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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Hercules is entry #35 of the Disney Animated Canon, released in 1997. Being a mostly lighthearted musical comedy that serves as a change of pace after Disney attempting three epic features, this film is a very loose, family friendly adaptation of the myth of Heracles, being to Greek Mythology what Aladdin was to the Arabian Nights.After Zeus fights and sends the Titans to the Underworld, he becomes the ruler of Mount Olympus, home of all Greek gods. Hades is sent to rule the underworld, but he makes plans to throw Zeus out of Mount Olympus with the Titans' help. The three Fates warn him that his plans would be endangered if Hercules, Zeus and Hera's newborn child, is still around by the time he tries to take over Mount Olympus. Hades sends his minions Pain and Panic to turn Hercules into a mortal and kill him, but they fail in their attempt and leave him on earth with his divine strength to be raised as a human. Hercules grows up but later learns he is the son of Gods, and in order to return to Mt. Olympus he must turn into a "true hero".Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Over a year after its release, the film spawned a cartoon that ran both in syndication and on Disney's One Saturday Morning on ABC, from 1998 to 1999. It was a Midquel series that presented Herc's life in high school and had him hanging out with fellow Greek characters Icarus and Cassandra. It also presented a plot hole in that Hades was still trying to get him killed, despite the fact that in the movie he didn't know Herc was still alive until he was an adult, but that didn't seem to matter much to the writers. The show runners admitted to the plot hole and stated their intent was to just have some fun with the setting and characters, hoping that the plot hole wouldn't bother viewers too much. Thanks to James Woods coming back, it did pretty well.The film is also adapted into a level called Olympus Coliseum in the Kingdom Hearts series… heavily. It has appeared in seven out of eight games, and even in the game it didn't appear in, the world's theme music was used in another world. Hades is even the most recurring Disney Villain in the series besides Maleficentnote the biggest Disney Villain of the series herself, probably because you can always rely on getting the big name of James Woods to play him.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })While far from Disney's most successful movie thanks to competition, it made plenty of money and was still very successful when compared to the Disney franchise as a whole. Its sense of humour was compared to that which Robin Williams brought to Aladdin, showcasing a villain both competent and hilarious. Some mark it as the turning point where Disney no longer confined humour to incompetent sidekicks.The film was eventually adapted into a stage musical by the Public Theater in New York, and is notable for casting Roger Bart, the actor who provided Hercules' singing voice, as Hades. | |
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Abusive Precursors: The Titans, the portrayal of which was in some ways very close to ancient Greek Theology (ancient beings defeated by Zeus and imprisoned in the Underworld, their powers were very broad as well) and in some ways very different (the original Titans were deities Not So Different from the Olympians and the parents of several of them, rather than near mindless elemental monsters). | |
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Fangirl | |
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Fangirl: Crowds of them. Everywhere. "I'VE GOT HIS SWEATBAND!" | |
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Grade System Snark: When Hercules defeats the River Guardian and sends him flying (with just a headbutt) to rescue Meg, Phil loudly says several congratulatory remarks, ending with, "Not bad, kid!" This is directly followed by him muttering underneath his breath, "Not exactly what I had in mind, but not bad.", as not a minute earlier he told Hercules to 'use his head' to beat the Guardian. | |
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Dirty Coward: Played with. They sneak into the palace of the King of the Gods and steal his kid all the while bemoaning that he's gonna use them for "target practice" yet they still did it. This is because they fear their boss more. | |
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Adorkable | |
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Adorkable: Herc himself fits this, especially as a youngster. Even as an adult, he's still sorta awkward. | |
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Creator Cameo: Caricatures of the film's directors (John Musker and Ron Clements) appear at the top of an arch as Young Herc speeds his foster father's wagon into the marketplace. | |
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Bloodless Carnage | |
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Bloodless Carnage: Megara is crushed by a massive pillar pushing Hercules out of the way. Not a drop of blood, not a bruise, on her body. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: Hercules, after Hades convinces him to give up his strength for Meg's freedom and safety, and then revealing that Meg was working for him all along. It has such a profound effect on him that he doesn't even attempt to fight back against the Cyclops, until Phil's pep talk. | |
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Hydra Problem | |
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Hydra Problem: Yup. "WILL YOU FORGET THE HEAD-SLICING THING!?" | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: Hades and Megara's interaction makes you think of an emotionally abusive boyfriend with a girlfriend who is having trouble getting away from him. His Faux Affably Evil personality also mimics her gay best friend trying to console her about her issues with men. | |
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Heel–Face Door-Slam | |
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Heel–Face Door-Slam: Subverted. Meg after realizing that she loves Hercules, and that he reciprocates, decides to refuse to help Hades. She tells him what she knows: that as far as she knows, he doesn't have a weakness. Unfortunately, she also mentions that Hercules would never hurt her; cue Hades using her as a hostage against Hercules, and then revealing her bondage. She then sacrifices herself to save Hercules, and he brings her back to life. | |
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Terrible Trio | |
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Terrible Trio: Hades and his minions Pain and Panic. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: The Titan's names are Stratos, Lythos, Pyros, and, rather unfittingly for his powers, Hydros. Likewise, unless you know your Greek mythology, the five Muses are Thalia (muse of Comedy and the plump one), Melpomene (muse of Tragedy and the one with the long, curly hair), Calliope (muse of Epic Poetry and the leader), Clio (muse of History and with the pony tail), and Terpsichore (muse of dance and choral poetry, the one in the two-piece toga). The Hydra is repeatedly stated to be female in supplemental material like story book versions. | |
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Bridal Carry | |
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Bridal Carry: After rescuing Meg's soul, Hercules carries her to freedom in full Tranquil Fury mode. He doesn't even look at Hades at first, simply clocking him without looking...until Hades touches Meg's soul, at which point Hercules punches him into the Styx. | |
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Visual Pun | |
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Visual Pun: Phil says "I get the greenhorn!" while his horns are covered in green olives. When Herc arrives in Thebes, there's a wall inscribed with the words "The end is near" at the same time that a crazed man comes around shouting the same message. A few steps later, the same wall says "Fin," which is Latin for "end." Very near, indeed. When Herc digs around in the river, he's muttering that "A hero is only as good as his weapon!" He pulls a fish out of the river. 'Fish' is also a slang term for somebody completely clueless and inexperienced, as in 'fish out of water'. | |
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Bishōnen | |
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Bacchus appears as a background character, and follows most modern depictions of him as a fat middle-aged man, as opposed to the handsome, Bishōnen youth of the myths. | |
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Gospel Revival Number | |
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Gospel is a musical genre related to praise and worship of a higher power. What better way to augment the story of Hercules than with a set of Gospel Revival Numbers? Also referenced in the Title Drop of the Muses' (three-part) opening number, "That's the gospel truth." | |
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Welcome to the Big City | |
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Welcome to the Big City: Hercules' arrival in Thebes. "Wanna buy a sundial?" | |
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Papa Wolf: Zeus comes to Hercules' aid a couple times. | |
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Laugh of Love | |
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Laugh of Love: Hercules and Megara tend to laugh as they hang out together and eventually fall in love, particularly in the garden scene. | |
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Framing Device | |
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Framing Device: The parts with the Muses, which involves their likenesses coming to life in a modern-day museum and interrupting Charlton Heston. | |
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Stealth Pun | |
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Stealth Pun Gospel is a musical genre related to praise and worship of a higher power. What better way to augment the story of Hercules than with a set of Gospel Revival Numbers? Also referenced in the Title Drop of the Muses' (three-part) opening number, "That's the gospel truth." Hades' hair is made of fire and he has a short temper. He's a hothead! While fighting the Centaur, Herc lost his sword and grabbed a fish by mistake. He pulled out a swordfish! | |
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Bloodier and Gorier | |
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Bloodier and Gorier: While there's no visible blood spilled, Hercules decapitates the Hydra on-screen while still inside its neck, although the Hydra grew a few more heads but still. Kinda brutal for a Disney movie.note For those of you curious though, the rating system is unusually lax on dismemberments and decapitations when on characters who can regrow the lost part in question, or in this case multiples of the parts in question. Throw in a little Alien Blood and you're goo to go. Notice that when the Hydra is actually killed it's in a completely bloodless way. | |
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Curtain Camouflage | |
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Curtain Camouflage: "What could be behind curtain number one?" His little sandaled toes are even poking out under it. | |
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Adaptational Villainy: In the myths, the Cyclopes were Zeus's allies in the fight against the Titans, and they gave the thunderbolt to Zeus, the trident to Poseidon, and the helmet of invisibility to Hades. The movie has one lone Cyclops who is in league with the Titans, and is sent by Hades to destroy Thebes and kill Hercules. | |
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Ancient Grome | |
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Ancient Grome: Gladiators and Roman numerals are mentioned in a few places. The name of the hero is "Hercules" (the Latinization), not "Herakles", yet the gods are given their Greek names (mostly). Ironically the Greek "Herakles" makes more sense in this version, as it means "Glory of Hera", and considering that in this adaptation Hera is both his actual mother, and a loving and supporting one, the name would make far more sense than in the original myth, where she hated his guts and tried to have him killed repeatedly (the name being an attempt to pacify her wrath). | |
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Nouveau Riche | |
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Nouveau Riche: Hercules gets rich and famous after his victory in Thebes, as "Zero to Hero" describes. The house he buys for his human parents is huge. | |
