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* ArcherArchetype: Odysseus is quite capable of using a sword in close combat, but he seems to be more famous for his amazing bow, which nobody else is even strong (or skilled) enough to string, much less shoot (though, as the epic states, Telemachus might have managed to string the bow on the fourth try had Odysseus not stopped him). He's also a sneaky bastard and clever and stealthy too.
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* BowAndSwordInAccord: Odysseus is quite capable of using a sword in close combat, but he seems to be more famous for his amazing bow, which nobody else is even strong (or skilled) enough to string, much less shoot (though, as the epic states, Telemachus might have managed to string the bow on the fourth try had Odysseus not stopped him). He's also a sneaky bastard and clever and stealthy too.
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* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Possibly the UrExample. Where Achilles in ''Literature/TheIliad'' was a demigod who [[TerrorHero inspired terror in all challengers with his superhuman strength]], was prone to rapid changes in temperament, and [[BloodKnight lived for the glory of combat]], Odysseus is a [[BadassNormal human with no powers]] who [[GuileHero typically secures his victories through cleverness rather than brute force]], [[{{Determinator}} remains doggedly focused on one goal for years on end]], and takes no joy in fighting except when necessary to protect himself or his family.
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* NominalImportance: Only two of them are ever named.
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* NumberTwoForBrains: Granted, he survives longer that most of Odysseus's crew but it's his stupid idea to slaughter Helios's cattle and get himself and Odysseus's whole crew killed.
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* SoleSurvivor: Eurylochus, suspicious of Circe, elects to wait outside and observe the feast from there. He is thus the only crew member of that party who avoids Circe's ForcedTransformation spell, and rushes back to inform Odysseus.
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The main character of the Odysseus. The King of Ithaca, husband to Penelope, father of Telemachus and the master of strategems.
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* AccidentalPornomancer: On his way home, Odysseus spends years as the bedmate of two beautiful women: the Hot Witch, Circe, and the sea nymph, Calypso. Neither options are entirely by choice, Calypso significantly less so than Circe. The narrative justifies any choice Odysseus might've had in the matter by saying that he never stopped loving or wishing to return to his wife.
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* AccidentalPornomancer: On his way home, Odysseus spends years as the bedmate of two beautiful women: the Hot Witch, Circe, and the sea nymph, Calypso. Neither options are option is entirely by choice, Calypso significantly less so than Circe. The narrative justifies any choice Odysseus might've had in the matter by saying that he never stopped loving or wishing to return to his wife.
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** When Odysseus and his men had immediately started stuffing themselves with Polyphemus's cheese and goat's milk stores without thinking as to whose hospitality they themselves were violating. Odysseus actually recognizes that indulging themselves and fleeing is a serious violation of xenia, hence why he insists on waiting for the owner of the cave to return so he could offer a gift of wine as compensation. That is what gets him and his men trapped by Polyphemus.
* SeamlessSpontaneousLie: Odysseus is good at making up backstory from whole cloth, which he makes use of when he's trying to keep his identity a secret. It helps that when people press him for certain details, said details are about the person he claimed to have met (Odysseus, i.e. himself), and not about the land he supposedly hailed from.
* SeamlessSpontaneousLie: Odysseus is good at making up backstory from whole cloth, which he makes use of when he's trying to keep his identity a secret. It helps that when people press him for certain details, said details are about the person he claimed to have met (Odysseus, i.e. himself), and not about the land he supposedly hailed from.
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** When Odysseus and his men had immediately started stuffing themselves with Polyphemus's cheese and goat's milk stores without thinking as to whose hospitality they themselves were violating. Odysseus actually recognizes that indulging themselves and fleeing is a serious violation of xenia, hence why he insists on waiting for the owner of the cave to return so he could offer a gift of wine as compensation. That is what gets him and his men trapped by Polyphemus.
* SeamlessSpontaneousLie: Odysseus is good at making upbackstory backstories from whole cloth, which he makes use of when he's trying to keep his identity a secret. It helps that when people press him for certain details, said details are about the person he claimed to have met (Odysseus, i.e. himself), and not about the land he supposedly hailed from.
* SeamlessSpontaneousLie: Odysseus is good at making up
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** The rest (99 men) die after the sacriledge of eating sacred cattle.
