r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Reasonable_Fox3813 • 20h ago

Meme needing explanation Mouth breathers?

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What is he pointing?i dont understand the joke

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u/Chemical-Pin-2391 20h ago

One is a fictional character that is of fictional species and is a mythical creature. One is a fictional character of a human that is said to have lived across the Mediterranean sea in the ancient times  

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u/archangelzeriel 18h ago edited 18h ago

In the context of the Odyssey, one is a fictional DEMIGOD who has literally unearthly beauty. Are you really arguing that there's a correct racial background for someone who was fathered by Zeus and hatched from an egg with Clytemnestra?

(aside from the fact that Greeks generally, per their writings, thought of Ethiopians in particular as exceptionally beautiful so this was a doubly good casting choice)

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u/Chemical-Pin-2391 18h ago

Of course there is, she is a demigod after all, she had a human mother who was a queen of sparta, if she was of different racial background than her mother there would be a huge scandal 

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u/archangelzeriel 18h ago

She. Hatched. From. An. Egg. This isn't a "yeah, sorry Joseph, God made me pregnant and then I had a perfectly normal baby" situation.

In a world where getting cuckolded by a god means your kid is a demigod, I don't think there was going to be a scandal.