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Failed a Spot Check: Hades is the god of death. How could he not know Hercules, the son of his most hated enemy, wasn't in the underworld? | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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Anachronism Stew: The film has elements that definitely weren't around in the time of Greek Mythology, including Gospel style music, sundial watches, traffic signals (albeit crude signpost like ones), emergency phone numbers like 911 (styled in Roman numerals as IX-I-I) credit cards, shopping malls and merchandise like action figures and soda cups with bendy straws, and Phil and Hades using Yiddish phrases, but they're often played for laughs. Also, when Herc arrives in Phil's house, the Argo's mast is there... while in the myth, Hercules was one of the Argonauts.note the animated series would retroactively Hand Wave this: Jason didn't find the Golden Fleece the first time around, so Hercules joins him in another attempt Also, Herc is either 40 or a whole 70 years (it's not entirely clear) older than Achilles who wasn't trained by Phil but by the centaur Chiron. In the movie Achilles was already dead before Herc ever met Phil, which also means the Trojan war happened much earlier here than it did in myth. | |
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Slave Mooks: Meg (by contract) and Pain and Panic (implied) to Hades. | |
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Mentor's New Hope | |
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Mentor's New Hope: The song below is about Hercules serving as Phil's last chance to train a true hero. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: Aptly enough; despite many changes to the actual myths, there are more than a few references to them outside the main plot. The Mythological Hercules is best knownnote (besides for killing his wife in a goddess-induced fit of madness) for performing the Twelve Labors, all of which are referenced in the film, most of them in the "Zero to Hero" segment. The first labor, the slaying of the Nemean Lion, is changed from a lion that terrorized the town of Nemea to a monster that Hades sends. Hercules is later shown wearing its pelt (as he is usually depicted in the myths), and the lion's skin looks remarkably like Scar's. The second labor is the slaying of the Lernaean Hydra; obviously this is referenced by the massive Hydra battle (although it comes before the lion and is not in Lake Lerna, as it is in the myths, and is sent by Hades instead of Hera). In some (often the more detailed versions) of the myth, the Hydra had at least one immortal head, so Hercules had to finish it by burying it under a large rock. In the movie, Hercules defeats the Hydra by burying it under several large rocks. The fourth labor is to capture the Erymanthian Boar, which is alternately said to get its name from where it lives, Mt. Erymanthos, or from Erymanthus, Apollo's son who was blinded by Aphrodite (or in a few accounts Artemis) when he saw her bathing, which led him to send said boar to attack her. A large boar shows up in the "Zero to Hero" as another monster that Hades sends. The fifth labor is mentioned in passing as Augeas having a problem with his stables that Hercules is expected to help with. The sixth labor is to slay the man-eating Stymphalian birds, which are likely referenced by the large bird shown in passing as being a monster Hercules defeated in "Zero to Hero". The ninth labor is mentioned by Phil as having to get a girdle from some Amazons. The eleventh labor does not appear in the movie, but is referenced in the series, where Adonis is cursed by Gaia and needs the golden apples of Hesperides to be cured, which Hercules gets Atlas to pick for him, just as he does in the original myth. The twelfth labor appears at the end of the movie; Hercules was challenged to tame Cerberus, and appears riding him into the Underworld in the finale. As a baby, Hercules saves his adoptive parents from Pain and Panic when they turn into snakes, strangling both of them. In the Greek Myths, two (ordinary) snakes sent by Hera actually did attack Hercules as a baby, and he strangled both of them to death. In fact, if you count name drops and people in crowd scenes, it's almost a constant stream of references to Greek mythology. There's plenty to other Disney movies too: From Fantasia, we get Zeus's wedge-shaped beard, a blue centaur, pudgy Bacchus and a scene of Hephaestus hammering at Zeus's lightning bolts. In addition, Hercules defeats the Cyclops the same way Mickey Mouse defeated the giant in Brave Little Tailor. One of the smallest ones is the blue centaur Hercules battles to save Meg in their first scene together. His name, Nessus, is said exactly once, and in passing, to boot. In Greek mythology, Nessus was a centaur killed by Hercules who tricked Deianeira (Hercules' wife) into using his blood as poison to kill her husband. | |
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Curse Escape Clause | |
Hercules / Disney / int_275773bd | comment |
Curse Escape Clause: If Hercules proves himself worthy, he can rejoin the gods. Thanks to Exact Words, Hercules can get out of his deal of giving up his strength to Hades in exchange for Meg's release: Hades simply promised that "no harm" would come to Meg, so when she pushes him out of the way of the falling pillar, thus bringing her to harm (and sacrificing her life), the deal is broken and Herc gets his strength back. | |
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Pegasus | |
Hercules / Disney / int_2854e0dd | comment |
Pegasus: A winged horse made of clouds as a gift for Hercules on his birthday. | |
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Defrosting Ice Queen | |
Hercules / Disney / int_28c1d543 | comment |
Defrosting Ice Queen: Megara is frosted over by her ex-boyfriend's betrayal. Hercules melts the ice created by that jackass. | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
Hercules / Disney / int_294ed981 | comment |
After the "retired" line, a confused Hercules is then seen counting it out. As a Bilingual Bonus, "I am retired" is two words in Ancient Greek. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
Hercules / Disney / int_297ab1b9 | comment |
Parental Abandonment: One of the only films in the entire Disney canon to avert this trope. Herc not only has his immortal parents watching from on high, he has a pair of mortal adoptive parents who love him very much. | |
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"Say My Name" Trailer | |
Hercules / Disney / int_2bf03896 | comment |
Say My Name Trailer: Though the last one is Hades saying "Jerkules" (but with the voice of one of Herc's mocking classmates, from the collapsing agora scene). | |
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I Know You Know I Know | |
Hercules / Disney / int_2d4d16d9 | comment |
I Know You Know I Know: Between Hades and the Fates because the Fates know everything and feel a need to remind Hades because he explains things to them. | |
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Sadly Mythtaken | |
Hercules / Disney / int_2ec87029 | comment |
Sadly Mythtaken: Let's just say that the movie plays so fast and loose with Greek Mythology, that it would be far, far easier to list the things they did get accurate. The writers did read up on Greek Mythology when doing research for the film, but deliberately changed elements around and were often forced to change the more unpleasant elements of the Myths due to the film having to be acceptable to kids (a straight adaptation would've gotten the film an R rating and was thus out of the question). They do sneak in a lot of literal Mythology Gags to counterbalance it though. The film has its own page for examples of this. | |
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Close-Call Haircut | |
Hercules / Disney / int_2fdfbdaf | comment |
Close-Call Haircut: During the training montage, Pegasus ducks to narrowly dodge a badly-aimed sword, which gives him something like a flattop. | |
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Adapted Out | |
Hercules / Disney / int_33d5b7f2 | comment |
Adapted Out: Hercules's wives after Meg and his children are completely removed from the film. | |
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Rapid Aging | |
Hercules / Disney / int_3687d605 | comment |
Rapid Aging: Herc is subject to this in The River Styx, and his thread of life becomes immediate fair play for the Fates; he survives by rescuing Meg and becoming a god. | |
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Hold Your Hippogriffs | |
Hercules / Disney / int_3722d66c | comment |
Hold Your Hippogriffs: "Holy Hera! Heavens/Hell!" Thebes is called the "Big Olive Apple." "Wanna buy a sundial? watch?" "Somebody call IX-I-I! 9-1-1!" "Keep your toga pants on, pal!" "This is the honest-to-Zeus God truth..." "Is this an audience or a mosaic? an oil painting?" "That's it, I'm moving to Sparta! Canada!" "He's just another chariot ambulance chaser." "...but I could see through that in a Peloponnesian New York minute." | |
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This Cannot Be! | |
Hercules / Disney / int_373283c9 | comment |
This Cannot Be!: See the second Sore Loser example above. | |
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A True Hero | |
Hercules / Disney / int_37d535e4 | comment |
A "True" Hero: Hercules goes into training to become a true hero in hopes of rejoining his birth parents Zeus and Hera. After having become a superstar and beaten a ton of monsters, Hercules thinks he must have met the requirements. Reluctantly, Zeus tells him that while his accomplishments are impressive and they're proud of him, he hasn't yet become a true hero. Not until Herc sacrifices himself to save the woman he loves from Hades are the requirements fulfilled. | |
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Does Not Know His Own Strength | |
Hercules / Disney / int_38291355 | comment |
Does Not Know His Own Strength: Before his training with Phil, Hercules' Super Strength caused him trouble. Even afterwards he has some trouble with it. | |
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Impossible Hourglass Figure | |
Hercules / Disney / int_38aa5782 | comment |
Impossible Hourglass Figure: Four of the Muses and Aphrodite—especially Aphrodite given that she's the goddess of love and has a waist so tiny she could wrap one hand around. It's sort of explained by the fact that they're goddesses. Artemis and Megara have Hartman Hips. | |
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Actor Allusion | |
Hercules / Disney / int_392372f9 | comment |
Actor Allusion: Who knows if this was on purpose, but as Phil is an Expy (or at the very least an Affectionate Parody) of Mickey from the Rocky films, this isn't the first time Danny DeVito has played a character made popular by Burgess Meredith... In the victory party scene, Hermes plays keyboards, just like his voice actor, musician Paul Shaffer. In one episode of the TV series, Dan Castellaneta voices a certain reporter named Homer. | |
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Pietà Plagiarism | |
Hercules / Disney / int_3a4522df | comment |
Pietà Plagiarism: This is played twice: once when Hercules cradles Meg's corpse in his arms, and once when he, restored to godhood, holds her listless spirit. | |
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Death's Hourglass | |
Hercules / Disney / int_3b9a9d4 | comment |
Death's Hourglass: This film has one with the Fate Sisters and the threads of life: if the thread of life gets cut, said person dies, and their listless soul ends up on the River Styx. | |
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Blessed with Suck | |
Hercules / Disney / int_3c3f28a5 | comment |
Blessed with Suck: Herc's super-strength, when combined with an adolescent's typical clumsiness. Megara's apparent immortality, while she's Hades' slave. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
Hercules / Disney / int_3d699462 | comment |
Curb-Stomp Battle: During the "Zero to Hero" song segment, Hercules dealt these out to every monster Hades sends after him. | |
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Groupie Brigade | |
Hercules / Disney / int_3e92ed3e | comment |
Groupie Brigade: One follows Hercules after his fame explodes, and tackles him for fan paraphernalia. | |
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Adaptational Heroism | |
Hercules / Disney / int_3f45f1e6 | comment |
Adaptational Heroism: Hera goes through this as well as Adaptational Maternity. In the original myth, Hera was Hercules's step-mother and main antagonist. | |
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Ungrateful Bastard | |
