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Mythology
Medusa was cursed, not born a monster
In Ovid's telling, Medusa was a beautiful priestess of Athena. After Poseidon assaulted her in the goddess's temple, Athena punished Medusa instead of him, turning her hair into serpents and her gaze to stone.
Mythology
Icarus fell because he ignored both warnings
Daedalus told his son not to fly too high, where the sun would melt the wax of his wings, nor too low, where sea spray would soak the feathers. Icarus soared toward the sun and the wings came apart over the Aegean.
Mythology
Thor's hammer had a famously short handle
In Norse myth, Mjolnir was forged by dwarves while Loki, in the shape of a fly, stung the smith. The distraction left the handle too short, but the hammer still never missed and always returned to Thor's hand.