History Series / PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians2023

Now the young demigod must lead a quest with his two friends -- Grover (Aryan Simhadri) the satyr and Annabeth (Creator/LeahSavaJeffries) daughter of Athena -- across America to prevent a war among the Olympian gods and restore order between his father and uncle.

* BigDamnHeroes: Poseidon saves his son, Percy, using a water spout, at the end of Episode 4. [[spoiler: He saves Percy again in Episode 8, this time from the wrath of his own brother, Zeus.]]

* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Olympians according to Ares, Percy's cousin. Long ago, Kronos, grandfather of both Ares and Percy, ate his own children and Zeus started a war to free them. One of the central driving plots of the season is an impending war between two brothers, Zeus and Poseidon. [[spoiler: Kronus attempts to return to power, by exploiting this and turns both Ares and Luke to his side, in a plot to steal the Bolt and start a war against his own sons and grandsons.]] Ares also [[spoiler: tries to kill his own cousin, Percy.]]

* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: Kronus is revealed as such, having manipulated everything, including his grandsons, Ares and Percy, to start a war against the Olympians and retake his throne.]]

* SixthRangerTraitor: In Episode 8, [[spoiler: Luke is revealed as the Lightning Thief, having plotted alongside Ars and Kronus to start a war amongst the Olympians out of resentment towards their poor treatment of mortals and half-bloods. He manages to escape the grasp of Percy and Annabeth in the FinalBattle, in order to continue his plans and recruit more acolytes.]]

* SequelHook: [[spoiler:At the end of Episode 8, Grover says he's going to search the seas for Pan, which will lead right into season 2, based off the events of ''The Sea of Monsters''.]]

* SequelHook: [[spoiler:At the end of Episode 8, Grover says he's going to search the seas for Pan, which, assuming the show gets a second season, will lead right into ''The Sea of Monsters''.]]

** After being AdaptedOut of the ''Lightning Thief'' film and only appearing in the ''Sea of Monsters'', Clarisse makes her debut in the first season and retains her antagonistic role.

** [[spoiler:Backbiter, Luke's half-celestial bronze[=/=]half-steel sword, is capable of creating portals as Luke himself explains. While it has been vaguely implied in the book that Luke likely "teleported" with aid from the sword, he's never mentioned doing this again.]]

The series' first two episodes premiered on December 19, 2023.

* SaveTheWorldPlot: One of Percy's driving motivations for the quest is due to the fear that a war between Zeus and Poseidon would cause untold devastation to the mortal world.

* BigDamnHeroes: Poseidon saves his son, Percy, using a water spout, at the end of Episode 4.

* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Olympians according to Ares, Percy's cousin. Long ago, Kronos, grandfather of both Ares and Percy, ate his own children and Zeus started a war to free them.[[spoiler: Kronus attempts to return to power, by exploiting this and turns both Ares and Luke to his side, in a plot to steal the Bolt and start a war against his own sons and grandsons.]] Ares also [[spoiler: tries to kill his own cousin, Percy.]]

* EverybodyHatesHades: {{Defied|Trope}}. After suspecting Hades of masterminding the lightning theft since Episode 2, the Lord of the Dead reveals that he had nothing to do with the drama surrounding the Bolt. He is perfectly content with ruling the Underworld, since it means he's far away from his BigScrewedUpFamily on Mount Olympus. He only sent his Furies after Percy because ''his'' symbol of power, the Helm of Darkness, has also been stolen and he believes Percy took it.

Greater-Scope Villain: [[spoiler: Kronus is revealed as such, having manipulated everything, including his grandsons, Ares and Percy, to start a war against the Olympians and retake his throne.]]

* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Olympians according to Ares, Percy's cousin. Long ago, Kronos, grandfather of both Ares and Percy, ate his own children and Zeus started a war to free them.

* SadlyMythtaken: Chris claims that Oizys is the Greek Goddess of Failure; she's actually the personification of pain, misery, and distress, all things that can ''result'' from failure, but not failure itself, though this could be a case of Chris being a DeadpanSnarker in his case.

