What did Hades wanted to control?

Control Over the Earth's Riches
Because Hades is the ruler of the underworld, he possesses and controls all of the riches that are found within the earth. This includes both natural riches as well as buried riches. He is often considered the wealthiest and richest of all of the gods.

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How did Hades control the dead?

Necromancy: as the ruler of the Underworld, Hades has absolute control over the souls of the dead and his world, to the degree where he was able to gift them to worthy mortals, Hades can also instantly steal souls from mortals or magical beings from far.

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Who did Hades desire?

Hades, god of the Underworld, fell in love with Persephone and wanted her as his bride.

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Did Hades want to overthrow Zeus?

Despite Hades' silence on his complaints in the Greek myths, films like Disney's Hercules characterize Hades as vengeful and plotting the overthrow of Olympus. However, in Greek mythology, Hades never attempts to usurp any of the gods, especially Zeus, the King, but other gods do!

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Was Hades a good guy?

Despite modern connotations of death as evil, Hades was actually more altruistically inclined in mythology. Hades was portrayed as passive and never portrayed negatively; his role was often maintaining relative balance.

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Is Hades a villain or a hero?

Hades is a character in the God of War series. He is the god of the underworld who once acted as an anti-hero, being an ally of Kratos during his journey to defeat Ares, but he also turns into his enemy due to his wife's death.

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Who tried to cheat Hades?

Sisyphus is credited with being the founder and first king of Corinth. He gained infamy for his trickery and wicked intelligence, but his greatest feat was to cheat death and Hades himself, not once but twice, thus living up to Homer's description of him as "the most cunning of men" (Iliad, 6:153).

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Did Hades ever cheat on Persephone?

Persephone's jealousy suggests she might have loved Hades

In Ovid's famous text Metamorphosis, Hades has an affair with a young Nymph named Minthe. Persephone, now in her later years, was so incensed with jealousy that she turned Minthe into a mint plant.

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Who is Hades jealous of?

Hades is jealous about his brothers successfulness in their lives like how us humans are with our siblings. Overall, Hades was always envious of his brothers because of their accomplishments compared to his unluckiness.

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What made Hades mad?

People would also attempt to steal souls from the realm of the underworld and even try and cheat death, both of which drove Hades mad.

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Who did Hades betray?

It was Hades, god of the underworld. He wrenched Persephone from Cyane, dragged her into his inky chariot, and blasted back through the earth.

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What was Hades weakness?

Hades's strengths include his wealth of the earth, especially precious metals; persistence; and determinedness. His weaknesses include his passion for Persephone (also known as Kore), the daughter of Demeter and Zeus, and his own niece. (He kidnaps her to be his wife.) Hades is also impulsive and deceptive.

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Who was Hades's girlfriend?

Persephone, Latin Proserpina or Proserpine, in Greek religion, daughter of Zeus, the chief god, and Demeter, the goddess of agriculture; she was the wife of Hades, king of the underworld.

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Who is Hades true love?

Zades was a canon ship, until Hades' destruction. Zelena is the Wicked Witch of the West from 'The Wizard of Oz' and Hades is the god of death from 'Greek Mythology'. What they had was true love, proving that they did genuinely love one another.

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Who seduced Hades?

Minthe was a water nymph who fell in love with Hades, but her attempts to seduce him angered his wife, Persephone.

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Did Hades sleep with Hera?

Sometime during her marriage, presumably in retaliation, Hera started an on and off affair with Hades that ended around the "80s." It is unknown if Zeus was ever aware of the affair.

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Did Hades marry his niece?

Hades became the ruler of the Underworld. Hades was married to his niece, Persephone, whom he abducted [See Demeter].

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How many kids did Hades have?

Who were Hades and Persephone's children? Persephone and Hades had two children; one daughter, Melinoë,and one son, Zagreus. Melinoë became the goddess of nightmares and madness. Zagreus was a minor Greek god.

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Is Hades a traitor?

The 6 Traitors Dynasty is a group of six Gods and Goddesses consisting of Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, Demeter, Hera, and Hestia.

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Who destroyed Hades?

Sylens had designed his lance to make it appear to Aloy that she had successfully destroyed HADES with the Master Override.

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Who is the main villain in Hades?

Zagreus | Hades Wiki | Fandom.

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Who is more powerful than Hades?

Zeus. Zeus overthew his Father Cronus. He then drew lots with his brothers Poseidon and Hades. Zeus won the draw and became the supreme ruler of the gods.

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Is Hades more evil than Zeus?

Although he is feared throughout Ancient Greece and represented in most media as an evil being who only wants to take Zeus' place, in truth he may be the least evil of the gods with Hermes as Hera and Zeus are much more evil and antagonistic than him. Hades was actually one of the more reasonable and benign Gods.

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Who is the most misunderstood Greek god?

He is the ancient Greek God of the underworld. He is the ruler of the dead, the torturer of the sinners, the most nefarious and sadist ruler. And he has a dog named Spot. Hades is probably the most feared, hated and misunderstood Greek God of all time.

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Why did Persephone cheat on Hades?

Besides Adonis, Persephone never cheated on Hades. Still, she had been wooed by other mortals and gods, such as Pirithous but she refused them.

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