However, Megara is grievously injured after saving Hercules from a falling pillar, negating Hades' deal that Meg would not be hurt. Hades then releases the Titans, who defeat and imprison the gods, and sends the Cyclops to kill the weakened and discouraged Hercules to keep him from getting in the way, but Hercules defeats the monster using his wits. After the deal is made, Hades then reveals that Megara was working for him the whole time, crushing Hercules' will to fight. Herc agrees, as long as Meg will be safe from any harm. When he finds out that Hercules has strongly fallen romantically in love with Megara, he uses this to his advantage and makes a deal with Hercules: Herc must give up his god-like strength for the next twenty-four hours (secretly the same twenty-four hours Hades will use to take over Olympus) in exchange for Meg's freedom. After discovering that Hercules is still alive, Hades sends numerous grotesque beasts to finish Hercules off, only for Hercules to slay everyone with ease. Meg remains trapped as a slave to Hades, and he uses her beauty, charm, and intelligence as an advantage to persuade monsters to join his army.

He does, but Meg's lover ungratefully dumps her for another girl shortly afterward. Later, a young woman named Megara sells her soul to Hades so that he will return her lover's soul. Pain and Panic, however, tell Hades that Hercules is dead, hoping that he will not find out. Thus Hercules, while mortal, retains his god-like strength and spends his life on Earth.

Hercules needs to drink every last drop for it to work, but the last drop is lost. Hades sends his minions, Pain and Panic, to kidnap baby Hercules and give him a potion that would render him mortal, in order to kill him. Upon visiting the Fates, he learns that he could succeed by releasing the Titans in eighteen years, but if Zeus' son, Hercules, is to fight Hades, he will fail. Hades seeks to overthrow Zeus and rule Mount Olympus - in Ancient Greece - the Earth and the rest of creation for himself.

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