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** '''You'd Expect''': Paris to choose Hera and gain a royal harem as part and parcel of [[World Domination]], or to choose Athena and use his smarts to gain [[World Domination]] and aforementioned harem. Just about every person who has read the myth has thought this at some point.
** '''Instead''': Paris chooses Aphrodite and gains the hand of an already-married queen, with most of the armies of Greece bound to rescue her, as well as the enmity of two of the most powerful goddesses in the pantheon. Cue Trojan War.
** '''What's Worse:''' Out of the three goddesses in that scene, only one of them did ''not'' have a reputation for Disproportionate Retribution against people who offended her. Hint: It's the only one Paris didn't offend with his choice. (Really, any rational person would have picked Hera regardless of the prizes offered -- Athena's vengeance is usually survivable, but unless you're Hercules -- literally -- Hera's going to frickin' kill you.)
* And then there's Jason, former leader of the Argonauts, he who retrieved the golden fleece, and a hero actually under the divine patronage of Hera. He returns from the journey victorious, since he had the love and assistance of the powerful and mildly [[Cute and Psycho]] princess Medea, who has gone so far as to murder her own brother as a distraction so Jason and his crew could escape her father's wrath.
** '''You'd Expect''': Jason would return to his father's kingdom and settle down in peace with his lover.
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