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* [[No Guy Wants an Amazon]]: Played with as Jason considers Atalanta to be a sister (he actually says brother) and rejects her romantic advances but Atalanta does catch the eye of the thief who stows on board.
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Olivia Williams steals the show in the Hallmark film, coincidentally also playing Hera.
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]▼
* [[Psychic Link]]: Between Jason and Medea in the Hallmark film. A convenient plot device to introduce Medea earlier in the film.
* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: Unlike in the myth where the Argonauts are famous heroes or princes prior to the quest, Jason mostly recruits peasants not as much for skills but for pluck. Castor and Pollux are stoneworkers. [[Odyssey|Odysseus's]] future dad Laertes is a cowherd who vaults over charging bulls for fun. {{spoiler|Later he vaults straight into the dragon's mouth.}}
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* [[Shout-Out]]: May be coincidental, but Orpheus is black and there happens to be a 1959 multi-awarded Brazilian film called ''Black Orpheus''.
* [[Those Two Guys]]: Castor and Pollux
▲* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]
=== Mostly due to a common source, both of the films provide examples of: ===
* [[Ancient Grome]]: Set in Greece yet he calls himself Hercules.▼
* [[Adaptational Villainy]]: Acastus gets a pretty rough deal in both adaptations. In the first he betrays the Argonauts to Aeetes and in the Hallmark film he steals the fleece and brings it to Pelias. He didn't betray them in the original myth and ended up becoming King in his father's place. He did end up banishing Medea from the kingdom but she did kill his father...
** And really inverted with regards to Jason and Medea. Jason goes off to technically steal the fleece just so he can become King in the original myth but in the Hallmark film he must do it to save his mother's life. He didn't really love Medea either and only agreed to marry her to get the fleece, while the film shows him to genuinely love her. Medea as well was a [[Manipulative Bitch]] in the original myth and killed Pelias herself as part of a trick to become queen.
▲* [[Ancient Grome]]: Set in Greece yet he calls himself Hercules.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]
* [[Blessed with Suck]]: Phineas is given the gift of making prophecies but has lost his eyesight.
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