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Hades appears in Smite, a multiplayer online battle arena, as a playable god. An AI named "HADES" is the main antagonist of Horizon Zero Dawn . Created as a subordinate function of the terraforming system GAIA, HADES was designed to take control and reverse the terraforming process in the event that the process had failed, allowing the system ...
Hades (also sometimes Pluto or Hell) is a fictional character appearing in DC Comics publications and related media, commonly as an adversary and sometimes-ally [1] of the superhero Wonder Woman. Based upon the eponymous Greek mythological figure , he is the Olympian god of the dead and ruler of the underworld.
Hades and Cerberus, in Meyers Konversationslexikon, 1888. Hades, as the god of the dead, was a fearsome figure to those still living; in no hurry to meet him, they were reluctant to swear oaths in his name, and averted their faces when sacrificing to him. Since to many, simply to say the word "Hades" was frightening, euphemisms were pressed ...
The Battle of Olympus takes place in ancient Greece which is being terrorized by Hades, the dark ruler of the underworld. Helene, the lover of Orpheus, is kidnapped by Hades. A top-down map of Greece shows various dungeons and ancient Greek city-states for the player to visit on their journey.
Hades also was the first game to be awarded a Hugo Award as part of a special video games category introduced for the 2021 Hugo Awards. [69] In a review of Hades in Black Gate, John ONeill said of its Hugo Award win, "I hope the WSFS decides to continue this category. Video games have become a solid reservoir for powerful storytelling, and 16 ...
Zagreus is the protagonist of the 2020 video game Hades. In it, his goal is to escape the Underworld, which is ruled by his father, Hades, with the aspiration of meeting his demigoddess mother, Persephone, on the surface. Along the way, he does battle with the forces of Hades, including the Fury Sister Megaera and the hero Theseus.
In Greek mythology, the underworld or Hades (Ancient Greek: ᾍδης, romanized: Háidēs) is a distinct realm (one of the three realms that make up the cosmos) where an individual goes after death. The earliest idea of afterlife in Greek myth is that, at the moment of death, an individual's essence ( psyche ) is separated from the corpse and ...
Several traditions reveal traces of a Proto-Indo-European eschatological myth that describes the end of the world following a cataclysmic battle. [86] The story begins when an archdemon , usually coming from a different and inimical paternal line, assumes the position of authority among the community of the gods or heroes (Norse Loki , Roman ...