Does Nico di Angelo appear in the new Percy Jackson episode?

“We Take a Zebra to Vegas,” the sixth episode of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, is one which followers of the guide collection have been ready for. Percy (Walker Scobell), Annabeth (Leah Jeffries), and Grover (Aryan Simhadri) make their method to Las Vegas and enter the notorious Lotus Hotel and Casino — the place the followers have been hoping a particular favourite character would possibly make an look, as a consequence of what they already learn about this location from Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson novels.

[Ed. note: Slight spoilers ahead for the Percy Jackson books.]

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Introduced in The Titan’s Curse, guide three of the Percy Jackson collection, Nico and Bianca di Angelo are at the Lotus Hotel and Casino at the identical time as Percy and his buddies, not less than in the books’ canon. That’s why many followers have theorized that the di Angelo siblings might need cameos in this episode.

Nico and Bianca are mysterious siblings with an unknown parentage. Eventually, Percy and his buddies be taught that regardless that they appear like preteens, Nico and Bianca have been truly born in the Nineteen Thirties, some 70 years earlier than the occasions of The Titan’s Curse. They simply spent a long time of their lives in the Lotus Hotel and Casino, with out realizing how a lot time had handed.

Nico goes on to change into a serious participant all through the Percy Jackson collection and the Riordan books that comply with. As for Bianca… let’s simply say she doesn’t actually appear a lot past the third guide.

Do the di Angelo siblings appear in episode 6 of Percy Jackson?

Short reply — no, they don’t!

Long reply — whereas there are some kids and youngsters additionally in the on line casino when Percy and his buddies are there in “We Take a Zebra to Vegas,” the episode doesn’t deal with them or spotlight them in any manner. They simply appear in the background.

But we do get to see one different vital character: Hermes (as performed by Lin-Manuel Miranda) has a protracted dialog with Percy and Annabeth. This is new to the collection, since Hermes doesn’t make an look till the second Percy Jackson guide, The Sea of Monsters. (Also, Grover runs into an outdated satyr pal named Augustus, who doesn’t have a guide equal.)

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All in all, this episode performs out very in a different way than its equal chapter in the books. In the first guide of the Percy Jackson collection, The Lightning Thief, Percy and his buddies initially come across the on line casino and fall sufferer to its gimmick: Designed by the lotus-eaters of mythology, who abandon every thing else in life to eat narcotic, pleasure-giving lotus flowers, the on line casino equally affords hedonistic indulgences so vacationers by no means need to depart.

The trio will get swept up in the on line casino’s cool arcade video games: Annabeth in specific spends a lot of time with some 3D city-builder simulation, which seemed like the coolest shit after I learn the books at age 12. Percy doesn’t notice what’s up till he notices one in every of his gamer buddies utilizing very archaic slang, then begins all the anachronistic outfits round him and his buddies. The gang finally ends up shedding 5 days in the on line casino.

But in the present, Grover realizes fairly rapidly the connection between the Lotus Hotel and Casino and the lotus-eaters. He warns the others from the get-go to not eat something at the on line casino, nevertheless it seems that the lotus aroma is in the air as a substitute. The buddies nonetheless lose just a few days, however this time they’re extra conscious and genre-savvy about it.

Enough about the guide variations — the place are the di Angelos?

It’s unlikely that the manufacturing workforce would decide to casting these two characters this far out from a hypothetical third season of Percy Jackson and the Olympians — significantly Nico, contemplating how large his function in the collection finally ends up changing into. Given the hullabaloo round casting the principal three characters, I’m sure that Rick Riordan will be making a giant deal about Nico’s first look and never simply slip it in as a quick cameo.

But the di Angelos do make a kinda-sorta-tiny-maybe look in the present! Well, their title does. In the first episode, Percy’s mother, Sally (Virginia Kull), tells her loser husband that she’s going to select up sandwiches from a spot known as di Angelo’s on the manner again from Montauk. The captions spell it “D’Angelos,” not “di Angelos,” however nonetheless. It’s a little bit of an Easter egg for eagle-eyed (or eagle-eared) followers on the market.

“We Take a Zebra to Vegas” is out on Disney Plus now. New episodes of Percy Jackson and the Olympians drop on Disney Plus on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. EST/6 p.m. PST.