In fact, Zeus had dozens of illegitimate children running around- some with other gods, some with mortal women. A quick read of, well, basically anything involving Greek gods will let you know immediately that Zeus and Hera weren’t married or in any way monogamous. Greek myth doesn’t exactly work that way though. Then they produce the adorable baby Hercules and all of the gods rejoice on Mount Olympus. The movie portrays them as this 1950s-esque couple with trouble having kids. Second thing: Disney very much Disneyfied the Greek gods, especially Zeus and Hera. What are you trying to tell us Disney- that gingers are gods in mortal form? Statistically speaking, its pretty unlikely that Hercules was a ginger (granted, its highly unlikely Hercules actually ever existed at all- sorry to burst any bubbles there). Hercules is the only ginger in all of ancient Greece. The first thing I noticed is that Baby Hercules starts the movie off as a blonde, then becomes a ginger when he becomes mortal (following Disney’s plot, Hades tries to make Hercules mortal in order to kill him and eventually take over Olympus/the world).
I recently re-watched the Disney movie Hercules (and by the I mean I recently sung along to the entire movie), and noticed some interesting (or not- depends on your definition of “interesting”) things.
