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*** Paris was also prophesied to cause the downfall of the kingdom and the death of his father. They pulled the same "we couldn't bear to kill him, let's just leave him to die/be found and brought up by a poor shepherd" that they did with Oedipus. This led to him being handy when Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite needed a judge for a beauty contest. Each goddess tried bribing Paris differently, with Aphrodite promising him the most beautiful woman in the world if he chose her, and the rest is history (or, you know, mythology).
**** In some versions of the story, Zeus [[The Chessmaster|engineered the entire Trojan War]] solely to thin out the ranks of his demigod children so that none of them would overthrow him.
** A frustrated [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrisius |King Acrisius]] goes to the Oracle for want of a son only to be told that his grandson would kill him. When locking his daughter, [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danae |Danaë]] in a tower fails, and [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseus |Perseus]] is born, Acrisius throws them both in a box and sends them adrift at sea. In the [[Darker and Edgier|darker]] versions of the story, Perseus comes back for [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|revenge]] and subjects Acrisius' entire court to [[Taken for Granite|the head of Medusa]]. In nicer versions of the tale, grandpa and hero make amends, Acrisius is proud of the hero Perseus has become and makes him his heir... only to get killed by Perseus in a gaming accident. Sometimes [[You Can't Fight Fate|destiny is just a real bitch.]]
*** Considering who the baby's father was, Acrisius got off lucky.
** In a subversion, Zeus manages to avert this fate by learning that a certain goddess's (Thetis) child will become more powerful than his father, and proceeds to very carefully ''not'' sleep with her. He wound up arranging her marriage to a mortal. The son? Achilles.
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