Philoctetes

Philoctetes, or "Phil" for short, is a satyr (a half man, half goat). He is the personal trainer of Hercules and runs the Olympus Coliseum. He can be grumpy and argumentative at times, but equally kind and generous. He often judges people before he gets to know them. Phil's dream is to train a hero so great that the gods will create an astrological sign in the sky, and people would say "That's Phil's boy". But Phil doubts this will ever happen at times, believing dreams are for rookies. His catchphrase is "two words" where he tells someone something, but it is in three words or more... or even less - one! Goofy often counts the words with his fingers.

Journal Entries

Kingdom Hearts

Phil the satyr is a veteran trainer of heroes and Herc's mentor. These days he's very busy running the Coliseum and choosing competitors suitable for the games.

He came out of retirement in "Hercules" (1997).

Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories

Trainer of countless heroes, including Hercules.

Nowadays Phil runs the Coliseum and manages the games.

Kingdom Hearts II

Hercules (1997)

Or "Phil" for short. Phil is a veteran trainer of heroes and Hercules's mentor. He also trained Sora and his friends during their first adventures with Hercules.

These days Phil is busy running the Coliseum and screening contestants for the games.

Story

Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep

Ten years prior to the events of the original Kingdom Hearts, Phil is training Hercules and Zack to become heroes. After seeing Ven fight the Unversed with Hercules and Zack, Phil begins to train him and see how he will do in the games.

Kingdom Hearts

Phil as seen in Kingdom Hearts

Phil is the coordinator of the games at Olympus Coliseum he asks Sora to move a rock thinking that he is Hercules. When Sora says he can't do it, Phil realizes it's not Hercules. He rejects Sora from participating in the games because he is not a true hero. This leads to a minigame that has Sora destroying barrels. Phil still rejects Sora from entering the games and tells him to go master this spell. When Sora leaves, he attains a pass from Hades. Phil grudgingly allows him in the games and teaches them as the games go on until the fight with Cloud. If Sora wins or loses,Cerberus shows up and attacks. Phil tells Sora, Donald and Goofy to run for it. After Hercules shows up to fight Cerberus and rescue Cloud, Phil worries about him and warns Sora when he enters the stadium to help. After the battle, Phil makes them junior heroes and from then allows Sora to compete in the games.

Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories

File:Phil-ChOfMem.pngFile:Phil2-ChOfMem.png Phil returns as memory and still runs the games. This time around, he makes it more into a race than an actual battle. He also gives the rules for competing.

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days

Phil trains Roxas for the Coliseum games, thinking he is the hero that Hercules mentioned when Roxas went on his mission with Xigbar. Roxas was often teamed with Demyx in this world, and battled against Xigbar in the final round of the games before a Guard Armor Heartless interrupted the match. Phil eventually realised that Roxas wasn't the hero Hercules had told him about, much to his dismay. However, Phil wasn't mad at Roxas and told him to come by to the Coliseum anytime he wants next time they met.

Kingdom Hearts II

Phil once again prepares games for Olympus Coliseum and tournaments for Hercules so he can wow the crowd. Phil again demands Sora do a test that is a mini game where Sora must destroy urns. Phil leaves right before the Olympus Stone is said to be stolen. Sora later finds him in the Underworld and was incapacitated by Demyx. He says he was looking for a new hero to have fight in the Coliseum since Hercules is slowing down. When the Hydra destroys the Coliseum, Phil is there to help Sora defeat it.

In the return visit Phil is seen cheering Hercules on against Auron. But also before the world is completed Donald asks Phil if they can become heroes now, Phil avoids the subject until stars in the sky form the images of Sora's group and Phil tries to hide his tears. This is most likely a sign from Zeus.

Kingdom Hearts coded

He is shown talking to Sora in the lobby of the Coliseum that he has trouble finding Hercules. After Sora heals the Coliseum he will trade with Sora a Power Chain for a Energy Bangle ++.

