Megara

**Megara**, or **Meg**, is one of the main characters in Disney's 1997 Hercules film. She first shown as Hades' ally to get rid of Hercules. It is later revealed that she was actually a prisoner since she sold her soul to Hades to safe her boyfriend but later left her for someone else. Meg appears as a main character in The Disney Roleplay.

## Other

### Allies:

**Canon:** Hades, Pain and Panic (all formerly), Hercules, Philoctetes, Pegasus, Olympian gods
**Fanon:** Charlotte Magne, Jackson Wells, Damian, Angel Dust, Alastor, Husk, Nifty, Deerie, Rachel, Honey, Bea, Beau

### Enemies:

**Canon:**Hades, Pain and Panic
**Fanon:** Maleficent, Evan Potter

## Physical Description

### Appearance:

Slender and tall, violet eyes and mulberry hair

## Background Information

### Books:

Olympus?
The Truth

## Background

### Personality

Meg is a free-spirited, independent, and quick-witted woman who is also hurt and bitter due to having her heartbroken by her boyfriend in the past.

She is also cynical, snarky, and world-weary, making her atypical among Disney's lead females. She plays enough of a heroic part in the movie, to be classed as a heroine, rather than just a romantic interest.

Meg has a very low opinion of men in general since most of her experiences with them have been negative. While Hercules falls for her at first sight, far from falling for him on the spot, she seduces him with her good looks, and then she dismisses him as putting on an 'innocent farm boy routine' and it is not until they spend actual time together that she begins to develop feelings for him.

Meg is afraid of heights, but overcomes her fear at the end of the film in order to save Hercules.

In their first meeting in the episode *Hercules and the Aetolian Amphora*, Meg wants to forget all about her ex-boyfriend (later shown to be Prince Adonis) and shows very little to no remorse but manipulate the young Hercules into helping her steal a jar of Lethe water.

Her attire is almost identical in this episode except that her skirt is much shorter. At the end of the episode, her memory is wiped, explaining how she and Hercules met 'for the first time' in the movie.

## Appearances

### Hercules

In the film, Meg, who was madly in love, sold her soul to Hades in order to save her beloved boyfriend's life. But shortly afterward he left her for some other woman, abandoning her and leaving her heartbroken and a prisoner of Hades. This leaves Meg feeling trapped, and she vowed to never fall in love again and became embittered towards men. She is first introduced when she is being harassed by Nessus, who shows perverse interest in her. Meg had attempted to recruit him in Hades' uprising. However, Hercules steps in on her behalf and saves her by defeating Nessus. Afterward, Hercules tries to strike up the conversation with Meg, though it does little but mildly amuse her. Following Hercules's departure, Meg is encountered by Hades, who adds two years to Meg's sentence as a result of her failure, leading her to throw the blame on Hercules, whom Hades thought was killed years ago after ordering his lackeys, Pain and Panic, to dispose of him. Megara is then recruiting in Hades' resurrected ambition to destroy Hercules.

She shows up again telling Hercules about two little boys (actually Pain and Panic) trapped under a boulder. When he goes to the rescue, she watches him from Hades' lair as he rescues the children and takes on the Hydra. Hercules manages to defeat the beast, and Meg is shown to be, for the first time, impressed by his determination and selflessness. From that point forward, Hercules goes on a winning streak against all of Hades' summoned monsters and becomes a famous hero, Hades resorts to deciding to use Meg as a pawn to find out Hercules's weakness. Although she refuses the job at first, Hades gets her to agree by promising her freedom if she succeeds or if not, her soul will stay with Hades forever. Thus, she pays Hercules a visit and manipulates him into going out with her. By the end of the day, Meg has clearly fallen for Hercules. Phil and Pegasus find them and interrupt it and drag Hercules home, though not before he gives her a flower. She then realizes her feelings for him and tries to deny it to herself.

Hades then comes in, asking Meg for Hercules's weakness. Meg responds by hotly refusing to aid Hades any further, to which Hades fiercely responds by declaring his ownership of her. Despite being bound to Hades, however, Meg is steadfast in choosing to protect Hercules due to her love for him. She then proudly declares that Hades' plot is doomed to failure as Hercules has no weakness, but by observing her purely intense and close romantic feelings towards the hero, Hades comes to realize that Meg *is* Hercules's weakness. Hades interrupts Hercules's training and uses a bound and gagged Meg to try to get Hercules to give up his strength for twenty-four hours in return for Meg's safety. The gagged Meg tries to talk against the deal, but to no avail—Hercules accepts the offer on the condition that Meg is safe from any harm during Hades' purge. Hades agrees but reveals to Hercules that Meg was working for him the entire time, much to her shame.

Deeply heartbroken, the now severely weakened Hercules loses the will to fight the Cyclops that Hades unleashes upon him. Meg finds and unties Pegasus and battles her fear of heights to find Phil, persuading him to come back and help Hercules regain his self-confidence and bravery. After Hercules manages to defeat the Cyclops using his wits, Meg sees a pillar collapsing onto him and, in a moment of selflessness, leaps to push him out of the way. Unfortunately, this means she is crushed by the pillar instead, sustaining huge internal injuries. This breaks Hades' contract, meaning that Hercules regains his strength. When Hercules asks why Meg would do something so dangerous, she finally admits that she loves him, stating, "People always do crazy things... when they're in love". Touched by her equally strong and genuine romantic feelings for him, Hercules promises Meg that she will survive and leaves her in Phil's care while he goes to stop Hades from taking over Mount Olympus.

After saving Olympus, Hercules races back to be with Meg rather than chasing Hades but arrives seconds after she has passed away from her injuries. He then travels to the Underworld and strikes a deal with Hades; trading his freedom for her life. Hades accepts and allows Hercules a chance to enter the River Styx to retrieve Megara's spirit. His sacrifice grants him the status of a "true hero", turning him into a god and allowing him to rescue Meg without dying in the process. Hades is subsequently defeated, and Megara's spirit is returned to her body. After she awakens, Hercules confesses his love for Megara, just before the two are brought to enter Olympus on a cloud, where she, being mortal, cannot follow. However, Hercules gives up his chance to be a god on Mount Olympus in order to live a complete mortal life on Earth with her. Hercules and Megara share their first kiss, officially declaring their love. Everyone celebrates and Megara and Pegasus establish a much better relationship where Pegasus has now hugely warmed up to her; whereas, in the beginning, he did not like her at all. Afterward, Hercules, Megara, and their friends return to Earth and witness Zeus making a constellation of Hercules in the sky. Meg goes on to live a happy and joyous life with Hercules as his beloved wife.