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Underworld

Background Information
Feature films	Hercules (film)
Television programs	Hercules: The Animated Series
Video games	Kingdom Hearts II
Park attractions
Designer
Inspiration	The Greek Underworld
Other Information
Other names
Location
Ruler(s)	Hades
Owner(s)	Hades
Inhabitants	Hades, Pain and Panic, Cerberus, Hecate, Charon, Imps, Souls of the dead
Visitors	Hercules, Megara, Olympian Gods, Icarus, Sora, Donald Duck, Goofy, Auron, Demyx
Final state	Still standing

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The Underworld is a location in the film Hercules. It is the final resting place of the dead and is ruled by the Olympian God Hades.

Locations in the Underworld

River Styx

Also known as the Pit of Death. This river carries the dead to the Underworld where they will spend the rest of eternity in either the Elysian Fields if they were good or Tartarus if they were evil. In the episode of the animated series Hercules and the River Styx it is revealed that the river is also a Goddess that only reveals herself to those who wield Poseidon's Trident. It is also revealed that the river marks the border of Hades' domain. Technically Styx is in fact a nymph, and will live for as long as her river flows.

Tartarus

Tartarus is the deepest, darkest and most sinister area of the Underworld. It is here where the souls of the wicked and evil are sent and it is also the place where Zeus imprisoned most of the Titans and a giant Cyclops after he ended their reign of destruction.

It is a dark and ominous dungeon-like place located deep beneath the ocean, a few jagged rocks can be seen rising from the sea where Tartarus is and there is also a small island filled with jagged mountains where the Titan Prometheus is imprisoned and each day a giant eagle comes to eat his liver.

Elysian Fields

The final resting place for the good and the heroic. It is a paradise filled with beautiful valleys and temples. This part of the Underworld is protected by Zeus, but Hades attempted to win it from Zeus in a bet in the episode Hercules and the Driving Test, but he lost the bet however.

Kingdom Hearts series

The Underworld appears in Kingdom Hearts II as a location in the world of Olympus Coliseum. In the game Hades, with the help of Pete plans to kill Hercules by re-opening the Underdrome, a violent and dangerous Underworld coliseum that was sealed away by Zeus for its savagery. In order to do this Hades summons a powerful fighter from the deepest pits of the Underworld named Auron to fight Hercules in the Underdrome and kill him, however Auron refuses and is nearly defeated by Hades but he was able to escape thanks to Sora. Later on Hades kidnaps Megara and imprisons her in the Underdrome's lock which Sora unsuspectingly opened which caused the Underdrome to be re-opened.