Personality

Phil is a grumpy yet caring satyr with high expectations. He lives on with a dream of training the ultimate hero, wanting a picture of them to be hung in the stars and for everyone to acknowledge his accomplishment. This had yet to happen, at least until Sora, Donald, and Goofy showed up at Olympus Coliseum in the first Kingdom Hearts. Phil put them through training in the games and showed them the great praise he had for Hercules. He also showed genuine concern when the friends tackled Cerberus. When the beast was defeated, he awarded "Junior Hero" to Sora and company, later lecturing them after their complaints of not receiving a higher rank.

While Sora slept under Naminé's care, Phil put a visiting Roxas under the same training, repeatedly mistaking him for a hero Hercules had mentioned to him. Roxas experienced the games during his missions there, not nearly pushed as hard as Hercules by Phil. By the time Phil realized Roxas wasn't the hero, the Nobody had all ready left the world.

In Kingdom Hearts II, Phil began to lose faith in Hercules. Seeking a new hero, he later risked his life to participate in the battle with the Hydra. He continued to care for the hero until Sora's next return, Phil's dream later coming true. Due to incorrect attitudes, however, Phil remained his stubborn self and refused to award Sora and friends the "Hero" status.

Appearance

Phil, being a satyr, has the lower body is that of a goat with orange fur and brown hooves. His upper body is that of a short man with an enormous gut and some hair on his chest and arms. The top of his head is bald, save for four strands of orange hair, while the back of his hair is about shoulder-length. He has a curly goatee and five o'clock shadow over most of his lower face. His nose is pink and bulbous and his ears are pointed. Phil has black eyes and a thin, brown unibrow. Finally, there ate two brown goat horns sprouting out of the top of his head.

Origin

In the classic Disney animated comedy Hercules, the young Hercules was instructed to find Philoctetes, trainer of heroes, in order to become a true hero and rejoin his family on Olympus. He found Phil on a distant island flirting with some imps, startled at first to see a satyr rather than what he mistook for a goat (Phil was spying on the imps through some bushes, his goat backside visible to Hercules). Herc displayed his strength to Phil, the satyr impressed, yet not willing to have his dreams crushed again. He told Hercules his dream of training the ultimate hero, and how every one he trained never went the distance. When Hercules said he could, Phil was finally persuaded. He then proceeded to put Hercules through tests and other training, later taking him on his first real missions as a hero.

On one of these missions, Hercules met Megara, a girl who was held captive by a centaur. While Hercules battled the monster, Phil made a flirting attempt, Meg's refusal of him making Phil extremely angry and jealous. Much later in the film when Phil caught Hercules and Meg on a date, and Meg talking to Hades after Hercules had left on Phil's order, it was Phil's attempt to reveal the truth to the hero that almost broke up their duo for good. Phil attempted to leave for home, a distressed Meg coming to him and telling the satyr that Hercules would die if he didn't come back to help. Phil returned to Hercules's side, later watching over Meg as she died, mourning her loss along with Pegasus and Hercules.

After Hercules became a god again and revitalized Meg, Phil got to visit Olympus. There he flirted with Aphrodite resulting in a kiss from the goddess, Phil's dream later coming true, a picture of Hercules hung in the stars and everyone acknowledeging Phil's achievement.

In the film, Phil was voiced by veteran actor and comedian Danny DeVito. To date, this is the only appearance of Phil where he is voiced by DeVito: in all subsequent installments, he is voiced by Robert Costanzo.

Quotes

• "Are you trying to put me out of a job!? If you keep acing every challenge, Champ, who am I gonna train?"
• "On second thought, if those are your 'hero' faces, we still got a lot of work to do."
• "This here's the world-famous Coliseum, heroes only! And I got my hands full preparing for the games. So run along, pip-squeaks."
• "If you can't even move this... you can't... call... yourself... a hero!"
• "Get up on the Hydra's back!"

Gallery

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  Phil in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep

Trivia

• A recurring joke is that each time Sora and friends tried to talk with Phil when first arriving in the coliseum, Phil mistakes them for Hercules and doesn't realize it until he turns around.
• Another recurring joke is that he will state a number of words and then go over or under that limit of words. (This is often brought up by Goofy.)
• Another recurring joke is that Sora and co. ask Phil if they have proven that they are heroes but Phil has yet to call them heroes, though in Kingdom Hearts, he awards them the title of Junior Heroes.