History Series / TroyFallOfACity

* ChildSoldier: Due to desperation, at one point Hector calls any boys or men above fourteen and below forty to fight. Nine-year-old Evander attempts to lie about his age in order to be allowed to fight, and his fifteen-year-old brother Hesion joins the fight himself.
** At one point, Hector sees a bloodied boy die in front of him.

* AdaptationalBadass: Sort of, if you apply badass to mean someone with power. In the original Iliad, Pandaros (Pandarus) is a Trojan archer and his only real role is being goading by Athena into shooting at Menelaus and dissolving the temporary truce after Paris and Menelaus’ duel. Here, however, he is an important lord in the Trojan court.

* ChildSoldier: Due to desperation, at one point Hector calls any boys or men above fourteen and below forty to fight.

** Unfortunately, aside from Aeneas and Pandarus, the show still has most of the Trojans played by white actors despite Troy being in Asia, something the show is aware of as demonstrated in a quote by Menelaus in episode 2.

* IncestSubtext: Agamemnon, though never expressly said, is implied to take Chryseis as his slave because she reminds him of his dead daughter Iphigenia. However, when she refuses to play the role, he quickly moves on to treating her as just another *SexSlave. Disgusting.

* PetTheDog: Figuratively and literally with Xanthius, making him not completely unlikable despite being *TheMole.

* PetTheDog: Figuratively and literally with Xanthius, making him not completely unlikable despite being * TheMole.

* PetTheDog: Figuratively and literally with Xanthius.
** His relationship with his literal dog
** Additionally, his interactions with young Evander

* JerkToNiceGuyPlot: For the first few episodes, Paris is a selfish, immature, man-child who starts the war because he's horny and then runs away from any real responsibility. However, after his duel with Menelaus he goes on a spiritual journey that results in him becoming much more serious, focused, and dutiful.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Achilles, who is described as blond and pale-skinned in ''Literature/TheIliad'', is played by a black actor here. However, there are other stories of the Trojan War with a black character, Memnon the Ethiopian,[[note]]Not necessarily from Ethiopia - ''Ethiopian'' was the term used for black people generally in ancient Greece.[[/note]] who's allied with Troy (he's also usually absent in adaptations, even although he is even described as nearly Achilles' equal in skill at arms, getting killed while fighting him), so there's precedent for this. Additionally, in the ancient world skin color wasn't the most important marker of nationality, your language, ascendance and customs were,[[note]]For example, in Aeschylus's ''Suppliants'', the Danaids - Egyptian women who actually descend from the Greek Io through the Argive lineage - are initially assumed to be non-Greek because of their exotical clothing, not their dark skin. Everyone immediately accepts their Greekness when they observe the ritual of supplication.[[/note]] so a black person eventually becoming a full-fledged Greek in the semi-mythical age the series is set (that is, before the rise of the complicated Greek concept of citizenship) would have been theoretically possible.

* PlayingGertrude: Creator/BellaDayne as Helen is only seven years older than Grace Hogg-Robinson, who's playing Helen's daughter Hermione here. Unsurprisingly she looks more like her older sister.

* AdaptationalDiversity: Achilles, Patroclus, Aeneas, Pandarus, Zeus and Athena are all portrayed by black actors (mixed race[[note]]From the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Coloureds Cape Coloured]] group in South Africa[[/note]] in Athena's case), Achilles and Patroclus are unambiguously bisexual rather than AmbiguouslyBi this time around and Artemis is portrayed by a black actress with albinism.

* ObfuscatingInsanity: When messengers arrive in Ithaca to bring Odysseus to war, he tries to make himself look insane, by sowing a field with salt and attempting to plow it. Unfortunately, the messengers see through it, and call his bluff by placing his infant daughter in his way, forcing him to stop.