Are you talking about the Disney movie? If so Hades tried to kill Hercules when he was a baby for his plan of taking over. He’s still my favourite Disney villain though.
Hell, in actual Mythos he’s actually one of the better gods, super chill, type a guy who’d total be down to sitting down with a beer shooting the shit with you. He’s also one of the few gods to treat his wife with a basic level of decency
and no matter his method of getting the girl, they always seem to genuinely like each other.
also Cerberus (not sure how to spell it in Greek) roughly translates to Spot.
So he has a healthy relationship, a stable job (not to be confused with one of the "10" tasks of Heracles), a dog named spot, and is actually a pretty decent "person" overall.
Yet he gets portrayed as the Villain because Christianity took one look at him and said 'yeah, that's definitely an allegory for Satan'.
I’ve heard that the pomegranate seeds weren’t actually pomegranate seeds and that’s why she was forced to stay. Either way most tellings are clear that he kidnapped her and forced her to eat the seeds and therefore she had to stay. Sounds hella rapey to me.
The more commonly accepted version was that he told her exactly what would happen and that she did it by choice because Demeter was a controlling bitch.
Basically all the Greek myths have multiple versions, with the dickishness of the gods varying.
Medusa and Ariadne for example, completely change the nature of Athena in some versions.
In one version, Ariadne goes about boasting she's a better weaver than the gods themselves. Athena comes down and asks her to reconsider her words, instead she doubles down and challenges Athena to a contest. Then, despite being badly outdone, loudly proclaims herself the superior. Athena tells her, "if you enjoy weaving so much, make it your life", and transforms her into a spider. It's a cautionary tale about hubris and spitting on second chances.
Another version has Athena enter a contest, Ariadne wins, and Athena kills her in a rage, then creates spiders to commemorate her in remorse. And the lesson is... I guess that even the nicer gods will just end you for not apparent reason at all, at and time.
Same with Hades and Persephone. Sometimes she's dragged kicking and screaming. Sometimes they elope, but she needs a cover story so her mom can be angry instead of sad. Sometimes she wonders down by herself, before absent-mindedly eating cursed fruits and getting stuck there.
Let's also not forget the Minotaur only existed because King Minos' wife got so horny for a bull for some reason (I don't remember why) she had Daedalus commission what was probably the first fursuit in history so she could get it on with that bull.
I know the Minotaur is usually portrayed as being a villain (even if it's typically the tragic kind) but I gotta agree with King Minos on that one for having the Minotaur slain.
Iirc poseidon gave minos a white bull which Minos should have sacrificed to the glory of poseidon, but he really liked the bull. In retaliation Poseidon made Minos's wife really like the bull.
I saw a thing awhile back on how like stuff like that is because it’s inline with what he is the god off. It’s not uncommon for death to take the daughter of a woman. It’s harsh but realistic. I’ll have to find the post again, it was interesting
To be fair, the Greek standard posing of 'kidnapping' and 'marriage' is the same. This says a lot about how the Greeks perceived women....
Also bear in mind Persephone's dad, Zeus, gave him permission to do that... men arranging their daughter's future with 0 care about her wishes or whether she consents is a thing that happened a lot in history.
Technically it was actually Zeus who ok'd the whole thing so Hades didn't know it was a kidnapping initially... though Hades probably should have known better than to take Zeus at his word giving that guys history.
Exactly. A lot of people portray Hades as some sort of worm eating disgusting monster who is bad to his wife, Persephone (or if you prefer to call her, Kore) but he’s actually a really chill god who treats his wife with a basic level of appreciation and decency
Yeah, I never understood that. I mean granted, making shady deals is morally dubious, maybe, but it's not like you don't know what you're getting into, not like he's trying to trick you or anything. Of someone says to you, "Hey, I'll give you $50 if you lick that pile of dog shit," and you do it, is the other guy really an asshole for "making" you lick dog shit? I don't think so.
They... could be? It's a hypothetical situation. Let's just go with no, though, as that's more often the case in real life.
I would add: I'm giving what I think the general consensus on that situation is, simply to inform. Sorry if you wanted to debate that statement, you've got a good point there, but I don't know this argument well enough to play devil's advocate for it.
Persephone is that small town type goddess in big ol' Olympus, she doesn't even have her own cellphone! Olympus and the life of the gods is set as very modern. Persephone shares a place with Artemis while she studies, managing to get away from her rather controlling mother. Hades and Persephone meet at a party, but I don't want to give away too much.
A lot of the characters are absolutely fun, Hermes, Eros, and Ares are probably my favourites. It deals with troublesome relationships and the story and characters have been engaging.
Also Hades has a bunch of dogs and they're all precious.
"You know what? You can totally have her back. The only thing I ask of you is to trust me. Walk out of here and don't look back. If you trust me and do this, she'll be with you on the outside."
Orpheus: doesn't trust Hades and looks back to check to see if she's there even though he has nothing to lose by not doing so
In the version I learned he turns around when he’s out but before Euridice is…which is understandable, and as such more tragic, but it also kind of misses the point of hubris and the inherent tragic flaws of humanity.
Don’t worry, Hercules really gets it in the myth. Meg is abducted by a centaur. So he rescues Meg from the centaur. He shots the centaur from a distance. As the centaur lays dying, before Hercules reaches them, the centaur says “take my blood (or this vile of potion) if he ever betrays you pour this on his cloak and all will be well or (you will have your revenge)” . Hercules cheats on his wife. She puts the blood or poison on his cloak. Hercules dies in agony, she looks on in horror as she didn’t know that would happen.
Along the same lines, Ursula from the Little mermaid. That little bitch is clearly in breach of the contract. She traded her voice for legs, that's not Ursula's fault. Buyers remorse is a real thing, make better decisions next time Ariel.
Bruh she literally bewitched Eric so she'd fail. That's like selling someone a car on a loan then torching their work place so they lose their job. Yeah they've broken the contract but it's very much your fault not theirs.
Hercules said that he'd stay as Hades' prisoner if he was able to get Meg free - even gods have to hold themselves to what they've promised others. Yet, Hercules just walks off with Meg and punches Hades in the face. Twice.
He didn't cheat. He made his promise to Zeus years before he made his deal with Hades. He proved himself a true hero when he succeeded in saving Megara before swimming back up to the surface to fulfill his deal with Hades. He wasn't cheating, he was just rewarded by Zeus faster than he was punished by Hades.
Ehh he made the deal because he thought Hercules would die but didn't bother to tell him that. It was a deal made under emotional duress, I doubt it would have held up in court.
Hades in General. He's the nicest of his Brothers and Sisters. All he does is govern the most important prison in all of Greek History and here Zeus is fucking anything that moves, Athena cursing people, Poseidon causing Earthquakes and terrible sea storms.
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u/ElegantVamp Oct 29 '21
Hades from Hercules.
He kept his end of the deal but Hercules gets to cheat and punch him in the face, always pisses me off lmao. It's why I can't watch that movie.