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* The fall of Phaeton. When he tries to drive the chariot of the sun he swiftly loses control and realises what a huge mistake he made, veering wildly off course and spreading fiery chaos across the sky and the earth, causing mass death, rivers and seas to boil and the land to burn, even making the gods panic until Zeus is forced to intervene and [[BoltOfDivineRetribution blast the terrified Phaeton out of the sky]] to prevent the entire world from being destroyed.

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* The fall of Phaeton. When he tries to drive the chariot of the sun he swiftly loses control and realises what a huge mistake he he's made, veering wildly off course and spreading fiery chaos across the sky heavens and the earth, causing mass death, rivers and seas to boil and the land to burn, even making the gods panic until Zeus is forced to intervene and [[BoltOfDivineRetribution blast the terrified Phaeton out of the sky]] to prevent the entire world from being destroyed.

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* The fall of Phaeton. When he tries to drive the chariot of the sun he swiftly loses control and realises what a huge mistake he made, veering off course and spreading fiery chaos across the sky and the earth, causing rivers and seas to boil and the land to burn, until Zeus is forced to intervene and [[BoltOfDivineRetribution blast the terrified Phaeton out of the sky]] to prevent the entire world being destroyed.

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* The fall of Phaeton. When he tries to drive the chariot of the sun he swiftly loses control and realises what a huge mistake he made, veering wildly off course and spreading fiery chaos across the sky and the earth, causing mass death, rivers and seas to boil and the land to burn, even making the gods panic until Zeus is forced to intervene and [[BoltOfDivineRetribution blast the terrified Phaeton out of the sky]] to prevent the entire world from being destroyed.

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* The fall of Phaeton. When he tries to drive the chariot of the sun he swiftly loses control and realises what a huge mistake he made, veering off course and spreading fiery chaos across the sky and the earth, causing rivers and seas to boil and the land to burn, until Zeus is forced to intervene and [[BoltOfDivineRetribution blast the terrified Phaeton out of the sky]] to prevent the entire world being destroyed.
-->''Then, truly, Phaeton sees the whole earth on fire. He cannot bear the violent heat, and he breathes the air as if from a deep furnace. He feels his chariot glowing white. He can no longer stand the ash and sparks flung out, and is enveloped in dense, hot smoke. He does not know where he is, or where he is going, swept along by the will of the winged horses.''
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* Dear gods of Olympus, [[DarkAndTroubledPast Medusa's backstory]]. She was originally a beautiful priestess of Athena, but was [[RapeAsBackstory raped by Poseidon in the goddess's temple]]. Even worse? Poseidon [[KarmaHoudini never suffers any punishment for the act]]. And for the [[DisproportionateRetribution crime of being raped]], Athena transforms her deflowered priestess into a horrifying monster.
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* Ovid's take on Hermaphrodites' origins--originally, Hermaphrodites was a young boy, born to Hermes and Aphrodite (hence his name), but one day, a nymph fell in uncontrollable lust with him. Hermaphrodites wanted nothing to do with her, but [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale she refused to take no for an answer]]. Eventually, she called out for the gods to let them be together forever. What did the gods do? Well, they decided to answer the request...by ''merging them together into a single entity''. So now, poor Hermaphrodites is forced to share a body with his attempted rapist...''[[FateWorseThanDeath forever]]''.

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* Ovid's take on Hermaphrodites' origins--originally, Hermaphrodites was a young boy, born to Hermes and Aphrodite (hence his name), but one day, a nymph fell in uncontrollable lust with him. Hermaphrodites wanted nothing to do with her, but [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale she refused to take no for an answer]]. Eventually, she called out for the gods to let them be together forever. What did the gods do? Well, they decided to answer the request...by ''merging them together into a single entity''. So now, poor Hermaphrodites is forced to share a body with his attempted rapist...''[[FateWorseThanDeath forever]]''.
forever]]''. Did we mention Hermaphrodites was ''[[PaedoHunt underage]]'' when this was happening?
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* Ovid's take on Hermaphrodites' origins--originally, Hermaphrodites was a young boy, born to Hermes and Aphrodite (hence his name), but one day, a nymph fell in uncontrollable lust with him. Hermaphrodites wanted nothing to do with her, but [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale she refused to take no for an answer]]. Eventually, she called out for the gods to let them be together forever. What did the gods do? Well, they decided to answer the request...by ''merging them together into a single entity''. So now, poor Hermaphrodites is forced to share a body with his attempted rapist...''[[FateWorseThanDeath forever]]''.
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* The birth and emergence of Bacchus. It starts with Jupiter raping Semele. Then Juno manipulates events, forcing Jupiter to [[KillItWithFire burn her alive]] and [[BodyHorror bear her infant son in his leg]]. After the baby god Bacchus is born, he intimidates Acoetes into becoming his [[SycophanticServant high priest]] heads to Thebes. There, he [[MassHypnosis whips the entire female population into a frenzy]] and forces them to rip the king [[NayTheist Pentheus]] limb from limb. The crowner? [[MoralEventHorizon The leader of this group is Agave, Pentheus's mother.]]
* The story of Erysichthon, a king who chops down a tree in the sacred grove of Ceres and is punished with never-ending hunger. He ends up selling all his possessions to buy food, down to selling his daughter into slavery (though she escapes through her VoluntaryShapeshifting). And in the end, he dies trying to eat himself.

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