History Main / EverybodyHatesHades

* ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'': Kali is the "the goddess of death" in one scene, though this may have been an example of the trope being played with, as Mina suggests that by worshiping a goddess of destruction (or, incorrectly, of death) that Nemo is untrustworthy and possibly evil. However, a Victorian educated woman would have had little understanding of Hindu deities, and the whole scene served to illustrate that the team misunderstood and distrusted each other. Ironically, Nemo's costume suggests he's a Sikh (as he was in [[ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen the comic]] though ''not'' in the [[Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea novel]]), and not a Hindu at all.

* Hades made his debut in Ichiei Ishibumi's light novel series ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'', and services as the main antagonist throughout Volume 11 and Volume 12, aiding Khaos Brigade's Old Satan Faction and Hero Faction behind the scenes in a scheme to destroy the Devils and Fallen Angels. He commands a legion of Grim Reapers.

* In ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'', a particularly destructive AI system is named HADES, after the Olympian god.

* The first ''VideoGame/FearEffect'' depicts Yen Lo Wang, the Chinese God of the Underworld, as the main villain and the overarching antagonist of the entire franchise.

** The 3rd edition splatbook ''Deities & Demigods'' lists Hades as NeutralEvil largely so they could give him levels in the assassin PrestigeClass. The book specifically notes that he isn't actively hostile or vicious, and that he mostly just ''is''; everyone dies eventually, and someone has to run the afterlife. However, a [[WordOfGod clarification from the writers]] later on is that Hades is listed as NeutralEvil because of the oldest class-based [[TheArtifact artifact]] in D&D's history: Hades has the class [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Assassin, which requires the person with it to be evil]], if the DM removes a deity's class stats ([[LordBritishPostulate which they should]]), Hades would be be somewhere between LawfulNeutral and TrueNeutral. Also Hecate, even if she's described as protrectress of children and provider of food and riches, gets a similar treatment being classified as Neutral Evil and considered both capricious, fickle, and similar to the Planescape version noted below despite her being in the original mythos rather different.

Anubis on the other hand was listed as LawfulNeutral. Hel, of course, gets the "evil" treatment (and one that affects her personality more, likely due to her being half rotting corpse), despite being by far the least antagonistic of Loki's children in the original myths. Ironically, ''Loki'' has a strange case of this: in the section on Norse deities, the book tells the DM that if the setting is before the slaying of Baldr, Loki, despite being ChaoticEvil, would not be actively evil. Notably, the book also adds the idea of the Repose domain, which seems designed as an attempt at averting this: it's meant to represent gods of death that ''aren't'' cackling foes of all life, and whose clerics are more likely to simply mind the graveyards and conduct funeral rites. Gods which play this trope straight usually get the Death domain, which is the one with all the overt necromancy, spreading fear, and instant-killing, whereas gods who view death as more of a passing thing (i.e. Anubis and Osiris) get the Repose domain.

** The 3rd edition splatbook ''Deities & Demigods'' lists Hades as NeutralEvil largely so they could give him levels in the assassin PrestigeClass. The book specifically notes that he isn't actively hostile or vicious, and that he mostly just ''is''; everyone dies eventually, and someone has to run the afterlife. However, a [[WordOfGod clarification from the writers]] later on is that Hades is listed as NeutralEvil because of the oldest class-based [[TheArtifact artifact]] in D&D's history: Hades has the class [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Assassin, which requires the person with it to be evil]], if the DM removes a deity's class stats ([[LordBritishPostulate which they should]]), Hades would be be somewhere between LawfulNeutral and TrueNeutral. Also Hecate, even if she's described as protrectress of children, gets a similar treatment being classified as Neutral Evil following the Planescape description below despite her being in the mythos rather different. Anubis on the other hand was listed as LawfulNeutral. Hel, of course, gets the "evil" treatment (and one that affects her personality more, likely due to her being half rotting corpse), despite being by far the least antagonistic of Loki's children in the original myths. Ironically, ''Loki'' has a strange case of this: in the section on Norse deities, the book tells the DM that if the setting is before the slaying of Baldr, Loki, despite being ChaoticEvil, would not be actively evil. Notably, the book also adds the idea of the Repose domain, which seems designed as an attempt at averting this: it's meant to represent gods of death that ''aren't'' cackling foes of all life, and whose clerics are more likely to simply mind the graveyards and conduct funeral rites. Gods which play this trope straight usually get the Death domain, which is the one with all the overt necromancy, spreading fear, and instant-killing, whereas gods who view death as more of a passing thing (i.e. Anubis and Osiris) get the Repose domain.