* ForcedTransformation: Circe turns Odysseus' crewmen into pigs, undoing it after.
* IdiotBall: Odysseus` men open the bag of winds thinking there were gold and silver inside, blowing them off-course from Ithaca and back to Aeolus.
* ForcedTransformation: Circe turns Odysseus' crewmen into pigs, undoing it after.
* IdiotBall: Odysseus` men open the bag of winds thinking there were gold and silver inside, blowing them off-course from Ithaca and back to Aeolus.
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** Then, when the crew is marooned on the isle of Helios, the crew gives into their hunger and slaughters several of the cattle despite being explicitly told not to (at the instigation of Eurylochus who insisted they put ashore for the night when Odysseus wanted to forestall temptation by not landing on the island at all). This results in the ship getting destroyed, all of Odysseus's crew dead.
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The youngest soldier in Odysseus' company. Only named when he dies falling off the roof Circe's house and breaking his neck
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* DueToTheDead: He does however get a proper burial after Odysseus returns from the Underworld.
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The youngest soldier in Odysseus' Odysseus's company. Only named when he dies falling off the roof of Circe's house and breaking his neck
* ButtMonkey: Only named since he diesin a very pathetic death for a soldier.
* DueToTheDead: Hedoes however does, however, get a proper burial after Odysseus returns from the Underworld.
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* TheAce: Of the Templars, being their best fighter, spy, and altogether more morally sound than any of them except perhaps Monro. It's implied he might have been this of the Assassins too; he is given several extremely critical missions and multiple people comment on his skills and potential.
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** From the Ciconian reinforcements, Odysseus loses 6 men from each ship, making his first loss 72 men due to having 12 ships.
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** Using the Boeotian figure of 120 men per ship, the Laestrygonians would have killed a maximum of 1,254 men and a scout.
** After a drunken night, Elpenor falls off and breaks his neck in Aeaea after falling off the roof Circe's house.
** Scylla eats 6 of his men.
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** Using the Boeotian figure of 120 men per ship, the Laestrygonians would have killed a maximum of 1,254 men and a scout.
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The youngest soldier in Odysseus' company. Only named when he dies falling off the roof Circe's house and breaking his neck
* ButtMonkey: Only named since he dies in a very pathetic death for a soldier.
* DueToTheDead: He does however get a proper burial after Odysseus returns from the Underworld.
* UndignifiedDeath: The reason why he is named.
The youngest soldier in Odysseus' company. Only named when he dies falling off the roof Circe's house and breaking his neck
* ButtMonkey: Only named since he dies in a very pathetic death for a soldier.
* DueToTheDead: He does however get a proper burial after Odysseus returns from the Underworld.
* UndignifiedDeath: The reason why he is named.
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* Pride: {{Pride}}: Odysseus has a really big issue with this. Odysseus does end up taking a very, very long time to get home as a result of it, though his crew arguably suffers more as they end up all dying off, many as a result of his actions.
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* SeamlessSpontaneous Lie: Odysseus is good at making up backstory from whole cloth, which he makes use of when he's trying to keep his identity a secret. It helps that when people press him for certain details, said details are about the person he claimed to have met (Odysseus, i.e. himself), and not about the land he supposedly hailed from.
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* SeamlessSpontaneous Lie: SeamlessSpontaneousLie: Odysseus is good at making up backstory from whole cloth, which he makes use of when he's trying to keep his identity a secret. It helps that when people press him for certain details, said details are about the person he claimed to have met (Odysseus, i.e. himself), and not about the land he supposedly hailed from.
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* DwindlingParty: As the story progresses, more crewmen die until Odysseus is the only survivor.
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* BadassNormal: Odysseus has no special powers beyond being a really devious, clever, strong, and determined man, aided by Athena.
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* Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Odysseus made some pretty stupid mistakes that really doom the journey home.
* Odysseus and his remaining crew escape from the Cyclops when Odysseus has a fit of hubris and mocks the injured Cyclops, along with revealing his true identity. Sure, the mountaintop that is thrown at the ship misses. The raging storms, however, do not.
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* Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Odysseus made some pretty stupid mistakes that really doom the journey home.