Hercules / Disney / int_3fe2b13f | comment |
Ungrateful Bastard: Meg's former lover. She gave Hades her soul for him, and he repays her by running off with someone else. | |
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ShutUpHannibal | |
Hercules / Disney / int_4127eb1 | comment |
Shut Up, Hannibal!: Hercules does this to Hades by punching him in the face when the latter tries to enforce Herc's end of their second bargain. Though it could be argued that both parties cheated the other (or at least tried to). | |
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Damsel in Distress | |
Hercules / Disney / int_4160410d | comment |
Damsel in Distress: Lampshaded: | |
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Non Sequitur, *Thud* | |
Hercules / Disney / int_41feb209 | comment |
Non Sequitur, *Thud*: When Phil tries to whisk Hercules back to training after finding he was playing hooky with Meg: | |
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Elemental Powers | |
Hercules / Disney / int_42846e90 | comment |
Elemental Powers: The Titans represent the four classic elements, albeit substituting stone and ice for earth and water, respectively. Oddly enough, despite this the Ice Titan's name is "Hydros", which literally means "water". Then there's Zeus' thunderbolts. "Now watch your old man work!" | |
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Fade Around the Eyes | |
Hercules / Disney / int_4388c985 | comment |
Fade Around the Eyes: Hades does an interesting variant at the end of the scene where he figures out Hercules's weakness. The screen fills up with smoke as it fades to the next scene, and the last things we see are Hades's eyes. | |
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Ask a Stupid Question... | |
Hercules / Disney / int_443f9d8a | comment |
Ask a Stupid Question...: Herc asks this to Meg (who is currently being held up by a centaur); | |
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TheSnarkKnight | |
Hercules / Disney / int_44ba9580 | comment |
The Snark Knight: "Megara. My friends call me Meg. At least, they would if I had any friends." | |
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Incredibly Long Note | |
Hercules / Disney / int_44cf7d2c | comment |
Incredibly Long Note: The reprise of "Go the Distance" holds "belong" for a long time at the end. | |
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Adult Fear | |
Hercules / Disney / int_46118dc5 | comment |
Adult Fear: Zeus and Hera's terror when they realize baby Hercules has disappeared from his cradle, which by all rights should have been perfectly safe and secure. | |
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The Stinger | |
Hercules / Disney / int_48081842 | comment |
The Stinger: Stick around after the credits and hear the lamentations of Hades. | |
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Sealed Evil in a Can | |
Hercules / Disney / int_485eb589 | comment |
Sealed Evil in a Can: The Titans. Zeus imprisons them all beneath the ocean with lightning bolts, but when the planets align, Hades is able to release them. Hercules uses the Tornado Titan to suck the other Titans in, then throws them all into space where they explode. | |
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Use Your Head | |
Hercules / Disney / int_4873d055 | comment |
Use Your Head: Phil meant tactically thinking, but a headbutt works too. "Not bad! Not exactly what I had in mind, but not bad." | |
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Happily Adopted | |
Hercules / Disney / int_48e8fe57 | comment |
Happily Adopted: The human couple that take Hercules in treat him well, though they fade from view after he discovers his godly heritage. He's later shown in one of the musical numbers to be putting his newfound wealth and influence to work paying them back several times over. | |
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SceneryPorn | |
Hercules / Disney / int_49d59be9 | comment |
Scenery Porn: Mount Olympus and Hades (The Underworld, not the villain) simply look amazing. | |
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Adaptational Alternate Ending | |
Hercules / Disney / int_4a5fcde | comment |
Adaptational Alternate Ending: The Disney adaptation completely changes the ending as well along with every other part of the story. In the original myths, Herakles dies, but after Philoctetes lit his funeral pyre, he ascended to godhood in Mount Olympus and stayed there. The Disney movie changes it to where Hercules earns his godhood by saving Meg from Hades and is allowed to come home to Olympus—but Hercules, who realizes Meg can't join him there, willingly gives up his godhood so that he can stay with Meg. | |
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Big Good | |
Hercules / Disney / int_4a852458 | comment |
Big Good: Zeus is the benevolent Top God and Hercules' father. | |
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Credits Gag | |
Hercules / Disney / int_4af55b78 | comment |
Credits Gag: Hades gets one more Funny Moment as the Disney castle comes up. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_4b316d47 | type |
Break the Cutie | |
Hercules / Disney / int_4b316d47 | comment |
Break the Cutie: Megara. She pledged service to Hades to save an old boyfriend's life - only to have said boyfriend run after another girl shortly afterwards. Plus, she's implied to have had some run-ins with boys who don't understand the word "no". OUCH. | |
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Shock and Awe | |
Hercules / Disney / int_4c798fd5 | comment |
Then there's Zeus' thunderbolts. "Now watch your old man work!" | |
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All of the Other Reindeer | |
Hercules / Disney / int_4c8e8078 | comment |
All of the Other Reindeer: Hercules is a Cute Clumsy Guy with Super Strength. Guess how well it goes... | |
Hercules / Disney / int_4c8e8078 | featureApplicability |
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Honey Trap | |
Hercules / Disney / int_4cacfcc3 | comment |
Honey Trap: | |
Hercules / Disney / int_4cacfcc3 | featureApplicability |
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Hercules / Disney / int_4e11446d | type |
Sexy Figure Gesture | |
Hercules / Disney / int_4e11446d | comment |
Sexy Figure Gesture: Hades decides to throw "the right set of curves" (i.e. Megara) at our hero, emphasizing the point by making the hourglass gesture around Meg, tracing her figure. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_4e1d9178 | type |
Tailor-Made Prison | |
Hercules / Disney / int_4e1d9178 | comment |
Tailor-Made Prison: The Titans are imprisoned in an undersea vault. | |
Hercules / Disney / int_4e1d9178 | featureApplicability |
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Hercules / Disney / int_4f247a69 | type |
Adaptational Ugliness | |
Hercules / Disney / int_4f247a69 | comment |
Adaptational Ugliness: This happens with the Fates, who were traditionally beautiful women, due in part with confusing them with the Grae Sisters, three eyeless (and toothless) witches who were also somehow sisters to the Gorgons. Some myths suggest that they were also part bird. Bacchus appears as a background character, and follows most modern depictions of him as a fat middle-aged man, as opposed to the handsome, Bishōnen youth of the myths. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_4f4bbeff | type |
Interspecies Friendship | |
Hercules / Disney / int_4f4bbeff | comment |
Interspecies Friendship: Herc, a demigod, has a flying horse, Pegasus, for a companion, and his mentor, Phil, is a satyr. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_4f62bde6 | type |
Kavorka Man | |
Hercules / Disney / int_4f62bde6 | comment |
Kavorka Man: Phil at the end, since Aphrodite kisses him. | |
Hercules / Disney / int_4f62bde6 | featureApplicability |
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Hercules / Disney / int_4fc4e676 | type |
Sandal Punk | |
Hercules / Disney / int_4fc4e676 | comment |
Sandal Punk: This movie is a loose re-telling of the ancient myths about Hercules with several anachronistic elements. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_50f17484 | type |
Fake-Out Opening | |
Hercules / Disney / int_50f17484 | comment |
Fake-Out Opening: The first 25 seconds of the movie start with Charlton Heston narrating, setting up the movie to be a serious representation of the Hercules myth. Then the Muses cut in, tell him to lighten up, and sing "The Gospel Truth", establishing right then and there that the film is a musical comedy. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_510e5a9 | type |
Sassy Black Woman | |
Hercules / Disney / int_510e5a9 | comment |
Sassy Black Woman: All five of the Muses; however, Thalia, the short plump one, seems sassier than most. At the start, they sass the narrator over being so somber and serious. | |
Hercules / Disney / int_510e5a9 | featureApplicability |
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Hercules / Disney / int_51300dbf | type |
FatBastard | |
Hercules / Disney / int_51300dbf | comment |
Fat Bastard: The cyclops titan is very chubby and is repulsive in every way, plus he's sadistic. | |
Hercules / Disney / int_51300dbf | featureApplicability |
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Hercules / Disney / int_51a485d1 | type |
Brought Down to Badass | |
Hercules / Disney / int_51a485d1 | comment |
Brought Down to Badass: The main plot of the film. As an infant, Hercules is stolen from his home on Mt. Olympus and fed a potion that turns him mortal. However, as the Muses explain, since he doesn't drink the last drop, his godly strength remains intact. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_520680ca | type |
Not Wearing Tights | |
Hercules / Disney / int_520680ca | comment |
Not Wearing Tights: Hercules is portrayed as this; unsurprising, considering that the Greek demigods are arguably the earliest forms of the Superhero archetype. | |
Hercules / Disney / int_520680ca | featureApplicability |
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Hercules / Disney / int_5313c266 | type |
Bookends | |
Hercules / Disney / int_5313c266 | comment |
Book-Ends: During the beginning of the movie after Pain and Panic kidnap Hercules, turn him mortal, and then try and fail to kill him. Panic runs around worrying that "[Hades]'s not gonna be happy when he finds out about this." Pain says "You mean if he finds out" Panic: "If? If is good!" They have a similar conversation after Hercules punches Hades into The River Styx. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_562abd51 | type |
Let's Get Dangerous! | |
Hercules / Disney / int_562abd51 | comment |
Let's Get Dangerous!: Zeus. On his free time, he's a loving father and husband, spends time joking with everyone and attempts to be a good big bro for Hades; in fact, he's much more lovable than the original Zeus, but once the Titans attack and Hades proved to be a backstabber, we quickly see where Hercules' strength come from and why you don't mess with the King of the Gods. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_57a8305d | type |
Our Hydras Are Different | |
Hercules / Disney / int_57a8305d | comment |
Our Hydras Are Different: Hercules faces the iconic multi-headed serpent early in his hero career. The creature starts out with only one head, but three new ones grow in the place of each cranium lost. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_5a1819b7 | type |
PantyShot | |
Hercules / Disney / int_5a1819b7 | comment |
Panty Shot: Rare male example, as Hercules has a really, really short toga. | |
Hercules / Disney / int_5a1819b7 | featureApplicability |
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Hercules / Disney / int_5bdcc85a | type |
Disney Villain Death | |
Hercules / Disney / int_5bdcc85a | comment |
Disney Villain Death: As a god, Hades can't die, but he is defeated by being punched into the River Styx, where the souls of the dead dogpile on him. He can't fall to his death, so he falls into a bunch of other people's. Played straight with the Cyclops, who is pushed over a cliff by Hercules. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_5f97d951 | type |
The First Cut Is the Deepest | |
Hercules / Disney / int_5f97d951 | comment |
The First Cut Is the Deepest: Megara, as a result of her slime of an ex-boyfriend, is turned off of love entirely. | |
Hercules / Disney / int_5f97d951 | featureApplicability |
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Hercules / Disney / int_5fb86231 | type |
Half-Hearted Henchman | |
Hercules / Disney / int_5fb86231 | comment |
