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== ''The "Old Gods" and Their Allies ==▼
Characters from ''[[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]'' include:
▲== ''The "Old Gods" and Their Allies'' ==
=== '''Shadow'''/ {{spoiler|Baldur Moon}} ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: It's not entirely clear what race he is, although his mother is implied to have been black.
** Gaiman has said that Dwayne Johnson/The Rock, who has black and Samoan heritage, would be the perfect actor to play him.
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* [[Smarter Than You Look|Smarter than he looks]]: Everyone asumes he's just a big dumb guy until he starts talking.
* [[The Stoic]]
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* [[Unfazed Everyman]]: He takes it rather calmly that there are tons of deities all all around him. {{spoiler|Makes sense since he is one himself, so he ''isn't'' a pure example of the trope.}}
=== '''Mr. Wednesday'''/[[Norse Mythology|Odin]] ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]]}}
* [[Casanova]]
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=== '''Mr. Nancy'''/Anansi ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Cool Old Guy]]
* [[Dirty Old Man]]
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=== '''Mr. Ibis'''/Thoth ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Don't Fear the Reaper]]: Like all Ancient Egyptian gods connected to death, he's a nice guy.
* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]
=== '''Mr Jacquel'''/Anubis ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Don't Fear the Reaper]]: Like Mr. Ibis, he's not such a bad guy.
* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: While conducting autopsies, he has a habit of eating some of the corpse flesh. Respectfully.
* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]: Into a jackal, naturally.
=== '''Bast''' ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Catgirl]]
* [[Intimate Healing]]: She provides some for Shadow.
* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]: Into a cat, of course.
=== '''Czernobog''' (Czernobog) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Cain and Abel]]: He's known as the "evil" brother; his brother, Bielebog, is the "good" one.
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]
* [[The Eeyore]]: Not as demonstrative as many examples, but he's a very gloomy guy.
* [[God of Evil]]
* {{spoiler|[[Jekyll and Hyde]]: He and Bielebog are the same person.}}
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=== '''Mad Sweeney''' ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Leprechaun]]
* [[Fighting Irish]]
=== Samantha Black Crow ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Agent Mulder]]: Delivers an amazing and lengthy monologue to Shadow about all the things she believes in to get him to open up to her.
* [[Badass Normal]]: Faces Mr. Town and Mr. World, and not only does she refuse to tell them anything about Shadow, she makes fun of their names. She also hitchhikes with Shadow, who's kind of scary before you get to know him.
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=== Laura ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
* [[Back From the Dead]]▼
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* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: Even when she was alive Laura was not as nice as she seemed. But she really does love Shadow which keeps her on the sympathetic side of the trope.
* [[Came Back Wrong]]
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* [[Out with a Bang]]
* [[Poisonous Friend]]: Very big on protecting Shadow and quite violent about it.
* [[Took a Level
** She actually took it much earlier in the book. When she kills a bunch of guards in order to save Shadow with her bare hands.
* [[Violently Protective Girlfriend|Violently Protective Wife]]
== ''The "New Gods" and Their Allies'' ==
=== '''The Technical Boy''' ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Subverted. He dresses like the characters in [[The Matrix]] but is a physically weak nerd.
* [[GIFT]]: Since he is the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of the Internet, it's only natural he acts like this.
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=== '''Media''' ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Stepford Smiler]]
=== '''The Spookshow''' ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* {{spoiler|[[Avenging the Villain]]: Mr. Town is not happy about his buddies getting killed, but leaves Shadow alone because Mr. World says so.}}
* [[Flat Earth Atheist]]: Mr. Town thinks all the gods are just mutants with mind control powers.
* [[The Men in Black]]: What they seem to be the archetype of.
* [[Mooks]]: They work for Mr. World and the New Gods.
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* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: Mr. Wood and Mr. Stone.
=== '''Mr. World{{spoiler|
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Chekhov's Gunman]] and [[Chekhov's Boomerang]]
* [[Distinguishing Mark]]: {{spoiler|His scarred lip; it's a reference to a story in [[Norse Mythology]] where Loki's mouth was sewn shut and he had to tear it open.}}
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* [[Evil Redhead]]
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