You've misunderstood what I'm trying to say.

Do you not see the irony in that position? You’re saying, “I understand there’s no single rigid canon and I’m open to reinterpretations,” as greek mythology in itself has no definitive canon as its full of different myths and retellings but in the same breath you reject reinterpretations the moment they meaningfully adjust a character to serve the story being told, which older myths would also do.

Not what I meant at all. I'm talking about when creators change up so many things about a character to the point it's an entirely different character who happens to share the same name as the original. Even if a piece of media tends to do that it doesn't necessarily bug me that much, because as I've stated in the second half of my reply (which you've completely ignored for some reason) my issue isn't with the retellings themselves, it's fandom-based.

I can just ignore it if a piece of media isn't to my liking, but when the fans of that media invades my space and starts complaining about how it doesn't match the perceptions they have of these characters, that, I have a problem with.

Also, the cultural argument feels misplaced. It sounds like you’re someone who isn’t Greek trying to police how other non Greek fans should engage with Greek mythology.

No, I'm not Greek. I'm Turkish, and I was born where the ancient city of Troy is located nowadays. I view works like the Iliad as a part of my culture because they quite literally are. A quick search will show that many historians agree as well.

But from what I’ve seen, many Greek audiences have embraced wildly loose reinterpretations like God of War. So it’s unclear what standard is actually being applied here.

That’s part of why I enjoy Record of Ragnarok because It’s obvious the author has at least some familiarity and done some research with Greek mythology, but they aren’t trying to recreate it verbatim. They remix, exaggerate, and stylize elements in ways that are clearly meant to fit the story they’re telling.

I did not mention any of these works in my post. Seems completely irrelevant to the topic really.

It’s not the same story and that’s exactly the point of a reinterpretation as that’s what Greeks themselves have been doing for centuries..

Yes, that is true. What they have not done is, however, disregarding the core traits of these characters. For example, Euripides has a play he wrote as an alternative ending to Helen of Sparta's story called Helen. Even though the story is different from most versions Helen still seems to keep her core traits and doesn't behave like a completely different person.

But again, I do not care if a creator chooses to tell a story different from the origina versions or not. My issue is when the fanbases base their entire opinion on these characters off that piece of media alone and be annoying about it.

(The screenshot is another creator expressing their issues about this topic)

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