Zeus is not amused, and after letting some background characters fight them for a bit (Mercury, Mulan, Bellona, GILGAMESH, Poseidon), he shows up and mops the floor (boat deck?) with the both of them. My solution to this annoying problem? Re-read the title.Īn example of this done beautifully well is LITERALLY THE NEWEST CHAPTER OF SMITE'S STORY!!! In this chapter, Charybids is recently freed by Tiamat and, with the help of Scylla, terrorising the sea shore and destroying cities that belong to Zeus. Ironically, the most famous story where Zeus and Hades interact with each other is the one where Zeus likes Hades so much that he marries off his daughter to him when he ask him to (that was a lot of he/hims so I put their names there in case anyone got confused). Because of his unpleasant associations, Hades is often cast in a villain like role in most media and when you combine that with the fact that Zeus is the 'Good guy' you tend to get a lot of stories where Zeus vs Hades is the main conflict. You can't at me for being inaccurate now).
As most classical mythology nerds are painfully aware, everyone hates Hades in mainstream media because he'a death god (He's the god of the underworld, which makes him the god of the dead, not the god of death.
