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Pain and Panic
Background information
Feature films Hercules
Mickey's House of Villains

Hakuna Matata (in the crossover with Digimon)
Hakuna Matata II
Television programs Hercules: The Series
House of Mouse
Video games Hercules
Kingdom Hearts II
Park attractions Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom
Mickey's Boo-to-You Halloween Parade
Portrayed by
Portrayed by
Animators Graham Bebbington
Karin Nilsson
Johnny Zeuthen
Anderas Wessel-Therhorn
Doug Bennett
James Lopez
Brian Ferguson
Voice Pain: Bobcat Goldthwait
Panic: Matt Frewer

Pep Sais (Spanish)

Performance model
Designer
Inspiration
Honors and awards
Character information
Full name
Other names
Personality Pain: Bossy, creative, funny

Panic: Paranoid, logical, funny Both: Stupid, funny, mean

Appearance See below
Birthday
Occupation Minions of Hades (formerly)
Affiliations Bad, later neutral or goods
Goal To serve Hades and kill Hercules
Home Underworld (formerly), House in Greece
Relatives
Pets
Allies Hades (To some degree/formerly), Timon, Pumbaa, Mushu, Cri-Kee, Mimi (love interest of Panic), Palmon
Minions
Enemies Hercules, Pegasus, Megara, Phil, Sora, Donald, Goofy, Auron, Pinocchio (in House of Mouse), Hades, Merlin, Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom players
Likes Copyrighted merchandise
Dislikes Hades' punishments
Powers and abilities Metamorphosis, immortality, regeneration
Weapons
Fate Watches as Hades is being sucked into the River of Styx and ponder their fates when he gets out (in Hercules)
Both get trapped in the Crystal of the Magic Kingdom along with their boss and his fellow villains (in Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom)
Quote Panic: "Hades is gonna kill us when he finds out what happened!"
Pain: "You mean, IF he finds out!"
Panic: "Of course he's gonna - If... If is good..."


Pain & Panic are two shape shifting imps who are minions of Hades from Disney 1997 movie Hercules. They provide comic relief in the film Hercules. Neither are very intelligent or especially loyal to him, and serve Hades only because they fear him and possibly because he owns their souls. They appear to be immortal and capable of regeneration, but being demonic rather than godly, both are capable of feeling pain.

Their shape-shifting abilities extend to being capable of shifting only part of their bodies, shifting into shapes both larger and smaller than they themselves are, and even more importantly, merging into a single form; however this seems to be a more temporary and harder-to-control ability. Their shifting abilities do not seem to extend to voice-mimicing, and they have to do the best they can with their own voices.

Hades uses them as pawns in his schemes, and during the movie, they are also used by him to keep an eye on Megara, shifting into bunnies, chipmunks and birds to do so, and when he loses his temper, occasionally as punching bags.

Background

Personality

Pain is the fat pink/purple imp with little horns and a bitten bat wing on the left side. He is repeatedly injured through the film and animated series. When he shape-shifts, it is usually into something short or fat (or both), and generally coloured in red tones. He is the more assertive of the duo, and while more cunning, less likely to think things through properly, which is what gets him into painful situations.

Panic is the thin blue/green imp with long horns. While he is slightly less cunning than Pain, his paranoia means he is very much more cautious and rather cynical at times. However he is easily spooked, which causes accidents and messes up plans. When he shape-shifts, it is usually into something tall or thin (or both) and coloured in blue tones.

Design

Pain is the shorter, wider of the two, and is a pink-skinned imp with a large mouth filled with sharp teeth. He has spindly arms that end in four-fingered hands, while his legs are much stockier and end in two-toed feet. His wings, which have purple membranes, seem to small to actually fly with. Pain's hair is maroon and styled into two horns, with his real, black horns sprouting out just behind, and his pointed tail is the same color as his hair. His nose is very small and a darker shade of pink than the rest of his skin. His yellow eyes are set very close together, he has a thin, black uni-brow, and his upper eyelids are a dark purple color.

Panic is a blue imp and much thinner and taller than his partner. Panic's arms, though just as thin as Pain's, are much longer, as are his legs, which end in two-toed feet like Pain, albeit Panic's feet have navy toenails. His eyes are the same yellow color as Pain's, but his are much larger and even closer together than Pain's. His lower eyelids are a darker shade of blue than the rest of his body, and his nose is enormous and pointed, with prominent nostrils, sharply contrasting with Pain. Panic does not have hair like his friend, and instead has much larger horns that are the same color as his skin, unlike Pain's black ones. Panic has the same small, seemingly useless wings as Pain, with navy blue membranes, and his pointed tail is also navy blue. Finally, Panic's teeth are very even and straight, as opposed to Pain's jagged, pointed ones.

Appearances

Hercules

In Hercules, Pain and Panic's main role was as comic relief. They were ordered by Hades to kidnap the baby god Hercules. After they managed to do so, they then had to feed Hercules a potion which would make him mortal, and kill him. However they were startled by Aclemene and Amphitrion, and since Hercules retained his god-like strength, could not kill him. However, Pain decided it was better for them to not tell Hades of their failure than to admit it. When Hades inevitably learned about their treachery he was furious at them.

Later on, they shifted into two small, extremely cute children as bait to lure Hercules to the lair of the Hydra. When he defeated it, Hades used them to vent his rage on.

After Hercules had become a celebrity, Pain and Panic were dimwitted enough to further enrage Hades by buying Hercules' merchandise.

When Hercules went on his date with Megara, two cute birds were seen flying around together in the beautiful Grecian garden the date ended in - and making the general atmosphere even more romantic. This became a parody of normal romantic settings, as it turned out that the two birds were Pain and Panic in disguise, having been sent by Hades to keep an eye on Hercules and Megara.

They displayed their merging abilities by transforming into a female winged horse to divert Pegasus and bind him so that he could not help or advise Hercules. Next they showed themselves perfectly willing and happy to help Hades humiliate Hercules after stripping him of his strength.

Finally, they held a brief discussion on Hades' predicament in the River Styx:

Panic: "He's not gonna be happy when he gets out of there!"
Pain: "You mean IF he gets out of there!"
Panic: "If. If is good."

Hercules: The Animated Series

Once again their main role in the TV series was as incompetent lackeys, comic relief and Hades' punching bags.

House of Mouse

Pain and Panic made various appearances on House of Mouse.

  • In the opening song "Rockin at the House of Mouse", Pain and Panic are seen at a table cooking meat with Hades' flamed hair.
  • In the episode Jiminy Cricket, they provide a bad influence on Pinocchio that causes Jiminy Cricket to quit being the puppet's conscience. At the end of the episode, The Blue Fairy zaps them into ashes.
  • In Clarabelle's Christmas List, they state that they are proud to be a part of the Naughty List.
  • In Halloween with Hades, they provide Hades information on who Maleficent (his newest crush) is. Later on they watch in horror as Hades attempts to act "nice" to win her heart and later rejoice when they see Hades revet to his evil ways.
  • In Mickey's House of Villains, the two are seen during the Disney Villains' hostile takeover of the club and even sing a bit.

Hakuna Matata (in the crossover with Digimon)

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