In the myth, Megara was Heracles’ first wife, the daughter of King Creon of Thebes, but not the King Creon of Thebes whose sister married her son. They go to land where they find Megara (Susan Egan) in the clutches of Nessus (Jim Cummings). After the training completes, Phil, Pegasus, and Hercules (now voiced by Tate Donovan) head towards Thebes, which Phil says has “a million troubles”*, but they first make a detour when they hear a woman shrieking.
Phil reluctantly agrees to train Hercules in order for him to become a hero and hopefully gain his place amongst the gods. He is then reunited with Pegasus and told to find Philoctetes (Danny DeVito), who is not son of King Poeas and is a satyr living by himself on an island. Tired of being an outcast, he sets out for the Oracle at Delphi local temple of Zeus, where he prays and finds out that he is the son of Zeus and Hera. He is then discovered by Amphitryon (Hal Holbrook) and Alcmene (Barbara Barrie), who raise him as their own.įast forward several years and Hercules is now a teenager (Josh Keaton, singing voice by Roger Bart) that is viewed as a freak because of his god-like strength. They kidnap him and take him to Earth where they fail to kill him and only turn him mortal. Hades then sends Pain (Bobcat Goldthwait) and Panic (Matt Frewer) to kill Hercules. But if Hercules fights, he won’t be able to succeed. If the titans are released, he’ll be able to overthrow Zeus. Hades returns to the underworld to learn from the Fates (Amanda Plummer, Carole Shelley, Paddi Edwards) that in 18 years, the cosmos will align to show him where the titans are hidden. Hades was given the underworld in Disney’s film, while in mythology, Hades chose the underworld when him, Zeus, and Posidon drew for their realms. Hades (James Woods) shows up and shows how unhappy he is that Zeus has another son. We then go to Mount Olympus, where Zeus (Rip Torn) and Hera (Samantha Eggar) are celebrating the birth of Hercules. They tell us about how the world was in chaos because of titans and Zeus came along and locked the titans up. The film starts off with a narrator (Charlton Heston) who doesn’t invoke the Muses, but is mostly interrupted by them. So, instead we have Zeus and Hera, the happy monogamous couple. Although in the myth, Heracles is the son of Zeus and Alcmene, but I don’t think that Disney would imply that Zeus slept around. Hercules was his name in the Roman myth, but the film is set in Ancient Greece, as evidenced by his father being Zeus and Hera and them living on Mount Olympus. Hercules is about the famed mythological hero Ἡρακλῆς, or Heracles, as his name was in the Greek myth.
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