Hades (The Hills Have Eyes)
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- For other uses, see Hades (disambiguation)
| The Hills Have Eyes character | |
|---|---|
| Hades | |
| Gender: | Male |
| Race | Caucasian (Mutant) |
| Location | Yuma Flats, New Mexico |
| Weapon of Choice: | Hatchet, Knives |
| Portrayed by: | Michael Bailey Smith |
Hades is a fictional character in the remakes of The Hills Have Eyes series of film; Hades appears as the main villain of the film The Hills Have Eyes 2 and as a main character in the graphic novel The Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning, which reveals his origin.
[edit] Fictional character history
Hades is the child of Karen Sawney Bean, a woman infected with radiation poisoning caused by exposure to the United States Army's nuclear testing in Yuma Flats, New Mexico. How Karen became impregnated with Hades remains unrevealed, as Karen, while pregnant with Hades, stated she hadn't had sexual intercourse in two years. When first born, Hades had a horrific appearance, possessing reddish skin coloration, a deformed face and several fully-formed fangs; despite his horrific appearance, Karen loved Hades regardless and named him after the Greek God of the Underworld due to his abnormally large size and appetite and her belief that he would grow into a powerful man.
Due to his appearance and lack of a father, Hades was met with scorn and fear by the people of Yuma Flats, who believed he was a bad omen and a child of the Devil. Eventually, this fear grew to a peak and both Karen and Hades and were given an ultimatum, leave Yuma Flats or they would be forced out or killed. Karen did leave Yuma Flats with Hades and fled to the nearby mines, though not before killing Patrick, the man who convinced the town that Hades was evil. In these mines, Karen, Hades and others who were exiled due to birthing freakish children lived a meager existence, surviving off supplies sold to them by Jeb, the owner of a nearby gas station. When Jeb was no longer able to offer them supplies, Karen made a deal with him - in exchange for tricking people into traveling into the mutants' domain (a "Tourist Trap") where they would be killed and cannibalized by the mutants, Jeb would receive any valuables the mutants found on these people.
Sometime after Karen died, an event which greatly saddened Hades, who was made leader of the mutants, Hades was informed by Jeb Jr., the son of Jeb, about why he, his mother and the other mutants were driven from Yuma Flats and into the mines; after learning why, Hades and his mutant brethren launched an attack on Yuma Flats, slaughtering everyone they could find as vengeance for their and their parents' banishment, taking the town they lived in (a former nuclear testing village) as their new home.
Near the end of the first The Hills Have Eyes film, a mutant with a pair of binoculars is shown watching what remains of the Carter family as they celebrate defeating a mutant group, the Jupiter's Clan. The identity of this mutant remained unrevealed in the films, though The Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning reveals it to be Hades, who witnessed the Jupiter's Clan's defeat by the Carters; managing to successfully hunt down and kill Doug Bukowski and leaving his daughter, Baby Catherine, to die in the desert, Hades was informed by two of his mutant minions that both Brenda Carter and Bobby Carter were found by the police before they could be killed; this news enraged Hades, who realized that Brenda and Bobby would reveal the existence of the mutants to the authorities.
After slaying police officers that investigated the town the mutants inhabited, the army was called in to kill the mutants after receiving a radioed message from a dying police officer. Leading the battle against the army, Hades, despite managing to successfully kill an abundance of soldiers, lost against the army, who destroyed the mutants' town with tanks and killed several of the mutants, driving those who remained into the hills where Hades grew up. Despite all this, Hades remained optimistic, as he revealed to the captured and tortured General Ryan, who had, years earlier before the nuclear testing, tortured Hades’ mother Karen and killed her husband and first son.
After the army's destruction of the mutants' town, Hades, wanting to keep his line alive, began to abduct any woman who ventured near to use them as breeders for himself and his children. In The Hills Have Eyes 2, Hades and several of his children find themselves opposing a group of lost, trainee soldiers. After a previous attempt of having a child with another woman earlier on failed, Hades realized he had another chance when Chameleon captured and brought Missy, who he deems more attractive and healthier than the previous woman, hoping she will bear children with similar traits. Hades drives away his son before he could impregnate Missy, believing he should be the one to make her pregnant. Now with Missy to himself, Hades begins raping her, hoping she will bear him a less deformed and healthier child, and proceeds to climax inside of her. Later, Hades finds himself fighting two other soldiers who survived battling his children, Amber and Napoleon. Hades proves near unstoppable in combat, surviving being shot, impaled, beaten and having a portion of his brain torn loose. He is poised to kill Amber and Missy, only to be beaten and violently killed by Napoleon, who impales Hades through the mouth with his bayonet.
In the end his whole family is wiped out, however, a mutant was seen just before the end of the film, possibly one of Hades' children.
[edit] Commentary
During an interview with DreadCentral.com, Michael Bailey Smith, who portrays Hades, had originally wished to play Hansel, a diverse character who interested him, with other possible roles being Hades' children Chameleon and Grabber, though the co-producers of The Hills Have Eyes 2 insisted he play Hades; Smith compared Hades to Pluto of the remake of The Hills Have Eyes, stating that while Pluto may have had some semblance of humanity, Hades lacks any and that he tried to reflect that in his portrayal of the character. Also, when asked if he would portray Hades again in a possible third film, Smith gave a swift no. [1]
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