Everybody Hates Hades: Difference between revisions

* ''[[The Silmarillion]]'': [[Zig-Zagging Trope|Played around with]] with Mandos. While he's completely in line with the will of Eru Iluvatar (like the rest of the Valar), he tends to be a little harsh regarding the interpretation, something of a "devil's advocate".

** Basically, Mandos is a fairly standard "grim, gloomy, fatalistic, but not that bad of a sort" death god, and is portrayed as being without mercy but also without malice. ''Morgoth'', Middle-earth's actual [[God of Evil]], is also associated with death, but he's more accurately the god of the ''fear of'' death (among other things), rather than death itself. Indeed, ''natural'' death is called the "Gift of Men" and is supposed to be a blessing—as the Elves would tell you [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|immortality isn't all it's cracked up to be]].

* Averted in "A Tangled Web", a short story set in the ''[[Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms]]'' series by [[Mercedes Lackey]]. Hades is simply in love with Persephone, who loves him right back, and when {{spoiler|Brunhilde}} is kidnapped instead of Persephone, he does his best to make her comfortable and help her get back to {{spoiler|Leopold}}. He also helps devise the tests (with Hecate, also portrayed in a more positive light than usual) to get {{spoiler|Leopold the immortality that Brunhilde has requested as her reward/compensation for everything that went down in Hades' realm.}}

* Averted in Tamora Pierce's ''[[Tortall Universe]]''. One of her protagonists, Beka, even works for the Black God on occasion, and it is mentioned several time that he is actually ''more'' merciful and honest than the gods of life.

* The [[Watership Down]] animated series pulls this with the Black Rabbit of Inle. When he starts appearing in season three, he glows red and gets vanishes in a burst of flames.

 

* ''[[Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab]]'' averts this. His depiction in the flavor text of the Hades-themed perfume oil is more [[Dark Is Not Evil]] [[Lawful Neutral]], although not particularly friendly.

 

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