*NiceJobBreakingItHero: Odysseus and his remaining crew escape from the Cyclops when Odysseus has a fit of hubris and mocks the injured Cyclops, along with revealing his true identity. Sure, the mountaintop that is thrown at the ship misses. The raging storms, however, do not.
* NoMatterHowMuchIBeg: Odysseus with the Sirens.
* NonchalantDodge: When Odysseus returns home disguised as a beggar, one of the suitors, Ctesippus, throws an ox hoof at him. Odysseus dodges it with the slightest tilt of his head, then gives Ctesippus a grim smile in return.
* PalsWithGods:
** Athena, goddess of wisdom and intelligent warfare, has a long-standing friendly interest in the resourceful and crafty Odysseus, intervening on many occasions, usually taking the form of various friends, relatives, and acquaintances of the three.
** Hermes and Zeus also help on a few occasions, which may or may not have to do with the fact that Odysseus is Hermes's great-grandson and therefore Zeus's great-great-grandson.
* Pride: Odysseus has a really big issue with this. Odysseus does end up taking a very, very long time to get home as a result of it, though his crew arguably suffers more as they end up all dying off, many as a result of his actions.
* SacredHospitality:
** Odysseus was big on keeping the xenia. When he spared a priest of Apollo in Ismarus, he was given powerful wine in gratitude.
** When Odysseus and his men had immediately started stuffing themselves with Polyphemus's cheese and goat's milk stores without thinking as to whose hospitality they themselves were violating. Odysseus actually recognizes that indulging themselves and fleeing is a serious violation of xenia, hence why he insists on waiting for the owner of the cave to return so he could offer a gift of wine as compensation. That is what gets him and his men trapped by Polyphemus.
* SeamlessSpontaneous Lie: Odysseus is good at making up backstory from whole cloth, which he makes use of when he's trying to keep his identity a secret. It helps that when people press him for certain details, said details are about the person he claimed to have met (Odysseus, i.e. himself), and not about the land he supposedly hailed from.
* SociopathicHero: Odysseus, as Harold Bloom mentions, is a man you don't want to cross or be around too long. He's willing to do nearly anything to survive, including sack towns and villages, sell people into slavery, lie, and manipulate, and in the end, after retaking Ithaca, he brutally murders not only the suitors but also the palace servant girls in highly brutal ways. Of course, the Greek idea of The Hero is entirely different from the Christian, chivalric, and modern conception.
* SoleSurvivor: Odysseus is the only member of his crew to make it back to Ithaca.
* TemptingFate: Odysseus bragging after blinding Polyphemus, resulting in his long and miserable journey home.
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* ForcedTransformation: Circe turns Odysseus' crewmen into pigs, undoing it after.
* IdiotBall: Odysseus` men open the bag of winds thinking there were gold and silver inside, blowing them off-course from Ithaca and back to Aeolus.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** After being given a magical bag of wind from King Aeolus, Odysseus's crew is convinced that it contains gold and open the bag, releasing the winds that send them right back to Aeolus's kingdom; the king refuses to replace them as he assumes the crew is either cursed or downright stupid. To add insult to injury, they were right off the shores of Ithaca.
** Then, when the crew is marooned on the isle of Helios, the crew gives into their hunger and slaughters several of the cattle despite being explicitly told not to (at the instigation of Eurylochus who insisted they put ashore for the night when Odysseus wanted to forestall temptation by not landing on the island at all). This results in the ship getting destroyed, all of Odysseus's crew dead.
* RedShirt: Every single time Odysseus lands on an island, at least a few members of his crew have to die to show that the journey is dangerous. Some get eaten by the Cyclops, others by the Lestrygonians, and Elpenor, seemingly unable to find another way to die, falls off a roof.
* RocksFallEveryoneDies: Helios sics Zeus on the crew after his cattle, lightning falls, and everyone but Odysseus dies.
* SurroundedbyIdiots: It cannot be overstated just how dumb Odysseus's crew is. From opening the bag of winds to eating Helios's sacred cattle to staying too late sacking a city, the only useful thing they do on the entire trip is row the boat and tie Odysseus to the mast when going past the Sirens.
* You Can't Go Home Again: Odysseus` crew are fated to die away from home.
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* NoMatterHowMuchIBeg: Odysseus with the Sirens.
