What's the Difference between The Lightning Theif the Book and The Lightning Theif the Movie?
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Clarisse
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This Character does not appear.
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Dionysus
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This Character does not appear.
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The Lightning Theif Book vs Movie
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Annabeth is a blond. |
Annabeth is a brunette. |
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There was a saint louis arch scene. |
There was no arch scene, but instead a useless nashville scene.
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The pearls are given to them by a sea nymph. |
The entire quest revolves around finding pearls that have revealed locations. |
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Ares was a major character. |
Ares wasn't a character.
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Hades was the most godly of the gods. |
Hades was a greek Mcjagger with a british accent. |
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Percy, Annabeth and Grover are all twelve years old. |
They are all sixteen played by actors in their early to mid twenties.
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Percy has green eyes. |
Percy's eyes are blue. |
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Annabeth is a prodigy and is dangerous because of her brain and her physical abilities at such a young age. |
Annabeth isn't very smart.
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There is a metaphorical mist that shrouds the human world to make normal people blind to monsters and whatnot. |
There is no mist. |
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The Half-Bloods cannot use electronics because they can be easily tracked by monsters. |
They all use electronics.
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The lightning bolt is so powerful that even the gods were afraid to take it out of its case. So it stayed in its case even when stolen. |
Luke shoots it like a gun barehanded inflicting minimal damage. |
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Percy cannot wear the flying shoes because the sky is Zeus' territory and if Percy ever went into the air, then Zeus would kill him. |
Percy wears the shoes.
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Mrs. Dodds is his Algebra teacher. The name of the first chapter in the book is "I accidentally vaporize my Pre-Algebra teacher". |
Mrs. Dodds is his English teacher. |
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Persephone is away with her mother Demeter. |
Persephone is home in the Underworld.
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An amazing toilet scene. |
There is no toilet scene. |
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In the very first chapter, Percy is on a field trip. |
In the beginning of the movie, Percy is in class.
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