ralph fiennes played hades in wrath of the titans.
ralph fiennes played hades in wrath of the titans.
who plays hades in wrath of the titans?
ralph fiennes
hades in popular culture









































the mythological greek deity hades often appears in popular culture. he is often portrayed as a villain due to his association with death and the underworld. 









































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hades appears in the movies "" played by steve coogan, and the remake of "clash of the titans" and its sequel "wrath of the titans", where he is played by ralph fiennes.
hades in popular culture
hades appears in the "kingdom hearts" series of video games. he was originally in league with maleficent, using the heartless to try to take over the worlds. hades wanted to dispose of hercules and tricked cloud strife into challenging hercules in the preliminaries at the olympus colliseum. in return, hades "promised" cloud he will lead him to sephiroth. however, when sora arrived, hades changed plans and had cloud attack sora first. when cloud refused to kill sora (or was defeated by him, depending on the outcome), hades sends out cerberus to take care of cloud. hercules arrived to get cloud to safety while sora & company dealt with cerberus. after maleficent's defeat, hades himself battles sora and lost as all his schemes against sora and the others end in failure. in "", a facsimile hades appeared as token of sora's memory and the darkness in riku's heart. in "kingdom hearts ii", hades's desire to kill hercules is still undeterred. after joining forces with pete, and probably maleficent through him, hades decides to use auron, who has already died, to fight against hercules and kill him; however, auron rebels against hades and fights him, only to be interrupted by sora, donald duck and goofy. they fight hades, but, due to the underworld curse, he is invincible to their attacks. hades then sends cerberus and later the hydra against sora and his friends. upon discovering that sora's keyblade could unlock any lock, hades initially plans to use it to unlock the underdrome, the underworld's own coliseum. however, when pete informs him that the keyblade will only work for sora, hades kidnaps meg and traps her in the locked underdrome, forcing sora to unlock it to rescue her. after defeating pete and the hydra again, sora and his friends eventually fight and defeat hades. however, hades survives and acts as a challenger in the last tournaments, which are unlocked near the end of the game. in the prequel, "kingdom hearts birth by sleep", he attempts to use terra to kill hercules, but terra resists the darkness in his heart, so hades places zack under his control to eliminate both terra and hercules, but terra defeats zack and frees him from hades' influence. later, hades and the ice colossus (a replica of the ice titan) both fight aqua in the coliseum, but aqua defeats the both of them and hades flees to the underworld to further his plans. james woods reprises his role for the english versions of the games, while his japanese voice in all the games is done by japanese stage actor kyusaku shimada, who does an impersonation of woods.
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