When Herc knocks over the constuction site when pulling the cart, you can not only spot Disney directors Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, but also veteran producer Don Hahn.
REPORTED: Misha 26 JUN 98
Hercules flashes his "Grecian Express" card. Most people know that American Express is the "official" credit card of Walt Disney World and that the two companies have a close business relationship.
REPORTED: Melanie Emmons 15 JUN 97
In the movie "Hercules" I believe that the island that Phil is living on is supposed to be the Island of Rhodes. I think this because there are bits of a large stature scattered about, (perhaps the Collasus of Rhodes after it fell down...)
REPORTED: Alisa 13 OCT 00
The book "the art of Hercules" states that there are seven Disney-related parodies in the film.
REPORTED: Wes Vernon 23 JUL 97
In the scene where Hercules meets Zues (the statue) for the first time, they actually replay the scene from Mickey and the Bean Stalk - where Mickey runs throught the giant's fingers and then pops his head out - watch closely and keep your copy of Fun and Fantasy Free around for reference.
REPORTED: Jim Loring 19 JAN 98
When young Hercules pulls the cart through the town's arch at the entrance, he almost knocks down two construction workers to the ground. These workers are animated versions of directors John Musker and Ron Clements, who also did their own voices, too!
REPORTED: Mary 30 JUN 97
CONFIRMED: anon 04 JUL 97
In the "Zero to Hero" sequence, Herc shoots an arrow or something, and it flies across the stars. The arrow- or whatever it was- flies under Marilyn Monroe's contellation, making her skirt fly up. She holds it down, as in a famous photograph of her. There are other images I think, but there wasn't time to see it all.
REPORTED: anon 25 JUN 97
Marilyn made her cameo known and quite obvious. I believe the actual constellation was called Libra - a funny coincdence.
CONFIRMED: Cirix 12 JUL 97
In the movie "Hercules", during the song Zero to Hero, Hades sends three monsters at once to fight Herc, one of which is Medusa. In the myth, Hercules never fought Medusa, Perseus did. Phil even mentions Perseus as he goes through all his old student heroes, so shouldn't Medusa be decapitated or dead at least?
REPORTED: anon 15 MAR 06
When Hercules is crouching the "square" with pillars & roof, when you see the scene from above it's a map of the Magic Kingdom, Main Street, the Hub and the gates to the lands in the park.
REPORTED: Jonas Rudberg 28 AUG 98
Song writer Alan Menken uses "the muses" as story pushers, however this is similar to his earlyer work "Little shop of Horrors" in with he uses "the ronnettes" to portrey the story. Both are used as cardboard cut-outs. not really belonging in the stories, but excisting in them to makr it clearer.
REPORTED: kenney Ogilvie 12 APR 00
In one part of the film where Meg and the muses are singing together, the muses appear as busts similar to the singing busts in the Haunted Mansion. The second one from the left is on its side, similar to ones in the Haunted Mansion.
REPORTED: Scott Tipple 26 JUN 97
In the movie the Gospel singers are singing from busts. These are the same busts that are found in the Haunted House at Disneyland. One of them is actually broken and laying on it's side, just like in the Haunted house.
CONFIRMED: Adam Chant 30 JUN 97
During the number where Meg sings, the muses are singing background music as statue heads. If you pay attention as the camera pans, the heads (or statues) are exactly the same as the Haunted Mansion singing heads. Even with one of them broken as in mansion!
CONFIRMED: Ryan Helsley 01 JUL 97
The muses do take on a resemblence to the singing busts in the Haunted Mansion at Disneylad (even down to the bust which is broken)
CONFIRMED: Diamond 02 JUL 97
There is an interesting parallel between the five Muses in Hercules and the five singing busts in The Haunted Mansion. During Meg's song in Hercules, the Muses sing backup, at one point becoming a row of five busts. The fat one takes her place at second from the left, with her head removed from the shoulders. This is not unlike the arrangement of the singing busts in The Haunted Mansion. Their setup is identical to this, including a broken bust sitting second from the left.
CONFIRMED: Jed 20 JUL 97
CONFIRMED: Scott 01 AUG 97
CONFIRMED: Scott Peeler 21 SEP 97
Watch the Muses carefully in the scene in which they and Meg are singing "I Won't Say." At one point, busts of the Muses, with singing heads, are all lined up on a wall, and one of the Muses is holding her head under her arm. This echoes one of the tableux found in the Haunted Mansion ride at the Disney parks.
