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** Wednesday's "I know a charm" spiel is almost a direct paraphrasing of part of the ''[[Literature/PoeticEdda Havamal]],'' in which the speaker is Odin himself.
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* ForebodingCarcass: After getting separated from Mr. Wednesday in the woods, Shadow stumbles upon a raven eating a deer carcass. The raven then tells him to go to Cairo, Illinois. It's one of Mr. Wednesday's (aka Odin's) ravens and the dead deer foreshadows Odin's plans for a war between the gods, which includes sacrificing Shadow in the process.
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* ForebodingCarcass: After getting separated from Mr. Wednesday in the woods, Shadow stumbles upon a raven eating a deer carcass. The raven then tells him to go to Cairo, Illinois. It's [[spoiler:It's one of Mr. Wednesday's (aka Odin's) ravens and the dead deer foreshadows Odin's plans for a war between the gods, which includes sacrificing Shadow in the process.]]
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* ForebodingCarcass: After getting separated from Mr. Wednesday in the woods, Shadow stumbles upon a raven eating a deer carcass. The raven then tells him to go to Cairo, Illinois. It's one of Mr. Wednesday's (aka Odin's) ravens and the dead deer foreshadows Odin's plans for a war between the gods, which includes sacrificing Shadow in the process.
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** Subverted with Easter, who casually mentions her thighs running together after she gains weight, causing Shadow to blush and try very hard not to picture it.
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** Subverted with Easter, who casually mentions her thighs running rubbing together after she gains weight, causing Shadow to blush and try very hard not to picture it.
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* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler:The real reason why Lakeside is prospering compared to the economically depressed surrounding towns is because Hinzelmann is an old god who keeps the town thriving through murdered children without the townspeople's knowledge.]] This is also [[spoiler:Hinzelmann's own backstory, as a Kobold.]]
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* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler:The real reason why Lakeside is prospering compared to the economically depressed surrounding towns is because Hinzelmann is an old god who keeps the town thriving through murdered children without the townspeople's knowledge.]] This is also [[spoiler:Hinzelmann's own backstory, backstory as a Kobold.kobold.]]
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* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: The reason why the Old Gods are dying, and the New Gods have arisen. Wednesday is very disdainful of Neo-Pagans in general considering them pretenders, strongly implying their worship is inadequate. It hit Easter hard when Wednesday showed her a self-proclaimed Pagan that did not even know Easter was originally a Pagan holiday, labeling it as "Christian" instead. In their world, Pagans without traditional rituals and well-defined gods and goddesses might as well be Atheist or Agnostic.
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* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: The reason why the Old Gods are dying, and the New Gods have arisen. Wednesday is very disdainful of Neo-Pagans in general considering them pretenders, strongly implying their worship is inadequate. It hit Easter hard when Wednesday showed her a self-proclaimed Pagan that did not even know Easter was originally a Pagan holiday, labeling it as "Christian" instead. In their world, Pagans without traditional rituals and well-defined gods and goddesses might as well be Atheist or Agnostic. On the other hand, what constitutes adequate prayer isn't straightforward. Easter still derives power from the celebration of the holiday, if perhaps less than she might otherwise. The New Gods aren't worshipped in the traditional sense - for example, watching TV counts as a worship ritual to Media, with the sacrifice being time. Conversely, Wednesday says that regular churches don't produce much worship of the god-sustaining kind, nor does Disneyland.
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Shadow runs errands for Wednesday and travels into the very heart of America, visiting its small towns and meeting its people and its old, forgotten gods, struggling to stay relevant in the modern era. But unbeknownst to him, he has a much larger role in the oncoming conflict than he thinks...
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Shadow runs errands for Wednesday and travels into the very heart of America, visiting its small towns and meeting its people and its [[TheOldGods old, forgotten gods, gods]], struggling to stay relevant in the modern era. But unbeknownst to him, he has a much larger role in the oncoming conflict than he thinks...
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* TheModernGods: While the Old Gods were gods of old religions brought to America through their worshippers, they had long since been kicked off of the proverbial seat of power by the New Gods, gods who came into being to fill the "faith gap" with an increasingly secularized world. Such gods include Technical Boy (God of the Internet), Media (Goddess of Pop Culture), the Spookshow (TheMenInBlack who embody conspiracy theories and act as enforcers of the New Gods), and various unnamed gods associated with railways, the film industry, currency, weaponry, ufology, medical science and so on. The crux of the book is Mr. Wednesday -- originally known as Odin Allfather from Myth/NorseMythology -- urging his fellow Old Gods to wage a war on the New Gods to establish control over America's collective faith.
