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American Gods

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American Gods	comment	A 2001 novel by Neil Gaiman, interesting for its examination of the intersection between myth and Americana.After a three-year prison term following an assault conviction, a man known only as Shadow is ready to be released back into society. He isn't a bad man and wants little more than to go back to his beloved wife Laura, get a job at his friend's gym and live a quiet, simple life. Unfortunately, things are not that simple: Shortly before being released, Shadow discovers that Laura was killed in a car accident alongside the aforementioned friend and gets out early. At loose ends in the world, Shadow finds himself sharing a flight with a seedy old con man who asks to be called Mr. Wednesday. Wednesday is strangely interested in Shadow, and offers to hire him on as a bodyguard and accomplice; Shadow, with nothing left of his old life and nothing better to do, agrees.Shadow runs errands for Wednesday and travels into the very heart of America, visiting its small towns and meeting its people and its old, forgotten gods, struggling to stay relevant in the modern era. But unbeknownst to him, he has a much larger role in the oncoming conflict than he thinks...The book is interspersed at various points with stories of immigrants who brought their gods and their beliefs to America with them, and the gods themselves have integrated just as well as their former worshipers. The novel elevates the ordinary and the everyday to mythic status, finding significance in the smallest of things. This quality is exemplified by its protagonist, Shadow, who is both the eternal everyman and something more, something special.There is a spinoff sequel, Anansi Boys, focusing on Anansi's son(s) in the wake of Anansi's "death".Shadow's own story is continued in two novellas: "The Monarch of the Glen" (collected in Fragile Things) and "Black Dog" (published in Trigger Warning). A short story that predates American Gods, "Keepsakes and Treasures" (also collected in Fragile Things) has a place in the novel's universe by virtue of its two main characters, Smith and Mr. Alice, playing a major role in "Monarch of the Glen". Gaiman has said there is at least one more novella in Shadow's future and that if he "survives that" he'll make a return to Americaâ€¦The novel directly inspired White Wolf's tabletop roleplaying game Scion.Various television adaptations have been announced. A TV miniseries written by Gaiman was announced and abandoned by HBO. A fantasy drama series produced by Fremantle Media, with Bryan Fuller and Michael Green as showrunners and Gaiman as Executive Producer, began airing on Starz starting April 30, 2017. Gaiman also serves as one of the show's writers.Shortly before the TV series aired, Dark Horse Comics began a comic adaptation of the book, written by P. Craig Russell.
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American Gods / int_1242b9d4	type	Double Standard: Rape, Divine on Mortal
American Gods / int_1242b9d4	comment	Double Standard: Rape, Divine on Mortal: Wednesday uses magic to charm girls into having sex with him. This does make Shadow uncomfortable (especially when he finds out that he is the Child by Rape of one such girl), and Wednesday is eventually regarded as an out-and-out villain, but it's not treated as seriously as more mundane forms of sexual assault would be. Also, see below about Bast.
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American Gods / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
American Gods / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: Wututu's chapter is largely about the experiences of African slaves in the Americas, and rape is a large part of that story. It's revealed that Mr. Wednesday doesn't just "charm" young women. He casts a charm on them, specifically on teenaged virgins, making them magically attracted to him and destroying their ability to ever love anyone else for the rest of their lives.
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American Gods / int_12f078f3	type	Artistic License – Linguistics
American Gods / int_12f078f3	comment	Artistic License â€“ Linguistics: "Praying for a bishop" isn't a euphemism for the "woman on top" sex position because of a superstition that a child conceived that way would grow up to be a bishop. It's called that because "bishop" is a crude slang term for "penis", and because it involves a woman resting on her knees as if in prayer.
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American Gods / int_139d829f	type	Not Actually the Ultimate Question
American Gods / int_139d829f	comment	Not Actually the Ultimate Question: Early in the novel, after Shadow is released from prison and about to fly home, he remembers an interaction with a previous cell-mate, which the cellmate asserted had the moral of not pissing off people who work in airports. During a previous parole, the cellmate had planned to fly home to see his sister, but after losing his temper when being informed that his driver's license had expired, ended up (in that order) going on a drunken bender, robbing a gas station to get booze money, being arrested for public urination, and ultimately winding up back in prison with extra time for armed robbery. Shadow, who is very intelligent despite pretending to be dumb muscle, questioned whether the moral of the story was that "The kind of behavior that works in a specialized environment, such as prison, can fail to work and in fact become harmful when used outside such an environment", but his cellmate insisted the moral was to not piss off people who work in airports.
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American Gods / int_14c04cad	type	Butch Lesbian
American Gods / int_14c04cad	comment	Butch Lesbian: In one of the Coming to America flashbacks, Kalanu the scout who walks and dresses like a man, and took a girl to be her wife.
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American Gods / int_15070c2b	type	Timmy in a Well
American Gods / int_15070c2b	comment	Timmy in a Well: Lampshaded when Shadow is lost in the woods and a talking bird gives him a message and then caws at him to follow — "You want me to follow you? Or has Timmy fallen down another well?" Only this isn't a cute woodland creature: it's an oversized and frankly scary raven which has just been "brunching on Bambi".
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American Gods / int_16ccd84b	type	The Old Convict
American Gods / int_16ccd84b	comment	The Old Convict: Low Key, whose advice (appropriate to his nickname) was always "do your own time," meaning don't get involved in other people's troubles or vendettas in prison.
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American Gods / int_16ddefda	type	Alcohol-Induced Idiocy
American Gods / int_16ddefda	comment	Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: Having one last tryst with your husband's best friend before he's out of jail is one thing, doing so while he's driving is another.
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American Gods / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
American Gods / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Hinzelmann. Subverted, in that he's a Serial Killer.
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American Gods / int_1b590025	type	Dead All Along
American Gods / int_1b590025	comment	Dead All Along: In "Black Dog" Cassie is revealed to be a ghost who started a relationship with Shadow so that he could find her body and bring her murderer to justice. She apologizes for using him, but he's not that regretful about it.
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American Gods / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
American Gods / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: A blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance by Delirium from The Sandman. The girl with the talking dog.
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American Gods / int_1beef720	type	Living Forever Is Awesome
American Gods / int_1beef720	comment	Living Forever Is Awesome: Maybe not as awesome when your followers are dwindling, but the gods we see are all determined to survive even though their lives have gotten far less glamorous over the centuries or millennia. Except for Thor, who is mentioned to have committed suicide.
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American Gods / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
American Gods / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: Shadow is the book's protagonist, and one of the most morally 'good' characters present. He's The Hero, in other words. Mythologically speaking, what does 'Hero' usually imply? He's the half-mortal son of a god.
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American Gods / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
American Gods / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: One of them, anyway. The truth about the town of Lakeside.
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American Gods / int_2207b002	type	Ambiguously Brown
American Gods / int_2207b002	comment	Ambiguously Brown: Shadow is asked on several occasions what his ethnicity is, with other characters guessing him to be Hispanic, Native American, or part African American. Shadow himself has very little knowledge of his heritage, but his mother suffered from sickle-cell anemia and is described as dark, so she is almost certainly African-American; his father is a Norse god. His skin colour is finally described as 'coffee and cream' some 450 pages into the novel. Neil Gaiman sees him as The Rock. Zig-zagged by Jacquel and Ibis, two ancient Egyptians who used to be able to pass for either white or black...until the Civil War, whereafter they were always seen as black. They themselves don't see themselves as black, being far older than American race relations.
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American Gods / int_222969af	type	All There in the Script
American Gods / int_222969af	comment	All There in the Script: Shadow's full name ("Shadow Moon") is never actually stated in the book proper. It's just implied by the fact that his wife's (married) name is "Laura Moon".
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American Gods / int_22854489	type	Coins for the Dead
American Gods / int_22854489	comment	Coins for the Dead: Shadow is given a coin by a leprechaun who teaches him to take things out of thin air. He later tosses the coin into his wife's grave. Unfortunately, the coin was extremely special and causes her to rise from her grave as a rational but still decaying corpse.
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American Gods / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
American Gods / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The apparently throwaway line about a few hitchhikers and kids going missing and never coming back in regards to the small town Shadow stays in. As well as the Minutes of the Lakeside City Council book that Shadow buys at a Library sale. And the klunker, mentioned many times before it becomes apparent what its function to the story is.
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American Gods / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
American Gods / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Ollie seems like a nice enough guy in "The Black Dog", if a bit overly talkative. Shadow figures out that he murdered Cassie, Moira's girlfriend, so that he could be with Moira.
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American Gods / int_27fdd6a1	type	Divine Parentage
American Gods / int_27fdd6a1	comment	Divine Parentage: Shadow, being the son of Odin/Wednesday.
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American Gods / int_29292e6d	type	Walking the Earth
American Gods / int_29292e6d	comment	Walking the Earth: In "Monarch of the Glen" and "Black Dog," Shadow travels through various European countries, solving problems along the way.
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American Gods / int_2a8a7ea6	type	Bury Your Gays
American Gods / int_2a8a7ea6	comment	Bury Your Gays: Salim is unceremoniously killed off a few chapters after his introduction, due to having switched lives with a New York ifrit (and killed in his stead by the New Gods).
