Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3481504-20160502003842/@comment-25926288-20160502220424

ImperiexSeed wrote: I would love it if he was insanely powerful and I would still be invested. And like I said, a villain can be insanely powerful and still be beatable. How Hades' character was handled in episode 20 really made me lose all interest in his character, as he was supposed to be the King of Hell, and Rumple and Pan were badmouthing and bossing him around in his own domain. Doesn't at all strike me as powerful. The thing is, you are one of about 4 million. They go with what works and what they like and simply insanely powerful villains are not at all interesting to write and aren't interested to the general audience.

Plus, it's a leverage situation. If Pan and Rumple had his dog, they'd both be destroyed. Hades needed Zelena to break his curse, not her dead.