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* Averted in the Dark Hunter book "Acheron". Hades seems to be one of the few gods who pities Acheron and leaves him be when Acheron dies and appears in the Underworld.

** Techincally though, the Anubis of the movie was an ancient Egyptian EvilSorcerer who called himself "Anubis, lord of the dead" rather than the actual god Anubis. Perhaps he should've chosen a better name...

* Anubis got this treatment in the ''YuGiOh'' movie. Of course, the film was written by the 4KidsEntertainment adapters; knowing them, they probably missed how in the original material, Shadi's fealty was to Anubis. Granted that Shadi can easily signify GoodIsNotNice, but he's still not a creature of malice, so his divine liege probably isn't either. Instead, the writers should have considered Set (the closest thing the Kemetians had to an evil god, at least after the Hykso invasion).

* Like Hades, most other death gods from various mythologies again [[DarkIsNotEvil aren't usually evil]].Nothat Hades was a god of Death, see above. Neither [[EgyptianMythology Anubis, Osiris]], [[CelticMythology Arawn]], [[FinnishMythology Tuoni]] (basically a finnish Hades) et cetera were malevolent. There are some exceptions like [[NorseMythology Hel]] (and even so she isn't like Satan or anything, not opposing the good guys; she was, in fact, good prior to the myths being HijackedByJesus), but the general idea was that death was neutral.

** Also, Hades was not strictly a god of death. He was the god of the underworld in every sense of the word. Meaning that he also was the god of things that came from the underground: stones and gems as well as wealth. (although the wealthy can be evil, that is not always the case.)
*** To elaborate on that Hermes was the god who took people to the underworld

* Like Hades, most other death gods from various mythologies again [[DarkIsNotEvil aren't usually evil]]. Neither [[EgyptianMythology Anubis, Osiris]], [[CelticMythology Arawn]], [[FinnishMythology Tuoni]] (basically a finnish Hades) et cetera were malevolent. There are some exceptions like [[NorseMythology Hel]] (and even so she isn't like Satan or anything, not opposing the good guys; she was, in fact, good prior to the myths being HijackedByJesus), but the general idea was that death was neutral.

* ''{{Charmed}}'' never used Hades, but Hecate, another underworld god, came off particularly badly, being [[http://charmed.wikia.com/wiki/Hecate turned into a demon]]. (Way to go, [[DidNotDoTheResearch have witches fight the patron of witches]].) Yama also got this treatment, becoming the totally amoral gatekeeper of Chinese hell who tried to snatch whatever spirits were not "properly buried" and drag them to hell, regardless of whether they were good or evil.

* {{Charmed}} never used Hades, but Hecate, another underworld god, came off particularly badly, being turned into a demon. Way to go, [[DidNotDoTheResearch have witches fight the patron of witches]].

* ''Kali'' can easily be mistaken for a demon and can be seen as quite scary with black skin, weapons in her four arms, a necklace of human heads, a skirt of severed arms, and blood staining her lips. But for her followers, she's mostly a caring and even loving protector, who destroys all evils.

*** It should be noted that that's largely a Wiccan thing, and the show is fairly favorable to Wiccans. Hecate was indeed a goddess of magic, but Hermes was a god of magic too, and neither one particularly favored 'witches' until, what, the 19th or 20th century when witches started using her?

** The point of the scene was to play with this trope, namely by Mina suggesting that by worshiping a goddess of destruction (or, incorrectly, of death), Nemo is untrustworthy and possibly evil or dangerous, rather than her knowing that to Nemo, Kali is not evil. It seemed to serve to show how the members of the league distrusted each other.

** If I learned the story right, Persephone's mother controls the seasons. When Demeter is depressed because her daughter is in the underworld with Hades, the plants fade and fall and winter come. When Persephone returns, Demeter brings back the plant life, and we get spring and summer. So Persephone spending more time with Demeter means a longer summer.

* Kid Icarus has Pluton, an invincible and incredibly annoying ogre thief, whose name is presumably a mistranslation of Pluto. The Grim Reaper(shortened to Reaper) and the God of Revenge are also enemies.
* ''ShinMegamiTensei DevilSurvivor'' has Yama, buddhist judge of the underworld, making a contract with one of the people inside the Tokyo Lockdown. He reveals himself to be a HangingJudge to whom AllCrimesAreEqual (and death being the only sentence). To be fair, though, we only see him interact with people guilty of crimes like murder, abuse of authority and similar -- he ignores the party, who are not guilty of anything, until you attack him.

** Death and Hades are thrown in the lake of fire. This is symbolic of God's intent to end death for humans, permanently. Compare 1st Corinthians 15:54-57.

** Also, unlike in ''Charmed'' Hecate is [[ShownTheirWork portrayed favorably in this show as the patron deity of witches]].

* Izanami has invert trope for ShinMegamiTensei. She's actually pretty malice, being one who cursed humanity with death (albeit she was so furious at her husband back then). Yet she doesn't appear as villain until {{Persona 4}} ([[spoiler:and even then she is just giving humans what she thinks [[WorldOfSilence they want]]]]). In fact, the first two games have her incarnation as the heroine.

** Hey, every one to meet her [[LogicBomb and live to tell about it]] [[DontFearTheReaper say that she is pretty cool.]]