CONFIRMED: Scott Tipple 18 OCT 97
CONFIRMED: Noel Zimny 06 FEB 98
The Singing Busts are parodied in the movie Hercules while Megaera is singing "I Won't Say I'm in Love." The muses, who are advising her as background singers, pose as busts, and one is even broken!
CONFIRMED: Becky Richards 06 SEP 00
There is an allusion to the singing busts of the Haunted Mansion graveyard in the film Hercules. In the garden where Meg charms Herc, the muses are seen assuming the roles of statues...their positions precisely mimic the positions of the singing busts in the Mansion - even the broken bust!
CONFIRMED: AprilDecember 06 OCT 00
In the song "I won't say I'm in love" when Meg is saying "Get off my case!" the Muses say "Shutup, Shutup!"
REPORTED: Janelle Costantino 28 AUG 97
In Hercules, when Meg finishes her song "I won't say", Hades appears between a sculpture. I don't know if it's a coincidence but, as the male statue (the sculpture is a couple dancing) melts, his face transforms into Sylvester Stallone's.
REPORTED: Edgar Torn 10 DEC 97
While Hades is trying to convince Hercules to give up his strength, he says,"I don't have time to bat this around. I sorta got plans for August." Hercules was released in in theatres in late July (July 27th)
REPORTED: John Hilliard 29 MAY 99
When the two boys (Pain and Panic) are stuck under the rock and Hercules comes to save them, one of them yells, "Somebody call IXII" (911)
REPORTED: Laura 24 NOV 98
When Phil and Hercules are talking, Phil says "you can't give up now" and when he says that, he pulls out a throw rug and it looks exactly like Scar from the Lion King. I guess Scar does make a "very handsome throw rug"!!
REPORTED: John & Melanie Emmons 15 JUN 97
While watching the Hercules Electrical Parade show on the Disney Channel called 'Hercules takes Manhattan', they showed a clip between Hercules and Phil in which Phil is holding a 'throw rug' of his. Seems Phil took Zazu's advice and made a throw rug of Scar after all!
REPORTED: Christopher Little 16 JUN 97
CONFIRMED: Josh 17 JUN 97
CONFIRMED: Stacy Ossowski 18 JUN 97
In the scene where Hercules is posing for his portrait on an urn, he has a lionskin on him. The lion is Scar (from The Lion King)!
CONFIRMED: Joy Kovacs 22 JUN 97
CONFIRMED: Di 29 JUN 97
It is Scar, because you can even see the scar on his left eye! Actually, it's supposed to be the skin of the Nubian lion, one of Herc's twelve labors
CONFIRMED: Gklew 01 JUL 97
CONFIRMED: Diamond 02 JUL 97
When an artist is painting Hercules on a vase, Herc is wearing a Lion head as a cape and helmet or something, this is the skin of Scar from "The Lion King", as you can see when Phil takes it from Herc.
CONFIRMED: Jose Saucedo 05 JUL 97
CONFIRMED: Bradford Starn 18 NOV 97
The lead animator for Hercules and for Scar was Andreas Deja, and who is the lion pelt in Hercules? Coincidence? I think not.
CONFIRMED: Artist005 18 JAN 98
CONFIRMED: Vicki Silva 08 FEB 98
When Hercules is posing with a lion skin around him, you can see that this skin has a scar over it's eye. It's Scar from the Lion King. You can see this very clearly when Phil uses the skin to wipe the paint off of his face.
CONFIRMED: Jennie 11 AUG 98
(from The Lion King) is shown as a pelt that Herc is wearing while having a portriat made. Phil then uses Scar's pelt to wipe paint from his face.
CONFIRMED: jim lunger 21 OCT 98
CONFIRMED: Brittney Smith 23 JAN 99
CONFIRMED: Tom James 23 APR 99
CONFIRMED: Tracy McCray 12 JUL 01
In Hercules, when you see the part where Hercules is wearing Scar, the guy painting the vase slaps paint on Phil's face. His face then is painted to look like Rafiki from the Lion King. Funny since he wipes it off with the skin of Scar.
REPORTED: Vicki Silva 08 FEB 98
In the same scene with the Scar - lion skin, there is a mural on the wall with Bambi on it
REPORTED: Jill 02 AUG 97
When Hercules first gets to Thebes and the townspeople are complaining about the condition the town is in and Hercules and Phil overhear them, look behind them and you can see the bottom of a statue of Hercules fighting the lion that you also see on the vase in the very beginning when the muses take over telling the story and during the Zero to Hero song.
