[Hades] What's Hades' problem with Zeus

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  1. "You know nothing of tempers if mine is your frame of reference…"
    That…that disturbs me if Hades has met people even he thought were tempermental, but then again given his family when they're ready, and he was known for being the most fair of the gods.

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  2. Bruh, I know the game tries to make us hate Hades from the very start, and I can see why considering how he treatex Zagreus., but holy hell the more I think about it he is one of the most reasonable god of the lot, aside from Athena maybe. Like… Zeus really did kidnap Persephone, Demeter sent the world in an ice age because of that, and in the same time, he really has a hell of a lot more "work" compared to anyone on Olympus. Plus that most of the others are either squabling, getting drunk, causing random wars and the like. I like the fact that he isn't the "bad guy", just a misunderstood, angry, strict father that has a lot to deal with, including a son that mostly does what he wants.

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  3. Hades was said to be loyal and respectful towards Persophone, never betraying her (unlike zeus) and letting her go visit her mother, Demetria, the goddess of bountiful harvests, during spring and summer. It is said the periods when Persephone was on the underworld was a great sorrow for Demetria, this is why she doesn't work on Earth during winter and autumn.

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  4. I am utterly shocked that the Greece god of the underworld is one of, if not best gods overall in the entire mythos. I mean sure he has flaws but compared to the rest of his godly “family” they pale in comparison to what they’ve done.

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  5. I love how accurate this is. Hades is one of the Olympians who not only takes his job seriously but also is a pretty decent person.

    Zeus basically impregnates any woman he thinks is hot, throws hissy fits when his ego is threatened and casually causes continental disasters

    Hera constantly hunts down her husband's bastard children and makes it her mission to make their lives a living hell. The most famous example being Heracles where she basically drove him mad and had him kill his own wife and kids.
    Not to mention she's hella petty.

    Poseidon is SLIGHTLY more chill than Zeus, still his list of bad deeds is almost as long as his.

    Aphrodite casually murders anyone who MIGHT be prettier than her or she doesn't like. Calling herself the "jealous type" is an understatement

    Ares and Athena are constantly in a pissing contest with each other with the lives of mortals being lost in the process. Although they're both gods of war so they kinda get a pass.

    Demeter throws hissy fits cause she doesn't get to see Persephone and threatens to leave the world in ice if she doesn't come to see her at least for half a year, EVERY YEAR

    Dyonisus is basically the drunk uncle whose parties range from harmless fun to full blown city destroying clusterfucks…literally…

    Hades, Hepheastus, Hermes ,Apollo , Eros and a few lesser gods are the ones actually pulling their weight without being assholes.

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  6. "You know nothing of tempers if mine is your frame of reference" Accurate. Hades has like, the least number of horrific responses to being offended or insulted among all the gods of Olympus.

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  7. Awwww, Hades just gets better and better with every clip. I'm glad their relationship is better now and he's being decent for a change. You'd think this would be the most difficult thing to get out of him, even after the multiple endings but he's finally opened up enough to speak about it, even if he has to skulk to the dark of the garden to do it. 😂😄

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  8. "You know nothing of tempers if mine is your frame of reference"

    Everyone on Olympus has to hide girls like contraband from Hera just to avoid having terrible things happen to them.
    Aphrodite is rumored to have cursed the women of Lemnos to be smelly.
    Sea storms are manifestations of Poseidon's temper tantrums.
    Demeter literally only makes winter happen because she's sad to not have her daughter
    Athena is probably the most well-tempered among the Olympians, but I hear that she was a major headache at birth.
    Hephaestus is cripped because Zeus cast him to the earth in a rage.
    Ares is basically a braggart and a bully, but that's not much of a temper thing.
    Apollo ruined a small army over some cows.
    Artemis turns men into stags for seeing her skinny-dip.

    But Hades? Hades just gets mildly passive-aggressive while the world maligns him for ruling the land of the dead.

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  9. The amount of love for Hades from mythology is honestly refreshing.
    So many times he's a villain in pop-culture bc he's "the King of the Underworld" so "tHaT mUsT mEaN hE's BAD".
    He was arguably the nicest of the Gods and definitely among the Major Ones- I mean when the competition is Zeus, Poseidon, etc. it's not that hard to NOT look like an awful person.

    Hades had a functional, healthy relationship with his wife. He often offered help to those who asked for it- he literally told Heracles that he can take Cerberus for one of his tasks but he has to bring him back (and on the topic of Hades' pup, Cerberus comes from Greek Kerberos which literally can be translated as Spotted so Hades named his dog Spot and that's the only translation I consider canon!).
    There is only one myth I know of where Hades is "the villain" but considering the fact that our "hero" wanted to kidnap and marry Persephone in this one… Is He really?

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  10. I like this interpretation of the story of Persephone and Hades. Hades doesn’t kidnap Persephone, he’s dragged into the Olympian drama of Zeus, and is forced to defuse this awkward situation with Persephone. Both Persephone and Hades probably felt pity for each other, and Persephone chose to stay with Hades after bonding with one another. Then they eventually developed their mutual friendship into something romantic, and Zagreus came to be

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  11. So they changed the actual lore where Hades took Persephone and when her mother Demeter realized that her Daughter was missing she started freezing the world out of anger, and when Zeus realized what had happened he told Hades to have her come back to the surface but would only be on the surface during the spring and summer (I think) months and then would return to Hades during the Fall and Winter months.

    I like that they made Hades not as impulsive or as barbaric as his brothers in this game but I do find a bit odd that they decided to change that tid bit and also changed the fact that the Gods don’t know where Persephone is (except Zeus) and it has to be made a secret because…god politics and Demeter is a vindictive woman?

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  12. Hades may actually be the wisest of his whole family. Any damage Zeus, ares, Athena, poseidon, and many others do on the surface are sent to him after they die. Thats a whole lot of work, his brothers are egomaniacs.

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  13. When people call Hades the nicest god, its not cause we're ignoring stories that tell of his bad deeds. Its cause those stories are so few and those few have so many good and bad versions to such a degree we cant be sure which one is definitive. Compare that to the gods who have definitively done ALOT of subjectively terrible stuff to the point whole wars were fought because of it. Hades is harmless unless you find one of 3 versions of him that tells you he did a bad thing that was probably popularized during a famine.

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