Hades

Ruler of the Underworld

Supreme Nether Underlord

Dad (by Mal and Hadie)

Auradon

## Personal information

### Personality

Persuasive, hot-tempered, mysterious, wrathful, evil, cruel, funny, uncaring, sarcastic, cynical, manipulative, ruthless, envious, greedy, rude, pompous, argumentative, two-faced, selfish, laid-back, mean, mad, talkative, cunning, sadistic, brazen, conceited, meticulous, exploitative, comical, cool, slick, sly, charismatic, carefree

### Enemies

Maleficent, Victoria Hearts, Cruella De Vil, Jafar, Evil Queen. Zeus (formerly), Hercules (formerly), Megera (formerly)

**Hades** is the Greek god of death, the former Lord of the Underworld, uncle of Hercules, Brother of Zeus, also Mal's father and Maleficent's ex-husband (he left Mal and Maleficent before Mal could walk). With the existence of Mount Olympus, Hades is one of the villains thought to be imprisoned on the Isle of the Lost. In the book, *Return to the Isle of the Lost*, this was proven true, as his son, Hadie, was introduced. He is the brother of Zeus and uncle of Hercules. Hades is a minor but pivotal supporting character in *Descendants 3*.

## Appearances and Timeline

### Before The Isle of the Lost

Hades seeks to overthrow Zeus and rule Mount Olympus - in Ancient Greece - the Earth and the rest of creation for himself. Upon visiting the Fates, he learns that he could succeed by releasing the Titans in eighteen years, but if Zeus' son, Hercules, is to fight Hades, he will fail. Hades sends his minions, Pain and Panic, to kidnap baby Hercules and give him a potion that would render him mortal, in order to kill him. Hercules needs to drink every last drop for it to work, but the last drop is lost. Thus Hercules, while mortal, retains his god-like strength and spends his life on Earth. Pain and Panic, however, tell Hades that Hercules is dead, hoping that he will not find out.

Later, a young woman named Megara sells her soul to Hades so that he will return her lover's soul. He does, but Meg's lover ungratefully dumps her for another girl shortly afterward. Meg remains trapped as a slave to Hades, and he uses her beauty, charm, and intelligence as an advantage to persuade monsters to join his army. After discovering that Hercules is still alive, Hades sends numerous grotesque beasts to finish Hercules off, only for Hercules to slay everyone with ease. When he finds out that Hercules has strongly fallen romantically in love with Megara, he uses this to his advantage and makes a deal with Hercules: Herc must give up his god-like strength for the next twenty-four hours (secretly the same twenty-four hours Hades will use to take over Olympus) in exchange for Meg's freedom. Herc agrees, as long as Meg will be safe from any harm. After the deal is made, Hades then reveals that Megara was working for him the whole time, crushing Hercules' will to fight. Hades then releases the Titans, who defeat and imprison the gods, and sends the Cyclops to kill the weakened and discouraged Hercules to keep him from getting in the way, but Hercules defeats the monster using his wits.

However, Megara is grievously injured after saving Hercules from a falling pillar, negating Hades' deal that Meg would not be hurt. Hercules is thus given his godly powers back and returns to Mount Olympus where he easily takes down the Titans and frees the gods. Hades loses his temper, but he taunts Hercules that he at least has a parting gift; while Hercules was fighting the Titans, Megara died from her injuries. Hercules travels to the Underworld to rescue her soul and offers himself to Hades in exchange for Megara's freedom. He swims into the River Styx to retrieve her soul. It almost kills him, when his full cosmic godhood is restored by his being willing to risk his own life to save the woman he loves. Hercules emerges from the pit, alive and immortal with Megara's soul in his arms, much to Hades' anger. Knowing that he can't stop Hercules in his path, Hades begs the hero to try and ease things with him and the other gods, but Hercules angrily punches Hades into the River Styx, where he is swarmed by unidentified souls and dragged to the depths where he is trapped.

#### Meeting Persephone and Maleficent

Sometime after being trapped in Styx, Fairy Godmother used her magic to take him out of Styx and put him on the Isle. Around the same time, Persephone and some other undergods were sent in the Isle due to being associated with the god of the underworld. Hades and Persephone met directly and at first the two hit it off and dated for a good 3-5 years before breaking up when Maleficent came into the picture. Persephone became pregnant with Hadie at the time and scared of commitment he left and dated Maleficent for another few years until she became pregnant with Mal and Hades left agian. Although this time, it wasn't just the commitment the reason Hades left, it was also Maleficent's toxicity towards Hades with endless gaslighting and guilt tripping to the point Hades couldn't take it anymore and left. Mal and Hadie would both grow up without Hades in the picture with Hadie in a much more loving home and Mal in a more antagonistic home as Maleficent trains Mal to be evil.