

But shortly afterward he left her for some other woman, abandoning her and leaving her heartbroken and a prisoner of Hades. In the film, Meg sold her soul to Hades in order to save the life of her beloved boyfriend, who she was madly in love with. She wears a lavender Greek dress with golden straps, a long skirt with the hem ending just above her orange-sandaled feet, and two purple sashes a tight one under her bust to give her a tiny waist and a loosened one tied at her right side by a golden spiral pendant around her wide hips.

She has purple eyes with lavender eyelids. Megara has a slender body with long, dark brown hair tied into a high ponytail, with its most notable feature being the curly fringes on its tip. At the end of the episode, her memory is wiped, explaining how she and Hercules met 'for the first time' in the movie. Her attire is almost identical in this episode, except that her skirt is much shorter. In their first meeting in the episode Hercules and the Aetolian Amphora, Meg wants to forget all about her ex-boyfriend (later shown to be Prince Adonis) and shows very little to no remorse, but manipulate the young Hercules into helping her steal a jar of Lethe water. Meg is afraid of heights, but overcomes her fear at the end of the film in order to save Hercules. While Hercules falls for her at first sight, far from falling for him on the spot, she seduces him with her good looks, and then she dismisses him as putting on an 'innocent farm boy routine' and it is not until they spend actual time together that she begins to develop feelings for him. Meg has a very low opinion of men in general since most of her experiences with them have been negative.
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She plays enough of a heroic part in the movie to be classed as a heroine, rather than just a romantic interest.

She is also cynical, snarky, and world-weary, making her atypical among Disney's lead females. Meg is a free-spirited, independent, and quick-witted woman who is also hurt and bitter due to having her heart broken by her boyfriend in the past. Though voice actors typically record their dialogue separately, Egan actually shared some of her recording sessions with Tate Donovan and James Woods, who voiced Hercules and Hades, respectively. However, the casting team could not find anyone suitable for the role of Meg and allowed Egan to audition despite any previous hesitation.
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She was ironically cast as Belle in the theatre adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, a role that nearly tarnished her chances of portraying Meg because the two characters were so vastly different from each other. Susan Egan began auditioning for roles in Disney animated features as early as Beauty and the Beast, released in 1991. Animators also looked to Susan Egan's body gestures during recording sessions to add nuance to Meg's animation. Gerald Scarfe and Duncan looked to Greek pottery to figure out the shape of Meg's body. Ken Duncan was Meg's supervising animator the animator that was initially given the assignment had left the studio to work for DreamWorks early in production on Hercules. Her personality was greatly inspired by actress Barbara Stanwyck, specifically her roles in 1940s comedies such as The Lady Eve and Ball of Fire. The Disney iteration loosely took from this by casting Megara as Hercules' love interest, the Lois Lane to Hercules' Superman. Megara is a character that originates from Greek mythology, the wife of Heracles. According to a brief exchange, however, Hades held some amount of sympathy for Meg's plight and was open to subtracting years from her sentence based on her performances in the field. Having become jaded and cynical as a result of her past, Meg upheld her end of the bargain by assisting Hades in his quest to take over the cosmos. Since then, she's had trouble trusting others and finding the courage to love again. Her boyfriend was revived, as agreed, but he heartlessly left Meg for another woman shortly thereafter. To save him, she sold her soul and offered servitude to Hades, God of the Underworld. She deeply cherished the relationship she shared with her boyfriend, who one day lost his life. In her youth, Meg was romantic and open to giving love.
