![]() The Titans say Zeus put them there, but Zeus's grandfather Uranus did. The Cyclops, although brother to the Titans, was not a Titan. In the movie, Hades releases the Titans from a place at the bottom of the ocean, but in the original myth they were banished to Tartarus, which is in the deepest and worst section of the underworld. Zeus did not bestow the underworld on Hades but the two, along with Poseidon, drew lots. Pegasus was created by the blood of Medusa, not clouds (as seen in the film) on Olympus. The Graeae, perpetually old women who helped Perseus find Medusa, shared an eye. In the movie, Alcmene and her husband adopt Baby Hercules. Zeus' wife Hera, furious over her husband's adultery, swore vengeance, and bestowed misfortune over Hercules wherever and whenever she could. ![]() Hercules was conceived when Zeus disguised himself as Alcmene's husband Amphitryon, who was away to fight in a war. While Zeus was his father, his mother was a mortal named Alcmene, which made him a demigod. There are many differences between the film and the original myths. He draws from the shoulder with big swoops, so there are these big, strong shapes which have a bold and immediate impact." Musker praised Scarfe's bold, expressive linear designs for having "an innate and anarchic energy that seems to explode off the page. As a result, even the usually amorphous clouds were given spikes. Nichols to incorporate "Scarfisms" (swooping lines with sharp, pointed edges) into almost every aspect of the production from backgrounds to effects and layout, and also provided a bridge from Greek vase paintings to Disney animation. Scarfe also worked closely with art director Andy Gaskill and production stylist Sue C. During production, his role as a conceptual artist was expanded to function as an ongoing artistic advisor to the animators. ![]() There's also the fact that like several other mortal brides of gods, in the Disney-verse Megara herself was implied to have become immortal through her marriage to Hercules, due to the fact that there was originally a planned sequel where Hebe, the goddess of youth, was their daughter.Īs stated by Disney's official press kit, director John Musker was a long-time fan of British artist/political cartoonist Gerald Scarfe's work for the The London Sunday Times, The New Yorker and other publications, so he signed him, initially just to assist with the character design. The trait Megara shares with Hebe, Hercules final and permanent wife, who despite being a goddess, was essentially a servant to the other major gods, is paralleled by the fact that Megara was a servant to Hades. Also the first meeting between Meg and Hercules, where he saves her from Nessus, is taken directly from Deianira's mythology. Like the third wife Deianira, who in mythology was the one who killed Hercules, Megara inadvertently almost causes Hercules' death several times in the film: the first being when she told him about the Hydra, the second when Hades uses Megara to make Hercules give up his strength and the third being when Hercules almost dies in the River of Souls while trying to rescue Meg's soul. Like Hercules' second wife, Omphale, in the animated TV series it's revealed that Megara once hired Hercules to help her (whereas Omphale actually owned him) and began to develop romantic feelings for him, and in the film (like Omphale) Megara is Hercules' love interest during the 12 Labours, Megara's sense of independence also links her to Omphale. She shares her name with Hercules' first wife, the daughter of King Creon, Princess Megara (who was killed when Hera cursed Hercules), and like Princess Megara, Megara dies, although unlike her namesake. Megara is essentially a merge between all four of Hercules' wives in the mythology.
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