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Just because the fate of humanity is literally banking on a tournament against the gods doesn't mean there aren't any laughs to be found in Record of Ragnarok.
- Brunhilde's and Göll's many ridiculous faces over the course the of the story is worth a few laughs. The latter in particular is more often than not going Oh, Crap! once or twice every chapter. And more often than not with very good reason.
- Pretty much every single moment Ares is on-panel. Here we have the Greek god of war, who towers over pretty much every other god and is built like a brick shithouse... but he's also a hapless loser who spends most of his presence getting no respect, tossed around, and completely missing the mark on what’s going on in the arena and having to get corrected by Hermes. He’s not even safe from Göll of all people.
- At some point during the first round, the kickback of wind from Thor and Lü Bu’s fight causes Aphrodite to get slapped in the face by her own knockers.
- Zeus jumps the queue and fights in the second round, instead of the finale as planned, because all the excitement has gotten him more revved up than he's been in ages, which leads him to repeatedly insist to an increasingly-annoyed Shiva, with an unchanging expression, that "it's my turn now."
- The page picture has Brunhilde stress-eating after the loss of Adam: any poise and grace the Valkyrie has is utterly gone as she stuffs her face with salmiak pies, much to Göll's disgust.
- Heracles passionately declares to Jack the Ripper that we will grant his wish of a fight to the death, and after a moment of sinister silence, Jack...turns and runs. Heracles is left blankly staring after him, mumbling in confusion, with the anime showing Jack's dash away to be rather...unanimated, complete with a sharp, illogical turn down a street corner.
- Zeus tries to get Buddha to share his candy with him. Cue a rather impressive scene of Buddha keeping the bowl of snacks out of Zeus's reach... and then cramming it all in his mouth like he's a chipmunk as Zeus impotently curses.
- So how precisely does Buddha announce one of the most flooring Wham Lines in the entirety of the manga?Buddha: "I’m fighting for humanity, so uh… thanks."
- The various reactions are absolute pictures; Göll and Ares are drop-jawed, Zeus has a ducked lipped expression which basically states "Aw shoot, he is a traitor", Kojiro appears to be clapping his hands and having a good laugh about it, Loki has never looked more angry and Hermes has gone bug-eyed. Not to mention the various spectating gods who'd previously been rubbing it in the humans' faces that Buddha's fighting against them are now pretty much eating crow.
- In chapter 58, Zeus shows up by placing his hands on Hermes's shoulder and Ares's head. There is something hilarious about the reminder that this shriveled old man is in fact the father of the hulking Ares.Ares: "D-Dad! Where have you been this whole...?"
