#which I would add hamlet to that list but he is sort of odysseus adjacent I suppose

[moderndayamymarch]

hawkeye pierce is such an odysseus. like his entire thing is that he WANTS TO GO HOME. my man just wants to go home to see his loved ones but can’t because the powers that be are making it impossible (hawkeye’s is the us military and odysseus’s is the gods) by throwing just off-the-wall obstacles at him. and along the way he just keeps losing everybody.

not to mention he is a clever trickster who totally would’ve played the “nobody” joke on frank if he could’ve found a way.

also odysseus was a reluctant draftee into the trojan war too (he tried to get out of it by feigning madness through salting the earth of his farmlands).