YMMV / Athena Complex

• Base-Breaking Character: Sibyl hands down. The ones who do like her like her because she is the most realistic human in the series, courageous, and incredibly honest. Those who don't like her dislike her largely because of a mix of mistranslation and cultural differences. For example, one of the greatest contentions is that the audience expects her to know who the major players of Greek Mythology are when she is a culturally a South Korean and the most she's ever seen were spirits of East Asian origin. It should also be said that Adrian/Athena shippers think of her as an obstacle.
• Catharsis Factor: Poseidon dishing out a Curb-Stomp Battle on Ares and subsequently cursing Ares into becoming a dog. That's as satisfying as it is hilarious.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Apollo quickly became this due to his design and being one of the least smug gods.
• Epileptic Trees: There are theories that Sybil might be the reincarnation of Amphitrite, i.e. Poseidon's wife, mainly because of Sybil being Adrian's Only Friend.
• Les Yay: Nike is fiercely devoted to Athena, constantly showering her with words of encouragement and becomes incredibly furious whenever Athena gets upset. This didn't go unnoticed by the readers.
• Moe:
  • Adrian, given his feeble appearance, dreadful school life and horrible luck.
  • Athena is proof that even an Amazonian Beauty can be this if she's enough Adorkable.
• The Woobie: As this is a story inspired by Greek mythology, what else to expect?
  • Athena. Never received love from her parents (for various reasons), she was raised by her uncle Poseidon who became something like a Living Emotional Crutch to her. While she struggled with her perceived lack of femininity since her childhood due to her Titan lineage, she still managed to pull through. However, one day Poseidon suddenly starts a rebellion against Zeus which results in her being forced to personally fight him and bring him to Olympus. Her face when she sees the one man whom she admired and adored since her childhood getting viciously executed says it all.
  • Poseidon. While no saint himself, he is still a textbook example of a tragic martyr. After he starts a futile coup for the single purpose of protecting Athena from Zeus, he is unceremoniously executed by Ares and cursed into a Fate Worse than Death by Zeus. Alongside his nuclear family and close friends.
  • Adrian is the most recent reincarnation of Poseidon and suffers from lots of discrimination every single day at school due to the Curse making him a Doom Magnet. During his entire childhood, Sybil was literally the Only Friend he had.
  • Metis, Athena's mother. Her Backstory is almost identical to her original role in the Classical Mythology. Go figure. The way she desperately begs Poseidon to save her child after she dies - as she knew that Zeus would be suspicious of Athena even if she were to be born a girl, while the prophecy explicitly stated that a male offspring of him and Metis would pose a threat to his reign - cements it.