While people are entitled to their own opinions, Alex is the best character in the series.

These people are really out here saying that they love mythology and then saying that they don’t like queer stuff 😭 like, did you actually read ANY of the myths???

I half expected some rich person to go "HmMM this book offends me because the main character was homeless at one point" because that's how ridiculous the reviews are getting-

One of the great things about Rick‘s books has and always will be the fact that the heroes are minorities. Sure in Percy Jackson and the Olympians they were mostly all white and straight but the point was that the demigods were dyslexic and had adhd. That was their representation. Then the Kane‘s added Carter as a protagonist and his skin colour becomes a topic quite often. Heroes of Olympus adds Canadian/Chinese, Latino/Latina, Cherokee characters etc. It just gets better really. Magnus added Gender Fluidity, a deaf Elf and a Muslim girl. Rick has always been about the minorities being heroes and this never changed and I sure hope it never will

isn't it funny how every time a non-white, non-christian, queer etc. character is mentioned/introduced/casted everything is suddenly considered a political agenda?

''Thor was playing tennis with Jesus Christ'' Someone please make an out-of-context Unclaimed demigod video.

My biggest issue with Magnus Chase is the fact that Blitz and Hearthstone are not outwardly stated as a couple!! Like what’s up with that?!?! They act so in love. They’re so protective of each other 🥹 also these books are perfect for me. Like dear old Maggie, I’m lgbt, an atheist, and a leftie would you know. These are some of the best books I have EVER ever read 😊

2:49 Gender-fluidity does fall under the trans umbrella, and while I know some GF people who don't want to label themselves as transgender so clearly it's not a universal thing, Alex is described as transgender several times in the book as well as gender-fluid

hey! just so you know, the word transgender is a umbrella term for anyone who doesn’t identify as their birth gender :) so yes, alex is trans, bc she’s a transfem genderfluid person! ps: i love this book series so much and was giggling the entire video

As I was very young I was a little homophobic because my parents are and they teached me to be so. But I walked down my own path and now I am totally supporting LGBTQ+

"The Norse had nothing to do with Islam" Yeah and they probably didnt have anything to do with television but we still have Thor out here talking about watching his favorite shows using his hammer. Because it's about mixing the mythology with modern day America. And modern day America includes a portion of the population being Muslim. So why is "Thor watches Breaking Bad" fine and dandy with them but "Some people happen to be Muslim" is dragging in something unrelated

Hey :) just wanted to quickly point out that Alex says that she is both transgender and genderfluid ❤ Thank you for making so much great Riordanverse content!!!

Genderfluid is under transgender umbrella and Alex is described as both genderfluid and transgender.

You will definitely have to do this for sun and the star Sadly

i love how some of the comments say “there’s nothing in norse mythology about gender fluidity” when one of the biggest norse gods, loki, is literally gender fluid just like alex.

Honestly. I was too young to really understand those books when I read them, so Alex really confused me. But it was due to this series that I was able to view LGBTQ+ in a good light, despite living in an area where it is considered 'forbidden.'

I finished Ship Of The Dead for the first time yesterday and it was amazing

To be very honest, the arranged marriage love angle of Samirah always made me uncomfortable, because I live in a country where arranged marriages are the norm, and marriages are not very happy, and I always hated the concept of them. Especially since, well, they were 17.

Alex is the major reason I am able to love myself as a genderfluid person

As a gay person, I have met many of these parents in my life

4:23 i am cis, straight and white, but i am a woman with aspenger syndrom. I love when you reply to these coments because since i was little i hated this type Of thing and i have a Lot of relative that are homophobic, racist etc. For my luck, my parants put me away of them. This taught me about the minority, myself and How respect the difference

I respect you so much for taking the time to respond to your comments. I think you're everyone here's bestie 🤗

As a Muslim I love Samirah and I really connect with her character. Rick did his research on Islam and although it’s not 100% accurate it’s still good.

