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The whole movie is historical revisionism by Zeus himself.

In some stories the end of the Age of Heroes (specifically the Trojan War) was engineered by Zeus to get rid of his illegitimate children, so it's not like this is beneath him. Zeus overthrowing the Titans in the backstory is portrayed as unambiguously good when in the original myth it brought about the end of the Golden Age. The Titans are portrayed as inhuman forces of nature instead of being more or less the same as the Olympians. Hercules is now Hera's child, which eliminates the cheating Zeus part of the story. Since that would mean Hercules is all god we need a reason for him to not be in Olympus, hence the kidnapping and the "you need to become a true hero" BS. Since it wouldn't make sense for his own mother to be his enemy, Hera gets replaced with Hades, who can't exactly leave the underworld to give his side of the story. Hades also replaces Gaia in the Titan rebellion story to cover up the complicated relationship between the Olympians and their ancestors.

• I was watching the movie today and came to the same conclusion. This story was a creation of Zeus. It has to be in order to get SO much wrong.
• This is genius. Continuing on this theory, this is Zeus' attempt to survive in the Christian era. Thus why it's Hijacked by Jesus: partly to fit in with conservatives, and partly to enter the wonderful and powerful world of Disney. Of course, one wonders how painful it would be for him to fit in with the radical change in values.

Megara has more issues in her life than what's revealed in the movie

yeah i know her boyfriend deserted her even though she saved his life, but in movie, that wasn't enough to explain her bitterness in the movie. I have feeling before that, she was already having problems in her life with men(she seemed real bitter about men in general). in some way, her distrust in men is similar to the man-hating lesbian(maybe she's bi).

• What? Just... What?
  • Agreed, this is an incredibly misguided argument.
• She didn't just save that guy's life, she sold her soul for him. And he dumped her anyway. For me, that's quite enough to be bitter. Also, I think, it's not before that event she became so cynical, but later, while she worked for Hades. Judging by the episode with Nessus the Centaur, her tasks were less than pleasant and she didn't meet many nice people who could've restored her faith in humanity.

The film was originally planned to have Typhon as the monster unleashed by Hades, and Ares would have been the Big Bad.

Consider this: in the original myths, Typhon was one of the few monsters that scares Zeus, and Ares' two minions, Phobos and Daemos, were repurposed into Pain and Panic. As much as I like the film in its existing state, my inner mythology buff would have loved the film even more if this is how it ended up - Typhon could be the biggest example of Nightmare Fuel in a Disney film since Ursula, and it would have been fucking metal.

The filmmakers were fans of Dungeons and Dragons.

Because the Titans are totally Ogrémoch, Yan-C-Bin, Cryonax and Imix.

Zeus put Persephone in charge of the Underworld.

Zeus needed someone to run the Underworld, but couldn't just let Hades go. So he asks Persephone to do it, since it's not like she's doing anything during Winter anyway.