* NonchalantDodge: When Odysseus returns home disguised as a beggar, one of the suitors, Ctesippus, throws an ox hoof at him. Odysseus dodges it with the slightest tilt of his head, then gives Ctesippus a grim smile in return.
* PalsWithGods:
** Athena, goddess of wisdom and intelligent warfare, has a long-standing friendly interest in the resourceful and crafty Odysseus, intervening on many occasions, usually taking the form of various friends, relatives, and acquaintances of the three.
** Hermes and Zeus also help on a few occasions, which may or may not have to do with the fact that Odysseus is Hermes's great-grandson and therefore Zeus's great-great-grandson.
* Pride: Odysseus has a really big issue with this. Odysseus does end up taking a very, very long time to get home as a result of it, though his crew arguably suffers more as they end up all dying off, many as a result of his actions.
* SacredHospitality:
** Odysseus was big on keeping the xenia. When he spared a priest of Apollo in Ismarus, he was given powerful wine in gratitude.
** When Odysseus and his men had immediately started stuffing themselves with Polyphemus's cheese and goat's milk stores without thinking as to whose hospitality they themselves were violating. Odysseus actually recognizes that indulging themselves and fleeing is a serious violation of xenia, hence why he insists on waiting for the owner of the cave to return so he could offer a gift of wine as compensation. That is what gets him and his men trapped by Polyphemus.
* SeamlessSpontaneous Lie: Odysseus is good at making up backstory from whole cloth, which he makes use of when he's trying to keep his identity a secret. It helps that when people press him for certain details, said details are about the person he claimed to have met (Odysseus, i.e. himself), and not about the land he supposedly hailed from.
* SociopathicHero: Odysseus, as Harold Bloom mentions, is a man you don't want to cross or be around too long. He's willing to do nearly anything to survive, including sack towns and villages, sell people into slavery, lie, and manipulate, and in the end, after retaking Ithaca, he brutally murders not only the suitors but also the palace servant girls in highly brutal ways. Of course, the Greek idea of The Hero is entirely different from the Christian, chivalric, and modern conception.
* SoleSurvivor: Odysseus is the only member of his crew to make it back to Ithaca.
* TemptingFate: Odysseus bragging after blinding Polyphemus, resulting in his long and miserable journey home.
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* ForcedTransformation: Circe turns Odysseus' crewmen into pigs, undoing it after.
* IdiotBall: Odysseus` men open the bag of winds thinking there were gold and silver inside, blowing them off-course from Ithaca and back to Aeolus.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** After being given a magical bag of wind from King Aeolus, Odysseus's crew is convinced that it contains gold and open the bag, releasing the winds that send them right back to Aeolus's kingdom; the king refuses to replace them as he assumes the crew is either cursed or downright stupid. To add insult to injury, they were right off the shores of Ithaca.
** Then, when the crew is marooned on the isle of Helios, the crew gives into their hunger and slaughters several of the cattle despite being explicitly told not to (at the instigation of Eurylochus who insisted they put ashore for the night when Odysseus wanted to forestall temptation by not landing on the island at all). This results in the ship getting destroyed, all of Odysseus's crew dead.
* RedShirt: Every single time Odysseus lands on an island, at least a few members of his crew have to die to show that the journey is dangerous. Some get eaten by the Cyclops, others by the Lestrygonians, and Elpenor, seemingly unable to find another way to die, falls off a roof.
* RocksFallEveryoneDies: Helios sics Zeus on the crew after his cattle, lightning falls, and everyone but Odysseus dies.
* SurroundedbyIdiots: It cannot be overstated just how dumb Odysseus's crew is. From opening the bag of winds to eating Helios's sacred cattle to staying too late sacking a city, the only useful thing they do on the entire trip is row the boat and tie Odysseus to the mast when going past the Sirens.
* You Can't Go Home Again: Odysseus` crew are fated to die away from home.
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Odysseus` second-in-command.
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The main character of the Odysseus. The King of Ithaca, husband to Penelope, father of Telemachus and the master of strategems.
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* TheAce: Of the Templars, being their best fighter, spy, and altogether more morally sound than any of them except perhaps Monro. It's implied he might have been this of the Assassins too; he is given several extremely critical missions and multiple people comment on his skills and potential.
