus attending her party, you would think that the Easter Bunny would be there too. Is the Easter Bunny one of the magical rabbits in her employ? Are they all Easter Bunnies that distribute eggs and candy? Is ''she'' the Easter Bunny and all of the rabbits are like her elves?

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* This is probably the definition of over-thinking it and thus missing the point; but I am pretty sure that Gay Women is the least likely to get infected with AIDS.

*** I'm not sure if the handwriting is different or not, but it's possible Shadow himself wrote down the two cellphones simply so he wouldn't forget.

** Perhaps Wednesday added these to the list to make sure that Shadow visited the electronics section, thus ensuring a meeting with Media. Maybe to give Shadow a taste of what is to come/slowly introduce him to the New Gods. Shadow implying that it was his idea might just be due to confusion on his part after that weird event[[/folder]]

** At the moment, probably both. Regardless of how it's consumed, any piece of technology used - social media, cellphones, etc. - is a form of worship to Technology Boy. With that logic, whatever we ''watch'', regardless of platform - television, internet, movies - is worship towards media. So both of them, at the moment. None of the other New Gods have been introduced yet, so there could be others that are either weaker or more powerful than these two.

* While obviously the Internet itself is clearly worthy of worship and a part of The Technical Boy's Domain, what is ON the internet is a part of the Multi-Media and a part of Media's Domain. So whom of them get any power through it?

Anubis handles the judgement of the atheist Laura and muslim Mrs. Fadhil. By implication, he might be running THE afterlife, at least as far as America goes. Given the themes of the show, the gods fading away as people stop worshiping them, isn't he too powerful? What about other afterlife/death gods?

* Anubis handles the judgement of the atheist Laura and muslim Mrs. Fadhil. By implication, he might be running THE afterlife, at least as far as America goes. Given the themes of the show, the gods fading away as people stop worshiping them, isn't he too powerful?

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** The mechanics by which gods work in this universe is still a bit sketchy. Keep in mind that mythologically Odin sacrificed himself to himself to gain wisdom. Vulcan might actually benefit from dying according to the ritual that empowered him for so long.
** As for Vulcan making Odin a sword the reason may be two fold 1) He needed to buy time and working on the sword did the job. As a fellow God Wendsday would have known if Vulcan was faking the real deal. 2) Pride, as shown in the episode Vulcan was pretty much riding high on his status. Sacrificed too on the regular basis. No longer a minor God forgotten as an after thought. His pride would not let him do a sub-par job on the Sword. Also he was in his '''temple''' the place of his power. His pride lead to the belief in his own safety. He thought himself untouchable, his pride and arrogance blinded him.
*** Although that could make sense, Odin laid down a curse on the ammo, implying that it's going to malfunction/jam. Since the cursed batch is probably going to be quite big (that was a lot of metal in the vat), it could quite easily destroy Vulcan's brand, thus depriving him of worship, at least in the "franchised" sense. Though now that I'm typing this out, an idea crossed my mind - Vulcan will probably come back, considering he still has the forge and volcanoes; Wednesday just made sure it's gonna be later rather than sooner.

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** As for Vulcan making Odin a sword the reason may be two fold 1) He needed to buy time and working on the sword did the job. As a fellow God Wendsday would have known if Vulcan was faking the real deal. 2) Pride, as shown in the episode Vulcan was pretty much riding high on his status. Sacrificed too on the regular basis. No longer a minor God forgotten as an after thought. His pride would not let him do a sub-par job on the Sword. Also he was in his '''temple''' the place of his power. His pride lead to the belief in his own safety. He thought himself untouchable, his pride and arrogance blinded him.

But why? This doesn't make any sense. Telling Wednesday that he's on his side can be justified by lulling him into a false sense of security. However, actually forging the blade, then giving it to Wednesday, and THEN revealing his betrayal is stupid beyond all reason.