Is this where Ægons name comes from?

So I recently found out that in Ancient Greek the word ‘contest’ is translated into ‘αγων’, pronounced a-gon. I immediately thought of Ægon, @Kabam Miike is this true?

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Hector_1475

It could be. Or it could be inspired by the Aegean Sea, which has been Greek for the past thousand years. Which in turn, as per the Greek myth of Theseas, was named after the Athenian Greek King Aegeas, father of Theseas, who committed suicide falling into this sea, erroneously thinking that his son died in the island of Crete, fighting the Minotaur.

Generally speaking, Aegon is heavily inspired (his costume, his helmet, his name, his blue color) from the Ancient Greek history and mythology.

TP33

The Ancient Greek name makes sense bc of his helmet and general clothing style. He also uses a spear, traditional Greek weapon but other than that no other weapons, surely if he can conjure ANYTHING with the ISO belt he’d conjure a gun or something but no, he uses ancient and traditional methods

Thicco_Mode

That could be really cool. I'd love to see mods comment on this

RU11011

Always assumed it was of a Greek origin, although I'm not very familiar with the "Æ" character. I also love the comment of Aegeas, Greek mythology is one of my favourite topic to talk about!

SpideyFunko

it makes sense. He has a very Greek feel to him, sort of like the underdog. Because the Champion also has a Greek look as well, and we all know how close those two are

TP33

So I did some research and the Ancient Greek word for champion is completely different so it won’t be from there like I thought it might

Snizzbar

Interesting - Google Translate has 'διαγωνισμός' (diagonismós) as 'contest', and 'αγων' (agon) as 'struggle'.
You may be on to something after all. Or, as usual, Google translate is hopelessly wrong...

Hector_1475

Interesting - Google Translate has 'διαγωνισμός' (diagonismós) as 'contest', and 'αγων' (agon) as 'struggle'.
You may be on to something after all. Or, as usual, Google translate is hopelessly wrong...

I confirm both translations as accurate (being Greek ).

TP33

Interesting - Google Translate has 'διαγωνισμός' (diagonismós) as 'contest', and 'αγων' (agon) as 'struggle'.
You may be on to something after all. Or, as usual, Google translate is hopelessly wrong...

I confirm both translations as accurate (being Greek ).

I’d hope so thats what I’m being taught in school

SpideyFunko

Interesting - Google Translate has 'διαγωνισμός' (diagonismós) as 'contest', and 'αγων' (agon) as 'struggle'.
You may be on to something after all. Or, as usual, Google translate is hopelessly wrong...

I confirm both translations as accurate (being Greek ).
I’d hope so thats what I’m being taught in school

you can take Greek? That’s awesome! We have the standard Spanish, French, German, Latin, then I think a few different Chinese dialects, and Japanese.

TP33

@SpideyFunko believe me Greek is savage, we have to do Latin as well so it means we have to do the Latin GCSE early. Luckily decided not to take it that far

jdrum663

I'm pretty sure his last name is Muhface. Lol

H_I_Z

The Ancient Greek name makes sense bc of his helmet and general clothing style. He also uses a spear, traditional Greek weapon but other than that no other weapons, surely if he can conjure ANYTHING with the ISO belt he’d conjure a gun or something but no, he uses ancient and traditional methods

It's his story, he's from the original contest waaaaay back, so that's where the spear comes, also, I wish they would give us a version of him without the helmet, his hair is epic

Lunae

The Ancient Greek name makes sense bc of his helmet and general clothing style. He also uses a spear, traditional Greek weapon but other than that no other weapons, surely if he can conjure ANYTHING with the ISO belt he’d conjure a gun or something but no, he uses ancient and traditional methods
It's his story, he's from the original contest waaaaay back, so that's where the spear comes, also, I wish they would give us a version of him without the helmet, his hair is epic

Aegons just Brad Pitt abducted by the Collector while filming Troy in the mcocverse

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He’s just that dang method and committed, it’s beautiful really

Lunae

One minute he’s there then the next he’s aegon

Hammerbro_64

I'm pretty sure his last name is Muhface. Lol

I made a visual aid.

Netbreaker

Well u guys know that this is a marvel Character, ryt? And his name nor the Character himself is a kabam creation..

JueVioleGrace

Well u guys know that this is a marvel Character, ryt? And his name nor the Character himself is a kabam creation..

Errm...I'm prettty sure it was a kabam creation mate

King_Leo321

After all he is king of this contest.

SpideyFunko

Well u guys know that this is a marvel Character, ryt? And his name nor the Character himself is a kabam creation..

actually, the character is a Kabam creation

GroundedWisdom

You're probably on to something, OP.

Hammerbro_64

Well u guys know that this is a marvel Character, ryt? And his name nor the Character himself is a kabam creation..

It’s actually both. Kabam made him, and with their association with Marvel, obviously being a marvel game, he became a Marvel character as well.

Netbreaker

Okay lessons learned...

Aldac

I just assumed the designer was a big Game of Thrones fan...

jdrum663

I'm pretty sure his last name is Muhface. Lol
I made a visual aid.

Awesome!

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