* AccidentalPornomancer: On his way home, Odysseus spends years as the bedmate of two beautiful women: the Hot Witch, Circe, and the sea nymph, Calypso. Neither options are entirely by choice, Calypso significantly less so than Circe. The narrative justifies any choice Odysseus might've had in the matter by saying that he never stopped loving or wishing to return to his wife.
* ArcherArchetype: Odysseus is quite capable of using a sword in close combat, but he seems to be more famous for his amazing bow, which nobody else is even strong (or skilled) enough to string, much less shoot (though, as the epic states, Telemachus might have managed to string the bow on the fourth try had Odysseus not stopped him). He's also a sneaky bastard and clever and stealthy too.
* ConsummateLiar: Odysseus demonstrates this many, many times throughout the story.
* DisproportionateRetribution: After slaughtering the suitors, Odysseus and his allies round up any slave girl who slept with any of the suitors while he was away. They then force the slave girls to clear away the bodies of the suitors before Telemachus hangs them all from one rope.
* FathersQuest: After being 10 years away from his family, Odysseus wants to return back to his wife and son. And an angry and vengeful Poseidon won't stop him!
* GeniusBruiser: The Greeks wouldn't take no for an answer from him because of his famed intelligence. As for his physical abilities, well, among other things, in Phaecia, he hurled a heavy discus much farther than the lighter discuses hurled by the younger men there. Back in Ithaca, he strung his old bow with ease where the suitors failed.
* GuileHero: Odysseus, as proven again and again throughout the story.
* KindRestraints: Odysseus had himself tied to a mast to keep from being drawn to the sirens.
* Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Odysseus made some pretty stupid mistakes that really doom the journey home.
* Odysseus and his remaining crew escape from the Cyclops when Odysseus has a fit of hubris and mocks the injured Cyclops, along with revealing his true identity. Sure, the mountaintop that is thrown at the ship misses. The raging storms, however, do not.
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The main character of the Odysseus. The King of Ithaca, husband to Penelope, father of Telemachus and the master of strategems.
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* TheAce: Of the Templars, being their best fighter, spy, and altogether more morally sound than any of them except perhaps Monro. It's implied he might have been this of the Assassins too; he is given several extremely critical missions and multiple people comment on his skills and potential.
* AccidentalPornomancer: On his way home, Odysseus spends years as the bedmate of two beautiful women: the Hot Witch, Circe, and the sea nymph, Calypso. Neither options are entirely by choice, Calypso significantly less so than Circe. The narrative justifies any choice Odysseus might've had in the matter by saying that he never stopped loving or wishing to return to his wife.
* ArcherArchetype: Odysseus is quite capable of using a sword in close combat, but he seems to be more famous for his amazing bow, which nobody else is even strong (or skilled) enough to string, much less shoot (though, as the epic states, Telemachus might have managed to string the bow on the fourth try had Odysseus not stopped him). He's also a sneaky bastard and clever and stealthy too.
* ConsummateLiar: Odysseus demonstrates this many, many times throughout the story.
* DisproportionateRetribution: After slaughtering the suitors, Odysseus and his allies round up any slave girl who slept with any of the suitors while he was away. They then force the slave girls to clear away the bodies of the suitors before Telemachus hangs them all from one rope.
* FathersQuest: After being 10 years away from his family, Odysseus wants to return back to his wife and son. And an angry and vengeful Poseidon won't stop him!
* GeniusBruiser: The Greeks wouldn't take no for an answer from him because of his famed intelligence. As for his physical abilities, well, among other things, in Phaecia, he hurled a heavy discus much farther than the lighter discuses hurled by the younger men there. Back in Ithaca, he strung his old bow with ease where the suitors failed.
* GuileHero: Odysseus, as proven again and again throughout the story.
* KindRestraints: Odysseus had himself tied to a mast to keep from being drawn to the sirens.
* Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Odysseus made some pretty stupid mistakes that really doom the journey home.
* Odysseus and his remaining crew escape from the Cyclops when Odysseus has a fit of hubris and mocks the injured Cyclops, along with revealing his true identity. Sure, the mountaintop that is thrown at the ship misses. The raging storms, however, do not.
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