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    And somehow they got remembered as bad guys.

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    1. breathingrequirement on

      War and the dead aren’t exactly up there on the good guy spectrum.

      …That was a sentence I just typed

    2. Jorvalt on

      Disney did Hades so dirty because he’s honestly one of the chillest gods in Greek mythology.

      Why did he need to be the villain? Hera was RIGHT THERE. SHE WAS THE ACTUAL VILLAIN OF THE HERACLES MYTH.

      Hades didn’t even exist at the time that was originally written!

    3. LastEsotericist on

      Ah yes, the chillest and least chill gods have something in common.

      Hades got a lot of respect because you were going to meet him eventually and it really wasn’t anything personal, he was just king of the place you wind up when you die. Ares was out to cause trouble and kill motherfuckers so no one liked him. Romans kinda freaked Greeks out with their reverence for Mars, who they interpreted as Ares.

    4. jackt-up on

      As archetypal constructs go, war and death are up there in terms of the scariest

      But funny and on point meme lol it is weird

    5. PhaseSixer on

      Alright.

      Ares has a myth where he defends his daughter from assault.

      Guess what Zeus has Myths of him killing dudes trying to assault women under his protection too. So does Apollo and Poisiden

      Ares was the embodiment and god of the Brutal and horrible aspects of war. Which Included the Greek culturaly accepted practice of mass sexual assault and taking women as Spoils of war.

      Even the one city that where it was said women “celebrate” Ares did so in an attempt to keep him away.

      Good guy feminist Ares was not a thing.

    6. Vexonte on

      More than likely there are some stories about them doing that that were simply lost to time.

    7. Ceterum_Censeo_ on

      It always bugs me how Hades-glazing posts like this ignore him abducting Persephone and deceiving her into being forced to spend a quarter of every year with him forever.

    12. _mace_windont_ on

      If your bar for a ‘good guy’ is ‘Not raping’, there’s something wrong with you.

    14. Level_Hour6480 on

      Yeah, Hades just kidnapped and held his wife hostage, which makes any encoder between them nonconsensual.

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