List of Disney's Hercules characters
The following are fictional characters from Disney's 1997 film Hercules and from the derived TV series. These productions are adaptations of Greek mythology, very different from the classical versions. Hercules. Hercules is the title character of the franchise. He is based on the mythological Heracles, most known under the Roman spelling Hercules. In the original movie, Josh Keaton voiced Hercules as a teenager, while Tate Donovan was the hero as an adult, and Roger Bart was Hercules' singing voice in the song "Go the Distance". His appearance is a handsome young man, with  orange hair, eyebrows and wide blue eyes. Hercules is represented an overgrown gangly youth who doesn't know his own strength goes about inadvertently destroying things or humiliating himself. As a gawky and awkward teenager wearing a one-sleeved Greek tunic, Hercules is depicted as tall and thin, with broad, but stooped shoulders, extraordinarily long arms and legs, huge hands and pigeon-toed feet, a long skinny neck, and oversized ears. After completing his hero training, Hercules physically changes to being top-heavy and muscular, having larger biceps and pectorals and thickened neck, as well as a stance that changes  from stooped and pigeon-toed to upright, with the chest puffed out and his feet now nicely turned out. However, despite his bravado and becoming the model of physical perfection as an adult, Hercules still retains some of his teenage flaws, such as being shy, awkward, timid, staring in horror, having a staggered stance, the tendency to humiliate himself as well as his clumsiness. As a hero, Hercules wears a brown-orange brass Cuirass-like tank armor tunic with a blue cape. In the original movie, instead of the demigod hero son of Zeus and the mortal Alcmene, Hercules was  actually born on Mount Olympus with all the powers of a god, and his parents were Zeus and Hera, the latter of whom has been re-imagined as a loving mother instead of a spiteful stepmother. However, one god is upset about the new arrival: Hercules' evil uncle Hades, who wants to take control of Olympus and the world along with all of creation. Knowing that as a god, Hercules is immortal and invulnerable, Hades sends his two lackeys, Pain and Panic, to kidnap Hercules and turn him mortal by means of a magic potion. However, the arrival of two  mortals, Amphitryon and Alcmene, causes Hercules to miss the final drop of the potion, causing him to retain his superhuman strength. The couple then adopts the child, considering his arrival a gift from the gods since they are themselves childless. Zeus and the other gods discover the kidnapping too late, and because Hercules is now mortal, he cannot return to Mount Olympus. Growing up into a teenager, Hercules has difficulty being accepted by others, due to being a geek as well as his clumsiness and not being able to control his godlike strength which leads to him accidentally destroying  a marketplace. Shortly after, Hercules is told about his adoption by Amphitryon and Alcmene. This inspires Hercules to visit the temple of Zeus, where he learns of his godhood. Zeus tells Hercules that he must prove himself a true hero, instructing him to find the trainer of heroes Philoctetes (or "Phil"), while giving him the winged horse Pegasus to assist. Phil at first declines returning to the hero training business, unconvinced that Hercules was the son of Zeus, but is convinced after Zeus strikes him with lightning. Having reached adulthood and passed his training, full of confidence and bravado, an  eager Hercules sets off with Phil to become a hero in Thebes. On his way, after a few sloppy mistakes, Hercules saves Megara from Nessus, a centaur acting as river guardian, and is immediately smitten with the young woman. Unbeknownst to Hercules, Meg is working for Hades (albeit unwillingly) and relates the events to the Lord of the Underworld, by which he learns that Hercules is still alive and plots to kill the would-be hero at the start of his career. Meanwhile, Hercules arrived in Thebes and announces himself as a hero, only for the Thebans to say they  want a professional not an amateur and wouldn't give Hercules a chance to prove himself. Meg appears and lures Hercules into saving two boys (Pain and Panic in disguise) trapped in a cave in a rocky canyon. After freeing the "boys" from under a rock, Hercules in reality releases a serpent-like creature, the Hydra, an unintended consequence of a seemingly virtuous act which has been set up as a fixed contest by Hades to kill Hercules. As a crowd of