Peirithous (Class of the Titans)

### Goals

Get revenge on Hercules for leaving him in the Chair of Forgetfulness (formerly; failed)

### Crimes

Attempted murder
Kidnapping

### Type of MB

Vengeful Friend of a Hero

**Peirithous** is the main antagonist of the episode "Recipe for Disaster" in the animated mythology TV show *Class of the Titans*. He used to be one of Hercules' friends who got trapped along with Thesseus in the chair of forgetfulness in the underworld where Hercules could only save one of them. Reluctant to leave the other behind, Hercules chooses Thesseus, unwillingly leaving Peirithous to be trapped in said chair of forgetfulness for a millenia. Once his time was up, however, Hades reveals to him that his life's time was up too by the time he was done, causing Peirithous to develop a grudge against Hercules. During his time in the underworld, Peirithous gained knowledge about plants and healing from herbalists, healers, witches, and apothecaries. One day, he would use this knowledge to escape the underworld by drugging Cerberus' food and set up a revenge plot against Hercules.

He was voiced by Michael Donovan.

## What Makes Him Magnificent?

* He has a sympathetic motive for his actions, having been left by a reluctant Hercules who instead saved the other friend Thesseus in the Chair of Forgetfulness where he was trapped for a millennia and by the time he was released, Hades reveals to him that he was already dead.
* He becomes a professional at healing and plants due to knowledge he got from learning from healers, herbalists, witches, and apothecaries during his time in the underworld.
* He drugs Cerberus' food, causing him to fall asleep so that he could escape the underworld.
* Out of the underworld, he uses his skills to exact his revenge plot on Hercules through a brilliant plan that consists of him growing a plant he put in perfect soil by watering and giving it sunlight for months to the point of where it grew to a bush that lured the bees in the gods' garden to it so that they'd take the nectar from the bush instead of the garden and use it to make honey that the gods use to make ambrosia, causing the ambrosia they ate from the bush's nectar to induce them with dementia and turn them senile, Hercules included.
* Knowing that Hercules would take a stroll to the park with his dementia, he confronts him there and with Hercules not recognizing him due to it, Peirithous tricks him into coming with him on his horse and takes him to the location of the bush so that he could stare off into space for eternity as payback for leaving him behind.
* Noticing Jay, Atlanta, Archie, and Herry arrive to rescue Hercules, he tricks him into drinking a potion that causes him to develop a vision that views them as monsters to manipulate him into trying to kill them to get them out of the way.
* When Hercules reveals that he felt guilty about leaving Peirithous in the Chair of Forgetfulness and had no choice but to since he could only save either him or Thesseus, Peirithous sees the error of his ways and accepts defeat, allowing Jay and his friends to destroy the bush and turning over a new leaf by healing Atlanta using his skills when she's revealed to be severely stung by one of the bees, even preparing to go back to the underworld until Hercules had him stick around to catch him up on things.

## What Makes Him A Baddie?

* He drugs Cerberus' food to cause him to fall asleep so he could escape the underworld.
* He grows a plant that creates nectar for the bees to use for honey in their hive that the gods use as one of the ingredients to ambrosia, causing them to be induced with dementia and becoming senile.
* With Hercules having been induced with dementia too and taking a stroll in the park, he tricks him into coming with him with the intent of taking him to the location of the plant so that he could stare off into space for eternity as his revenge plot towards him for abandoning him in the chair of forgetfulness.
* When Jay, Atlanta, Archie, and Herry arrive to rescue Hercules, he tricks him into drinking a potion that causes them to appear as monsters in his vision so that he could kill them to get them out of the way.

## Trivia

* He and Cronus are the only characters from *Class of the Titans* to qualify as Magnificent Baddies.