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American Gods / int_2c437b06	type	Violently Protective Girlfriend
American Gods / int_2c437b06	comment	Violently Protective Girlfriend: Laura as a zombie serves as this for Shadow. She kills at least four men who have it in for her husband. Bastet isn't Shadow's girlfriend, but sometimes she acts like this. When Oliver tries to murder Shadow in "Black Dog," she summons an army of cats to save him.
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American Gods / int_2d3ef5f2	type	New Weird
American Gods / int_2d3ef5f2	comment	New Weird: Every god from every pantheon that humans have ever dreamed up is real, and they inhabit our material world, all trying to advance their own agendas. New gods are born from changes in society, representing concepts like The Men in Black or the forward march of technology. Also, Vikings and Egyptians (among others) made it to America long before Columbus, bringing their gods with them.
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American Gods / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
American Gods / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Czernobog is mentioned to like classical music (presumably Night on the Bald Mountain.)
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American Gods / int_2ffb4a4d	type	The Nondescript
American Gods / int_2ffb4a4d	comment	The Nondescript: The god whose name and appearance Shadow cannot remember.
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American Gods / int_33ba37ca	type	Out with a Bang
American Gods / int_33ba37ca	comment	Out with a Bang: The first scene of Fertility Goddess Bilquis has her swallowing a man whole via her vagina. And apparently, the sex with her is so amazing that the man doesn't even seem to mind, being in a state of euphoria the whole time.
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American Gods / int_341b1691	type	"Take That!" Kiss
American Gods / int_341b1691	comment	"Take That!" Kiss: Sam to Shadow, as a Take That! against everybody else in the bar at that point, but especially Audrey.
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American Gods / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
American Gods / int_35a858b3	comment	Though it isn't explicit, when Czernobog tears into Mr Town at the Hotel at the Center of America he's probably cursing literally in addition to figuratively. Not dying in battle and being killed by no man alive at first seem a product of his warped perspective. But look how it turns out for Mr Town...
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American Gods / int_3684532f	type	Never Heard That One Before
American Gods / int_3684532f	comment	Never Heard That One Before:
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American Gods / int_3a1c2171	type	The Man Behind the Man
American Gods / int_3a1c2171	comment	The Man Behind the Man: Mr. World (aka Loki) to the New Gods, and Mr. Wednesday to Loki himself.
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American Gods / int_3cf29583	type	Trojan Prisoner
American Gods / int_3cf29583	comment	Trojan Prisoner: Czernobog and Mr. Nancy dress as police officers to get Shadow out of prison.
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American Gods / int_3d5f46cf	type	Attacking Through Yourself
American Gods / int_3d5f46cf	comment	Attacking Through Yourself: When Mr World comes up behind Laura, trying to talk her out of throwing his stick/spear down the hill, Laura stabs the stick through herself and into him. Although she dies, her magical coin turns her back into a zombie.
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American Gods / int_3fac787c	type	Luke, I Am Your Father
American Gods / int_3fac787c	comment	Wednesday tells Shadow that he reminds him of Thor, who is a son of Odin. Guess who Shadow's father is? Additionally there are many associations of Shadow with thunder and lightning and Wednesday outright calls Shadow "my boy", though the readers and Shadow himself simply take it as a simple term of endearment. Towards the end of the book, Loki makes a comment about sticking a spear of mistletoe into Shadow's eye. In the Norse myths, Loki killed Baldur, another son of Odin, with mistletoe; the follow-up novella reveals that Shadow's birth name is Baldur.
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American Gods / int_40b1b353	type	Chess with Death
American Gods / int_40b1b353	comment	Chess with Death: Shadow plays Checkers with Czernobog, wagering his own life in the process.
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American Gods / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
American Gods / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Shadow manages to avert the war between the Old and New Gods, foiling Wednesday and Loki's con, but Laura is dead for real and little has changed for the Old Gods; it's implied many of them will continue to waste and die in the coming years as their worship dribbles away. Shadow himself is left with his last ties to his old life severed and decides to go Walking the Earth, using his divine powers to solve problems as he comes upon them. Despite the isolation, it's suggested that this is the first time he's been truly happy for a long while.
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American Gods / int_41a3e267	type	Hidden in Plain Sight
American Gods / int_41a3e267	comment	Hidden in Plain Sight: After a young girl disappears from Lakeside, Shadow and the other townspeople spend days looking for her in the woods, to no avail. It turns out she's in the trunk of a beat up old car on the frozen lake that the town's named for. The lake is not only in the center of town, but the car is positioned so it's impossible not to see, and the town raises money by betting on when the car will fall through the ice.
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American Gods / int_439e50f7	type	What Have We Ear?
American Gods / int_439e50f7	comment	What Have We Ear?: Shadow does coin tricks, including this one, throughout the story, as a way of keeping his hands busy. It becomes important to the plot when he ends up with a pair of very special coins: the sun and moon.
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American Gods / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
American Gods / int_4482e1ef	comment	Divided States of America: Wednesday thinks that it's more useful to think of America as several countries that happen to share a government than as one entity, since different regions have vastly different cultures.
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American Gods / int_45ad2569	type	Vagueness Is Coming
American Gods / int_45ad2569	comment	Vagueness Is Coming: Several characters warn about a coming storm or similar, without elaborating. The first of these, oddly, is an in-mate in prison with Shadow with the unlikely name of Sam Fetisher, who never gets mentioned again.
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American Gods / int_463fd2a4	type	Resurrected Romance
American Gods / int_463fd2a4	comment	Resurrected Romance: Laura is resurrected thanks to Sweeney's gold coin and follows in Shadow's path over the course of the novel.
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American Gods / int_48b01c26	type	Surveillance as the Plot Demands
American Gods / int_48b01c26	comment	Surveillance as the Plot Demands: Media can inhabit the body of any TV character and use them as an avatar to spy on or communicate with anyone watching a TV.
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American Gods / int_4b1afa0d	type	Spiteful Spit
American Gods / int_4b1afa0d	comment	Spiteful Spit: At Laura's funeral, one of her friends spits on her face in full view of Laura's husband, then flatly tells him that Laura was having an affair with her own husband and was giving him oral sex before her deadly car accident.
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American Gods / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
American Gods / int_4c782fb9	comment	Gods Need Prayer Badly: The reason why the Old Gods are dying, and the New Gods have arisen. Wednesday is very disdainful of Neo-Pagans in general considering them pretenders, strongly implying their worship is inadequate. It hit Easter hard when Wednesday showed her a self-proclaimed Pagan that did not even know Easter was originally a Pagan holiday, labeling it as "Christian" instead. In their world, Pagans without traditional rituals and well-defined gods and goddesses might as well be Atheist or Agnostic. On the other hand, what constitutes adequate prayer isn't straightforward. Easter still derives power from the celebration of the holiday, if perhaps less than she might otherwise. The New Gods aren't worshipped in the traditional sense - for example, watching TV counts as a worship ritual to Media, with the sacrifice being time. Conversely, Wednesday says that regular churches don't produce much worship of the god-sustaining kind, nor does Disneyland.
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American Gods / int_4dbec0ad	type	Bubbly Waitress
American Gods / int_4dbec0ad	comment	Bubbly Waitress: Mr. Wednesday (a manifestation of Odin), encounters a cheerful, bubbly waitress while he and Shadow are traveling. He immediately uses his magical charms to seduce her, despite Shadow's protests that she's just a kid. It's one of the earliest clues that Wednesday is neither a good person nor someone to be trusted.
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American Gods / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
American Gods / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Several: One for Shadow at the very start of the book: "Your wife died with my husband's cock in her mouth, Shadow." "Jesus, Low-Key Lyesmith...Oh, Jesus. Loki. Loki Lie-Smith." "It's a two-man con." "And then, as the spear arcs over the battle, I'm going to shout 'I dedicate this battle to Odin.'" Not made a big deal of at the time (because the person thinking it doesn't realize the significance), but "It had amused [Mr World] to play chauffeur, in Kansas, after all" confirms the Foreshadowed identity of a major player in the game. "Shadow found that he was completely unsurprised when he recognized the man who dances with her. He had not changed that much in thirty-three years." "Her" is Shadow's mother. "He" is Wednesday.
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American Gods / int_4ec1330a	type	Our Minotaurs Are Different
American Gods / int_4ec1330a	comment	Our Minotaurs Are Different: As well as several briefly-mentioned minotaurs, there's "the buffalo man", who seems to be an Anthropomorphic Personification of "the land" — meaning he's the spirit of Earth, and probably the closest thing the setting has to a Top God.
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American Gods / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
American Gods / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Laura to Mr. Town.
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American Gods / int_519c6fd3	type	The Heartless
American Gods / int_519c6fd3	comment	The Heartless: Many of the gods. Loki feeds on chaos, Bilquis feeds on worshipful lust, and so on.
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American Gods / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
American Gods / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The plot truly begins when Shadow meets Mr Wednesday, the declining incarnation of Odin in the New World. The last scene has him meet Iceland's Odin, an example of a god in an old country who has moved well with the times.