Half-Hearted Henchman: Anyone working for Hades. Pain and Panic are clearly with Hades because they are terrified of him. They have no problem lying to him, and after Hercules punches him into The River Styx they clearly do not miss him. Panic is only worried about how angry Hades will be. Meg is only working for Hades because she sold her soul, and is paying off a debt. Once she falls in love with Hercules she turns on him. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_6005b56c | type |
Muggle Foster Parents | |
Hercules / Disney / int_6005b56c | comment |
Muggle Foster Parents: Hercules' human parents have no idea they found the son of gods. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_603f1a80 | type |
Pragmatic Adaptation | |
Hercules / Disney / int_603f1a80 | comment |
Pragmatic Adaptation: The original Heracles myth—and Greek Mythology in general—were as family unfriendly as you can get and had a lot of built-in Values Dissonance (the basic conflict alone was unacceptable for a family film, since Hercules is a product of Zeus' adultery with a mortal, and Hera, Zeus' wife, is the villain who constantly makes Hercules' life miserable because of this), so the studio was forced to heavily rework the concept; it borrows the character names (not so much the personalities), story points and the setting from the myths, but throws out and adds in things from other parts of Greek Myth (such as Pegasus and the Muses, who were not in the original Heracles story), and reworks everything else (such as expanding Hades role in the story by turning him into the main villain), ultimately making the film less an adaptation of Greek Mythology and more like a mashup of Superman: The Movie and Rocky set in a burlesque of Ancient Greece. | |
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High-Five Left Hanging | |
Hercules / Disney / int_606bbe10 | comment |
High-Five Left Hanging: After Herc defeats the centaur Nessus, Pegasus offers him a high-five, but Hercules is too distracted by the sight of Megara to acknowledge him. | |
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Rapid-Fire Nail Biting | |
Hercules / Disney / int_60c3de58 | comment |
Rapid-Fire Nail Biting: Pegasus bites his front hooves, during the "One Last Hope" number when Hercules goes through the dangerous obstacle course that Phil set up as part of his training to save a damsel in distress. | |
Hercules / Disney / int_60c3de58 | featureApplicability |
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Hercules / Disney / int_60ce791b | type |
ContraltoOfDanger | |
Hercules / Disney / int_60ce791b | comment |
Contralto of Danger: Megara has a sultry, husky voice, atypical of both Disney female Love Interests in general and female characters in the movie. She's also working for Hades (albeit unwillingly), and at one point tries to seduce Herc into revealing his weaknesses, though she ends up falling for him instead. | |
Hercules / Disney / int_60ce791b | featureApplicability |
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Hercules / Disney / int_62051053 | type |
Blue Means Cold | |
Hercules / Disney / int_62051053 | comment |
Blue Means Cold: Zigzagged for Hades's fire that he has instead of hair. It's usually blue and cold, but when he's mad, it turns into normal fire. | |
Hercules / Disney / int_62051053 | featureApplicability |
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Hercules / Disney / int_6331ba26 | type |
Plot Hole | |
Hercules / Disney / int_6331ba26 | comment |
Plot Hole: If Hades is surrounded by souls of the dead in the Underworld, why didn’t he check to ensure Hercules’ soul came in when Pain and Panic claimed to have killed him? Did he not suspect anything when Hercules was never amongst his collection of deceased people? Hercules's deal to trade his soul for Meg's. After he rescues her, he just leaves and never gives Hades what he agreed to. Which is ironic, since Hades was very good about honoring his end of their bargains. If Zeus imprisoned the Titans eons ago by himself, why did he get his butt handed to him so readily the second time even with an entire mountain of gods helping him? Furthermore, after Herc breaks him out, he throws thunderbolts (which had been shown to be essentially useless against the Titans as they were climbing Mt. Olympus) which are suddenly capable of ripping the Titans apart. The Titans even run away in terror upon seeing his release. | |
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It Is Pronounced | |
Hercules / Disney / int_63f13aec | comment |
It Is Pronounced Tro Pay: "And they slapped his face on every vase! On every VAHSE!" | |
Hercules / Disney / int_63f13aec | featureApplicability |
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Hercules / Disney / int_6411dac8 | type |
BadassNormal | |
Hercules / Disney / int_6411dac8 | comment |
Badass Normal: Hades decides to temporarily deprive Hercules of his powers so that he cannot stop him from conquering Mt. Olympus. However, he forgets that Hercules is still a decent warrior even without his superpowers. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_641cf81d | type |
Viewers Are Geniuses | |
Hercules / Disney / int_641cf81d | comment |
Viewers Are Geniuses: Most viewers are amused that Phil says he's going to say only "two words—I am retired!" which in English is of course three words, but the joke beneath the joke is that the equivalent phrase in Greek is Είμαι συνταξιούχος—which actually is only two words. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_6439de78 | type |
Heroic Sacrifice | |
Hercules / Disney / int_6439de78 | comment |
Heroic Sacrifice: Twice, from each side of the Love Interest relationship: first Meg pushes Hercules out of the path of a falling pillar to save him (thus abrogating Hades' deal in which he said he wouldn't hurt her, and giving Herc his strength back) and costing her her life, then Herc gives up his life to Hades to rescue Meg's soul (an act of such selfless heroism it restores his godhood). | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_64edb99c | type |
Always Save the Girl | |
Hercules / Disney / int_64edb99c | comment |
Always Save the Girl: Double-Subverted. Hades offers a deal for Hercules to give up his strength for 24 hours in exchange for Megara's freedom and to promise that she will be safe from harm. He's aware that Hades plans to do something nasty but Hades pressures him into it. | |
Hercules / Disney / int_64edb99c | featureApplicability |
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Hercules / Disney / int_64f3ea6e | type |
Disneyfication | |
Hercules / Disney / int_64f3ea6e | comment |
Disneyfication: There's quite a bit of it going on, but the most glaringly obvious was that Herc's original Big Bad was Hera because he was the product of Zeus' adultery with a mortal. If they didn't remove/change that part, how on Earth would the script as a whole pass? | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_670de36f | comment |
Leaving The Nest Song: "Go the Distance" is a song about Hercules leaving home for the first time to discover his roots and his purpose after years of being treated like a freak for his godly strength. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_675a7d05 | type |
OrpheanRescue | |
Hercules / Disney / int_675a7d05 | comment |
Orphean Rescue: Hercules travels to the Underworld in order to rescue Meg's spirit and reunite it with her body, thus getting his godhood back. | |
Hercules / Disney / int_675a7d05 | featureApplicability |
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Hercules / Disney / int_68357614 | type |
Elite Four | |
Hercules / Disney / int_68357614 | comment |
Elite Four: Hades looses the Titans from their prison deep within the Earth, using their vengeance against Zeus to engineer a coup d'etat. Four Titans: Lythos (earth/rock), Hydros (water/ice), Pyros (fire/lava) and Stratos (air/wind) advance upon Mount Olympus, while a fifth, Arges (a cyclops with no elemental affiliation) attempts to kill the critically-weakened Hercules. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_6a85e9e1 | type |
Dub-Induced Plot Hole | |
Hercules / Disney / int_6a85e9e1 | comment |
Dub-Induced Plot Hole: The Finnish dub changes the last part of the prophecy from "If Hercules fights, you will fail" to "If Hercules lives, you will not succeed", which raises the question of why Hades doesn't kill Hercules after depowering him. | |
Hercules / Disney / int_6a85e9e1 | featureApplicability |
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Meaningful Echo | |
Hercules / Disney / int_6bd689ca | comment |
Meaningful Echo: | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
Hercules / Disney / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Pain and Panic. Pain is constantly subjected to pain, and as for Panic, he does just that: panic. | |
Hercules / Disney / int_6bda9a30 | featureApplicability |
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Hercules / Disney / int_6bf88d1a | type |
Two Words: Added Emphasis | |
Hercules / Disney / int_6bf88d1a | comment |
Two Words: Added Emphasis: The Latin Spanish dub makes his Last-Second Word Swap the only time Philocetes follows "Two Words" with actually two words. | |
Hercules / Disney / int_6bf88d1a | featureApplicability |
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Hercules / Disney / int_6bf88d1a | |
Hercules / Disney / int_6ef6417b | type |
Disney Death | |
Hercules / Disney / int_6ef6417b | comment |
Disney Death: In the middle of the film, it happens twice in the same scene during the epic fight between Hercules and the Hydra; once the audience within the film thinks he's swallowed, the next time they think he's crushed. | |
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Honest John's Dealership | |
Hercules / Disney / int_70bdac19 | comment |
Honest John's Dealership: The man who tries to sell sundials to Herc is very shady. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_72f98935 | type |
Heroic Build | |
Hercules / Disney / int_72f98935 | comment |
Heroic Build: Hercules, following his training with Phil. Just look at the picture at the top of this page! | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_73f7975f | type |
Jerkass Gods | |
Hercules / Disney / int_73f7975f | comment |
Anyone who knows their Greek mythology knows that Zeus is a self-righteous, womanizing jerk and rapist. Here, he's pretty much a cross between Grandpa God and Bumbling Dad who certainly loves Hercules and stays loyal to Hera, making his status as a Top God of Mt. Olympus and Big Good of the series a lot more plausible. | |
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Spared by the Adaptation | |
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Spared by the Adaptation: Unlike in the original myth, Megara is not killed by Hercules in this adaptation and even when she does die, Hercules manages to rescue her from the underworld, guaranteeing she lives. Amphitryon, Hercules foster father, died in the battlefield fighting against the Minyans in the myth. In the movie, he lives all the way through to the end. To a lesser extent, Pegasus stays intact throughout the film and isn't turned into a constellation by Zeus in the end, which was his fate in the myths. | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: The words "Go the Distance" are used many times even outside the song. | |
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Vanilla Edition | |
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Vanilla Edition: This became one of the first four movies in the Disney Animated Canon that Walt Disney Home Video released on DVD, as part of the Limited Issues series in late 1999.note Its DVD came out one week after the initial release of Pinocchio, and the same day that 101 Dalmatians and Mulan made their DVD debuts. Unfortunately, the disc contains only a non-anamorphic presentation of the movie, a making-of featurette that runs less than 10 minutes, and a Ricky Martin music video for the Spanish version of "Go the Distance". A second DVD release, as part of the Walt Disney Gold Classic Collection, made literally no improvement to the picture or the extras. The Blu-ray has vastly improved picture and sound, but just one additional bonus feature: a sing along of "Zero to Hero". | |
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Kill It Through Its Stomach | |
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Kill It Through Its Stomach: When the Hydra swallows Herc, it looks pretty satisfied with itself, until it gives a confused look moments before Hercules decapitates it from the inside. However, this isn't enough to kill it. | |
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Black-and-White Morality | |
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Black and White Morality: Hercules, Zeus and Hera become purely good. Hades becomes purely evil. In the original myths they were a lot more morally ambiguous. The only grey character in the movie is Meg. This is one side effect of being Hijacked by Jesus. | |
