Heroic BSOD: Mythology  When the gods themselves have a Heroic
BSOD, we're all in trouble...    • Achilles gets two of these.
In The Iliad, he mopes around mourning for his BFF Patroclus
until the ghost of Patroclus has to tell him to snap out of it
and burn his body on a pyre. Later in the Trojan War, Achilles
kills the Amazon Queen Penthesilea and then falls in love with
her corpse. He is inconsolable for a while until he finally
burns her body as well.   • The oldest and probably most famous
example of this is Arjuna, from the Mahabharata. He stops in the
middle of the battlefield, overcome with distress that he is
fighting against his own kin, and has to be talked out of it for
hours by Krishna, who is his charioteer. This event forms the
basis of the Gita, of course. Given that the battle involved
approximately four million combatants on either side, that's
pretty damn dramatic.     • By some accounts Krishna STOPPED
TIME during this occurrence and this is also considered by
Hindus the moment where he re