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American Gods / int_53c3fa83	type	Granola Girl
American Gods / int_53c3fa83	comment	Granola Girl: Discussed when Wednesday and Shadow travel to San Francisco, and they do meet a neo-pagan waitress there. Samantha Black Crow delivers a beautiful speech of all the (sometimes contradictory) things she believes in, which could well be a summary of the beliefs of many of these characters. In a subversion, this is a universe where all this might well be true, at the same time.
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American Gods / int_53fc6e4c	type	Starbucks Skin Scale
American Gods / int_53fc6e4c	comment	Shadow is asked on several occasions what his ethnicity is, with other characters guessing him to be Hispanic, Native American, or part African American. Shadow himself has very little knowledge of his heritage, but his mother suffered from sickle-cell anemia and is described as dark, so she is almost certainly African-American; his father is a Norse god. His skin colour is finally described as 'coffee and cream' some 450 pages into the novel. Neil Gaiman sees him as The Rock.
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American Gods / int_54bb502b	type	Nobody Poops
American Gods / int_54bb502b	comment	Nobody Poops: Averted pretty hard. Practically everyone takes a leak at some point. Even Horus.
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American Gods / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
American Gods / int_56240281	comment	Country Matters: The "C word" is dropped a number of times, most notably by Sam to Audrey. Bilquis' power is described as cunt-magic.
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American Gods / int_5715081d	type	Battle-Interrupting Shout
American Gods / int_5715081d	comment	Battle-Interrupting Shout: Although he doesn't shout, this is how Shadow defuses the impending war between the gods.
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American Gods / int_58a7abae	type	God Was My Co-Pilot
American Gods / int_58a7abae	comment	God Was My Copilot: Wednesday was a god all along. So was Shadow.
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American Gods / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
American Gods / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: There's a recurring god (apparently a god of wealth) about whom Shadow can never remember anything beyond a vague impression. Shadow is told his name more than once, but he always forgets it immediately and the reader never gets to hear it. In the end, despite various hints, his identity never does actually get made clear (including, thus far, by Word of God). Naturally, there are popular guesses including Pluto, Budha Mercury, the Horned God and Satan. Shadow robbed that bank "for Laura" but we never find out exactly why.
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American Gods / int_5a4aa505	type	Government Conspiracy
American Gods / int_5a4aa505	comment	Government Conspiracy: Played With. The Spookshow Agents were apparently originally mortal, but have spent so much time wandering between various increasingly classified alphabet soup agencies that they've become something supernatural. They have no actual accountability or connection to the government anymore, but for people in their line of work that might well have stopped before they fell off the map.
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American Gods / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
American Gods / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: Mr. Wednesday, in addition to conning men, loves the art of seducing females (especially virgins) via something as simple as asking for Christmas gifts. He uses spells to seal the deal once his natural charms have the subject warmed up to him.
American Gods / int_5e2e55e4	featureApplicability	1.0
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American Gods / int_5f4097ba	type	Not Distracted by the Sexy
American Gods / int_5f4097ba	comment	Not Distracted by the Sexy: Media tries to sway Shadow, as Lucy, with the offer of nudity. It doesn't work, to the point that it colors the rest of his encounters with her, and he goes so far as to avoid watching television whenever possible. Subverted with Easter, who casually mentions her thighs rubbing together after she gains weight, causing Shadow to blush and try very hard not to picture it.
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American Gods / int_5f4f15ba	type	Two-Timing with the Bestie
American Gods / int_5f4f15ba	comment	Two-Timing with the Bestie: Shadow is released from prison early, due to his wife Laura's sudden death. At her funeral, he learns that she had been having an affair with his best friend during his incarceration. The car crash was from her pleasuring him in the passenger seat.
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American Gods / int_5fb6411f	type	We Are as Mayflies
American Gods / int_5fb6411f	comment	We Are as Mayflies: The reasons the new gods of America are so violently on-edge is because although they have no shortage of belief, they are very short-lived as society advances rapidly to the next big thing. There used to be a train god in the 1800s, for example, when the nascent railroads represented all that was modern and new and interconnected.
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American Gods / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
American Gods / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Shadow, naturally and to a lesser extent Horus, who fetches Easter in order to bring Shadow back to life. Also Laura, although she is also partly Shadow's fault for accidentally reanimating her; she derails Wednesday and Mr World's plans more than once.
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American Gods / int_6193ae61	type	Deus Sex Machina
American Gods / int_6193ae61	comment	Deus Sex Machina: Shadow's wet dream with Bast is another turning point for the protagonist. Though it might not have been a dream... (See Or Was It a Dream? below)
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American Gods / int_62fd5552	type	Bavarian Fire Drill
American Gods / int_62fd5552	comment	Bavarian Fire Drill: Mr. Wednesday robs a bank (or, rather the people who are trying to make deposits at the bank). His con was based on a Real Life con that Frank Abagnale Jr. claimed to have once pulled off. Wednesday's favorite con (which is no longer practical), called the Bishop Game, has one grifter pretend to be a cop and "arrest" his partner, who's playing a crook pretending to a bishop who has just bought a jewelry necklace for $1200. The "cop" says the bills are counterfeit and takes the necklace as evidence, allowing the partners to take off with both the necklace and $1200. The Spookshow agents are apparently originally mortals who spent so long wandering through the alphabet soup agencies that they don't have any connection to the government anymore beyond official ID. The other side pulls it by pretending to be them.
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American Gods / int_67d722d8	type	A Storm Is Coming
American Gods / int_67d722d8	comment	A Storm Is Coming: Repeated by Mister Wednesday and Mad Sweeney.
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American Gods / int_6a6b23ff	type	Unfazed Everyman
American Gods / int_6a6b23ff	comment	Unfazed Everyman: Shadow. A sad example, as the reason he's unfazed is because Laura's unfaithfulness and death hurt him so badly that his emotions basically shut down in self-defense.
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American Gods / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
American Gods / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: "It's a two man con. It's not a war at all."
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American Gods / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
American Gods / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Shadow, as his role is to shadow Mr. Wednesday. Laura also states that he never really seemed alive or present. His real name is Baldur Moon, named for Odin's son Baldur who was his parent's favorite child and also their sacrifice to Hel. Mr. Wednesday has named himself after the day that is named after him. Mr. Jacquel and Mr. Ibis? Anubis and Thoth, a jackal-headed Egyptian god and an ibis-headed Egyptian god. Hinzelmann. If you're familiar, his name right out tells you he's a kobold from an actual legend.
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American Gods / int_6fb07cc4	type	Science Is Wrong
American Gods / int_6fb07cc4	comment	Science Is Wrong: One character comments on the pity he feels for confused scientists when they find a skull or skeleton which doesn't quite fit the established patterns in the area. This is because the scientists are completely ignorant of the real reasons these objects are there: Egyptians landed in America thousands of years ago. He insinuates that they will always be incorrect because their scientific reasoning will not allow them to reach this conclusion.
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American Gods / int_70c06a09	type	The Undead
American Gods / int_70c06a09	comment	"I was just rotting away where I was." —Laura
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American Gods / int_72b0dfd2	type	Being Good Sucks
American Gods / int_72b0dfd2	comment	Being Good Sucks: Shadow sometimes hates that doing the right thing has its price. Trying to serve Mr. Wednesday and then realizing Wednesday had used him leads to him having to break up the battle. He then reveals a mass murderer god in the town of Lakeside, which will in turn destroy its idyllic nature, and talks the god's murderer out of committing suicide. Then in "Black Dog" he finds himself no longer welcome in town after he exposes Oliver as the one who killed Cassie.
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American Gods / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
American Gods / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: Hinzelmann is behind the disappearing teenagers—he kills them and stuffs them in the current Klunker's trunk, and when the ice thaws the Klunker takes the body to the bottom of the lake. Being one of the old gods, Hinzelmann is technically taking human sacrifices that he needs, but he's still methodically killing one type of person.
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American Gods / int_73328e84	type	Suicide by Cop
American Gods / int_73328e84	comment	Suicide by Cop: Shadow seems pretty sure that's what Hinzelmann is set to accomplish by monologuing about his killings where Chad Mulligan can hear him. It works.
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American Gods / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
American Gods / int_733e007a	comment	Unwitting Pawn: Virtually all the old and new Gods, and Shadow himself, are pawns in Wednesday and Loki's Kansas City Shuffle.
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American Gods / int_73f7975f	type	Jerkass Gods
American Gods / int_73f7975f	comment	Jerkass Gods: Considering the gods' resemblances to humans in this book, it can be expected. Hinzelmann is a Serial Killer, Wednesday uses his charms to have sex with teenage virgins and make them never love another person again all so he can have a son, and that's practically mundane.
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American Gods / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
American Gods / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Storm's on the way" and "I know it's crooked, but it's the only game in town."
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American Gods / int_7481a085	type	Offerings to the Gods
American Gods / int_7481a085	comment	Offerings to the Gods: Material offerings, like a saucer of cream, a freshly-killed chicken, or a human heart, provide more "juice" than simple prayers. What is actually offered doesn't matter so much as the cost to the worshipper. Even just "sacrificing their time on the altar of television" is enough for Media.
