Can Poseidon (Mythology) Kill All Modern Military?
Can Poseidon (Mythology) Kill All Modern Military?
He can wreck the navies in fairly short order or at the very least make them completely unable to navigate. Land based military might be a bit trickier, but ultimately he can probably obliterate all coastal cities and ruin ocean travel (and take out the big trans-ocean internet cable thing), which, if it doesn't destroy modern civilisation, fucks it hard enough that we don't have the resources to support our militaries and they slowly atrophy. Don't know that we have any real way of attacking Poseidon.
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Yeah, I'm working off my memory of a very basic few of his feats here, so I'm sure there's more he can do. I mean, to be fair, it's probably within his capacity to drown the whole world if he feels like it.
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Earthquakes are his bread and butter: Homer called him "shaker of earth" or some such. He can do a lot of damage here, and there is no hitting back at him, really.
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Are we even allowed to debate mythological Poseidon and not some Hollywood version of him?
Edit: Pretty sure a Samson thread was just closed for invoking a "real" deity.
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I don't know about the Theoi specifically, but I do know on other forums people have pointed out that a lot of "mythological" pantheons still have a nonzero number of worshippers, which is why I usually take care to mention that the version I know is Scion or something.
But we saw how well trying to nail down Poseidon for a straight fight worked for Caligula.
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Diomedes hurt Olympians in the Iliad. Does that imply they can take physical damage from humans? If so, and a spear can be stuck in them - if you can find Poseidon, a nuke might spoil his afternoon.
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Diomedes did that with direct help from the gods. Like Angels In the Outfield levels of help.
Hell, speaking of the Iliad, Diomedes needed special vision to distinguish gods from men, so Poseidon could be off just being a guy somewhere.I mean he's probably going to stick to the bottom of the ocean sending out sea monsters and earthquakes and stuff. I remember he didn't need to be nearby to screw with Odysseus.
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I am a mighty wizard from magic lands
"But... But I want to be a big karate cyborg... ;_;" - Nik Hasta
"Get off my lawn! ...on this forum, that just makes people think of Cyclops." - Sharpandpointies
"...makes me think the Night King just says "Screw the rules, I have magic money" when it comes to physics." -Captain Morgan