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~ Philoctetes yelling at Hercules to stop beheading the Hydra.
The Hydra is a giant dragon-like creature that appeared as a minor antagonist in Disney's thirty-fifth full-length animated feature film, Hercules. She is based off the original Hydra, a monster that fought the original Hercules in the mythical Greek legend.
Her vocal effects were provided by Frank Welker, who also voiced Doctor Claw in the Inspector Gadgets TV franchise, the Cave of Wonders in Disney's Aladdin, and the Spiders in Eight Legged Freaks.
Hercules: Ph-Ph-Phil, what you call that thing? Philoctetes: TWO WORDS, AM-SCRAY!
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~ Hercules and Philoctetes.
The Hydra was once a minion of Hades who was commanded to kill Hercules after he lifts a boulder blocking her lair to free two trapped boys (are really Pain and Panic). In the epic battle, when she swallows Hercules, Hercules cuts off the Hydra's head by slicing at her throat from within.
However, the Hydra was not dead yet, and three more animal heads grew in her place. Hercules continued to cut off the heads in a vain attempt to kill the Hydra. Apparently, it was a jungle of heads, and Hercules seemed to be unable to kill her. Eventually, Hercules came up with a plan, and tricked the Hydra. He let her grab him with her claw and pin him to the side of a cliff, intent on delivering a killing blow. At just the right moment, Hercules used his immense strength to deal a powerful punch to the cliff. This fractured apart the cliff enough to cause an avalanche of rocks to pour down as a massive rockslide. This rockslide crushed the Hydra, killing her permanently.
Hercules: The Animated Series[]
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Phil, I need a sword! Find me a sword! Kid, the last thing you used to defeat the Hydra is a sword. You got enough mouths to feed already! What am I supposed to do?! Remember why you here: fight your fear, not The Hydra!
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~ Hercules and Philoctetes when they realized it was Phantasos as seen in Hercules and The Long Nightmare.
The Hydra makes five minor appearances in Hercules: The Animated Series.
In "Hercules and The Long Nightmare", Phantasos, Morpheus's brother, used the nightmare mat to make a bad dream and frame his brother. Hercules had a dream when he walks to The Mount Olympus to see Zeus and Hera, and the Hydra appears. She grabs Hercules's cape and swallows him and her three heads turn into faces of Phantasos. The Hydra appears Hercules bravely tricks the monster then grabs the Hydra's head, tangles them, then he grabs the tail, spins her around, and throws the monster into a hole before Phantasos turns into Typhon, the father of all monsters.
In "Hercules and the Arabian Night", Hades thinks of where to place his monsters, including the Hydra and Nessus the centaur, in his chessboard during his first meeting with Jafar.
In "Hercules and the Parent Weekend", The Hydra appears as a baby during Echidna's song and it is one of Echinda's children.
In "Hercules and The First Day of School" the head of The Hydra is seen in the museum with Hercules holding her head on his hand when Bob the narrator was the audience about this thousands Headed Hydra.
In "Hercules and The Gorgon", The Hydra as a baby was seen along with other monsters like Medusa, Cyclops, a harpy, The Minotaur and other monsters at The Underworld where they were invited meeting to Pain and Panic to the orientation.
House of Mouse[]
In "Salute to Sports", the Hydra briefly appears in Philoctetes's Hero-Training Program advertisement with Donald Duck before the end.
Kingdom Hearts[]
The Hydra also makes her appearance as a boss in the video game Kingdom Hearts II. Hades sends The Hydra to kill Hercules however she is playing dead and succeeds by destroying the Olympus Colosseum and was killed by Sora.
Appearance[]
The Hydra is a gigantic, kaiju-sized, monstrous-looking, reptilian draconic creature with dark purple skin. She has a bulky and muscular body and walks using a pair of four-fingered hands with razor-sharp claws. Her tail is abnormally long, thin and whip-like while each time one of her heads is cut off, two more grow back as a replacement.
All of the Hydra's heads are identical as they sport long, serpentine necks, large mouths filled with razor-sharp fangs and orange eyes with slitted pupils, similar to snakes. She also has spikes that line each of her heads and necks.
Personality[]
A typical hydra with reptilian traits, she is a hostile guardian. Seeming herself surprised to see her first three heads grow back, she becomes ever more threatening, as her thirty faces grow, again and again. The hydra can also be seemed very loyal for her master, Hades as his right-hand beast and is willing to kill Hercules, so not only her master will take over Mount Olympus, but she also desires to destroy and devour the people of Thebes as her reward. Which implies she more hostile and dangerous to finish "the job" herself than Pain and Panic never had.
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Trivia[]
The Hydra is based on the Lernaean hydra, a serpent-like water monster of Greek mythology. She originally had nine heads, one of which was believed to be immortal, that would replace each other in the same manner as the Hydra in Hercules, and was killed by Heracules as the second part of his twelve Labors after the Nemean Lion.
As stated in the myth, Hercules slew the Hydra by slicing off its heads, then using a torch to cauterize the stumps left. The immortal head was sliced off like the others, and was buried under a rock.
However, in the original myth, it was his nephew, Iolaus who cauterized the stumps, he is absent in the Disney film. Another absent character was the large crab that Hera sent to help the Hydra.
The Hydra is rendered in CGI, unlike the rest of the movie which is in hand-drawn animation. This was done as it would have been incredibly difficult to draw each head individually.
In Once Upon a Time, the Hydra does not appear. However, when Hercules tells his twelve labors to a teenage Snow White, one of his medals represents the creature.
According to the Disney Read-Along story of Hercules, the Hydra grew a total of thirty heads.
However, the math shows if Hercules removed one head and three more were added up to fourteen times, the result would be twenty-nine.
Also, the next possible answer is 3¹⁴, which is 4782969. But this couldn't be possible because it would be too many.
Two more possible answer can be 81 (3⁴) and 243 (3⁵), as the Hydra's heads grow by the exponential sequence: 1, 3, 9, 27, 81, 243, 729, 2187 and so on.
According to Greek mythology, the Hydra is the offsprings and a daughter of Echinda and Typhon.
In Hercules: The Animated Series, instead of an adult, the Hydra was a baby and one of Echinda's children just like her brother Cerberus.
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