* FreezeFrameBonus: As Percy confronts [[spoiler:Luke]] in the Season 1 final, a firework briefly reveals a tall silhouette in the woods behind him. [[spoiler:Kronos]] was watching.

** Gladiola the poodle is absent, though in the flashback in Episode 4, young Percy's swim trunks have a poodle design as a MythologyGag.
** Annabeth's fear of spiders isn't established, as Hephestus's trap doesn't use any.

* AdaptationAmalgamation: [[spoiler: Gabe's final fate ends up being a mix of both the original book and the first movie adaptation. Like in the book he's turned to stone by Medusa's head after it's mailed back to Percy, but like in the movie it's due to his own stupidity and spitefulness]].

** Annabeth wants to visit the Gateway Arch in St. Louis to admire its architecture in the original novel; in the show, it's a secret temple to Athena, built by one of her demigod children, and the main trio visit it in an attempt to seek sanctuary from Echidna and her chimera. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Annabeth has incurred her mother's wrath by going along with Percy's scheme to send Medusa's head to Olympus, and that sanctuary is immediately revoked]].

** [[spoiler:On leaving the Lotus, Percy himself drives all the way to Santa Monica (albeit aided by the fact that they stole Hermes's car and can travel there instantly). The original novel had them pay a cab driver with a card that had seemingly infinite money on it from the Lotus.]]

** [[spoiler:Hades mentions that his Helm was stolen "Days" before the Bolt and that he figures whoever stole the Helm used it to steal the Bolt. In the books the Bolt and the Helm were stolen from Olympus at the same time because Hades only ever comes to Olympus for the winter solstice.]]

** Percy and Poseidon have black hair in the books. Here they are blond, only Poseidon's hair is brownish and Percy's is a sandy shade.

** In Episode 2, Grover consults with the Cloven Council. In the books, the Council of Cloven Elders was mentioned from book one but not properly introduced until ''Battle of the Labyrinth''.
** As shown in Episode 3, Blackjack is already one of the camp's pegasi by the beginning of the series, as opposed to being rescued from Luke at the end of ''Sea of Monsters''.

** The series opens with a flashback to Percy's youth and show that he's always been able to see through the Mist, filling up a whole notebook with illustrations of what he sees. It also shows that he and Grover bonded over the card game ''Mythomagic'', which [[spoiler:is the favorite game of Nico di Angelo.]]

** In the books, Annabeth's father was reluctant to take Annabeth in when Athena delivered her to him, and this was a source of angst for Annabeth as she felt it meant her father never wanted her. In Episode 3, Annabeth mentions to Percy that her father did take her in and "treat her like a gift" with things only starting to fall apart after he moved on and got married to Annabeth's stepmother.

** [[spoiler:One of the last chapters in the book has Percy fly back from LA to New York to deliver the master bolt, intruding in Zeus's domain and putting him in peril; in the show, Poseidon's pearls teleport them to the beach on Montauk instead of Santa Monica, removing the need for this.]]

* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Olympians according to Ares, Percy's cousin. Long ago, Kronus, grandfather of Ares and great grandfather of Percy, ate his own children and Zeus started a war to free them.

** [[Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus Gaea]] is mentioned by Echidna in Episode Four.

* DiesDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:In ''The Lightning Thief'', Sally explicitly murdered Gabe using Medusa's head because he was an abuser, plopping it in front of him in the middle of a poker game. In the show, Gabe peels open the package containing her head himself after it's marked Return To Sender.]]

** After being bullied by Nancy, Grover suggests to Percy that he should go see [[Literature/TheKaneChronicles Mr. Kane]]. Whether or not Mr. Kane is the father of Carter and Sadie Kane is left for guessing.

** Percy's sword was named "''Anaklusmos''" (Greek for "Riptide") when he received it in the original novel, but for the entirety fo the first season, it's gone unnamed.