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American Gods / int_74c1b6f4	type	Flyover Country
American Gods / int_74c1b6f4	comment	Flyover Country: For the most part, the main plot takes place on the Great Plains and Midwest.
American Gods / int_74c1b6f4	featureApplicability	1.0
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American Gods / int_776a06eb	type	All Myths Are True
American Gods / int_776a06eb	comment	Samantha Black Crow delivers a beautiful speech of all the (sometimes contradictory) things she believes in, which could well be a summary of the beliefs of many of these characters. In a subversion, this is a universe where all this might well be true, at the same time.
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American Gods / int_7c58fe32	type	Louis Cypher
American Gods / int_7c58fe32	comment	Louis Cypher: A few gods use pseudonyms like this when blending in amongst humans; Odin uses the name "Mr Wednesday". The day Wednesday was named after Wodan, an old name for Odin. Anansi is called Mr. Nancy. Anubis and Thoth go by Mr. Jacquel and Mr. Ibis, having the heads of a jackal and ibis (a long-legged wading bird) respectively in Egyptian mythology. Low-Key Lyesmith = Loki Lie-Smith. The man even mocks Shadow for taking so long to figure it out.
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American Gods / int_7d3f1d63	type	The Ending Changes Everything
American Gods / int_7d3f1d63	comment	The Ending Changes Everything: The "war" between the old gods and the new that drives most of the plot turns out to have been arranged by Wednesday and Loki, ostensibly on opposite sides, to draw power from the battle.
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American Gods / int_7e472269	type	Obsolete Occupation
American Gods / int_7e472269	comment	Obsolete Occupation: Shadow goes to work for Mr. Wednesday, an American aspect of the Norse god Odin, and discovers an entire subculture of ancient gods living in America. Brought over by various immigrants who eventually stopped believing in them, the gods now scrape by with mostly regular jobs.
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American Gods / int_7ef70048	type	Big Bad Friend
American Gods / int_7ef70048	comment	Big Bad Friend: Low-Key Lyesmith, Shadow's former cellmate who introduced him to Herodotus, is Mr. World/Loki. Hinzelmann to a lesser extent. He's always very genial to Shadow. He even pulls Shadow from the freezing lake, saving his life, knowing full well that Shadow knows he's the one responsible for all the disappearances in Lakeside.
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American Gods / int_854b029a	type	Encyclopedia Exposita
American Gods / int_854b029a	comment	Encyclopedia Exposita: From the book being written by Mr. Ibis.
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American Gods / int_86eea0e5	type	World of Pun
American Gods / int_86eea0e5	comment	World of Pun: "I was just rotting away where I was." —Laura "Look in the trunk." Wednesday gets the girls because of his charm. One of the eighteen charms he learned while hanging from the World Tree. And then, of course, there's Loki's alias.
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American Gods / int_87c0c782	type	"Day of the Week" Name
American Gods / int_87c0c782	comment	"Day of the Week" Name: Inverted: The fourth day of the week is named after Mr. Wednesday, not the other way around. (The day name is derived from "Wotan's Day," which was the original name for Wednesday, Wotan being another name for "Odin" in early Germanic Paganism.) He goes so far as to point out during his introduction that "seeing as today certainly is my day..." and comments on the stormy weather with "Although it may as well be Thursday" (Thursday being Thor's Day).
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American Gods / int_888b5b44	type	TheWorldTree
American Gods / int_888b5b44	comment	The World Tree: The Norse version, more or less. Shadow hangs from it in vigil for Wednesday just as Odin himself once did.
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American Gods / int_89d694cc	type	Place of Power
American Gods / int_89d694cc	comment	Place of Power: In the Old World people built temples on top of them, in America they built roadside attractions. Prominently featured examples include the House on the Rock and Rock City. Inverted with the Center of America. It's a place so devoid of power normal people are driven away from it, and gods apparently are at their lowest power here. Which is exactly the reason it's used as neutral ground.
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American Gods / int_8b442f50	type	Did Not Get the Girl
American Gods / int_8b442f50	comment	Did Not Get the Girl: Twice over. Laura dies for the second and final time before she and Shadow ever get the chance to truly reconcile, and while he's definitely developed romantic feelings for Sam by the end of the book, he chooses not to act on them, instead allowing her to live a normal life by using his newfound divine powers to erase her memories of their time together.
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American Gods / int_8ba9512b	type	Our Zombies Are Different
American Gods / int_8ba9512b	comment	Our Zombies Are Different: Laura is a little bit more like a lich or revenant (an undead spirit bound to its own former rotting corpse) than a zombie, in that she retains her free will, but has little sensation and deadened emotions. She's also gradually decomposing as the embalming chemicals she's preserved with are only partially effective.
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American Gods / int_8c30ad0	type	The Television Talks Back
American Gods / int_8c30ad0	comment	The Television Talks Back: Shadow gets into conversations with the goddess Media via several TV sets.
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American Gods	hasFeature	American Gods / int_8c30ad0
American Gods / int_8c9e724c	type	Big Beautiful Woman
American Gods / int_8c9e724c	comment	Big Beautiful Woman: Easter is described as a very curvy - and very attractive - lady. Fitting, since she's a Fertility Goddess.
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American Gods / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
American Gods / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Bilquis is one of the first victims of the war between the Old Gods and the New, overlapping with a certain other death trope. But the reader is unlikely to have much sympathy considering she murdered a man in cold blood in her very first scene, and was looking for a fresh victim when she was killed.
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American Gods / int_917bed8a	type	Minnesota Nice
American Gods / int_917bed8a	comment	Minnesota Nice: The community of Lakeside deconstructs this, taking inspiration from famous portrayals of Minnesota Nice such as Fargo (extremely friendly police) and A Prairie Home Companion (everyone being above average), before revealing itself to be a Town with a Dark Secret. Hinzelmann is a small god who sacrifices children in order to maintain the town's prosperity.
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American Gods / int_92474ca6	type	Resurrection Gambit
American Gods / int_92474ca6	comment	Resurrection Gambit: (ending spoilers): This is Mr. Wednesday/Odin's plan. He arranges his own assassination by the New Gods, thus setting up a conflict between them and the Old Gods. The intention is to have Loki dedicate their battle to Odin, thus feeding him the energy of the resulting mayhem and reviving him with greater power than ever before. Shadow discovers this just in time to explain the situation, allowing the two sides to make a truce and leave peacefully.
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American Gods / int_926da3d0	type	Virtual Danger Denial
American Gods / int_926da3d0	comment	Virtual Danger Denial: Shadow expresses lack of faith in his electronic plane ticket - where he doesn't have a physical ticket, just a number to give at check-in - because it just doesn't seem real to him. It's nice foreshadowing of his siding with the old gods against the new, technology-based ones. It turns out, though, that he's easily able to not only get his ticket, but get bumped to an earlier flight which foreshadows that the new gods aren't so evil after all.
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American Gods / int_934eb07f	type	Resurrective Immortality
American Gods / int_934eb07f	comment	Resurrective Immortality: A god is actually not that much harder to kill than a human. Under normal circumstances (as in, somewhere where people believe in them strongly) they simply come back to life or are replaced by something identical quite quickly. In a place that lacks belief like America, they don't have that fallback plan.
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American Gods / int_967ae225	type	Vikings In America
American Gods / int_967ae225	comment	Vikings In America: One of the "coming to America" interludes shows a ship full of Vikings landing in America and sacrificing a native to Odin. Implied to be how Mr. Wednesday was created.
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American Gods / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
American Gods / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: The name and identity of the wealthy god whose name and appearance no one can remember. Gaiman claimed once that he was almost ready to reveal it, but got a letter from a fan begging him not to because she felt she'd almost figured it out, and complied.
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American Gods / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
American Gods / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Mr. Wednesday, with Mr. World/Loki as his Dragon.
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American Gods / int_9718a22a	type	You Remind Me of X
American Gods / int_9718a22a	comment	You Remind Me of X: While insulting Shadow's intelligence, Mr. Nancy says Shadow reminds him of his son, who "slept late on the mornin' they handed out brains". Shadow politely takes it as a compliment that Mr. Nancy likens him to a member of his own family, winning Mr. Nancy's approval.
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American Gods / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
American Gods / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Walking the L.A. streets in filthy weather, Bilquis realizes that her need for worship isn't that different from other prostitutes' addictions to drugs.
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American Gods / int_986bd638	type	This Is a Work of Fiction
American Gods / int_986bd638	comment	This Is a Work of Fiction: "Only the gods are real."
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American Gods / int_98b5f82b	type	Basement-Dweller
American Gods / int_98b5f82b	comment	Basement-Dweller: Technical Boy, the personification of the internet, is a fat, sweaty, smelly, rich kid with no social skills.
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American Gods / int_9a1fe522	type	Attractive Zombie
American Gods / int_9a1fe522	comment	Attractive Zombie: Laura, until she rots severely by the end.
