High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tridents have occurred many times in popular culture. Literature Poseidon sculpture holding a trident In Drowned Wednesday, part of the Keys to the Kingdom Series by Garth Nix, Wednesday's Key is a trident. In the "Percy Jackson & The Olympians" series of novels by Rick Riordan, as in Greek mythology, the trident is a symbol of the Olympian Glory. It appears over a demigod's head when Poseidon claims the individual as his own. Comics In DC Comics, the superhero Blue Devil carries a trident. In DC Comics, the superhero Aquaman sometimes carries a trident. In Marvel Comics, the superhero Namor the Sub-Mariner sometimes carries a trident.