rip torn did the voice of zeus in hercules.
who does the voice of zeus in hercules?
rip torn
bullet::::- zeus (voiced by rip torn in the film, corey burton in the tv series and genzo wakayama in japanese): the ruler of mount olympus and king of the gods. husband of hera and father of most of the olympian gods. many eons ago, zeus imprisoned the deadly titans, who threatened to destroy the world, deep beneath the ocean where they would remain for the rest of eternity undisturbed. however he was unaware that the next planetary alignment would reveal the location of the titans prison. he tells his son that to join the gods, he must become a hero, which he defines as something more than being famous. zeus is betrayed by hades, but hercules later saves him and olympus, and zeus reveals that for willingly giving his life to save meg, he is finally a true hero and can be a god. nonetheless, he is supportive of his son's decision to remain with meg. zeus was heavily edited by disney as he is different from his portrayal in mythology. zeus had many affairs with mortal women and hercules was born as a result of one of those, but this was changed in the movie due to it being inappropriate for younger audiences.
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as they camp for the night, hercules reveals to deianeira that he was the one who accidentally inflicted chiron's wound. the next day as they are crossing a gorge they arrive at a point where hera has removed the bridge. hercules says they can continue if they use the rope which still remains. deianeira reluctantly agrees. the two finally arrive at mount aepion, hercules walks through the snowy mountain top, just like in his dream. he finds zeus and hercules asks him what hera has done. zeus says that hera has put the torch in the center of a ring of fire, and the fire has the power to kill immortals. zeus warns hercules from going through with his plan to get the torch back. hercules says he will do it anyway. the two men battle it out and zeus tells hercules that he is trying to save him. hercules asks his father if he cares about humanity, zeus replies that he does, but he loves hercules more. hercules tells zeus he loves him too. zeus accepts what hercules must do, and lets him go. hercules goes through the fire and retrieves the torch, he throws it and it lands in prometheus's home waking him. fire begins to return. as hercules lays dying in the circle, zeus begs hera not to harm hercules or he will haunt her for eternity, and even threatening to give up his own immortality. hera stops the flames and zeus helps hercules, who thanks him for saving his life. before leaving the cage hercules picks up a stick and makes a torch. zeus asks if he knows the power of the flames, hercules acknowledges that he does. hercules takes the torch to chiron's house and asks him to step inside a circle of straw. chiron stands in the center of the circle and hercules lights the straw with the torch. chiron drops to his knees and cries out. as the flames die out chiron exclaims that his wound is healed, the flames had burned away his immortality and healed the wound.
hercules and the circle of fire