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American Gods / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
American Gods / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Wednesday displays and is referred to by a variety of unusual and specific traits that anyone versed in Norse Mythology will connect to Odin, like the tree pin on his tie. The Christmas conversation: Shadow notices that all of Wednesday's favorite cons require two people and asks if Wednesday had a partner, to which he gives a cryptic response. In one of Shadow's dreams, the people who had been hung in sacrifice to Odin smelled of the alcohol they had drunk beforehand. Mr. Wednesday's corpse smelled of Jack Daniels, hinting that he was a sacrifice to himself - which is actually accurate to Norse Mythology. Wednesday tells Shadow that he reminds him of Thor, who is a son of Odin. Guess who Shadow's father is? Additionally there are many associations of Shadow with thunder and lightning and Wednesday outright calls Shadow "my boy", though the readers and Shadow himself simply take it as a simple term of endearment. Towards the end of the book, Loki makes a comment about sticking a spear of mistletoe into Shadow's eye. In the Norse myths, Loki killed Baldur, another son of Odin, with mistletoe; the follow-up novella reveals that Shadow's birth name is Baldur. Misdirection is a running theme (Shadow's coin tricks, Wednesday's cons, all the talk about crooked games, etc). Of course it turns out that Wednesday (and the book itself) have been misdirecting everyone the whole time. When Shadow has been captured by the Spookshow, the goons tell each other a joke about the CIA. ("How do you know the CIA wasn't involved in the Kennedy assassination? Well, he's dead, isn't he?") Later, Easter is about to tell the same joke, but Wednesday says he's heard it. This is because Wednesday is working with Loki, who runs the Spookshow. The poem Technical Boy can't remember is "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats, which is basically Wednesday's entire plan.
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American Gods / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
American Gods / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Sam, to Audrey: "You. Are such. A cunt."
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American Gods / int_a05dd4ba	type	Inconspicuous Immortal
American Gods / int_a05dd4ba	comment	Inconspicuous Immortal: Most of the old gods have reverted to a much simpler kind of life in America without believers to empower them; while they still retain their immortality and a few powers here and there, they seem fairly content to get by peacefully without bucking the status quo - at least until Mr Wednesday begins inspiring them to war against the New Gods. Among other things, Czernabog is working at a meatpacking plant, Anubis and Thoth run a small-town funeral parlour, and a Djinn can be found working as a taxi driver.
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American Gods / int_a0cdc32e	type	I Am Who?
American Gods / int_a0cdc32e	comment	I Am Who?: Shadow is Wednesday's son.
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American Gods / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
American Gods / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: Wednesday recruits a good number of Old Gods, but many others mistrust him or don't believe things are as dire as he says and refuse to join. Until Wednesday is gunned down at a parley with the New Gods—who broadcast the assassination live. After that, everyone is roaring for blood. Which is just as Wednesday planned it.
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American Gods / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
American Gods / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Though it's buried under her anger at Shadow for uncovering the truth about what happened to Cassie, with leads to Ollie's arrest, Moira is horrified and guilty that she never realized Cassie was murdered, and by her new boyfriend no less. This was after she thought Cassie had left in a huff.
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American Gods / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
American Gods / int_a2dd3c5	comment	My Death Is Just the Beginning: Mr. Wednesday. His death sparks the war that he had been planning for all along, the war that he hopes will restore him to greater power.
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American Gods / int_a54f2b08	type	Modernized God
American Gods / int_a54f2b08	comment	Modernized God: Many old gods have been forced to adapt to the times to keep up a sliver of their old relevance. Mad Sweeney is said to have started out as a local guardian deity, then developed into a pagan king, and now he's survived as a leprechaun. Czernobog managed to substitute his old human sacrifices by getting a job at a slaughterhouse and killing cattle with a sledgehammer, but after getting forcibly retired he's a shadow of his former self. Eostre is possibly the most powerful old god because her name was co-opted for a Christian holiday, so her name is regularly invoked even if they aren't actually worshipping her. Hinzelmann is an ancient Germanic kobold produced by a child sacrifice who's attached himself to a small town in northern Wisconsin that he keeps prosperous except for the kids who go missing once a year. Loki has taken on the guise of Mr. World, head of The Men in Black. Black Helicopters keep showing up after Shadow and Wednesday flee a crime scene. They're actually the Valkyries.
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American Gods / int_a60f7120	type	Physical God
American Gods / int_a60f7120	comment	Physical God: All of them, at least part-time (who knows what was up with Media).
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American Gods / int_a77dc648	type	Our Kobolds Are Different
American Gods / int_a77dc648	comment	An ancient Germanic tribe created their patron god, the kobold Hinzelmann, through a ritual child sacrifice. Whether the child became the god or the newborn god merely absorbed the child's memories is unclear.
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American Gods / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
American Gods / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Shadow, Low Key.
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American Gods / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
American Gods / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Because Shadow is big and doesn't talk much, people assume he's stupid, and he's just fine with letting them.
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American Gods / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
American Gods / int_a8559a9f	comment	Mr. Wednesday robs a bank (or, rather the people who are trying to make deposits at the bank). His con was based on a Real Life con that Frank Abagnale Jr. claimed to have once pulled off.
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American Gods / int_a91f07ee	type	"No Peeking!" Request
American Gods / int_a91f07ee	comment	"No Peeking!" Request: When Shadow pulls the car over so he can pee outside, he tells Sam to turn her back on him for a moment.
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American Gods / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
American Gods / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Shadow notes that while the Lakeside town council of the 1800s voted to send condolences to the parents of a missing white child, they failed to do the same for the black child who went missing the year after.
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American Gods / int_ab686f50	type	You All Meet in a Cell
American Gods / int_ab686f50	comment	You All Meet in a Cell: Well, somewhat. Loki and Shadow meet in prison.
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American Gods / int_ac36578e	type	Or Was It a Dream?
American Gods / int_ac36578e	comment	Or Was It a Dream?: Shadow has a wet dream involving Bast, while staying with Jaquel and Ibis. At least, he's pretty sure it was a dream, but he wakes to see Jacquel and Ibis's (female) cat slip out his door, which puzzles him, as he's sure he closed the door firmly before he went to bed. Also, most of the cuts and and bruises he had are gone or at least much better than they were, except for the deep scratches on his back, which he hadn't had yesterday.
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American Gods / int_ac6ea68c	type	Near-Villain Victory
American Gods / int_ac6ea68c	comment	Near-Villain Victory: The villains manage to begin their war and dedicate the battle to Odin/Mr. Wednesday, but Shadow manages to thwart them soon after by telling all of the assorted old and new gods what the plan actually was and convinces them to just go home. While Mr. Wednesday manages to return as a ghost, Loki appears to die due to the injuries inflicted upon him, and neither of them manage to achieve the obscene amounts of power that they were aiming for with their Kansas City Shuffle as a result.
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American Gods / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
American Gods / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Shadow's coin tricks.
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American Gods / int_ad34c38a	type	Predatory Prostitute
American Gods / int_ad34c38a	comment	Predatory Prostitute: Bilquis, an ancient love goddess working as a prostitute in Los Angeles. While she doesn't have any enmity towards her customers, it doesn't make her way of sustaining herself any more palatable: she feeds on their worship before devouring them with her vagina.
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American Gods / int_ad54954f	type	Punk in the Trunk
American Gods / int_ad54954f	comment	Punk in the Trunk: The bodies of the children that disappear in Lakeside are hidden in the trunk of the klunker, a ruined car put on the ice of the frozen lake each year. When the ice breaks, the dead child becomes a sacrifice to help the town stay prosperous.
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American Gods / int_ad8d4f90	type	Leprechaun
American Gods / int_ad8d4f90	comment	Leprechaun: Mad Sweeney. note Though, it should be noted, Mad Sweeny is nearly seven feet tall, and built like a construction worker. He's still a drunk (Irish stereotypes ahoy) a trickster, and has an obsession with gold coins.
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American Gods / int_b00a7c5e	type	Robe and Wizard Hat
American Gods / int_b00a7c5e	comment	Robe and Wizard Hat: The original: When Backstage, Wednesday tends to show up wearing a long cloak and a wide-brimmed hat (in the original myths, to hide his missing eye).
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American Gods / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
American Gods / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: "Is good" from Czernobog and the three Zorya.
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American Gods / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
American Gods / int_b02f996a	comment	Town with a Dark Secret: Lakeside—the only reason why it has continued to prosper in tough economic times was because Shadow's neighbor turns out to be a kobold that has sacrificed a child every year since the town was founded in a ritual to ensure the town stayed healthy and prosperous. Only the kobold actually knew the secret—all of the other townspeople seemed to have had no idea, many assuming the missing children were simply runaways or, in at least one case, kidnapped by their noncustodial parent from out of town.
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American Gods / int_b0cbdcb1	type	Black Helicopter
American Gods / int_b0cbdcb1	comment	Black Helicopters keep showing up after Shadow and Wednesday flee a crime scene. They're actually the Valkyries.
