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{{quote|"''Being a half-blood is dangerous. It's scary. Most of the time, it gets you killed in painful, nasty ways.''"}}

 

 

In the books the Greek gods have moved to the United States, and their home, Olympus, is now located above the Empire State Building. They have many [[Half-Human Hybrid|demigod]] children with mortal humans. Unfortunatly, these demigods [[Weirdness Magnet|attract mythological monsters]], so they must travel to a safe haven in Long Island, NY, called "Camp Half-Blood", and learn to fight. The books get progressively [[Darker and Edgier]] throughout the series as a war with the Titans approaches.

* ''The Ultimate Guide''

* ''Demigods and Monsters''

 

'''Please add all new character tropes to the [[Percy Jackson & the Olympians/Characters|Character Sheet]].'''

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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Many gods neglect their children. It's the biggest reason why there ''is'' a Titan army. There are kids who are ''never'' claimed.

** {{spoiler|Nemesis, God of Balance and Revenge,}} to Ethan. The one time they meet, she blinds his left eye with the promise that he would {{spoiler|bring balance to the world once again}}.

* [[Achilles in His Tent]]: {{spoiler|Clarisse}} in ''The Last Olympian''.

* [[Action Girl]]: Tons. Annabeth, Thalia, Bianca and Zoe to name a few. Just as helpful as the boys, usually.

* [[Affably Evil]]: Geryon. He makes omelettes from the eggs of endangered species, slaughters the cattle of the sun, sells to Kronos' army, and enslaves Nico. On the other hand, he doesn't interfere with quests, holds barbecues for his captives, and gives people a grand tour of his ranch.

{{quote|'''Grover:''' You slaughter Apollo's sacred cows?! [[You Monster!]]!

** This ties in fairly well with the way gods and demigods are often portrayed in the classic myths, particularly the [[Jerkass Gods]] trope. People with neurological disorders who don't learn early on how to cope with their disabilities often grow up to be maladjusted and sometimes even outright cruel because they can't empathize with ordinary people.

* [[Author Avatar]]: Percy is basically the representation of the author's son who has ADHD and dyslexia. It seems the gods do as well.

* [[Badass Army]]: The demigods as well as Kronos's army of monsters.

* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Annabeth most prominently, but her dad and Daedalus count too.

** Zoe when Atlas is about to stab Artemis.

** {{spoiler|Atlas being returned to his chains.}} "NOT AGAIN!"

* [[Black and Gray Morality]]: Help the Gods who are often [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|jerkasses]] and sometimes cause problems, or serve a [[Big Bad|Titan]] who [[Abusive Parents|devoured his own kids]] and uses humanity as a source of [[Gladiator Games|cheap amusement]] or as [[To Serve Man|a snack]].

* [[Blessed with Suck]] / [[Cursed with Awesome]]: [[Your Mileage May Vary]] depending on whether you prefer being dyslexic, but having a perfect understanding of ancient Greek, and whether you are willing to tolerate having ADHD as a side effect of your supernatural combat instincts. And then there's all the monsters you attract, especially if you carry a cell phone

* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]

* [[Changeling Fantasy]]

* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Remember Circe's assistant in ''[[The Sea Of Monsters]]''? Now read the second book of the second series.

* [[Circles of Hell]]: What did you expect? This is Greek mythology. Within the Underworld, there's the Isles of the Blest at the top, Elysium below that (or encircling them), the most widely populated Asphodel Fields, and then the Fields of Punishment.

* [[Coast Guard]]: In the first book, after the kids {{spoiler|escape from the Underworld and into Los Angeles, the US Coast Guard rescues their sorry butts in the middle of dealing with the huge natural disaster. Plus, the Coast Gaurd awards the kids with Junior Coast Guard Badges.}}

* [[Crossover Cosmology]]: The Roman god Janus appears in the fourth book. [[Word of God]] said in an interview that the Roman gods exist in Percy Jackson's world but are younger than the Greek gods. Riordan's other novel series, ''The Kane Chronicles'', which features Egyptian gods, also takes place in the same universe.

** ''[[The Heroes of Olympus]]'' takes this a step further, suggesting that the gods ''do'' go around in their Roman aspects and there is an opposite camp for their children.

* [[Crystal Dragon Jesus]]: Consciously averted. Percy initially equates the concepts of [[God]] and the Greek gods, but Chiron is quick to point out that God is "metaphysical" and therefore in a different category from the Olympians.

* [[Cue the Flying Pigs]]: A particularly dangerous one is the Clazmonian Sow.

* [[Green Aesop]]: Various sea and river creatures get uppity around water pollution, and {{spoiler|the quest for Pan eventually turns out to be all about the current state of the environment; this one is extremely well-done, though}}.

* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: The Minotaur is just one of the first examples.

* [[Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist]]: Mentioned word for word in Lightning Thief.

* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]: {{spoiler|Daedalus}} and {{spoiler|Prometheus}}.

* [[Living Labyrinth]]: Daedalus's Labyrinth grows over time.

* [[Load-Bearing Hero]]: Percy and Annabeth both pull this one, except they're holding up the ''sky'', technically making them load-bearing heroes for the entire planet.

'''Percy (holding up the sky)''': ''Aaaaaargh - ow…'' }}

* [[Locked Into Strangeness]]: Percy and Annabeth get matching gray streaks in their hair after {{spoiler|holding up the weight of the sky}} in ''The Titan's Curse''.

* [[Put on a Bus]]: {{spoiler|Thalia, the Hunters, Chris. The implication is that they're off having adventures, just like Percy and his friends.}}

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: All the gods, plus several demi-gods.

* [[Recycled in Space|Recycled]] <small>[[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE]]</small>: Although [[Tropes Are Not Bad|it's done well]] in this case. Many of the plots or subplots are the major arcs of well-known Greek myths. ''Sea of Monsters'' is Jason and the Argonauts and the Oddessey stuck together. {{spoiler|Silena's fight against the monster in the final book and Clarisse's subsequent beatdown of the monster that killed her is Patroclus stealing Achilles' armor and Achilles' fight with Hector, complete with dragging the corpse around behind her chariot.}} Riordan was quite clever in working the myths into his books.

** This is Justified in the fifth book, when Prometheus says that patterns repeat themselves in the world.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Nearly everyone at times, but a particularly [[TV Tropes Drinking Game|egregious]] example is {{spoiler|when they enter Hephaestus' junkyard and after explicitly being told not to touch or take anything, everyone does exactly that. Bianca's death was likely only because she drew the short straw offscreen.}}

** It's even worse for Grover. When told not to touch anything in the junkyard, his immediate response is to pick up a golden crown and bite a piece off!

** Also Percy, after {{spoiler|taking a dive in the river Styx}}.

* [[Totally Radical]]: Lots and lots of it, probably because it is told from the first-person narrative of a young teen, but actually written by a 40-something.

Percy: Why are we here?

Annabeth: To '''HAVE FUN!''' }}

** Hades kidnapped and married [[Rent|Mimi]].

*** Death himself is diligently ferrying souls to the underworld too.

** [[CSI: NY|Stella Bonasera, Godess of Wisdom, battle, and Crime Scene Investigation]]

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