Everybody Hates Hades: Difference between revisions

* The main antagonist of ''[[Once On This Island]]'' is Papa Ge, a Vodou Loa associated with death whom the actual lore seems to portray as [[wikipedia:Gu%C3%A9d%C3%A9|a pretty decent guy]] (at least as far as [[The Other Wiki]] can be trusted on the subject).

** Even in the play's storyline, this trope is played with- Papa Ge is implied to just do his job and isn't entirely evil. He even hangs out with the three other gods like good friends.

** Especially when you consider that the main plot boils down to a bet over whether love or death is more powerful, and Papa Ge doesn't really do anything besides offer the main character the option of choosing death. Add to that the fact that it's somewhat implied in some productions that Erzulie, the goddess of love, more or less used her powers to make Timone (the main character) fall in love with somebody totally unsuitable (an affair that can only logically end in pain for somebody), plus the other gods general manipulation (which boils down to "it's fun to play with humans") and you get a case of all four being [[Jerkass Gods]] at worst and operating under [[Blue and Orange Morality]] at best.

* In ''[[Hadestown]]'', Hades is depicted as a welfare capitalist, with all the false promises (to the dead in general, and Eurydice in particular) that entails.

** Thanatos (who is basically, the greek god of death), Hades's subordinate, is sometimes used as a villain, but on these occasions he usually turns out to be mind-controlled by Kronos. He is otherwise a kindly bespectacled old man - who can transform into a boney horror with wings. He is pretty neutral towards the heroes, but does seem to enjoy his job too much...

* Averted in ''[[Gargoyles]]'' with Anubis (voiced by [[Tony Jay]]), who turns out to not be a bad guy. He just is there to maintain balance in the world. The episode "Grief" deals with [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|the Emir]] trying to force Anubis to {{spoiler|resurrect his dead son}}.

* Averted in the Sunbow ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' episode "The Gods Below". Osiris, the Egyptian God of Death, and the other Egyptian gods that appear, for the most part, are portrayed as good or at least neutral. The only exception is Set who's kind of already an evil god in Egyptian mythology, [[Depending on the Writer|depending on which period of Egyptian history any given myth comes from.]]

* Played straight in [[Mummies Alive]], in which Anubis is a dim-witted villain who works alongside Set. In mythology, Set disowned him, since Anubis chose to side with Horus and helped Isis mummify Osiris and restore him.