Editing Hades

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|journalCOD='''Character File'''<br>The God of the Underworld, a former (and still aspiring!) world conqueror who would like nothing more than to see Hercules wiped off the face of the planet.<br>With the Coliseum a tangle of bugs and Cloud a tangle of emotional issues, he ought to have found a way, but Sora showed up just in time to show HIM up, and prove once again that sliminess doesn't pay.<br><br>'''Enemy Profile'''<br>God of the Underworld and ex-ruler of the cosmos. If you think his attacks are fiery, watch out for that temper. Once you've really burned Hades up, he'll start summoning Heartless. Don't wait for him to tun up the heat; this is one foe you'll want to cool off as early as possible.

  |journalKH3=Hercules (1997)<br><br>God of the Underworld. Undaunted by all the losses he suffered at Hercules' hands, he revived the Titans and tried to use them to overthrow Zeus and claim Olympus as his own.

Displeased with there being no good warriors that could do his bidding at the coliseum, Hades is surprised to find [[Terra]]; finding him powerful and gullible, Hades convinces him that combat experience would help him master [[darkness]]. Seeing him not relying on it, Hades uses darkness to make [[Zack]] his puppet; however Terra frees Zack, disappointing Hades that neither was good enough.

 

Keeping tabs on the Games, Hades waited until the East Division's last match was over to find the winner. However, he was disappointed a "little bluebird" named [[Aqua]] was the winner. After insulting Terra, Hades faces off against Aqua with the [[Ice Colossus]] in the West vs East title match. However, the "snowcone" evaporates due to being an inferior copy, prompting Hades to leave in a rage and let Aqua win by default.

[[File:This Is My Underworld 01 KHII.png|thumb|200px|Hades becomes furious at Pete's meddling.]]

[[File:Return of the Titans 01 KHIII.png|thumb|Maleficent and Pete asking Hades if he knows of a black box.]]

Frustrated with the lack of progress with his plans to take over [[Olympus]] by using Terra, Cloud, and Auron, Hades decides to free the [[Rock Titan]], [[Ice Titan]], [[Tornado Titan]], and [[Lava Titan]] from their prisons. Hades attacks Thebes to keep Hercules busy, allowing him to ascend Mount Olympus with the Titans unimpeded. However, to his surprise, Hades hears someone yelling for Hercules and finds that Sora, Donald, and Goofy have arrived. After they taunt him about his failures, Hades calls upon the Titans to show them their power, creating a powerful gust that blows them to Thebes. To his annoyance, Maleficent and Pete arrive next, and he flatly dismisses them. However, Maleficent tells him that she is only there to find out if there is a distinctive [[Black Box|black box]] in his world. Hades thinks they mean Pandora's Box and tells them that it is buried in the gardens in Thebes.

[[File:The Definition of a Hero 01 KHREC.png|thumb|left|200px|A reddish-orange Hades as he appears when he gets mad.]]

In his normal state, Hades has blue skin and blue flaming "hair". His eyes are completely yellow except for his black pupils. He has very sharp teeth and an unnatural black mouth. His face is quite long and thin, with his chin jutting out curtly. His fingers are long, thin, and clawed. He wears what appears to be a dark grey shirt underneath a black toga, the latter of which seems to be held up by a small skull pin on his right shoulder. Hades's feet are never visible, due to the length of his robes.

When Hades gets mad, he quite literally erupts with rage; his skin turns a reddish-orange and his hair flares up in a bevy of glowing flames.

{{Q|What is so funny, you imbeciles?  How dare you get a happy ending!! How dare you!!|Hades, after Hercules rescued Meg}}

Due to his numerous defeats by Sora and Hercules, Hades seems to have become increasingly unstable (almost to the point of being bipolar). In ''Kingdom Hearts III'', he shows considerable calmness (be it aggravation or self-assurance) and extreme outrage upon seeing that his plans were falling apart one more time. After his last defeat, he appears to have lost all hope of ever conquering the cosmos, but he remains incredibly petty; he threatened to toss Meg into the Styx again, only to get hit by Zeus's bolt.

Hades is the most forceful recurring boss in the ''Kingdom Hearts'' series who always makes heavy use of Fire elemental magic in his encounters. The Lord of the Dead has high amounts of HP, and can even become invulnerable for short periods of time. In the first ''Kingdom Hearts'', Hades is fought only in the final rounds of the Hades Cup. In ''Kingdom Hearts II'', he is fought not only as a scripted boss but also in the Hades Paradox Cup.

[[File:Hades - Hercules (1996).png|thumb|Hades in ''{{w|Hercules (1997 film)|Hercules}}''.]]

Hades originates from the Disney 1997 film ''Hercules'', based on {{w|Hades|the god of the dead}} from Greek myth. While the Greek version of this deity has a humanoid depiction and is, for the most part, a relatively passive but unmerciful deity, the Disney version is depicted as an evil god with a hatred for his brother Zeus, jealous of being assigned to the Underworld while his younger brother became ruler of Olympus. Both versions of Hades also have a series of demonic beasts at their disposal, and reign supreme over the souls of the dead. Believers in the Grecian Hades would show their devotion to their god by going as far as to bang on the ground to ensure he was listening to their prayers. Major differences between these two depictions of Hades are that the Disney Hades is trying to overthrow Zeus, has an affiliation with fire, and is served by the demons [[Pain and Panic]], qualities that were actually associated with {{w|Alcyoneus}}, {{w|Hephaestus}}, and {{w|Ares}}, respectively, in the original mythology.

In the Disney film, Hades crashes an infant Hercules's party, only to return to the Underworld and learn from the Fates that the boy would be the only thing that stood in the way of the Lord of the Dead's stealing his brother Zeus's job as Ruler of the Gods. He later has sidekicks Pain and Panic kidnap the baby and turn him mortal so that he could be killed, the dark god plotting while Hercules aged. Hades eventually found a girl named Megara in his ownership, using her to lure Hercules into his traps once he learned the hero had lived. Hades succeeded in freeing the Titans and taking over Olympus as prophesied eighteen years ago, yet he was defeated at Hercules's hand. The god was then sent tumbling into the River Styx.