Hades

Hades is a character from Hercules and is a regular recurring character in The Disney Club. He is the fast-talking but easygoing god of the Underworld with a fiery temper, who also acts as the husband of his realm's queen, Persephone, and the father of the realm's prince, Tom Lucitor.

## Personality

Hades is generally calm, cool, and collected. Despite his sinister looking appearance and dark domain, the lord of the Underworld presents himself a slightly comedic character with a self-aware, sarcastic and irreverent style of humor (with plenty of Dad jokes to embarrass his boy, of course). He is still somewhat bitter about his role as ruler of a literal hell hole, but he's come to accept his duty thanks to the influence of his wife and son. He also sometimes possess an uncontrollably fervid temper, with the smallest inconveniences sending him over the edge at times, causing fiery fits and extreme damage to the area and people around him, depending on the situation. This also happens whenever someone powerful enough threatens Perse or Tom. When that comes about... let's just say you don't wanna find out how hot his flames can get.

## Powers

* Immortality

As a god, Hades lives eternally. He does not age, nor can he die.

* Dominion over the Dead

As the Lord of the Underworld, Hades holds dominion over the dead and the spirits of those who died. Regardless, he does not *rule* the dead in the Underworld as the spirits in the River Styx have apparently threatened him at least once, and they dragged him down the Styx upon his defeat.

* Endurance

Though his endurance is extremely high (being able to withstand lava and freezing cold temperatures), Hades is not impervious to pain though, as he can still be injured by attacks from other Gods and mythological-like beings.

* Fire Manipulation

Much like his brother Zeus with clouds and lightning, Hades' power is mainly derived from fire and smoke (so much so, that his "hair" is made of flames). He can summon fire at will to attack his enemies and cause damage to anything in his vicinity. The extent of his literal firepower is practically unlimited, as he was able to burn an entire forest to the ground in a matter of seconds as a result of an outburst. His fire is fatal to mortals and can be severely damaging to otherworldly beings or even deities.

* Smoke Manipulation

Hades can create clouds of smoke that he can use to conjure objects and creatures from thin air. He also uses the smoke as a means to teleport himself with the snap of a finger, and even turn his arms into extendable, smoky appendages and use them to grab things or people from a distance.

## Relationships

### Persephone

Persephone is the first and, to this day, one of the only few good things Hades has gotten out of his immortal life, and as such, he treasures her dearly.

### Tom

As his only child, Hades loves Tom just as much as he does his beloved wife. Though he's also not afraid to throw as many Dad jokes his way as he can.

## Notes

While he still maintain his fire powers and all the wonderful car salesman-like charisma James Woods gave him in the original film, this version of Hades is the most drastically different from his original counterpart and many of the other villains in the series, since, well,... he's not a villain. No, rather than that, this version of the God of the Underworld takes much more inspiration from how he acted in the original Greek myths, especially the often overlooked fact that he wasn’t evil - in fact, he was one of the more personable deities of Ancient Greece, despite his job as lord of the dead. In fact, a small running gag in this series is how angry he gets whenever he's reminded of how most stories these days portray him as the bad guy even though he was the god given the lamest job. This of course also means giving him his wife from the original myths, Persephone (who had an extremely minimal role in the original film), with the two having as functional and loving a relationship as they do in most myths (obviously indicated by them being Tom's parents in this version of his story).