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** After Achilles kills Hector, he strings up the corpse and rides it around the city a number of times, then refuses to give it up for a proper burial. This was seen as being somewhat beyond the pail, and Achilles should have laid his retribution to rest once he'd killed Hector. It takes King Priam's stirring pleas to get Achilles to relent.
** Lara, one of the minor Goddesses of Death in the Roman Pantheon, used to be a quite cheery and lively nymph. That, until, according to the different versions of the myth, she either warned her sister Juturna and the goddess Juno about Jupiter's plan to rape her, or told Juno about a long-standing affair between her husband Jupiter and Juturna. In both versions Jupiter saw fit literally banishing her to Hell, but just for added safety had her tongue cut out first. Just because that wasn't enough, Jupiter had Lara escorted to Hell by her son Mercury, and when Lara tried to bargain for at least her freedom, Mercury just raped her on the spot, thus giving birth to the minor gods of streets.
** In the myth where Persephone was abducted by Hades, her despondent mother Demeter was searching the ends of the Earth looking for her, eventually arriving in the city of Attica. While most of the citizenry treated her kindly, offering her food and drink, one servant at a tavern named Ascalabus was amused by how
* And [[The Fair Folk]] were prone to brutally avenging slights so minor that their victims were often completely unaware that they had done anything wrong in the first place. In fact, this trope is the reason they're called [[The Fair Folk]]—because anyone who even suggests that someone fairer than they even exists will bring on their wrath.
* Let's not leave out [[Norse Mythology]]. Loki's eldest son, [[Big Badass Wolf|Fenris]], was chained to a big ass rock until Ragnarok because the gods forsaw that they would experience "great troubles" from his rapid growth. That's right. He was imprisoned until the end of the world for something he hadn't even done yet. He manages to get his revenge by killing Odin at Ragnarok though.
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