REPORTED: Sam 17 JUN 02
When we see the Underworld, the River of the Dead current is going into Hade's tower, but after the battle for Mount Olimpus, the current is going out from the tower.
REPORTED: Jose Saucedo 13 JUL 97
There are 9 muses in Greek Mithology, but only 5 are shown in the movie: Thalia the muse of Comedy (the Fat one), Clio the Muse of History (Long Hair), Melpomene the muse of Drama (Shot Hair), Calliope the muse of Eloquence (Tall One) and Terpsichore the muse of the Dance (Curly Hair)
REPORTED: Jose Saucedo 13 JUL 97
From the 12 labours of Hercules these are ones that made into the film: the Killing of the Hydra, the killing (actually kicking) of the Lion of Nemea, the Boar, the capture of the deadly birds of the Estanfalo Lake, go down to the underworld and beat the three headed dog Cerebus, the cleaning of the king's stables and getting the amazon's girdle.
REPORTED: Jose Saucedo 13 JUL 97
The scene where Hades frees the Titans in a circular opening on the ocean is similar to the one where Ursula is trying to kill Ariel at the end of "The Little Mermaid"
REPORTED: Jose Saucedo 13 JUL 97
There is no design on the floor in the Temple of Zeus when young Herc comes inside and we see it from side view, but when we see it downward, Herc is standing on it.
REPORTED: Jose Saucedo 13 JUL 97
The thunder desing on Zeus toga is absent during the first time we see his statue come to life, but it appeears on the second time around.
REPORTED: Jose Saucedo 13 JUL 97
Only five of Herc's twelve labors get mentioned in the film. The four other labors that made it into the film are: the hydra, the giant boar, the king's stables, and stealing the queen of the amazons girdle.
REPORTED: Gklew 01 JUL 97
I believe that one of the singers, from the chorus is seen in Peter-Pan. The fat Singer looks very much like the fat Indian woman in Peter Pan, that tells Wendy to clean around, in the indian party. Does anyone else see it?
REPORTED: Eitan 28 JUN 97
During "Zero to Hero", a shopping complex appears on the screen. Some of the stores include Aphroditie's Secret (Victoria's Secret) and Column and Barrel (Crate and Barrel).
REPORTED: Jed 29 JUL 97
There's a billboard for "Air-Herc" sneakers.
REPORTED: John & Melanie Emmons 28 NOV 96
One of the evil entities looks a lot like Ursula from The Little Mermaid.
REPORTED: John & Melanie Emmons 28 NOV 96
At the beginning when the fates are telling Hades the future and they say you, Hades, will rule all, in their eye the image of Hades has one yellow and one white eye, just like Flotsam and Jetsam's eyes are when Ursala sees them in her bubble or whatever she was spying with in The Little Mermaid.
UPDATE: Sam 17 JUN 02
There are several parallels between Hercules and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. When Hercules first enters the Temple of Zeus, the chord structure in the music is not unlike that found at the end of "The Bells of Notre Dame" in Hunchback. Both Hercules and Quasimodo mourn the "deaths" of the leading ladies in a similar maner. The phrase "Three cheers for..." is used for both heroes at the end of the film.
REPORTED: Jed 29 JUL 97
There's a big, wild boar that looks like an overgrown, ferocious Pumbaa from The Lion King who is also seen being served up on a platter (similar to Pumbaa in Hunchback).
REPORTED: John & Melanie Emmons 28 NOV 96
When Hercules went to find Phil, the goats looked a lot like Esmeralda's goat Djali from The Hunchback of Notre Dame. I didn't see the telltale earring, but the animation was very similar.
REPORTED: Janet 30 JUN 97
There's a shot of someone wearing Disney character shoes/sandals/sneakers.
REPORTED: John & Melanie Emmons 28 NOV 96
In several of the Hercules commercials there is a scene with Pegasus and Hercules putting their hand (and hoof) prints into wet cement in front of the Mann Chinese Theater (it doesn't actually show the theater, but its implied). This is of course to show Herc's rise to stardom, but I gave it a little thought and realized a couple of things.
Right across the street from the real Mann Chinese is the Disney-owned El Capitan which shows all the latest Disney movies (including Hercules when it gets released) along with short stage shows that include classic moments from classic Disney movies).
Drip Drip Drop was not the original song they were going to use, they were going to do a song called "I like falling" sung from the perspective of a rain drop.
