User blog comment:SayuriDarling/Full first chapter of The Mark of Athena/@comment-24.208.158.68-20120607204315/@comment-5112532-20120608095557

For Enceladus, since is the anti-Athena, it could mean that they are so similar that he also shares some of her traits, like hubris, because he seems quite sure that his plan will work, and that fatal flaw killed him.

In the old myths, Alyconeus dies when Hercules dragged him out of Pallas - his home territory - and beat him death (charming).

I think the only one who was killed too easily was Polybotes because Percy just whacks Polybotes' face with Terminus' marble head and he crumbles into dust. Whereas when the gods were battling Typhon, Dionysus and Hepheastus were knocked out of their chariot, but instead Polybotes falls over Terminus' pedestal, gets bashed on the nose and dies... so, easyish victory for Percy.

It wasn't quite as hard as battling Kronos. If Giants are that hard to kill, then where are there awesome super powers!? Like the Titans can stop time and create invisible force fields. But Polybotes can turn water to poison but when he chucks it at Percy, he can still deflect the poisonous water.

Comparing the Giants and the Titans as formidable foes against the gods, the Giants did come after the Titans, and the gods, so they may be considerably weaker since Gaea has had tonnes of kids! And this was after Uranus was dead, as apparently Gaea fertilised the Giants on Uranus' castrated parts. (Eww, TMI, I know..) I guess the Giants are so convinced that their plan is going to work they don't consider any other options.