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Say Cheese, Medusa!
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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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The Rival | |
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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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Generation Xerox: Perseus looks similar to Zeus, and shared his pompous and untruthful traits for a few years. | |
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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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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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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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Body Double: The Furies disguise as Gorgons to sidetrack Perseus from his search to behead Medusa. | |
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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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You Can't Fight Fate | |
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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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Driven by Envy | |
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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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Brown Bag Mask | |
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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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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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On the Next | |
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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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Camera Fiend: Eno loves taking photographs, resulting in her delivering the Title Drops. | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Each chapter title has a pun regarding cheese, with one exception. | |
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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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Blonde, Brunette, Redhead | |
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Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The Gorgons, with Eno as the blonde, Medusa as the brunette, and Riley as the redhead. | |
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Taken for Granite | |
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Taken for Granite: Athena curses Medusa to turn everyone who sees her face into stone. | |
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Magic Misfire | |
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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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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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Verbal Tic Name: Athena names her pet owl, "Hoo", after the sound it makes. | |
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Locked Out of the Loop | |
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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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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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Rhymes on a Dime: Calliope, the muse of poetry, taught Athena how to cast rhyming, extra-powerful curses. | |
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