Zeus in popular culture

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In Greek mythology, Zeus is the highest ranking and most powerful god among the Olympian gods.

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  • Zeus is portrayed to be a character in the Marvel Universe who frequently fights with his older brother Hades (who plans to overthrow him) and his disowned son Ares. He disowned Ares due to his crude nature and so did Hera. Unlike in mythology, he is capable of producing his own Lighting bolts without anybody's help, putting him at a bigger advantage over the mythological versions.
  • In DC Comics, he is a lecherous god who wanted to have sex with Wonder Woman. He also threw Hades off balance due to the fact Hades wanted to rule in his place. He is also the father of the current Wonder Girl in the DC comics universe, and has given her a lasso made from his lightning to use as a weapon.
  • Zeus is a stocky, clean-shaven, old man and later a slim old man with a white beard, looking younger in "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" who doesn't get along with his son that much, ever since Hercules learned of his paternity as an illegitimate son of Zeus.
  • Zeus is portrayed as a jovial, silly (yet a loving dad and husband) god in Disney's Hercules. He is Hera's only husband. He is portrayed to have one mythological accuracy where Hephaestus manufactures his thunderbolts.
  • Zeus is also one of the heroes in the popular game, DotA Allstars.
  • The 1997 film Zeus and Roxanne is about a dog named Zeus and a dolphin named Roxane.
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