Hey can’t wait for another video it’s going to be great I love this topic it’s so funny I love your videos so much btw there always welcome after a stressful day at school

I love the Magnus Chase books. Samaria taught me more about Muslims, Alex gave me someone to relate to, and Magnus made me laugh. There was so much I loved. Making Alex gender fluid was a good detail considering Loki was in the original Norse mythology. There is so much more that simply can not be put into words. This book series was my second favorite (the original was my absolute favorite). Quick question, why are so many people in the reviews hating on Sam? Her, Alex, and Magnus are my favorite characters. Just because Sam was Muslim doesn't mean she a bad character. Is she a badass character, yes, but bad, no.

My father went and read all of the Riordanverse books to understand my stuff and while he's nowhere near as obsessed as I am, he likes them. My maternal grandmother would not approve if she knew though.

One thing I’m always going to thank my parents for is them teaching me not to be homophobic no mater what anyone tells me

Yea when I bought Heartstopper my mom went thought the pages and was like why did u buy a “GAY BOOK” and I had to use a lame excuse that I needed them for the other books , and so with magnus chase and , TOA I knew there was lgbtq in it so I just didn’t tell them abt it cause I knew she wasn’t going to read them but it hard like I want to but more lgbtq books but if she finds out is gonna be a whole lecture .

Your narrations have me cracking up 😂

I am watching your video on the table and I hit it hardly that my hand hurt because I tolerate those reviews

i’m currently reading Sword of Summer so the second the first review said that “You can’t even read 2 pages with gay” i paused the video and read the first two pages of the book, gay people aren’t even mentioned. I’ve gotten half through the book and gay is yet to be mentioned

yo i love this series and every other rick riordin series and this makes me fell better, my dad is moving out

love ur vids!! just wanted to point out tho that genderfluid is under the trans umbrella (though some gendefluid ppl don't label themselves as trans). and alex says when she's introducing herself in the hammer of thor that she's genderfluid and transgender!

Yes im here earlier than usual! Love you unclaimed demigod p.s im fale so dont get weirded out by these 🥰🥰🥰

i love how u can tell how angry and intense she is getting throughout the video but like keeping it in lmao

I'll admit, Im not on the left, but who the fuck cares about Alex being Genderfluid? Seriously? I was a kid when I read these books, I didn't even know that genderfluid was a real thing. I just thought it meant that they changed sex literally, (which is what Alex and Loki literally do) but now I know genderfluid people do exist, they just change gender, not sex. Honestly, I could not care less, Alex is my favourite character in the entire series, and is one of the best written GF characters in fiction. And having read the comments on this video, Alex has helped a ton of people accept themselves! The hate for Alex is unjust and blatantly trannsphobic in this regard. The hate for Sam is also ridiculous. Shes an amazing character, I don't have as much to say about this as there is nothing to say. There is nothing wrong with muslims. They're among the three biggest religions in the world. 99% of the muslims I have met are good characters. Homophobia is utterly stupid and I hate homophobes. Nothing more to say. Overall, people get angry at trans people because they think they could be grapists, perverts, pdf files. People have no right to be mad at Alex. They have been written as a good character, and thats where you know the people hating on them are actually just transphobic, because they cannot except ANY trans characters. Thats where they are blatantly bad people. Christians get mad at muslims when reading a fucking NORSE MYTHOLOGY BOOK. Homophobia of ONE SCENE. Thats ridiculous. Yeah, the bad reviews on this book are mainly just cunts being horrible people.

For your next videos, you can read 1star reviews about the Kane Chronicles and Trials of Apollo, can't you?

I love that rick riordan's books are more inclusive! I came from a very religious family (and was raised to be lgbtphobic, basically), it was books like Riordan's that made me see out of my family view of world.

The funny thing is the more parents forbid kids from something, the more they want to see it.

*series that discusses politics, social difference, capitalism, colonialism, imperialism, etc* People: Oh, just another family series *series with characters of color, non-christians, lgbtqia+, etc* People: They want to put politics in the story, it should be something to amuse people!

14:00 don’t get me started. Legend of Korra, Andi Mack, My Little Pony’s last episode (I was 14 when that one happened) I have more.