Thebans watch, Hercules bravely faces the Hydra with just his sword and his wits, albeit with clumsy fighting  techniques, during which he scrambles to defeat the frightening foe. Although the beast initially swallows him whole, Hercules cuts his way out by decapitation. Standing next to the Hydra's headless steaming carcass, Hercules thought he did great, only for three more heads to grow back. Flying around on Pegasus, Hercules is forced on the defensive; he keeps slicing even though he knows it's a bad idea and ends up inside a swarm of Hydra necks, as the snarling heads gang up to attack him. Finally, Hercules smashed his fists into the mountainside, causing an avalanche that burying the  multi-headed monster under a mountain of rocks. Having accomplished the unsavory yet heroic task, Hercules emerges victorious, earning newfound fame and adoration from the citizens of Thebes as well as the anger of Hades. After defeating the Hydra, Hercules continued his heroics: subduing monsters and overcoming disasters. By this time, Hercules has disposed a variety of other monsters sent by Hades and the hero becomes the toast of Greece. Meeting with Zeus, Hercules believes himself ready to rejoin the gods but is greatly upset when his father tells him that his celebrity status is not enough to regain his  immortality, as being famous isn't the same as being a "true hero", and to "look inside his heart". After escaping fangirls, which he gets nervous about, Meg convinces Hercules to play hookie, going on a date. At first, she was trying to learn any weakness he might have, but she eventually fell as hard for him as he had for her. The date is ended by Phil, irate at Hercules for skipping training. Phil is knocked off Pegasus, and wakes up in time to learn of Meg's involvement with Hades. He leaves to tell Hercules, not hearing Meg 's refusal to help destroy Hercules. Hercules, ecstatic from the date, refuses to believe Phil's warning about Megara, even hitting him in a flash of blind anger, prompting Phil to quit. Hades, realizing that Meg herself is Hercules' weakness, confronts Hercules, offering Megara's safety if the hero will give up his strength for 24 hours. Hercules is reluctant to see anyone hurt, but Hades vows that no harm will come to Meg. Hercules agrees, and Hades takes the opportunity to humiliate him before revealing Megara's role in his scheme. Enacting his plan, Hades sends a Cyclops to  destroy Hercules. Without his superhuman strength and crushed by Meg's betrayal, Hercules is brutally beaten about by the monster but is able to defeat the Cyclops and send him hurtling off a cliff. The monster's fall causes a pillar to topple towards Hercules and Meg pushes him out of the way, taking the impact of the pillar. This in turn causes Hercules to regain his strength because Hades' end of the bargain is now broken as he promised that Meg wouldn't get hurt. Hercules leaves Megara in the care of his friends while he rushes off to  thwart Hades' invasion of Olympus. Freeing the captured gods, he captures three of the Titans in the tornado body of the fourth and throws them into space, where they explode. He returns to Meg's side only to learn that her injuries were fatal. However, he then travels to the Underworld to rescue Meg's spirit from the River Styx, which swiftly ages mortals upon contact. Hercules nevertheless enters the pool to rescue Megara's soul. He is able to reach Meg before he dies and his selfless act fulfills the requirement for being a true hero, thus regaining his  godhood. He then punches Hades into the River Styx, and returns Meg's soul to her body. He is invited by Zeus to live in Olympus, but he decides to live his life on Earth with Megara. In originating the design for the infant version of Hercules used in the film, animator Randy Haycock drew inspiration by videotaping a friend's six-month-old and by renting movies with babies in them, while the curly hairstyle for baby Hercules was derived from the appearance of Haycock's infant daughter. He adds, "Hercules' mannerisms come right off things I've picked  up from her", even though Hercules is more caricatured than a real baby. The inspiration for teenage Hercules came from Haycock's experiences as an adolescent. "I was too tall and skinny for my age, and I was a lousy athlete. At home I broke just about everything..." Teenage Hercules has big hands and feet that the animator remembers having himself, as well as the lack of coordination. Andreas Deja was supervising animator for the adult version of Hercules. He studied photographs of Olympic