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===''{{c|Kingdom Hearts|game}}''===

When [[Maleficent]] began her conquest of the worlds, Hades became one of her allies in her ring of [[villains]]. He utilized the [[Heartless]] by supplying them as monsters to the [[Olympus Coliseum]], for heroes to battle as usual. However, he also gained the assistance of [[Cloud]] by promising to lead him to [[Sephiroth]] if he will kill Hercules.

===''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]''===

One year later, Hades resurrects [[Auron]] in the Underworld and offers him his life back if he kills Hercules. When Auron refuses this offer, Hades becomes enraged, and almost strikes Auron down until Sora and company arrive, needing to speak to him. However, Sora and the others quickly retreat, as Hades is invincible within his domain and they are weakened by the Underworld's curse.

[[Pete]] suggests waiting for the Heartless to take care of Sora and company, but Hades dispatches Cerberus to take care of them instead. However, Sora and Auron defeats Cerberus and escapes when Sora unlocks a door with the Keyblade. Learning that the Keyblade can open any lock, Hades decides to steal it and reopen the [[Underdrome]], a coliseum locked up by [[Zeus]] long ago. After Pete informs him that only Sora can wield Keyblade, Hades kidnaps [[Megara]] and traps her in the Underdrome, knowing that Sora must use the Keyblade to rescue her and unseal the Underdrome in the process. Additionally, Hades sent a [[Hydra]] after Hercules to prevent him from interfering and had Pete on standby to ambush Sora once he enters the Underdome. However, Sora is able to save Meg with Hercules's help. At the exit of the Underworld, Hades confronts them and reminds Hercules about the Hydra which he had neglected to finish off completely. They enter the Coliseum to see it in ruins with the Hydra towering over it. The Hydra is defeated, but Hercules lost his strength and will, because of the guilt that he had since he had not completely destroyed the Hydra.

To celebrate the Underdrome re-opening, Hades decides to hold the Hades Cup, in the hopes of killing the weakened Hercules once again. Trapping Auron's soul in a [[Auron's Statue|statue]], he orders him to take care of Hercules and Sora. Inevitably, the scheme fails, as Sora finds Auron's statue and gave him back his soul. A furious Hades dumps Meg into the River Styx with Hercules diving after her. Confident they will be dead within moments, Hades overpowers Sora and his allies until Hercules emerges, his full power restored by willing to risk his life to save Meg. Hades is defeated and, while attempting to avoid a hit from Sora, loses his footing and falls down into the River Styx. Despite this, Hades manages to escape, though he doesn't appear to cause Hercules and company much trouble after that.

===''[[Kingdom Hearts coded]]''===

Within in the [[Datascape]], a data version of Hades makes a deal with the Data-Cloud: if Data-Cloud destroys Data-Sora and Data-Hercules, Data-Hades will give him the power to go to other worlds by telling him "The Secret of Heroes", and make him become stronger. However, he later double crosses Data-Cloud and reveals that he isn't the source of Olympus Coliseum's [[Bug Blox]]. After the defeat of the Data-Cerberus, the real source of the world's Bug Blox, Data-Hades battles the trio of data heroes.

===''[[Kingdom Hearts III]]''===

Frustrated with the lack of progress with his plans to take over [[Olympus]] by using Terra, Cloud, and Auron, Hades decides to revive the [[Rock Titan]] and [[Ice Titan]], while freeing the [[Tornado Titan]] and [[Lava Titan]] from their prison. Hades attacks Thebes to keep Hercules busy, allowing him to ascend Mount Olympus with the Titans unimpeded. However, to his surprise, Hades hears someone yelling for Hercules and finds that Sora, Donald, and Goofy have arrived. After they taunt him about his failures, Hades calls upon the Titans to show them their power, creating a powerful gust that blows them to Thebes. To his annoyance, Maleficent and Pete arrive next, and he flatly dismisses them. However, Maleficent tells him that she is only there to find out if there is a distinctive [[Black Box|black box]] in his world. Hades thinks they mean Pandora's Box and tells them that it is buried in the gardens in Thebes.

==Design==

In his normal state, Hades has blue skin and blue flaming "hair". His eyes are completely yellow except for his black pupils. He has very sharp teeth and an unnatural black mouth. His face is quite long and thin, with his chin jutting out abruptly. His fingers are long, thin, and clawed. He wears what appears to be a dark grey shirt underneath a black toga, the latter of which seems to be held up by a small skull pin on his right shoulder. Hades's feet are never visible, due to the length of his robes.

In ''Kingdom Hearts III'', the end of his robe is covered by a dark cloud, like the original film.

==Personality==

==Origin==

{{Q|Name's Hades, Lord of the Dead. Hi, how ya doin'?|Hades}}

Hades, like many characters from ''Hercules'', is based on a person from Greek mythology. While the Greek version of this deity has a humanoid depiction and is, for the most part, a relatively passive but unmerciful deity, the Disney version is depicted as an evil, satanic god with a hatred for his brother Zeus, jealous of being assigned to the Underworld while the Sky God became ruler of Olympus. Both versions of Hades also have a series of demonic beasts at their disposal, and reign supreme over the souls of the dead. Believers in the Grecian Hades would show their devotion to their god by going as far as to bang on the ground to ensure he was listening to their prayers. Major differences between these two depictions of Hades are that the Disney Hades is trying to overthrow Zeus, has an affiliation with fire, and is served by the demons [[Pain and Panic]], qualities that were actually associated with {{w|Alcyoneus}}, {{w|Hephaestus}}, and {{w|Ares}}, respectively, in the original mythology.