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American Gods / int_b2c3202b	type	Twins Are Special
American Gods / int_b2c3202b	comment	Twins Are Special: Fraternal twins Wututu and Agasu are split up and sold into slavery because the tribe they're born into believes twins to be magical beings, capable of cursing others. They also exhibit Twin Telepathy and Synchronization: when Agasu's arm is cut off, Wututu's arm withers and when Agasu later dies in the Haitian Revolution, Wututu can sense it. The narration notes how together they were strong, but apart they are just two scared children, though as Wututu grows to become a woudoo priestess, it's not quite Wonder Twin Powers.
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American Gods / int_b3a8053f	type	Never a Runaway
American Gods / int_b3a8053f	comment	Never a Runaway: The town of Lakeside is a quaint little town time seems to have forgotten. Occasionally a teen, bored with the town, runs off to the big city never to be seen again. It's sad but is treated as a fact of life by the townsfolk. Shadow discovers the actual truth though, that the children are being sacrificed by Hinzelmann in a ritual to keep outside influences from changing the town. He uses the town's yearly ritual of putting a clunker out on the frozen lake and waiting to see when the spring thaw causes it to sink, drowning the children and hiding the bodies at the same time. When the ruse is discovered, the lake is dredged and dozens of bodies are discovered in the trunks of every car sent down.
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American Gods / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
American Gods / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: On the night of her death, Laura decided to give Robbie a blowjob while he was driving, causing her to knock the gearshift with her shoulder, which caused the accident. Not helped by the fact she was drunk: both she and Shadow know it was stupid of her to do.
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American Gods / int_b8ab7dc4	type	Treacherous Advisor
American Gods / int_b8ab7dc4	comment	Treacherous Advisor: Wednesday, who has been manipulating everyone behind the scenes into a pointless bloodbath to feed off the sacrificial death.
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American Gods / int_b983a56b	type	Came Back Wrong
American Gods / int_b983a56b	comment	Came Back Wrong: Laura's a revenant. She can speak normally and still has her human memories and intelligence, and she never tries eating anyone, but she is a revenant nevertheless. She had already been embalmed by the time she is raised, so she rots slowly over several weeks.
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American Gods / int_b9fa17b7	type	Pretender Diss
American Gods / int_b9fa17b7	comment	Pretender Diss: Wednesday speaks with particular disgust of a waitress who serves him and Shadow; he quizzes her about her religion, and she claims to be pagan, but when further quizzed about the particular flavor of paganism, she spits out some pseudo-mystical bullshit and acts offended when Wednesday brings up some of the more hedonistic aspects. Wednesday says she "doesn't have the faith and won't have the fun," with the implication that he could at least respect her if she enjoyed herself. He goes on to name her sins, which, from the petty to the actively criminal, show a similar propensity for half-measures and lack of commitment, with further implication that for this she is worse than the actively evil. The line about "does not have the faith and will not have the fun" is taken from a poem by G. K. Chesterton, about how dreary modern unbelievers are compared to ancient pagans. Wednesday has another reason to criticize her as well; since her version of Paganism doesn't have any specific gods, from his perspective she's an Atheist trying to appropriate the trappings of 'real' religion.
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American Gods / int_bba30aeb	type	Late to the Tragedy
American Gods / int_bba30aeb	comment	Late to the Tragedy: Shadow arrives at Rock City only after the war between the gods had already begun. Thankfully, he manages to end it just in time to keep Loki and Wednesday from achieving the power levels they craved.
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American Gods / int_bc37d80d	type	So Proud of You
American Gods / int_bc37d80d	comment	So Proud of You: Wednesday to Shadow after he stands his vigil on the tree.
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American Gods / int_bd5e8cd9	type	Urban Fantasy
American Gods / int_bd5e8cd9	comment	Urban Fantasy: The world is pretty much exactly like we know it, except that gods are real and live alongside us.
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American Gods / int_be61d559	type	Nerd in Evil's Helmet
American Gods / int_be61d559	comment	Nerd in Evil's Helmet: The Technical Boy acts tough, but other characters see it as rehearsed and kind of pitiful. The book narration describes him as somebody trying too hard and performing actions that should be threatening, but fall short because of his execution.
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American Gods / int_bf39b16c	type	Standing Between the Enemies
American Gods / int_bf39b16c	comment	Standing Between the Enemies: Shadow manages to stop the battle between the Old and New Gods by telling them both how they were manipulated into fighting by Mr. Wednesday and Loki so that they could gain power from the deaths of the other gods.
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American Gods / int_c19bdbe1	type	Good Cop/Bad Cop
American Gods / int_c19bdbe1	comment	Good Cop/Bad Cop: The Spookshow do this automatically, whether or not it makes any sense.
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American Gods / int_c289826f	type	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male
American Gods / int_c289826f	comment	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male / Double Standard: Rape, Divine on Mortal: It's very strongly implied that the goddess Bast had sex with Shadow while he was asleep (and clawed him up a bunch in the process, because she's part cat). The fact that performing sex acts on a sleeping person is illegal is never brought up, Bast is not treated as a villain, and even when he works out what happened Shadow doesn't seem to particularly mind having been molested by a cat while unconscious. The whole thing is treated as far less of a problem than Wednesday's male-on-female equivalent crimes. It isn't completely cut and dried however; they simultaneously had fully consensual sex in his dreamscape, which is a very real mystical dimension the gods can access and that he is fully conscious inside of (he was not aware of this at the time). Shadow himself notes the scratches as little more than proof that their one night stand really happened. (It's also possible that the physical Bast was just sleeping on the bed next to him, especially as at no other point is it indicated she can assume human form in the "real" world, and the scratches are magically psychosomatic, but it's ambiguous.)
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American Gods / int_c2d5b652	type	Playing Both Sides
American Gods / int_c2d5b652	comment	Playing Both Sides: Wednesday and Loki are manipulating both the Old and New Gods so they can draw power from the resulting battle.
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American Gods / int_c2e295cd	type	Curse
American Gods / int_c2e295cd	comment	Curse: Though it isn't explicit, when Czernobog tears into Mr Town at the Hotel at the Center of America he's probably cursing literally in addition to figuratively. Not dying in battle and being killed by no man alive at first seem a product of his warped perspective. But look how it turns out for Mr Town... Similarly, Bilquis, who is noted by narration to be half-demon on her father's side, mind, curses the Technical Boy as she lays dying after he hit her with his limo. It's ambiguous whether the curse stuck or he's just really traumatized or both.
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American Gods / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
American Gods / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: After a prim lecture (to Odin) about being a pagan, the coffeeshop waitress exclaims "Jesus..." when Shadow hands her a bill she dropped.
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American Gods / int_c3bdfbb9	type	Let's You and Him Fight
American Gods / int_c3bdfbb9	comment	Let's You and Him Fight: Wednesday and Loki pitting the new American gods against the immigrant gods so they themselves can gain power. Shadow even refers to the trope by name.
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American Gods / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
American Gods / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: Salim has an utterly miserable life, and the Ifrit's favor to him is to give him his identity as a taxi driver to start over fresh. Later in the book, it's mentioned he was assassinated by the New Gods, who assumed he was the Ifrit.
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American Gods / int_c66cb5a9	type	Human Sacrifice
American Gods / int_c66cb5a9	comment	Human Sacrifice: Old and new, there's always a god or two that's a fan. Czernobog in particular charges up during the trip by visiting a field where people were brained to death with rocks in his name, and the car gods are mentioned as receiving it "on a scale unheard of since the Aztecs."
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American Gods / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
American Gods / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In one of Shadow's dreams, a brief mention is given to an "octopus-faced" god. When Shadow needs to fall asleep, he reads the most boring thing he can find: a pile of old Reader's Digests. He reads an article called "I Am John's Pancreas." Two of the towns Shadow passes through on the way to Cairo are Normal, Ohionote the eponymous setting of a short-lived sitcom starring John Goodman and Lawndalenote this last may or may not count, though. There really is a place called Lawndale in Ohio, but it's just a suburb of Akron. Also, Word of God says the one in Daria is supposed to be in Maryland, but this was in an interview that came out after the book was written. Neil Gaiman revealed Shadow's name was inspired by the Was (Not Was) song "Shadow and Jimmy". The Spookshow is named after the military intelligence project that created all the superheroes in Miracleman. During the build-up to the meeting in Georgia, the girl that Baron Samedi is possessing is said to be a goth girl with a black silk top hat. Hm, sound familiar? From the scraps of description we get of Mr Town (the second-highest ranking member of the Spookshow and a walking incarnation of conspiracy theory lore), he sounds an awful lot like the Cigarette-Smoking Man. When the word kobold is mentioned, Shadow wonders what a kobold is. Many people will be familiar with the term through its use in Dungeons & Dragons, an RPG originally created by TSR who were based in Lake Geneva in Wisconsin. Hinzelmann is a kobold who lives near a lake in Wisconsin. The name "Technical Boy" alludes to the first paragraph in William Gibson's cyberpunk classic short story Johnny Mnemonic. note "If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I decided to get as crude as possible. These days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can even aspire to crudeness." The short story also had a film adaptation starring Keanu Reeves, suggesting that the Matrix-emulating Technical Boy may resemble that actor. Sitting by his mother's bed in the hospital, Shadow is reading Gravity's Rainbow. After crossing the Despair Event Horizon, Mad Sweeney states that in America "opiates are the religion of the masses", an inversion of the famous quote by Karl Marx.
