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Say Cheese, Medusa!

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Say Cheese, Medusa!	comment	Say Cheese, Medusa! is Book III in Kate McMullan's Myth-O-Mania series, published in 2002. Hades recounts the origin story of Medusa, and the true story of her confrontation with Perseus.
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Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_1c3d047e	comment	The Rival: Athena to Poseidon. Their rivalry dates back to when the founders of what is now Athens offered to name their citynote which originally went by, "Guytown", according to Keep a Lid on It, Pandora! after the god who gave them the best gift, and Athena won the contest after the judges deemed her olive tree more useful than Po's salt-water spring.
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Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: Perseus looks similar to Zeus, and shared his pompous and untruthful traits for a few years.
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Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_453871ec	type	What Could Have Been
Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_453871ec	comment	What Could Have Been: In universe example; Hades claims that Athens would've gone by, "Poseidonville", if the people better appreciated Po's gift.
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Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_457655dd	type	Human Popsicle
Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_457655dd	comment	Human Popsicle: When Hades tries to talk Athena out of punishing Medusa, for partying in one of Athena's temples, Athena freezes Hades instead. He melts the ice after Athena starts subjecting Medusa and her sisters to a monstrous transformation, but right before the victims reach the stage where they develop spiked tails.
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Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Perseus might act as boastful and deceitful as Zeus, but he only desires Medusa's head because giving it to King Polydectes would halt the wicked monarch's attempts to force Danaë to marry him. Hades and Riley help save both Danaë and Medusa by giving Perseus a sculpture of the latter's head, to give Polydectes in lieu of the real one.
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Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_4977d7b8	comment	Body Double: The Furies disguise as Gorgons to sidetrack Perseus from his search to behead Medusa.
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Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_67fe4b8e	type	Ship Sinking
Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_67fe4b8e	comment	Ship Sinking: In addition to their dance in Phone Home, Persephone!, Poseidon and Medusa have further Ship Tease, from Po inviting Medusa and her sisters for a party at "his" (actually Athena's) temple, to Po helping Medusa and her sisters hide from a vengeful Athena. However, Medusa seems to only like Po as a friend, at best.
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Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: The entire phrase is said by Persephone in the epilogue, after she learns that Perseus' grandfather failed to escape his prophesised death at Perseus' hands.
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Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_7ae00dcc	type	Driven by Envy
Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_7ae00dcc	comment	Driven by Envy: Medusa eventually figures out that Athena cursed her and her sisters with snake hair out of jealousy with how much finer their real hair looked than Athena's constant case of helmet hair. She convinces Athena to reverse the curses by offering a remedy for helmet hair in exchange.
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Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_7cbe4363	type	Brown Bag Mask
Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_7cbe4363	comment	Brown Bag Mask: Medusa wears variations (including a seaweed mask and a blue silk bag) whenever Hades visits her, so she doesn't accidentally turn him to stone.
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Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_86dec3b7	type	Bit-by-Bit Transformation
Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_86dec3b7	comment	Bit-by-Bit Transformation: Athena's chant for changing Medusa, Eno, and Riley from beautiful moon goddesses to snake-haired, reptilian Gorgons encompasses several stanzas, giving her victims and the witnesses ample time to let the Transformation Horror sink in.
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Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_974a9fe0	type	On the Next
Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_974a9fe0	comment	On the Next: In the epilogue, Hades and Persephone begin recounting the romance between a gawky Cupid and the beautiful Psyche. Unlike Hyperion and the Furies in the previous books' epilogues, P-Phone debunks Zeus' version — which refers to Cupid as a "handsome god" — before Hades does.
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Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_9e1b9a0e	type	Camera Fiend
Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_9e1b9a0e	comment	Camera Fiend: Eno loves taking photographs, resulting in her delivering the Title Drops.
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Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Each chapter title has a pun regarding cheese, with one exception.
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Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_ba46585b	type	Adaptational Backstory Change
Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_ba46585b	comment	Adaptational Backstory Change: Pegasus' traditional origin story states that after Perseus beheaded Medusa, the winged horse sprung out of her neck. Since Medusa never gets beheaded in this book, Pegasus instead appears as her steed, and she offers to tell Hades how she got him.
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Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_bf9163d9	type	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_bf9163d9	comment	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The Gorgons, with Eno as the blonde, Medusa as the brunette, and Riley as the redhead.
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Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_d08049db	type	Taken for Granite
Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_d08049db	comment	Taken for Granite: Athena curses Medusa to turn everyone who sees her face into stone.
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Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_db9dd05	type	Magic Misfire
Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_db9dd05	comment	Magic Misfire: When Medusa accidentally turns Perseus into stone, Athena ends up taking three tries to change him back. Her first two tries turn Perseus into butter and cheese, instead.
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Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Hades meets baby Perseus and his mother, Princess Danaë of Argos, after discovering that one of the Underworld's jewel mines leads to a brass cube, in which Danaë's father imprisoned her.note A sibyl warned the king that Danaë's son would kill him, so he attempted to ban her from falling in love with any male mortals; she gave birth to Perseus after Zeus broke into the cube as a golden shower, impregnating her. Hades and Persephone both befriend Danaë, who afterwards appoints the couple as Perseus' god-parents.
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Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_e6469d8a	type	Verbal Tic Name
Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_e6469d8a	comment	Verbal Tic Name: Athena names her pet owl, "Hoo", after the sound it makes.
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Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_f06b07ff	type	Locked Out of the Loop
Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_f06b07ff	comment	Locked Out of the Loop: After Hades figures out that Zeus is Perseus' father, Danaë decides not to tell Perseus, whose ego would grow even larger after learning he has such a powerful dad. Consequently, Perseus doesn't discover his father's identity until the second-to-last chapter, when Zeus tells him in person.
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Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_f591365a	type	Surfer Dude
Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_f591365a	comment	Surfer Dude: Riley's favorite model, Troy of Hyperborianote the land that the epilogue claims eventually became California, behaves like one while giving Hades directions to the Gorgons' beach house.
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Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_fb17af62	type	Rhymes on a Dime
Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_fb17af62	comment	Rhymes on a Dime: Calliope, the muse of poetry, taught Athena how to cast rhyming, extra-powerful curses.
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