If you think they're scary now, check out what they COULD have looked like ◊.In fact, his introduction is him snarling at Hades as he's passing by. It's not Hell, but you wouldn't want to spend eternity there. Even ignoring that, the Underworld is pretty gloomy even by Greek standards. Granted, he doesn't actually seem to torture the souls of the Underworld, and if the Muses' song is correct, he prefers to ignore them for being "dull and uncouth", but if he actually wanted to torment a specific soul, he probably could. This spells a lot of Fridge Horror for all of Herc's mortal friends and loved ones like Meg and Phil whose souls are vulnerable to eternal torture by Hades and his minions once they die. In the animated series, it's mentioned that Hades has no control over the Elysian Fields which Zeus reserved as a resting ground for heroes, but if you're not a hero like Hercules, then you're in Hades' clutches. The revelation that Hades is not like his neutral and mostly benign mythological counterpart but still rules over all the mortal souls that end up dying and essentially controls the afterlife.When Hades first approaches the imprisoned Titans and asks them who put them down there, they all answer in a terrifying voice that sounds like a legion of damned souls furiously roaring from Hell:.For such an otherwise wacky and funny movie, Hercules' body count could potentially be up in the thousands. The Rock Titan wipes an entire village off the map with a solid-rock foot the size of Rhode Island while the Fire Titan incinerates others in its wake (with no apparent clues that any of them were cleared out ahead of time) and the Ice Titan freezes a bunch of horses fleeing in terror with in a chillingly (no pun intended) realistic manner (it's a mercy that the Wind Titan only seems to plow through a small farm that seems to have been cleared out already save for an unlucky goat). The scene where they are freed at the start of the climax, for that matter, despite leading up to an otherwise hilarious punchline.
#CAVE JOHNSON QOUTES BUT AS HADES FROM HERCULES FREE#
Once Zeus was gone, who's to say that Hades wouldn't give them free reign to do as they pleased? The only reason he got them to stop was that he had a target for them. Considering they're portrayed as little more than mindless and hate-filled forces of nature that could not be reasoned with at all, only locked away, you can imagine that Hades would probably not bother much keeping them under control if he had won. They are heartless killers, and it's implied in the opening song that the remains of their victims were literally everywhere.They invoke the imagery of the Protogenoi, the ancient gods prior to the Titans that were more physical embodiments of nature than the traditional humanoid ones of myth and these Titans are natural disasters with only a sliver of intelligence beyond their overwhelming desire for destruction. They're a two-headed rock giant, an icy being strongly resembling a skeleton, an amorphous humanoid made of lava, and a large tornado with arms. Appearance-wise, they're respectively terrifying in a primordial Eldritch Abomination manner with the sole exception of the Cyclops.The Titans are so scary, they almost looked like they were coming out of the screen.Is your bravery sharp enough, dear Troper? Then again, considering this came exactly a year after one of the darkest animated films they made thus far, a switch in location doesn't mean it finally will stop the studio from injecting us all with pure uncut Nightmare Fuel. Two words! AM-SCRAY!Even in a fantasy adventure as hilarious and blatantly inaccurate as this, per Disney tradition, there's usually bound to be some large buckets of scares and frights.
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