athletes, not the weightlifters with short necks and bulging muscles, but the swimmers, with long necks  and natural musculature. Essentially, he wanted to return to the Greek tradition of character drawing. As Deja explains, this means "straight nose, pursed lips – almost cherubic, large eyes, a lidded look...The classic style you find on Greek vases or drawings." The 1998 TV series "Hercules: The Animated Series" follows the character's teenage adventures before the main events of the film, with Tate Donovan reprising his role. Taking place during the years he spent training on how to be a hero under the tutelage of satyr Phil, the Greek god Hercules is still in "geek god" mode, before his  Zero to Hero transformation, and is also referred to as a "demigod" throughout the series. Young Hercules is a hero-in-training also enrolled at Prometheus Academy, a high school for both gods and mortals. Since events occur before young Hercules meets and falls for the lovely Megara, he is joined by two new friends Icarus and Cassandra. Many of the Olympian Gods and Goddesses pay visit to the young hero-to-be and help or hinder him in his new adventures and there is a character that is named Hermes. Hercules has also appeared in the "Kingdom Hearts" series . In the series, Sora must help Hercules defeat the evil Hades who, having joined Maleficent's main group of Disney Villains, is still trying to take over Olympus. In the first game, he is voiced by Sean Astin, but Tate Donovan reprises his role in the later games, as does Josh Keaton as the younger Hercules in the prequel "". His Japanese voice is done by Yasunori Matsumoto, with Masakazu Suzuki voicing the younger Hercules in "Birth by Sleep". Hercules also appeared in the television series "Disney's House of Mouse", in the Walt Disney World version of "Fantasmic!", at the  Walt Disney Parks and Resorts occasionally for greetings in the Long Lost Friends area and in Fantasyland. Hercules also had his own stage show on the Disney Cruise Line. Hercules appears on the 13th episode of the fifth season of "Once Upon a Time" portrayed by Jonathan Whitesell. Megara. Megara (commonly shortened to Meg) is a young woman who used to work for Hades, the Lord of the Underworld. Megara has fair skin and waist-length dark auburn hair which is pulled into a ponytail. She appears to wear purple makeup to match the color of her eyes and a  Grecian-style dress. She also wears a dark purple loose-sash around her waist. Sometime during the events of "Hercules", Meg went to Hades and sold her soul to revive a lover of hers who had died. Hades agreed on the condition that she serve him forever, which she accepted. However, shortly after her lover was revived, he fell in love with someone else and ungratefully left Meg locked in servitude to Hades. While Meg follows Hades' orders, she shows open defiance at times and a cheeky attitude. Meg first appears on screen while trying to convince the centaur Nessus  to join Hades' forces, only to have him attempt to seduce her. Hercules intervenes, defeating Nessus in a fight and becoming enamoured of Meg, which Hades plans to use to his advantage. Later in Thebes, Meg lures Hercules to the Hydra, whom he defeats. After Hercules achieves several more victories, Meg is openly smug and confident that he cannot be defeated. Hades offers Meg her freedom in exchange for discovering Hercules' weakness. Meg, however, develops feelings for Hercules instead. Eventually Hades realizes that Meg's affection is perhaps his only undoing and uses her as leverage to convince Hercules  to give up his enhanced strength for one day in return for her safety; if the deal is broken, his superhuman strength returns. To prevent Meg from persuading Hercules to deny this, Hades has her bound and gagged with smoke. Hades then reveals Meg worked for him all along, causing him to leave Hercules heartbroken. Meg and Phil later find Hercules being clobbered by the Cyclops and saves him from the fall of a collapsing column and dies in process. Hercules succeeds in reclaiming her spirit and restoring her life during his foray into the Underworld. Once ascended to the  Olympus, he declines a place offered to him among the gods to live with Meg on the world (underworld) In "", Meg appeared twice, once as a teenager and once as an adult from the movie timeline. She meets Hercules, offering a chance to prove himself as a hero. Having him retrieve her the amphora so she can use it to forget about Adonis who she had a blind date with that went badly. They do retrieve it from Ares' sons, but Meg leaves