The Cetus is a minor antagonist from the 1997 animated film Hercules.
Role in Hercules[]
In the Hercules film, the Cetus is one of the many giant monsters that appears during the song Zero to Hero. He appears while Hercules and Philoctetes were rowing a boat through a body of water. While Philoctetes coward in fear, Hercules grabbed the serpent by the throat and threw him around like a wet towel. The scene then changed to a vase depicting Hercules holding the skeleton of the beast.
In another scene, Hades was seen melting a small pawn piece of the creature in his hand out of anger.
Hercules (TV series)[]
Cetus appeared a few times in the series.
During the theme song, Hercules managed to tie the sea serpent into a knot and throw him at the camera.
In "Hercules and the Underworld Takeover", Cetus dwelled in the Styx River when Hercules, Pain, Panic, Chiron, and Amphitryon's sheep encountered him.
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Trivia[]
- In Greek mythology, Cetus (also called Ketos) was the sea monster (usually portrayed as a sea serpent like in Hercules, but was also shown as whale and/or shark-like creature) of Poseidon that the princess Andromeda was to be sacrificed to until being defeated by the hero Perseus using either his sword or the head of Medusa.
- Another story stated that Poseidon unleashed Cetus on the city of Troy, only to be defeated by Hercules like in the film.
- The scene where Hercules defeats Cetus is one of the lenticular images hanging in the Magic Mirror Realm of the Sorcerer's Workshop of the Disney Animation Building.