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American Gods / int_c83a589c	type	Luke, I Am Your Father
American Gods / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father: Shadow discovers he is Wednesday's son.
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American Gods / int_c8e4a187	type	Mister Strangenoun
American Gods / int_c8e4a187	comment	Mister Strangenoun: The names of the Spookshow agents tend to be like this: Mr. Wood, Mr. Stone, Mr. Town, Mr. Road. Sam mocks this when the latter pair turn up at her door.
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American Gods / int_c932bc80	type	Proportional Article Importance
American Gods / int_c932bc80	comment	Proportional Article Importance: Shadow attempts to show Wednesday how much time they've spent "backstage" by showing him a newspaper. Wednesday only sarcastically comments on the first headline he sees.
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American Gods / int_c978d895	type	Canon Name
American Gods / int_c978d895	comment	Canon Name: Shadow is very clearly stated to be a nickname, and although the book drops hints, it never reveals the character's real name. It is eventually revealed to be Baldur in the follow-up novella The Monarch of the Glen, which is itself hinted at when Loki says he'll kill Shadow by stabbing him with sharpened mistletoe.
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American Gods / int_c98b7916	type	Messianic Archetype
American Gods / int_c98b7916	comment	Messianic Archetype: Shadow. He is The Chosen One, even if for all the wrong reasons. Then there is the crucifixion-analogue scene, complete with resurrection. Then it is revealed that he is actually the son of Odin, and his real name is Baldur Moon.
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American Gods / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
American Gods / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: Shadow is known only by his various nicknames (Laura calls him 'puppy' most of the time) at least until the quasi-sequel "The Monarch of the Glen", where we learn his birth name is Baldur.
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American Gods / int_cabd513c	type	Jedi Mind Trick
American Gods / int_cabd513c	comment	Jedi Mind Trick: Wednesday claims to know a couple charms that work like this, though he mostly uses them to get laid. While helping with one of Wednesday's cons, Shadow actually wills a police officer into believing his story. And in the epilogue Shadow not only talks down a suicidal man, but alters his memories as well.
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American Gods / int_cb44cd57	type	Ominous Television
American Gods / int_cb44cd57	comment	Ominous Television: Shadow grows to distrust televisions after his first encounter with Media, having become Properly Paranoid that he is being watched by them.
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American Gods / int_cbf05a02	type	Vagina Dentata
American Gods / int_cbf05a02	comment	Vagina Dentata: Wututu claims to have them to deter a rapist on board the slave ship. Bilquis the Fertility-goddess, who swallows people via her vagina.
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American Gods / int_cd365139	type	Unholy Ground
American Gods / int_cd365139	comment	Unholy Ground: Holy ground to the (nominally) god of evil, Czernobog, consecrated with blood sacrifices to him by his followers. The influence and power of those sacrifices is still strong enough centuries later it allows him to turn his greyed mustache and some of his hair back to black.
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American Gods / int_cff9745d	type	Regularly Scheduled Evil
American Gods / int_cff9745d	comment	Regularly Scheduled Evil: In Lakeside, Shadow discovers that the disappearance of teenagers over the course of several years are actually sacrifices to Hinzelmann, one of the old gods. Not even the people in the town know about the dark secret.
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American Gods / int_d075a135	type	Now What?
American Gods / int_d075a135	comment	Now What?: After stopping the war between the gods and exposing Hinzelmann as a murderer, Shadow doesn't know what to do with himself. He decides to travel, starting with a trip to Iceland.
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American Gods / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
American Gods / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: The greater your knowledge of Norse Mythology prior to reading the book, the sooner you'll get it. The Lakeside killings. It's a two-man con.
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American Gods / int_d2a11313	type	Death of the Old Gods
American Gods / int_d2a11313	comment	Death of the Old Gods: All of the ancient deities who were forgotten completely by mankind.
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American Gods / int_d2c0e2ed	type	Schmuck Bait
American Gods / int_d2c0e2ed	comment	Schmuck Bait: Loki does this to Technical Boy, mostly to amuse himself. Paraphrased: "I could tell you, but I'd have to kill you." "Ha, okay, I get the point." "Hey, do you really want to know?"
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American Gods / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
American Gods / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Shadow tries to call Odin (the original) out for Wednesday's actions. Odin demurs, claiming that while Wednesday was him, that doesn't mean that he was Wednesday.
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American Gods / int_d435222d	type	Deity of Mortal Creation
American Gods / int_d435222d	comment	Deity of Mortal Creation: The series uses this as a central plot point. The American forms of the old gods are fading away from lack of belief and are planning a war with the new gods of television, the internet, and other things of the modern age. An ancient Germanic tribe created their patron god, the kobold Hinzelmann, through a ritual child sacrifice. Whether the child became the god or the newborn god merely absorbed the child's memories is unclear.
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American Gods / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
American Gods / int_d57f4a99	comment	The Nothing After Death: People who pass judgment are permitted to choose their destination. Some, including Shadow, choose this. More accurately, Shadow chooses Cessation of Existence, but gets this for a brief time before being brought Back from the Dead.
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American Gods / int_d5d976dd	type	I Have Many Names
American Gods / int_d5d976dd	comment	I Have Many Names: Mr. Wednesday explicitly says this; given the subject matter, it also applies to most of the major characters.
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American Gods / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
American Gods / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: An Ifrit working as a cab driver swaps his cover identity with a down-on-his-luck Arab salesman for tickets home. He (unknowingly) gets out at the last minute too, as the new cab driver is assassinated in his place shortly after.
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American Gods / int_d9d6ae49	type	I Am Not Him
American Gods / int_d9d6ae49	comment	I Am Not Him: The gods in America were incarnated there when various immigrants and diaspora wound up on its shores, and they have all the memories and experiences of those gods, but they are also separate beings from the original forms who still live in the old countries (usually, much better off). When Shadow meets Odin in Iceland and wants him to account for Wednesday's actions, Odin replies that Wednesday was Odin, but Odin is not Wednesday.
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American Gods / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
American Gods / int_db71d717	comment	Thanatos Gambit: Wednesday arranges his own assassination in order to convince a lot of reluctant Old Gods to join the war.
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American Gods / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
American Gods / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Sam, a random hitchhiker, and Audrey, one of the few people who knows Shadow's real identity, somehow both have connections to the sleepy little town Shadow moves to, and somehow both come to town on the same night? It was all the will of Hinzelmann. A true example: Shadow keeps hold of a coin he got from Sweeney, and tosses it into Laura's grave for no discernible reason. It turns out that's the key to her partial resurrection, but Shadow had absolutely no way of knowing that. And without Laura, of course, Mr. Town could have acquired the tree branch unhampered.
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American Gods / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
American Gods / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	"Jesus, Low-Key Lyesmith...Oh, Jesus. Loki. Loki Lie-Smith."
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American Gods / int_dd608032	type	Hell Hotel
American Gods / int_dd608032	comment	Hell Hotel: The hotel at the center of the United States. Literally, for the Technical Boy, as it sits in a deadzone. In the night, Shadow hears him throwing himself against the walls as the unaccustomed isolation causes him to have a breakdown.
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American Gods / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
American Gods / int_dda99fa8	comment	After crossing the Despair Event Horizon, Mad Sweeney states that in America "opiates are the religion of the masses", an inversion of the famous quote by Karl Marx.
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American Gods / int_dfe687c9	type	Alone with the Psycho
American Gods / int_dfe687c9	comment	Alone with the Psycho: The ending, when Shadow figures out that Hinzelmann is a serial killer.
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American Gods / int_e0c83877	type	Fertility God
American Gods / int_e0c83877	comment	Bilquis the Fertility-goddess, who swallows people via her vagina.
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American Gods / int_e1ecdac3	type	Our Gods Are Different
American Gods / int_e1ecdac3	comment	Our Gods Are Different: They are born and granted power out of the belief and worship rituals they are surrounded with. Mention is made of societies which deliberately made their own gods. Nunyunnini (a mammoth skull who "speaks" when the priestess wears it after taking hallucinogens) is implied to be one of these, and Hinzelmann is explicitly one. The Old Gods in America are also separate incarnations dragged there by the belief of the immigrants and diaspora who landed on those shores.
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American Gods / int_e1ff8ff6	type	Fantasy Kitchen Sink
American Gods / int_e1ff8ff6	comment	Fantasy Kitchen Sink: Pretty much every god exists, several other mythical creatures that are treated like god's for intents and purposes and folk heroes like Paul Bunyan and Johnny Appleseed.
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American Gods / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
American Gods / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: At the World's Largest Carousel, Mr. Nancy displays amusement at the prospect of riding a lion statue. This is later visited briefly upon in Anansi Boys, where Lion is one of many gods that Anansi has antagonized in the past.
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American Gods / int_e58e0124	type	PokÃ©mon Speak
American Gods / int_e58e0124	comment	PokÃ©mon Speak: Ratatosk, the squirrel that lives on the World Tree.
