History WesternAnimation / TheGoddessOfSpring

!!The Goddess of Spring contains the following tropes:

* CompositeCharacter: Demeter and Persephone are combined to form The Goddess of Spring.

* EverybodyHatesHades: This version of Hades (called by his Roman name, Pluto) is basically just the Christian devil, complete with fire and pitchforks all over his lair. Oddly, he is only so aesthetically and in demeanour he is actually more pleasant than a lot of actual Greek gods.
* HaveAGayOldTime: When the Goddess is miserable, Pluto tells her "Be a little gay!"
* {{Hell}}: This version of Hades (called by his Roman name, Pluto) is basically just the Christian devil, and so is his realm basically just the Christian imagination of hell.
* IGaveMyWord: The Goddess promises Pluto to return every six months, and she keeps it.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: There’s absolutely nothing Pluto can give to the Goddess to make her stay with him longer than 6 months.
* {{Melodrama}}: The whole thing plays out like an opera, complete with everyone singing their lines!

* EverybodyHatesHades: This version of Hades (called by his Roman name, Pluto) is basically just the Christian devil, complete with fire and pitchforks all over his lair. Oddly, he is only so aesthetically and in demeanour he is actually more pleasant than a lot of actual greek gods.

* EverybodyHatesHades: This version of Hades (called by his Roman name, Pluto) is basically just the Christian devil, complete with fire and pitchforks all over his lair.

* PetTheDog: While Pluto kidnaps the Goddess, upon realizing nothing he does will make her happy and learnign of her concern for the world above, he agrees to let her go back as long as she returns every six months.

* AllThereInTheManual: The god is never referred to as “Pluto” in the short, only in the script.

* IncestIsRelative: Averted. Among the many changed made to the Greek myth is that the Goddess and Pluto are not related.

* BeamMeUpScotty: Most people probably know this short as “The Goddess of ''Eternal'' Spring”, even though the word “eternal” is only in the song.

''The Goddess of Spring'' is a 1934 [[WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies Silly Symphony]] directed by Wilfred Jackson. While it is ostensibly an adaptation of the Greek myth of Hades and Persephone, it was actually created in order to give the Disney animators practice on drawing realistic humans, in preparation for WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs. Unfortunately, the animators weren’t quite there yet, and the short initially flopped. Today however, it’s one of the more famous Silly Symphonies.

* VindicatedByHistory: Reportedly this short was a flop when it first came out, but nowadays it's definitely one of the more famous Silly Symphonies (perhaps because it was a precursor to a '''very''' famous Disney movie...).

[[caption-width-right:350: A proto [[Franchise/DisneyPrincess Disney Princess]], in more ways than one.

[[caption-width-right:350: A proto [[Franchise/DisneyPrincess Disney Princess]], in more ways than one.]]

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* BeamMeUpScotty:Most people probably know this short as “The Goddess of ''Eternal'' Spring”, even though the word “eternal” is only in the song.

''The Goddess of Spring'' is a 1934 [[WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies Silly Symphony]] directed by Wilfred Jackson. While it is ostensibly an adaptation of the Greek myth of Hades and Persephone, it was actually created in order to give the Disney animators practice on drawing realistic humans, in preparation for WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs. The shorts opens with the Goddess of Eternal Spring frolicking through the woods, surrounded by her animal and plant subjects. As the narrator says, the whole world loves her because she keeps the Earth in eternal springtime. However, she is soon kidnapped by the god Pluto (who in this case looks a lot more like the Christian devil) so that they can be married. He takes her to his underground layer, full of jewels, fire, and dancing minions. Meanwhile, winter sets in and everyone on Earth is miserable. The Goddess is miserable too, so much so that Pluto allows her to stay above ground for 6 months out of the year, [[JustSoStory and that's why we have winter.]]

* AbhorrentAdmirer: The Goddess is kidnapped by Pluto because he wants to marry her, but she's absolutely miserabel when with him.