Just wanted to say that, as a genderfluid person, we technically do fall under the trans/non-binary umbrella. In this case, it could have been used as more of a catch-all term for gender nonconforming people. Apart from that one small nitpick, I really enjoyed the video!

my parents have said they hate rick riordan bc of nico and they would probably have a heart attack if they knew ab alex 😭 i love the books sm and honestly if these people are so homophobic and transphobic, they rly don’t deserve to read these books.

I read the first 4 chapters and it was amazing

I am really trying to get started on Magnus Chase Please please tell me why I should read it!!! I really want to but I just can't get into it

If anyone wants some not exactly muslim representation but muslim inspired culture in a fantasy story I can’t recommend the summoner series enough it is so good. And Taran Matharu the author is the king of suspense and cliffhangers. Not to mention the plans, the intelligence and a sprinkling of political scheming. It’s a great series.

Can you do Kane chronicles?

HELP I ONLY PAYED ATTENTION TO THE BOOKSHELF, ITS SO PRETTYYY

I’m the Unclaimed Demigod’s biggest fan!

hold on girlie let me get this straight. not only are you a pro fan and makes great content and YOURE A SEVENTEEN FAN?!?! I THOUGHT ID NEVER FIND ANOTHER SEVENTEEN FAN IN MY LIFE

I'm white, agnostic, straight, cis, male, Scottish and autistic, so I often feel under-represented in the last two stated aspects of my identity. So, when I see other under-represented groups getting positive representation, I usually think to myself "oh... good for them!" So, with all the positive representation of under-represented groups in Magnus Chase, I was thinking to myself "oh... good for them!" It's a shame a lot of these reviewers had a much more negative reaction to me.

That is what I love about Rick's books. Not all of his characters are straight. Nico is gay, for example. He is teaching younger audiences to respect sexualities and I love that about his writing.

It's weird how I read the trilogy a couple times and neither the Islamic nor the LGBTQ representation seemed to be taking anything away from the real story to me. This is still a very exciting fantasy series about Norse myths where the characters happen to have represented real people.

As a test to see how truthful these comments were, I wasted 3 minutes of my life flipping to ten random pages in the Ship of the dead (I didn't have Hammer of Thor) and the horrors of the GF word were mentioned once. That one time was the first time Alex was mentioned.

Gets even worse if you search for Wings of Fire on the 13th book. These dudes were seriously trashing the books and ranting about demon propaganda because 2 female DRAGONS touched tails, exactly as it sounds. The nerve.

you should do heartstopper (if you havent already)

I have thee second book of Mangus Chase.😭😭😭

Love your video, just one thing that's been bothering me. You said that there were no trans characters. True there aren't any traditional transgender characters, but genderfluid and other genders under the nonbinary umbrella also count as transgender.

I know that no character in Riordan's world has Jewish or Christian has part of them(Hazel and Nico are conservative, because 1940s,but not religious),would these ppl complain if that was a neat detail?

So IIRC in the second book Alex stated that she was AMAB, and when she identified as a girl she specifically identified as a trans girl? I’d have to go grab my copy of the book to double check, though.

Okay, they say they read the PJO, HoO, ToA. But literally, in heroes of Olympus, and Trials of Apollo, they talk about gays. But they are only offended by Magnus Chase. Please explain?

I HATE when people say having a different religion is bad. I always thought it was cool that there was an character who viewed the Norse gods as "powerful beings"

I became more accepting and got a better understanding of the lgbtq community due to alex

Como uma pessoa pode falar que não gosta porque é "politicamente correto"???????? Nada faz sentido. Eles preferem que as crianças leiam coisas politicamente... incorretas? Nunca vou entender a mentalidade dessas pessoas, realmente.

It gets better when you realise that all of these tings are included in all of these mythologies

the funny thing to me is that every single character in my book is LBGTQ+ and they are either pagen or atheists so i wanna see the reviews to my bool when it comes out and i wanna see how many schools its ban in. and i will die in the hill that alex is the best charactar.

I read the first 4 ch

The same kinda people wanted to burn harry Potter books when I was a kid. And they think Pokemon is evil 😂

I agree with your take on almost the entire video. However around 3:00 in you say that there are no transgender characters in the book. And I just have to correct you. Technically all non conforming gender identity in relation to assigned gender at birth(NB, GF, Demigirl/boy ect.) Are under the umbrella term transgender.

