Character

Meg

Megara, Herc's wife as an adult

Megara, also known as Meg, is a fictional character in Disney's Hercules franchise. Meg first appears in the animated film Hercules (1997) as a young woman enslaved by Hades, god of the underworld. Hades forces Meg to seduce Hercules and uncover his weaknesses in exchange for her own freedom, only to develop genuine feelings for the demigod instead. Loosely based on Megara and Deianira, Heracles' first and third wives in Greek mythology, directors Ron Clements and John Musker adapted Meg into a morally conflicted con artist, and based her role on 1940s screwball comediennes, particularly actress Barbara Stanwyck's performance in The Lady Eve (1941).