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CoolDudeAl wrote: DZAV21 wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: DZAV21 wrote: DarKingdomHearts wrote: I would like to see Arachne being the spider that Little Miss Muffet encountered. Boy Athena was merciless, I'd sooner PO Hera before Athena.... Granted Arachne deserved it, Madusa didn't deserve what she got, but I guess since she couldn't punish Poseidon..... Hera was the ultimate jealous wife though, and I get Zeus was being unfaithful, but she literally tried to tourture or kill everyone Zeus slept with, and she sometimes went for the kids as well. Athena was no worse than any of the other godesses, and if you think about it, she let Arachne and Medusa both live, so in the grand scheme of things she was actually rather kind. Even compare that to Artemis, who turned the hunter who saw her bathing into a deer, and let his own hunting dogs kill him.

Hera killed all her victims, Athena forced hers to live as hideous feared beast, how is Athena kinder then Hera. I'm not going to say Hera is kind because she's far from it but at least she killed her victims. Now as far as Artemis goes, not one of my favorites but I respect her. Her twin on the other hand, NO! I do not like Apollo by any means. Hera actually didn't kill all her victims though. She turned Io into a cow and had a fly chase her. She made it so Leto could not give birth anywhere (luckily there was a loopwhole of a newly formed island). Yes, others she killed, but even then it was not a simple kill. She convinced Selmene to ask to see Zeus's true form, which incinerated her and would have killed her baby if Zeus didn't save him. Similarly, Hera tried to have Heracles killed. And just based on the numbers, Hera ruined more people's lives than Athena ever did. But as we've both established, all the Olyimpians, with the possible exceptions of Hestia, Persephone, Hephaestus, Hades, and some of the minor gods and goddesses, were not kind or forgiving.

Well, there are some myths where Hephaestus is shown as vengeful; he just never, as far as I know, harmed mortals -- it was mostly revenge against Aphrodite, Ares, and Hera, who deserved it. But what it came to Hera, Hephaestus was definitely not forgiving. Other than that, I do agree. But when it comes to who would make the worst foe it is Athena, because she is just so much smarter than most of the other gods.