Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6252544-20140312041724/@comment-26179634-20140414021653

Utter solitude wrote: If they could just upgrade her to immortality, they could have done it to Hercules in the first place, and that negates the whole movie. XD He just chose to be with her, it's very sweet.

As much as I love that movie, it's probably the Disney film that's strayed the farthest from its source material... XD Yeah it really did stray. Hercules is supposed to be a demi god, but the idea of Zeus having an affair was something that was considered inappropriate for the target audience. Also, Hera was the villain in the source material, but since they changed the story for Disney, Zeus never had the affair with a mortal woman and Hera never had a motive to go after Hercules.