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* An earlier example from the first book: the Perseus in Greek mythology killed Medusa because he was ordered to by Polydectes, a king. Polydectes was interested in Perseus' mother and wanted him out of the way so that he could force her to marry him. Perseus returned with Medusa's head and turned him to stone. {{spoiler|Percy's abusive stepdad Gabe befalls the same fate.}}

** {{spoiler|Annabeth's [[Taking the Bullet]] in TLO. She was attacked by Ethan, a son of Nemesis. Nemesis was the spirit of retribution against hubris, something that Annabeth admits to.}}

** In addition, Zoë was once a Hesperid, a nymph of the sunset. Sunset = shadow of night = Nightshade.

* Percy. Perseus. ''An''nabeth. ''An''dromeda.

* We're told in The Last Olympian that Nico and the Pegasi dislikes each other. This mostly seems to be because his father is {{spoiler|Hades and children of him are generally outcasts}}, but in Sea of Monsters, Percy mentions that Pegasi are sort of neutral territory between Poseidon and Zeus. {{spoiler|So naturally the Pegasi would dislike a son of Hades!}}

* I was always a little confused about how {{spoiler|Silena Beauregard got the Ares cabin to believe she was Clarisse and follow her into battle, because she and Clarisse don't look anything like each other. But then in The Lost Hero it's revealed children of Aphrodite sometimes have the ability to make other people do stuff with their voice. No wonder they believed Silena was Clarisse, she ''charmspoke'' them into it!}}

* After reading through Battle of the Laberynth, it struck me that one chapter is titled "We Meet the Two-faced God". Well, yah, of course, it makes sense in this book that it's got such a weird title, so I was expecting them to literally meet a two-faced god. And of course they did -- Janus. But who else did they meet in that chapter? Hera. I recall how nice she was to Percy and the others. I also recall a story in which it's said she threw Hephaestus off a cliff... Odd for the goddess of marriage and family...

* Rachel, a mortal who had no ties to the gods until {{spoiler|she became the oracle}}, has a very much Jewish name.

* You know how Percy saved Ethan? Ethan, the son of Nemesis, resurrected Kronos because of that.

* Before Rachel Eliabeth Dare became the Oracle, the previous one was soul bound permanently to her body. Her corpse was still animated, even after it had been dead for presumably centuries. Therefore the Oracle had been living forever in the mummified body that was once hers. Since the Oracle would have lasted indefinitely until someone gave her a new body (Rachel), what exactly is gonna happen to Rachel's body in a couple hundred years?

** That only happened because of the curse Hades placed on the old Oracle. Rachel is not cursed.

** Take it one step further and consider the ship's inhabitants: ( {{spoiler|Kronos' army of monsters}}). They were most likely {{spoiler|fed to aforementioned monsters}}. Full stop.

* The Labyrinth was {{spoiler|destroyed. Now, imagine how many people were still inside when it collapsed...}}

* Imagine that you are one of the rare mortals who can see through the Mist, like Sally Jackson or Rachel Elizabeth Dare. You grow up, seeing monsters attacking the city and strange kids with powers your entire life. Because few others have your ability, nobody believes anything you say about what you've seen, and you start to wonder yourself if you're actually insane. Your only hope for mental safety is for your ability to help run you into a half-blood who might be able to explain things to you - and doing that means you've become involved in their dangerous lives...