Extra Mythology

Perseus was the undesirable grandchild of the king Acrisius, who wanted him dead--but accidentally just left him alive to float to a new beach. THEN he became the undesirable ADOPTED grandchild of the island's despot, Polydectes, who sent him on a quest to obtain the head of a gorgon...

Perseus is not intimidated by the grey women and their eyeball, or by Hermes's complicated directions, or by Medusa, or by a winged horse sprouting out of Medusa's blood, or by Andromeda's boyfriend, or by his own dad.