Helen of Troy is a recurring character on the Disney animated series Hercules. She is a popular girl at Prometheus Academy and the girlfriend of Adonis, though she is very close friends to Hercules and generally a very kind person.
Personality[]
Helen of Troy is a very sweet if not generally vain character. She is a popular girl and is aware of her own popularity but does not hesitate to help others. She is very beautiful and sweet toward everyone, popular and unpopular (Cassandra, Icarus, and Hercules). While Helen's very beautiful, she is considerably self-absorbed and doesn't appear to be that intelligent, though she's certainly much smarter than Adonis (as shown in "Song of Circe").
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Helen as a mermaid.
Trivia[]
- In the episode "Hercules and the Son of Poseidon", Helen dresses as a mermaid (complete with red hair, a purple seashell bra and green fins) for the Homecoming parade, a nod to Jodi Benson's role as Ariel in The Little Mermaid.
- Unlike her mythological counterpart, this version of Helen of Troy is not the mortal daughter of Zeus and half-sister of Hercules.
- In the original Greek mythology, Helen was the wife of King Menelaus of Sparta. Depending on the telling, she is either kidnapped or whisked away by Paris of Troy, which inevitably led to the Trojan War.
- Originally, there were plans for a direct-to-video sequel of Hercules developed by Disneytoon Studios which would have been titled Hercules II - The Trojan War. In the sequel, Hercules would have been living with Meg and their daughter Hebe until Hercules' old friend Helen is captured by the evil Paris of Troy, leading Hercules to enlist himself to fight in the Trojan War and rescue Helen, but the project never materialized. Had this sequel been produced, it would have created a continuity error with this episode, as the episode depicts the Trojan War as taking place long before Hercules becomes a hero, and even the original film had Hades mentioning that the Troyans' weakness was the Trojan Horse, which would mean that the Trojan War had already taken place by then.
