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[[File:badassposeidon2 8128.jpg|link=Age of Mythology|frame|Go ahead, tell him he's holding a fork.]]
▲Unless your story is set in Barbados, there are exactly two uses for tridents in fiction.
The first is for anyone associated with the sea, particularly if you're a fisherman or a god. This isn't contrived; tridents have their origins as fishing tools, after all, and [[Classical Mythology|Poseidon]] was portrayed with a great big trident.
The second is if you're [[Spikes of Villainy|evil]]. ''Really'' evil. Tridents don't go to moderately evil villains or Redshirts; if you're using a trident you better be [[Satan]] or seriously, ridiculously evil, and a major villain. They're too stylish for [[Mooks]].
In the ancient world, tridents were used in warfare as a spear capable of disarming. They were also used in [[Ancient Rome]] in the [[Gladiator Games]], in a parody of fishing - a fisherman (''Retiarus'') went after a fish (''Secutor'', whose helmet had a fish welded on top). So historical works set in [[Ancient Rome]] or [[Ancient Grome]] are justified in showing tridents, either in the games or in war.▼
Not to be confused with the much more mundane farmer's pitchfork, which unless it's being used to pitch hay is generally wielded in combination with a [[Torches and Pitchforks|torch and a mob mentality]].
▲In the ancient world, tridents were used in warfare as a spear capable of disarming. They were also used in [[Ancient Rome]] in the [[Gladiator Games]], in a parody of fishing - a fisherman (''Retiarus'') went after a fish (''Secutor'', whose helmet had a fish welded on top). So historical works set in [[Ancient Rome]] or [[Ancient Grome]] are justified in showing tridents, either in the games or in war.
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== Tridents associated with the sea ==
* Poseidon, of course, as well as his Roman counterpart Neptune, is always portrayed with a trident.
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