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Battle Cry | |
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Hades, just before the fight between Hercules and the Hydra: "Let's get ready to RUMBLE!" | |
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Horsing Around | |
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Horsing Around: Pegasus is usually gentle with Herc. Megara, on the other hand... | |
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Almost Kiss | |
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Almost Kiss: Hercules and Meg when the latter is trying to seduce the former. | |
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Bullying a Dragon | |
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Bullying a Dragon: During Herc's teen years, the other kids mock him and call him "Jerkules", and the townspeople in general call him a freak and disaster because of his Super Strength. Luckily for them, they are in a G-rated Disney movie and Hercules is a kind-hearted and sweet-natured guy, as opposed to the Hercules of the actual myths, who was known for A) being extremely hot-tempered and B) using his strength against those who angered him, often with lethal results for the mortals involved. | |
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Tsundere | |
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Tsundere: Megara is an easy example. Look at "(I Won't Say) I'm in Love" for a perfect example of a tsuntsun-to-deredere switch. | |
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NiceJobBreakingItHero | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: As a teen Hercules accidentally destroys an entire town while trying to catch a frisbee. The townsfolk turn on him and call him a freak and a menace. Subverted when Hercules accidentally releases the hydra to free two children from a cave in. He defeats it before it can hurt anyone. Meg sassing Hades on realizing she loves Hercules accidentally reveals to Hades that she is Wonder Boy's weakness. | |
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Establishing Character Moment | |
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Establishing Character Moment: The first thing Hades does when he appears is ominously crash Hercules' baby shower—and then make a wisecrack that he hasn't been so choked up since he got a hunk of moussaka caught in his throat. | |
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Breather Episode | |
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Breather Episode: Between the heavier themes of The Lion King, Pocahontas, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame and darker films in Mulan and Tarzan, this film is a Lighter and Softer comedy with a tone similar to Aladdin. This is emphasised in the opening, when the serious narration is cut off by the muses, who proceed to give the movie a more lighthearted musical opening. | |
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God of Evil | |
Hercules / Disney / int_80cd1f62 | comment |
God of Evil: Hades is portrayed as an Evil Overlord that schemes and betrays as naturally as a mortal breathes as part of his god of death thing. This is contrary to Greek Mythology and more in line with a Christian line of thought. See Satanic Archetype. | |
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Dramatic Drop | |
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Dramatic Drop: Meg drops a vase when Hades offers her soul and freedom in exchange for seducing Hercules into revealing his weakness. | |
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Roaring Rampage of Rescue | |
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Roaring Rampage of Rescue: Herc storms the underworld to bring Meg back. | |
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Adaptational Nice Guy | |
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Adaptational Nice Guy: By modern standards, the Hercules of Greek Myth wasn't exactly a paragon of heroic virtue. He killed more than one innocent person simply for being too close when his temper got the better of him (although he was always remorseful when this happened), and he would go stage a HUGE war for a mere verbal insult one day, although he did go to great lengths to help his friends and his deeds did the world a lot of good. The Hercules in this movie is a wide eyed boy scout who doesn't have many, if any, vices. The worst thing he does is lash out at Phil for trying to warn him about Meg being in league with Hades, but he immediately comes to regret that. Anyone who knows their Greek mythology knows that Zeus is a self-righteous, womanizing jerk and rapist. Here, he's pretty much a cross between Grandpa God and Bumbling Dad who certainly loves Hercules and stays loyal to Hera, making his status as a Top God of Mt. Olympus and Big Good of the series a lot more plausible. | |
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ConservationOfNinjitsu | |
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Conservation of Ninjutsu: The Hydra's first head has Hercules on the ropes during their clash, dodging several attacks, disarming Hercules, and and eating him. If he hadn't recovered his sword in time, the first head would have won. None of heads that take the first head's place are nearly as competent, they even start to bang into and bite each other when the monster gets even more. It takes them using the body's claws to pin Hercules down to get control of the fight back, which ends up being a fatal mistake for all of them, after Hercules triggered a rockslide and they couldn't get away. note Possibly justified if the primary head's memories and experience didn't transfer over to the other heads when it was removed. | |
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"I Want" Song | |
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"I Want" Song: "Go the Distance", which also became an Award-Bait Song, focuses on Hercules' desire for acceptance. | |
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Oblivious Guilt Slinging | |
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Oblivious Guilt Slinging: This exchange between Meg and Hercules after Hades has sent her to find out his weakness. | |
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World of Snark | |
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World of Snark: The only other Disney Canon entry that rivals this film in the amount of Deadpan Snarkers is The Emperor's New Groove. | |
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Those Two Bad Guys | |
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Those Two Bad Guys: Pain and Panic work for Hades and provide exposition about how the magic potion works. | |
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Prophecies Rhyme All the Time | |
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Prophecies Rhyme All the Time: Lampshaded: | |
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Denser and Wackier | |
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Denser and Wackier: Though not to the extent of Aladdin, Hercules is also a very comedic, lighthearted film compared to the other Disney Renaissance films, especially the very dark film that preceded it, The Hunchback of Notre Dame. | |
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Everybody Loves Zeus | |
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Everybody Loves Zeus: The gods of Olympus get this treatment, Zeus and Hera especially. Zeus is portrayed as a light-hearted, if not buffoonish king and loyal husband to Hera free of infidelity, while Hera is sweet and considerate (as well as Hercules being her actual son). Zeus is portrayed as a light-hearted, if not buffoonish king and loyal husband to Hera. While the spin-off series brings up his flaws—like forgetting he and his wife's anniversary, occasionally losing his temper and the whole "Prometheus" thing—Zeus's frequent infidelity is never brought up (most likely non-existent to keep the G-Rating). Hera gets this treatment even more so. In the original myth, Heracles was not Hera's child and was a product of her husband cheating on her. Feeling spiteful, Hera actively sabotaged his life and tried to make his suffer, even forcing him to kill his own family. Here, Hercules is her son and no mention of Zeus cheating on her is ever brought up, so the adaptation portraying Hera as the kind, patient and level-headed of the two. Even in the episode "Hercules and the Return of Typhon" it is revealed that she was the one who threw the lightning bolt that led to Typhon's defeat and that she allowed Zeus to take the credit for image reasons. | |
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Burp of Finality | |
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Burp of Finality: Subverted. The Hydra eats Hercules and burps when done, but Hercules escapes by sticking his sword in its throat and cutting its head off. | |
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AllMenAreRapists | |
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All Men Are Rapists: Meg comes very close to outright stating this belief in her introductory scene: | |
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Your Size May Vary | |
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Your Size May Vary: The titans. While they usually stand at about a hundred feet tall or so, when we first see them they are almost as tall as mountains. Especially noticeable when Lythos (the rock titan) is able to crush an entire town with his foot! | |
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Multiple Head Case | |
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Multiple Head Case: The Hydra, while trying to eat Herc, accidentally attacks the other heads or knocks into them. The heads themselves also fight over which one gets to eat him. Justified that it only had one head a few minutes ago—growing extra heads takes some getting used to, you know... | |
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Squish the Cheeks | |
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Squish the Cheeks: Hades likes to put his hands on Meg and plays with her cheeks on occasion to mess with her. | |
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RecycledINSPACE | |
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Recycled In Space: The movie's plot is basically Superman: The Movie and Rocky IN ANCIENT GREECE! This was no accident either—John Musker and Ron Clements, the directors of the film, are admitted superhero comic fans. | |
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness | |
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Hades does this to Meg after stripping Herc of his strength. It's obviously the only reason he's holding up his side of the bargain and setting Meg free. | |
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Wild Take | |
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Wild Take: Pegasus does one just before Pain and Panic capture him. | |
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Faux Affably Evil | |
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His Faux Affably Evil personality also mimics her gay best friend trying to console her about her issues with men. | |
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Soul-Cutting Blade | |
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Soul-Cutting Blade: The Fates' scissors. When your life is over, they cut it and that's why it's over. Gods are immune to them. | |
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Been There, Shaped History | |
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Been There, Shaped History: During his date with Megara, Hercules skips a stone that accidentally breaks a statue, revealed to be the Aphrodite of Milo (more famously known as the Venus de Milo), him being responsible for the loss of its arms. Meg remarks that it looks better that way. | |
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Eating the Enemy | |
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Eating the Enemy: the first monster the titular character faces is the Lernaean Hydra (sans swamp), who quickly swallows him up. Miraculously, he cuts himself out of her throat before hitting the stomach. Unfortunately, for each head that's cut off, three new ones will grow in its place, as in the original myth. Eventually, the monster gains a veritable army of heads and pins him to a wall. She then tries to eat him again but Hercules is able to collapse the mountain she has him pinned against, crushing her to death in a rockslide. | |
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Death by Cameo | |