Hercules to escape. She is immediately taken to the Underworld by Pain and Panic; Hercules, despite her  betrayal, goes after her. During a fight for the amphora, Meg tells Hercules that she liked him from the start. They almost kiss, but the amphora's water is dropped on them, causing them to forget how they met, and reinforcing the fact that Hercules and Meg never established any relationship until the film. Another episode, "Hercules and the Yearbook", takes place after the events of the film and features Hercules and Meg moving his stuff from Phil's island. Hermes delivers a special package, which Hercules immediately hides from Meg. Phil reveals all of Hercules' incidents during his school  time, and Hercules tells Meg he did not want to show her the yearbook because he wants her to see him as a hero. Meg tells him that she accepts that part of his life as an awkward phase, and loves him just the same. However, this does not stop Hercules from having Hermes retrieve Meg's own yearbook where it is revealed Meg was a cheerleader and in the glee club. Meg appears in "Kingdom Hearts II" and meets Sora in the Underworld entrance. She assists Sora in the fight against the Hydra by providing useful items. She returns  in the sequel, "Kingdom Hearts III". She also appears in "Disney's House of Mouse" as a guest. In all English-language media, Meg is voiced by Susan Egan. Kacey Rohl played the live-action version of Meg in the fifth season of "Once Upon a Time". Meg is loosely based on the mythological Megara, first wife of Hercules in mythology, with undertones from another mythological figure, Deianira, who in Greek mythology was the third wife of Hercules. Phil. Philoctetes (Phil for short), is a satyr who is a trainer of aspiring heroes who has often been disappointed by his  trainees' shortcomings. He has long-since retired after failing to train a successful hero, but is convinced to train the callow young Hercules. While training Hercules or watching him fight, Phil would constantly utter at least one of his 101 rules. After his training is complete, Phil, Hercules and Pegasus set out for the city of Thebes for Hercules to use his skills and to prove his newfound worth as a hero. Along the way, Hercules saves a woman named Megara from being pestered by the centaur Nessus, though Phil berates Hercules for the sloppy mistakes he made in the  fight. While Hercules becomes attracted to Megara, Phil immediately clashes with her, considering her a distraction. After Hercules offers himself as a hero in Thebes, with Phil insists that he was the "genuine article", the Thebans dismiss Hercules as an "amateur" rather than a professional hero. Phil ran for cover while Hercules battled the Hydra, until the young hero emerges victorious by burying the multi-headed monster in a landslide. Upon the defeat of the Hydra and other various monsters, Phil becomes a personal manager to the celebrity hero Hercules has become. Later in the film, Phil discovers that Megara  is working for Hades, her mission being to find Hercules' weakness. Phil tries to warn Hercules, but abandons him after an argument ensues. When Hercules loses his powers to Hades, Megara convinces Phil to return to Hercules, motivating him into battling and defeating the Cyclops through improvisation. During the fight, Megara is mortally wounded by a falling column to save Hercules, and Phil is left taking care of Megara while Hercules fights Hades and the Titans. After Hercules defeats Hades, Phil goes with Hercules to Mount Olympus, where he is seen making out with Aphrodite. When Hercules and his friends  return to Thebes, Phil is gratified when the people refer to the mighty and triumphant Hercules as "Phil's boy". In the TV series "" Phil is still Hercules's coach and is now his best friend and sidekick. His training with Odysseus and Achilles remains intact. Phil has also appeared in the Disney/Square Enix video game series "Kingdom Hearts", as well as in the TV series "Disney's House of Mouse". In the film, Philoctetes' voice is provided by Danny DeVito, while Robert Costanzo fills the role in the character's video game and television appearances. Ichirō Nagai supplies  Phil's Japanese voice, while Lakis Lazopoulos was cast for Phil's voice in the Greek-language version of the film. Pegasus. Pegasus (vocal effects by Frank Welker) is the winged horse of Hercules, created by Zeus out of clouds. Pegasus is very true and a great "friend" of Hercules and helps in everything. Described by Zeus himself as "a magnificent horse with the brain of a bird", Pegasus' behavior