james woods did the voice of hades in hercules.
james woods did the voice of hades in hercules.
who did the voice of hades in hercules?
james woods
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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in the movie, hades sends them to kidnap baby hercules, make him mortal, and kill him. the imps obey and capture him in the middle of the night, but fail to kill him, and only half-succeed in making him mortal: he keeps his godlike strength, allowing him to dispose of the pair before they have a chance to kill him as snakes (a reference to the original hercules myth, where he strangles two snakes sent by hera with one hand as an infant). not wanting hades to know about their failure, they tell him that hercules is dead. many years later hades discovers that hercules is actually alive. to try and grovel sufficiently they become insects, reminding hades they could still kill hercules in the time left. throughout the rest of the movie, they're seen either cheering hades's monsters on, grovelling to hades, or using their shape-shifting powers to contact the girl who is unwillingly working for hades, meg. e.g. in one scene when they wanted to get meg's attention, they form bunnies. in another scene, unknown to meg and hercules that pain and panic are spying on them disguised as birds, meg and hercules are about to kiss, and pain and panic tell meg, "stop fooling around! get the goods, sister!" in rare moments of competence, they manage to trap pegasus by pretending to be a mare, and even capture hermes in the assault on olympus, herding the gods off the mountain in chains. at the end of the movie, hades is punched into the river styx, and the two are left watching him go down into the river, hoping that he won't return.
list of disney's hercules characters