What If Hades Raised Hercules?

Disney's Hercules is being remade in live action form soon. That got us thinking about a different take on the '90s animated favorite. How would Hercules have turned out if Hades raised him in the Underworld? Let's find out!

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[ChannelAwesome]

What would you like to see covered on a future FanScription?

[kenguyii]

Fun Fact: From what I know from Greek Mythology, Hera was a villain to Heracles throughout his life. This is due to being jealous of her husband Zeus falling in love with another mortal named Alcmene, something she did not take lightly. So her being evil in this version of “Hercules” is surprisingly true (almost) with an added twist of her being partners with Hades and actually killing her husband.

[ianwyche]

This was a fun and unexpected twist to the movie. Hercules is one of my favorite Disney movies, and I like the darker tone you've added to it. I like how Zeus's traits were more like his clash of the titans counterpart not having all of the gods being related was a nice touch. I also liked the daughter of Hades as she was just as or even more helpful than Meg.

[saphirawinters]

You guys should write an Atlantis one where Milo is chosen instead of Kida. Maybe have his grandfather be a royal atlantean from a neighboring kingdom. Maybe he found a way to the surface and wanted to explore. However as the years pass, he began to loose his memory of where Atlantis was. So he gave up his immortality, got married, had a son, got a grandson and began to try to find Atlantis.

[HaloisTight]

I find the idea of Persephone being Hades's daughter a pretty interesting take.

[TwinRiver]

i really enjoyed this. Persephone made for a good Meg replacement. I definitely think you could've had Phil in there, probably as one of the ghost comedic side characters. I think maybe a minor thing I could see to have some of the Disney humor for that era would be having a few ghost characters that both Hercules and Persephone have met and are on good terms with. For that whole ghosts rally around them scene when they're all chaotic and disorganized, maybe the ghost eyes could be weird zombie colors and when Persephone turns on rally mode and have some recognition, they say something like yo, that's our good buddies. And maybe make some kind of Avengers/football style line saying like what's the play capt'n? and you mix some of the serious fight scene bit with some of the humor w/o taking too much of the overall tone away.

I liked the mixing Herculues and Orpheus mechanic tying him to the underworld. Also I think he and Persephone make a great pair with a relationship that builds overtime. Glad I got to see this as a version here on fanscription. I know its unlikely to become something official, so I'm glad y'all at channel awesome got to make it in this form.

Great job
loved it.
keep up the good work with these. I love watching these takes.

[YoureUgly]

I just love how cruel and straight up evil hades is just by torturing, bullying and being sadistic to Hercules, not just to punish Zeus but also just for his own self indulgence.

Jiminy Cricket: YOUR HORRIBLE!!! You’re An Irredeemable Monster!

[ForgottenHonor]

Seeing Meg's spirit swirling around Hercules and Persephone while they're kissing is...kinda haunting...

[eriknelson]

I love how Hercules was as a Disney movie but I still always wondered how it could have been darker? This is a definitive answer. Thank you so much

[CommanderShepard-wqwo]

That was one solid fanscription. And I think I like it more than the original. It’s much closer to Greek Mythology, love the relationship between Heracles and Persephone more than the one he had with Meg, definitely had a better build up and payoff. And it was interesting hearing about Heracles’ time in The Underworld.

[theanimeunderworld]

Can we all agree that some of us wanted James Wood's Hades as our dad at some point in our lives?

[AlexanderTheMadHatter]

Once again : “We were so close !!! So close, we tripped at the finish line.” – Hades
Great work Channel Awesome for another great fanscription.

[FunFilmFare]

LOVE this Fanscription episode. This one has very Little Mermaid vibes: with Zeus' forbidden love with a human, and Hercules wanting to see the surface world.

How a Fanscription episode about "The Little Mermaid"? Like what if Eric knew all along he was saved by a mermaid?

[cyberceltic]

I think this take would have been a better release than the one we have. I like the callbacks to others stories from mythology like Hercules looking back like how Orpheus did.

[justsomeguy]

This was very well done! I was wondering what direction you guys would go for this Fanscription and I was pleasantly surprised with how vastly different this version is. After that massive Batman and Robin one, it’s nice to go back to a Disney one. Good work as always!

[f-zilla]

Had Persephone not come, I imagine what that ending going a little something like this;

Hercules is killed by Hera with the dagger, and Hades begins to take out the other Olympians.

Athena looks to Ares with a knowing node, as the sister strikes Hades only for her to be killed. Ares is hit as Hades laughs.

The God of War looks to his uncle and scoffs, claiming that though Hercules is dead, there is still one last Demi-god more powerful, ruthless, and deadly than any before him.

Hades smirks and claims Ares is bluffing, but Ares simply says that this last son of Zeus left him and served Athena for a time, but that now it was time for Hades to face Ares’ monster.

Hades, becoming tired of the chit-chatter, simply states that he can deal with some big scary monster, but at the end of the day, he’s the real deal.

In his last breath, Ares looks to Hades and simply says “You don’t know what a true monster is, Hades”.

With the opposing Gods dead, Hades and Hera decide their next move to renovate Olympus, but suddenly a large tremor radiates throughout the mountain.

Hade’s servants arrive scared and terrified, telling the god that someone freed the Titans from Tartarus. Another quake, and Hades looks down to see the titans climbing up the mountain.

On the leading head, stands a lone warrior. Chains wrapped around his arms, the red tattoo on his body being his most recognizable trait. His face, a look of sheer rage and determination.

Hades froze. He had seen that face before, but he never believed him to be a son of Zeus. To undermine Ares’ words was a grave mistake, as now Hades must face the combined might of the titans, lead by none other than the infamous Ghost of Sparta…

*To Telos Arhizi Torah*

[romaingraphiste]

I really like this version of Hercules. Plus it shares similar elements with Terry Pratchett "Mort" story.

Death taking a mortal as assistant, Death daughter having a relationship with this assistant, and both of them revolting and defying Death authority. Knowing that, listening of this version of disney movie is more "moving" and exhilarating. <3

[cuff]

What a colossal improvement!!

My only complaint is the loss of Meg, Phil and Pegasus, but after hearing it from start to finish, it makes total sense. Any chance on a sequel?

[GandlingNecrolord]

I always love "What If" scenarios. This really taps into that niche I love and enjoy!
Thank you for scratching that itch, Walter!

The rest of the Channel Awesome team, props to all of you for the voice work!

[bradwolf]

Fascinating alternative Hercules. Though I am a little creeped out by Hades' wife being made his daughter...but Greek mythology can be really weird at times, so this wasn't too out there. So in conclusion, this was definitely worth the watch.