Poseidon, Neptune and what the trident actually does

Poseidon, Neptune and what the trident actually does The sea-god comparison has a nice detail right in Grimm Universe #1. Hades calls his brother Neptune, then asks whether he's using Poseidon again. So in that comic, those names aren't two unrelated gods we need to invent separate biographies for. The characters themselves acknowledge the names. Neptune has the trident, and we see him use it as a weapon. His relationship with the sea also matters to the catastrophe he starts. He releases Charybdis into the water from the box containing the monsters. That is a deliberate release of a creature, with consequences for everyone around him. It shouldn't get blurred into a claim that every disturbance on the water was created by a generic trident spell. Absolute Wonder Woman takes the trident away from the familiar picture of its god holding it and gives the weapon a situation of its own. Diana encounters it incomplete in the maze. Part of it has ended up in Clea's staff, the weapon that is driven through Diana's body. Returning that missing part allows the trident to become whole again. Once restored, it can communicate with Diana. She says it has a mind of its own, and they want the same thing. That makes using it a different relationship from simply finding a more powerful spear. The weapon has a voice and a reason to cooperate. The maze flood is worth comparing carefully too. Diana opens a way for the Pacific to enter. She specifically says she didn't magically create the water. The ocean is already there; the weapon helps her connect it to the place she needs it. She can still use the trident after spending the last of her own magic on the guiding stone. So these scenes give us a sea god with a weapon and a weapon operating without its god beside it. Grimm's Neptune releases something dangerous into the sea. Diana uses Poseidon's restored trident to bring the sea into a prison. The common symbol is doing very different work in the two stories. None of that proves the tridents share every ability or that one would overpower the other. It gives us something better to discuss: who is making the decision, where the power is located, and what actually happens when the weapon is used.