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->''"Now on the road to Hell there was a railroad station\\
And a man with feathers on his feet\\
Who would help you to your final destination\\
Mr. Hermes - that’s me!"''
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Everybody meet the Fates!\\"''
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Everybody meet the Fates!\\"''Fates!"''
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And they was always singin’ in the back of your mind\\
Everybody meet the Fates!\\"''
-->-- Hermes
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* PetTheDog:
** Lets himself have a moment of real honest vulnerability in front of Orpheus and Eurydice when he tells them, "I don't know" before making the manipulative deal to let them leave on condition.
** It's implied he lets Persephone go back to the Earth at the end.
** Lets himself have a moment of real honest vulnerability in front of Orpheus and Eurydice when he tells them, "I don't know" before making the manipulative deal to let them leave on condition.
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** Made more apparent in the Broadway show, where he's both the narrator and Orpheus's adoptive father.
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* ParentalSubstitute: He basically raised Orpheus, who'd been abandoned by his mother (a Muse, and a friend of Hermes).
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!!HADES
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Unlike the impartial Fates of ClassicalMythology, these Fates are responsible for sowing doubt into the minds of others and encouraging terrible decisions.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Unlike the impartial Fates of ClassicalMythology, ancient Greece, these Fates are responsible for sowing doubt into the minds of others and encouraging terrible decisions.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Almost every time they talk to someone, it's to deliver one of these.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Unlike the impartial Fates of ClassicalMythology, these Fates are responsible for sowing doubt into the minds of others and encouraging terrible decisions.
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* VoiceOfTheLegion: Justin Vernon as the concept album's Orpheus, to indicate his divine musical talent.
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!!ORPHEUS
* BreakThemByTalking: Or in his case, singing.
* {{Determinator}}: He walks for miles through an unlit tunnel to sneak into Hadestown and rescue Eurydice.
* TheHero
* NiceGuy
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Orpheus can leave Hadestown with Eurydice on the condition that he doesn't look back at her until they're both out of the tunnel. [[ForegoneConclusion As in the original myth]], Orpheus turns around to check whether she's really behind him just before they reach safety, and Eurydice is sent back to Hadestown.
* StarvingArtist
* TenorBoy: A sizeable chunk of his part in the show involves him singing in falsetto.
* WalkingTheEarth: Implied to be his eventual fate.
*WideEyedIdealist
!!EURYDICE
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Eurydice wanted to "lie down forever."
* BreaktheCutie: What poverty and starvation, plus Hades, does to Eurydice.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She never talks about her past, but "All I've Ever Known" suggests that she's had to survive completely alone before meeting Orpheus.
* {{Determinator}}: She'll do whatever it takes to keep herself warm and fed, even if it means signing her life away to Hades.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Once she realises that Orpheus can't provide for her, she leaves for Hadestown.
* WomenAreWiser: While Orpheus pores over his lyrics, she's the one buying food and firewood.
!!PERSEPHONE
* TheAlcoholic
* BrokenBird
* MediumAwareness: Enough to pause mid-song to [[BreakingTheFourthWall introduce the in-house band to the audience]], at least.
* PhysicalGod
* Really700YearsOld
* SilkHidingSteel
* StepfordSmiler: Outwardly, she's a party girl and the fun and friendly owner of a speakeasy in Hadestown. Inside, she laments her failing marriage.
!!HADES
* AdaptationalVillainy
* BadSamaritan: He offers Eurydice a way out of poverty and instability, but it's all a front: once he has what he wants from her, he leaves her to work herself to death for him just like all his other workers. In "Way Down Hadestown II", the Fates imply that most of his workers were 'rescued' from similar circumstances.
* BassoProfundo: Greg Brown in the concept album, and Patrick Page in the Edmonton and London productions.
* BigBad
* CoolShades
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He's motivated by his love of Persephone and his desire to impress her.
* EvilSoundsDeep
* GutturalGrowler
* PhysicalGod
* Really700YearsOld
* VillainousBreakdown: In "His Kiss, The Riot".
!!HERMES
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Being the narrator, he talks directly to the audience (and even starts the show with a bit of [[AudienceParticipation call-and-response]]!)
* InteractiveNarrator: The characters are fully aware of him, and he gives Orpheus directions to Hadestown.
* MediumAwareness: He knows that he's telling a Greek tragedy, and that it'll be told over and over.
* MrExposition
!!THE FATES
* AdaptationalVillainy: Almost every time they talk to someone, it's to deliver one of these.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: "Who are you to think that you can lead her?" alongside many others.
* GreekChorus
* TheWeirdSisters
!!THE WORKERS
* MookFaceTurn: They side with Orpheus once he starts to sing to them.
* TrappedInVillainy
* BreakThemByTalking: Or in his case, singing.
* {{Determinator}}: He walks for miles through an unlit tunnel to sneak into Hadestown and rescue Eurydice.
* TheHero
* NiceGuy
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Orpheus can leave Hadestown with Eurydice on the condition that he doesn't look back at her until they're both out of the tunnel. [[ForegoneConclusion As in the original myth]], Orpheus turns around to check whether she's really behind him just before they reach safety, and Eurydice is sent back to Hadestown.
* StarvingArtist
* TenorBoy: A sizeable chunk of his part in the show involves him singing in falsetto.
* WalkingTheEarth: Implied to be his eventual fate.
*WideEyedIdealist
!!EURYDICE
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Eurydice wanted to "lie down forever."
* BreaktheCutie: What poverty and starvation, plus Hades, does to Eurydice.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She never talks about her past, but "All I've Ever Known" suggests that she's had to survive completely alone before meeting Orpheus.
* {{Determinator}}: She'll do whatever it takes to keep herself warm and fed, even if it means signing her life away to Hades.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Once she realises that Orpheus can't provide for her, she leaves for Hadestown.
* WomenAreWiser: While Orpheus pores over his lyrics, she's the one buying food and firewood.
!!PERSEPHONE
* TheAlcoholic
* BrokenBird
* MediumAwareness: Enough to pause mid-song to [[BreakingTheFourthWall introduce the in-house band to the audience]], at least.
* PhysicalGod
* Really700YearsOld
* SilkHidingSteel
* StepfordSmiler: Outwardly, she's a party girl and the fun and friendly owner of a speakeasy in Hadestown. Inside, she laments her failing marriage.
!!HADES
* AdaptationalVillainy
* BadSamaritan: He offers Eurydice a way out of poverty and instability, but it's all a front: once he has what he wants from her, he leaves her to work herself to death for him just like all his other workers. In "Way Down Hadestown II", the Fates imply that most of his workers were 'rescued' from similar circumstances.
* BassoProfundo: Greg Brown in the concept album, and Patrick Page in the Edmonton and London productions.
* BigBad
* CoolShades
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He's motivated by his love of Persephone and his desire to impress her.
* EvilSoundsDeep
* GutturalGrowler
* PhysicalGod
* Really700YearsOld
* VillainousBreakdown: In "His Kiss, The Riot".
!!HERMES
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Being the narrator, he talks directly to the audience (and even starts the show with a bit of [[AudienceParticipation call-and-response]]!)
* InteractiveNarrator: The characters are fully aware of him, and he gives Orpheus directions to Hadestown.
* MediumAwareness: He knows that he's telling a Greek tragedy, and that it'll be told over and over.
* MrExposition
!!THE FATES
* AdaptationalVillainy: Almost every time they talk to someone, it's to deliver one of these.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: "Who are you to think that you can lead her?" alongside many others.
* GreekChorus
* TheWeirdSisters
!!THE WORKERS
* MookFaceTurn: They side with Orpheus once he starts to sing to them.
* TrappedInVillainy
