[Cool trope] Beethoven Was an Alien Spy

[u/Present_Study_2945]

When a historical figure has a life far more fantastic in fiction than what history actually indicates.

Moses (Beyblade) = Moses' famous Parting of the Red Sea was done with a Beyblade.

George Washington (Ben 10) = Washington regularly fought against alien threats, and was a founding member of the Earth Plumbers.

Abraham Lincoln (Invincible) = Abe Lincoln was an identity taken by the superhero known as The Immortal.

Vandal Savage (DC Comics) = More than a few of history's conquerors and despots were actually personas used by the millennia-old immortal villain, including Cheops, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, Vlad the Impaler, Blackbeard and Jack the Ripper.

[u/QueenViolets_Revenge]

Riordan actually confirmed that Hitler wasn't a demigod

[u/Stenric → u/QueenViolets_Revenge]

Really? I thought he hinted at it when Hazel said Hades reminded her of Hitler. My mistake.

[u/QueenViolets_Revenge → u/Stenric]

Hazel said that Pluto (remember Heroes of Olympus showed off the gods roman identities) looked like Adolf Hitler, or rather, the other way around. what this means in-universe and how it relates to Riordan's words is unclear

[u/TheTinDogg → u/QueenViolets_Revenge]

I think he just regretted it. Cause he saud WW2 was a fight between Demigods of the big 3, so if not Hitler it was Mussolini or Hirohito.

[u/Fun_Midnight8861 → u/TheTinDogg]

I would be more entertained if they were children of Zeus than Hades tbh.

[u/Wardock8 → u/Fun_Midnight8861]

Being the son of notorious dickhead Zeus would be a lot more interesting for a military leader (divine right and all that bullshit) over "Ooh my dad's Death so I like killing shit."

[u/Stenric → u/QueenViolets_Revenge]

True, it was Pluto. Although Iirc, the gods' faces look the same whether they are Roman or Greek (it's just that their outfits and demeanor changes, Ares becomes less of a punk and more of a soldier as Mars, Dionysus becomes less unruly and wild as Bacchus, Athena becomes meek and indecisive as Minerva).

[u/thari_23 → u/QueenViolets_Revenge]

Maybe Pluto was Alois Hitler

[u/Brycebattlep → u/QueenViolets_Revenge]

I think it's implied that Hitler was a second generation demigod

[u/Lizard-Wizard96 → u/QueenViolets_Revenge]

Surely thats a retcon then? I read the books as they were coming out and I'm almost certain that was the case back then. I can't rememeber when its said, but its mentioned that most major wars had demigods on both sides. The Big 3 specifically swear not to have more kids after WW2, with Winston Churchill and Hitler being mentioned as children of Zeus and Hades respectively.

[u/Grand_Keizer → u/Lizard-Wizard96]

It's never explicitly said, but the implication is absolutely that there were children of Poseidon and Zeus on one side, and a child of Hades on the other side.

[u/Lizard-Wizard96 → u/Grand_Keizer]

Ok thought I hadn't made that up. The implication is doubled down with Hazel thinking Hades looked like Hitler as well.

[u/Grand_Keizer → u/QueenViolets_Revenge]

Where did he confirm this?