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* MassiveMultiplayerScam: The plot is revealed to be a scam run primarily by Odin and Loki, aka "Mr. Wednesday" and "Mr. World", which involves starting a war between all of the Old Gods and the New Gods.
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* ObsoleteOccupation: Shadow goes to work for Mr. Wednesday, an American aspect of the Norse god Odin, and discovers an entire subculture of ancient gods living in America. Brought over by various immigrants who eventually stopped believing in them, the gods now scrape by with mostly regular jobs.
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* GenreBusting: ''American God'' received the Nebula and Hugo Awards for Best Sci-fi book of the year, the Locus Award for best fantasy book of the year, and the Bram Stoker Award for best horror book of the year. It's also a meditation on the "meaning" of America, and reflection on the different immigrant stories.
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* VikingsInAmerica: One of the "coming to America" interludes shows a ship full of Vikings landing in America and sacrificing a native to Odin. [[spoiler:Implied to be how Mr. Wednesday was created.]]
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** Wednesday's favorite con (which is no longer practical), called the Bishop Game, has one grifter pretend to be a cop and "arrest" his partner, who's playing a crook pretending to a bishop who has just bought a jewelry necklace for $1200. The "cop" says the bills are counterfeit and takes the necklace as evidence, allowing the partners to take off with both the necklace and $1200.
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* YankTheDogsChain: Salim has an utterly miserable life, and the Ifrit's favor to him is to give him his identity as a taxi driver to start over fresh. Later in the book, it's mentioned he was assassinated by the New Gods, who assumed he was the Ifrit.
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* NeverARunaway: The town of Lakeside is a quaint little town time seems to have forgotten. Occasionally a teen, bored with the town, runs off to the big city never to be seen again. It's sad but is treated as a fact of life by the townsfolk. Shadow discovers the actual truth though, that the children are being sacrificed by Hinzelmann in a ritual to keep outside influences from changing the town. He uses the town's yearly ritual of putting a clunker out on the frozen lake and waiting to see when the spring thaw causes it to sink, drowning the children and hiding the bodies at the same time. When the ruse is discovered, the lake is dredged and dozens of bodies are discovered in the trunks of every car sent down.
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* AllThereInTheScript: Shadow's full name ("[[AwesomeMcCoolName Shadow Moon]]") is never actually stated in the book proper. It's just implied by the fact that his wife's (married) name is "Laura Moon".
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* AllMythsAreTrue: All of them.
--> "Believe what?" asked Shadow. "What should I believe?"
--> "Everything," roared the buffalo man.
--> "Believe what?" asked Shadow. "What should I believe?"
--> "Everything," roared the buffalo man.
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* ArtisticLicenseLinguistics: "Praying for a bishop" isn't a euphemism for the "woman on top" sex position because of a superstition that a child conceived that way would grow up to be a bishop. It's called that because "bishop" is a crude slang term for "penis", and because it involves a woman resting on her knees as if in prayer.
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* InformedConversation: Played for drama. When Shadow asks for the name of a certain god on their side, the narration simply says, "Wednesday told him." Shadow finds himself unable to remember the name, so he asks again and gets the same result. Later, as the gods are having a serious discussion, the narrative simply tells us that they made their point eloquently and well and other characters continue as if they had heard it.
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* InformedConversation: Played for drama. When Shadow asks for the name of a certain god on their side, the narration simply says, "Wednesday told him." Shadow finds himself unable to remember the name, so he asks again and gets the same result. Later, as the gods are having a serious discussion, the narrative simply tells us that they made their point eloquently and well and other characters continue as if they had heard it.it was dialogue.
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* InformedConversation: Played for drama. When Shadow asks for the name of a certain god on their side, the narration simply says, "Wednesday told him." Shadow finds himself unable to remember the name, so he asks again and gets the same result. It's all but stated that getting a definite description of this god is impossible.
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* InformedConversation: Played for drama. When Shadow asks for the name of a certain god on their side, the narration simply says, "Wednesday told him." Shadow finds himself unable to remember the name, so he asks again and gets the same result. It's all but stated Later, as the gods are having a serious discussion, the narrative simply tells us that getting a definite description of this god is impossible.they made their point eloquently and well and other characters continue as if they had heard it.
