Everybody Hates Hades: Difference between revisions

Named after the [[Greek Mythology|Greek God of the Underworld, Hades]], who is often a victim of this in modern times, seeing as myths involving him are very popular and a good source for adaptations.<ref>Probably the worst thing Hades did is kidnap his niece and makermake her his wife. The tale of which is normally called "The Rape of Persephone". He did this with the approval of his brother Zeus, who among other things was the god of justice and a serial rapist. So while not a paragon of virtue by todays standards, if you use most other [[Jerkass Gods|greek gods]] as a baseline, he was a pretty nice dude.</ref> In the original Hercules myth, Hera (Zeus's wife) was the antagonist, because Hercules was the product of Zeus's... um... "[[Anything That Moves|extra-marital activities]]". Poor Hades had nothing to do with the operation. [[Hercules (1997 film)||But that just wouldn't set well with Disney's lovely-lovely family image now, would it?]] Much easier to make the creepy death dude the bad guy.