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* [[Alternate Company Equivalent|Alternate Mythology Equivalent]]: Indra and [[Classical Mythology|Zeus]] are very similar characters. Both were the [[Jerkass God]] chief god of their respective pantheons, wielding [[Bolt of Divine Retribution]] and enjoying pretty amusing sexual lives.

* [[Always Save the Girl]]: Inverted in the dice game in the Mahabharata, where it is Draupadi who saves the honor of her five husbands.

* [[Amazon Admirer]]: Parvati and her incarnations is the Amazon who is admired:

** Parvati was supposed to marry Shiva as Sati, but Sati's father basically kidnapped her after the wedding and showed disrespect towards his son-in-law. This motivated Sati to burn herself on a pyre. Parvati tries to first win over Shiva by doting on him; it ends up not working because he realizes that the love god Kama is trying to use magic to bring them together, and burns Kama alive in front of Parvati and his wife Rati. Instead, she decided to fast and make penance to the god of death. To test her, Shiva posed as a youth who trolled Parvati by saying that Shiva is ugly, covered in ash, and doesn't bathe, so why bother worshipping him. She said she doesn't care, she loves the god selflessly and not for his looks. Shiva is impressed and proposes to her on the spot.

** Devi Durga, one of Parvati's shakhtis, represents her fierce side. Durga rides on a lion and usually beheads men. A form of Durga named Ambika appears when the gods are asking Parvati for help. One rakshasa king says that she's beautiful and asks if she will marry him. She says yes, ''if'' he can beat her in battle. He says that sounds silly but sure. She proceeds to kick his ass, using the power of Parvati's other shaktis and revealing they are all her.

* [[Anguished Declaration of Love]]: Shakuntala's husband Dushyant when he first sees her.

* [[Angry Dance]]: Shiva, when he gets angry, dances a dance called "Rudra Tandava" that can annihilate everything. The universe is described in Saivism (a branch of Hinduism) to be like a creation of the dance of God.