REPORTED: Annie 07 OCT 97
There were a few posts referring to Hercules and Pegasus making imprints in the cement at the Chinese theater. If you look carefully you'll see that is says "To Sid" I think this is a reference to the Sid's movie memorabilia store that is located right inside the gate at Disney's MGM studios. I can't remember the correct name of the store.
REPORTED: Greg Reese 17 APR 00
Disney MGM Studios has a full-size replica of the Mann Chinese (I believe it contains The Great Movie Ride). They ought to display a cement slab that supposedly has Herc's and Pegasus's prints.
The real Mann Chinese has a cement slab which supposedly has the footprints of several Star Wars characters. MGM also has the Star Wars characters, but not at the Mann Chinese replica. Instead they're in their own attraction, Star Tours.
These are probably all coincidences, but...
REPORTED: Tony O'Bryan 14 MAR 97
During Hercules' training, there's a reference to the movie "The Karate Kid", where he, Pegasus and Phil are jump-kicking facing the ocean.
REPORTED: Jose Saucedo 05 JUL 97
When Herc is training for heroship with Phil and Peg, You see them immitating the Karate Kid. I guess Daniel-san and Miguie-san got their cameo too!
CONFIRMED: Cirix 12 JUL 97
The horses that are escaping from the Ice Titan are exactly the same in drawing and position to the ones that are hugged by Jasmine in Aladdin during the "A Whole New World" sequence.
REPORTED: Jose Saucedo 05 JUL 97
The Wind Titan plays a reference to the movie "Twister" where a house with a silo is destroyed and a sheep (in Twister it was a cow) is raised by the wind and flies through the screen making that sheep noise they do.
REPORTED: Jose Saucedo 05 JUL 97
The statue of Zeus in the Temple before turning into "Hercules" Zeus, first is the one from "Fantasia".
REPORTED: Jose Saucedo 05 JUL 97
In the River of Death at the ending, I think, there are many demons that appear in "The Night at the Bald Mountain" sequence in "Fantasia".
REPORTED: Jose Saucedo 05 JUL 97
In one of the promotional movie trailers of Hercules appears a sequence from the Zero to Hero song where a muse sings ...Who put the glad on gladiator?... after this, on the trailer a series of warriors turn around spelling Hercules with letterns on their shields, but in the film (at least in the latin american version) when the warriors turn around, the shields have Herc's face instead of letters.
REPORTED: Jose Saucedo 09 JUL 97
The gates at the entrance of Mount Olimpus have a thunder in them, at the beggining and at the end of the movie this thunder is solid; but when the Earth Titan crushes it, the thunder is only an outline.
REPORTED: Jose Saucedo 06 JUL 97
When Hades shows Hercules tha River of the Death, he kneels down and tries to reach Megara, submerging his hand; meaning that the river is close to the ledge where he and Hades are standing, but after he makes the deal with Hades he jumps into the river from the same ledge, which is now distant, making it impossible to be reached by Hercs hand in the first place.
REPORTED: Jose Saucedo 06 JUL 97
A few peope have mentioned this before, but they left part out. When Hercules is trying to save Meg, he puts his hand right into the river of death, but a few seconds later he dives in. After he becomes a god and saves Meg, he steps back on to the ledge where Hades is. He wouldn't be able to do this if the river was as far below him a it had been a minute ago.
UPDATE: Sam 17 JUN 02
Before they turn into Pain and Panic, I think that the bunny and the squirrel that Megara finds after her first encounter with Hercules appeared in Bambi.
REPORTED: Jose Saucedo 06 JUL 97
The Medal of the Gods that Hercules wears on his belt is never put, it chages position several times during the movie.
REPORTED: Jose Saucedo 06 JUL 97
When Pegasus picks Hercules up just before the Hydra gets him, the area where Herc was running is too big compared to the one shown first when he rescues the kids.
REPORTED: Jose Saucedo 06 JUL 97
Paul Shaffer makes the voice of Hermes, so he wears Paul's tipical glasses.
REPORTED: Jose Saucedo 06 JUL 97
The flag that Pegasus waves when Herc is talking to Zeus after the Zero to Hero song has the same desing that the one the Genie uses as a cheerleader of Jafar in Aladdin.
REPORTED: Jose Saucedo 06 JUL 97
The other constellations that appear along Marylin Monroe are a bear and a fish, which reminds me, where exactly does Sebastian and Flounder appear in this movie?
