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Ares
Hades is the god of the Underworld. He’s about 10 feet tall and exudes power. He’s lithe and pale, and he wears black silk robes embroidered with pained faces. Hades’s face reminds Percy of those of dictators like Hitler. Despite his evil looks and the fact that he’s the lord of the Underworld, Hades also struggles with very human problems: he runs the Underworld singlehandedly, and so he’s the one to deal with the increase in deaths resulting from Earth’s growing population. This causes traffic jams, staffing issues, and money problems, all of which annoy Hades to no end. He also feels overlooked by the other gods and so doesn’t say anything when his magical object, the helm of darkness, goes missing—but he believes that Percy has it. Though Hades is unwilling to change his stance and continues to insist that Percy is the one trying to frame him and start a war, he does show himself to be honorable when he returns Mom as promised after Percy gets Hades’s helm back from Ares. Percy also realizes that Hades probably feels understandably bitter since he’s only allowed in Olympus once per year, during the winter solstice.
Hades Quotes in The Lightning Thief
The The Lightning Thief quotes below are all either spoken by Hades or refer to Hades. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 19
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“More security ghouls,” he moaned. “Traffic problems at the judgment pavilion. Double overtime for the staff. I used to be a rich god, Percy Jackson. I control all the precious metals under the earth. But my expenses!”
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“Problems everywhere, and I’ve got to handle all of them personally. The commute time alone from the palace to the gates is enough to drive me insane! And the dead just keep arriving.”
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I felt like my heart was being ripped in two. They had both been with me through so much. [...] I had spent thousands of miles worried that I’d be betrayed by a friend, but these friends would never do that. They had done nothing but save me, over and over, and now they wanted to sacrifice their lives for my mom.
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Chapter 20
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“Hades will be mad at both Zeus and Poseidon, because he doesn’t know who took this. Pretty soon, we got a nice little three-way slugfest going on.”
“But they’re your family!” Annabeth protested.
Ares shrugged. “Best kind of war. Always the bloodiest. Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.”
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The middle Fury, the one who had been Mrs. Dodds, stepped forward. Her fangs were bared, but for once she didn’t look threatening. She looked more disappointed, as if she’d been planning to have me for supper, but had decided I might give her indigestion.
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Chapter 21
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I realize Hades must’ve built his palace to resemble this one. He wasn’t welcomed in Olympus except on the winter solstice, so he’d built his own Olympus underground. Despite my bad experience with him, I felt a little sorry for the guy. To be banished from this place seemed really unfair. It would make anybody bitter.
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Hades Quotes in The Lightning Thief
The The Lightning Thief quotes below are all either spoken by Hades or refer to Hades. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 19
Quotes
“More security ghouls,” he moaned. “Traffic problems at the judgment pavilion. Double overtime for the staff. I used to be a rich god, Percy Jackson. I control all the precious metals under the earth. But my expenses!”
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“Problems everywhere, and I’ve got to handle all of them personally. The commute time alone from the palace to the gates is enough to drive me insane! And the dead just keep arriving.”
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I felt like my heart was being ripped in two. They had both been with me through so much. [...] I had spent thousands of miles worried that I’d be betrayed by a friend, but these friends would never do that. They had done nothing but save me, over and over, and now they wanted to sacrifice their lives for my mom.
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Chapter 20
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“Hades will be mad at both Zeus and Poseidon, because he doesn’t know who took this. Pretty soon, we got a nice little three-way slugfest going on.”
“But they’re your family!” Annabeth protested.
Ares shrugged. “Best kind of war. Always the bloodiest. Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.”
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The middle Fury, the one who had been Mrs. Dodds, stepped forward. Her fangs were bared, but for once she didn’t look threatening. She looked more disappointed, as if she’d been planning to have me for supper, but had decided I might give her indigestion.
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Chapter 21
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I realize Hades must’ve built his palace to resemble this one. He wasn’t welcomed in Olympus except on the winter solstice, so he’d built his own Olympus underground. Despite my bad experience with him, I felt a little sorry for the guy. To be banished from this place seemed really unfair. It would make anybody bitter.
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