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Death by Cameo: Sort of. Scar makes a cameo as the skin of the Nemean Lion Hercules wears for a vase-painting shoot. This is also an in-joke to the fact that both Herc and Scar are animated by Andreas Deja, as well as a clever little Call-Back to The Lion King itself: when Mufasa asks what he should do with Scar near the beginning of the film, Zazu suggests that he "would make a very handsome throw-rug". | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: When the two "boys" are "trapped", you can hear a slight hissing at the end of their last under-rock sentence. When Hades opens his display to ask Megara about the River Guardian, there are two other figurines visible on it: a giant boar and a gorgon, that are both later sent against Hercules in "Zero to Hero". When Meg takes Herc to the garden, she is surprised and truly flattered by Herc's sincere compliments towards her. Then she backs into the statue of Cupid's arrow. Then they nearly kiss before Phil interrupts and berates Herc for ditching him. Before leaving, Herc, picks a flower from a tree and gives it to Meg and kisses her. The entire garden scene is what foreshadows the song I Won't Say I'm in Love. Young Hercules hitting his head on the mast of The Argo could be seen as a foreshadow to his "death" later in the film seeing as Jason died from having the mast of The Argo fall on him. | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
Hercules / Disney / int_9e0c3153 | comment |
Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "I've got 24 hours to get rid of this bozo, or the entire scheme I've been setting up for 18 years goes up in smoke, and you. Are wearing. His. MERCHANDISE!?!" | |
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Amazing Technicolor Population | |
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Amazing Technicolor Population: The Gods, being gods, are different colors and all of them glow. | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
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My God, What Have I Done?: Herc gets this after he hits Phil in a blind rage. He's very shocked at himself for lashing out. Meg also gets this when Hades makes the deal with Hercules to deprive him of his strength, and then reveals that Meg was in Hades's service. | |
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Nervous Wreck | |
Hercules / Disney / int_a1b27125 | comment |
Nervous Wreck: Panic. | |
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Friendly Address Privileges | |
Hercules / Disney / int_a2340346 | comment |
Friendly Address Privileges: Megara plays with this trope: | |
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Award-Bait Song | |
Hercules / Disney / int_a3eae597 | comment |
Award-Bait Song: "Go the Distance" by Michael Bolton. The UK soundtrack has Shooting Star by the boy band BoyZone. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_a4c37cbe | type |
Mood Whiplash | |
Hercules / Disney / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: Meg sacrifices herself to save Hercules, her body is crushed. Herc then goes to save the gods from Hades' plot, and partakes in some hilarious hi-jinks, only to snatch right back after the confrontation, as Meg is dying. | |
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Bolt of Divine Retribution | |
Hercules / Disney / int_a52f8fdf | comment |
Zeus persuades Phil to take Hercules on as a student. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_a60e3252 | type |
Rule of Funny | |
Hercules / Disney / int_a60e3252 | comment |
Rule of Funny: Why isn't Phil a pile of dust from the lightning? Because it's funnier to see him with ash-face instead. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_a60f7120 | type |
Physical God | |
Hercules / Disney / int_a60f7120 | comment |
Physical God: It's Greek Mythology, what do you expect? | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_a6bf7a7b | type |
Ambulance Chaser | |
Hercules / Disney / int_a6bf7a7b | comment |
"He's just another chariot ambulance chaser." | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_aa42306e | type |
Totally Radical | |
Hercules / Disney / int_aa42306e | comment |
Totally Radical: "And that's the world's first dish!" They gave Meg, one of the more complicated and interesting Disney love interests, dialogue like "Been there, done that" and "Don't even go there." It... hasn't aged well. Meg has served time in the Underworld so her slang may be somewhat out-of-date. Phil also mentions having "been around the block before with blockheads just like you" to Hercules. He means he's trained people like Herc already, but... well, he's a satyr, and it's Ancient Greece. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_ab68c5cc | type |
Chronic Hero Syndrome | |
Hercules / Disney / int_ab68c5cc | comment |
Chronic Hero Syndrome: Herc rushes off to help people as soon as he hears about it. A double subversion in that he's doing heroic deeds to regain his godhood, but later realizes that he should be doing good for good's sake. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_abcb9af1 | type |
Eaten Alive | |
Hercules / Disney / int_abcb9af1 | comment |
Eaten Alive: Hercules. The hydra eats him. It's clear he's still alive because A) he cuts off its head from inside and B) the film's only about halfway through. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_ac7b87df | type |
Off-Model | |
Hercules / Disney / int_ac7b87df | comment |
Off-Model: Hercules will frequently suffer Clothing Damage to his tunic, only for it to be repaired by the next frame. Most obviously when he's attacked by his fangirls—one strap of his tunic comes down, in the next frame it's fixed and in the next it's the other shoulder down. The river in the Underworld before Hercules jumps in. First he's able to dip his hand into the water. A few frames later, he jumps off a precipice to get into the river. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_ad1db87c | type |
Oh, Crap! | |
Hercules / Disney / int_ad1db87c | comment |
Oh, Crap!: Phil's face when the Hydra starts growing more heads. The look on the Hydra's faces when Herc triggers the rock slide. Pain and Panic do this frequently whenever they screw something up. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_b0218885 | type |
Mickey Mousing | |
Hercules / Disney / int_b0218885 | comment |
Mickey Mousing: The coda for "One Last Hope". It seems that, as in Fantasia, the animators took their cue from the music. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_b032e4ed | type |
Ms. Fanservice | |
Hercules / Disney / int_b032e4ed | comment |
Ms. Fanservice: Meg is drawn to be a lot more sexy than the usual Disney heroine, sharing a similar body type to Jessica Rabbit. She also gets scenes like when she washes herself in the river and seduces Hercules. | |
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Big Book of War | |
Hercules / Disney / int_b060856d | comment |
Big Book of War: Phil's oft-quoted rules of conduct and engagement for heroes-in-training. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_b0cac376 | type |
The Usurper | |
Hercules / Disney / int_b0cac376 | comment |
Hades reveals himself as one behind the release of the Titans and their assault on Olympus seeking to usurp the king of gods from his throne. Yet in the climax all the gods are not in the underworld, and are not proceeding to kick Hades' ass. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_b1e81ef2 | type |
Dead-Hand Shot | |
Hercules / Disney / int_b1e81ef2 | comment |
Dead-Hand Shot: Used twice: The first is a rather odd example. When Hercules uses a rock slide to kill the Hydra, we see it's fist go limp. However it's not in sympathy for the monster, but for Hercules who apparently died in the same avalanche. And he happens to actually be held inside the dead hand. The second is more conventional, Where we see Meg's hand going limp after her Heroric Sacrific. | |
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Talk to the Fist | |
Hercules / Disney / int_b2407a69 | comment |
Talk to the Fist: Done to Hades by Hercules when the former tries to make Herc uphold his end of the deal. Overlaps with Shut Up, Hannibal!. | |
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Lone Wolf Boss | |
Hercules / Disney / int_b3d72fde | comment |
Lone Wolf Boss: Nessus the Centaur, who has no ties to Hades and Herc fights solely because the creep was making a move on Meg. While Meg had attempted to get Nessus to join Hades army, Nessus took sole interest in her and had other plans instead. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_b4b006fb | type |
Pig Latin | |
Hercules / Disney / int_b4b006fb | comment |
Pig Latin: | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_b5049d76 | type |
Added Alliterative Appeal | |
Hercules / Disney / int_b5049d76 | comment |
Added Alliterative Appeal: One of the lyrics for "Zero to Hero" is "and this perfect package packed a pair of pretty pecs!" | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_b58b4e3c | type |
Too Dumb to Live | |
Hercules / Disney / int_b58b4e3c | comment |
Too Dumb to Live: You are fighting a giant serpent. You chop off its head, and three more grow back. What do you do next? | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_b5f7b739 | type |
Evil Overlooker | |
Hercules / Disney / int_b5f7b739 | comment |
Evil Overlooker: Inverted: Hades and his minions are below everyone else on the poster, to correspond with his domain as Lord of the Underworld. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
Hercules / Disney / int_b707726f | comment |
Hypocritical Humor: Done to show how out of favor Hades is with the other gods. He introduces himself with a lame joke that meets with no response; as he leaves, Zeus cracks a similarly lame joke, and everyone bursts into laughter. | |
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Terms of Endangerment | |
Hercules / Disney / int_ba557643 | comment |
Terms of Endangerment: Hades: "Meg, my sweet, my flower, my little nut Meg." | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_bbc79d08 | type |
Everything's Better with Princesses | |
Hercules / Disney / int_bbc79d08 | comment |
Everything's Better with Princesses: Inverted. Megara in mythology was the daughter of King Chreon, making her a princess. In the movie we know nothing about her and being a princess is never mentioned. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_bd6bde69 | type |
Villain Reveals the Secret | |
Hercules / Disney / int_bd6bde69 | comment |
Villain Reveals the Secret: Hades reveals the hero that his chickie-poo Meg had been working with him all the time. And this happened AFTER Herc accepted to trade his own strength to save her and let everyone else be harmed by any potential threat. As you may imagine, he doesn't take it well. | |
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Conspicuous CG | |
Hercules / Disney / int_bdcfd50 | comment |
Conspicuous CG: The Hydra still looks pretty CG despite advanced cell shading simulation techniques being applied. Also, Hercules' 'crib' and the colonnade in Olympus. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_bdfb5a83 | type |
YouGotSpunk | |
Hercules / Disney / int_bdfb5a83 | comment |
You Got Spunk: | |
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Act of True Love | |
Hercules / Disney / int_be445584 | comment |
Act of True Love: Hercules offers to stay in the Underworld to bring Meg back after she dies saving him. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_be8f3491 | type |
The Theme Park Version | |
Hercules / Disney / int_be8f3491 | comment |
The Theme Park Version: Hoo boy, let's just say that Disney really played fast and loose with the original Greek Myths when making this film—It would be far easier to list the things they got accurate. It's best to watch the film with a heavy dose of MST3K Mantra, especially if you're a fan of Greek Mythology or a resident of Greece. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_bea84606 | type |
Pain to the Ass | |
Hercules / Disney / int_bea84606 | comment |
Pain to the Ass: During their introduction scene, Pain and Panic trip down a flight of stairs and Pain lands bottom first onto Panic's horns. | |
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Big Applesauce | |
Hercules / Disney / int_beb932ca | comment |
Thebes is called the "Big Olive Apple." | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_beb9a361 | type |
Anti-Hero | |
Hercules / Disney / int_beb9a361 | comment |
