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Mindfire
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You don't understand how trademarks work, Mindfire.
The only thing you can't trademark is a word that is generic for whatever goods or services you want to trademark it for. So getting a trademark for "fish" to sell fish is out. If you start a car company called Fish, you can get a trademark on it. Even if you could get a trademark on "fish" covering actual fish, I'm not sure what makes you think a fisherman would have to give you a cut of his profits.
A perfect example of a trademark on a mythological figures is Thor. Marvel comics, as you might imagine, has a trademark covering that. In fact, it looks like they have numerous trademarks on that name going back to the early 1970s. If you make a superhero named Thor, you've got a potential problem on your hands, mythological figure or not. Marvel doesn't have qualms about going after people.
But suppose I make a comic book/film/animated series about Norse mythology? Would I just not be allowed to include Thor alongside Odin, Baldur, Freya, etc.? Or suppose I'm writing a fantasy book about the Norse people? Are they not allowed to talk to or interact with Thor at all?