History Literature / TheTrialsOfApollo

* MistakenAge: When Nanette first meets Leo, Calypso, and Apollo, she says “Aren’t you children cute?”
Apollo, offended, insists they’re not children. It’s really because both he and Calypso are [[Really700YearsOld several thousand years old]]. However, he sounds like a normal teen who’s offended to be called a child.

* MistakenAge: When Nanette first meets Leo, Calypso, and Apollo, she says: //
//“Aren’t you children cute?”//
//Apollo, offended, insists they’re not children. It’s really because both he and Calypso are [[Really700YearsOld several thousand years old]]. However, he sounds like a normal teen who’s offended to be called a child.

* MagicMusic: Any time Apollo plays it clearly is enchanting. Even when he’s just playing scales. Leading to this humorous moment when Apollo first plays.

* Cuckoosnarker: Even at his most arrogant/obnoxious, Apollo is still pretty good at picking up on social situations (that don’t involve him), and saying something snarky about it in his narration. A few examples:

** Played straight later in the book when Apollo uses it to [[spoiler:rescue his children from tank-sized ants.]]

--> “I adjusted the pitch, but stopped when I realized Valentina was sobbing.

I blinked. “It’s called tuning.”

* Cloudcuckoolander: Apollo is an interesting example of this. He frequently says rather outlandish things in his narration. However, if you actually pay attention to how he acts around others, with the exception of when he first visits Percy Jackson, he doesn’t actually act all that strange. He usually acts rather straightforward, although he does complain a bit to Meg.

* Cloudcuckoolander: Apollo is an interesting example of this. He frequently says rather outlandish things in his narration. However, if you actually pay attention to how he acts around others, with the exception of when he first visits Percy Jackson, he doesn’t actually act all that strange. He usually acts rather straightforward, although he does complain a bit to Meg.
** Also, could be applied to his narcissism in general. While he is narcissistic and certainly has done bad things, in general, his narcissism usually makes him more strange than malicious.
** While his narrative statements are definitely out there, from his frame of reference, they generally make logical sense. For example, the below statement is extremely silly, but was actually true while he was a god.
--> “One cannot change one’s way of thinking as easily as one might, say, turn into a snow leopard.”

** Also, generally could be applied to his narcissism in general. While he is narcissistic and certainly has done bad things, in general, his narcissism usually makes him more strange than malicious.
** While his narrative statements are out there, from his frame of reference, they generally make logical sense. For example, the below statement is extremely silly, but was actually true while he was a god.

* Cloudcuckoolander: Apollo is an interesting example of this. Ge frequently says rather outlandish things in his narration. However, if you actually pay attention to how he acts around others, with the exception of when he first visits Percy Jackson, he doesn’t actually act all that strange.

* Cuckoolander: Apollo is an interesting example of this. Ge frequently says rather outlandish things in his narration. However, if you actually pay attention to how he acts around others, with the exception of when he first visits Percy Jackson, he doesn’t actually act all that strange.

* Cuckoolander: Apollo is a unique version of this.

** Apollo says ''"“I’d witnessed Queen Clytemnestra turn homicidal, killing her husband Agamemnon just because he made one little human sacrifice to me. Demigods are an unpredictable bunch.”'' The “little sacrifice” is their daughter, Iphigenia, subject to many Greek Tragedies. However, in the myths/plays, it’s Artemis that Agamemnon offends. Artemis halts the winds at Aulis, so the Greeks can’t travel to the Trojan War. Thus, Agamemnon sacrifices his daughter Iphigenia to Artemis, and the winds resume. After the Trojan War, Agamemnon comes home to a furious Clytemnestra (for murdering their child), and she kills Agamemnon in revenge. While Agamemnon does offend Apollo in other ways, he never sacrifices Iphigenia to Apollo in the plays/myths. However, given how Artemis in this series is much [[AdaptionalHeroism nicer]] than in the myths, Rick likely thought this was a cheeky way of adding a joke about Apollo’s lack of empathy.

* HistoricalInJoke: Louis XIV's birth after twenty-three years of childless marriage between his parents was widely seen at the time as divine intervention, but Anne of Austria having an affair has long been a popular theory. Apollo being the father makes both theories correct. On top of it Louis XIV's epithet was the "Sun King" and lots of art associated with him was linked to him as Apollo, such as playing him in ballet, hence the epithet.

* NiceHat: In ''The Tower of Nero'', the [[spoiler:troglodytes]] wear a large assortment of hats and collect headgear of all shapes and forms, to the point of enthusiastically stealing helmets from their enemies in battle to add to their collection. They also greatly encourage their questing guests to wear them too.
** Apollo receives a Mets cap because [[TakeThat apparently, no one wants it]].
** Meg gets a beekeeper's hat.
** Rachel has a pith helmet.
** Nico is given a top hat, and later wears a white cowboy hat in the final battle.
** Will receives a [[spoiler:[[LampshadeWearing lampshade]], in response to him being a [[LightEmUp human glowstick]]]].

* ''The Tower of Nero'', released October 6, 2020

** However it becomes more of a straigth example by ''The Burning Maze'': while the previous books established he was "flabby" but average, this book reveals that he at least wasn't exaggerating about his prominent love-handles and potbelly, as they get him stuck in the gap under a slightly-opened loading-bay door. A gap that a skinny character like Grover can easily slip through. And more revealingly, a gap that the [[StoutStrength stout]] Coach Hedge can slid through easily...

* YaoiGuys: A mild case with Nico and Will. Even Apollo thinks they're cute together despite Nico being a "dark foreboding type" and they do indeed go to great lengths to stay close to one another. Playing with the trope, Will is the more outgoing of the couple, although Nico is a ''lot'' more powerful and formidable in combat.

Myth Master Creator/RickRiordan's third adventure in ''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'', ''The Trials of Apollo'' are just that. Having angered his father Zeus at the end of ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'', the sun god Apollo wakes up six months later after face-planting in a dumpster. He quickly deduces he's been turned mortal as punishment and that usually means a demigod will claim his services until his father is satisfied and he can reclaim his godly status. While he initially hopes that demigod will be prior POV character ''Literature/PercyJackson'', a new demigod named Meg [=McCaffrey=] gets to it first.

Myth Master Creator/RickRiordan's third adventure with the demigods at Camp Half-Blood, ''The Trials of Apollo'' are just that. Having angered his father Zeus at the end of ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'', the sun god Apollo wakes up six months later after face-planting in a dumpster. He quickly deduces he's been turned mortal as punishment and that usually means a demigod will claim his services until his father is satisfied and he can reclaim his godly status. While he initially hopes that demigod will be prior POV character ''Literature/PercyJackson'', a new demigod named Meg [=McCaffrey=] gets to it first.

** He is also one due to the MindRape in The Dark Prophecy. ItMakesSenseInContext.

* VaguenessIsComing: In the final novel, it's stated Chiron has been meeting with acquaintances from other pantheons, [[spoiler:strongly implied to be Mimir and Bast]], for a "mutual problem" with grave implications [[CrisisCrossover for all of them]]. When Apollo questions Chiron, he simply tells him YouDoNOTWantToKnow.