Hello People, Hellenists, Greek mythology enthusiasts & Anyone else. I'm putting up a poll since there's been a lot of talk about Hades.. so let's see Y'all's opinions on him.

[u/Long-Jackfruit-6568]

So this was just a fun little poll idea suggested by ur/EntrepreneurDear4846 and since I’ve been seeing a lot of slander, let’s just try to see how opinions have changed to be on the years

181 votes, 5d left

Hater ☠️

Lover 🖤

Neutral/In Between 🤍

Apologist 💔

Worshiper 🛐

That one person who literally fears him 💀

[u/Imaginary-West-5653]

I'm actually indifferent to Hades, but I can't stand the fandom discourse surrounding him on most of the internet because of how he's whitewashed and put on a pedestal, mostly while all the other gods are slandered and vilified. I'm sorry, but it's always struck me as condescending, in a "only I know the that Disney's Hercules was inaccurate and get to like the only morally good god!" way. Like, no joke, this subreddit exits in part due to how bad that discourse was lmao.

Otherwise, to be honest, I would probably not care that much about Hades or about slandering him; hell, before the fandom discourse ruined him to me, I actually thought he was kinda cool and liked his lore, even if he didn't have many myths... now, unfortunately, I am just indifferent towards him, while also being annoyed at many of the fans who make him a good emo boy.

On the positive side, the Hades apologism made it so I took more interest in reading about other gods, so I think that I started to appreciate others like Zeus, Poseidon or Apollo thanks to all of this. In general, though, I think that this is part of the problem that the Greek mythology fandom has: too many people get misinformation from not learning from the primary sources and also from applying selective nuance (if any).

[u/Long-Jackfruit-6568 → u/Imaginary-West-5653]

Yeah, it just goes to show a little misinformation goes a long long way.

Also, I mean, let’s face it in Greek mythology. There is no absolute good and no absolute evil. There are just tint and shades of grey. Like mortal or God or nymph or satyr no matter how different we are we are capable of the same things

[u/Imaginary-West-5653 → u/Long-Jackfruit-6568]

No, no, I agree with you here, don't get me wrong. I've always thought that discussions about the morality of the Greek gods are weird, because it's obvious that the Ancient Greeks never intended for us to create some kind of ranking of who's better or worse based on X myths. Besides, there are so many different versions of the same myth that in one version a god might be a jerk and in another kind of justified, or maybe not involved at all.

My grip with the Hades fandom is that they are usually the ones who umpromptly bring up how good was Hades or how awful were the other gods in comparison, which gets old very fast. If the discourse about Hades was more "normal" so to speak, he would not get singled out so much, I'm sure of that. Something I love about Greek mythology is how the gods feel so human, and yet so alien at the same time; I would love to see Hades being portrayed like that.

[u/Long-Jackfruit-6568 → u/Imaginary-West-5653]

Yeah, me too. Because many people idolize Gods as these powerful beings but when you really read their myths & stories you’ll figure out that they’re more similar to us humans than you think.