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-->'''Eurymachus:''' [[VillainWantsMercy Wait]]! Wait! Wait! W-wait! [[NeverMyFault What is our crime]]? We treated your wife [[BlatantLies as a queen]]. We lived off your land, but that can be replaced. We did not kill anyone.

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-->'''Eurymachus:''' [[VillainWantsMercy Wait]]! Wait! Wait! Wait! W-wait! [[NeverMyFault What is our crime]]? We treated your wife [[BlatantLies as a queen]]. We lived off your land, but that can be replaced. We did not kill anyone.
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** There's also this exchange that demonstrates that ''nothing'' the suitors [[NeverMyFault say]] will save them from the returned king nor his livid son:
-->'''Eurymachus:''' [[VillainWantsMercy Wait]]! Wait! Wait! W-wait! [[NeverMyFault What is our crime]]? We treated your wife [[BlatantLies as a queen]]. We lived off your land, but that can be replaced. We did not kill anyone.
-->'''Odysseus:''' Your crime is that you tried to steal my world. The world that I built with my hands, and my sweat...
-->'''Eurymachus:''' Now anyone-
-->'''Odysseus:''' ...[[ArmorPiercingResponse and my blood]]. The world I shared with a woman who bore me my son. And no one will ever take that from me. Now you will die to a man in a river of blood...
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* Penelope fending off the suitors with various tricks. The best known is when she tells them she'll choose a suitor once she's finished weaving a burial shroud for Odysseus's father Laertes... And then every night she undoes her work. She fools them for ''three years straight'' and would have continued had an unfaithful servant not revealed her game.

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* Penelope fending off the suitors with various tricks. The best known is when she tells them she'll choose a suitor once she's finished weaving a burial shroud for Odysseus's father Laertes...Laërtes... And then every night she undoes her work. She fools them for ''three years straight'' and would have continued had an unfaithful servant not revealed her game.



*** And that makes Telemachus ''almost succeeding'' an awesome moment: during his three attempts, he figures out what he's dealing with and the technique out, without anyone telling him anything until Odysseys stops him from the fourth attempt.
*** The fact is a recurve bow also makes Penelope's plan more awesome: the suitors had been previously fooled by her tricks and the famous shroud job in particular... And here she shows up with an unstrung recurve bow that [[BatmanGambit she knows the suitors won't even recognize or ask her if Odysseus's bow has some trick]], fooling them once again.

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*** And that makes Telemachus ''almost succeeding'' an awesome moment: during his three attempts, he figures out what he's dealing with and the technique out, without anyone telling him anything anything, until Odysseys Odysseus stops him from the fourth attempt.
*** The fact that it is a recurve bow also makes Penelope's plan more awesome: the suitors had been previously fooled by her tricks and the famous shroud job in particular... And here she shows up with an unstrung recurve bow that [[BatmanGambit she knows the suitors won't even recognize or ask her if Odysseus's bow has some trick]], fooling them once again.



* Once Odysseus has killed the suitors, Penelope wonders if it's a god in disguise... So she orders to move Odysseus's bed dragged from the bridal chamber--causing Odysseus to demand who dared to cut the bed from the living olive tree he carved it from, something only the two of them knew. Thus tricking the world's greatest trickster into proving his identity while she proved her fidelity to him in a single move.

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* Once Odysseus has killed the suitors, Penelope wonders if it's a god in disguise... So she orders to move Odysseus's bed dragged from the bridal chamber--causing Odysseus to demand who dared to cut the bed from the living olive tree he carved it from, something only the two of them knew. Thus Thus, tricking the world's greatest trickster into proving his identity while she proved her fidelity to him in a single move.

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