Pain and Panic
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| Pain and Panic | |
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Panic and Pain |
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| First appearance | Hercules |
| Created by | Ron Clements John Musker Barry Johnson |
| Voiced by | Bobcat Goldthwait (Pain) Matt Frewer (Panic) |
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Pain and Panic are a pair of pint-sized demons (also called imps) in the Disney animated feature Hercules. Pain is a fat, pink (magenta, to be exact) demon, and Panic is skinny and teal. They are the minions of the film's villain, Hades, and serve primarily as comic relief. Pain is voiced by Bobcat Goldthwait and Panic by Matt Frewer.
Their names are probably inspired by the mythological sons of Ares: Deimos (dread) and Phobos (fear).
[edit] Personality and Abilities
Panic is paranoid, twitchy, and panicky, as his name suggests, but also friendly at times. Pain, on the other hand, is bossy, hot-tempered, and sly, but also clumsy and liable to get into painful situations. Also, Panic seems more honest than Pain, saying, "What will Hades do when he finds out about this?" Pain replies "You mean if he finds out." Both possess the ability to shapeshift, though this seems restricted by their small sizes. Hades is never very nice to them, usually punishing them for little mistakes, frightening them, and/or threatening to burn them.
In the movie, Hades sends them to kidnap baby Hercules, make him mortal, and kill him. The imps obey and somehow capture him, but fail to kill him, and only half-succeed in making him mortal: he keeps his godlike strength, allowing him to dispose of the pair before they have a chance to kill him. Not wanting Hades to know about their failure, they tell him that Hercules is dead. Many years later Hades discovers that Hercules is actually alive and punishes the two, who, thinking he is going to eat them, transform into worms. Throughout the rest of the movie, they're seen either cheering Hades's monsters on, doing something rather ridiculous, or using their shapeshifting powers to contact Hades's spy, Meg. In the end of the movie, Hades is punched into the river Styx, and they are left behind thinking (and possibly hoping) that he won't return.
[edit] Other appearances
Pain and Panic also appear in the Hercules TV series, and still serve as Hades's lackeys. They made many brief appearances in the House of Mouse television series, usually along with Hades (though there was one episode in which they broke up Pinocchio and Jiminy Cricket without Hades's aid) and had a very small role in Kingdom Hearts II, where they are working for Hades and work at the Underdrome, but have no other purpose.