mixes elements of both a steed and a bird, with habits such as clicking his tongue, whistling, and at times, perching on one of Hercules' shoulders. The characterization is under  the archetype of a "friendly beast". Frank Welker does Pegasus' horse sounds. Pegasus has also appeared in the Disney/Square Enix video games "Kingdom Hearts II" and "Kingdom Hearts III". Hades. Hades (voiced by James Woods) is the brother of Zeus and Poseidon. Unlike his mythological counterpart, who is typically portrayed as a feared but relatively passive deity, he is a fast-talking, ornery, lord of the underworld: a combination of Satan and a sleazy dodgy persuasive Hollywood agent type/car dealer. He wears a dark robe with a skull-shaped perone fastening his chiton and his hair is a  glowing blue flame which flares up whenever he becomes excited or — more famously — flares red whenever he becomes enraged, and can also be extinguished. Hades seeks to overthrow Zeus and rule the universe, in line with other pop-culture Hades's being villainous due to association with death. In "Hercules", upon visiting the Fates, Hades learns that he could succeed at universal conquest by releasing the Titans in eighteen years, but if Hercules should fight, Hades will fail. He sends his minions, Pain and Panic, to kidnap baby Hercules and give him a potion that would render him mortal, and  kill him. Hercules needs to drink every last drop for it to work, but ends up losing the last drop, thus retaining his godlike strength. Pain and Panic, however, tell Hades that Hercules is dead, hoping that he will not find out. Later, as revealed in "", Hades passes time by trying other plans to take over Olympus, such as tricking the other gods into swimming in the waters of Lethe to forget their pasts, arranging for the sun to be stolen, or sending Cerberus after a temporarily mortal Zeus. One episode even had a crossover where Jafar makes a deal  with Hades, in order to make Hercules and Aladdin fight each other. While Hades and Jafar had numerous things in common, Jafar's evil laugh consistently got on the more smooth-talking Hades' nerves — at least until he tried it for himself, calling it "cleansing." Back to the original film: a young woman named Megara (who also appeared in the animated series) sells her soul to Hades so that he will return her boyfriend's soul. He does, but Meg's boyfriend ungratefully dumps her for another girl afterwards. 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 sets up the Hydra as a fixed contest, with a crowd assembled to view the humiliation and destruction of Hercules, only for the multi-headed monster to be buried in a rockslide. Frustrated, Hades sends more monsters, only for Hercules to defeat them all. When he finds out that Hercules has fallen in love with Megara, he uses this to his advantage and makes a deal with Hercules: he must give up his superhuman strength for the  next twenty-four hours in exchange for Meg's freedom. Hercules agrees, as long as Meg will be safe from any harm. 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 Hercules to keep him from getting in the way, but Hercules defeats the monster using his wits. However, Megara is seriously injured saving Hercules from a falling pillar, negating Hades's deal that Meg would not be hurt. Hercules is thus given his powers  back and returns to Mount Olympus where he defeats the Titans and frees the gods. Hades is upset by this, but he taunts Hercules that he at least has a parting gift; while Hercules was fighting the Titans, Megara died from her injuries. At the film's post-climax battle, 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, but his godhood is restored by his being willing to risk his own life to save  the woman he loves. Hercules emerges from the pit with Megara's soul in his arms, much to Hades' shock and 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 vengeful souls and dragged to the depths. Hades appears in the "Kingdom Hearts" series of video games. He was originally in league with Maleficent, using the Heartless to try to take over the worlds. Hades wanted to dispose of  Hercules and tricked Cloud Strife into challenging Hercules in the Preliminaries at the Olympus Colliseum. In return, Hades "promised" Cloud he will lead him to Sephiroth. However, when Sora arrived, Hades changed plans and had Cloud attack Sora first. When Cloud refused to kill Sora (or was defeated by him, depending on the outcome), Hades sends out Cerberus to take care of Cloud. Hercules arrived to get Cloud to safety while Sora & company dealt with