By modern standards, the Hercules of Greek Myth wasn't exactly a paragon of heroic virtue. He killed more than one innocent person simply for being too close when his temper got the better of him (although he was always remorseful when this happened), and he would go stage a HUGE war for a mere verbal insult one day, although he did go to great lengths to help his friends and his deeds did the world a lot of good. The Hercules in this movie is a wide eyed boy scout who doesn't have many, if any, vices. The worst thing he does is lash out at Phil for trying to warn him about Meg being in league with Hades, but he immediately comes to regret that. | |
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Happily Married | |
Hercules / Disney / int_bec0417c | comment |
Happily Married: Unlike the mythology, Zeus and Hera are quite happy together. Hercules' human parents qualify as well. | |
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Mortality Ensues | |
Hercules / Disney / int_c0f7ded3 | comment |
Mortality Ensues: At the beginning when Pain and Panic make Baby!Hercules drink the mortality potion. At the end when Hercules gives up his reinstated godhood to live on Earth with Meg. | |
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Win Your Freedom | |
Hercules / Disney / int_c1d9d74c | comment |
Win Your Freedom: Megara. | |
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Big "NO!" | |
Hercules / Disney / int_c2cedc1c | comment |
Big "NO!": Done by Hercules when Meg is crushed, by Zeus after baby Herc is kidnapped from Olympus, and by Hades when Herc saves Meg's soul from the River Styx. The last is really something to see. | |
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Alien Blood | |
Hercules / Disney / int_c2f7db18 | comment |
Alien Blood: The Hydra's blood is green. | |
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Yank the Dog's Chain | |
Hercules / Disney / int_c4db6423 | comment |
Yank the Dog's Chain: Hercules is happy to finally get accepted into Mount Olympus after becoming a hero...only for Zeus to tell Hercules that he has yet to become a true hero. | |
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The Dulcinea Effect | |
Hercules / Disney / int_c6538cc6 | comment |
The Dulcinea Effect: Invoked and justified. According to Phil, it is a hero's job to save a Damsel in Distress. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_c6a83b97 | type |
Rapid-Fire Descriptors | |
Hercules / Disney / int_c6a83b97 | comment |
Rapid-Fire Descriptors: When Phil argues with Hercules when telling him that Meg is working with Hades (with Herc refusing to believe him), he uses many adjectives in a row. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
Hercules / Disney / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: One of the Muses' sculpture incarnations during "I Won't Say (I'm in Love)" should look very familiar to fans of the Haunted Mansion ride at the Disney Theme Parks. Hades, just before the fight between Hercules and the Hydra: "Let's get ready to RUMBLE!" And Hades again: Followed by: The hydra looks like Mohawk the Gremlin from Gremlins 2: The New Batch. This isn't the first time Disney has shown Hephaestus forging bolts and throwing them to Zeus. The Muses themselves are very similar to Alan Menken's other famous Greek Chorus. Don't forget the lion skin Hercules wears in one scene—it's Scar! Quite possibly to the specific line Zazu says to Mufasa. "He'd make a very handsome throw-rug." There's also the Mr. Miyagi-esque bit of the training montage. The maiden in the constellation getting her skirt blown upwards. There is a sign that says "Over 5,000,000,000 and 1 served", a nod to the McDonald's Corporation. Herc's origin story bears a striking similarity to the backstory of Superman. The female pegasus that Pain and Panic disguise themselves as to lure Pegasus away resembles a My Little Pony, right down to having a symbol (in this case a heart) on its flank. A seductress is sent to find out a seemingly invincible hero's weakness, and he then loses his superhuman strength due to her betrayal... just like Samson and Delilah! Pain & Panic after Hades yells at them when the Fates arrived without his knowledge: "We are worms! Worthless worms!". While bowing down. The fish that Hercules picks up when facing down Nessus bears a striking resemblance to a certain Mr. Limpet. During one of Hades' rants, he referes to Zeus as "Mr. Hey You, Get Off My Cloud". Meg catches Hercules hiding behind a curtain and says, "Let's see. What could be behind curtain number one?" | |
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Big Friendly Dog | |
Hercules / Disney / int_c78c0896 | comment |
Big Friendly Dog: Pegasus, who was a gift to Hercules from his father at birth. Described by Zeus as having the heart of a horse and "the brain of a bird", he acts pretty dog-like throughout the movie. Besides the flying, Hercules and Phil get their faces licked by him several times throughout the movie. | |
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Wowing Cthulhu | |
Hercules / Disney / int_c81b2a53 | comment |
Wowing Cthulhu: After the battle for Olympus, Hercules goes down to Hades to get Meg's soul back. He offers the god of the underworld his soul in exchange for hers, if he can get her back from the river of death. Hades is stunned when Herc emerges from the river not only alive, but as a god. | |
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Boxing Lessons for Superman | |
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Boxing Lessons for Superman: Hercules already had Super Strength so Phil's training focuses on teaching him everything else he'd need to know: weapons, balance, aim, obstacle courses and other things. Turns out to be a good thing because when Herc is Brought Down to Normal he's able to use the other skills he learned to kill the cyclops even without Super Strength. | |
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Rescue Introduction | |
Hercules / Disney / int_cc396ff2 | comment |
Rescue Introduction: Hercules meets Megara when rescuing her from a monstrous centaur. | |
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Goofy Print Underwear | |
Hercules / Disney / int_cc3c365f | comment |
Goofy Print Underwear: When Hercules announces to a small crowd of distressed people that he's a hero, one of the men realizes the "goat man", Phil, that's with him trained Achilles. Phil tries to beat him up and ends up biting his toga, revealing white underwear with red spots. This may qualify Phil under the All Animals Are Dogs trope since that's a very dog thing of him to do. | |
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Fauns and Satyrs | |
Hercules / Disney / int_cc436d11 | comment |
Fauns and Satyrs: Obviously, Phil the Satyr. His appearance is of the later renaissance version, but his nymph-chasing, wisecracking bad looks are in fact taken straight from classical depictions of satyrs. | |
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BeyondTheImpossible | |
Hercules / Disney / int_cc6f4612 | comment |
Beyond the Impossible: Reconstructed Trope. It's impossible to kill a god; no ifs, ands, or buts. However, it is possible to remove their divinity and then kill them once they are no longer a god. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
Hercules / Disney / int_ce6555f0 | comment |
Lighter and Softer: The take on Greek mythology present in the film, in addition to being Sadly Mythtaken, is much lighter and more family-friendly. Without it, the film would have turned out an R-Rating. It also applies in the context of Disney Animated Canon. Of the '90s Disney movies, this film was considerably lighter and more of a slapstick comedy, especially compared to its darker and more epic predecessors (The Lion King, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame) and successors (Mulan, Tarzan). | |
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge | |
Hercules / Disney / int_ceec4df5 | comment |
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The Titans go on one of these against Zeus after being released from the vault he locked them in. | |
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Cassandra Truth | |
Hercules / Disney / int_cf92fea8 | comment |
Cassandra Truth: Phil, after he overhears part of a conversation between Meg and Hades, catches on that Meg isn't to be trusted and tries to warn Hercules. The lovesick Herc will have none of it, to the point of hitting him in a blind rage, and Phil leaves Herc in his darkest hour. Hades ends up revealing Meg's involvement to Herc after taking his strength away. And boy does it have a more crushing effect on Herc than having his strength gone! | |
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Supernormal Bindings | |
Hercules / Disney / int_cf98facb | comment |
Supernormal Bindings: After Hades assaults Olympus, the gods are shown being led away in chains, which vanish rather than fall off after Herc cuts them. | |
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Refusing Paradise | |
Hercules / Disney / int_d11a344d | comment |
Refusing Paradise: At the end, Hercules chooses to remain on Earth with Meg instead of returning to Olympus. | |
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The Gods Must Be Lazy | |
Hercules / Disney / int_d19dc823 | comment |
The Gods Must Be Lazy: Played straight and inverted. Zeus singlehandedly defeated and imprisoned the Titans in the prologue. Zeus persuades Phil to take Hercules on as a student. Hades reveals himself as one behind the release of the Titans and their assault on Olympus seeking to usurp the king of gods from his throne. Yet in the climax all the gods are not in the underworld, and are not proceeding to kick Hades' ass. | |
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Hercules / Disney / int_d39e327f | type |
What the Hell, Hero? | |
Hercules / Disney / int_d39e327f | comment |
What the Hell, Hero?: Phil calls out Hercules for being too distracted by love to see that Meg is using him. Hercules takes a flying leap to avoid the hint, takes his rage out on Phil and disowns him as his trainer, leaving Phil to mumble one last admonishment and leave him to his darkest hour. Although Phil could arguably be said to be doing his own at the same time, by completely neglecting to mention the most important part: Hades' involvement. To Hercules it just sounds like he's being hounded about an old topic, and Phil never tries to clarify that he's hounding him because he discovered a god is after his friend before abandoning him. | |
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Villainous Face Hold | |
Hercules / Disney / int_d4816fb | comment |
Villainous Face Hold: When Hades has taken Meg hostage. He grabs her face and makes her look at him (Hades) and then at Hercules in order to mock Hercules. | |
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Adaptational Wimp | |
Hercules / Disney / int_d500b978 | comment |
Adaptational Wimp: In the Greek Myths, Deimos (who Pain is based on) was the Greek God of Terror and Phobos (who Panic is based on) was the very personification of fear brought on by war. In the movie, they're watered down into bungling comic relief lackeys for Hades. Also, Hermes was able to borrow (or steal) Hades' helm of darkness pretty much anytime he wanted in the myths. In the movie, he's easily captured and subdued by Pain and Panic to be dragged off into the Underworld once the Titans storm Mount Olympus. This is probably because the film chose to depict him solely as a messenger god rather than the more broad-scope trickster that he was in the myths. Amphitryon (Hercules' foster father) was a general that ravaged the islands of the Taphians, and took part in other war campaigns, even dying on the battlefield fighting against the Minyans. The movie changes him into a harmless peasant. | |
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Does Not Like Shoes | |
Hercules / Disney / int_d507ecfc | comment |
Does Not Like Shoes: Aphrodite wears no shoes from what the audience sees of her. | |
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Eagleland Osmosis | |
Hercules / Disney / int_d56c9b8d | comment |
Eagleland Osmosis: Played for Laughs, and adds a Genius Bonus. | |
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Living Forever is No Big Deal | |
Hercules / Disney / int_d7700808 | comment |
Living Forever Is No Big Deal: The Gods seem to consider immortality part of their lives; they are naturally worried when it's removed from one of them, but in normal times they barely refer to their immortality. Phil, too, who is apparently immortal/has an extremely long life span (since he trained all the heroes of the past), doesn't even mention being immortal. | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
Hercules / Disney / int_d9cf40fa | comment |
Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: The Titans attempted to do this when Hercules frees Zeus from their imprisonment, much to Hades' chagrin. Hercules is able to kill them all before they could succeed. | |
