Line #11 ComicBook/Smite


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Spin your tale sage. This should be '''amusing'''.]]
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4	Serves as a introduction and backstory for the game ''VideoGame/{{Smite}}''. It is written by John Jackson Miller and published by Creator/DarkHorseComics. Events of this comic became the basis for the game's Odyssey 2018, as well as the card game ''Hand of the Gods''.
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7	!!''Smite'' provides examples of:
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9	%%* ActionGirl: All of the goddesses are this.
10	* AdaptationalHeroism: Some of the gods drop their JerkAssGod tendencies from their respective myths. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], however, as they draw their power from worshippers
11	* AdaptationalVillainy: Hel in the game usually had her SplitPersonality sadism PlayedForLaughs. In the comics, however, her light and dark forms are essentially the same, giving her one sole personality, one obsessed with balance.
12	* AncientGrome: It's revealed in the comic that the Greco-Roman gods are known by [[IHaveManyNames different names]] in the borderlands between Asgard and Olympia, for example, Athena calls Mercury as Hermes, while his faithful in one of that borderlands call him as Mercury (his Roman name).
13	* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:Zeus died at the first volume, then Mercury died next. And in the game's Odyssey 2018, next in line to die is Chaac at the hands of Ares because he got in the way of hunting Anubis, whom Ares suspected as the murderer of Zeus. In the end, Ares manages to kill Anubis.]]
14	* AllMythsAreTrue: Just like the [[VideoGame/{{Smite}} game]]. This is actually the cause of the first War of the Gods since the various pantheons were afraid of losing their followers to another pantheon.
15	* ApocalypseHow: The god battles are destroying the human realm.
16	* BigScrewedUpFamily: Every god is part of one. Since the various pantheons have split into factions and fighting each other, they've only gotten worse.
17	* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler: Hades]] helps orchestrate his brother [[spoiler: Zeus']] murder
18	* CallForward: Or CallBack, depending on when Athena made [[SpiderPeople Arachne]] what she is
19	-->'''Athena:''' I don't much care for spiders
20	* CreationMyth: Creator/{{Homer}} tells how many of the gods helped create the world.
21	* CrossoverCosmology: Much like the [[VideoGame/{{Smite}} game]].
22	* DivineConflict: The comic goes over the second one about whether humans should worship them or be free. The first was more straightforward and happens before the comic starts.
23	* EverybodyHatesHades: Hades [[spoiler: assists in Zeus' murder]].
24	* EyeOfHorusMeansEgypt: Ra's throne has a giant one.
25	* {{Fanservice}}: Many of the Gods don't wear armor, showing off their very sculpted bodies.
26	* GirlOnGirlIsHot:
27	-->'''Athena:''' (to Neith) Shall we dance all night? I'd rather get straight to it
28	-->'''Mercury:''' I'd like to see that
29	* HeroKiller: Loki kills [[spoiler: Zeus and Mercury, and threatens to kill Hel.]]
30	* IHaveManyNames: See AncientGrome above.
31	* TheKingslayer: [[spoiler:[[Characters/SmiteNorsePantheon Loki]] kills [[Characters/SmiteGreekPantheon Zeus]]]], presumably more instances like this will likely appear due to the nature of this [[VideoGame/{{Smite}} franchise]].
32	* MaleGaze: Made hilarious with [[Characters/SmiteGreekPantheon Athena]] when she notices [[Characters/SmiteRomanPantheon Mercury]] staring at [[Characters/SmiteEgyptianPantheon Neith]].
33	-->"Oh, act like you've seen a woman before."
34	* ShipTease: There's a [[CharacterDeath brief one]] between [[spoiler:[[Characters/SmiteEgyptianPantheon Neith]] and [[Characters/SmiteRomanPantheon Mercury]]]]
35	* TitleDrop:
36	-->'''Loki:''' And you would, what... smite as many gods as you could before death?\
37	'''Athena:''' If you would smite the evil that befalls your world--
38	* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler: Athena]] towards [[spoiler:Loki]].
39	-->'''[[spoiler:Athena]]:''' [[spoiler:Loki!]] You murdered my father and my friend!
40	* YourLittleDismissiveDiminutive

Context ComicBook / Smite