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Fridge Brilliance

  • One of Nemesis' jokes is "They say justice is blind, but really I'm just ignoring you!". She has no directed taunts, meaning she literally does act like she ignores whomever you are when she kills you.
  • Thanatos, Nemesis, and Nox (if she were Nyx) are a family, and all three of them wear masks. Discordia is Nox's daughter as well, but she doesn't have a mask...which frankly probably amuses Discordia's chaotic self-indulgence.
  • Skadi's wolf, Kaldr, is the Old Norse word for "cold". So basically, the cold is always at winter's heels.
  • King Arthur's interest in having Achilles join his Knights of the Round Table is probably because Achilles' choice of armour and weapons (well, when he's not going armour-less, that is) is quite close to the armour, lance and shield of a classical knight.
    • Achilles later gets a skin, Knight of Mordred, which reimagines him as a knight who joins Mordred’s rebellion against Arthur. Talk about the irony.
    • Even more brilliant when you realize there’s an actual knight in Arthurian lore who’s descended from Achilles, and even has the same heel weakness as his ancestor!
  • Despite coming off from different Pantheons, Aphrodite (Venus) and Vulcan (Hephaestus)'s lores match up so greatly and it explains their relationship. Vulcan only had Venus' marriage because he's pissed on how Juno mistreated him, and because the spite remained despite his vengeance, he became too absorbed in his smith, abandoning everything else. The same thing could as well happened to Hephaestus, thus explaining why he'd not notice much on Aphrodite and leading her to grow insecure and starts cheating him to compensate.
  • The name of Scylla's 'pets' and the moves they're applied to could be seen as this. Ajax and Achilles are the ones who are applied to Sic 'Em a move that locks you in places. Achilles was stabbed in his heel during the battle of Troy and Ajax was his cousin. Zoey is used for Sentinel, like ''Zo''ey watches a certain ''Zo''ne.
  • Discordia was Eris, but abandoned the Greeks to become Discordia to the Romans. As the Romans were a far more militant people compared to the Greeks, her swap of her worshipper-base completely goes along with her primary interest.
  • Athena speaking in a Russian accent makes absolutely no sense at first, but it can make sense when you consider this: Athena is the Goddess of Wisdom and also Warfare Strategy. Obfuscating Stupidity is one strategy to bluff your enemy, so Athena decided to act kind of ditzy in Russian accent with broken grammar ("I am rockstar", anyone?) to fool her enemies to underestimate her and then strike when they're distracted. As of the Russian accent, being the Goddess of Wisdom, Athena would be a quick learner for foreign languages and accents, so she could adapt that to compliment her obfuscation.
    • However, she's not actually speaking with a Russian accent. but rather, a Greek accent. It just so happens that a Greek accent can typically sounds like a Russian one.
  • Rama and Thoth both have abilities that allow them to dash/roll in the direction they're moving in and then fire a more powerful projectile afterwards. The former is voiced by one of the founding members of Team Four Star, while the latter is voiced by a frequent collaborator.
  • Cernunnos's glaive clearly takes from the movie Krull, and thus has no basis in Celtic mythology. However, the weapon becomes much more appropriate if seen as a symbolic extension of the Sacred Wheel, which represents the yearly cycle of seasons; not only is the glaive altered and empowered in each season like Cernunnos himself, but his passive meter showcases the glaive much like the Wheel, constantly spinning.
  • Upon reflection, the choice of characters used for the crossover skins actually make a degree of sense being placed in this setting:
    • A key theme of RWBY is the power of legends and stories. Each of the lead characters is based upon a famous fairy tale or mythological character, and the world of Remnant has its own laid-out mythology that heavily informs the overarching plot of the series.
    • Avatar: The Last Airbender is set in an Asian-inspired fantasy world and also has its own complex mythology regarding Bending and the bridge between the physical and spirit realms in the form of the Avatar Spirit, which basically makes whoever is born with it into a Physical God.
    • TMNT is less obvious, but certain iterations of the franchise (namely the 2003 cartoon, the IDW comics, and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) have placed a special emphasis on mysticism and spirituality, thus making it not completely out of the realm of possibility that they would be able to encounter the gods of mythology, especially the Japanese pantheon, who wouldn't feel out of place being seen in those three aforementioned incarnations.
    • Stranger Things is a lot less obvious, being a Period Piece Sci-Fi Horror drama, but think about it: the show is about an Eldritch Location other dimension and the various ways it encroaches upon our world with its various unearthly monsters. It's a compliment to the already present Cthulhu Mythos!
    • Transformers is the epic saga of the war between two factions of a cosmic machine race, who just so happen to have their own gods in the forms of Primus and Unicron.
  • At first it might seem weird that Starscream, a giant alien robot that turns into a fighter jet, is a skin for the ultra-squishy and weak (at first) Jing Wei. However, considering how much of a Dirty Coward Starscream is in canon, it works out nicely. Starscream's not actually dying, he's just retreating at the first sign of trouble!
    • Similarly, while one might just think they chose Geb and Ra to be Optimus Prime and Megatron respectively based on their abilities, but given the lore between them, with Geb and Ra (while neither side is fully good or fully evil) being antagonistic towards each other, it makes sense that they'd cast these rival gods as two rival faction leaders.

Fridge Horror

  • Keep in mind that nearly every god's lore describes that they are trying to save the world from a great threat. The only ones that seem to want to bring forth the end of the world are Loki and Fenrir. Now also keep in mind that the map for Conquest, the main game mode, have grown much Darker and Edgier, with the landscape becomming more destroyed, horrid and bleak. Same thing goes for the Assault map, that used to be a simple Nordic landscape before becomming an area looking as if it is about to get torn apart into space at any moment. So to sum it up: Loki and Fenrir are WINNING AGAINST ALL OF THE GODS!!
    • And then Thanatos came along...
    • Keep in mind there are others who would be considered evil such as Arachne, Bakasura, Ymir, Hun Batz, Cabrakan, Medusa. Whether it's to run rampant or whether they want to exact revenge is the question, but they're all working in Loki's favor whether they know it or not...
    • There will be a new Conquest Map and from the look of it, while there were some bleak backgrounds like the volcano, the sun has risen and it looked like light bathed onto the world once again. So looks like the protectors managed to push back Loki's schemes a bit... Then Ah Puch came.
    • Afterwards there seems to be a normal flux of Gods and nothing seemed to change for worse, even as the Japanese Pantheon came... and then Izanami arrives to make things worse, and then the Clash map will have an Egyptian theme... where Apep/Apophis is going to be featured in the place of the Fire Giant, even after lore-wise he was defeated by Bastet and Anhur. Oh, Crap!

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