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Company Cross References | |
Hercules / Disney / int_d9e48d0 | comment |
Company Cross References: Hercules' poses with a Nemean Skinning of Scar. | |
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Finishing Each Other's Sentences | |
Hercules / Disney / int_daba1b82 | comment |
Finishing Each Other's Sentences: The Fates do this, frequently finishing what Hades is about to tell them. It annoys him quite a bit. | |
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Hijacked by Jesus | |
Hercules / Disney / int_dd3969b | comment |
Hijacked by Jesus: Zeus has become a Grandpa God, Hades a Satanic Archetype, and Hercules a stand-in for Jesus. "And that's the gospel truth" | |
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Crushing Handshake | |
Hercules / Disney / int_dd53c52b | comment |
Crushing Handshake: Happens when Hercules shakes Phil's hand. Herc is so excited to meet his mentor that he forgets to be careful with his Super Strength. Later, Hercules gets this from Hades after being blackmailed into giving up his strength for twenty-four hours. | |
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Despair Event Horizon | |
Hercules / Disney / int_dda99fa8 | comment |
Despair Event Horizon: Hercules comes close to this after giving up his strength to save Meg from Hades, only to have Hades reveal that Meg was working for him all along. Herc is fully prepared to commit suicide by giant cyclops until Phil comes back and gives him a pep talk. Meg's Heroic Sacrifice also helps to pull him out of it. | |
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Kubrick Stare | |
Hercules / Disney / int_dea5fe1 | comment |
Kubrick Stare: When Hercules decides to reverse Meg's death by marching into the underworld, he sports one of these almost the whole time, especially when looking at Hades. | |
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Karmic Jackpot | |
Hercules / Disney / int_e3a7d2e6 | comment |
Karmic Jackpot: Amphitron and his wife adopt a baby they find on the road, rearing him as their own son. They love him and comfort him when his clumsiness causes problems with the neighbors; when he wants to find out who he is, they let him go seek Zeus's guidance with bittersweet smiles. As a result, Hercules supports them with the royalties he gets from his hero merchandise, their adoptive son is honored as a god, and Hercules returns home with a lovely wife and a hero's reputation. | |
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Go Seduce My Archnemesis | |
Hercules / Disney / int_e404c1ba | comment |
Go Seduce My Archnemesis: After Hercules kicks the collective asses of every monster Hades sends at him, he decides to send Meg in to seduce him in order to find out what his weakness is. Predictably, she falls in love with him instead. However, this provides Hades with the answer he wanted in the first place. | |
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Silk Hiding Steel | |
Hercules / Disney / int_e407c172 | comment |
Silk Hiding Steel: Though crossed with Femme Fatale and Broken Bird, Meg fulfills the trope in her ability to manipulate and her Heroic Sacrifice inner steel. | |
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Composite Character | |
Hercules / Disney / int_e4965307 | comment |
Composite Character: The Fates have a lot of the Gray Sisters about them (see Sadly Mythtaken). | |
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Disaster Dominoes | |
Hercules / Disney / int_e4ba33fc | comment |
Disaster Dominoes: Young Herc's market scene involves a lot of stone pillars, one of which he ends up crashing into, causing the rest to topple over likewise. | |
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Greek Chorus | |
Hercules / Disney / int_e4d079c1 | comment |
Greek Chorus: Literally! The movie is narrated by the Greek Muses who take part in the story, sort of. | |
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Expy | |
Hercules / Disney / int_e5421161 | comment |
Expy: Hercules' origins is similar to that of Superman. He is adopted by two mortals who raised him to be a good person, his father becomes his Big Good consultant, very Tsundere Love Interest, and becomes a hero beloved by people. The difference is that Superman was sent to Earth out of necessity since Krypton was dying, while Hercules was kidnapped and made to be mostly mortal to prevent his victory over Hades and the Titans. | |
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Clothing Damage | |
Hercules / Disney / int_e61d9a3c | comment |
Hercules will frequently suffer Clothing Damage to his tunic, only for it to be repaired by the next frame. Most obviously when he's attacked by his fangirls—one strap of his tunic comes down, in the next frame it's fixed and in the next it's the other shoulder down. | |
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All Animals Are Dogs | |
Hercules / Disney / int_e70c45f0 | comment |
All Animals Are Dogs: Pegasus acts more like a dog with wings than a horse, especially when he's younger. | |
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Younger Than They Look | |
Hercules / Disney / int_e9db9908 | comment |
Younger Than They Look: The film begins with Hercules's birth, and the Fates inform Hades that he can release the Titans in 18 years. | |
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Exact Words | |
Hercules / Disney / int_e9e35e8f | comment |
Exact Words: The reason Herc retains some godly power. The formula to turn him into a mortal required him to drink the whole thing. He sucked down all but one drop. Also, the Fates said that Hades would fail of Hercules "fights", they didn't say anything about whether or not he has his strength. | |
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Bound and Gagged | |
Hercules / Disney / int_eb28ab57 | comment |
Bound and Gagged: Meg during Hades' deal with Hercules to symbolize her enslavement. As well as to keep Meg from telling Hercules the truth. | |
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Two Words: I Can't Count | |
Hercules / Disney / int_ecb480a4 | comment |
Two Words: I Can't Count: A Running Gag is that every time Philocetes attempts Two Words: Added Emphasis, he gets the count wrong. After the "retired" line, a confused Hercules is then seen counting it out. As a Bilingual Bonus, "I am retired" is two words in Ancient Greek. In Phil's song "One Last Hope", the lines "Askin' me to jump into the fray/My answer is two words:" set him to rhyme with something like "No way." Then he's forced to make a Last-Second Word Swap. | |
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Moment Killer | |
Hercules / Disney / int_ece6f910 | comment |
Moment Killer: Phil is quite skilled at doing this. He has a megaphone. | |
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Blow You Away | |
Hercules / Disney / int_eea93c96 | comment |
The Titan's names are Stratos, Lythos, Pyros, and, rather unfittingly for his powers, Hydros. Likewise, unless you know your Greek mythology, the five Muses are Thalia (muse of Comedy and the plump one), Melpomene (muse of Tragedy and the one with the long, curly hair), Calliope (muse of Epic Poetry and the leader), Clio (muse of History and with the pony tail), and Terpsichore (muse of dance and choral poetry, the one in the two-piece toga). | |
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A Minor Kidroduction | |
Hercules / Disney / int_ef20d7bc | comment |
A Minor Kidroduction: The film begins with Hercules as a baby. It appears to be a baby shower, or maybe the day of his birth since he gets gifts. | |
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Offhand Backhand | |
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Offhand Backhand: Done by Herc to Hades near the end and because his divinity was restored, he literally punches Hades' face in. | |
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Your Other Left | |
Hercules / Disney / int_f03aae7f | comment |
Your Other Left: During Herc's fight with the Hydra. | |
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Phosphor-Essence | |
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Phosphor-Essence: The gods glow. At the end, Hercules starts glowing when he regains godhood. | |
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Last-Second Word Swap | |
Hercules / Disney / int_f165cf2c | comment |
In Phil's song "One Last Hope", the lines "Askin' me to jump into the fray/My answer is two words:" set him to rhyme with something like "No way." Then he's forced to make a Last-Second Word Swap. | |
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Innocent Innuendo | |
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Phil also mentions having "been around the block before with blockheads just like you" to Hercules. He means he's trained people like Herc already, but... well, he's a satyr, and it's Ancient Greece. | |
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No Song for the Wicked | |
Hercules / Disney / int_f4a8b21c | comment |
No Song for the Wicked: Hades has no Villain Song despite being such a Large Ham. Even though Woods loves playing Hades, he doesn't like to sing (according to the DVD commentary for the first Family Guy episode he appeared).note Rob Paulsen voiced his verse for the Mickey's House of Villains song It's Our House Now". The stage musical averts this by giving him two numbers, "A Cool Day in Hell" and its reprise. | |
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Never Say "Die" | |
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Never Say "Die": Even though it's a kids' film, very much Averted. When Hercules goes to fight the cyclops after losing his strength: And when Megara convinces Phil to come back after their argument: | |
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Dartboard of Hate | |
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Dartboard of Hate: With Hercules-painted vases instead of a dartboard. Hades has Pain and Panic throw them up which he shoots down with flames. | |
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Borrowed Catchphrase | |
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Borrowed Catch Phrase: While still on a high after his date with Meg, Herc jokes with Phil some, even mimicking his voice. | |
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Love Makes You Crazy | |
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Love Makes You Crazy: Portrayed rather positively in this case. | |
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RunningGag | |
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A Running Gag is that every time Philocetes attempts Two Words: Added Emphasis, he gets the count wrong. | |
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The Exit Is That Way | |
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The Exit Is That Way: Or rather, Mt. Olympus. The Titans got lost so Hades had to point the way. | |
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Easy Evangelism | |
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Easy Evangelism: After the initial shock of Zeus appearing before him wears off, Herc readily and immediately buys that Zeus is his real father. | |
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Artistic License – Physics | |
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Artistic License – Physics: Hades primarily has flaming blue hair, which turns red when he gets mad. In the real world, blue fire is much, much hotter than red or orange fire. | |
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Canon Immigrant | |
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Canon Immigrant: The Muses, Pegasus and Deimos (Pain) were not involved in the original Heracles myth, and were brought in from other parts of Greek Mythology for the Disney movie. Phobos (Panic) does not appear in the myth per se, but Heracles did worship him and have him depicted on a shield of his. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: "'If?' 'If' is good." A far more meta example is Scar's cameo as a "very handsome throw rug." | |
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Diving Save | |
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Diving Save: Meg pushes Hercules out of the way of a falling pillar. | |
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You Put the "X" in "XY" | |
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You Put the "X" in "XY": "Who put the 'Glad' in 'Gladiator'? HERCULES!" | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: The sheer number of references to real Ancient Greek Religion makes it clear that the writers did, in fact, do the research. | |
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