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* [[Dumb Muscle]]: Ares.
* [[Dysfunctional Family]]:
** Zeus and Hera's family, both with their legitimate children and Zeus' bastards to whom Hera is the [[Wicked Stepmother]].
** Hephaestus, Aphrodite, and Eros.
** Averted with the Muses, [[Happily Married|Hades and Persephone]], and Asclepius and Epione's family.
* [[The Empath]]: Psyche. Revealing her observations to [[Alpha Bitch|Aphrodite]] may not have been her brightest move.
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'''Aphrodite:''' Have you considered that I could snap my fingers and make sure you die a lonely, bitter, virgin crone, you presumptuous little bitch? [http://thaliasmusingsnovels.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/1-7-please-be-seated/\] }}
* [[Everyone Can See It]]: Let's see, Apollo and Thalia have feelings for each other. Hephaestus sympathises with her during the Daphne debacle, Eros and Aphrodite keep offering to set them up together. Even Artemis knows that her brother becomes aflicted with a case of [[Love Makes You Stupid]] when he is showing of for Thalia. Also everyone in Olympus speculates about them.
* [[Exact Words]]: Aphrodite's [[Genre Savvy]] blessing on the Pythian Games: {{spoiler|"To whichever two among the gods and goddesses here whom the Fates will choose, may you each meet your true love at the Pythian Games."}} [http://thaliasmusingsnovels.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/1-5-let-the-games-begin/\]{{Dead link}} Thalia, being equally genre savvy, knows that if she or Apollo are chosen, {{spoiler|they won't end up together since they've already met.}}
** The first to be chosen is {{spoiler|Aphrodite's own son Eros, who finds love at first sight with Psyche.}}
** The second is {{spoiler|Hephaestus, Aphrodite's ''husband''. She's more than happy to let him go.}}
* [[Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette]]: Persephone. After Thalia gave her a makeover.
* [[FemBot]]: Thalia recalls Hephaestus constructing "solid gold, fully automated, mechanical assistants" that were built "in the form of very attractive women." He got rid of them once he had a girlfriend.
* [[Give Geeks a Chance]]: Hephaestus tries to invoke this in his marriage to Aphrodite. It doesn't work. {{spoiler|After his divorce, he falls for Aglaea, a science-obsessed demigoddess who's had a crush on him for awhile.}}
* [[Green Eyes]]: Aphrodite, Aglaea.
* [[Gray Eyes]]: Apollo, Artemis, Athena.
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* [[I Just Want to Be Badass]]: Thalia concludes this must be Calliope's reason for dating [[War God|Ares]]. That and [[Mr. Fanservice|Ares is hot]].
* [[I Want Grandkids]]: Mnemosyne to the Muses.
* [[Implausible Deniability]]: Thalia tries this with Apollo when he asks for an explanation of the noise from a [[Wild Teen Party]]. She claims her sisters are just singing each other to sleep - [[
* [[Immune to Fate]]: The Fates wonder if Thalia and thus the rest of the Muses are this. They don't like the idea.
* [[Irony]]: When Hera says that during a wedding the attention belongs solely on the bride and groom and on the goddess that made the union possible. What she does not know is that it was Thalia's blessing (At least in part) that made that particular union possible. Thalia of course lampshades this in her thoughts.
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* [[Like Brother and Sister]]: Apollo and Calliope, except on rare occasions when Calliope is drunk.
* [[Love Goddess]]: Aphrodite, of course. And her favorite lover is Ares, the [[War God]].
* [[Marry for Love]]:
** Persephone did this with Hades, in spite of being sought after by most of Zeus' sons.
** Eros and Psyche.
** Aphrodite resents not being given this option.
* [[Massive
** The Nine Muses.
** Aglaea is the youngest of Asclepius and Epione's nine children.
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* [[My Beloved Smother]]: Demeter to Persephone.
* [[Not Blood Siblings]]: Zeus and Hera. The Titans are beings of pure spirit who paired off and joined their energy to create the first generation of Olympian gods. Zeus and Hera, as well as Hestia, Demeter, Hades, and Poseidon, were created by Cronus and Rhea.
** Athena and Artemis. Artemis is Zeus' biological daughter, and Athena is his ward and ex nihilo creation.
* [[Parental Marriage Veto]]: One of the laws of the Pantheon, even for the Twelve. Apollo tries to invoke this as Governor of the Muses, but is quickly shot down by Calliope. It's strongly implied that Artemis, as Apollo's legal guardian, can invoke this to him.
* [[Parents in Distress]]: Leto, often, to Apollo and Artemis. This is the origin of the Pythian Games.
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* [[Shipper on Deck]]: Aphrodite and Eros to Thalia and Apollo. Eros to [[Les Yay|Thalia]] and [[Crack Pairing|Athena]], Apollo and Daphne, Zeus and Hera, Zeus and Io, etc.
* [[Show Within a Show]]: The play Thalia sponsors at the Pythian Games is Type 3. It provides a safe means of {{spoiler|revealing Eros and Psyche's whereabouts, repenting to Aphrodite, and asking that Psyche be made immortal. Aphrodite and Hera take to the stage to grant both requests.}}
* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Every god and goddess has done this to a pretty mortal at least once.
* [[Straight Man and Wise Guy]]: Apollo often ends up playing the [[Boke and Tsukkomi Routine|straight man to Thalia's wise guy]].
** Though, strictly speaking, he's not a [[Bi the Way|straight]] [[Incredibly Lame Pun|man.]]
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* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Psyche, it is not a good idea to point out psychological issues in public to a vain Love Godess known to smite any mortal that is too pretty. Arguably all the mortal girls that participated on the beauty pageant in the Delphic games. As Thalia put it, Aphrodite hosted that event to know who to smite.
** Also Chione, mortal lover of both Apollo and Hermes, at the same time. Not only did she two-time a god but she also insulted his overprotective sister Artemis. Honestly, telling a goddess that she is a virgin because no man could possibly want her? That is just asking for death.
** One nymph Thalia met while on Poseidon's court. She bragged to have bedded Zeus and mocked Hera for not realising her. She also pressed Thalia's [[
* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]: How Aphrodite sees her marriage to Hephaestus. Hephaestus is considered the least attractive of the Olympians, especially compared to his brother Ares. However, it's implied that this designation is highly relative.
* [[Ultimate Blacksmith]]: Hephaestus. Eros inherited some of his skill, but since his biological father is probably either Ares or Hermes, it's likely more nurture than nature.
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: Thalia and Apollo, and [[Beta Couple]] Artemis and Athena.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Zeus.
* [[Wild Teen Party]]: Thalia answers a mortal's prayer for comic inspiration by ordering him to throw one of these on Mt. Parnassus, which will infuriate Apollo.
{{quote|'''Thalia:''' Call Pan and Dionysus to the Corycian Cave on the slopes of Mount Parnassus and host a feast.
'''Eustachys:''' A feast, Lady Thalia?
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