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* [[All Japanese Swords Are Katanas]]: Averted. One of the template characters is a daughter of Susano-o who fights with the legendary sword Kusanagi, which is ''not'' a katana.

* [[All Myths Are True]]: literally--in fact characters get to meet just about every mythical figure out there.

** ''God'' also offers another group of antagonists, the "Keepers of The World", the group of gods who pissed at their pantheons and want to seperate the mortal world from other realms. None of them are truly evil, and considering their background story, their goal is rather justified.

* [[Army of the Ages]]: The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einherjar Einherjar] warriors that show up in modern times come from the 18th century through the mid-1970s, outfitted in whatever gear they had on them when they "died".

* [[Awesome but Practical]]: Most first level boons fall under this category, granting resistance to the boons that come after. Now this may sound like a dull roadblock skill, keep in mind Sky's Grace (Sky 1) allows the user to fall from ''any'' height and survive with no injury, Fire Immunity negates flame damage and Water Breathing is...well...[[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|water breathing]].y.

* [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy]]: Hitler's Spear of Destiny was actually Odin's spear Gungnir, given him by [[Magnificent Bastard|Loki]] in the alternate setting set out in chapter six of Scion Companion. Lady Liberty, Br'er Rabbit, Uncle Sam, Robin Hood, Britannia, d'Artagnan, Baba Yaga and sundry others are all gods. The French, Russian and British ones work together out of the need to fight the Germans whereas the American ones are a different Pantheon.

* [[Evil Virtues]]: ''Almost'' literally named. Unlike the other gods and Scions, who have Virtues such as Honor, Expression, Duty, etc., titanspawn and the Titans have Dark Virtues - Ambition, Malice, Rapacity, and Zealotry.

* [[Finger Poke of Doom]]: The "Making It Look Easy" knack for Epic Strength is all about this.

** [[Big Bad]]: [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Kane]] [[Yakuza|Taoka]], who is technically himself the Dragon to [[Dark Is Evil|Mikaboshi]].

** [[The Dragon]]: [[Complete Monster|Seth]] [[Cain and Abel|Farrow]], explicitly described as Kane’s right-hand man.

*** [[Dark Chick]]: Himiko, a chief financial backer for the group.

*** [[Sixth Ranger]]: [[The Atoner|Hernán Cortés]], only Imhotep know about his part in the group.

** [[The Hero]]: [[Cowboy Cop|Horace]] [[You Killed My Father|Farrow]], the [[Eyepatch of Power|one-eyed]] son of Horus

** [[The Lancer]]: [[Perky Goth|Bridgette]] [[Dark Is Not Evil|de la Croix]], the mortician daughter of [[Dem Bones|Baron Samedi]]

** [[The Big Guy]]: [[Naive Newcomer|Eric]] [[Boisterous Bruiser|Donner]], the high-school quarterback son of Thor

** [[The Chick]]: Both [[Lonely Rich Kid|Donnie]] [[Chick Magnet|Rhodes]], the [[Rich Idiot With No Day Job|socialite]] son of Aphrodite and [[Shrinking Violet|Yukiko]] [[Action Girl|Kuromizu]], the biker chick daughter of Susanoo

* [[Ghostapo]]: Both the Allied and Axis forces were using Scions and divine power in World War II, which was known as the Axis War by the gods (due to the fact that they were trying to conquer one another's Axes Mundi while mortals fought over the world).

** The Atzlanti are the only pantheon to still require human sacrifices, to the point that their pantheon purview is fuelled best by it. The Aztec Death God is also the biggest jerk of all the canonical death gods, even compared to Hel or The Morrigan.

* [[Light Is Not Good]]: Akhetaten, full stop.

* [[Lonely At the Top]]: Can be applicable in this setting, once a PC reaches apotheosis (considering that you'll be very much a junior deity in your pantheon, and your contact with your Band-mates from other pantheons may become very limited). Indeed, the signature characters seem to be suffering from this in the opening fiction from ''Scion: God'' (Horace is chafing in the celestial equivalent of a desk job, Donnie and Yukiko are essentially glorified errand boys (well, errand ''girl'' in Yukiko's case) for their parents, and Dr. Tigrillo finds himself philosophically isolated from most of the other Atzlanti. Only Eric and Brigitte seem to be really fitting into godhood comfortably).

* [[Lovecraft Lite]]: Very much so. The closest things to truly unknowable beings (the Greater Titans) aren't truly malevolent (hell, a possible ending to ''Ragnarok'' involves convincing Muspelheim that it's in his best interests to only burn away the toxic parts of the Earth), and much of the theme involves taking the "chaotic, dark power" and either kicking it across the room or turning into something useful.

* [[Mother of a Thousand Young]]: Gaia and Kamimusuhi.

* [[Mythology Upgrade]]: Isn't it amusing how advanced technology can improve already deadly Nemeans? Examples include Centaurs as half-human and half-Harley-Davidson motorcycle, Scylla has machines replace its monster heads and Surtr's main fortress in Muspelheim can transform into a [[Humongous Mecha]].

* [[No Honour Among Thieves]]: Two Titans have serious internal conflict amongst their Avatars. Every avatar of Muspelheim except Prometheus will turn against Surtr, once he fulfills his role in Ragnarok. In Drowned Road, Ran will attack Mami Wata once their plan to drown the Earth is complete. Nu, meanwhile, is hiding, waiting for its opportunity to strike at other avatars.

* [[No Such Thing As Wizard Jesus]]: While God ''may'' be evil (if he is Aten, if Aten is aping God however then the jury is out) and [[Public Domain Artifact|the Holy Grail]] exists, Jesus is left alone.

* [[The Gods Must Be Lazy]]: They do tend to leave their children to sort things out on their own.

** And justified, it's stated in the God book the Gods have their hands full holding the Titans at bay in the Overworld and just performing the Visitations for their new Scions is both risky because the Gods have to power down and become weaker to enter the World without incurring Fate's unwanted and undivided attention making them vulnerable to Titanspawn and takes them away from the main front of the war that is implied not to be going well.

* [[To Hell and Back]]

* [[Transsexual]]: Blair Thomas