- “I believe it is Ladon... A mountain of living gullet.”
- ―Mr. Parentheses[src]
Ladon is a character and antagonist from the Hercules TV series. He is the youngest of Echidna's children and the last one she bore before Typhon was imprisoned. Out of all her children Ladon is the only one who bares a physical resemblance to both his parents.
Appearances[]
Hercules: The Animated Series[]
- “You stay here, baby, while Mama does her carnage. Sorry the sitter didn't work out."
"Sitter yummy.” - ―Echidna and Ladon[src]
During the opening theme for Hercules: The Animated Series, Ladon uses Hercules as a pacifier, pulling out the hero-in-training, now covered in slime.
In "Hercules and the Return of Typhon", Ladon is revealed to be the youngest child of Echidna and Typhon, the latter being imprisoned after being defeated by Zeus. As Hercules confronts Echidna, she initially "feeds the baby" by throwing Hercules into Ladon's mouth, only for the baby monster to spit the hero-in-training out.
In "Hercules and the Parent's Weekend", Ladon is introduced as "a mountain of living gullet" by Mr. Parentheses as the baby monster attacks the Parents' Weekend at Prometheus Academy. Young Hercules confronts Ladon with a spoon, asking the baby monster to leave quietly only to be squished under the monster's foot. Hercules later fights Ladon with Adonis's statue only for the monster to hit the young hero with its tail through the brick wall and lockers. Ladon laughs at the clumsy hero's defeat before kidnapping the parents of Hercules, Adonis, and Cassandra. After Hercules saves the parents Ladon kidnapped at the Realm of Monsters, Echidna tries to feed Hercules to Ladon, only for them to escape. Ladon tried to defeat and eat Hercules in multiple times, but each time is unsuccessful, with one time being revealed that Ladon started teething.
In "Hercules and the Big Games" Ladon is among Echidna's children enlisted by Hades to attack the Olympic games, only to be defeated by Hercules.
Trivia[]
- In the original myth, Ladon was an dragon/snake with one head (or 100 in others versions), recruited by Hera for to control the Hesperides Garden and the Golden Apples Tree. He was also Hercules' eleventh labor.
- In Once Upon a Time, Ladon was represented by one of Hercules' twelve medals when telling his heroic past to an teenage Snow White, depicted like his mythic description.
