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== Literature ==
* ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'': Hades is the prime suspect of the theft of the master bolt in order to overthrow the gods. {{spoiler|It turns out to be a subversion. It's not him; he thinks it was Percy and only wants the bolt so he can ''return'' it, along with his stolen helmet. The real thief? Ares, being manipulated by Luke, being manipulated by Kronos.}} Humorously, this version of Hades mentions on his [https://web.archive.org/web/20131123035810/http://www.percyjackson.co.uk/site/pj_features_hades.php profile page] on the official ''Percy Jackson'' site that Disney's ''Hercules'' is one of his favorite films. He even claims to like being portrayed as the bad guy for the movie; his only gripe was the blue flaming hair. (It's of course possible he's being sarcastic.)
* Averted by [[Lord Dunsany]] in ''The Gods of Pegana''. Mung, the god of death, is an implacable force of nature who is genuinely perplexed at the way people fear him. He asks one man, "Were the forty million years before thy coming intolerable to thee? Not less tolerable to thee shall be the forty million years to come!"
* Utterly averted by the ''[[Myth-O-Mania]]'' books, in which Hades is the main character and portrayed as decent, sensible, and one of the smartest gods, choosing the Underworld as a way to avoid Zeus, who is a colossal [[Small Name, Big Ego]] [[Jerkass]] who takes credit for everything and became King of the Gods by cheating at cards.
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