** The Christian New Testament of ''Literature/TheBible'' (being written originally in Greek) plays with this trope, too. Since "Hades" was the name of the underworld as well as its patron God, a decent chunk of the times you see "{{Hell}}" in your English New Testament, it actually said "Hades" in the original Greek text.[[note]]The rest of the time it's usually a translation of [[UnholyGround Gehenna]][[/note]]

** The 3rd edition splatbook ''Deities & Demigods'' lists Hades as NeutralEvil largely so they could give him levels in the assassin PrestigeClass. The book specifically notes that he isn't actively hostile or vicious, and that he mostly just ''is''; everyone dies eventually, and someone has to run the afterlife. However, a [[WordOfGod clarification from the writers]] later on is that Hades is listed as NeutralEvil because of the oldest class-based [[TheArtifact artifact]] in D&D's history: Hades has the class [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Assassin, which requires the person with it to be evil]], if the DM removes a deity's class stats ([[LordBritishPostulate which they should]]), Hades would be be somewhere between LawfulNeutral and TrueNeutral. Anubis on the other hand was listed as LawfulNeutral. Hel, of course, gets the "evil" treatment (and one that affects her personality more, likely due to her being half rotting corpse), despite being by far the least antagonistic of Loki's children in the original myths. Ironically, ''Loki'' has a strange case of this: in the section on Norse deities, the book tells the DM that if the setting is before the slaying of Baldr, Loki, despite being ChaoticEvil, would not be actively evil. Notably, the book also adds the idea of the Repose domain, which seems designed as an attempt at averting this: it's meant to represent gods of death that ''aren't'' cackling foes of all life, and whose clerics are more likely to simply mind the graveyards and conduct funeral rites. Gods which play this trope straight usually get the Death domain, which is the one with all the overt necromancy, spreading fear, and instant-killing, whereas gods who view death as more of a passing thing (i.e. Anubis and Osiris) get the Repose domain.

* ''Manga/RecordOfRagnarok inverts this trope with their depiction of Hades. [[spoiler: Instead of being depicted as more evil than his mythological depiction, this version seems to be much nicer than his myth counterpart. Hades, despite still being feared by the common god, is also the one they rely on the most, and often puts the needs of others above his, especially when it comes to protecting his brothers. This extends even to humanity, as he complimented his opponent Qin Shi Huang numerous times during their battle and stated that it was an honour to fight him, despite initially vowing to kill him to avenge Poseidon's death. Even in death, he apologizes to his family for failing in his duty as an elder brother.]]

** The GrimReaper is reimagined as a powerful undead creature which is sometimes mistaken as a {{Psychopomp}} but in truth is a monster that hunts down living creatures relentlessly. It's a [[GeniusLoci manifestation]] of the malevolent will of Abaddon, the plane where NeutralEvil creatures go after death.

* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'' states Kali to be "The Goddess Of Death" and shows her followers acting like satanic cultists. The Hindu God Of Death is actually Yama, but Kali and her consort Shiva are also associated with death and change. Though she has violent qualities, particularly in her battle against Raktavija, Kali is considered a benevolent goddess by mainstream Hinduism. The villains of the film, however, are (very loosely) based on Thuggee cults, who did place Kali as their patron goddess.