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American Gods / int_e743ffa9	type	Good Old Ways
American Gods / int_e743ffa9	comment	Good Old Ways: Subverted. The New Gods represent different facets of America's modern, technologically advanced culture, and for most of the novel Shadow sympathizes more with the primitive — and seemingly more benevolent — Old Gods. But, over the course of the story, the point is hammered in over and over that quite a few of the old gods were violent, bloodthirsty monsters in their day, and many of the new gods are just terrified of becoming as obsolete as the current crop of old ones. At the end of the day, Shadow eventually realizes, old or new, gods are just like the people that spawn them, and that, just as for better or worse people aren't going to change, so too the gods are going to be the same mixture of okay people and assholes.
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American Gods / int_e794cb54	type	Powered by a Forsaken Child
American Gods / int_e794cb54	comment	Powered by a Forsaken Child: The real reason why Lakeside is prospering compared to the economically depressed surrounding towns is because Hinzelmann is an old god who keeps the town thriving through murdered children without the townspeople's knowledge. This is also Hinzelmann's own backstory as a kobold.
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American Gods / int_e7b0229a	type	Laser-Guided Amnesia
American Gods / int_e7b0229a	comment	There's a recurring god (apparently a god of wealth) about whom Shadow can never remember anything beyond a vague impression. Shadow is told his name more than once, but he always forgets it immediately and the reader never gets to hear it. In the end, despite various hints, his identity never does actually get made clear (including, thus far, by Word of God). Naturally, there are popular guesses including Pluto, Budha Mercury, the Horned God and Satan.
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American Gods / int_e7dfebe8	type	I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!
American Gods / int_e7dfebe8	comment	I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!: Attempted by Media to convince Shadow to switch sides. It's an offer Shadow finds easy to ignore, since the boobs in question belong to Lucille Ball (actually, Lucy Ricardo).
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American Gods / int_e8967758	type	No Such Thing as Wizard Jesus
American Gods / int_e8967758	comment	No Such Thing as Wizard Jesus: Played With, Jesus is apparently subject to the same rules as all the other Anthropomorphic Personifications, but he has enough believers that he doesn't need to get involved in the events of the plot, although Gaiman toyed with the idea of introducing him as a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of Steven Spielberg living in a gigantic mansion in Hollywood. But since each country has its own instance of every god ever worshiped there, this isn't always the case. There is one anecdote of another character encountering Jesus as a poor hitch-hiker in Afghanistan, where he has virtually no worshipers and is thus left in roughly the same boat as most of the more obscure American gods.
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American Gods / int_e9ae8248	type	Prisons Are Gymnasiums
American Gods / int_e9ae8248	comment	Prisons Are Gymnasiums: Shadow was pretty buff before going to prison, and came out even fitter. His Best Friend owned an actual gymnasium and planned to hire Shadow to work there when he got out, figuring it would be good for the gym's image.
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American Gods / int_ea8168f	type	Crossover Cosmology
American Gods / int_ea8168f	comment	Crossover Cosmology: Most Gods and Goddesses are there, with figures hailing from most continents and the majority of known religions. Jesus is mentioned, but is not a character encountered in the story. In the Author's Preferred Text, there's a scene cut from wide release (prior to the 10th Anniversary Edition) that has Shadow talking with a man in a villa mentioned to have something like Moorish or Moroccan influences; he wears a baseball cap, a suit, jokes about turning water into wine, and is indubitably American Jesus.
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American Gods / int_eb934d55	type	The Almighty Dollar
American Gods / int_eb934d55	comment	The Almighty Dollar: One of the "modern deities" could be considered a wealth deity. "Consumer Culture" was a god whose worshipers loved money.
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American Gods / int_eb9bc4b6	type	Violin Scam
American Gods / int_eb9bc4b6	comment	Violin Scam: Commented upon by Wednesday. It's his fond description of this and other two-person cons that foreshadows Loki and Odin's partnership.
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American Gods / int_ede087d0	comment	Informed Conversation: Played for drama. When Shadow asks for the name of a certain god on their side, the narration simply says, "Wednesday told him." Shadow finds himself unable to remember the name, so he asks again and gets the same result. Later, as the gods are having a serious discussion, the narrative simply tells us that they made their point eloquently and well and other characters continue as if it was dialogue.
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American Gods / int_f2877d9e	comment	And then, of course, there's Loki's alias.
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American Gods / int_f2dadf81	comment	Evil Twin: Mocked by Czernobog.
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American Gods / int_f3106ce	comment	Eyeball-Plucking Birds: A group of vikings landing in America sacrifice a native to Odin, determining that the sacrifice is accepted when a pair of ravens pluck out the corpse's eyes.
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American Gods / int_f4a3140c	type	Survival Mantra
American Gods / int_f4a3140c	comment	Survival Mantra: "It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die."
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American Gods / int_f6a464c2	type	The Modern Gods
American Gods / int_f6a464c2	comment	The Modern Gods: While the Old Gods were gods of old religions brought to America through their worshippers, they had long since been kicked off of the proverbial seat of power by the New Gods, gods who came into being to fill the "faith gap" with an increasingly secularized world. Such gods include Technical Boy (God of the Internet), Media (Goddess of Pop Culture), the Spookshow (The Men in Black who embody conspiracy theories and act as enforcers of the New Gods), and various unnamed gods associated with railways, the film industry, currency, weaponry, ufology, medical science and so on. The crux of the book is Mr. Wednesday — originally known as Odin Allfather from Norse Mythology — urging his fellow Old Gods to wage a war on the New Gods to establish control over America's collective faith.
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American Gods / int_f76b8969	comment	Anthropomorphic Personification: Lots of 'em. For example, all the new gods, and the buffalo man (who seems to be the Anthropomorphic Personification of America itself).
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American Gods / int_f786350a	type	Dying Curse
American Gods / int_f786350a	comment	Dying Curse: Bilquis lays one on Technical Boy when he kills her. We never get the specifics, but it's apparently pretty awful. In the Hotel at the Center of America, he can be seen suffering from it, although this could just be withdrawal due to it being a dead zone with no wifi or cell signal.
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American Gods / int_f88600be	type	Higher Understanding Through Drugs
American Gods / int_f88600be	comment	Higher Understanding Through Drugs: Atsula, the priestess of Nunyunnini, picks up some magical mushrooms, then eats them and, after a pretty abstract sort of a high, pees in a cup. After freezing part of the water out, she and the tribe elders drink the concentrated urine to talk with their god.
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American Gods / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
American Gods / int_f9f2c33	comment	Shadow is normally gentle and friendly, but he is a very big man. It is not a good idea to piss him off. The aftermath of his rage is one of the reasons he was sent to prison. In "Monarch of the Glen" he nearly beats Grendel to a pulp under Mr. Alice's orders and exposes Oliver as a murderer in "Black Dog".
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American Gods / int_fab98c53	comment	American Title: American Gods. Of the sort that only describes a nationality.
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American Gods / int_fb0fa76d	type	Runic Magic
American Gods / int_fb0fa76d	comment	Runic Magic: In one chapter, Wednesday draws some runes in salt on a restaurant table in order to seduce a waitress who proved resistant to his normal charms. Later, he shunts himself, Shadow, and the Winnebago they're driving into an alternate plane to avoid a roadblock by sketching runes in chalk on the dashboard.
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American Gods / int_fb23483d	type	Undeath Always Ends
American Gods / int_fb23483d	comment	Undeath Always Ends: Laura is brought back from the dead by a magic coin, but she's still gradually decaying and it's a minor plot point that she will continue to fall apart until restored to either full life or full death. In the end, she accepts the latter.
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American Gods / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
American Gods / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Shadow is normally gentle and friendly, but he is a very big man. It is not a good idea to piss him off. The aftermath of his rage is one of the reasons he was sent to prison. In "Monarch of the Glen" he nearly beats Grendel to a pulp under Mr. Alice's orders and exposes Oliver as a murderer in "Black Dog". To a much more sinister extent, Hinzelmann. He seems like nothing more than a kindly, friendly old man, but he's been murdering children for a very long time.
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American Gods / int_fceae121	type	Alternate Self
American Gods / int_fceae121	comment	Alternate Self: Each country is mentioned to have their own personification of a particular god and the books shows how many of them have changed from their original depictions. This is emphasized when Shadow meets another Odin in Iceland who's closer to the myths compared to Mr. Wednesday.
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American Gods / int_fd76df83	type	Artistic License â€“ Economics
American Gods / int_fd76df83	comment	Artistic License â€“ Economics: The narration is dismissive of the term "Information Age" and insists that all of history could be accurately described as an Information Age since information has always been one of the most important resources. But most of what that term actually refers to is a rise in the availability of information, not its value (and where the rising value of the latter is merely symptomatic of the rise of the former).
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American Gods / int_ffa6e995	type	Out of Job, into the Plot
American Gods / int_ffa6e995	comment	Out of Job, into the Plot: Shadow is released from prison and is travelling to his home to a job waiting for him. Unfortunately, his job is gone as the guy who was giving it to him is dead, leaving him free to work as Mr. Wednesday's bag man.
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