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Adept
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(Holding A Herring)
2022-11-06 00:08:40
I think that'd be a closer fit to Truer to the Text than Character Rerailment. AFAIK, Derailment/rerailment is something that happens within a single run, not adaptations.
Edited by Adept
crazysamaritan
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Since: Apr, 2010

I noticed that Character Rerailment, a YMMV trope, was in Mr. Wednesday/Odin's folder on the Character page for American Gods. Normally, I would have just moved it to the YMMV page, but since it's about how the novel chooses to adapt a mythological figure, I decided to ask for advice on whether or not that would indeed be the right course of action.
The entry was as follows:
- Character Rerailment: Post-Eddas, Odin has been mostly portrayed as a Grandpa God. Here, he has the more chaotic and selfish personality of older mythology.
Edited by WiryAiluropodine