Cerberus. After Maleficent's defeat, Hades himself battles Sora and lost as all his schemes against Sora and the others end in failure. In "", a  facsimile Hades appeared as token of Sora's memory and the darkness in Riku's heart. In "Kingdom Hearts II", Hades's desire to kill Hercules is still undeterred. After joining forces with Pete, and probably Maleficent through him, Hades decides to use Auron, who has already died, to fight against Hercules and kill him; however, Auron rebels against Hades and fights him, only to be interrupted by Sora, Donald Duck and Goofy. They fight Hades, but, due to the Underworld curse, he is invincible to their attacks. Hades then sends Cerberus and later the Hydra against Sora and his  friends. Upon discovering that Sora's Keyblade could unlock any lock, Hades initially plans to use it to unlock the Underdrome, the Underworld's own coliseum. However, when Pete informs him that the Keyblade will only work for Sora, Hades kidnaps Meg and traps her in the locked Underdrome, forcing Sora to unlock it to rescue her. After defeating Pete and the Hydra again, Sora and his friends eventually fight and defeat Hades. However, Hades survives and acts as a challenger in the last tournaments, which are unlocked near the end of the game. In the prequel, "Kingdom Hearts Birth  by Sleep", he attempts to use Terra to kill Hercules, but Terra resists the Darkness in his heart, so Hades places Zack under his control to eliminate both Terra and Hercules, but Terra defeats Zack and frees him from Hades' influence. Later, Hades and the Ice Colossus (a replica of the Ice Titan) both fight Aqua in the Coliseum, but Aqua defeats the both of them and Hades flees to the Underworld to further his plans. in "Kingdom Hearts III", Hades puts his final plan into motion, unleashing all the Titans to assault Olympus, but Hercules, along with Sora, Donald , and Goofy, were able to thwart his plans. James Woods reprises his role for the English versions of the games, while his Japanese voice in all the games is done by Japanese stage actor Kyusaku Shimada, who does an impersonation of Woods. Hades stars in "Villains Tonight" on the Disney Magic and Disney Dream. "Villains Tonight" is a musical stage show featuring many different villains from various Disney films, including Doctor Facilier, Ursula, Scar, Yzma, Maleficent, Evil Queen, Captain Hook, Cruella de Vil, Jafar, and his two sidekicks Pain and Panic. The story here is Hades has "softened a bit  and made the Underworld a fun place. Unfortunately, the Fates tell him he has until midnight to get more evil or he will no longer rule the Underworld. So he summons the most evil villains in his quest to become more evil. Hades also appears in several episodes of Disney's House of Mouse". In one episode, he tried to ask Maleficent out on a date and asked Mickey for advice. When Mickey's kind and nice ways did not sway Maleficent, Hades won her over by showing his own, fiery personality in a fit of rage towards Mickey. The  two were referred to by Minnie Mouse as "a match not made in heaven". On another occasion, when Pete tries to get the House closed by turning up the thermostat- Mickey's contract stating that the House will close if it is ever empty-, Hades' ability to tolerate heat means that he remains comfortable in the House despite the rise in temperature, thus allowing Mickey to keep the House open. He is also one of the main villains in the full-length spin-off "Mickey's House of Villains"; James Woods only provides the voice for one line ("Ha – love  that") in response of a Halloween joke by Mickey, and Rob Paulsen provides the singing voice when Hades sings the lines "Where everyone's a friend of mine!" and "What a place for breakin' bread!" in the song "It's Our House Now!". He also appears briefly in "". An iteration of this Hades made his live-action debut in the second half of the fifth season of "Once Upon a Time", portrayed by Greg Germann. Another iteration appears in "Descendants 3", portrayed by Cheyenne Jackson. Hades is among the villains imprisoned on the Isle of the Lost, despite his godhood . He is revealed to be Mal's father and the ex-husband of Maleficent who left Mal and her mother when she was just a baby. Hades briefly lent his ember to Mal in order to undo a spell done by a jealous Audrey. He was later brought over from the Isle of the Lost to revive Audrey. By the end of the film, Hades approves of Mal's marriage to Ben as interaction between Auradon and the Isle of the Lost is allowed. In this case, Hades think that the punishment of Bestia is