Me as a child loving both Percy Jackson and Magnus Chase hearing all of this thinking like: Wtf, wdym inappropriate, did I miss something?

Idk about you but me personally (a gender fluid person) I consider me self transgender, because YES I do go by she but I ALSO do by he and they but maybe that’s just me

Funny, but not funny: ha ha. Funny: I can’t believe people really think that way

I know we're talking about touchy things and i love it, but, Creator, for my sanity, please oh please, praying to any god who finna listen, please, get the hardcover for lost hero. Idc how you can hold a Barnes and Nobles at gunpoint for it for all i care but PLEASE

i love when cis, white, straight (and apparently also christian) people are like: not every single character is like me??!?!?! 😡😠🤬😤 RUBBISH

I'm Christian but still love them! That's because I know that the Greek myths are just myths. So it doesn't bother me and one of my friends is trans. It doesn't matter! As long as there nice!

does anybody else think that sams character was kind of screwed up? if she's a valkerie, serving odin. wouldn't that be direct shirk? it's pretty contradictory imo.

WAIT--- ARE YOU A CARAT, TOO??? OML

Our government doesn't let children read these books :(

It’s Norse mythology…what do they expect exactly?

That really offended me but alr 2:16

I may be wrong but doesn’t Alex say to Magnus when they first start talking that she is gender fluid and transgender

I just felt so dam happy seeing blitzstone and fierrochase cuz it wazs just awesome to finally have lgbtq+a represented correctly. It was a hela of a trilogy. Thx for just proving how wrong these heras are!

what bothers me with the fact that she's muslim is that she's specifically muslim instead of being an arabic believer of THE God who also apparently exist in this universe (just like it would bother me if an angel is specifically christian rather than a servant of this absolute being that would exist in this setting).. Considering what and who she is, she should know better what kind of Being Allah is, she should have some insight that religious authorities don't have, she should have more insight than the ppl that wrote the Quran or the bible or whatever abrahamic religious book.. I don't think any of these character can be christian or jew or muslim without it being problematic, they should know better..

I'm from a country where it isn't hard to hear people say things like gay people should just die or that they aren't human beings it is ingrained into our brains from childhood so showing support to LGBT is a big no no and I don't think that will change any time soon. All my family members make homophobic statements on a daily basis and I'm sick of it but there isn't anything I can do about it

Hi

I haven’t read Magnus Chase yet but now I’m going to out of spite

Alex said she was Transgender Genderfluid.

I just read the series, and it’s so good! About to read The Kane Chronicles and my two favorite characters are Magnus and Alex. Btw, great video! This people making these reviews are idiots.

I’m not sure I want to watch this

What dose it matter to parents if their children are apart of the lgbtq Community; aka l’m bisexual

The message this video is sending is that some people are just dumb. And I wholeheartedly agree.

Who’s gonna tell them how gay Norse mythology is? The amount of times Loki got pregnant too?

everyone prepare to damage some vital organs.

All of the people who said "I love norse mythologie, but...", like have you even read any mythologie? (Loki)

My friends parents don't know she is bi They know she supports it but they think its just a joke eep oh and the insults on alex made me want to hurt someone yay

I don't think they assume the characters are atheist because not stating the religion doesn't ,mean they are, and a lot of the more extreme Christians also believe atheists go to hell

My parents are super homophobic. I read House of Hades when I was 12 - Nico coming out made me realize that I was bisexual. Without Rick writing about queer characters, I may have ended up super homophobic myself. Forever grateful for his "leftist agenda".

Unpopular Opinion: Samirah is better than Alex and the best character in the series. Also, people need to stop calling her Sam. It takes away the culture and meaning.

Here's what I don't get. Why do people who don't like LGBTQ+ people not want to talk to their kids about it? Wouldn't their kids be more likely to share the parents opinion if it's brought up at a younger age? In that case I'm glad about the homophobes who don't share their opinions with their kids.

Me, a non binary middle schooler is very offended by these comments