** Yama is the 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.

* A subversion in ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' of all places. The "Goddess of Hell" Hecatia Lapislazuli, BonusBoss of ''Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom'', is blatantly Hecate, even keeping the "triple-bodied" aspect found in many representations of the goddess. But even though she fights alongside the game's BigBad, who is literally an AnthropomorphicPersonification of [[ThePowerOfHate sheer hatred]] and an [[VileVillainSaccharineShow uncharacteristically evil villain for the series]], Hecatia does ''not'' come off as being all that evil herself. She is, in fact, one of the least hostile beings in Hell, and actively ''protects'' Gensokyo from the more violent denizens of her jurisdiction. (She is also a PerkyGoth wearing a "Welcome ♥ Hell" T-shirt as opposed to the dark and imposing deity you'd expect.)

* Franchise/MarvelUniverse:

* ZigZaggingTrope in ''Franchise/WonderWoman''.

* In the crossover fic ''Fanfic/TheMarvelousWorldofDC'', this trope is played straight with Hades himself (the DC version), Pluto (the Marvel version, who is now his son), and Hela (his daughter), all three of whom are Lords of Chaos. However, it's also subverted by [[spoiler:Death of the Endless from ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', who appears at the end of the story to hang out with her brother Dream, AKA: the Storyteller, and is depicted as her normal [[DontFearTheReaper cheery, good-natured self]]]].

* Averted in ''Videogame/FateGrandOrder'' in the fifth Lostbelt storyline, which deals with the Olympians defeating the threat that destroyed them in "Proper Human History". Afterwards, the Gods had a civil war determining whether or not they should continue their rule or allow humanity to rule themselves, with Hades leading the faction that favored the latter (and ending up dead for it).

* While Disney did go a bit over the top, [[TropeNamer Hades]] was ''not'' a favorite god of the Greeks, who didn't even like to [[SpeakOfTheDevil say his name]] and would avert their eyes when sacrificing to him, as they worried about attracting his attention. He was said to "enrich himself with our sighs and our tears" by Creator/{{Sophocles}}. In Homer's ''[[Literature/TheIliad Iliad]]'', Agamemnon described him saying, "Hades who is utterly unyielding--and hence he is, of all gods, the one most hateful to mankind." This was a result of how Greeks observed the results of their prayers. You could pray to other gods for success in war, a safe journey, or a good harvest, and those prayers could seemingly be granted. But no matter how much you pray, nobody is coming back from the dead. While he was not considered out-and-out evil, being a death god put the kibosh on him ever becoming ''that'' popular. Though under his titles/aliases such as "Hades Pluton" "Chthonic Zeus"(which emphasized his place as Zeus' subterranean counterpart), "Clymenus", and others, he found more open worship, as they tended to focus more on his role as keeper of the earth's wealth/fertility and/or his roll as the keeper/guardian of souls. In these cases his more positive aspects were also played up, including his role as a god of justice for the dead and emphasizing his magnanimous nature.

[[PrimalFear Death and the afterlife are scary]]. We fear death and what comes after because it's unavoidable, happens to everyone, can come at practically any time in many forms and what comes after is often clouded by many various and/or conflicting viewpoints on the matter.

* As it is based on Kid Icarus, Machinima/HadesMisguidance follows this trope too a T. Regardless of whatever issues the cast may have with eachother, ''everyone'' hates Hades (except maybe Pandora) and he's doing nothing to dissuade them. The show is called Hades' ''Misguidance'' after all.

* The main antagonist of ''Theatre/OnceOnThisIsland'' is Papa Ge, a Vodou Loa associated with death whom the actual lore seems to portray as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu%C3%A9d%C3%A9 a pretty decent guy]] (at least as far as [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] can be trusted on the subject). Even in the play's storyline, this trope is played with- Papa Ge is implied to just do his job and isn't entirely evil. He even hangs out with the three other gods like good friends. "''And Papa Ge was gentle, as he carried her to shore...''" Especially when you consider that the main plot boils down to a bet over whether love or death is more powerful, and Papa Ge doesn't really do anything besides offer the main character the option of choosing death. Add to that the fact that it's somewhat implied in some productions that Erzulie, the goddess of love, more or less used her powers to make Timone (the main character) fall in love with somebody unsuitable (an affair that can only logically end in pain for somebody), plus the other gods' general manipulation (which boils down to "it's fun to play with humans") and you get a case of all four being JerkassGods at worst and operating under BlueAndOrangeMorality at best.