injust and that he has  a prejudice about the villains Pain and Panic. Pain and Panic (voiced by Bobcat Goldthwait and Matt Frewer) are a pair of shapeshifting demons who are Hades's minions. Pain is a fat, crimson-shaded demon, and Panic is skinny and turquoise. Panic is paranoid, twitchy, panicky, and easily spooked, as his name suggests, but he appears to be relatively smart and is very cautious. He appears to be more honest than Pain. Pain, on the other hand, is bossy, hot-tempered, and sly, but also clumsy, impulsive and liable to get into painful situations, and seems to be less  intelligent than Panic. In the movie, Hades sends them to kidnap baby Hercules, make him mortal, and kill him. The imps obey and capture him in the middle of the night, but fail to kill him, and only half-succeed in making him mortal: he keeps his godlike strength, allowing him to dispose of the pair before they have a chance to kill him. Not wanting Hades to know about their failure, they tell him that Hercules is dead. Many years later Hades discovers that Hercules is actually alive. To try and grovel sufficiently they become insects, reminding Hades they  could still kill Hercules in the time left. Throughout the rest of the movie, they're seen either cheering Hades's monsters on, grovelling to Hades, or using their powers to contact Megara. When Hades plots against Hercules, Pain and Panic manage to lure and capture Pegasus by assuming the form of a female Pegasus. At the end of the movie, Hades is punched into the river Styx, and the two are left watching him go down into the river, hoping that he won't return. Pain and Panic also appear in the , and still serve as Hades's lackeys . They made many brief appearances in the "House of Mouse" television series, usually along with Hades (though there was one episode in which they broke up Pinocchio and Jiminy Cricket without Hades's aid) and had a very small role in "Kingdom Hearts II", where they are working for Hades and work at the Underdrome, but have no other purpose. Gods. Greek Gods. Titans. The Titans were the giant rulers of the world when it was first created, rampaging until they were imprisoned by Zeus. Four of the five Titans each represent one of the four elements. When the planets  were in alignment, Hades freed the Titans and directed them to Mount Olympus. They were defeated by Zeus and Hercules as Hercules sent the Titans flying into outer space where they exploded. The animated series added some of the named Titans from mythology: Norse Gods. In the episode "Hercules and the Twilight of the Gods", Hercules and Phil visit Valhalla and meet the Norse gods, including: Egyptian Gods. In "Hercules and the Romans", the gods of the Egyptian mythology earn temporary worship from the Roman Empire before the Greek pantheon assumes this role and after being driven away by Hercules  and Icarus. Prometheus Academy. The Prometheus Academy is the fictional high school from the Disney animated television series "". Though set in Ancient Greece (specifically Athens), the Academy shares many traits with modern educational institutions. It is coeducational, with both male and female students, and teaches such diverse subjects as history, astronomy, shop class, theater arts and "Home Greconomics". Prometheus Academy is the school that the teenaged Hercules attends while training with #Philoctetes to become a hero in the Disney movie "Hercules". Many of the other students at the Academy are based on characters from mythology. The Academy was named after  the Titan Prometheus, who brought fire from Mount Olympus (the metaphorical ""light of reason"") to mankind, and was punished by Zeus being chained to a rock and having his liver pecked out by an eagle every day forever. A bronze statue of Prometheus being administered in his punishment is the central point of the Academy's courtyard. Prometheus Academy staff. The following are the faculty members of Prometheus Academy: Jr. Prometheus Academy students. The junior school attached to Prometheus Academy. The students that attend are also figures from mythology or ancient history, though preteen versions of those characters, before they  became famous. One of their teachers is Mr. Aesop, who tells stories (his eponymous fables) in order to teach the students by means of his morals. Supporting characters. One episode featured a crossover with "Aladdin", in which Hades and Jafar (voiced by Jonathan Freeman) team up to destroy both their respective archnemesis (ignoring that these two series seem to take place a thousand years apart from each other).