REPORTED: Jose Saucedo 06 JUL 97
Take another look at the bunny and chipmunk to which Meg says: "Oh look, two rodents looking for a theme park." Compare them to the animation cell showing Snow White with the forest creatures... they're not from "Bambi," the chipmunk especially appears to be from Disney's first feature, "Snow White!"
REPORTED: Karl Lewis 21 SEP 97
The two birds that appear at the first of Herc and Meg's date in the statuary garden ... could they be from "Cinderella?"
REPORTED: Karl Lewis 21 SEP 97
Confirming that those birds are from Cinderlla.
CONFIRMED: Veronique Drolet 06 OCT 01
Hermes brings flowers to the party celebrating the baby Hercules. This is a tongue-in-cheek reference to Hermes' use as the FTD Florists symbol.
REPORTED: Scott Peeler 26 SEP 97
In the movie Hercules, there is a goof! At the end, when Megara and Hercules are taken up to Mount Olympus, Hercules has to climb up many stairs to reach his mother and father. But when he turns to say he wants to stay with Meg, he is suddenly holding her hand. What happened to all those stairs? oops!
REPORTED: Mish 09 JUL 98
Just before Hercules talk with the people of Thebes they speak of a cat called Snowball and even show it. it looks exectly like Snowball from the Simpsons!
REPORTED: Moran Lefler 06 AUG 98
Right after Hercules puts the hay back on the cart and the donkey flies into the air, the donkey makes the same noise Eeyore makes when he's in distress.
REPORTED: Susie 01 MAR 99
Hercules is on the way to the Island Phill lives at. If you see Hercules on Pegasus and the Island, you can see in the left hand side on a big rock on the island. It is Hugo - a Gargoyl from the movie Hunchback!
REPORTED: Wolfram Veits 20 MAR 99
In the movie Hercules, it is shown that Hera is Hercules' mother but in the actual myth, Hercules was the product of an affair and Hera, actually was the one that sent the 2 snakes (portrayed by Panic and Pain) to kill young Hercules. It is understandable why they left this out because afterall this is Disney! I don't think it would have the same Disney quality if it showed Zeus having an affair while being married to someone else.
REPORTED: anon 05 JUL 99
In Hercules, near the end of the movie, when Hades rides his black wagon through the air (when Hercs powers have been taken away) : the front of the wagon is formed by the head of Chernabog from Fantasia !
REPORTED: Stefan Bergakker 19 NOV 01
Inconsistency in the movie Hercules: Near the end of the movie, Hercules kneels and reaches into the river of death attempting to grab Meg's soul. His hands become shriveled and old when they touch the river. Moments later he dives into the river, which is now some 30 feet below.
REPORTED: Tom 05 NOV 00
Penelope is the name of Herc's donkey. This is also the name of Odyesses' wife in the Odyssey. Just another part of Greek legend.
REPORTED: Rochelle Kenney 25 AUG 99
In the movie Hercules, Zeus gives baby Hercules the gift of Pegasus. He makes him from clouds. In real mythology, Pegasus was born from the blood of Medusa.
REPORTED: anon 29 DEC 99
In Greek Mythology, Pegasus is never given to Hercules,but his good friend Theseus
UPDATE: B. G. 22 17 MAR 00
The update that says that Pegasus was never given to Hercules but rather to his friend Theseus is wrong. Although Pegasus was never given to Hercules, he was never given to Theseus either, but rather to Bellerophon who tried to ride him to Olympus, but was struck down by Zeus.
UPDATE: bmw2213 26 MAR 02
Actually, Pegasus is given to Bellerophon.
UPDATE: DAJ 01 APR 02
In the real story of Hercules Meg is given to him as a prize, he never met Meg while killing the Hydra
REPORTED: B. G. 22 17 MAR 00
In "Hercules" when Herc and Pegasus are putting their hand (and hoof) prints into the cement, the slab that Herc is kneeling on says "To Doug." I'm not sure of the symbolism, but I know the name Doug also appears several times in the "Rhapsody in Blue" segment of Fantasia 2000.
REPORTED: Kristina 21 JUN 00
I have both the Hercules CD-rom and the Movie. If you don't touch any key while the CD-Rom's Start menu is running it will go into a demo stage. If you let this happen three times it will go into a video clip of the song "Zero to Hero". Halfway through the song you'll notice a change in the animation. In the movie Marilyn Munroe's dress flys up and she pushes it back down. But in the game Marilyn is replaced by Sebatian from The Little Mermaid. It is totally different from the film!
REPORTED: Mason Beggs< 20 DEC 98
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