Board Thread:Magnus Chase & the Gods of Asgard/@comment-27478054-20151226221529/@comment-1820614-20160116044432

I think the giants stay dead. In Percy Jackson, they mentioned early on that monsters resurrect and they often seek vengeance on heroes who sent them to Tartarus. They dissolve into sand/dust. There is no mention of that in Magnus Chase. The dead giantesses leave behind corpses and when their loved ones hear of it they are upset because they are dea d. They do not mention about them eventually coming back like Medusa's sisters did.

The Percy Jackson heroes constantly referred to the original myths that featured the monsters. There was none of that here. Instead, one might attribute it to the names simply repeating. Utgard said Loki was a commong Jotun name. Maybe the others were as well. In a way, this makes the Magnus Chase stories darker. Percy and friends never really killed anyone. Monsters suffer for a while in Tartarus before returning. In Mangus Chase, anything killed stays dead.

The Titans and Jotuns sound a lot alike because both are viewed in popular culture as giants and agents of chaos who opposed the ruling gods. However, there are a number of differences. The Titans were essentially an older generation of gods, agents of order. They were not inherently evil and were completely immortal which is why Zeus had to imprison them in Tartarus.

The Jotuns started out as a separate race from the gods though there was very much inter-marriage which muddled things. The Jotuns were more forces of nature and chaos chipping away at civilization that the gods as embodiments of order had to defend against.

In short, the Jotuns are more forces of chaos (but not evil) that in the Magnus Chase series stay dead when killed. They started out separate from the gods. The Titans were an elder generation of gods who are as immortal as the Olympians and ironically were more forces of order than chaos.